Recently, the CBA officially released the "2021-22 CBA League Domestic Players Basic Information White Paper", which also has statistics on the average age of domestic players in the 20 CBA teams, the largest average age this season is the Shanghai men's basketball team (26.68 years old), and the youngest is the Zhejiang Chouzhou men's basketball team, to 22.11 years old, even 0.3 years younger than the league's new army Ningbo Fubang. As a youth army that has "sprung up" in the alliance in recent years, Chouzhou has indeed shown the momentum of its newborn calves not being afraid of tigers.
Last season, the Chouzhou men's basketball team, which had not yet welcomed foreign aid at that time, ushered in a showdown with the defending champion Guangdong men's basketball team in the opening game, with the all-China class against Guangdong sitting on the double outside (Weems + Ma Shang), Chouzhou finally washed Guangdong 25 points with 138 to 113 full blood, and in that game, the whole team had a total of 5 players scoring in double figures, including Liu Zeyi, Cheng Shuaipeng and Wu Qian's scores exceeded 25+, as the core of the team, Wu Qian alone scored 39 points, 5 rebounds and 14 assists. This list is even higher than the combined data of the two foreign players, Marchand + Wims (Marchand scored 15 points in that game, and Wiems only had 4 points). Throughout the season, Chouzhou ranked third in the league with a record of 41 wins and 11 losses, second only to Guangdong and Liaoning, and directly entered the playoff stage as the top four in the league, although they finally regretted falling at the feet of the powerful Liaoning basket, they still ushered in the first semi-final journey in team history.
This season, in order to show opportunities to several young backcourt players in the team, Chouzhou did not renew the contract of strong small foreign aid Landsberg, even if he signed a small foreign eric Green who once played for Fujian, but the main foreign aid has always been the young foreign aid Rakosevic who joined the team last season. Under the strategizing of young coach Liu Weiwei, Chouzhou mainly played team basketball this season, and after the end of the second stage, they tied for the third place in the league with Zhejiang Guangsha with 22 wins and 6 losses, and it should be known that this is still based on the situation that the team basically plays single foreign aid, which highlights its valuable points.
A large part of the reason why Chouzhou can continue to maintain competitiveness this season is because they attach importance to defense, as of now, the team's defensive efficiency ranks first in the league with 98, with defense to drive the attack, so it can make up for the shortcomings of their young lineup and lack of experience. As for offense, this season Chouzhou is also the team basketball embodied vividly, as of now, the whole team has a total of 7 players scoring in double figures, the highest score is only Wu Qian, who averages 18.1 points per game, under the selfless tandem of Wu Qian and Wang Yibo, the core of the two backcourt organizations, the whole team also actively shares the ball and is not greedy.
In the third stage, Chouzhou will usher in a duel with Shanxi, Tongxi, Liaoning, Guangsha and Jilin respectively, and the "focus duel" with Guangsha and Liaoning basket is also an important touchstone to test the success of this youth army, if in the third stage, small foreign aid Green can reach a chemical reaction with the team, Chouzhou this season to reach the finals, it is not a fool's dream.