At the beginning of the Liaoyue War in the semifinals of the first half of this season's CBA, the domestic authoritative data agency "Probasketball" released a data report on Zhao Jiwei's current playoffs, one of the most dazzling data is: Zhao Jiwei's current playoff true shooting rate is as high as 69%, close to 7 percent.
What is the concept?
A small guard, in the personal offensive performance is actually higher than the vast majority of interior players, Hu Jinqiu's peak true shooting rate when he won the MVP in the first two years was broken 70.7%, Zhao Jiwei is almost the same as Daqiu in this regard, and considering the gap between the intensity of the playoffs and the regular season, and the advantage of Daqiu's inside pie play, Zhao Jiwei's true shooting rate is undoubtedly more terrifying.
This can also explain why Liaoning was able to defeat Shenzhen in 3 consecutive games so easily in the top 8 battles, winning Shenzhen by an average of 32.7 points per game.
But the question comes, after reading this data, some fans sent out soul torture: Since Zhao Jiwei killed so much in the playoffs, why did he pull his hips when he came to international competitions?
Regarding this, it can be explained from two major aspects, from the perspective of Zhao Jiwei's personal ability and the difference between the national team game and the CBA game.
Zhao Jiwei's personal ability in the CBA league has nothing to say, in recent years, Liaoning has been lacking Guo Allen for a long time, and the guard line has basically relied on Zhao Jiwei's output to maintain the strength of the championship, and in the regular season this season, Zhao Jiwei's personal true shooting rate is also very good, even better than last season, 56.4%.
can make Zhao Jiwei play nearly 7 into the playoffs true hit rate, the main reason is that Shenzhen has a problem, Shenzhen's third phase of reinforcement is unfavorable, plus the team has been lacking high-quality point guards for a long time, and in order to rush into the second round, the first round and the three big battles of Beijing Control are not small, Shen Zijie and He Xining have different degrees of injury, which further weakens the quality of Shenzhen's defense.
Zhao Jiwei has no high-quality outside defenders in the face of the opponent, and there is only a half-disabled Shen Zijie and Sallinger who are physically exhausted on the inside, in this case, he is naturally like a fish in water, not only he is like a fish in water, but Zhang Zhenlin, Fu Hao, and Han Dejun are also them.
However, after entering the semifinals, Zhao Jiwei will face a defensive intensity completely different from Shenzhen, and naturally, he will definitely not be able to maintain this hit rate.
From the level of the national team competition.
The staffing of the national team is different in every major competition, and the coach is also changed every few years, and before each major competition, it is often necessary to play a lot of warm-up games to run in a new system, which is completely different from Jiwei's stable team system in Liaoning for more than ten years.
In Liaoning, Zhao Jiwei is the absolute core of dominance of the ball, the status is equivalent to Sun Minghui's to Guangsha, similarly, Sun Minghui to the national team, he is also very uncomfortable, he plays more stinky than Zhao Jiwei, because they are all ball-holding cores, in the club, they don't shoot well, no one in the team dares to blame, and the coach will not withdraw casually, therefore, Zhao Jiwei and Sun Minghui have more room for error, and the psychological pressure will not be too great.
It doesn't matter if you don't play well in the first half, you will continue to throw it in the second half, until you throw it in, and the feeling will come back, naturally, when the game reaches a critical moment, we can see the magical moment staged by Sun Minghui and Zhao Jiwei, so sometimes it is not really how god Sun Minghui is, but the ball that Guangsha gave him is too much, and the number of iron hits is enough, and the feeling can be found no matter what.
And sometimes, when teammates don't play well, Sun Minghui and Zhao Jiwei can still scold a few words to vent, but when it comes to the national team, this set won't work, after all, everyone is the boss of each club, the second, Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian can scold in the past, but Zhao Jiwei can't.
Therefore, in the club, Zhao Jiwei is mentally like returning home, very relaxed, scoring, hard solution with Guo Allen, Fogg, Hudson, Zhang Zhenlin their help, inside blocking and dismantling Han Dejun, Moreland, Fu Hao, these tacit understanding, old comrades-in-arms who know the roots, Zhao Jiwei as long as the ball is transmitted well, Liaoning can be in the top four worry-free, and has reached the finals year after year.
In the national team, due to the pressure of performance, the inside teammates have become Wang Zhelin and Zhou Qi with average blocking and demolition quality (in fact, Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Jiwei are adaptable, but Qiao Shuai can't see it), coupled with the attention of hundreds of millions of fans from the outside world, the international game time is short, and the error tolerance rate is low, Zhao Jiwei is easy to be constrained, and the fans scolded him for not being able to shoot accurately, so he reduced his shots and became afraid to take responsibility.
The level of confrontation in international competitions is also completely different from that of the CBA, although the CBA also mainly adopts FIBA rules, but the confrontation method is different.
In CBA, defense can be used, and even pulling, rubbing, depending on the mood of the referee on duty, under the international competition of the FIBA system, these can't, some bad defensive habits in the CBA, in international competitions, often become the focus of the referee's main focus, Guo Allen, Zhao Rui, Zhao Jiwei have suffered in this area over the years.
Zhao Jiwei's height is relatively average, and most of the defenders he faces in the league are the same as him, and he can't have an advantage in height and arm span.
The same applies to the defenders of other national teams.