Recently, the CBA is in the offseason, and most of the teams have started training after the holiday, after all, the next task will be heavier. However, for some teams, the results have not been too extravagant, more based on training, which Jiangsu is typical, at present they have 4 wins and 24 losses, and there is no hope for the playoffs. Although the results are not good, it does not mean that the players have not improved, at least for the small forward Zhao Lizhou, the harvest is still great.
This season, Zhao has played 27 games for Jiangsu, most of the time as a starter, averaging 29.4 minutes per game and 11 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.6 assists. The reason why Zhao Lizhou is mentioned is because he has experienced some ups and downs in the past two years, but fortunately, there is always a reward for paying.
Zhao Lizhou is a player trained by Liaoning Youth Training, with a height of 198cm, is a standard small forward, and his technical characteristics are good at three-point shooting. In 2013, Zhao Lizhou entered the CBA, but at that time, there was no shortage of people in the third position of the Liaoning team, He Tianju was at the peak of no one to match, and Cong Mingchen, who was also a newcomer, was better than Zhao Lizhou in all aspects and won the favor of Guo Shiqiang.
He made 10 appearances in the first season, and in the following 15-17 years, Zhao Was loaned to Guangzhou, and the corresponding playing time was improving, but after all, he was still a newcomer, and there were not so many performance opportunities. In the 17-18 season back to Liaoning, although Zhao Lizhou rarely played, he was lucky enough to win the first championship in team history. However, this was his last happy moment in his hometown team, and in 2018, Zhao Lizhou permanently transferred to Jiangsu.
In the next two seasons, Zhao became a stable substitute rotation for the Jiangsu team, but in 2020, he suddenly received a new task, the national three-person basketball team hoped to get good results at the Tokyo Olympics, and his technical characteristics were recognized, so he was called up. Li Nan, who had just become the head coach of the Jiangsu team at that time, was also very generous, allowing Zhao Tozhou to play for the country by leaving the CBA vacant for one year. It is just a great pity that in the 2021 national team selection, many players who have not been in the three-person basketball training camp for a long time have failed to be selected, and finally hu Jinqiu, Gao Shiyan and other professional players went to Tokyo.
Zhao Lizhou was absent from the CBA for a year, which is still more hurt by the player's professional continuity, but fortunately, Li Nan is indeed affectionate, and the new season has given Zhao Lizhou enough trust, from the main position to the playing time, which has been greatly improved than in the past many years, and it is also a compensation for his comeback for the national team.
Of course, it has to be said that Zhao Lizhou suddenly became the core main force of the Jiangsu team, but also because the team is in the reconstruction period, there are more young players, in the forward position, Wu Yujia, Xu Mengjun, Zheng Qilong are relatively young, relatively speaking, Zhao Lizhou is older, the game experience is also relatively rich, plus after high-intensity special training in the national team, his state is indeed better.
Zhao Lizhou's various data have created a new career high, and the efficiency is also good, the two-point shooting rate is 51%, the three-point shooting rate is not bad, and he averages 6.6 outside shots per game, which is an important firepower point for the Jiangsu team.