As the season's CBA regular season draws to a close, the current competition between teams has also reached a white-hot stage. Teams at the bottom of the rankings are fighting for a playoff spot, and the top 8 teams are trying to grab a good playoff qualifying position and don't dare to relax.
For the league leader Liaoning men's basketball team, although they are still at the top of the table, after suffering three consecutive defeats in the third stage of the league, their first position may be replaced by the Shanghai and Guangsha teams behind them at any time.
Therefore, although the leg injury of the core of the team, Guo Allen, has not yet completely healed, coach Yang Ming still let Xiao Guo take the injury to the team and participated in the liaoning basket and Qingdao team.
Guo Allen's return did play a very big role in the Liaoning team, and in this game they defeated the Qingdao team and finally stopped the decline of the losing streak.
Although the team won the game, Guo Allen's participation in the game with an injury still brought a hint of worry to Liao's next game. If his old injury recurs in subsequent games, it will most likely affect the playoff trend of Liaoning Basketball.
At present, the injury number of Liao Basket is not only Guo Allen, the inside general Li Xiaoxu has missed 3 games because of the dislocation of the little finger, and the veteran Han Dejun has just come out of the injury of nasal bone fracture.
Han Dejun, who has returned from injury, has not yet adjusted his form to the best, and in the last 3 games, Han Dejun has averaged less than 10 points per game. Despite Daehan's poor form, he must now return to the team because the other two alternate centers in Liao Basket are really weak.
With the two-year loan period approaching, Zhu Rongzhen's performance in the second half of the season was obviously a little absent-minded. In the last 3 league rounds, he has only played one game, which seems to imply that Liao Basket will not continue to renew Zhu Rongzhen's loan next season.
The performance of the big foreign player Morland can be described by the word "bad", so far this season, he has averaged only 5.5 points and 6.7 rebounds per game, which is a huge contrast with his last season when he played for Shanxi.
It's hard to imagine that such a performance came from a foreign player with an annual salary of more than a million DOLLARs, and many of the local players in the Liaoning team were stronger than Moland.
In fact, Moland's sluggish form this season has a lot to do with his inability to adapt to the Liaoning team's tactical system. Because Liaoning basketball is the top team of the CBA, unlike some weak CBA teams, it completely relies on the play of foreign aid to support the entire team.
At present, Liaoning basketball is still dominated by local players, and foreign aid cannot have too much ball power like other teams. Therefore, Liaoning basketball coach Yang Ming did not deliberately develop the team's tactics around Moland, which made Moland, who originally lacked independent offensive ability, even more unable to play his role.
And Moland, who used to call the wind and rain in the Shanxi team, of course, is also very dissatisfied with his position in the team. It is reported that Moland also found the Liaoning basketball coaching staff led by Yang Ming and the management of the club, expressing the idea of hoping to get more ball rights.
Apparently, The coaching staff did not listen to Morland, but further reduced his playing time. In the last match against Qingdao, Yang Ming only gave Moland 7 minutes of playing time.
Morland only had two points and five rebounds in the entire game, and it was the first game he played less than 10 minutes since joining Liaoning this season.
Although the match against Qingdao was won, the current Liaoning basket is an undercurrent, and the injuries of Guo Allen and Han Dejun, as well as the contradiction between Moland and the coaching staff due to the ball rights problem, have become hidden dangers in the team's future games.
For these problems, the Liaoning basketball coaching team led by Jiang Xingquan and the management of the club need to find a solution as soon as possible, if these problems cannot be solved in time, then the next playoff Liaoning basketball will definitely encounter a lot of trouble.