In the third season of Stephen Marbury and the Forbidden Warriors of Beijing, after experiencing the success and failure of the playoffs, Beijing Control recruited and bought horses, constantly laying a solid foundation and preparing for the next charge.
The new season's Beijing Control lineup has 18 players: Wang Shaojie, Hou Yifan, Li Gen, Zhang Fan, Yu Changdong, Zou Yuchen, Sun Tonglin, Ma Yong, Li Longyuan, Li Jiaheng, Shi Yanbo, Luo Kaiwen, Wang Junjie, Liao Sanning, Man Jiang, Sun Siyao, Li Weihao, Liu Chang, the last 6 of which are the first players to appear in the new season.
In recent years, the personnel changes of Beijing Control have been great in each season, and Zhang Fan, who has played the longest time in the team, has only played 3 seasons in Beijing Control, but he is the only veteran player in the team who was there before The arrival of Marbury. This season, Beijing Control abandoned Meng Bolong, Li Rui, Wang Xiangbin, Xie Wenbin, Chen Jinlong, Wang Zirui, plus Sun Yue retired, and the entire small half of the list was replaced.
Lao Ma's heart disease in the past two years finally has a prescription.
Although Beijing Control has been vigorously recruiting reinforcements for two consecutive years before, what can never be solved is the problem of point guards, and the local backcourt Prince Rui cannot shoulder the burden and can only rely on the help of Sun Yue and Zhang Fan to barely maintain. In the new season, Beijing Point added 3 young players at one time in the defender line, Liao Sanning, who entered the Beijing Point youth team from Dongguan Basketball School, Wang Junjie, a veteran of Bayi, and Liu Chang, who was drafted by Beijing Normal University.
Liao Sanning is currently Mabury's favorite point guard, born in 2001 in Guangxi, tried out with Ou Junxuan last year and stayed in Beijing. In 2018, he won the national U17 championship on behalf of Dongguan Basketball School, averaged 22.6 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists per game at the Second Youth Games in 2019 and reached the final, and then went to the United States to study at Maine Lee College, returning to China shortly after the epidemic began, and his resume was relatively gorgeous.
His ability to break through due to his excellent physical fitness has made rhythm control and close-frame attacks his housekeeping skills. Liao Sanning's impact is very good, but his organizational talent needs to be improved, but in the preseason, he adapted quickly in terms of execution and understanding of tactical intentions, and the potential was clearly visible.
Another defender, Wang Junjie, is 198cm tall and is a typical high defender who just turned 22 a month ago. Like Liao Sanning, these two defenders still tend to attack, especially breakthroughs, and there is a lack of outside projection, but the advantage is that the physical condition is excellent, and the potential can be seen in the breakthrough of the ball and the fast attack, and the plasticity is very strong.
What bothers them the most is the experience problem, Liao Sanning is the rookie master, I am afraid that in the long league, it is inevitable to pay the tuition with mistakes, and although Wang Junjie is already in the third season, he actually played 35 games because of Bayi. The good news is that these two young men are very positive, especially Wang Junjie, who is very tough and has the opportunity to make some achievements on the defensive end.
The young point guard is looking forward to it, and it is up to Zhang Fan to pick up the backcourt beam.
In the two seasons under the old horse, Zhang Fan's performance has risen, which can be described as a skyrocketing, last season he averaged 15.1 points, 2.9 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 0.9 steals per game, doubling the 18-19 season. For the first time, Zhang Fan improved his three-point shooting rate to 41.7%, averaging 2.4 three-pointers per game and 131 in a single season, more than in the previous five seasons combined.
As the number one scorer of Beijing Control's local players, Zhang Fan is characterized by the courage to shoot, and his excellent projection ability has made him the number one high-quality quarterback in the league. Zhang Fan still has a lot of potential to tap, in terms of personal offense, he averaged only 1.6 free throws per game last season, interestingly, last season's scoring surpassed his local players all average at least 4 free throws per game, he also needs to improve some lethality.
In addition to personal scoring, Zhang Fan may have to face a new problem, after Sun Yue retired, the young point guard came up, and the old horse needed a player to be compatible with the score and organization, and to complete different types of tasks when necessary. In fact, Zhang Fan averaged 2.5 assists per game in the 18-19 season, but in the past two seasons, he has been busy improving his personal offense and slowing down slightly in driving his teammates, and now it is time to improve his comprehensive ability.
At present, there is no official announcement of foreign aid in Beijing, and in the absence of foreign assistance, Lao Ma will rely more on Zhang Fan's performance, and he also directly affects the overall state of North Control's attack. Nowadays, if Beijing Control can get a small foreign aid with good projection ability, it will be easier to be compatible with Liao Sanning, Zhang Fan and other backcourts, preferably with stronger ball-free ability.
In addition to the reinforcement of the defenders, North Control also continued to improve the front line.
Kevin Joined at the end of last season but played just one game, and the new season is his first full season in the North Point jersey. Now the small forward position of North Control has Li Gen, Hou Yifan and Luo Kevin three main combat forces, Luo Kevin is a former CBA dunk king, debuted with high hopes, although it did not reach that height, but the 26-year-old after all, he played a stable 6 seasons.
The situation that North Control most wants to see emerged in the second game of the preseason. Kevin Luo made a very beautiful three-point shot at the right 45 degrees in the third quarter, and Hou Yifan did not want to show weakness in the last quarter, shooting 3 three-pointers in the same position, and almost all of them were shots after receiving a sudden point from his teammates in the middle of the road, the tactics were clear and the end was perfect. The two competed for the post, plus the veteran Li Gen, and the front line of North Control was also considered to be on the edge.
What makes Beijing Enterprises slightly disappointed is this year's No. 7 show Li Weihao, a front from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 205cm tall, has good athletic ability, but only a short appearance in the preseason, it seems that the young man is still not clear about his positioning on the field. Li Weihao, who is already 24 years old, will not have much time for him to adapt to the CBA, and to win the opportunity, he must work hard to fight every rebound and do every sprint with all his strength.
At the same time, Beijing Control also added the list of eye shows on the inside line, and former Tongxi player Sun Siyao. This Beijing big boy who likes Beijing team Zhai Xiaochuan, like Wang Shaojie and Li Weihao, is from Tsinghua High School, broke into the NCAA and came to the CBA, and finally returned to his hometown. Averaging 5.3 points and 2.8 rebounds per game last season may seem ok, but as an interior shooting rate of 33.3% is really unspeakable, he is still struggling to continue his career.
In the first two seasons, Beijing Enterprises collected a number of internal lines, but has been waiting for a leader.
Zou Yuchen, Wang Shaojie, Yu Changdong, Sun Tonglin, a quasi-playoff team such as Beijing Holdings has a rare rich internal reserve, but as long as you have watched them, you will understand that the biggest trouble of this group of internal lines is that there is no main attack point. Veterans Yu Changdong and Sun Tonglin have been good at auxiliary internal lines since their careers, as long as they put a stable fulcrum on the inside line, they can shine, similarly, Wang Shaojie's advantage is the ability to move, and more need a barrier.
The main offensive point of the inner line does not necessarily need to attack with the ball on its own, or it has to be hard chiseled in the low position, but it needs to be able to sink to the inside line, be able to attract the defense with a strong end, and make the entire offensive system three-dimensional. There are only two solutions for Beijing Control, Dawai Aid and Zou Yuchen, which are still not in place, and last season's attempt did not seem to be successful.
Signing Zou Yuchen was once considered the most successful operation of Beijing Control in the past two years, but after the serious injury, the national player's status plummeted, averaging 6.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 0.9 blocks per game last season, but in 18.6 minutes, he committed as many as 3.7 fouls, and more fatally, his shooting rate was only 40%. The ability to move sideways and jump across the board due to major injuries has declined across the board, and the long-term absence from the professional arena has made the game feel lost, and Zou Yuchen's poor performance is actually not surprising.
Beikong is still full of confidence in him, facing Tianjin in the preseason, Zou Yuchen scored 17 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, 7 of 12 shots, 4 rebounds in the frontcourt, a long-lost good state. The new season is a huge test for him and Beijing Control, the 25-year-old young man's basketball road is quite tortuous, and now there is still a team willing to offer the top salary, the soldier dies for the confidant, and hopes that Zou Yuchen and North Control can achieve this good story.
Back to the practical level, the new season of Beijing Enterprises is still not optimistic.
Lao Ma and Beijing Control spent three years to upgrade the entire team, what is missing, what is missing, now the point guard also has, each position seems to have a good reserve, but as mentioned earlier, the backcourt to expect Zhang Fan to go further, the inner line to wait for Zou Yuchen to recover the state, in fact, North Control just increased the thickness of the lineup, what they lack is still the top combat strength.
Last season, North Control won 25 and lost 29, 13th in the league, just one step closer to the playoffs. Among the first 13 teams including Beijing Control, only Beijing and Beijing Control did not have players who won the best award of the week, and Beijing's original pride actually won 3 more games than Beijing Control in the end.
Although the new season of Beijing Control has supplemented the shortcomings, it still needs to be driven by the long board, and the existence of this leader is the key to whether Beijing Control can smoothly enter the playoffs. This answer is different for everyone, some people are looking forward to foreign aid, some people are supporting Zhang Fan, some are waiting for Zou Yuchen, and some people have set their sights on the young Liao Sanning, in short, there are a few more weapons on the carriage of The North Control, but the horse pulling the carriage has not been upgraded.
Beikong and Lao Ma have been walking on the avenue, but regarding the future, I am afraid that we will have to wait patiently.