The CBA Finals are in full swing, two games have been lost, Liaoning team leads Guangsha with an absolute advantage of 2-0, if there is no accident, Liaoning team will sweep the opponent 4-0 to win the championship. There is a strange phenomenon in the playoffs of Liaoning, that is, Moland, who has become a hotly discussed foreign aid.
Why do fans talk about Moland? Just because he judged two people in the regular season and the playoffs. His regular season stats were: 6.7 points, 6.8 rebounds per game, and 37.3 percent free throw shooting. From the data, he is an authentic, genuine blue-collar interior, a player below the average level of the league's big foreign aid.
In the regular season, many Liaoning fans scolded Moland as a foreign aid, and the club's top brass was blind again. However, entering the playoffs, Morland has an amazing performance, becoming a key player in the left and right games. On the defensive end, he can guard the basket and grab the board, and on the offensive end, he can plan, assist, eat cake, and create huge damage to the opponent.
Playing Guangdong team, Moland has won 10 free throws in a single game, grabbed up to 18 rebounds, at least 10, it can be said that the key players who defeated Guangdong team are not Zhang Zhenlin and others, but Moland.
Moving into the playoffs, Morland's stats grew dramatically, averaging 10.9 points per game, 4.2 more than in the regular season; 10.7 rebounds, nearly four more than in the regular season; 70 percent free throw shooting, 3.3 percent higher than in the regular season; and 3 assists, two more than in the regular season. Why did Morland, who was unremarkable in the regular season and scolded by his fans as a parallel cargo, play in the playoffs and improve his stats by a lot?
The author believes that there are three reasons: First, Yang Ming entered the playoffs to reuse Moland, giving him a lot of playing time, from 18.3 minutes in the regular season to 25.3 minutes in the playoffs.
Moland's tactical status in the playoffs has also been improved, yang Ming specially set up tactics for him, using him as an offensive axis and giving the team a strategy, so that he has more opportunities to attack than in the past, and there are more assists. In his last four games, Moland has had five assists in three games and four assists in one, and he has the most assists in the team except for the main point guard.
Second, there is an atmospheric factor in the Playoff outbreak of Morland. As we all know, Moland is an emotional player who can play downwind ball, the three opponents of the Liaoning team in the playoffs are weak, the Shanxi team is weak on paper, and the Guangdong team and the Guangsha team are injured and hit, and the strength is greatly reduced.
Liaoning always has the upper hand in the game against such a team and establishes an advantage early, so Moland can play in such an atmosphere, play with vigor, no pressure, and can help him get extraordinary play. On the contrary, if Moland plays in a weak team, he is often affected by scene factors and emotional factors, and it is not easy to play at a level, especially when an opponent stimulates him, he is prone to emotional loss of control and greatly restricted play.
Third, the three opponents of the Liaoning team in the playoffs are not strong in the interior line, and they cannot limit Moland. In addition to Ge Zhaobao, the other inner lines of the Shanxi team are not tall enough to prevent Moland. Although Ge Zhaobao has height and size, his strength and movement are not as good as Molander's, and he cannot limit the latter.
The inner line of the Guangdong team is even weaker, Yi Jianlian is seriously injured and affected by age, only five successful forces, can not jump, slow to move, can not prevent Moland; Su Wei has a big head and height, but obviously clumsy, the pace can not keep up, can not prevent Moland; the other internal line Ari not to mention, short height, but also can not prevent him.
Guangsha's inside player Hu Jinqiu was injured and retired, and Xu Zhonghao and Okafor were not as good as Moland in terms of movement speed and flexibility, so they could not limit the latter.
So, does the league have no interior players to defend Against Moland? I think there are, but there are only a few. The league has two people who defend Morland better, one is North Control's Haas, who has the advantage of height, strength and movement can match Moland, in a regular season competition, Haas is very limited to Morland, the latter played 24 minutes only 2 points and 7 rebounds, and Haas only played 16 minutes to get 12 points and 5 boards.
Another player who could limit Morland was Xinjiang's Mortree, who clearly had the upper hand in the same competition, cutting 30 points and 19 rebounds, while Morland played 15 minutes and scored only 2 points and 5 boards.
The Morland phenomenon gives other teams a revelation that teams that want to impact the championship must introduce players who can limit Morland (including foreign aid), otherwise they will not be able to take advantage of Liaoning in the inner line. Guangdong team, Shanghai team, Guangsha team, etc. will all make targeted reinforcements in the off-season.