After beating Ningbo 118-102, the Record of the Liaoning Men's Basketball Team rose to 24 wins and 3 losses. While continuing to lead the CBA, the Liaoning men's basketball team also locked up the playoffs in advance. Coupled with the previous double-kill defending champion Guangdong men's basketball team, the Liaoning men's basketball team has become the most powerful team, and is regarded as the number one favorite to compete for the title. However, in the midst of a good situation, the Liaoning men's basketball team also has a big hidden danger, that is, the performance of foreign aid is too mediocre, especially the small foreign aid Fergus.
The Ningbo men's basketball team only entered the CBA this year, and the lineup is a temporary patchwork, most of which are abandoned by other teams as "scraps" and draft players in the bottom line, and their competitiveness is extremely limited. So far this season, the Ningbo men's basketball team has only won 2 games, which also confirms its weakness. But against such an opponent, Fergus only scored 10 points, and it was not efficient, hitting only 3 of 9 shots, including 1 of 5 three-pointers.
But this is not the first time that Fergus has been sluggish this season, but it can be said that mediocre or poor performances on the offensive end have become the norm for Ferge. Playing the Xinjiang men's basketball team, Fogg scored 14 points. In the game against the Guangdong men's basketball team, Fogg only scored 4 points. Counting the games where Fogg scored 20+ points, he was not the team's top scorer most of the time. For example, against the Guangzhou men's basketball team, Fergus scored 22 points, and Guo Allen scored 26 points.
Fergus shines more than offense on defense. Fergus was willing to go all out defensively, to limit the opponent's arrow figures, and his performance was generally recognized. Ferge's style of play shows that he is a team-type foreign aid, not playing big cards, not occupying the ball, and willing to play for local players. Because the Liaoning men's basketball team has Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei, two national defenders who need to hold a lot of balls, Ferge is also considered to be a foreign aid suitable for the Liaoning men's basketball team.
From the perspective of the regular season, Fergus is indeed suitable for the Liaoning men's basketball team. The cooperation with Guo Allen Zhao Jiwei is very good, and Ferge has been widely recognized by his teammates. The Liaoning men's basketball team ranked first in the CBA, and the results also gave a strong proof.
But the CBA isn't just the regular season, it's also the playoffs. For top teams like the Liaoning men's basketball team, the playoffs are even more important because the championship is their only goal. But the playoffs compete not only with the thickness of local players, but also with the ability and ceiling of foreign aid.
With Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei, two top national players, Han Dejun and Zhang Zhenlin are also regulars of the national team, which also makes the Liaoning men's basketball team known for its strong local strength. However, compared with the historical Guangdong men's basketball team, the local lineup of the Liaoning men's basketball team is still slightly inferior. The Guangdong men's basketball team has sat on Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng and Du Feng and many other top national players, Chen Jianghua, Liu Xiaoyu and so on have also entered the national team, and almost all the teams have national resumes. The local strength is enough to crush the opponent, and the Guangdong men's basketball team once ruled the CBA for a long time. But after Marbury joined the Beijing men's basketball team, the Guangdong men's basketball dynasty collapsed.
In the 2011-12 season, the Guangdong men's basketball team met the Beijing men's basketball team in the finals, and was once considered to be able to win the championship easily, and Wang Shipeng also promised to sweep the opponent. But after the start of the finals, wang Shipeng, the MVP of the 2011 finals, was in no state in front of Marbury, and none of them scored double-figures, but one game had 0 points. On the other hand, Marbury, who killed the wind and water, almost single-handedly destroyed the defense line of the Guangdong men's basketball team. To make matters worse, the Guangdong men's basketball team at that time was a team of foreign aides such as Xiaobu and Singleton, who were accustomed to laying hands for local players and habitually disappeared in the face of Marbury's fierce winds and rain. As a result, the Guangdong men's basketball team was easily picked off by the Beijing men's basketball team and lost the championship.
Since then, in the next many seasons, the Guangdong men's basketball team will be eliminated when it encounters the Beijing men's basketball team in the playoffs. Even if the local brother Yi Jianlian returns, it still cannot change the situation. On the surface, it is the Guangdong men's basketball team that cannot solve the point of Marbury. The fundamental reason is that the Guangdong men's basketball team has always adhered to the core play of local players, and the foreign aid it is looking for is the team's foreign aid. In front of the super foreign aid Marbury, the local core of the Guangdong men's basketball team is not easy to make, and the team's foreign aid cannot stand up, and can only fall into the dilemma of passive beating.
The Guangdong men's basketball team has become a victim of super foreign aid, and the Beijing men's basketball team has become a big winner, relying on Marbury to win 3 championships. After that, the Sichuan men's basketball team and the Xinjiang men's basketball team were able to win the championship because foreign aid was invincible in the playoffs. It is the Liaoning men's basketball team, in the 2017-18 season that won the championship, but also because the small foreign aid Hudson played well. The performance not only suppressed all the local players of the Liaoning men's basketball team, but also exploded the Guangsha men's basketball team on the finals stage.
In the past 3 seasons, the Guangdong men's basketball team has bravely won 3 consecutive championships and become the CBA hegemon again, but also because it wants to understand and begins to introduce super foreign aid. In the 2018-19 season, the Guangdong men's basketball team still replaced foreign aides in the case of leading the regular season, creating a super foreign aid combination of Marzan Brooks and Weems, and reserved super foreign aides such as Beasley. In the 2018-19 season, although Ma Shang did not qualify for the MVP in the finals, his role was not lost to Yi Jianlian. In the 2019-20 season, Weems won the Finals MVP. In the 2020-21 season, local player Hu Mingxuan won the MVP of the finals, but the clear-eyed people knew that Weems was the real core, and the key moments were also his standing up to solve the problem.
Taking history as a mirror, it can be known that Fergus's current style of play is difficult to help the Liaoning men's basketball team win the championship. For the Liaoning men's basketball team, there are currently two options. One is to give Fergus unlimited firing rights and give him full attack to prepare for the playoffs. The second is to prepare for a third foreign aid and replace Fergus when necessary. If the current state is continued, even if it can make great progress in the regular season, Liaoning will still be difficult to become the biggest winner in the playoffs.