As Justin Hamilton updated twitter, saying that he had ended the 21-day quarantine, Beijing's four foreign aides had all arrived, and the team would prepare for the third stage of the regular season with a lineup of four foreign aides, and Shougang was the only team in the league with four foreign aides.
After the introduction of Jeremy Lin, Gibson and Brown, the Beijing team achieved a record of 17 wins and 11 losses at the end of the second stage, ranking 8th in the league. Objectively speaking, the record of the Beijing team is not enough to satisfy the management, they are not even as good as the Guangzhou team, and in the competition with Shenzhen, Guangsha, Liaoning and other strong teams, the Beijing team is always at a disadvantage, which also shows their lack of ability to fight hard battles, and even in the 24th round of the game, Beijing was actually inferior to Tianjin.
Beijing's strength has declined this season, in large part because of the decline of local players. Zhai Xiaochuan averaged 15.5 points, 9.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game last season, and only 10.7 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists this season, the shooting rate has dropped from 47.7% to 41.8%, and the three-point shooting rate is even only 28.6%, and Fang Shuo has also slipped from 13.9 points and 5.9 assists last season to 9.8 points and 4.3 assists this season. Li Muhao and Fan Ziming formed a twin tower, allowing the Beijing team to focus on the inside line, but many times the main internal line was not enough to make the Beijing team laugh to the end in the strong dialogue.
Therefore, among the top three foreign aides introduced by the Beijing team, they are all small foreign aides. However, Jeremy Lin's performance is not satisfactory, averaging 14.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game, which is far from the expectations of the outside world; Gibson is not bad, his physical condition and talent are also the best of the three small foreign aides, but as a tackler, he needs to compete with Brown for playing time.
Song Xiang, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, wrote an article pointing out that Gibson and Brown have different characteristics, but their functions are similar. So which player is in better form and more efficient on the pitch will get more time on the pitch.
As for the big foreign aid Hamilton, Song Xiang pointed out that Hamilton's playing time will mainly depend on the performance of the inner twin towers and whether there are unexpected situations such as injuries, and the current assessment, the Shougang team will focus more on the use of foreign aid and on-field arrangements for defenders.
Judging from the current lineup configuration of the Beijing team, the state of the local core players has declined, there is no young player who has been trained later, and the main players such as Li Muhao and Fan Ziming are mostly traded, and if they want to impact the championship, they can only rely on foreign aid to provide more firepower. However, I don't know if after having 4 foreign aides, can the Beijing team play a surprising performance in the regular season in the third stage?