After the 108-95 victory over Jiangsu, the Liaoning men's basketball team locked the first place in the league, and it was also the first time that the team won the first place in the regular season since the 2015-16 season! With the gradual consolidation of the lineup and the beginning of the performance of Guangdong's biggest competitor, the Liaoning men's basketball team is more likely to win the championship than in the past two seasons.
In the finals of the past two seasons, the Liaoning men's basketball team fell at the "feet" of the Guangdong men's basketball team, especially in last year's finals, the two teams once played until the last moment of overtime to divide the winners and losers. Whether the second CBA championship trophy in the history of the Liaoning men's basketball team can be won this season depends on the team's play in the playoffs!
Due to injuries and other reasons, the core of the Liaoning men's basketball team, Guo Allen, has been playing and stopping, playing only 21 games in total, and can get 21.5 points and 6.5 assists in the games he played, shooting 45% and 39% from three-point range, respectively. If you talk about such personal data and team results, Guo Allen is definitely the hottest candidate for MVP, but because the number of appearances is not up to standard, Guo Allen cannot enter the MVP discussion, which is the same situation for two consecutive seasons.
With the withdrawal of Guo Allen, the player in the Liaoning men's basketball team who can compete for MVP may be Zhao Jiwei, and last season was also because Guo Allen's number of appearances was not up to standard, Zhao Jiwei entered the MVP candidate list, and finally regretted losing to Wu Qian and missing this award. This season, Zhao Jiwei played 36 games for the Liaoning men's basketball team, averaging 13.8 points, 7.8 assists and 2.2 steals in 28.4 minutes per game, of which the number of points and assists set a new career high!
The previous impression of Zhao Jiwei is that the organization of the tandem ability is very strong, but the scoring ability is lacking, but now Zhao Jiwei must take on more of the team's scoring responsibilities, especially in the case of Guo Allen not playing, need to drive the team's outside firepower! In the last two games in Liaoning, Zhao Jiwei has scored 27 points, 9 assists, 4 steals and 20 points, 6 assists and 4 steals in a row, which is good offensive and defensive and has also proved that he can lead the team to win! Zhao Jiwei's performance this season is good enough, coupled with liaoning's record ranking first in the league, if he finally wins the regular season MVP, it is also deserved!
Do you think Zhao Jiwei can win the regular season MVP this season?