has one week left, and the CBA League of the 2022-23 season will open. This season, CBA has joined forces. In addition to defending champion Liaoning Basketball Team, Zhejiang Guangsha and Shanghai Men's Basketball Team also have the strength to compete for the championship.
Of course, we cannot ignore the 11-winning CBA champion Guangdong Men's Basketball Team. Due to the aging of the team's personnel and the absence of Ma Shang , the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team did not even score in the finals last season. During this summer offseason, the old captain of Guangdong Men's Basketball Team, Zhou Peng, also transferred to Shenzhen Men's Basketball Team. This makes many fans unfavorable. The Guangdong Men's Basketball Team can reach the Finals again this season, just like a few seasons ago.
Despite this, the strength of the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team is still not to be underestimated. The club successfully retained Zhao Rui , Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie also matured with age. Coupled with the return of super foreign aid Ma Shang and the joining of the big foreign aid Octavius Ellis, the internal and external player configuration of Guangdong Men's Basketball Team is still luxurious. If these two foreign players perform at an extraordinary level, the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team will still have the ability to win the championship.
In order to prepare for the new season of the CBA League, the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team also made preparations early and decided to enter the Hangzhou competition area in the past two days. However, just before the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team was about to enter the Hangzhou competition area, an emergency occurred to the team. It is reported that since the nucleic acid test of of the club staff recently was found to be positive for , all players and coaches of the Guangdong team had to be isolated. The person who caused the entire Guangdong team to be quarantined is Du Mei, the sister of coach Du Feng .
It is reported that Du Mei recently returned to Dongguan from her hometown Xinjiang. She went to Guangdong Hongyuan Club to meet her younger brother Du Feng and stayed in the training hall with the team for more than 2 hours. Soon after, he was tested positive for nucleic acid, which directly involved all personnel in the Guangdong team. According to relevant regulations, they must be transferred to designated locations for isolation and observation.
This also makes the Guangdong team unable to participate at least two pre-CBA warm-up matches with Guangsha and Jilin Men's Basketball Team. If someone in the team fails to pass the nucleic acid test, they will likely miss the early game of the first phase of the CBA league.
This is undoubtedly a major blow to the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team. Before the CBA League started in the new season, the team suffered a heavy blow, which also cast a shadow on the Guangdong team's road to championship this season. From this perspective, Du Mei's trip to Hongyuan Club in just over 2 hours has brought unestimated losses to the Guangdong team.
Due to the sudden incident, the CBA alliance has not yet formulated emergency measures on this matter. But all teams must be prepared for the worst, that is, the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team cannot participate in the first phase of the CBA, and what follows is the adjustment of the league schedule.
If the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team will miss all 9 games in the first phase of the CBA League, then they can only wait until they are lifted from quarantine and return to the competition area to play a supplementary game with 9 opponents. This undoubtedly greatly increases the difficulty of the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team's game, because other teams have played in the first phase of the preseason and the league, and the players' physical fitness and condition have been adjusted to the best.
However, because the Guangdong Men's Basketball Team lacks formal training and competition for a long time, their condition will definitely be much worse than other teams, and their results in the make-up match will definitely not be very good. The poor performance in the first stage of the league will also affect the Guangdong team's regular season ranking. If there is no good ranking, they may fight against strong teams too early in the playoffs. Whether they can pass the score smoothly depends on how Du Feng and his players adjust their condition in time.
