The second phase of the CBA regular season is about to start, and 18 foreign players have been successfully registered, and for the biggest attraction of this stage, "East Asian Premier League" will continue to pay attention.
The first issue was launched with -
Tianjin Skywalker
Not the traditional giants, because this team not only brought in 2 foreign players at the same time, but also Taylor Rochester and Kenny Burton are shooting guards, known for shooting three-pointers; and Tianjin's three-point shots are already ranked 1st in the league...
What kind of drama will they stage?
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Team: Tianjin Forerunners
Stage 1 record: 9 wins and 3 losses, ranked 16th
Tyler Rochester
Rochester played in Tianjin in the 2018-2019 season, when he averaged 33.5 points, 4.7 rebounds, 9.1 assists and 1.1 steals per game, and the 185cm tall defender can be said to be Tianjin's best backcourt in recent years.
In the second stage, Tianjin played Liaoning in the second game, and Zhang Zhenlin and Rochester, who had been in the United States, were once alumni of the United States.
In 2004, at the age of 19, Rochester graduated from Barbara High School, a prestigious high school in California, and began his NCAA journey with the halo of the top scorer in school history, and the first stop was Tulane University.
Freshman, he averaged 10.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.2 steals per game, and was Green Wave's No. 2 scorer, with the number one star named Quincy Lee. Davis.
Yes, years later, Quincy Davis was naturalized by Chinese Taipei and became famous in Asia.
Rochester, who missed the tournament, then transferred to Washington State University, where the Redshirt appeared in the 2006-2007 season in the NCAA's Mad March.
In 2008, Rochester and his apprentice Aaron Baynes played strongly and brought the team to the sweet 16.
In 2009, Rochester, who averaged 13.2 points per game in the final season of his NCAA career, participated in the NBA Draft, played five summer league games for the Los Angeles Lakers after losing the election, and then went to Europe to start a brilliant career journey, winning the European Club Challenge Cup championship and the MVP of the Final Four in the first season.
Before joining Tianjin in 2018, Rochester played in Europe for 9 seasons, during which he also held 3 championship trophies such as the Serbian League, the Italian Super Cup and the Israel Cup, as well as the 2012 Ligue 1 All-Star, the 2015 Europa League Top Scorer and 180 club members.
He also has dual citizenship of the United States and the Republic of Montenegro and has played European Championship qualifiers for montenegro.
He was 33 years old when he came to the CBA, but Rochester deserved to be experienced, scoring 64 points and 32 assists in the first two games of the CBA, which immediately reassured fans.
But even if he cut a large triple-double of 30+13+17 in Game 2, Tianjin still could not win, which became his norm since then, averaging 33.5 points and 9.1 assists per game, and shooting 4.7 three-pointers per game with a 45% shooting rate, but Tianjin Forerunners only won 12 games in a single season.
His solo masterpiece was facing the Beijing Forbidden Warriors on February 28, 2019, the two teams played to the final moment, Rochester completed a jump shot at 4.7 seconds, and scored 48 points, 5 assists and 4 steals.
At the end of the season, he joined The NBL's Anhui Wenyi, successfully won the championship with the later Qingdao Eagles foreign player Dacary Johnson, and then returned to Europe after failing to renew his contract with the Eagles.
Kenny Burton
Much like Rochester's experience, Kenny Burton is also well-known, playing for the University of Florida alligator under Billy Donovan during the NCAA and having teammates with Chandler Parsons, Bradley Beale and others.
In his freshman year, he averaged 13.9 points and 2.7 assists per game, making him the team's top scorer, and from his sophomore year, he reached the NCAA's elite quarter-finals for three consecutive years.
Burton, who is 188cm tall, has been a scoring guard for the entire university period, and in 2011, he was also invited to the CP3 elite guard training camp by Chris Paul, but until graduation he did not develop the characteristics of a double guard, which made him unable to intersect with the NBA, and had to go to Europe to break in, although the performance was good, but 5 teams changed in 5 years.
In 2018, Burton joined Hebei Xianglan.
In the NBL, Burton killed all four sides, averaging 39.4 points and 5.1 assists per game, and defeated defending champion Shaanxi Xinda in the opening game, bringing Hebei's average of points per game to the first place in the league and successfully reaching the playoffs.
In the playoffs, he averaged 40.6 points per game, and by the way, his partner at the time was former Nanjing foreign player Anett Mortree, who has now joined the Xinjiang Flying Tigers.
In the 2018-2019 season, Burton came to the CBA to play for Shenzhen, and shenzhen won 33 wins and 13 losses in this season, ranking 4th.
Burton averaged 24.9 points, 4.5 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.3 steals per game, and shot 44.4% of the three-point shooting rate, and the playoffs reversed Beijing with a 0-2 deficit, and his three-pointers in the last three games were 13 of 24.
Burton returned to Shenzhen last season, but this time his performance was not as good as expected, averaging only 11.8 points, 3.1 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.0 steals in 21.0 minutes per game, the shooting rate dropped to 40.7%, and the three-point shooting rate on which he became famous dropped to 33.8%;
The playoffs met Beijing again, and Qiu Biao only let him play for 7 minutes.
The difference between the two performances for Shenzhen is so great, which is related to Burton's personal characteristics.
He is a point guard by birth and is not good at revitalizing the whole team, so in the 2018-2019 season he was the team's top scorer on the bench, with Jared Salinger in front of him and Dwight Baix in front of the two foreign players on the field, he only needed to attack, and last season he had more assists per unit of time, but lost his personal characteristics.
Tianjin forerunner analysis
Tianjin's by-election foreign aid is very interesting, it seems to be to shoot the three-point shot accurately.
In fact, Tianjin has always liked three-pointers, the top data in the history of the team so far in each season is often the number of three-point shots and hits, Rochester played in the 2018-2019 season they averaged 33.2 shots per game, hitting 12.8, all second in the league;
The hit rate reached 38.6%, the 4th.
Last season, Tianjin's three-point court shot 33.2 shots and hit 11.7, all of which were the first in the league, but the shooting rate was only 35.3%.
Although the head coach was changed from Liu Tie to Alexander Caesar and then to Zhang Degui, the overall style did not change much, and the number of three-point shots in the first stage was still the first in the league, but the shooting rate fell to 32.0%, the second-to-last in the league.
In this way, they found Rochester, a 36-year-old three-pointer master, plus Burton, who is also known for three-pointers, even if it is the right medicine.
Tianjin has its own plans, and after having Lin Tingqian, they actually need a strong small foreign aid to make the backcourt more prominent - after all, even if a large foreign aid is signed at this time, the main internal line may still be mediocre, and the opponents are not afraid.
Rochester and Burton's experience and playing style have a lot of similarities, the main technical feature is the accuracy of the three-point shot, and has played in the CBA experience, the epidemic of choosing foreign aid this problem Tianjin is to find the answer to score full points.
It is foreseeable that the number of shots they have made will not decrease, but will only increase, and if the shooting rate rises, it is expected to play a characteristic and chase the playoffs.
Expectations are good, but the challenges are also very big, after all, they have been playing the role of weak teams for many, many years.
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