In the CBA, if you want to transform from a rising star to a true all-star, you need to overcome countless difficulties and obstacles.
In a bid for a valuable playoff ticket, Beijing Enterprises and Guangzhou reached the final moments of the regular season last season. In the end, Guangzhou relied on the more outstanding performance of the back course to force Beijing Control to enter the playoffs as the twelfth place.
Perhaps from that moment on, the two sides have already formed a beam. Meeting in the first leg of the season, Guangzhou once again beat Beijing Control. Therefore, in the second round of the duel between the two sides, all the people in North Control hope to defeat their opponents and thus be ashamed. The contest took two extra hours to decide the winner. Although Guangzhou's foreign aid Li Fu scored 47 points and 17 rebounds, and Chen Yingjun scored 12 points and 19 assists, they still could not stop the final victory of North Control. Young guard Liao Sanning led the team to victory with a career-high 30 points and 11 rebounds, and under the situation of gradually dudding of new stars, Liao Sanning still has a stable output and has basically locked in the best rookie of the year.
Obviously, Liao Sanning was lucky. He met Marbury, the CBA's most willing coach to give young people a chance, and in the midst of a team that lacked a point guard. Compared to him, the rookie season of other young players has not been so smooth. After the defeat of the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, Chinese basketball urgently needs more newcomers to stand up and provoke the beam. However, how can it be difficult to cultivate new people in the CBA?
Privately, many players have expressed their envy for Liao Sanning to reporters. The young defender's growth trajectory is indeed different from most players. In the CBA, once the coach gives the new person more opportunities to experience, it is likely to sacrifice the team's record, which is also the objective law of the basketball world. However, once the record is bad, the coaches are under great pressure.
The reason why Liao Sanning is special is that on the one hand, he met Marbury, who is the league's favorite newcomer, on the other hand, it is also related to the current situation of the North Control Team. Even though North Control failed to reach the playoffs last season, Marbury's position is still relatively stable. Beikong's internal strength is strong, but the strength of the backcourt is still somewhat thin. Especially in the point guard position, Marbury doesn't have many cards to play. During liao sanning's participation in the beijing control trial, he left a very deep impression on the old horse. Now that he can finally wear the North Control battle robe, he can naturally get a lot of opportunities.
Happily, Liao Sanning did play the expected performance, and as the season progressed, his personal performance became more and more outstanding. To be sure, he will have more opportunities next. When the cultivation of young people enters a virtuous circle, not only will Liao Sanning benefit, but Marbury's position will also be more stable. However, such cases are still a minority after all. Defender Li Yiyang, who is also known for his elegance and agility, does not seem to be so recent.
First of all, it should be emphasized that there is a certain gap between Li Yiyang and Liao Sanning in terms of personal talent. However, Li Yiyang also had a good performance at the beginning of the season, but after entering the second stage, he almost disappeared from the sight. The arrival of foreign aid Gordon took almost all of Le Yiyang's ball. The big-budget player has averaged 41.9 points, 6.0 rebounds and 11.2 assists so far this season, and his possession rate is a staggering 44.4%. In contrast, Li Yiyang, whose share of the second round is only 19.8%.
Li Yiyang's significant reduction in playing time and ball power has disappointed many fans. But for the coaching staff, there is nothing wrong with making such a choice. In the first stage, The Fujian team only won two games. The second stage is not over yet, they have won three games. The defeat of Qingdao, which has two foreign players, was particularly able to show Gordon's excellent individual ability. Throughout the game, he only rested for 29 seconds, frantically cutting 58 points, 11 rebounds and 16 assists. For comparison, Li Yiyang only had 1 rebound and 1 assist in that game.
In the vast majority of the CBA's middle and lower-class teams, there is a huge gap between the strength of foreign aid and local players. Therefore, putting more balls in the hands of foreign aid may allow the team to win more victories. It is difficult for the youth training to train young people, because there are too many strong domestic players in the team. It is difficult for the middle and lower reaches of the league to cultivate new players because their performance is closely related to the performance of foreign aid. Many people believe that giving more ball rights to foreign aid is not a way for a team to grow healthily. However, the coaching staff of these middle and lower teams also have their difficulties, and it is contradictory to want to balance the record with the growth of young people at the same time. Therefore, with the return of foreign aid, the disappearance of The Li Yiyan may become normal.
Compared with the teams in the middle and lower reaches of the league, in fact, the number of potential new stars in the team is even greater. At the same time, the team's coaching staff is also stronger and more experienced in cultivating new talents.
This season marks Zhang Zhenlin's second season on the professional court, averaging 12.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game. No matter which end of the attack and defense, there is a clear improvement compared to last season. It is precisely because of the addition of young players such as Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze that the previously weak flank of Liaoning has now become their advantage.
Unlike many young players, Zhang Zhenlin did not participate in the draft, which was the result of Liaoning youth training. Coincidentally, the young players that have emerged in the Guangdong team in recent years are also related to their own youth training system. Hu Mingxuan, Xu Jie and others have been trained in the echelon of Guangdong for many years, standing out among countless potential stocks, and finally becoming the core figures in the championship team.
However, the big youth training households can not only create stars, but also "destroy people tirelessly". Whether a new star can succeed or fail, in fact, there is also a survivor bias. The CBA and the NBA's training mechanism is completely different, in the NBA is often the most talented newcomers will be through the draft to join those teams that have not been particularly good before. So in the years when their careers started, they were able to get a lot of opportunities to practice. But the vast majority of potential new stars in the true sense of the CBA will not enter the league through the draft, and they are generally from Guangdong, Liaoning and other teams with a good youth training foundation. Since it is a big player in youth training, the strength of the team will not be worse. Naturally, these newcomers usually spend the early days of their careers on the bench.
Zhang Zhenlin, Hu Mingxuan, and Xu Jie can stand out not only because of their respective talents, but also because of their own luck. The Liaoning team was previously short of people on the flank, so Zhang Zhenlin got a lot of opportunities. The Guangdong team is a bit barren in the defensive line, and Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie can get more experience. On the other hand, Gao Shiyan, as a backcourt player, also has extremely good talent. But because there are already Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei on the Liaoning defender line, his personal ability has not been completely released before Xiaogao joined Shandong. Guangdong team completed four consecutive championships around 2010, and Wang Qizhuba firmly occupied the flank position, which also led to a large number of young wing players at that time not getting too many opportunities.
This is the law of the basketball world, when a team enters the championship track, it is often difficult to take into account the cultivation of young people. When a team gives young people a lot of opportunities, it is often missed out on the championship. In recent years, the turnover of CBA personnel has been much more frequent than before, but there are still many potential rising stars who cannot get too many opportunities, or their positions in the team are slightly awkward.
Young potential rising stars want to gain a foothold in the CBA, and there is no need to repeat how difficult it is. However, sometimes the inability of potential stocks to grow is not only due to the environment or the team, but also to each young player himself.
Du Feng repeatedly said in an interview that many young players will be complacent after being praised by public opinion, and thus lose the motivation to continue to move forward. As a result, some teams directly refused to allow the media to interview young players, and shielded the interference of external voices on young athletes as much as possible.
Recently, there has been a general consensus among CBA coaches that today's young people are becoming more and more difficult to carry. Wang Zhizhi, who previously served as the head coach of the Bayi team, once said in an interview: "The things that make money on the field are not pondered, and the things that are spent off the field are pondered one by one." I said how to play on the field without talking, once to the bottom (game) to form a team, it is also five or six people, right? I think this phone is really quite harmful, really sucking your energy, the energy should have been focused on the court, but there are too many things outside of them. ”
In order not to let the players indulge in mobile phones, some teams even installed signal jammers in the base. But how can the temptation be limited to mobile phones? With the advent of the social media era, the voice and influence of professional players are increasing. Once young players emerge, they need to face all kinds of temptations. I have to admit that there are not a few new stars who continue to work hard, but there are also some players who lose themselves because of this.
In the CBA, if you want to transform from a rising star to a true all-star, you need to overcome countless difficulties and obstacles. However, the story of Injury Zhongyong also seems to happen frequently. There are indeed problems with the mechanism of the league and the way to train new people, but "this year's young people are getting more and more difficult to bring" seems to have become the consensus of many coaches. Digging deeper, the lack of competition may be the root of these problems, and the development of Chinese basketball still has a long way to go.
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