While the NBA has long praised the sacrifice of the best sixth man, the CBA has long circulated such questions: How can he not play the starting point so well?
Since the 1982-83 season, the NBA has set the best sixth man, and the CBA has not had such an award for a long time. The Adversity Buddha, the Desperate Demon Knife slashes the group of demons, this is similar to the legendary story, and it lacks the support of data and honor in the history of the CBA.
In 2019, the CBA added the best sixth person, and Fang Shuo of Beijing Shougang averaged 11.3 points, 3.1 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.1 steals per game in the 19-20 season, becoming the first owner of the best sixth man trophy in history. That season, he made 18 starts and 25 substitutions, and according to the earliest NBA rules for such awards, the number of bench games exceeded the number of starts.
Last season, Hu Mingxuan competed with Gao Shiyan and others, and finally Hu Mingxuan, who played 41 times as a substitute for Guangdong, successfully won the honor with an average of 13.4 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.4 steals per game. The CBA's Best Sixth Man, unlike most awards, is voted by all the head coaches from the shortlist.
Nowadays, the strong teams of the CBA are very focused on the field of horse racing, this year's best sixth person selection, the top 5 teams in the regular season have hot candidates, the grand event is unprecedented.
Zhao Yanhao: "Guoqing Curry" top matching the sixth person
Average: 16.9 points, 2.7 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.6 steals per game
Played 31 games off the bench
After Zhao Yanhao did not fall behind, he was officially arranged as a substitute by Wang Bo this season, just like the GDP of the San Antonio Spurs, like Manu Ginobili. Zhao Yanhao, who played only 3 starts in the whole season, finally tied with the team the highest win rate in a single season in the history of the team, and won the second place in the regular season.
Zhao Yanhao's personal playing time was affected, from 33 minutes per game to 27.9 minutes, but he increased his three-point shooting rate to 42%, averaging 2.5 three-pointers per game, which is a new high in the career of "National Youth Curry". With a plus-minus value of +11.5, it ranks 8th in the league and the top 10 in the league in terms of victory contribution, which can be described as the sixth person in the super.
In a single game, 8 three-pointers broke Guangzhou, 32 points cut down Guangdong, 22 points beat Zhejiang, he can not only walk through Yang, this season he has repeatedly made strong breakthroughs at key moments, and even chased the cover has become a regular season operation. He started 3 times this season, 2 games are the closing stage, only for Liaoning is the initiative to change the team, but unfortunately the bitter main Liaoning is still difficult to cross.
White horse spear, fluttering battle robes, Zhao Yanhao and Guangsha playoffs have an excellent half-zone advantage, their dream is to be as prosperous as the Spurs, and Zhao Yanhao's sacrifice should be praised.
Jiang Weize: The little Siberian tiger's animal hunting trip
Statistics per game: 17.6 points, 3.6 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 0.8 steals
He played 26 games as a substitute
Zhao Yanhao's backup data is fierce enough, but the most surprising person in this season's sixth man is Jiang Weize of Jilin. With an average of 38.7 minutes per game, Jiang Weize is far less efficient than Zhao Yanhao, but he has completed the surpass in basic data.
Only 182cm tall post-00s young defender, Jiang Weize for the Siberian Tigers for four consecutive years to break into the playoffs made a great contribution, it is worth mentioning that these four years just started from Jiang Weize's rookie, really Jilin's lucky general. Last season, Jiang Weize was the hottest candidate for the best sixth man, he played 53 games off the bench throughout the season, averaging 13.7 points, 2.5 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.3 steals per game, the data is comparable to Hu Mingxuan, but the team's record is too different.
Jiang Weize was still arranged as a substitute by Wang Han this season, 9 three-point shots to kill Shanxi, 8 three-point shots to lightly take Jiangsu, and then 8 three-pointers, slashing 44 points to beat Qingdao, which are the results of his substitute appearance. When he came on the scene, Jilin would often come up with a wave of attack and defeat the powerful enemy Shanghai, and his stormy long-range shooting was once seen.
The record is perhaps the most regrettable part of Jiang Weize, after all, Jilin is the only single foreign aid team in the playoffs, of course, he is so young, it seems that the best sixth man will one day fall on his head.
Fu Hao: The league's number one substitute
Average: 13.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game
Played 29 games off the bench
Compared with the record, Fu Haoke has something to say, as the first substitute of the regular season, a game that angrily slashed 38 points to defeat Guangdong is worth breaking his wrist with any candidate. Fu Hao, who returned to his hometown of Liaoning, is now an important rotation under the guidance of Yang Ming, and compared with when he first joined last season, his scores at almost the same time have soared by 3.9 points per game.
Soft feel, flexible footsteps, Fu Hao's terminator attributes are an important part of Liaoning's bench tactical framework. Fu Hao shot 56.9 percent, the best shooting percentage of his career, and unlike the inefficient performance when he became the top scorer on the Bayi team, he can now be linked to efficiency.
Fu Hao scored a total of 57 points in two games in Guangdong this season, while against other strong teams, his tactical performance is very good, but the strategic significance has not yet been fully developed. Although he has been fighting for 8 years, Fu Hao is not yet 25 years old, and Zhao Yanhao is a national youth teammate, and the future is equally bright.
Guo Haowen: The accelerator of the Shanghai bench
Statistics per game: 14.5 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 0.8 steals
Played 22 games off the bench
In the regular season of the immortal fight, every strong team has hidden a killing move, and Shanghai, directed by Li Chunjiang, has left Guo Haowen on the bench. Guo Haowen, one of the league's most impactful strikeback swingers, averaged 14.5 points per game in just 21.7 minutes, and his three shooting percentages are career highs.
Cutting 28 points to beat Guangdong is his representative work on the bench this season, and I have to say that if he does not play a good game in Guangdong, it seems that he is embarrassed to compete for the best sixth person. However, Guo Haowen's best performance of the season was the starting game in Shenzhen at the end of the first stage, cutting a career-high 39 points.
Returning from special training in the United States last year, Guo Haowen's three-point shooting and breakthrough finishing ability improvement this year is obvious, and he may also be placed in the Shanghai bench for a long time in the future, leading a more athletic lineup to impact opponents. It is a little regrettable that Guo Haowen ji has eaten a lot of violators and technical prisoners, and he still has to control himself in this regard.
As the first choice of the strongest post-00s, after ups and downs, perhaps this is the way Guo Haowen should go, he should temper more on the bench, want to promote the first to suppress, thick and thin.
Yu Jiahao: Zhejiang's hidden strategic nuclear weapons
Statistics per game: 12.2 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.7 steals, 1.6 blocks
Played 20 games off the bench
The first three have been, and the fourth Zhejiang has to follow, and the rookie Yu Jiahao is sitting on the bench with a nuclear weapons posture. The 221cm tall tower has a very strong ability to change the game, although he is only 19 years old, but Zhejiang's strong dialogue this season is almost always around him to carry out offensive and defensive strategies.
However, due to the injury of Nicholas Rakosevic in the third stage, Yu Jiahao was transferred to the starting lineup and played seven starts, before which he had only started once against Guangdong. Liu Weiwei's guidance is also very helpless, he actually prefers to let young people start from the bench, can read the situation on the field, and strike later.
Not playing Guangdong is embarrassed to fight for the sixth person, Yu Jiahao's representative work this season is also a substitute against Guangdong to bomb 26 points and 17 rebounds. He's still young, his rookie year is already so good, but because of his good performance, maybe this season is his last chance to compete for the sixth man, can he still play as a substitute next season?
In fact, there is Cheng Shuaipeng in the Zhejiang team who can also compete for the sixth person, he starts 17 games, substitutes 18 games, and can barely get the opportunity. Zhejiang has played a lot of strategies this year, and Wu Qian's starting and substitution times are also very close, and those who don't know really think that Liu Zhi is just to grab a sixth-person trophy.
Xu Jie: The rising bench core of the defending champion
Statistics per game: 12.1 points, 2.5 rebounds, 4.9 assists and 1.1 steals
Played 27 games off the bench
The 11th crown regular season is slightly depressed, for the first time in 20 years, it is not in the top four, look at the previous few, it can be said that Guangdong has encountered several strong teams and has been beaten by the opponent's substitutes, which is the reason why the injury caused the lack of depth of the Guangdong bench. Fortunately, for Guangdong, there is Xu Jie, who continues to erupt.
The strongest domestic 179, Xu Jie played the most 9 starts in the fourth year of his career, but most of the time he still played as a substitute, and most of the average data per game created a new career high. The assist-to-turnover ratio is close to 3:1, the free throw shooting rate is nearly 90%, and the average is 1.9 three-pointers per game, and the lad is indeed excellent.
It's just a pity that Xu Jie's results in most of this season's masterpieces are not very good, losing 22 points against Liaoning, losing 24 points against Zhejiang, and losing 7 three-pointers in the final battle to play Shandong. The highest score of the season, 30 points against Guangsha, losing the game at the same time or the first start, this sixth person is not easy to fight ah.
However, according to this trend, Xu Jie will remain in the competition for the best sixth person in the next few years, and it seems that the competition for this award will become more and more fierce.
Gao Shiyan: Then rush the sixth person's Shandong backfield to be the boss
Average: 12.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, 7.8 assists and 2 steals per game
Played 21 games off the bench
After some comparison, Shandong, whose record fell to 11th place this season, Gao Shiyan's hope of hitting the sixth person again became smaller. Compared with last season, Gao Shiyan's average data has hardly changed much, but the three-point shooting rate has dropped to a lower 26.9%, and the overall shooting rate is only 38.4%.
Gao Shiyan's performance is still a combination of advantages and disadvantages, he has the league's top outside defense, but also has a very good sense of passing, but his personal ball attack is extremely unstable. These shortcomings will limit Gao Shiyan to become a better star, which also means that if he wants to be the homegrown backcourt core of a team in the future, then his partner must have a strong projection ability.
Most of the stars who appear on the bench have their own special reasons, or obvious defects in their own attack and defense, or the needs of the team system, or the overlap of position and function, but more often these stars or prospective stars sacrifice for the team's initiative.
Players who may not appear in the competition for the best sixth person this season, such as Liaoning backcourt Zhao Jiwei's starting appearance just exceeded the substitutes, Beijing's Raymond and Fang Shuo are very active, Guangzhou Zheng Zhun shot the top 10 three-point shooting rate as a high artillery battery, Shanxi's Zhang Ning and Yan Pengfei averaged in double-figures per game, and under Shanxi's running and bombardment system, these two are rare players with more balanced attack and defense.
Keeping a Power star on the bench is now the norm in the CBA, and the best sixth person is a substitute, but perhaps another way, the core of the second team.