115-104, Guangdong Hongyuan defeated the Sichuan men's basketball team away, and finally found the court after the heavy defeat to Xinjiang. Some fans may think that the Sichuan Men's Basketball League is second to last, even if they win by more than ten points, it won't prove anything. Indeed, you can't beat a strong team, and you can find a sense of existence by abusing vegetables to prove that you are very good, which is indeed a problem, but some players not only play strong teams to pull their hips and become invisible, but even playing weak teams are also unstable, talking about Hongyuan's former super foreign aid, Marshon Brooks. Marchand played 16 minutes in this game, got 16 points, 6 assists and 3 rebounds, just looking at the basic data seems to be good, but everyone must know that Marchand's 16 points were exchanged for 15 shots, and his plus/minus is also the lowest among the starting five!
In fact, it can be seen from the performance in the third phase and the playoffs last season that Marchand has no going back, and he is no longer the little Kobe Bryant of the past. After a disastrous season, Zhu Fangyu and Du Feng were still full of confidence in him, and used a sky-high contract of $2 million to renew Marchand in the offseason. As a result, everyone has also seen that this season's Marchand's performance continued to decline or even completely collapsed, playing an average of 22.6 minutes per game, only 14.1 points, 5.6 rebounds and 5.4 assists, shooting rate of 42.9%, three-point shooting rate of 28.4%, to be honest, such data is not to mention foreign aid, even local players with better performance can get it. With the highest salary in the CBA, it is the performance of local players, if Hongyuan wants to rebuild, and wants Marchand to guide the growth of young players, everyone has no opinion, but the problem is that Hongyuan's goal is the championship, and the team that wants to compete for the championship uses such foreign aid, no wonder many Hongyuan fans have broken the defense!
Marchand's problem is not only that he can't play well, but also that he has pitted the local players who are partnered with him. Last season, Marchand and Hu Mingxuan played together, and as a result, Hu Mingxuan's various statistics hit a new low in recent years, because Marchand occupied too much of the ball, and his style of play was very sticky, and an offensive round wasted at least 10 to 15 seconds with an invalid dribble, Hu Mingxuan looked very uncomfortable with him. This season, Waters joined, and Marchand became a partner with Xu Jie more often, and now it was Xu Jie's turn to be uncomfortable. As a short defender, Xu Jie needs to have the ball in his hand, but Marchand's style of play is difficult to change for a while, snatching Xu Jie's original possession, so that Xu Jie can only play without the ball, and a short guard to play without the ball, basically there is not much offensive threat, so Xu Jie became the second "victim".
Saying that Marchand is Hongyuan's current "cancer" may be agreed by everyone, because in addition to inefficient offense, the most unbearable point of Marchand is not defending. Hongyuan has always been a team that pursues extreme defense, but Marchand basically neither marks nor fills positions when he is on the field, and it is common to miss people and defend with eyes. Everyone knows that Marchand didn't have a defensive problem on the first day, but he used to attack too strongly and could make up for it, but now he can't attack well, and the defensive problem is naturally even more dazzling. It can be said that as long as Ma Shang is not replaced, the slogan of Hongyuan to compete for the championship, that is, the castle in the air, cannot be realized!