On May 13, Beijing time, according to the media person "Inspector Zhao": Waters has left the team and returned to the United States, and his next stop is to help Puerto Rico enter the Olympic Games.
As for how to evaluate Waters' CBA performance in his first season, Ah Shui, who is not on top, is undoubtedly the first foreign aid in the league, and his height will not be an obstacle for him, in the G5 final of the Liaoyue semifinals, Waters is the only player who can change the game, but he is too short of helpers.
As for whether he will return to the Guangdong team in the future, Zhu Fangyu, the general manager of the team, answered the fans in the live broadcast last night: "You need to see Director Du's evaluation before making a decision."
At present, although Waters is a core player in the Guangdong men's basketball team, there are too few players who can play with him, including Zhou Qi is not an excellent interior blocker, and most of the opportunities are to take the ball alone, compared to other young players, they can't easily receive Waters' pass is a very big problem.
In order to maximize the value of Waters, the Guangdong men's basketball team once asked the assistant coach to pass the ball to Xu Xin, Zhang Mingchi, Zhang Hao and others irregularly in training, so as to adapt to the game and receive the Waters ball to complete the finish, but the overall effect is not ideal.
In the G5 game, when Du Feng gave up Waters and played blocking and dismantling with young players, he scored 18 points in a single quarter and almost led the Guangdong men's basketball team to stage a big reversal, but the gap in strength on the inside was too big, and Waters tried his best to still fail to change the trend of the game.
In this regard, when it comes to the topic of whether Waters will stay in the team, from the level of personal ability, there is no doubt that it has the possibility of becoming a big killer for the Guangdong men's basketball team, but the key is whether Xu Jie can make enough significant progress in the offseason, if Xu Jie can play the value and role of Waters in a certain period of time, there is no need for the Guangdong men's basketball team to reserve two guards with a height of less than 1.8 meters at the same time, on the contrary, if Xu Jie cannot achieve a similar role, Waters is very necessary to stay in the team.
It is worth mentioning that Waters' contract is not in the CBA first tier, according to the overall performance of the new season, I believe that most teams are interested in paying attention to this small foreign aid with outstanding scoring ability, and Guangdong, although it has the right of first refusal, whether it can negotiate as smoothly as last season is also a great test of Zhu Fangyu and Du Feng's assessment.