After experiencing the final stage of the National Games and the two games in the pre-season, Liaoning youngster Zhang Zhenlin once again became the focus of fans with his highlight performance. Among them, more topics are discussing the change of Zhang Zhenlin's playing style, because since the National Games, Zhang Zhenlin has held more and more balls. There are even many fans who like Zhang Zhenlin shouting: Zhang Zhenlin has been upgraded again, and other topics.
But in fact, it is not Zhang Zhenlin's ability to upgrade, but Yang Ming, as the head coach, has increased Zhang Zhenlin's ball rights on the field. In fact, Zhang Zhenlin has always been a player with a strong ability to combine the ball, but because the Liaoning team has two top point guards Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei, plus Han Dejun, who has a strong ability to dominate the ball in the low position. Most of the ball rights are also concentrated in the hands of these three people, and the players on the front line are more likely to play without the ball.
And last season, the Liaoning team basically followed the system left by Guo Shiqiang before, so the requirements for forward players such as Zhang Zhenlin, Wu Changze, and Fu Hao were still mainly based on playing without the ball, which is why Fu Hao, who is good at low-level play, can not integrate into the team for a long time. And Wu Changze, who is obviously the most crude in technology, is because the ability to have no ball is stronger than Zhang and Fu, so when the Liaoning team plays a small lineup, Wu Changze has more starts.
I remember in a previous article or video, when I talked about Zhang Zhenlin's strong ball holding ability, there were many fans and friends who laughed at me, saying that I didn't understand the ball at all, or hadn't watched the game. But in fact, the reason why Zhang Zhenlin held the ball well last season was that the coach arranged for him to play without the ball. Zhang Zhenlin, as a second-generation ball born with a basketball, when others are still peeing and mud, his toy is basketball, how can his ability to hold the ball be poor.
And when Zhang Zhenlin played the NCAA in the United States, his position in the team was a small forward with the ball. When Guo Allen or Zhao Jiwei were absent due to injury last season, in fact, Zhang Zhenlin had played several games dominated by possession of the ball, and in those games, Zhang Zhenlin's single game scored more than 20 points. It can be seen that in fact, Zhang Zhenlin is more threatening in the case of holding the ball. It's just that this will disrupt the original system of the Liaoning team, so this situation is very rare.
But because last season, the Liaoning team was playing in the three small lineups in many cases, so Zhang Zhenlin appeared more in the fourth position. So let's say that although the third and fourth positions of modern basketball have become more and more blurred, even when the Liaoning men's basketball team put up a double forward lineup last season, Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze often changed positions with each other. But in fact, there is a fundamental difference between the three and four digits.
When basketball has just begun to subdivide the position, the fourth position is more of a role without the ball, closer to the basket at both ends of the attack and defense, and more is to help the fifth position to protect the frame, grab rebounds and other work, which is what everyone calls blue-collar work. The third position is relatively comprehensive, not only the main point of the team, but also to undertake the work of connecting the inside and outside lines, and needs to have a strong ability to hold the ball.
With the change of the times, the functions of various positions have changed to a certain extent, especially since 2010, there have been many three- and four-position swingers. Moreover, there are also many top players in the position of the third and fourth swing people, in fact, Zhang Zhenlin himself also has the potential to become an excellent three or four swing person. The height of 205, the top physical fitness among the yellow race, the good ball sense and the ability to hold the ball are all very exciting.
But the potential is only the potential after all, just shows that you have such conditions, whether you can become such an athlete depends on the acquired efforts and living environment. Because the three- and four-position swing man is not easy to walk, because he is not like you only practice a single position, even if you don't reach the ceiling, at most it is just a slightly worse player. But if it is a swing person in the third or fourth position, it is very embarrassing to practice well, and it will become a forward who is not three or four.
I was once very worried about this problem, not because I didn't believe in the ability of Yang Ming and the Liaoning coaching staff, but because I had been talking about the system of the Liaoning team before, and as mentioned earlier, the system of the Liaoning team was the blocking and dismantling system of the back line and the center forward. Even when playing in a double forward lineup, the boundaries between the three and four positions are very blurred, especially on the offensive end. This is very unfriendly to Zhang Zhenlin, who is in the rising period.
We say that although Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze often swap positions on the offensive end, Wu Changze himself is a front-line player who plays without the ball, so the rotation of this position has little impact on him. Whether it is an empty cut down, or a fixed three-pointer, these are themselves The characteristics of Wu Changze on the offensive end. His future development is to strengthen these technical characteristics and achieve the ultimate in his own way.
But for Zhang Zhenlin, there is a saying that his no-ball ability is not as good as Wu Changze, although he can also play, but after all, it is not the strongest thing in his arsenal. He must have the ball in his hand, which is when he is the strongest. That is to say, Zhang Zhenlin needs a lot of ball power to play his strongest ability. Here we are talking about the ball, not the right to shoot, and there is a fundamental difference between the two.
However, for Zhang Zhenlin last season, it is impossible for Yang Ming to give Zhang Zhenlin too much ball rights until the last resort. Because zhang Zhenlin's offensive ability with the ball is good, but his ability to dominate the ball is very poor, that is to say, even if he has the ball in his hand at that time, he can only be used as the main attack point, but it cannot be used as the starting point of the team's attack. If Zhang Zhenlin is given too much ball power, it will destroy the offensive system of the Liaoning team and weaken the threat of other players on the offensive end.
These are also difficult choices for Yang Ming and the coaching staff of the Liaoning team, whether to go all out to cultivate Zhang Zhenlin, or to seize the peak of Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei to strive for good results? Because if Zhang Zhenlin is given the ball, the functions of Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei will be weakened. If you don't give Zhang Zhenlin the ball, his role at both ends of the attack and defense is even worse than Wu Changze, and he is likely to develop into a kind of player who is not three or four in the future. This one is really hard to balance.
But judging from the second half of last season's regular season, because Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei have been absent for one reason or another. After receiving the ball, Zhang Zhenlin played one of the most frequent performances of his rookie season. Although the ability to dominate the ball is really a bit poor, it can be said that it is full of firepower on the offensive end. It may be those games that identify Yang Ming's idea of cultivating Zhang Zhenlin into a ball-holding point.
So we saw Zhang Zhenlin's performance in the final stage of the National Games and the pre-season, of course, there are also reasons why Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei can't play at the same time most of the time. And the most obvious change in Zhang Zhenlin is that when he has the ball in hand, in addition to being able to exert his power on the offensive end, he has begun to deliberately dominate the ball, of course, his domination of the ball is also accompanied by a large number of mistakes.
However, these mistakes are not terrible, because in most of the games, the Liaoning men's basketball team has absolute control over the game and has enough fault tolerance rate, and these mistakes are affordable by them. For a number three, the gap in the ability to dominate the ball is very large, simply the gap between three threats and two threats. To put it more broadly, it is the gap between role players and core players. In fact, it is not just the number three position, but for all players this is the truth.
To be honest, for Zhang Zhenlin, I really want to thank Guo Allen for the few games that guo allen can't play in a row because of certain things. Because those games are likely to be a turning point in the whole career, whether it can be three or four or not, it is in those games that it is transformed. Fortunately, Yang Ming still began to give Zhang Zhenlin a lot of ball rights, and did not train him to be a forward player.