Before the start of this season, the league's top local team Shanghai men's basketball team signed three foreign aides in one fell swoop, in addition to Franklin, Fredette, two old CBA faces, including an NBA lotto show, once in the first round of the ninth round of the draft in 2014 was selected by the Hornets "Bosh II" Noa Fengle, in most teams are thrifty, in the case of foreign aid selection to maintain a more conservative signing, Shanghai's spending is like a clear stream of the league.
However, due to visa and isolation reasons, Feng Lai did not return to Shanghai until the second stage, and the old acquaintance Fredette will not return until the third stage, so the first stage is basically led by the "three doubles king" to lead the Shanghai men's basketball team forward, and in the case of Franklin's single core, Shanghai has achieved a good result of 10 wins and 3 losses, these 13 games, Franklin has a total of 10 games assisted to double digits, it is true that the offensive end is not as good as the peak period, but his passing ability is indeed beyond doubt!
In the second stage, Feng Lai finally ushered in the belated CBA debut, the first game with Beijing Control, Li Chunjiang gave him 27 minutes of playing time, since then he shot 9 of 17, 6 of 2 three-pointers, cut 23 points, 15 rebounds, 1 assist, 5 steals and 2 blocks of the all-around data, did show his "dimensionality reduction" lottery ability.
In the following games, Li Chunjiang also intended to increase Feng Lai's role in the team, wanting to let him integrate into the CBA as soon as possible, shanghai has recently achieved a wave of three consecutive wins, intriguing point is that in these 3 games, Feng Lai's playing time is gradually increasing (17 minutes, 21 minutes, 34 minutes), but Franklin's playing time is gradually decreasing (26 minutes, 23 minutes, 9 minutes), in the latest Shanghai 125-97 victory over Shandong, Franklin played 8 minutes in the first quarter, 1 of 2 shots with 3 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist, and then never played in the third quarter, but let Von lay always play, and in the case of playing time to 34 minutes, he also handed over an all-round stat of 30 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal, which set a new CBA career high in points and assists.
In the past 3 games, Vonle can average 21 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 1.3 steals per game when the playing time reaches 24 minutes, and the shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate are 54.5%, On the other hand, Franklin's playing time dropped to 19.1 minutes, it is true that he can still average 17.3 points per game, but 5.7 rebounds and 4 assists, and the season average of 7.6 rebounds and 9.3 assists, there is indeed a big gap, while trying to get high scores, but can not take into account the organizational tandem, Franklin is difficult to play this season like the previous shanxi to cut 30+ big triple-doubles god-level data.
From the team's previous absolute core, to the current gradual abandonment, Franklin's position in Shanghai is indeed somewhat embarrassing, since last season suffered that serious waist injury, Franklin's explosive power is indeed not as good as before, the legs feel like lead, can not send any force, if he can not break through in the scoring, wait until the third stage fredette ushered in the return, Franklin's position is afraid that he will really be replaced, after all, the point guard position has Yuan Tangwen's backcourt brain, And his cooperation with Feng Lai is also gradually getting better, in view of the policy of foreign aid 4 quarters and 4 people, the double foreign can not play at the same time, Li Chunjiang has gradually reused Feng Lai in the near future, which may really be a signal that Franklin is going to fall out of favor!