The fourth foreign aid of the Beijing Forbidden Warriors surfaced, beijing Shougang officially announced the signing of the third foreign aid Barry Brown, and the 49th City frenziedly collected foreign aid, which became a major spectacle of this season's CBA.
So far this season, Beijing Control is the first team to sign three foreign aides, last season for Guangzhou Isaac Haas, for Zhejiang Sylvan Landsberg, for Tianjin Marco Todorovic have come to vote, and their fourth foreign aid also came to the news, last season played for Shanghai Marcus Paul may join.
Beijing is the second three-foreign team, Jeremy Lin and Jonathan Gibson return, and the 191cm tall Brown is officially registered, and they have signed 3 foreign defenders. It has been reported earlier that Beijing's fourth foreign aid is Justin Hamilton, who has played for the team for many years.
Jingcheng Shuangxiong is the only team to complete the registration of three foreign aides.
Of course, they are not the only ones in the league who have plans to have three foreign aides, Tianjin has just recently played a shockingly good offense with a double small outside, and they have long planned to bring in a third foreign aid, former NBA player John Henson, to enrich the interior and compete for a playoff spot. In Shanghai, where the season is soaring, the third foreign aid has early identified Jimmer Fredette, who will return.
The four foreign aides are still just an idea, and the two teams in Beijing have taken the lead in proposing it. However, Beijing only recently reached the quarterfinals because Beijing defeated Guangzhou in the last round, and Beijing Control only struggled to maintain itself in the top ten of the league, so it is reasonable to say that they should not have such a strong need to introduce foreign aid.
In the midst of the sports tide brought by the Winter Olympics, it seems that Beijing and Tianjin may have performance pressure this year, and they hope to be able to take advantage of this sports wind to do something. In the short term, the introduction of foreign aid is definitely the fastest way to improve the team's performance, in the long run, the league protects the priority renewal right of foreign aid, which means that they can choose the right to stay from the right foreign aid later, and they can also exchange the signing rights of foreign aid for other chips.
The long-term accumulation of trading chips is in the business of negotiation, but that is not a simple thing, the league has a salary cap limit on foreign aid, especially this season has dropped to $5 million. That is to say, even if some teams want to sign 4 foreign aides, they must first make the total amount not exceed the salary cap, like some individual foreign aid salaries may be as high as 3 million US dollars, which is naturally difficult to operate.
From the perspective of the team's needs, Beijing Shuangxiong still has its own considerations.
Beijing signed barry, a 25-year-old who excelled in defensive and surprise scoring, 191cm tall and similar to Kyle Fogg and Andrew Goodwock. Beijing's current two small foreign aides, Jeremy Lin was originally taken away by the big injury speed and explosiveness, the new crown continued to deteriorate his body, Gibson is good at attacking but defense has never been a strong point, Barry is more like turning the shortcomings of both into advantages, but other aspects are difficult to say.
Hamilton, the fourth foreign aid candidate, is affectionately called "Big Han" by Beijing fans, who averaged 16.7 points, 7 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.1 blocks per game last season, and the data is very comprehensive. He is very suitable for Yannis's offensive and defensive system, and Beijing, which plays the main double tower this season, needs to supplement the internal strength.
Similarly, North Control is not chaotic, their previous 3 foreign aides, Haas is the inner tower, Todorovic is a more delicate inside line, Andrze Berg is a more lethal foreign aid. But Beikong is the team with the fewest three-point shots in the league, averaging only 21.3 times per game, and Deng Meng has previously played for Zhejiang and Shanghai, and has always been known for three points, which is also the need for Beikong to improve the threat of three points.
Foreign aid can solve some problems, but under the rule of 4 sections and 4 person-times, three foreign aid is not much of an advantage, and four foreign aid may only be gimmicks. At present, the best use of double foreign aid in the league is Tianjin, because there are 4 sessions and 5 people, and they have explored the mature plan of the first quarter of the first full Chinese class after the two quarters of double foreign aid, and finally played the last quarter of single foreign aid, and in the rotation, this idea was completed brilliantly.
The problem of the two males in Beijing may never be above foreign aid.
Beijing is already one of the most aging teams in the league, and at present, they have Gibson, 34, Jeremy Lin and Chang Lin, 32, Liu Xiaoyu, 32, Fang Shuo, Zhu Yanxi and Wang Xiaohui, 31, Zhou Yixiang, 30, Li Muhao, Tian Yuxiang are 29 years old, and even Zhai Xiaochuan has played the 11th season of his career.
The youngest main players in the team should be 23-year-old Fan Ziming and 26-year-old Raymond, and fortunately they are the best and most stable players in Shougang this season, otherwise, this team may not even be able to keep the top eight. Serious aging is actually one of the keys to The long-term application of Yannis's subway barrel to Beijing, they are the team with the fewest league rounds, the smooth time is experience suppression, but when the wind is headwind, it is really like a classic car driving to the scrap factory.
This batch of players in Beijing has actually reached the stage of training young players as a passing helper, but the current main rotation has never seen the figure of young people. Beijing is not without young players, the 23-year-old Qiu Tian started two years ago, the national youth captain Yang Ali has only played 19 games in two seasons, and the No. 5 show Luan Licheng, who exchanged Li Jiayi for only 3 minutes.
The most outrageous is Fan Yiming, who was previously sent to the United States in the Eagle Program, originally wanted to join the University of Portland to start his NCAA career, but due to the epidemic and Shougang recall, he finally decided to challenge the CBA, but so far this season, he has only played 2 games, a total of 9 minutes. Even if he didn't have the talent of Zeng Fanbo, this young general had already shown his potential as Zhai Xiaochuan's successor, so absurd, it was really incomprehensible.
In contrast, the situation of North Control may be easier to understand.
Since signing Stephen Marbury in 2019 as manager, North Control has been recruiting, and several large-scale signings have led to the team's ability to now be among the playoffs. Of course, their problem is that the youth training cannot be cultivated in the short term, and the gap in the squad is very obvious, and there are many injuries.
The management of Beijing Holdings has begun to pay for the less outstanding practices of the past, one of which is the big contract, they have just broken up with Li Gen, who previously took over the high-paying contract thrown by Shanghai, which was originally considered irrational, and the injury made Li Gen unable to return to the court in the short term. The second is the overlap of the same position, Beijing Control has previously hoarded a large number of internal lines, but found that it does not work, in the end it is still necessary to sign the big outside.
They may already look like they want to streamline their positions and make room for young people while also saving some of their salaries. Of course, a large part of the reasons that affect the introduction of high salaries and not maximize their ability are injuries, and that is also because the introduction of mostly famous players, old age, injury hazards have long existed.
Beijing Control does not have too many young people who can play, but it seems that they are also doing their best, Liao Sanning is chasing the best rookie, Wang Shaojie is average but stable, Bayi veteran Wang Junjie and Ma Yong have performed well recently, and Liu Chang, who came from the draft, has recently made a big splash. By the way, Zou Yuchen is actually only 25 years old, and the future Ofcosa may gradually abandon the big contract, no longer pay high salaries, and begin to build a team around the young core with foreign aid, Xu Tu rose.
The enthusiasm of Beijing Shuangxiong for foreign aid may not really improve the team.
It's just a false boom, they all seem to be covering up their mistakes, Beijing wants new foreign aid to change the lack of vitality of the team, but the deeper thing is that the team has not solved the problem of not being able to solve the problem of not catching up in the rotation of personnel. Beijing Control seems to be the right medicine to make up for foreign aid according to demand, but in fact, behind the tide of injuries and illnesses is the shortage of personnel, the fundamental reason is that in recent years, the team has not reached the hidden dangers left behind.
Of course, no matter what the reason, the signing of new foreign players is always exciting for the team, in contrast, some teams are even more helpless. Jiangsu is the only all-China class team this season, the former league is strong, and now it is painful to bite the teeth in the reconstruction period, if this kind of ambition to eat the courage can form momentum in the whole team, it may not be worth this season.
Gilling's Dominic Jones returned to the team after some complaints, and he still has no foreign helpers this season. Jilin young players have actually been trained a lot, if they can sign a good big foreign aid, the strength is likely to be in the top eight, and even challenge the top four teams, but Jilin pocket shyness seems to be an indisputable fact.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and the enthusiasm of Beijing Shuangxiong for foreign aid at least proves that the team management is rich and willing to pay for the team, which has made Teams such as Jilin and Shandong envious. But far away, local players are the key to truly invincible, and the CBA has been trying to weaken the impact of foreign aid on the league structure in recent years, and to achieve great things, it must rely on the accumulation and growth of local young talents.
Foreign aid is signed and used, which is also part of the league competition, but to become a hegemon, some things cannot be avoided.