The winners of the major awards in the CBA regular season and the playoff matchups are the two major issues that everyone is talking about at the moment.
However, all this has nothing to do with a traditional CBA powerhouse, which is the Shandong men's basketball team.
This season, the Shandong men's basketball team finished the regular season with 21 wins and 31 losses, ranking 15th. Missed the playoffs 6 rounds in advance, the winning percentage hit a new low in 18 seasons, and missed the playoffs again after 9 years.
As a tough team in the league, it ended a season with such a dismal performance, I believe that not only fans of the Shandong men's basketball team, even neutral fans, or you are a fan who is familiar with the CBA, will also sigh. Because, in everyone's impression, although the Shandong men's basketball team has not reached the level of winning the championship, it is not a problem to get a playoff seat.
But now it's like this......
Perhaps from the first game of the season, facing the Guangzhou men's basketball team once trailing by 50 points, and then the beginning of three consecutive defeats, this ending has been doomed.
What is wrong with the Shandong men's basketball team, and why is this season so bleak? There are many reasons, and we will draw out two typical representatives to discuss with you.
First, the team lacks a core similar to Hudson.
In a CBA team, it is common for foreign aid to be the core, and the level of foreign aid ability can determine the team's ceiling.
At the beginning of the season, the Shandong men's basketball team originally wanted Foster to be the offensive core, but after only playing a dozen games, he proved that he was useless and left the team. Although Gillenwater averages more than 20 points per game and has comprehensive offensive methods, he has big problems with his emotions and physical fitness. Although Shayok is conscientious and his data is good, he often can't withstand the pressure at critical moments or in some life-fighting games, so for Shayok, the icing on the cake is okay, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow.
Why a Hudson-like foreign core is so important, we can also see from some specific games.
In the regular season, the Shandong men's basketball team faced the middle and lower reaches of the team, and the performance was basically okay and so-so. However, in the face of the top 10 teams, especially the top 8 teams, the record is very poor! Only 2 of the 24 games were won, and the Liaoning men's basketball team, Zhejiang Chouzhou, Zhejiang Guangsha, Xinjiang men's basketball team, Shenzhen men's basketball team, and Shanghai men's basketball team all achieved the season kill against the Shandong men's basketball team.
However, there are many games, and the Shandong men's basketball team lost very regrettably, such as losing to Zhejiang Chouzhou and Shenzhen men's basketball teams by 1 point, losing to Liaoning men's basketball team and Zhejiang Guangsha by 3 points, and losing to Xinjiang men's basketball team by 4 points. The most regrettable thing is that this game was lost at home, and the biggest reason is that at the critical moment, the team did not have a reliable scoring point, passed around, and rushed to shoot.
If there is a "Hudson" at the critical moment, then the tactics of the Shandong men's basketball team will be very clear, with super personal ability, which can be attacked and passed, and can create many absolute opportunities for the team.
In other words, if the team has such a core foreign player, the number of wins will be increased by at least 5 games, which means that the team is likely to meet the threshold of the playoffs.
Second, the head coach's evaluation of the Shandong men's basketball team is not accurate enough
This problem did not start this season, strictly speaking, it has appeared since last season, that is, when Wang Han led the team, but the team entered the playoffs last season, and the fans did not blame too much.
Ding Wei's arrival in the Shandong men's basketball team is not the first season, it should be a complete second season. He is basically similar to Wang Han's technical and tactical theory, that is, he focuses on the outside line and resolutely fights fast!
The reason why he chose such a tactical theory and persuaded the management of the Shandong men's basketball team is mainly because Ding Wei believes that the current development law of the entire basketball is like this, advocating rapid offensive and defensive conversion, and increasing a large number of outside shooting opportunities. If you don't change the style of strong play on the inside, then soon the Shandong men's basketball team will lose its competitiveness, and even will be completely unable to keep up with the rhythm of the opponent and become the main target of passive beating.
But two seasons have passed, and the Shandong men's basketball team has not been transformed into what Ding Wei imagined, and the record is still a mess, and the whole team is shrouded in a layer of dark clouds.
For the Shandong men's basketball team, even if it is like focusing on the outside line, it cannot lose the two traditional advantages, that is, tough defense and rebounding. Only when the inside line is contained can more projection space be created for the outside line. Moreover, the Shandong men's basketball team does not have a super outside shooter like Yuan Shuai, even the outside shooting rate is relatively average, so it is more necessary to create opportunities for the outside line. It is not advisable to blindly pursue external projection and accumulate by quantity.
The three-point shooting rate on the outside in these two seasons is not as good as the previous two seasons led by Xu Changsuo and Gong Xiaobin.
Therefore, Ding Wei's desire to transform the team is not an absolute mistake. But it takes time, not such a sudden change, which ends up hurting the team and possibly even losing your job as manager.
Third, the team seems to have lost its future
This season, for the Shandong men's basketball team, is undoubtedly a complete failure.
There is no record, no transformation is successful, and what is more fatal is that the team has not cultivated usable young players, and the team has been using veterans like Tao Hanlin, Jia Cheng, and Gao Shiyan. The reason given by the coaching staff turned out to be that there is no malleable talent!
Even before the start of the season, in the summer league, the vast majority of teams are playing with new recruits or substitutes in order to develop more useful talent for the new season. However, the Shandong men's basketball team did the opposite, using the absolute main force in every game, and those young players and young players from the draft had almost no chance to play. Of course, he also won the summer league championship in the end, but the championship with such a low gold content won not recognition, but more ridicule.
In fact, the team still has several good young players, such as Zhang Xinyu and Ma Zhenjun who were transferred from the youth team, as well as Aze and Chen Jiuzhang who came from the draft, each with its own characteristics, but the head coach doesn't know how to use them. Last season, the team also loaned Zhu Rongzhen out and sent Duan Angjun to Qingdao. In particular, Duan Angjun has become the main substitute for the Qingdao men's basketball team.
Speaking of the Qingdao men's basketball team, this season not only made the playoffs, but also cultivated a superstar like Yang Hansen. In addition, like Duan Angjun, Wang Ruize and Zhao Jiayi, all of whom have played magically, and many of them have been selected for the Chinese men's basketball training team. It can be said that the Qingdao men's basketball team will become a new powerhouse in the league in the future.
But look at the big brother Shandong men's basketball team, the main lineup is one year older, there are almost no outstanding young players, foreign aid can not be selected, and the club does not want to spend a lot of money to bring in reinforcements, so what hope does the Shandong men's basketball team have in the future? I am afraid that for a long time, it will sink in the second half of the standings.
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