The dust has settled, the long-rumored Jalil Okafor was finally successfully registered by the Guangsha men's basketball team when the third stage was about to start, and the big-name foreign aid with the aura of "NBA Flower Exploration Show" can help the Guangsha men's basketball team realize its championship dream while the CBA proves itself?
Duncan's successor
Don't look at Okafor now in the NBA, after being traded to the Nets in the last season, he was cut without even playing a minute, but he can be considered a "Duncan successor" before entering the NBA.
Born in 1995, Okafor is only 26 years old and 2.1 meters tall, and he is related to the 2004 leader Emeca Okafor and a distant cousin. Okafor, a former first high school student in the United States, represented the U.S. team in the U17 World Youth Championship in 2012, not only helping the team win the championship, but also winning the MVP award.
Okafor then entered Duke University, where he was named The Atlantic Coast Division Player of the Year in his freshman year, becoming the first freshman to receive the award. In addition, Okafor was named Newcomer of the Year in the Atlantic Coast Division.
Naturally, Okafor was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers with the third pick in the first round of the 2015 Draft, thus starting his NBA career. In the first season of his career, Okafor played well, averaging 17.5 points and 7 rebounds per game, becoming a highly anticipated new inside star and being named to the rookie first team.
But then, Okafor began to decline and became a "tramp", which was mainly related to his technical characteristics and the development trend of modern basketball. What modern basketball needs is an interior like Okafor's former teammate Embiid, able to keep up with the speed of the defenders, with great mobility. Okafor is a traditional insider, coupled with injuries, so he slowly lost his living space in the NBA.
Compatible with Daqiu?
However, you can't play in the NBA, and you can't play in the CBA. Although the CBA has accelerated a lot in attack and defense in recent years, it is still far from the NBA, whether it is the physical quality of the players themselves or the overall speed of the team, such as the traditional center Han Dejun, who still has a lot of dominance in the CBA.
Because of this, many fans are looking forward to Okafor coming to Guangsha men's basketball team, you know, throughout the NBA career, Okafor can get 10.4 points and 4.7 rebounds in the average 19.5 minutes of playing time per game, shooting 54.2%, is a more efficient player.
More importantly, since the 2017-18 season team history for the first time to reach the finals, the performance of the Guangsha men's basketball team has been stagnant, and now they have the league's top local player configuration, Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui, Zhao Yanhao's "trident", plus the rapid growth of Zhu Junlong, Permission, and "Renyi Brothers", there is already a foundation for re-rushing to the championship, but the clear-eyed people know at a glance that the Relatively weak Guangsha Men's Basketball Team is still the inside line.
Over the years, the internal line found by the Guangsha men's basketball team is not particularly satisfactory: Holman is an excellent rebounder, but his personal offensive skills are relatively rough; Bolosis has solid technology and good strength, and has helped the Guangsha men's basketball team reach the finals, but he is older and has a bad personality, which is not Guangsha's answer.
This season, Jarrod Jones's performance is gratifying, averaging 17.9 points, 9.3 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.4 steals per game, good physical fitness, and a certain outside basket, he has become Hu Jinqiu's right-hand partner. However, Jones is not an internal killer after all, it is difficult to inflict damage on the opponent, and his personal defensive ability is average.
Moreover, Jones also needs to rest, once he leaves, Hu Jinqiu will face the situation of being isolated on the inside line, so finding a powerful foreign aid to share the pressure for Hu Jinqiu has become a choice that the Guangsha men's basketball team will inevitably make.
In terms of the technical characteristics of the two, Okafu is a pure center, Hu Jinqiu is more partial to the fourth position, if Okafu can give full play to the characteristics of personal attack and defense, in theory, it is compatible with Hu Jinqiu, if so, the Guangsha men's basketball team is fully expected to compete with Liaoning yue and other giants this season.
The fate of foreign aid in gao shun
Don't look at Okafor is a former NBA flower exploration show, in fact, Chinese fans are no longer new to such high-ranking foreign aid.
In 2011, the NBA was temporarily suspended, so the 2000 NBA champion Ken Yang Martin parachuted into Xinjiang, becoming the first former NBA leader in CBA history. However, Martin was 34 years old at the time, and the technical characteristics were not compatible with Battle, so he returned to the United States before the end of the season. 4 years later, another "champion" came to the CBA, he is Greg Auden, he joined the Jiangsu men's basketball team, but the injury has long dragged Oden's body down, the "emperor" did not play a bright performance in Jiangsu, leaving early.
There are also many shows that come to the CBA to play. Yao Ming's former teammate, the talented Swift, played for the Shandong men's basketball team and averaged 18.5 points and 11.7 rebounds per game, but was considered "not hard enough" by then-head coach Gong Xiaobin to continue his career in the CBA. There is also the familiar Beasley, who has played a famous in the CBA, showed super scoring ability in Shanghai and Shandong, and also "won" a CBA championship in Guangdong.
There is also Yao Ming's big brother Francis, the 1999 debut show joined the Beijing men's basketball team in 2010, as a result, he kept falling on the court, only played four games, played less than 14 minutes, and got 2 points, 3 rebounds and 4 turnovers, which was a big surprise.
"Tanhua" Mayo is better, he joined the Liaoning men's basketball team when the CBA resumed in 2020, twice helped the team reach the finals, and now plays in the Russian league, which is a typical case of the prodigal son not changing gold.
Of course, the most successful is also the fourth pick of the "96 Golden Generation", Marbury, who not only helped the Beijing men's basketball team to create a hegemony of 4 years and 3 crowns, but also became the "horse political commissar" who got a Chinese green card, setting an example for foreign aid. Today, Marbury, who is coaching the Beijing Control men's basketball team, is destined to continue to work hard for the development of Chinese basketball in the future.
As for the first round of other NBA shows, there are very few cases of success in the CBA, and CBA teams have long ceased to look only at the fame of foreign aid, but mainly based on practicality, so in recent years, many foreign aides who are not too famous in the NBA but have succeeded in the European League have become the fragrant food of CBA teams.
epilogue
However, compared with the previous high-ranking foreign aid who did not play a famous role in the CBA, Okafor's situation is more special, first of all, he has no "bad deeds" in the NBA, more injuries and playing style is not in line with the trend; secondly, Okafor is only 26 years old, it is the golden age of a player, he is not here to retire in the CBA, but has the motivation to prove himself, and the possibility of passive slacking off is unlikely. So it seems that Okafor is entirely possible to play another world in the CBA.
But no matter how it is analyzed, the game is played, and Okafor must prove that he can do it in a short period of time, but there is not much time left for him.