The second phase of the CBA regular season will resume on December 25, with a total of 15 rounds of games. With 1 day to go until the start of the game again, let's summarize and look forward to the 20 teams of the CBA. The twentieth period is the Liaoning team.
Personnel changes (as of press time)
The second stage of the Liaoning team has completed the registration for the big foreign aid Moland, and in this stage, they will use a combination of double foreign aid. At the same time, Liu Zhixuan and Wu Changze, who missed the first stage due to injury, have also returned from injury, and they will also represent Liaoning in the second stage, and liaoning's lineup has become more in-depth.
Summary of the first phase
Liaoning ranked first in the CBA with 12 wins and 1 loss, and the only game they lost was a upset loss to Shanxi. However, Guo Allen has not yet returned in that game, and Liaoning's foreign assistant Fergus has not yet participated in the game. With the return of Guo Allen and the return of Fergus, the Liaoning team also began to be invincible.
In the first stage, Liaoning ranked third with an average of 107.7 points per game, behind Shanghai and Shenzhen. Defensively, they conceded 92.8 points per game in fifth place, and the offensive and defensive ends are still relatively balanced. Although Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, Han Dejun and other main players are more tired, the overall performance of the Liaoning team is still very good. At the same time, young players of the Liaoning team such as Fu Hao, Zhu Rongzhen, Yan Zhiqi, Cong Mingchen, Yu Zechen and Zhou Juncheng also handed over remarkable performances, making the Liaoning team more in-depth.
It is worth mentioning that Guo Allen has become sharper on the offensive end after his comeback. Currently, he averages 23.3 points per game, ranking third on the scoring list. Compared with the past, Guo Allen's biggest improvement is that the mid-range shot has become more accurate, the offensive end has become more threatening, and the play has become easier. In the first stage, he shot 46 percent from three-point range, averaging 1.7 three-pointers per game, a career-high three-point shooting percentage.
Phase II Outlook
The second stage of the Liaoning team is strong and strong from the point of view of the paper lineup. In terms of foreign aid, they have two foreign aides, Morland and Fergus. In the local lineup, with liu zhixuan and Wu Changze returning from injury, the Liaoning team also gathered their strongest lineup.
The only thing that worries the Liaoning team is the run-in between the main players and foreign aides. As we all know, Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, Zhang Zhenlin and Han Dejun all participated in the World Cup qualifiers on behalf of the national team, and only recently ended the quarantine and arrived in the Changchun Division to meet with the Liaoning team, leaving them with one to two days to practice with the team. Because the 25th is the first match day of the second stage, and the opponent is the Beijing team with double foreign aid Jeremy Lin and Gibson, the physical fitness and state of the main force of the Liaoning team, as well as the degree of run-in with the whole team, still need to be tested.
Another point is that according to Yang Ming, the head coach of the Liaoning team, the big foreign aid Moland is too long to be isolated for a long time, and the time to run into the team is not enough, and he is still adapting to the team's tactical concept and style, and his state is still far from the coaching team's biggest expectations for him, and he still needs to continue to train while running in while playing to adjust the state.
Judging from the schedule, the second stage of the Liaoning team is much more challenging than the first stage. They will play two games against Guangdong, two against Beijing and two against Shenzhen, and all three teams have strong strength, especially the defending champion Guangdong. Although head coach Yang Ming said that the second stage is mainly based on the adjustment of the running-in lineup, the Liaoning team will make the most difficult preparations, but the Liaoning team obviously cannot blindly run into the lineup and adjust the state, they will still strive to keep the top position in the league, thus laying a better foundation for the third stage.