Du Feng was also powerless.
Facing the Tianjin men's basketball team at home on the evening of the 30th, the Guangdong men's basketball team witnessed David James' "63-minute night" while suffering the fourth defeat in the last eight rounds of games, as well as the second home defeat to the Tianjin men's basketball team this season. While onlookers were "dumping" for James, it was obviously a rather embarrassing night for the Guangdong men's basketball team, but it was obviously not only Du Feng and his team who were embarrassed.
For well-known reasons, the CBA league has been trying to limit the playing time of foreign aid in recent years, regardless of whether this strategy really makes the Chinese men's basketball team stand on the international stage, but a fact that has to be admitted is that the CBA league is really inseparable from the contribution of foreign aid.
The Tianjin men's basketball team's defeat of the Guangdong men's basketball team in this game has actually fully illustrated this point. In addition to David James's 63 points, the most "collapsed" game of the Guangdong men's basketball team was precisely the third quarter of the Tianjin men's basketball team's use of the rules to sacrifice double foreign aid - because it ranked 4 in the bottom 4 of the standings last season, the Tianjin men's basketball team was able to enjoy the preferential treatment of "5 times in 4 quarters" of foreign aid this season.
David James became the ruler of the game.
It is true that the Sichuan men's basketball team used "Deng Haha" to win the championship in one fell swoop, but the reason why the Tianjin men's basketball team coached by Zhang Qingpeng "ranked" the 10th place in the CBA standings this season (17 wins and 20 losses) was that their foreign aid performed well and enjoyed "4 quarters and 5 times". Looking back at the history of the Tianjin men's basketball team, which is not a glorious team, they advanced to the playoffs twice in the 2013-14 season and the 2021-22 season, and they are inseparable from the contribution of foreign aid. Among them, the first is the stage when "Abbas's Law" is still manifested, and the second is Rochester and Burton's "4 Sessions and 5 People"!
Such a simple and rude attribution of the Tianjin men's basketball team's two playoffs to foreign aid seems to somewhat belittle their local players at that time, but when the Tianjin men's basketball team does not enjoy foreign aid discounts, it is indeed unable to become a regular player in the playoffs, which is enough to show the importance of foreign aid and good foreign aid to the Tianjin men's basketball team.
Zhang Qingpeng is expected to lead the Tianjin men's basketball team back to the playoffs.
In fact, not only the Tianjin men's basketball team, except for a few "traditional strong teams", most CBA teams can't do without foreign aid if they want to make a difference, and at the same time, the draft conference strongly implemented by the CBA league obviously did not play the role that the CBA league hoped to play.
In this season's CBA League, there are really only a handful of draft players who can really gain a foothold in their respective teams and make a name for themselves. And if you continue to look at the draft players in previous years, the most "highlight" moment for most draft players seems to be the scene of the draft conference - look at the embarrassing situation of the high-profile elected Ou Junxuan in the Qingdao men's basketball team now.
James is truly the superstar of the Tianjin men's basketball team.
Choosing a good foreign player can help the team achieve its playoff dreams, but what can a draft player bring to the CBA team?
CBA teams don't trust the draft and trust foreign aid more, but it doesn't affect the CBA league to still "downplay" foreign aid. In the official release of the CBA League's lineup of players participating in this season's All-Star Game, no foreign players can be included in it - even more ironically, foreign players such as Jermain can participate in All-Star Weekend "activities" such as the Skills Challenge.
The CBA league obviously once again reflects their consistent attitude towards foreign aid, but looking at the progress and changes that David James and other foreign players have brought to some teams, the CBA league has made every effort to restrict foreign aid, and does not even want them to "steal the show" in the All-Star Game, so it seems very petty, and it seems that they do not understand the essence of CBA teams valuing foreign aid.
The Chinese men's basketball team has not soared because of the restriction of foreign aid, the draft players have not grown rapidly because of the restriction of foreign aid, and the restriction of the playing time of foreign aid has not been able to limit the foreign aid to cut 60+, what is the CBA league doing?