7 three-pointers through the cloud arrow, the third CBA single game 40+ local player this season, rookie Zhao Baiqing became famous in one battle, the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger, who said that the draft is not the right way?
CBA 2021 draft list, Zhao Baiqing 5 days ago against the defending champion Guangdong Hongyuan, three points 6 shots 4, won the third game of the season 20+, 22 points to set a new personal scoring record. Just five days later, he scored seven three-pointers and 40 points in 36 minutes to break his personal record.
At this time, there must be a large number of people ready to attack Zhao Baiqing, losing 32 points in Fujian, but it was just a brush cut. But in this battle, Zhao Baiqing shot 15 of 21, 7 of 12 from three-pointers, 3 of 4 from the free throws, and cut 40 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal with more than 70% of the shooting rate.
Zhao Baiqing also broke two records, one is the record of 28 points per game for draft rookies held by Lin Tingqian and Li Yiyang, and the other is the record of 36 points per game for draft players held by Jiang Yuxing. After 7 years of CBA drafting, 99 players were born Jiang Yuxing, Guo Kai, Chen Yingjun, Lin Tingqian, Wang Shaojie and a number of other famous players, but the record was created by Zhao Baiqing on this day.
He is the third homegrown player to play 40+ in a single game this season, after Abdul Salam with 43 points and Ge Zhaobao's 40 points. In the absence of the top two native players in Tongxi's scoring, a rookie stepped forward to take on the team's offensive task. Zhao Baiqing's hand fell from the knife, and the qi penetrated Changhong, which is the temperament of the CUBA Dynasty players, which is the responsibility of the lowest-key puzzle in the Beijing consecutive championship period.
A key word that belongs to Zhao Baiqing, a puzzle.
In May 2013, Zhao Baiqing, a junior high school player at Tsinghua High School, led the team to defeat Zhejiang Huipu Experimental Junior High School 2-0, winning the first Chinese junior high school basketball league championship in school history. He scored 18 points and 4 rebounds on the night of the finals and was successfully elected MVP, after which he won the National High School League championship for three consecutive years with Tsinghua High School, won the world student three-on-three league in 2014 and accepted the MVP, and won the 12th National Secondary School Games.
When he entered Peking University, he opened the CUBA championship with his teammates, and his resume saved a lot of championships and various MVPs, so he was nicknamed "Old P" by his friends, which means always taking MVP. After graduating from high school in 2016, he also went to the United States for special training and won the first point for Chinese players in the Drew League.
Even with so many hardcore honors, as he grew older and the level of the tournament improved, Zhao Baiqing met more talented and powerful players. Not to mention the CBA, only to say that his internal teammates at Peking University, the talented Wang Shaojie, the tonnage but skilled Wan Shengwei, and the stable and accurate Guo Kai in the middle of the investment are not generalists.
Finding the right position is the most critical part of the growth path of young players, and Zhao Baiqing, who has always won the MVP, has become the most low-key star in the Peking University dynasty. His work on the court has become a more fragmented defensive make-up, scrambling for rebounds, cold shooting three-pointers, these blue-collar tasks have made him lose the aura of Wang Shaojie's genius center and Zhang Ning's explosive defender, but it can win him a broader future.
From Tsinghua High School to Peking University, from CUBA to CBA, Zhao Baiqing's path is very stable. The simple style of play allowed him to quickly win the starting position of Tongxi, but the performance was not efficient, so that he began to fall into confusion in the long game, and briefly lost the starting point in the second stage.
What is most suitable for Zhao Baiqing is undoubtedly a space striker.
203CM, 108KG, Zhao Baiqing's physical talent in the CBA can only be regarded as mediocre, although he plays very hard, but how to grab rebounds with those tall and strong No. 4 positions, and how to attack experienced opponents? The answer comes back to his basketball career choices, and he needs a clearer position than the blue-collar workers he did in college.
Starting from the game against Guangdong, in the last three games, he averaged 27 points, 6.3 rebounds, 2 assists and 1.3 steals per game, and shot 11 of 20 three-pointers. He has hit at least three three-pointers in 4 20+ games this season, and his three-point shooting rate is around 60%. Only when his three-point shot is taken can he get an easier way of playing and better results.
In the development trend of modern basketball, what can fill the gap in physical talent is projection, and the significance of stable projection for teams and individuals is obvious. In fact, as early as 2016, when he graduated from high school, Zhao Baiqing expressed his vision of the future in an interview, improving his long-range projection ability and core strength was his first thought, and the ideal template he thought was Kevin Lefou and LaMarcus Aldridge.
Concise playing style, accurate positioning, coupled with excellent feel, and a game that had to carry the team's offensive banner, the CBA rookie scoring record fell to Zhao Baiqing's head. For him, a 40 point doesn't mean reaching the top, rather, it's more of an incentive to tell him what the future can look like.
Coincidentally, the 2021 draft is not only him going to the front of the space.
In the past few years, the draft has unlocked the characteristics of Wan Shengwei, Wang Shaojie, Guo Kai and other characteristics of the inside line, and then mass-produced He Siyu, Wang Ruize, Zhu Mingzhen and other fronts with 3D potential, and then there are Liu Yi, Zhang Ning and other defensively oriented forward swingers, Yuan Tangwen, Li Yiyang and other defenders who assist the first.
Nowadays, space daqian seems to be unlocking, and although Zhao Baiqing's three-point shooting rate is not good, his playing style is adjusting. His old teammate Zhang Dianliang, who won the junior high school championship at Tsinghua High School, can see the change more vividly, and people are very surprised how CUBA's powerful center suddenly has a stable three-point shot.
In fact, Zhang Dianliang had a good three-point projection performance in his college days, less than 1 shot in the first two years of college, but the shooting rate exceeded 40%, and in the 2021 Northeast Division, his three-point shooting rate once exceeded 50%. However, in the national competition, his three points fell sharply, as the absolute inner pillar of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, he would not choose to shoot more three points.
In the CBA, it is different, although he has successfully lost weight, but he is 201cm and weighs 104KG, so there is no internal advantage. To gain a foothold in the CBA, in addition to his skilful under-the-basket attacking skills and rebounding sense of smell, he must have better outside shooting. Currently, he's shooting 44.1 percent from three-point range, but he's only averaging 0.8 per game.
After the return of Hamad Haddadi, Zhang Dianliang promoted to the start with his dexterous running position and ability to do outside, and in the last four games, he averaged 16.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game, which was very good. Among them, the three-pointer is 8-of-6, and the stable projection even allows Sichuan to arrange a three-point tactic at the bottom corner in the more important round.
Despite this, Zhang Dianliang only has the potential to become a space front, and his recent three-point shots have stabilized at about 2 times per game, accounting for only 27% of his shots. In the case of matching Haddadi, he should continue to polish and improve his three-point ability, and strive to bring more space for himself and be more comfortable in the game.
In addition to the two college players, Lu Junhu from the NBL also joined.
In the four games that entered the starting game, Lu Junhu averaged 12.7 points and 3.5 rebounds per game, and three-pointers was 9 of 19 shooting, averaging 2.25 three-pointers per game. Lu Junhu, who is 205cm tall, his three-point attribute is very compatible with the powerful small foreign aid Dez Wells, and was reused by Wu Qinglong in the absence of Shao Yinglun.
The '99-born rookie weighs just 92kg, but he's played center in a small lineup in a few recent games. The effort on the defensive end is on the one hand, more consideration is to open up space for Wells on the offensive end, and three points are also his key weapon in the CBA.
With his outstanding performance during this period, Lu Junhu raised his three-point shooting rate to 40.6%, and officially ranked among the main rotations. Compared with Zhao Baiqing and Zhang Dianliang, his advantage is that since the NBL period, he has been a big space front play, and the disadvantage is that he weighs only 92KG and is relatively insufficient in rebounding.
The same story is also happening to defending champion Guangdong, Du Runwang, who has returned from injury, was recently put into the starting partner Yi Jianlian, starting 6 games, shooting 30 three-point shots and hitting 14 goals, compared with only 4 of 14 before. Du Runwang, who gradually regained his divine state, is also one of the signals of Guangdong's offensive recovery.
In addition, Shenzhen Gu Quan, Zhejiang Zhu Xuhang, Guangsha foreign aid Jarrod Jones, Shanxi Xing Zhiqiang, Tianjin Tianyu and so on, space forwards are extremely important for attack in this era. Of course, there are also poor performances in the rookie, Ningbo's Ma Zhenxiang is good at projection, but after the arrival of foreign aid, he was pressed on the bench, to win more opportunities, he has to find a way to improve efficiency.
Zhao Baiqing's battle is not only a series of records, but also a broader professional living space for the draft players. This group of players who are about 2 meters tall and play in the inner line may not have the height and weight of Wang Shaojie, Wan Shengwei and others, nor the running and jumping ability of Zhu Songwei and Zheng Qilong, but if they can cultivate a hand and three points on the basis of their own ability, in this era of space, they should do something.
The road to draft players is widening, and the CBA and Chinese basketball will go farther and farther.