In a game in the ninth round of the 2021-22 CBA regular season, Xinjiang beat Tongxi 92-86 to win the third game of the season.
Although he lost the game, Zhao Baiqing, a tongxi interior lineman who came off the bench in this game, performed eye-catchingly, scoring a game-high 21 points on 8-of-9 shooting, and grabbed 11 rebounds, getting a double-double for the first time in his career.
Zhao Baiqing, who will turn 23 next month, is from Peking University and is one of the best interior players in the CUBA arena. In this year's Cuba National Tournament, Zhao Baiqing averaged 16.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game, and helped Peking University to get the runner-up.
At this summer's draft, Zhao Baiqing was selected by Nanjing Tongxi as a leader and entered the professional arena.
The composition of the rebuilt Tongxi personnel is more mixed, and the departure of Sun Siyao, an internal rotation player last season, gave Zhao Baiqing a good starting opportunity. In the pre-season preparation, Zhao Baiqing was heavily valued by coach Besirovic, and he was included in the starting lineup in the first round of the new season with Jilin. In his career debut, Zhao Baiqing played 29 minutes, got 7 points, 9 rebounds and 1 block, and his CBA debut was remarkable.
With wan shengwei's injury stop, Zhao Baiqing not only sat firmly in the team's starting lineup, but also played a very impressive amount of time, almost all of which were more than 30 minutes. Against Ningbo, he scored 20 points on 7-of-12 shooting, setting a career record for scoring.
In the match with Xinjiang, in order to increase the thickness of the second squad, Besirovic put Zhao Baiqing on the bench, and Wang Rui started for the first time in the season. Zhao Baiqing, who came off the bench, became the first scoring point of Tongxi's game, shooting 8 of 9 from two-point range, and the finishing efficiency was super high. The 21-point score set a career-high single-game score, and 11 rebounds was also the highest single-game rebound of his career, and it was also the first career double-double.
So far this season, Zhao Baiqing has started 7 times in 9 games, averaging 31.6 minutes per game, and can contribute 11.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 0.7 assists. Due to the injury of Peking University President Wan Shengwei, Zhao Baiqing got ample opportunities to play.
Peking University has contributed many internal lines to the CBA in recent years, and Guo Kai and Wang Shaojie are still Zhuangyuanxiu. Although he was seriously injured several times, Guo Kai has now grown into the backbone of Guangzhou Dragon Lion's inner line. Wang Shaojie has been selected for the national training team for many times, and Wan Shengwei has won the CBA championship with Guangdong Hongyuan.
In the first ten games of his single-round career, from playing time to performance, Zhao Baiqing was better than Guo Kai, Wang Shaojie and Wan Shengwei. The rookie's career has a good start.