Since the abandonment of the great outer Brandon Bass in 19 years, Liaoning Basket has basically been playing double small outside in recent years, even if he signed Jeremy Taylor last season, but in the key playoffs, he did not get too many opportunities, after another folding finals, Liaoning Basket did not choose to renew Taylor's contract, but instead focused on the past two seasons of playing for the Shanxi men's basketball team. Although Moland's offensive ability is not as top as That of Motel and Dacarey Johnson, on the defensive end, he can definitely rank in the league's top 3 ranks, and it is precisely because of his defense that Liaoning basket has also recruited him this season.
In order to entertain this new signing, coach Yang Ming even invited Morland and the small foreign aid Fogg to lunch before the whole team went to Changchun, and the soldier died for the confidant, and after the second stage was officially put on the Liao basket battle robe, Moland did show his due influence on the defensive end. Affected by the four people in the four quarters of foreign aid, Fogg, who occupies the core position of the Liaoning basketball backcourt, basically divided a large part of Moland's playing time, and in addition to getting 28 minutes of playing time in the first game and Beijing Shougang's game, the remaining 4 games, Moland's playing time did not exceed 23 minutes, but he can really play his biggest role in this limited time.
After 5 games, Moland in the case of playing time is only 20.6 minutes, the average game can get 7.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1 assist, 1.2 steals, 2.8 blocks, shooting a shooting rate of up to 56.7%, such a dismal data list, for a big foreign aid, theoretically is indeed unqualified, but in this well-manned Liaoning basketball team, Morland let Liaoning fans call "true incense", because the team does not lack scorers, and Morland, who is not good at offense, Naturally, he doesn't need to care too much about his own score, just need to do a good job of defense, and this is just the "magic weapon" for him to settle down.
Unlike the beautiful data that often played empty cuts in Shanxi before, Moland had Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu, Fu Hao and Zhu Rongzhen in the Liaoning basket inner line, and the playing time was also limited to a certain extent, and in order to create a cake opportunity for him, Yang Ming often let Zhao Jiwei and him play together, on the one hand, the two can play more blocking and dismantling cooperation, on the other hand, Moland's excellent mobility can also help Zhao Jiwei change defense to the outside line and reduce the latter's defensive pressure. Morland, who worked hard and complained, not only did he not complain at all, but he worked harder than before in Shanxi.
As of now, Moland's defensive efficiency has come to the third in the league at 89.4, second only to VonLe and Rakosevic, whenever he appears, the defensive quality of Liao Basket will indeed be greatly improved, and Yang Ming no longer has to worry about the vacuum of the team after Daehan leaves the court.
One of the biggest reasons why Liao Basket lost the second crown in team history last season was that the internal defense was insufficient, Daehan played to the end of the physical strength seriously overdrafted, Fu Hao was limited by height, Zhu Rongzhen was limited by experience, Liao Basket also watched Guangdong 35-year-old fire-fighting outside Jason Thompson have to eat and drink in his own forbidden area, and this time the right medicine, ushered in Moland, the best defensive inner line in the year of playing, it can be seen that Liao Basket is still very thoughtful this season!