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After watching these 4 games in the first round of the playoffs, the biggest feeling of many fans is that it is completely foreign aid that dominates the game.
Whether it is regular time or key moments, basically if the foreign aid plays well, the team can win, and if the foreign aid plays badly, the team will lose.
Unlike the regular season, some teams that are relatively low in the rankings do not have enough strength of local players, and if they don't allocate more of the ball to foreign players, then the game is really unwatchable.
When it comes to the playoffs, each team's homegrown players have a certain strength.
Take the Shanxi team, which is ranked 12th, for example, they also have "good players" like Yuan Shuai, Ge Zhaobao and Zhang Ning.
Not to mention other teams, there is more than one active "national player".
For example, the Guangsha team.
However, when it comes to the game, it is still foreign aid that plays a major role, and domestic players can be regarded as a more active "sapper" at most.
To say, is it really not enough?
Not exactly.
Let's take the simplest example.
Zhu Junlong is not the most capable in the local forward position, and his characteristic is that he can defend and squat in the bottom corner to shoot 3 points.
However, in the first playoff game, he stood up, completed some active offense, and scored 20+ points.
Look at it this way.
The other forwards of similar quality should be able to do the same.
The results were quite different.
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This illustrates two issues.
First of all, our players don't have a sense of competition.
It is natural to think that foreign aid should carry the banner of the team, and he only needs to be an "assistant" by their side.
When you are in good physical condition, you can help block and give foreign aid a little more space to attack.
Then there is the running position, when the foreign aid passes the ball over, he does not waste his "assist" as much as possible.
When your physical fitness is not good, then you love whoever you want.
I didn't expect that the team was not anyone's, let alone foreign aid, especially at critical moments, foreign aid can play, they can also play, foreign aid dares to play, and they dare to play.
Even foreign aid can't fight or dare to fight, and they must be able to fight and dare to fight.
However, such scenarios are really rare.
The last mistake of the North Control team is the best example of this.
They all took it for granted that Felder would make a move.
Indeed, with Felder's form that day, there was no problem with him in the final attack.
However, he passed the ball out at that moment, and it was supposed to be a perfect opportunity to test the quality of the homegrown players.
In the end, it turned out to be a "fatal" mistake, which directly rewrote the result of the game.
Objectively speaking, if Meng Zikai was ready at that time and the whole state was focused enough, then even if he didn't handle it himself and passed the ball to Zhang Fan, it would definitely not be that level.
As long as Zhang Fan receives the ball smoothly, whether he throws it or not, at least there is a chance to shoot, then there is still hope for everything, at least, there is an explanation.
To put it bluntly, the mentality of "sitting back and enjoying it" is too strong, and I don't want to do something for the team at all.
As long as you can play, everyone should think about doing something.
Secondly, the league has not given local players enough room to grow.
If you want to talk about the individual ability of foreign aid, there must be it, but the reason why they can be so invincible on the field is also because the "error tolerance rate" is very high.
To put it bluntly, it's basically "unlimited right to shoot", score praise, it doesn't matter if you don't score, anyway, the next one can enter.
However, this is not the case at all for homegrown players.
As long as an inevitable opportunity is not seized, then the head coach will immediately jump on the sidelines, scolding, and even feel that it is not enjoyable, and directly replace it and scold.
Or, a mistake that shouldn't be made, it will also be the scene above.
Let's ask, in such an environment, which local player dares to be so "active".
In other words, if you let local players be able to play as casually as foreign players, even at the cost of losing.
Then the current ability of local players is not what everyone sees.
Therefore, this is the most embarrassing part of the current CBA development process.
It is said that foreign aid hinders the growth of local players, but in reality, they dare not give local players a chance to grow.
As a result, everyone is now dumbfounded and well-behaved.
When it came to the international arena, I was completely panicked and helpless.
Because, this time, there is no foreign aid to help, and it is all on their own.
Therefore, it is not that CBA cannot improve, but that all managers are too "outdated" in their thinking.
In other words, if you want everything, then in the end you will not get anything.