After Mayo switched to VTB's Kazan Yonex in the offseason, the Liaoning men's basketball team did not intend to continue to use the double small foreign combination of the past two seasons, but returned to the traditional 1 big and 1 small foreign aid combination, the small foreign aid side followed the Fogg who joined the team last season, and the big foreign aid candidate was placed on the previously played in Shanxi Moland, looking at Moland does not eat the ball, willing to defend the characteristics, Liaoning also after 3 seasons, re-supplemented in the position of big foreign aid. With Fu Hao, Han Dejun, Zhu Rongzhen, Li Xiaoxu and others in the inner position, Liaoning really does not need big foreign aid like Xinjiang's Mortree, just need to make enough efforts in defense.
In the first few games that just joined the team, Moland did use his best defense to help the team, although the data is not bright, but also let the fans call "true incense", but with the deepening of the season, Dahan, Fu Hao is slightly weak on the offensive end, Liaoning does need Moland to stand up on the offensive end, but it seems that he is used to not playing too much in the offensive end, but he does not know how to play. But in recent games, coach Yang Ming has deliberately increased Moland's role on the offensive end, and the latter can be regarded as gradually regaining his previous skills in Shanxi.
According to relevant statistics, in the last 4 matches, Morland averaged 12 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist, 2.3 steals and 2 blocks per game in 17.6 minutes of playing time, compared to the season average of 6.6 points, 6.7 rebounds, 0.9 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.6 blocks, which is indeed a certain improvement, these 4 games Morland also cut the second double-double of the season (14 points and 11 rebounds) in the game against Chouzhou on March 13, in the latest game with Shanghai again, if it is not his own tempered referee, he was expelled from the game, Morland should also have the opportunity to cut two doubles again in this game, after all, before he left the game, he was only In 12 minutes, he had already scored a quasi-double double-double with 12 points and 9 rebounds.
The reason why Liaoning suffered in Guangdong last season was because of its weakness in the inner line, although there was a big outside Jeremy Taylor at that time, but he had been in the battle for a long time, coach Yang Ming did not dare to use it boldly, and eventually led to Guangdong relying on a fire-fighting big outside Jason Thompson, he turned his own penalty area upside down, and finally regretted missing the second crown in team history. And this season to strengthen his own forbidden area of the Liao basket, it is indeed necessary to let Morand activate his offensive potential before the playoffs, if he continues the previous "attack weak and defensive strong", Liao basket is afraid that he will continue to suffer big losses in the playoffs.
To know that Liaoning's potential opponents in the playoffs, in addition to Guangdong, including Guangsha (Okafor, Jones), Chouzhou (Rakosevic), Shanghai (Vonle), Shenzhen (Salinger) have excellent foreign aid, if Molander can not contribute on the offensive end, then can only rely on the elderly Han, and the height of fu Hao, the team really has to continue last season's "feathered return" plot.