The CBA playoffs will start in another 3 days, and today, the CBA officially announced the winners of the major awards in the regular season. Among them, the Zhejiang Guangsha men's basketball team became the biggest winner, Hu Jinqiu won the MVP, and Wang Bo won the best coach. The Liaoning men's basketball team, which ranked first in the regular season, did not receive any results in individual awards, only Zhao Jiwei and Han Dejun were selected for the best team one or two teams. As the first in the regular season, liaoning men's basketball players did not win individual awards, and fans really found it difficult to accept.
After these awards came out, there were still some awards that caused controversy. Among them, Guangdong men's basketball player Ren Junfei won the best sixth man of the season. Some fans found that Ren Junfei has made 18 substitution appearances this season, while Zhao Jiwei of the Liaoning men's basketball team has also played 18 games on the bench. From the performance point of view, Zhao Jiwei averaged 14.3 points, 2.7 boards and 8 assists per game, shooting 44.1% from the field and 37.4% from three-point range, of which the number of assists ranked fourth in the league, and Zhao Jiwei was still a solid player. Ren Junfei averaged 11.9 points, 5.6 boards and 3.1 assists per game, shooting 52.8% from the field and 31.4% from three-point range. From the perspective of data and performance, Zhao Jiwei is better than Ren Junfei, so why did the best sixth person award go to Ren Junfei instead of Zhao Jiwei?
The reason is simple, although the same 18 substitutions, Zhao Jiwei does not meet the rules of the best sixth man. The CBA announces that there is a rule in the best sixth-person selection regulations, and the players who participate in the selection have more substitute appearances than the number of starts. Although the two played 18 games on the bench, Zhao Jiwei played a total of 37 games, so Zhao Jiwei's starting number was one more than the number of substitute games. Ren Junfei played a total of 33 games, and the number of starts was less than the number of substitute games, so Zhao Jiwei could not participate in the award of the best sixth person, and Ren Junfei could.
Therefore, Because Zhao Jiwei played more games and started more than the number of substitute games, he was not selected for the best sixth person award, which was confirmed at the end of the regular season. If Yang Ming arranges Zhao Jiwei to play as a substitute at the end of the season, the award of the best sixth person will most likely be given to Zhao Jiwei. Therefore, Zhao Jiwei failed to win the award, in fact, there is no way to do it.
The CBA regular season award selection, these years have indeed attracted a lot of controversy, many rules are rules, but also linked to a variety of data, and even like the selection of the best coach also requires coaches not to receive a fine that season. These are somewhat unreasonable, and I hope to improve them in the future.