Beijing time on January 21, the recent good state of the Sichuan men's basketball team ushered in a showdown with Beijing Shougang, in the first meeting between the two sides, when Sichuan defeated the opponent by 66-101 by 35 points, and today this encounter again, Sichuan side directly took a turn to take a leave of Haddadi, let another big foreign aid Manley as the starter. In the first quarter, the two sides really did not divide Bo Zhong, Sichuan only 17-18 behind the opponent by 1 point, to know that this is still the case that they lost the main control Han Shuo shortly after the start of the game, but in the second quarter Beijing blasted a wave of 35-27 shockwaves, in one fell swoop to establish their own lead, and finally Sichuan also lost 69-98 again, and was double-killed by Shougang this season.
In the first 6 games of the season, although Manley's scores have come to double digits, none of them have scored more than 15+, the offensive end is greatly limited, and the defensive end is far less important to Sichuan than Haddadi in addition to relying on his arm span to occasionally cover a few hot pots and compete for a few frontcourt rebounds. Before today's game against Shougang, Manley averaged only 8.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game, as an interior player, the shooting rate was only 40.7% of the hot, so in this game, Sichuan Round Hugh Haddadi on the one hand is a "Tianji horse race", ready to fight in Tianjin in the next game, on the other hand, he also wants to test Manley's color, after all, after he joined the team, he has never had the opportunity to play the whole game.
In the face of Shougang without large foreign aid, Manley still has not shown the value of his "foreign aid", and has no advantage at all under the domestic internal line of Fan Ziming and Li Muhao, and even with Qiu Tian. He played 22 minutes in the whole game, shooting 3 of 8 with only 6 points and 6 rebounds, not even as good as Shougang's 15 points and 8 rebounds. His unfamiliarity on the offensive end even allowed coach Zhou Jinli to directly send Yuan Zhenliang, who rarely played this season, focusing on the all-Chinese class, and also put him on the bench, which shows that he really has a big gap in terms of personal strength compared to other big foreign aides in the CBA.
Although it is one of the few teams in the league that uses double foreign teams, compared with Haddadi, who has been in the league for many years, Manley is an unknown "fresh graduate". Admittedly, he graduated from the famous basketball school North Carolina University, but due to a serious knee injury, Manley University only played 2 seasons in 4 years, and after graduation, he only played a few summer league games with the Bulls last year, which means that Manley basically has no professional league experience.
And this time in the CBA, the 23-year-old Manley did make his experience of the disadvantages at a glance. Although in the first game with Xinjiang, Manley scored an all-around statistic of 11 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks, but his offensive finishing is indeed much inferior to his best defense. As of now, he has only averaged, if not now full of epidemics, CBA teams have limited options for foreign aid, according to Manley's dismal data list, I am afraid that it will have been swept away long ago.
Next Sichuan still has 3 games to play, the opponents are Tianjin, Guangdong and Jiangsu, it is true that Tianjin, Guangdong does not have a big foreign, but to let their small outside (Tianjin has a double small outside, Guangdong has Laido) to play speed, Manley can only follow the round-trip running, can not play any role, it is very likely that in the final battle against Jiangsu that game, it is possible to let Manley really feel the feeling of "abuse".
(Luo Treasurer)