Beijing time on March 26, the Australian regular season continues to play, the South Phoenix team vs Adelaide series, Chinese player Zhou Qi due to injury reasons, the Phoenix team has clearly informed, Zhou Qi will be absent from the next 2 games, but surprisingly, Adelaide's official website, is still released Zhou Qi as a ticket seller poster player, in order to attract the attention of local Chinese, I have to say that Zhou Qi's plan to join the Australian League has been reduced to a ticket-selling publicity player, more or for commercial value factors, Get more playing time and opportunities.
Why say so, the NBL league, although full of confrontation, fast-paced atmosphere, but the return to commercial value, is undoubtedly very low, the best players here, the maximum salary is only about 500,000 US dollars, and the return to a large number of NCAA players to run, the future will be as high as 300 people plan, only 10 teams level, from the competition between the echelons, will enter the white-hot stage, and even can be said that Australia's local professional players, can play the NBL league opportunities are less and less, Including the South Phoenix's current core Crick has publicly stated that after the expiration of the offseason contract, the offer of overseas teams will be further considered, and the contract is suitable for leaving the South Phoenix.
However, the sensation of Zhou Qi going to the Australian League is not unfamiliar to many fans, in addition to the personal communication of the president of the NBL, the head coach of the South Phoenix team, the boss is publicly committed to the core position of Zhou Qi. Caused by the heated discussion of Chinese fans, only to return to the actual situation, in addition to the core position at the beginning of the new season, with the deepening of the league, Brandon Ashley gradually replaced the role of Zhou Qi, and in the decisive time of the fourth quarter, Zhou Qi was often reduced to a substitute and could not get more opportunities to play. On the contrary, it is frequently appeared in the posters of different teams, and it has to be said that the purpose of the NBL team is very clear, that is, to use Zhou Qi's popularity and exposure as much as possible to attract Chinese people in Australia to buy tickets, so as to achieve the purpose of ratings and attendance, of which Adelaide is the most obvious, Zhou Qi has clearly missed the 12-person list, or the signature player of the propaganda poster.
Therefore, after Zhou Qi finished the new season, he could fully consider returning to playing in China, at least in terms of contract numbers, or closer to home. Instead of being reduced to a publicity player who sells tickets to others, he cannot guarantee the time and tactical status of the appearance, and even has a huge gap with the plan at the beginning of the league, losing his wife and folding the army.