In the final quarter of the North Control and Shougang derby, the game gradually lost suspense. Despite the loss, North Control foreign aid center Haas still attacked the basket again and again.
Haas was one of the few highlights of the game, scoring a team-high 24 points and 12 rebounds in 21 minutes, 7-of-9 and 10-of-11 free throws. Haas's role is the team's third foreign aid.
The performances of North Control's two main foreign players, Landsberg and Todorovic, disappointed the team.
At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, Landsberg threw the ball at Zhai Xiaochuan and hit the latter in the leg after the referee blew the game to stop the game. The two men, who had been rubbing each other in the defense before, walked toward each other, and after colliding with each other's bodies, Landsberg fell to the ground. Despite his innocent face, the arch fire came first, and Landsberg could not escape the referee's eyes. Both received a second technical foul and were expelled from the game.
Landsberg played 13 minutes and had 12 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. He is almost the most efficient player in the attack of Beijing Control, and the breakthrough kill in the first quarter even makes Shougang a little helpless. Landsberg did not realize his importance to the team, his mind was not calm enough, he was fighting on the field, and in the end he lost more than he lost.
After joining North Control, Landsberg most of the time did not perform well, wandering outside the tactical system. On the court, he is often mentally weak, the offensive end is not active, and the defensive end looks at the defensive as a spectator.
In the last three games, Landsberg has only returned to the team to start. Previously, he averaged only 15.2 points per game, a sharp drop from 25.7 points in Zhejiang last season. In the last two games, Landsberg has scored 55 points, just out of the ongoing slump. The next game continues to be watched from the sidelines, leaving North Control in a desperate situation.
When Landsberg was in Zhejiang last season, he had difficulties in integrating into the team, and his addition did not take the youth army to the next level, but often disrupted the rhythm of the team. Compared with the small foreign players Ferge and Joseph Young in the past two seasons of North Control, Landsberg's firepower output is much inferior.
If Landsberg still performed occasionally, the big foreign player Todorovic, who signed later, was more mediocre. In addition to abusing vegetables, the Montenegrin center withered as soon as he fought a hard battle. In this derby, he played a total of 12 minutes and only scored 3 points, which was the second-fewest playing time and the second lowest score since joining the team. In the final verse, he is discarded by Marbury.
Last season, Todorovic averaged 29.7 points, 11.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game in Tianjin, a stunning performance. After coming to Beijing, his performance was very different, averaging only 10.9 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, and the data shrank significantly. Play Shanghai, 3 points; play Liaoning, 2 points; play Guangsha, 6 points, play Shougang, 3 points.
Todorovic's attitude in the game is even more intolerable than his ability. In the past few games, maybe Marbury still has luck, preferring to let him play more than Haas. Marbury finally couldn't stand it anymore, and after Landsberg left the field, he chose to use Haas to play the rest of the time.
If the state and attitude of foreign aid surprised Marbury, the choice of foreign aid position can be said to be a major failure this season.
The North Control wing is weak, the local players are not capable enough, and the Lanz Borg who chooses a second and third position is a reinforcement. But putting two foreign aides on the inside line is puzzling. The North Control Inner Line has Zou Yuchen, Yu Changdong, Wang Shaojie and Sun Tonglin, plus a big foreign aid is enough. What Beijing Control needs more is a small foreign aid with both scoring and organizational skills.
After Sun Yue and Wang Zirui left the team, the North Point Guard was completely new. Liao Sanning and Wang Junjie have great potential, but they are inexperienced, and Zhang Fan is not a very good ball carrier. North Control desperately needs an outside to hold the ball and help the team sort out the small outside of the attack. Landsberg prefers to go it alone and is not good at possession and organisation. A small outsider with the ability to organize and score points has become the configuration that Beijing Control needs most.
Back in this derby, after Landsberg was expelled from the game, no one in North Control was so passive.
After Marbury retired from North Control, Randolph, who left the team halfway through injury in the 18-19 season, was the last foreign player in North Control to renew his contract. In four years, North Control has experienced 15 foreign aides, of which Marbury has introduced 12 foreign aides after Marbury took charge. With the exception of Sonny, Fogg, Mortree, Joseph Young, the vast majority of foreign aides did not meet the team's expectations. These also include Delgado, who terminated his contract without playing, and Salah Megeri, who was cut after only two games.
The failure of North Control to introduce foreign aid this season has hurt Marbury, who should be responsible for the failed operation?