Last offseason, Qingdao may have completed the biggest lineup adjustment in the entire CBA, after experiencing the loss of Liu Chuanxing and finally missing the playoffs, they traded to bring in Zhao Jiayi and Ji Zhuo, and promoted young players such as Ma Zhixuan and Ma Junjie to the first team, but most importantly, they saw the intensification of contradictions in the Zhejiang Chouzhou team and brought Liu Weiwei to Qingdao. As of January 17, the first 28 rounds of the CBA season, Qingdao team has 12 wins and 16 losses, ranking 14th in the standings, although it is far from the expected effect, but through the game, it can still be observed that under Liu Weiwei, including Wang Ruize, Zhao Jiayi, Ji Zhuo have made great progress. In short: the soldiers and horses on hand are not rich, but they are remarkable.
However, the national team window is back, the third stage of the CBA is rekindled, and the Qingdao team can be described as a thousand turns, always creating surprises.
- The first 6 games, considered normal. Two losses to Zhejiang, two wins to Tongxi, win Tianjin, lose Guangdong. Those who have the ability to win, especially the card position battle with Tongxi, have all won, and when facing the opponent who is competing for the championship, the hard power gap is impossible.
——On March 15, Qingdao team sat home and defeated Guangdong 76-66, which broke out a big upset. It is worth mentioning that this is their second victory over the "South China Tigers" after 7 seasons, the fourth time in team history, and for a while, they became famous. At the same time, they have also stabilized their points in 12th place and will have the opportunity to play in the play-offs.
However, they lost by 27 points in the next game to the North Controller team, which had already missed the playoffs, and foreign aid Eugene Germaine slammed 50 points, but was powerless to save the savior. Just after a CBA regular season, Qingdao team was Waterloo again, 101-115 defeat to Tianjin, you know, the current CBA ranking list, Beikong team 13 wins 22, 15th, Tianjin team 7 wins 28, 19th, second to last, the last 10 games, 1 win 9 losses. For the Qingdao team, it was supposed to be two games that must be won.
Also, during a losing streak, the way to lose is different.
Playing Beikong, the opening let Zhang Fan open inside and outside, 4 of 5 in the first quarter, scored 9 points, Qingdao team trailed to double digits early, half time, 44-51, and a chase, but the third team only scored 12 points, as if paying tribute to Guangdong (8 points) in the previous game, the game also lost suspense, and no one in the team scored a double except Jermain.
Fighting Tianjin, it was Qingdao team to grab the lead, the opening 8-2 lead, Wang Ruize played bravely, the first quarter alone scored 10 points, but they also took the opposite foreign aid Brandon Jefferson has no way, through the inside and outside shot, quickly close to the score, throughout the first quarter, the two sides fell into a stranglehold for a long time, no one can eat each other in one go, but in the second quarter, Qingdao team suddenly collapsed, under the leadership of Witherspoon, Tianjin team played a wave of 9-1 offensive to take the lead. Although in the third quarter, Qingdao relied on tough defense and outside shooting to chase only one point, but then, the team fell into a scoring drought again, allowing the opponent to play an 11-0 attack wave, and Liu Weiwei, who was commanding on the sidelines, shook his head.
In an interview after the game, Liu Weiwei mentioned:
"There are too many mistakes in the team today", looking through the technical statistics, 18, while the Tianjin team, only 7. In the end, there is no trustworthy No. 1 position in the current squad. For a long time, the Qingdao team will use Dupu Reese to play the starter, and in the 2 backcourts next to him, Yang Jinmeng is compared to the NBA, which is the type of Beverley and Tony Allen, tearing, defending, and shooting another three points coldly; Wang Hong is willing to pass the ball, but his attack power is limited, and his average outside shooting rate is only 19.4% per game, and the opponent's attitude is basically casual shooting. When it comes to the rotation stage, the replaced foreign aid Germaine, pure American guard play, holding the ball without letting go, occasionally can cut 40+, 50+ scores, but when the opponent takes a bag or delays, limited by his height of 1.83 meters, can not see the diagonal vacancy, and averages 2.4 turnovers per game.
And this wave of 2 consecutive defeats also put the Qingdao team in an embarrassing situation. Up to now 37 rounds of battles, in the middle and late part of the standings, Jiangsu, Qingdao, Tongxi three teams have accumulated 53 points, Jiangsu Kendia with a small point advantage, occupying 12th place, but has been 11th place Dragon Lions opened a gap of 2 points. With only five rounds of CBA regular season wins, theoretically they all have a chance to take what may be the only play-off spot. Among the future opponents, Tongxi will successively encounter Shanghai, Shandong, Xinjiang, Shenzhen 4 teams that also hope to achieve a good ranking, while Jiangsu and Qingdao's opponents are exactly the same, the difficult to play will be against Liaoning, Beijing, Jiangsu team's advantage is to hold a small point lead, in extreme cases, this season from time to time to leave a "famous scene" of the two famous coaches - Liu Weiwei and Xi Relijiang's team, or will be out at the same time, leaving Li Nan guidance.
In the next round, Jiangsu vs Liaoning, Tongxi vs Shanghai, and Qingdao vs Fujian.