Although they experienced such a thing in the first round of the playoffs last season, the Shanghai team is still full of confidence in the new season.
First of all, the selection of the head coach was quickly reconfirmed as Liu Peng's guidance, which may not be as good as Li Chunjiang's guidance in terms of tactics and on-the-spot command, but Liu Peng's guidance was the head coach of the Shanghai team before, and he has been following the team later, and he is still relatively familiar with the players.
This alone is more suitable than the "new" head coach that some teams blindly find.
Secondly, the line-up has remained largely unchanged, with a number of key players and potential players still in the squad.
It is equivalent to the team's "basic handicap" is still there.
By the way, Guo Haowen, who went to the United States for special training, is also returning for the new season.
This time, according to most people's expectations, the Shanghai team in the new season may really have to "take off".
However, looking at the current team record rankings, Shanghai is only ranked 12th in the league with 8 wins and 8 losses.
Then, turn over Guo Haowen's average data per game.
He played in nine games, played 14.3 minutes, scored 5.2 points, rebounded 1.9, assisted 1.1 and made 0.6 steals.
Overall, he shot 34.1 percent from the field, 28.6 percent from three-point range, and 65.4 percent from the free throw line.
If there is a certain gap between the current record of the entire Shanghai team and everyone's expectations at the beginning of the season, then Guo Haowen's current season average data is very different from what everyone expected at the beginning of the season.
The worst thing is that in these games, he can't even enter the 12-man squad, which shows that not only the fans are dissatisfied with his performance, but even the team is gradually losing confidence in him.
So here's the problem, obviously I went to the United States for a season of special training, and I don't dare to say that I can reach the point of obvious "dominance" after coming back, at least compared with the past, I should be able to see improvement.
Why is Guo Haowen still regressing now?
First of all, there was no shooting.
As a swingman at the front, Guo Haowen's shooting problems have always been criticized, and countless fans and media people have advised him to improve his shooting level when he was in China before.
However, the results have not been good.
At that time, I thought that it might be because the level of domestic trainers was not enough, including the general environment of training, was not good enough, so the Shanghai team sent him out for special training.
Also, at the time, I thought it would definitely be able to improve.
For example, Yi Jianlian was also a weakness in shooting back then, and then he went to the United States for special training for a few seasons and had a very significant improvement.
Including the rupture of his Achilles tendon later, he insisted on shooting training after returning from injury, and his shooting level was still online after returning, and even the three-point shot was at the top of the entire league for a period.
Guo Haowen, as a swingman at the guard, should have more advantages than Yi Jianlian, an inside player, in terms of shooting.
In the same way, Yi Jianlian can practice it, and he can also practice it.
Secondly, there is no ability to break through.
It may not be appropriate to say this, Guo Haowen's breakthrough speed is still okay, but it is the moment that needs to be finished in the end, and the certainty is not enough.
And this can be improved after going to the United States for special training.
For example, Sun Minghui also had this problem before, only seeing him constantly struggling inside and out on the field, but the final end was almost meaningless.
Then, he went to the United States to find Nash, the former star of the NBA, probably just trained for more than 1 month, and after coming back, among the local guards, basically Sun Minghui's breakthrough + finish is the only one.
Let's not say which of the two has higher talent, in fact, Guo Haowen may be more prominent, just according to the talent of the two.
Guo Haowen has been training for a season, how can he reach the level of Sun Minghui in that month.
Of course, Guo Haowen also experienced an injury during this period, which may have been a little delayed.
However, in addition to the normal recuperation, the normal special training time is still very sufficient.
Take 10,000 steps back, no matter how bad it is, you won't be able to come back and even be unable to play CBA.
You know, before he went out for special training, he was far more than the level he showed this season.
Speaking of which, some fans said that Yi Jianlian and Sun Minghui, including the previous Guo Allen's family went to the United States for special training, and they did see a different effect.
As for Guo Haowen's special training in the United States, there is a high probability that it may be just a "disguise".
This is just like there are many children who go abroad to "study", some really go out to Xi study hard, broaden their horizons, and come back to learn something and have extraordinary ability, while some students come back and can't even understand a simple "foreign language".
When asked him what he had learned, he shook his head and didn't know.
You can imagine what they're doing out there.
Of course, this is not the so-called "slander" Guo Haowen, but that he has indeed regressed too obviously.
Of course, what the situation is, perhaps only Guo Haowen himself knows.
If, I mean, if you really didn't work so hard during the special training in the United States, then you really have to work hard in the follow-up, Xiao Guo is not very old, and everything is still in time.
The key is to see if there is that self-motivation at the end...