The Shanghai men's basketball team has been able to go on a northern campaign in the second stage, moving from the bottom of the league to the top 12 playoff spots. This is not only due to the super foreign aid Lofton but also closely related to the "Li Hua brothers," Li Tianrong and Li Hongquan, who have both played their career-best this season. However, for the guard line with a lower tolerance rate, if Li Tianrong's state cannot be guaranteed, it will be difficult for Shanghai to compete with some strong teams. In the recent away game against Shanxi, which Shanghai lost by 11 points, Li Tianrong can be considered the "culprit" of the team's defeat. Throughout the game, he played for 25 minutes, missing all 10 shots (including 0-for-7 from three-point range) and scoring no points, with a team-worst plus/minus value of -22. Fans bluntly say: "Revealing his true colors." Despite knowing that he was cold-handed, Lu Wei still let Li Tianrong play for a full 10 minutes in the final quarter, during which he did not repay the coaching staff's trust with any action, going 0-for-4 in that quarter. As the current domestic backcourt core of the Shanghai men's basketball team, Li Tianrong's state, to a certain extent, also determines how far Shanghai can go in the playoffs. Unlike most teams where small foreign players occupy the absolute core, Shanghai relies on the big foreign player Lofton as the axis. Due to Blackney's failure to show up, they eventually gave up on Waters, who had average performance,…