As the saying goes, heroes don't ask for provenance. No matter how humble the origin, as long as you make unremitting efforts, you can change your destiny and complete the counterattack of fate. Zhao Lizhou wrote such a story of phoenix nirvana.
Pull back the time to the 2017-18 season, when Zhao Lizhou played for the Liaoning men's basketball team. That season, the Liaoning men's basketball team won the CBA championship, but Zhao Lizhou may not feel the joy of success. Zhao has only played a total of 4 games, averaging only 5.5 minutes per game. Not even the dragon suit, Zhao Lizhou had almost no sense of existence.
No one was upset with Zhao, because Guo Shiqiang, the head coach of the Liaoning men's basketball team at the time, had enough reasons not to use him. Guo Shiqiang is known for attaching importance to defense, and Zhao Lizhou is just poorly defended and is easy to be exploded. On the offensive end, Zhao Lizhou's means are also too single, except for three-point shots, there are almost no scoring means.
That is, the combat strength is poor, and it has not shown potential, and when Zhao Lizhou left the Liaoning men's basketball team, he was not concerned, and the future was not optimistic. But this season, Zhao Lizhou's performance is eye-catching, and he has been able to pick a big beam in the Jiangsu men's basketball team and has become an all-round forward.
Taking the Jilin men's basketball team as an example, Zhao Lizhou continued the style of a sharpshooter, shooting 2 three-pointers, of which 1 was 3+1. What is more eye-catching is the breakthrough, and Zhao Lizhou made another sharp breakthrough in the third quarter. No longer a single shooter, Zhao Lizhou's lethality on the offensive end soared.
Outbreaks on the offensive end have become common for Zhao Lizhou this season. In the second stage, against the Guangzhou men's basketball team, Zhao led the boat to shoot out of the box, scoring 14 points in a single quarter and 20 points in the whole game. This season, Zhao Lizhou can score in double figures in a single game most of the time, and it is not uncommon for a single game to score 20+ games. It has become an important link in the offensive chain of the Jiangsu men's basketball team, and Zhao Lizhou has a strong sense of existence.
Even on the much-criticized defensive end, Zhao Lizhou also had a great improvement. Still taking the jilin men's basketball team as an example, Zhao Lizhou was very powerful in staring at the opponent, sending 3 steals. It is to the super foreign aid Jones, Zhao Lizhou can be a certain restriction. As of now, Zhao Has played 13 games with 2 steals this season, and has reached 5 against the Xinjiang men's basketball team.
He can also use his lethality to create scoring opportunities for his teammates, and Zhao often has 2 assists in a single game and 4 games. Being able to attack and defend, Zhao Lizhou's ability to continuously play a brilliant performance has become a matter of course. When the performance is better, the importance of Zhao Lizhou has also increased sharply, and it has become the top pillar of the Jiangsu men's basketball team.
Compared with the Liaoning men's basketball era, Zhao Lizhou has been sentenced to two people, from an ugly duckling to a golden phoenix. The reason why there can be such a transformation is because Zhao Lizhou has a heart that is not willing to sink. After the end of the 2017-18 season, Zhao Lizhou decisively left the Liaoning men's basketball team. Nor is it a long-term perseverance, in the window between the first and second stages of the CBA, Zhao Lizhou practiced 200 more goals a day. Judging from the performance of the opening stage of the third stage, in the window period, Zhao Lizhou must have made unremitting efforts again.