This season, the CBA has produced a lot of dark horse teams, and the most representative ones are undoubtedly Qingdao and Tianjin teams! Qingdao team ushered in Liu Weiwei as the head coach of the team last season, but the team worked hard for a season, and finally missed the playoffs with the 13th place in the league! However, this season, the Qingdao team finally achieved a rise, with a record of 20 wins and 11 losses, ranking 6th in the league, and becoming the top team that cannot be underestimated in the CBA.
In addition, the rapid growth of the team's young people, such as Wang Ruize, Duan Angjun, Zhao Jiayi, etc., also played a huge role, of course, the most critical 2 points are foreign aid and Yang Hansen!
Yang Hansen successfully entered the CBA this season, and as a super newcomer, Yang Hanse did not disappoint, averaging 15.7 points, 11.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.4 blocks per game.
In addition, the selection of foreign aid for the Qingdao team is also just right! Powell has outstanding ability, scoring very prominently, and his organizational ability is also very good, which has led the team very well! And Qingdao's newly signed foreign aid Moody is even more eye-catching, not to mention playing selflessly, and his offensive and organizational skills are at the top level, and the two small foreign aides have completely supported the team.
Similar to Qingdao, Tianjin also did not make the playoffs last season, but this season, under the leadership of Zhang Qingpeng, they played a very good performance, achieving a record of 14 wins and 17 losses, ranking 11th in the league, although not as good as Qingdao, but the team occupies a playoff spot, and also has a good chance of making the playoffs this season.
The two dark horse teams happened to meet in the 32nd round of the regular season, and the two teams also wanted to win this game, but in the end, the Qingdao team was better and defeated the Tianjin team.
The strength of the Qingdao team is more dominant, but when the game came up, Qingdao entered the state slowly, and did not score a point in the first four minutes, which put them behind! Fortunately, the team broke out later, Yang Hansen, Wang Ruize, and Powell's firepower was out of control, not only overtaking the score, but also opening a double-digit gap in one fell swoop, once establishing a huge lead of 14 points! After falling behind by a big score, the Tianjin team did not panic, and in the second quarter, with the successive play of two foreign aids, Rochester and James, the score was slightly closer, and at the end of the half, the advantage of the Qingdao team was only 6 points.
After resting, coming back in the second half, Tianjin sent a lineup of double foreign aids, the team's offensive firepower was also greatly increased, and the score difference was gradually smoothed out, fortunately, Wang Ruize even scored three points to stabilize the situation, and Moody also played 2+1 many times to continue to maintain the lead for the team!
In overtime, the two teams have been fighting, Qingdao took the lead, but it couldn't open the difference, but at the last moment, Moody stood up and scored a key three points, and then hit two free throws, Tianjin's service error directly buried the game, and finally Qingdao narrowly defeated Tianjin 119:114, ushering in three consecutive wins.
Qingdao team statistics: Wang Ruize 27 points and 9 rebounds, Stefan Moody 25 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists, Duan Angjun 19 points and 5 rebounds. Tianjin stats: Rochester 34 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists, David James 24 points and 14 rebounds, Li Rongpei 20 points and 5 assists.
Narrowly made a 14-point reversal, and the Tianjin team almost completed a good show of upset reversal, but in overtime, the team was powerless and made fatal mistakes, which also made Zhang Qingpeng's efforts fall short and had no choice but to swallow the defeat!
Qingdao won the beautiful and won the hard bone of Tianjin, which also showed the tenacity of the team, and after they defeated Tianjin, they also won 3 consecutive victories, ranking 6th in the league, attacking the top 4 and becoming the biggest dark horse of the season!
The Qingdao team now has a record of 22 wins and 11 losses, only 1 win and loss difference behind the 4th Guangsha team, the gap is very small, and the team's current state is very good, with Yang Hansen in the inner line, Powell and Moody's 2-digit strong foreign aid in the backfield, plus Wang Ruize, Duan Angjun, Lv Junhu and other generals, the team is really strong, they have a good chance to win the top 4 seats, create team history.