This season, the Liaoning men's basketball team is in excellent form. After 12 rounds of league matches, Liaoning Basketball won 11 wins and 1 loss topped the league table. The current Liaoning team is full of talents, with Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei in the defensive line, Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze in the front, and Han Dejun and Zhu Rongzhen in the center position.
Such a player configuration has once again made Liaoning the most powerful contender for the CBA championship this season, and they will undoubtedly dominate the league in the next few years. However, today's Liaoning team still has relatively large hidden dangers in the No. 5 position. The 34-year-old veteran Han Dejun has entered the end of his career, and even if Daehan does not retire next season, I am afraid that he will gradually fade out of the main lineup of the team.
Judging from the current player configuration of Liaoning Basketball, interior newcomers Liu Yanyu and Lu Zijie are now unable to share the heavy responsibility of Han Dejun. At present, Han Dejun's substitute Zhu Rongzhen in the fifth position of Liaoning Basketball is about to return to the Shandong men's basketball team after completing the loan period next season.
Therefore, in order to realize the dream of regaining the CBA championship as soon as possible, Liaoning Basketball needs to find a No. 5 player who is strong enough as soon as possible to serve as Han Dejun's successor.
Although Zhu Rongzhen has gained more playing time in Liaoning Basketball in the past 2 seasons and can occasionally play very bright performances in some games, his overall performance in Liaoning Basketball can only be regarded as decent. Compared with Gao Shiyan, who was exchanged as a chip for the Shandong team, Zhu Rongzhen's role in Liaoning Basket was obviously much smaller.
And a newcomer who has appeared in the Shandong team this season has shown much higher potential than Zhu Rongzhen, he is the 18-year-old interior player Ma Xinxin.
Although he is only a CBA rookie player, Ma Xinxin's performance in the league this season has been outstanding enough. Especially in the early days of the league, in the match between Shandong and Liaoning, Ma Xinxin, who came off the bench, did not show any timidity and played a very high performance at both ends of the attack and defense. In just 15 minutes of playing time, Ma Xinxin scored 6 points on 2-of-2 shooting on the offensive end, and the defensive end sent 4 blocks, which made Liao basket's interior players Fu Hao and Li Xiaoxu suffer a lot of losses.
Judging from Ma Xinxin's performance in the first stage of the league, although he still lacks enough league experience, he has shown the potential of a top local interior player. If Liaoning Basket can't dig inside in the short term to find a suitable internal player to be Han Dejun's successor, they can really consider trading with Shandong again and exchanging Ma Xinxin to the team for vigorous training.
As we all know, Gao Shiyan played an all-star performance after being exchanged to Shandong team, and his joining made the strength of shandong team's defender line rise to a new level. Therefore, Shandong fans have been calling for the Shandong men's basketball team to officially introduce Gao Shiyan, and with Xiao Gao, the offensive organization of the Shandong team and the scoring of the outside line can be guaranteed.
Therefore, the Liaoning team can completely exchange Gao Shiyan for Ma Xinxin, and if the Shandong team feels that it has suffered losses, they can also use Lu Zijie or Liu Yanyu as a head.
Now that the Liaoning team's defensive line is good enough, Gao Shiyan will not have much impact if he does not come back. After Zhu Rongzhen returned to the team, the internal players of the Shandong team were also enough. Therefore, this 1-for-2 deal will achieve a win-win effect for Liaoning and Shandong men's basketball teams.
As two veteran CBA teams, the relationship between Shandong and Liaoning has always been very good. So if the chips given by Liao Basket are attractive enough, I believe that the Shandong team will be very willing to make this deal with their old friends.