Qi Lin has reported to the national training team.
In order to prepare for the upcoming World Preliminary Tournament, the new Chinese men's basketball team has begun a week-long training selection on the 15th, among the 16 players selected for this training list, Qi Lin, who plays for the Xinjiang men's basketball team, may be the most surprising one, after all, even the fans of the Xinjiang men's basketball team may not expect qi Lin to get the sign of the national team again - although it is only a 16-person training list.
That's probably not an exaggeration! After all, compared to the previous two seasons, Qi Lin's performance so far this season is indeed not satisfactory. Qi Lin's sudden downturn may be related to the current predicament of the Xinjiang men's basketball team, but Qi Lin, who has suddenly fallen into trouble this season, still inevitably raises a doubt that the young player born in 1999 has hit the "late" rookie wall.
In the first game of the new season, just like the Xinjiang men's basketball team finally lost to Zhejiang Guangsha, Qi Lin personally suffered an extremely bad season debut. Playing 34 minutes in the game, he shot just 4-of-15, and he conceded two of his exciting three-pointers last season.
Qi Lin has not found a feel so far this season.
Qi Lin's poor feel has been continuing, the Xinjiang men's basketball team won the Ningbo men's basketball team's game, Qi Lin only shot 2 of 8 from the outside; the Xinjiang men's basketball team lost to the Shanxi men's basketball team, Qi Lin only shot 1 of 7 from the outside. The outside performance of the first three games of the season is almost the epitome of Qi Lin in the first stage. As of the Xinjiang men's basketball team's defeat to Zhejiang Guangsha again, Qi Lin's three-point shooting rate this season is only 32.8% (21 of 64 shots in total), which is also Qi Lin's single-season low since his appearance in the CBA league in the 2019-2020 season.
Qi Lin, who no longer feels like outside, has also fallen into a trough in his shooting. Also up to the end of the game against Zhejiang Guangsha, Qi Lin's shooting percentage this season is only 36.1% (57 of 158 shots in total). This is also the first time that Qi Lin's shooting percentage in a single season has fallen below the 40% mark since entering the CBA League.
Because the interior players are either "blue-collar" or too young, this season's Xinjiang men's basketball team is firmly focused on Abdul Salam as the core, and the two biggest changes are undoubtedly to accelerate and hope that the forward players will take on more offensive tasks. But unfortunately, not only has Qi Lin's data declined, but Tang Caiyu has also affected his shooting feel because he has consumed too much energy on the defensive end.
In short, for the Xinjiang men's basketball team so far this season, in addition to Abdul Salam's successful takeover of the core responsibility, several other changes have not really yielded results, which is probably the reason for the poor performance of the first stage of the Xinjiang men's basketball team. Among them, Qi Lin, who has a sluggish feel and even has a dunk failure, obviously needs to bear part of the responsibility.
Xinjiang Twin Stars joined hands to be selected for the training team.
Qi Lin's slump and suspicion of hitting the rookie wall may be related to the fact that this sudden increase in responsibility makes him psychologically overburdened. After all, in the first two seasons of joining the Xinjiang men's basketball team, he was only regarded as a "talented teenager" and did not "enjoy" the treatment of the main attack.
This is also the reason why Qi Lin was selected for the training team as a surprise and surprise. But then again, although Qi Lin is suspected of hitting the rookie wall, his talent and ability are absolutely non-doubtful, if he can gain self-confidence from the training of the national team or find self-confidence, for Qi Lin and the Xinjiang men's basketball team, it is obviously the best result.