Yi Jianlian stood before the CBA All-Star vote after the big injury, in the 20th year of his career, he also had to compete with the talents around him, if the years can be sung, when the afterglow is around the beam.
The most numerous all-star vote kings in CBA history are the Eighty-One King Zhizhi, who has enjoyed this honor six times. Before last season, Yi Jianlian had become the ticket king for 3 consecutive years, and only 1 time was left to catch up with his former national team comrades, but unfortunately, the serious injury in the finals led to the season reimbursement, which delayed this historical process.
After a serious injury and a season of missing a season, Yi Jianlian put back on the team, and although it can be clearly seen that he is not as good as before in terms of athleticism this season, he still effectively cut the game in 23.6 minutes per game and averaged 16.6 points and 8.4 rebounds. However, the overall shooting rate of the UAE League is much lower than the previous two championship-winning seasons, but it is the best level of career shooting in three-point shooting, with 43.9% shooting rate of 1.5 per game.
The UAE League, which returned to the field, is still the number one contender for the All-Star ticket king.
When the UAE League was injured, Guo Allen won the first all-star ticket king of his career, but he rubbed shoulders with the regular season MVP and the championship, and failed to push his personal reputation and team honor to the highest peak. Before the injury, the UAE League won the ticket king five times in 6 seasons, and what is even more terrifying is that when the popular Jeremy Lin became the ticket king of the North End in the 19-20 season, the UAE League had almost twice as many votes as him.
After Yao Ming, the UAE League carried the banner of the Chinese men's basketball team, and his popularity explosion began in the NBA era, and in 2009, the second season of the UAE League, he once got 1813829 tickets, second only to LeBron James and Kevin Garnett in the East, and almost squeezed out the Wolf King as the starting starter of the NBA All-Star Game. Soon after his return to the CBA, he began his reign over the All-Star Vote King.
Last season, despite the UAE's absence, Guangdong still won two All-Star spots in the Southern Frontcourt, and Zhou Peng and Ren Junfei played smoothly. This season, the UAE League's plus-minus ranks 30th in the league, while in the Guangdong team, there are two more in the top 30, it is Zhou Peng and Erfei.
Of course, this is not accidental, although Zhou Peng is not selected as an All-Star starter 10 times like the UAE League, and did not get this treatment for the first time until 2016, but he has made a total of 3 starts, and the popularity of the Chinese men's basketball captain has gradually reached its peak. Erfei is known as the "chicken stealer", the all-rounder of the stadium, his popularity is actually not so high, but after the absence of the UAE League last season, Guangdong fans loaded some of the remaining ammunition into his thrusters, which also made him get the first All-Star start of his career.
The starting pattern of the southern frontcourt is more or less a showdown between the UAE And the three major interior lines.
Since the CBA changed the voting position from center, forward and defender to front and back in the 18-19 season, the three starters in the south zone for two consecutive seasons have been centers. In 2019, it was Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhelin and Hu Jinqiu, and in 2020, Shen Zijie replaced Hu Jinqiu's position, and it was not until last season that the UAE League was absent before the two guangdong strikers broke out.
Shenzhen's Shen Zijie has appeared in the All-Star starter for two consecutive years, and he was also the only non-Guangdong player to start in the Southern Zone last season. This season' Shenzhen has continued to soar under the leadership of the big bird, and has raised the record to the 6th place in the league, which is even based on the four consecutive defeats he suffered in his absence.
Shen Zijie currently averages 14.8 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.4 steals, 2.7 blocks per game, the league block king, shooting 68.8% from the field, the second in the league. The leap forward can be used as a summary of his last season, provoking the team's beams after Lee Muhao's departure and quickly becoming a candidate for the league's best defensive player. What's more, his violent dunks are sucking in powder.
Wang Zhelin lost the All-Star starter last season, and he entered the All-Star in his rookie year, and just one year after winning the first regular season MVP of his career in 2019, he fell off the stage with the sinking of the Fujian team again. After joining Shanghai this season, Dawang swept away the decline, averaging 17.6 points per game to become the team's scoring champion, Shanghai ranked second in the league with 23 wins and 5 losses, and the top spot in the Southern District, which was a height he had never reached in his career.
The Sharks are on the rise, and Wang Zhelin will book an All-Star starting position for himself.
No one should question whether the king is worth starting this season, averaging 17.6 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 26.6 minutes, while delivering a career-high 1.6 blocks. Dawang's defensive efficiency is 9th in the league and 6th in the plus-minus league, and he is undoubtedly the mainstay of Shanghai when facing strong teams such as Guangdong, Beijing and Zhejiang.
Compared with the king, Hu Jinqiu has been away for a long time, and after reaching the finals in 2018, his popularity has accumulated rapidly and he has won the first all-star start of his career. Da Qiu has always been a low-key player, popularity can not catch up with the strength of the player, as early as the 17-18 season voting, when he led the league MVP list for a long time, he not only could not enter the starting lineup, and even once the number of votes was not better than tang Zhengdong, who was about to retire.
The situation of Guangsha Sanshao in the All-Star vote is very unoptimistic, on the one hand, the stars are low-key, on the other hand, the three teenagers are at the peak, and too many votes have been taken. Although Guangsha has also played a record of 22 wins and 6 losses this season, ranking 3rd in the league, in the front court voting, Daqiu may be difficult to compete with Wang Zhelin and Shen Zijie.
In contrast, the competition in the North Side frontcourt is just the opposite, and the frontal competition is the top-notch showdown. Han Dejun and rookie Zhang Zhenlin took two places in the front, and only 3 people in the league had more than 200,000 votes, in addition to the fact that they were the ticket king Guo Allen, they even had higher votes than the south district ticket king Zhao Rui.
Zhang Zhenlin made the most of the All-Star Game last year, and this season is still strong.
Averaging 12.8 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game, Zhang Zhenlin's second season has changed from a fledgling newcomer to a vertical development and a comprehensive improvement. Especially in terms of ball control and defense, Zhang Zhenlin spent a lot of effort, his data is actually not outstanding in the league category, but his influence on the field is amazing, plus or minus the third place in the league.
Not surprisingly, Zhang Zhenlin and Han Dejun will continue to monopolize the two positions in the north frontcourt, and the competition here is not as good as the stars in the south district, but Han Dejun was injured in the second stage and is likely to miss the All-Star Game, which may make another position. Coupled with Zhou Qi, who left the CBA, the North Zone frontcourt is expected to produce two non-Liaoning players.
After Zhou Qi left, the best local interior line in the North District this season was Tao Hanlin of Shandong and Fan Ziming of Beijing. The Sharks averaged 20.1 points, 12.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.2 blocks per game, and also ranked 7th in the league and 1st in the interior. However, the popularity of Tao Hanlin, who plays diligently, is not high, and Shandong's record this season is only 10th in the league.
This season's transformed Fan Ziming averaged 15.6 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, while also delivering 3.1 assists, maintaining a 59.1% league 11th shooting percentage. Xiao Fan's high position and stable mid-range have become his label and Beijing's killer in the twin-tower lineup, and the 23-year-old center can be described as rising.
Before this, the representative of the Beijing men's basketball team in the All-Star frontcourt has always been Zhai Xiaochuan, but now it seems that Xiao Fan is replacing him as the leader of the Beijing team and is also harvesting popularity. He should now be infinitely close to the first All-Star trip of his career, which is also the best news for Beijing after the lineup reshuffle in the past two years.
Another popular figure in the Northern District has also returned, that is, Abdul Salam in Xinjiang.
In 2019, Abdul Shalamu and Hu Jinqiu and Wang Zhelin in the Southern District were selected as all-star starters for the first time, and the handsome and flowing style of the ball made the young Abu popularity rise rapidly, but unfortunately, it was affected by injuries and stopped moving forward. This season, after Zhou Qi left, A not only could carry the team, but after a long recovery last season, he finally found his form.
Averaging 22.1 points, 7 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 0.9 blocks per game, all of which are career highs except for rebounds, Abu also averaged 1.9 three-pointers per game, and he teamed up with foreign player Arnette Mortree in the second stage to send Xinjiang to a favorable position in the playoff competition. By the way, another forward in Xinjiang, Qi Lin, Shandong Ding Yanyuhang, Jilin Jiang Yuxing, Liaoning Fuhao, etc. are also very popular players, and it is very likely to impact the starting position.
With the rise of the crowd, the monopoly of the All-Star seat in the Liao-Cantonese competition will end sooner or later, especially in the frontcourt position, which can be described as fierce competition. The big foreign aides are very fierce, Xinjiang Mortree, Zhejiang Nicholas Rakosevic, Shanghai Noah Vonle, Shenzhen Jared Salinger, Guangzhou TJ Lief, etc. have played very amazing performances, are all strong contenders for the frontcourt start.
The UAE League is chasing The record of Dazhi, and the youngsters are chasing him, which may be the real meaning of the All-Star Game.