The finals G2 between Liaoning and Xinjiang team is about to start, this game is very important, Xinjiang team can be said to be a backwater, if you return to Xinjiang's home stadium with a score of 0-2, it is almost impossible to turn the tables. In the history of the CBA, there have been 12 2-0 in the finals of the best-of-7 finals, and the leading teams have won all of them. Therefore, Liaoning and Xinjiang will definitely go all out, perhaps as Yang Ming said, the real final will start from this game.
It is worth mentioning that the CBA officially announced that Liaoning team star Zhang Zhenlin won the finals award, defeated 9 players, and became the "latest star" of G1 in the finals.
CBA officials said that the Liaoning team and the Xinjiang team combined 10 players are eligible to participate in the selection of the "latest star" award, in addition to Zhang Zhenlin, the other 9 are Liu Yanyu in 2019, Zheng Zhenlin and Yu Zechen in 2020, Zhang Junhao and Li Huyi in 2023, Huang Rongqi in Xinjiang in 2017, Qi Lin in 2019, Li Yanzhe, Sirzati, Rutubula, etc. In the end, Zhang Zhenlin won the "Latest Star" award with 19 points and 8 assists in G1, and it is also the first award released in this year's finals.
However, Zhang Zhenlin's award also caused fans to complain, "It's not aimed at anyone, but this award is really meaningless, Zhang Zhenlin is 25 years old and still a new star", "Fu Hao is actually only more than a year older than Zhang Zhenlin", "I think the best new star should be given to Fu Hao", "It perfectly interprets that as long as you are not embarrassed, it is others who are embarrassed". For Zhang Zhenlin, he still needs to prove himself and respond with a performance on the court.
Judging from the G1 of the finals, Fu Hao, Fogg and Han Dejun ranked in the top three in the FMVP competition, and Zhang Zhenlin's performance was actually very good, but there were too many stars in the Liaoning team. However, it is not ruled out that Zhang Zhenlin won the possibility of FMVP, Zhao Jiwei has been FMVP for the past two years, and Han Dejun's performance will definitely not be so good all the time, he is 37 years old, and Zhang Zhenlin's main competitor is Fu Hao. I vaguely feel that this year's FMVP belongs to Zhang Zhenlin, as long as he continues to be aggressive on the offensive end and does not fluctuate too much, he will have a great chance.
Zhang Zhenlin is currently the best No. 3 player in China, his playing style is similar to that of Zhou Peng in his youth, with excellent athleticism and excellent defenders on the wings. But Zhang Zhenlin's ceiling is higher than Zhou's, and he has a chance to become the leader of the Chinese men's basketball team in the future.