On the evening of May 17, Beijing time, the CBA finals continued, and the Xinjiang men's basketball team lost to the Liaoning men's basketball team 86-97 away, and the series score was rewritten to 0-2, and the suspense of this season's championship is gradually disappearing.
Looking back on the first two games of the series, many fans complained about the disparity in strength between the two sides, and the game was seriously lacking in spectacle, especially the Xinjiang team, which actually shot an overall shooting rate of 37.3% and a three-point shooting rate of 19.4% in this game, vividly turning a finals into an iron competition.
The reason why the Xinjiang team is powerless in the face of the Liaoning team is, on the one hand, because of the team's injury problems, including Zhao Rui and Zhu Xuhang, many players have been injured, which has greatly reduced their strength; On the other hand, as the star of the house, Abdul Salamu's state is sluggish, which makes the team's situation even worse.
During the regular season this season, Abudu played 52 games for the Xinjiang men's basketball team, averaging 19 points, 10.2 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, with a shooting rate of 50.6%, and won the regular season MVP shortly after the season, but in the playoffs, Abudu's data fell off a cliff, averaging only 12.2 points, 11.8 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, and the shooting rate dropped to 46.9%.
In the finals, Abudu's performance was even more shocking. In the first game of the series, he scored only 5 points on 2-of-8 shooting, and his performance was far less than expected, thinking that it was just a short hip pull; However, in the second game, his performance still did not improve, with only 9 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists on 4-of-12 shooting, and 2 turnovers and 3 fouls. In two games, he shot only 6 of 20 shots in total, and the shooting rate was only 30%.
As a comparison, Liaoning power forward Fu Hao's performance in the first two games of the series was brave, with 29 points and 9 rebounds on 12-of-15 shooting in the first game; In this game, he scored 18 points and 9 rebounds on 6-of-12 shooting, and scored a total of 47 points and 18 rebounds in the two games.
It's no wonder that many fans can't help but complain: This is simply the most watery MVP in CBA history!