With three rounds left in the league, the Shanghai team returned to the top eight after overthrowing the Zhejiang team.

In the last round, Shanghai won the game at the same time, but also won back the small points between Zhejiang Chouzhou Bank, coupled with the Shanghai team in the regular season "double kill" Zhejiang Guangsha, so that the temporarily ranked eighth Shanghai team suddenly in a very advantageous position.

Even if there is a situation with the same record as the two teams in Zhejiang, and even if the five teams of Fujian and Liaoning fall into a serial set, Shanghai occupies the initiative in the winning and losing fields or small points.

This also means that in the next three games, the Shanghai team only needs to win two wins, and the possibility of being surpassed by three teams at the same time and being squeezed out of the top eight is already very small, and a place in the playoffs is already quite guaranteed.

And among the remaining three opponents of the Shanghai team: Jiangsu, Beijing and Tianjin, Jiangsu and Tianjin ranked first and second from the bottom of the league, and lost the qualification to impact the playoffs early, while the Beijing team had no hope of catching up with Guangdong and basically locked the second place in the league.

Today's Pudong Yuanshen Gymnasium was filled with fans early, and even the captain Liu Wei, who had not been on the road for a long time, also appeared on the court, but he was wearing casual clothes, and it seemed that he would not play in this game.

When playing Jiangsu at home last season, the Shanghai men's basketball team had already confirmed that it would miss the playoffs a few rounds in advance, but now that the stars have changed, Shanghai will face Jiangsu at home, but it is very likely to become a key battle for the Shanghai team to lock the playoff seats in advance.

Before the start of the game, several starters of the Shanghai team gathered around the center circle to pray and bless Harris's deceased brother, and after a large number of injuries in the team and the accident of Harris's brother, the Shanghai team became more and more united.

In the cheering and shouting of the fans, the Shanghai team's home match against the Jiangsu team officially began.

But at the beginning of the game, the Shanghai team surprised the fans present.

Facing Jiangsu, which is at the bottom of the league and has been hard to find an away win so far, the Shanghai team has always been suppressed by the opponent in the first two quarters of the game.

The Shanghai team obviously played too casually at the beginning, and after Gao Dazhuang scored 2 points first, he was unexpectedly attacked by a weak opponent in 3 minutes with 6 shots of 6 to 15 to 2.

Fromman, a 2.08-meter-tall foreign aid of the Jiangsu team, grabbed consecutive offensive rebounds above Zhang Zhaoxu's head, and Coach Panagio was forced to call an early timeout.

But after the timeout, although the Shanghai team relied on being tall and strong to play a few balls, Jiangsu relied on Fromman, Meng Da and Yang Li to end the first quarter of the game 27-19, and the Jiangsu team had a 12-point lead at most.

In the second quarter, the Shanghai team sent another "sharp knife" Harris, combined with the tall and strong continuous points, the Shanghai team overtook the score for the first time with a 13-2 small **.

However, Jiangsu foreign aid Froman was in amazing form in this game, and he continued to beat Zhang Zhaoxu under the basket, which also caused the Jiangsu team to suppress the home team Shanghai in terms of scores.

On the Shanghai team's side, Zhang Zhaoxu could miss an empty layup, so angry that Coach Panagio applied for a timeout again and replaced the starting center Zhang Zhaoxu with Zeng Wending.

After the change of sides, the Shanghai team, which was angrily reprimanded by Coach Panagio at halftime, finally got serious.

Under the non-stop assault of Gao Dazhuang and Harris, the big sharks quickly established a double-digit advantage, and Landry also suppressed the opponent in the direct confrontation between the inside line and Jiangsu foreign player Froman.

Harris hit a three-pointer on the left and right wings, and Gao Dazhuang then stole a dragon dunk, and the Shanghai team's big sharks have completely thrown the Jiangsu team away.

At the end of the third quarter, Gao Dazhuang and Harris each scored 20 points, and the difference between the two sides was also widened to 15 points.

With Jiangsu's withdrawal of mediocre foreign player D. Williams, the game also lost suspense early.

The Shanghai team's "Little Yellow Croaker Fan Group" on the sidelines even began to entertain themselves, taking advantage of the pause to tease the coach of the Jiangsu team, shouting "We want Hu Weidong", and shouting "Yao Ming's mold" at the rostrum, which caused the audience to laugh.

In the end, the Shanghai team defeated the Jiangsu team with a 103:83, 20-point advantage, thus further consolidating the eighth position in the league.

In this game, the tall and strong scored an astonishing 31 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, Harris also contributed 26 points, and another foreign player Landry contributed a double-double of 16 points and 12 rebounds.

Fromman, the center, scored a game-high 34 points and 15 rebounds.

Amid the cheers of the fans, the Shanghai team's coach Panagio walked to the locker room with a straight face, and a tall figure behind him had the same gloomy face.

Compared with other players sharing the joy of victory, Zhang Zhaoxu, as the starting center of the Shanghai team, felt like knocking over a cruet and felt uncomfortable.

In the last 10 league games, Zhang Zhaoxu, a member of the national team and the starting center of the Shanghai team, averaged only 5 points, 4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game.

From full of confidence before the start of the league to some hesitation now, Zhang Zhaoxu is like a CBA rookie who has hit the rookie wall.

In today's game, although the sharp offense of Gao Dazhuang and Harris made up for the lack of offensive power of the Shanghai team, the weak defense of the Shanghai team allowed the foreign aid of the Jiangsu team Froman to score unscrupulously under the basket, resulting in the fall of the Shanghai team in the first half.

In the post-match press conference, Coach Panagio also vaguely criticized Zhang Zhaoxu: "We are playing very badly on the inside, and we can't win in the playoffs if we continue like this, which will be the next problem we will focus on."

"Of course, our players are still very young, we are one of the youngest teams in the CBA league with the youngest average age, and when our young players play with confidence, the Shanghai team will be able to play well in the future" In the end, Coach Panagio still defended his players very well.

As a member of the national team, Zhang Zhaoxu's form and on-court performance have always been the focus of attention from the outside world, but as the playoffs approach, there are more and more doubts about him.

One of the most important points is that Zhang Zhaoxu's zero progress and even regression this season, and the average of 8.5 points, 8 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 0.3 steals and 2.9 blocks per game this season is compared with the performance of 10.1 points, 8.1 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.5 steals and 1.8 blocks per game last season.

"Zhang Zhaoxu, what do you think of your performance today?" On the eve of boarding the bus and leaving the scene, many reporters, especially local reporters in Shanghai, surrounded Zhang Zhaoxu.

"It's very bad, I feel like I've become the weakness of the team on the field, and I'm dragging the team back" In the face of these doubts, Zhang Zhaoxu did not refute, he took all the responsibility on himself.

Faced with the reporter Zhang Zhaoxu who asked the reason, he said frankly: "I have been training with the national team last year and did not stay in Shanghai, this season has such a performance, one is because there are not many offensive means, the offensive ** is not strong enough, and the other is that I have not been able to adjust to a particularly excited state"

"So what do you do next? In the second half today, the inside combination of Landry and Zeng Wending successfully limited the Jiangsu team, what do you think? Another sharp question was raised.

Zhang Zhaoxu said with a wry smile: "Landry and Zeng Wending are both very good players, and I will not be surprised by any of their outstanding performances. I've been in a bit of a bad mood lately, so I have to adjust it quickly, and now I feel that I still have a lot of shortcomings in all aspects of ability, and now I can only seize all the training time, how much can I improve, and I hope to make more contributions to the team as soon as possible."

"It's okay, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, we all know your strength" Seeing that Zhang Zhaoxu, who had been surrounded by reporters for a long time, finally boarded the team bus, tall and strong, and naturally sat next to him and comforted.

"At the beginning of the season, whether it was team results or individual performance, I had very high expectations, and I felt that at least I should do better than last year, but now I am also very dissatisfied with my performance, and several important statistics are basically regressing from last year, especially scoring and rebounding," Zhang Zhaoxu said with a bitter face.

"Don't think too much, you're still too nervous, you look at Landry, he plays very casually, but in this state, he bursts out more energy under the basket" Gao Dazhuang pointed to Landry, who was sleeping in the back of the car, in the second half of today's game, Landry repeatedly successfully suppressed the opponent's Froman in one-on-one confrontations.

"Well, his level is really high," Zhang Zhaoxu not only admired.

"Well, it's just an offensive dish, haha" The tall and strong joke made Zhang Zhaoxu laugh too.

During the training on the second day, the team owner Yao Ming came to the training hall early, and he also had a long communication with Zhang Zhaoxu.

Zhang Zhaoxu, who is 2.21 meters tall, has always been regarded as "the next Yao Ming", and Yao Ming himself has paid a lot of attention to this junior.

Of course, Zhang Zhaoxu and Yao Ming have many differences, even if they can grow up in Yao Ming's parent team, the two of them have taken different paths.

As the team leader Wang Qun said, Yao Ming, who is "as thin as a chicken", was brought out by the "big head" Zhang Wenqi, and for this reason, Yao Ming was knocked down by the "big head".

Now Zhang Zhaoxu still lacks a person like a "big head" to carry him, but he also has to go to the front of the stage to experience the wind and rain.

However, it can be seen that both the Shanghai team and Yao Ming have enough patience and confidence to focus on cultivating Zhang Zhaoxu.

This is a long-term plan, after all, when the next local "Yao Ming" grows up, it will be the time for Shanghai to regain its glory.