This season's Guangdong Hongyuan can be said to be a brand new team. The absolute main force during the three consecutive championships, Yi Jianlian and Su Wei retired, Zhou Peng, Zhao Rui, Zeng Fanri transferred, Zhao Rui's departure made many Hongyuan fans sigh, Hongyuan has really entered another era! But it doesn't matter, Zhao Rui's initiative to leave, but instead gave the other two opportunities in the black and white dwarf, Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie in the season after Zhao Rui left, both played the best performance of their careers, especially Xu Jie, who has been in a burst of state since entering the second stage, and has continued to cut high scores, proving that even if Zhao Rui leaves, he and Hu Mingxuan can still support the Hongyuan guard line!
In the black and white short period, Xu Jie is the most sacrificial, his ball and tactical position will always be behind Zhao Rui and Hu Mingxuan, many fans feel sorry for Xu Jie, Xu Jie has the best technology and the highest ball quotient in the Hongyuan guard line, with his ability, he can definitely play a better performance if he gives more opportunities. Zhao Rui's initiative to leave, but gave Xu Jie a generous gift, which is the ball and tactical position. This season, Xu played 27.5 minutes, averaging 12.6 points, 3 assists and 2.5 rebounds per game, shooting 48.7% from the field and 43.9% from three-point range. Yes, Xu Jie played the highest performance of his career this season, with the highest average points per game in his career, and the total shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate also hit a new career high! Zhao Rui's departure gave Xu Jie more opportunities to perform, so that he could no longer be covered by Zhao Rui's light, be his true self, and become the Xu center that everyone expects!
From Zhao Rui's speech in the fan base, combined with the revelations of media people after Hongyuan completed the big deal, we can know that Zhao Rui had the idea of leaving after Hongyuan's three consecutive championships. Everyone also knows that in the last two seasons of Hongyuan, Zhao Rui has become a complete court scoundrel and locker room bomb. The game blew itself up while playing, competing with the opponent, the referee, and himself, and finally with his teammates, and even gave up the game directly and returned to the locker room when he was unhappy, even Du Feng and Yi Jianlian couldn't hold it and couldn't persuade it. And all this will never happen to Xu Jie and Hu Mingxuan, Hu Mingxuan's background of "desperate Sanlang" naturally does not need to be said, and Xu Jie has always gone all out on the court to the end, and will not be criticized by fans because of attitude problems.
Zhao Rui chose to take the initiative to leave because of issues such as ball ownership, team status, salary, etc., but fortunately, Xu Jie and Hu Mingxuan took over the responsibility he left behind, especially Xu Jie, he has the worst talent among the three, and his physical condition is relatively disadvantaged, but Xu Jie never said anything, just silently took responsibility and silently used his performance to prove himself! When Zhu Fangyu made the decision to trade in the offseason, I believe he was also very hesitant, because Zhao Rui is indeed Hongyuan's strongest local player, he is stronger than Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie, but after looking at Xu Jie and Hu Mingxuan, Zhu Fangyu still made this decision, and it turns out that he did win the bet, Xu Jie and Hu Mingxuan did not live up to everyone's expectations, what if Zhao Rui leaves?