After beating Nanjing Tongxi by 37 points, Shougang ushered in two consecutive wins. Several of the main players suffered from injuries to varying degrees, and they were also alleviated to a certain extent.
In the last two games, Shougang has closed the army in advance, and the players who have been in the lineup for a long time have also been given the opportunity to appear. With the last five minutes left in the match against Jilin, Zhang Cairen and Zhou Yixiang played at the same time. In the match with Tongxi, Zhang Cairen got the opportunity to play in the first half. In the last quarter, just over a minute, Zhang Cairen and Zhou Yixiang played at the same time again, until the end of the game.
Due to the long period of no competition, the two are not in a good state of competition. In particular, Zhou Yixiang made 3 consecutive mistakes after his appearance. Shougang was beaten 14-0 by Tongxi, and although the game was out of suspense, Yannis roared angrily on the sidelines. Zhou Yixiang played nearly 11 minutes, 0 of 5, did not score a point, plus or minus -15.
Is this time period allowing newcomers to play? Unfortunately, Shougang did not have any new people in the second stage of the regular season.
Before the start of the second phase of the regular season, Shougang announced the list of players going to Changchun. Yang Ali, Fan Yiming and Luan Licheng, three young players, stayed in Beijing for special training. Why did Shougang give up training new people in the second stage of the regular season?
Shougang finished the first stage of the regular season with the all-China class, winning 8 and losing 5, ranking ninth. This year's CBA regular season, because of the World Cup qualifiers and the Spring Festival Winter Olympics, was cut into three stages. While the season duration increased, the number of regular season games was compressed to 38. The fewer sessions, the lower the tolerance. If you want to get a relatively desirable ranking in the playoffs, you can't have too many slips-ups.
In the second stage of the regular season, Shougang's schedule was not easy. The first two weeks of the game, two battles in Liaoning, two battles in Guangsha, and the dark horse Shanxi. From the competitive point of view, this stage needs to win more, to push the ranking forward, at least not to fall behind.
In the second stage of the regular season, Gibson and Jeremy Lin joined the team and occupied two registration places. This made Shougang's competition registration list need to be adjusted, and Zhou Yixiang and Zhang Cairen in the first stage of the list were excluded from the competition list.
At this stage of the game, in addition to the guarantee of achievements, new foreign aid and the team's run-in are also important tasks. Especially Jeremy Lin, who has been isolated and sick for a long time, his physical condition and the feeling of the game are not ideal, and he needs a lot of games to find the feeling.
So why can't they enter the competition list, sitting on the sidelines is Zhang Zhuo, Zhang Cairen and Zhou Yixiang, instead of Yang Ali, Fan Yiming and Luan Licheng?
Yang Ali and Luan Licheng are both point guards. In this position, Shougang has piled up five players, Fang Shuo, Liu Xiaoyu, Tian Yuxiang, Gibson and Jeremy Lin. Even Tian Yuxiang, the main player in the first stage, had a sharp decrease in playing time in the second stage. In the second match with Zhejiang Guangsha, due to Liu Xiaoyu's strain, Tian Yuxiang came off as a substitute. In the high-intensity competition, Tian Yuxiang made several mistakes in a row. There are many key games in the second stage, and there is no opportunity for young players to pay tuition.
Yang Ali is Shougang's key training object, but the competition to be vigorous cannot be counted on for the time being. Luan Licheng is the first college draft player in the history of the Shougang team, and he is the tall point guard and scoring weapon of the CUBA field. But in the CBA, he has no advantages, he is more of a No. 2 position, but he lacks a fresh trick. Considering that he is about to turn 24, the college draft is a lottery ticket, and almost no CBA team will invest energy in the patience of college draft growth. Cruelly, Luan Licheng is hardly within Shougang's long-term plan.
In the first stage of the regular season, the game with Shenzhen, Zhu Yanxi and Fan Ziming could not play. Zhang Zhuo rushed to the rescue and became a surprise soldier, scoring 8 points and 3 rebounds in more than one quarter. Zhang Zhuo's experience of 70 games in five seasons has allowed him to play the role of firefighter in Yannis's mind.
Fan Yiming, a youth training elite of Shougang's "Young Eagle Plan", was promoted to the first team last summer and is also the focus of the team's training. With a height of 2 meters 03 and an arm span of 2 meters 10, Fan Yiming's static talent is very good, and his body size is also lacking in the current Shougang front. In the first game of the regular season with Jiangsu, Yannis sent Fan Yiming to the court in the second quarter. In the second match against Zhejiang, Fan Yiming was given the opportunity to play again. It can be seen that Yannis weighs heavily on it. However, Fan Yiming's current technical ability, physical confrontation and competition experience are still a certain distance from meeting the requirements of the competition.
The two fastest-growing relatively young players in Shougang this season are Fan Ziming and Qiu Tian. After finding a comfortable way to play, Fan Ziming became the top scorer in Yannis's tactical system. Qiu Tian played the best season of his career, replacing the players in the absence of someone from the twin towers, and his performance was remarkable.
In the second stage of the regular season, Qiu Tian played 7 games, averaging 7.6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. Both games against Jilin scored 12 points, and the first game in Jilin was given to Dai Huaibo and Zhong Cheng 4 big hats. In the last four games, Qiu Tian has averaged 25 minutes per game. Qiu Tian's ability to end and grow is visible to the naked eye. The playing time and opportunities he has been given are also a matter of course. For young players, there is no chance to sit back and enjoy their success, and it is sooner or later to show a convincing performance in training and gain the trust of the coach.
Chang Lin, a veteran who was sidelined due to injury in the first stage, also returned to the team in the second stage. The garbage time of the competition with Jilin and Tongxi is similar to that of anyone. No stressful garbage time, for young players, can't grow. Only by playing with a clear mission and playing a stressful game can the experience of the game be improved.
In the last few seasons of Min Lulei's coaching, the garbage time was played by old players such as Huang Haibei, Li Wei and Yin Tianren, who were not young and had no plasticity, rather than newcomers such as Zhang Cairen, Wang Xu and Zhang Zhuo. The head coach needs to mobilize the enthusiasm of all the players in the team, and many times, the atmosphere in the team is also a factor that cannot be ignored.
If there must be any "newcomers" in this stage of the competition that need to be exercised, then it should be Jeremy Lin.