Before the Spring Festival, the second phase of the CBA season is coming to an end, except for Liaoning and Jiangsu, which need to make up for one game, other teams enter the rhythm of the holiday. However, the players' festival will not be too easy, some people will be called up by the national team to participate in the preparation for the Asian Cup qualifiers, according to the list of recent media revelations, it can be known that the Xinjiang team's Abdul Salamu and Qi Lin have received Djordjevic's invitation, and Qi Lin has been waiting for this for 3 years.
Qi Lin's performance this season has been very good, playing in 37 games, playing an average of 35.2 minutes, 18.3 points, 3 rebounds and 1.5 assists, shooting 55% from two-point range and 41% from three-point range, a number of career highs.
This year's Xinjiang team has achieved very good results, and has been sitting in the first place in the standings after the second stage, which has a lot of credit for the forward combination, after Abdul Salamu transformed to the No. 4 position, the position of small forward was left to Qi Lin, and both of them can fully release their offensive talents on the court at the same time, and the general opponent can't bear their impact.
Qi Lin, who was born in 99, is 2.02 meters tall, has excellent athleticism, has the ability to impact the basket with the ball, and is also very accurate in three-point shots, making opponents unguardable, and belongs to the top local small forward. However, it is a pity that Qi Lin has never had the opportunity to enter the national team, not to mention that he is behind Zhang Zhenlin at the same time as him, and his treatment is not as good as that of the younger Cui Yongxi and Zeng Fanbo.
Qi Lin has not played in the CBA for a long time, a little more than 4 years, but his talent was recognized by fans early, as a former genius high school student, the Xinjiang team poached him into the team in advance. After the resumption of the CBA in the summer of 2020, Qi Lin's series of performances were eye-catching. 20-21 is Qi Lin's first full season in the CBA, and he and Zhang Zhenlin are known as the "Shuanglin Combination" by fans, and they are the hope of the future national team.
It is a pity that Du Feng wanted to recruit Qi Lin many times during his coaching of the national team in 2021, but he was plagued by injuries and could not participate in the training camp. In 2022, the national team will have a heavy task and need to participate in World Cup qualifiers, Asian Cup and other events, Du Feng has more people to choose from, and it happened that Qi Lin's performance in the league declined during this time, and captain Abdul Salamu expressed his dissatisfaction with some people's training attitudes in an interview, and everyone suspected that it was Qi Lin.
In the past two years, Zhang Zhenlin has secured the starting position in the national team, and at the same time, Cui Yongxi has sprung up, Zeng Fanbo has also become the darling of fans because of his outstanding talent, and Qi Lin has become the most obscure.
Fortunately, the current Qi Lin has come out of the trough, and with his current performance in the league, he is fully qualified to enter the national team training camp, and it has been 3 years since he was called up for the first time.
At present, the competition in the strikers of this national team is very fierce, including Zhu Junlong of Guangsha has strong strength, Qi Lin can squeeze out Zeng Fanbo who is recovering from injury at the moment, as for whether he can represent the national team in the main competition, it depends on the performance in training, and I look forward to him seizing the opportunity.