Guangzhou Tongxi playoff card battle, in the last 2 minutes of the final quarter, Cui Yongxi on Wang Lan Zheng's head, with Lin Wei's best big jump shot three points to complete a hard break to catch the key ball, extending the gap to 8 points and taking away the victory. Dashing and ethereal to kill the enemy general, Die Hard Dragon Boy.
In the battle for the talented teenagers of the Chinese men's basketball team, Cui Yongxi not only won Lin Wei in terms of statistics, but also won the game. The picture of him jumping into the air from behind Wang Lanzheng to pick melons, and then picking the basket to score easily, seems to be the nightmare of this battle Tongxi. Choi took 25 points from Tongxi, 5-of-7 from three-point range, and grabbed 12 rebounds, including six offensive rebounds, both career-high.
Guangzhou are in the middle of a half-month and are far ahead in the crucial battle of the playoffs. Tongxi suffered injuries, fixtures and problems after a strong start to the season, and now they have exposed their shortcomings in the two games in Guangzhou. A Cui Yongxi made Tongxi shake his head and sigh, in vain.
Cui Yongxi is Guangzhou's weapon to punish Tongxi's three defenders, and Tongxi is not the former Guangzhou.
In the past, Guo Shiqiang was guided into Guangzhou, and the Dragons and Lions at that time also had no strikers in their hands, so Guo had to transplant Liaoning's three defenders to the team. In recent seasons, Guangzhou's small foreign aid options have actually been good, and Chen Yingjun has gradually become the league's top ball-carrying core with the help of Guo's guidance.
However, on the road to Guangzhou's rise, the weakness of the front line was repeatedly poked. In 2020, Guangzhou picked up Peking University's 3D striker Zhu Mingzhen in the draft and immediately promoted him as a starter. In the past three seasons, Zhu Mingzhen has only made three substitute appearances, averaging more than 30 minutes per game in each season, and has averaged 14.9 points per game this season.
Guo Guo suffered from not having a strong forward in Liaoning at the beginning, and when he arrived in Guangzhou, he also single-mindedly selected and cultivated the striker. This season, Cui Yongxi entered the first team, Guo Shiqiang guided the prescription to catch medicine, and appeared in the national team assistant chair again, although Cui Yongxi's ability potential is indeed worth entering the national team, but on his way to the national team, Guo's guidance is also indispensable.
Today's Guangzhou team, and Tongxi, the starting lineup is actually only Chen Yingjun a defender, Cui Yongxi, Zhu Mingzhen, Jordan Bell formed a three-forward line, Li Yanzhe played the center. The three forwards grabbed a total of 30 rebounds, Guangzhou led 57-48 in rebounds, and Zhu Mingzhen and Cui Yongxi both played more than 40 minutes.
Tongxi can't be described as not working hard, but Guangzhou's experience and playing style do have some natural suppression of the back three.
The current Tongxi is like Guangzhou in the past, and after the young marshal Xi Relijiang took office, he also emphasized discipline, enhanced teamwork, improved offense, and consolidated defense like Guo Shiqiang's guidance. Under his leadership, Tongxi swept away the gloom of the past and grew from a bottom-of-the-league team to a strong contender for the playoffs.
It is difficult for a woman to cook without rice, Xi Relijiang is a person, not a god, and it is not easy to watch people put dishes on the plate, and it is not easy to play Tongxi's chess game, and it is unrealistic to let him conjure a few fronts out of thin air. Tongxi now plays three main defenders, Quentin Peterson, Lin Wei, Wang Lanrong, Wu Tingjia, Wang Zirui, and the five take turns to play.
The height is a hard injury on the outside of Tongxi. The tallest of these 5 defenders is Lin Wei, who is only 191CM, while Peterson, Wu Tingjia, and Wang Lanrong are all under 185CM, and they really can't match in talent when they meet experienced defenders and forwards who are good at height suppression.
Especially when the 199CM tall Cui Yongxi ravages them madly with 191CM Lin Wei, this competition becomes a crush of talent, a completely asymmetric war. Lin Wei and Wang Lan are great, but they need strong strikers to share more tasks for them, rather than trapping them in endless hand-to-hand combat with tall opponents every game.
Speaking of returning to Guangzhou, Guo, who has experienced the pain of three defenders, has love for Cui Yongxi in his eyes.
After returning from the national team, Choi Yonghee ushered in a big explosion in the third period, once scoring double-doubles in five consecutive games, averaging 15.3 points per game. If it weren't for the loss to Guangdong and scoring only 3 points on 0-of-8 shooting, Choi Yonghee's third-stage numbers were basically twice as many as the previous two.
In the third period, Choi Yonghee's average number of shots rose to more than 11, and although he is still positioned as a 3D player, his possession has been greatly improved. Guo and Guangzhou pushed his personal plans forward after he returned from the national team, which is what he has today.
Many fans who like to find fault began to point fingers, thinking that Guo Zhi did not give him enough ball from the beginning, which is really not far-sighted. In fact, on the contrary, the way forward formulated by Guo Yongxi is the most suitable for Cui Yongxi. From this point of view, Choi Yongxi's mid-range and breakthrough performance is not good, 5 of 7 from the three-point line, but only 2 of 9 within the three-point line, and most of them are secondary points after offensive rebounds.
Choi Yonghee has played with his father since he was a child, has good basic skills in controlling and shooting, and played point guard for a long time when he was a teenager. However, with the skyrocketing height, he is now positioned as a striker, facing a large number of outside pressing by Tongxi's three defenders, breaking through the outside blockade, and really crushing from the outside height into the inside, which is actually beyond his current offensive ability to hold the ball.
Fans compare Choi Yong-hee to Kobe Bryant and Kawhi Leonard, and can only say that it is a good expectation.
At present, Choi Yongxi has become a gravedigger for the back three, but his way of playing is still the suppression of physical talent, fighting aggressively and seizing opportunities. Kobe and Leonard, these two superstars at the peak of the NBA, the strongest is one-on-one stability, and this is the skill that Choi Yongxi lacks the most.
Unlike the ball-holding Lin Wei, who has to use a lot of ball possession and attack to temper, Cui Yongxi must not give him too much ball-carrying attack from the beginning, once he exposes this weakness to strong opponents in advance, so he loses confidence, Guangzhou will hate for life. Therefore, Guo Zhi let him start from defense, starting from 3D, and now gradually increasing some attacks after holding the ball under cover, so that he can take many detours and his confidence continues to improve.
The future Choi Yongxi will inevitably follow Leonard's path. Before Leonard became a superstar, he was already an extremely famous defensive gate in the NBA, and at the same time he was a very consistent shooting point. In the Spurs' 6-year playoffs, Leonard shot more than 40 percent from three-point range in 5 years.
Grasp the basic set of defense, practice stable projection, and then increase the ability to score one-on-one with the ball, supplemented by the ability to read the game to create opportunities, this is Choi Yonghee's way forward step by step, and he will become a superstar steadily, and he will only pull when he takes a big step. If he can have the ability to punish small guards one-on-one in the CBA in the future, he will definitely be the first player of the Chinese men's basketball national team!
Cui Yongxi don't be in a hurry, as long as you work hard, the starlight will come by itself. Tongxi should not be sad, the thorny path has already been walked, although the road is difficult, the walk will come.