Li Yiyang's CBA debut was a bit of a surprise.
While assists have always been the specialty of this notoriously talented defender, how could Li Yiyang's scoring ever disappoint? Before participating in the CBA draft this summer, he also led Xiamen University to victory over Beijing University of Chemical Technology in the third place battle of the CUBA First Division.
This is the second consecutive year that Li Yiyang has helped Xiamen University to finish third.
In this focus battle, Li Yiyang exploded with 27 points, 5 assists and 6 rebounds, which was his highest score in 23 games in college, and Li Yiyang averaged 14.6 points, 4.3 assists and 3.8 rebounds per game throughout his college career.
Before college, Li Yiyang was more famous for scoring explosively, and in his sophomore year of high school, he also scored 38 points in the 2016 Guangdong Men's Basketball League, when although Shenzhen Ershi was defeated and the host Heyuan team won the championship, But Li Yiyang became the focus of the whole field.
He drew all the journalists and the media to the past.
At that time, Xu Jianbin, general manager of Foshan Dragon and Lion Club, also personally watched his game, and in the chat after the game, when he learned that Li Yiyang had only been practicing for two years, the boss who had seen the big scene and read countless people was also shocked.
A month later, Li Yiyang helped Shenzhen Ershi win the championship in the Guangdong Men's Basketball Championship Group A, and Li Yiyang scored 27 points in that game.
In addition, it is said that Li Yiyang also scored 70 points in a basketball invitational game, qingyuan ball king is indeed worthy of the name, Shenzhen Ershi legendary star is not a waste of time?
At the draft, Li Yiyang was selected by Fujian with the sixth pick in the first round, and before the CBA warm-up game began, he also participated in the recording of the fourth season of "This is a Slam Dunk!" He gained a lot of fans on the show.
Therefore, in this warm-up match, a major focus of fans' attention is Li Yiyang, and this heat even exceeds the return of Wang Yixiong, who also belongs to the Fujian team!
However, Li Yiyang obviously underestimated the defensive intensity of the CBA, and after the remaining 4 minutes and 30 seconds of the first quarter substitute Fang Weibo came on, he sent a mistake within a few seconds, Wang Yixiong almost handed over the pass at the top of the arc, but he did not pick up, causing guangzhou to fight back.
When there was no hope of catching up with his opponent, Li Yiyang also looked back at his teammates complaining.
In the next few attacks, Li Yiyang ended with mistakes, playing less than 3 minutes and already sending 3 mistakes, fortunately before the end of the first quarter, under the control of his breakthrough, he sent a timely assist for his teammates.
Probably due to too many mistakes in the front, Li Yiyang did not dare to shoot too many shots in the back game, and finally only scored 2 points, but his 12 assists were very eye-catching, and his pass was as accurate and sharp as a scalpel.
This ball Fujian finally lost 81-85, without much reference significance, not worth making a big fuss about.
But Li Yiyang's performance is still remarkable.
Although the height is only 1 meter 81, but the physical fitness looks very good, belongs to the type of short and lean, as a point guard, although there are more mistakes in the process of holding the ball, but in the game is not afraid of the field, dribbling calmly is not soft, mistakes are mostly from the opponent's defensive ability is not expected.
To put it bluntly, it is too relaxed to play, because the passing route and timing are very tricky in the game, he has a rich imagination and dares to reflect those ideas in the game.
This point is worth encouraging rather than criticizing, I believe that after a period of adaptation, Li Yiyang's pass success rate will be higher.
As for his scoring ability in the CBA, it is not easy to make up his mind, this ball he played very selflessly, only 5 shots in the whole game, hit 1 time, CUBA when his outside shooting rate is 33% decent, as a small guard, projection is a compulsory course, otherwise, it will eventually be buried by the talented CBA.
This year's Fujian team is a young team, in this draft, won the returned Champion Wang Yixiong, Xiamen University Gemini Li Yiyang and Zhuang Zhan, Liumei tall defender Adili and other 4 rookies, as well as in Wang Zhelin's deal to get last year's Zhuangyuan District Junxuan.
Fujian does not have much pressure in the new season, last season they were the bottom few, this season naturally even the playoffs dare not imagine, so training new people is the task of the new season. This is an opportunity for newcomers.
Li Yiyang can polish his skills in ample playing time and improve endlessly.
And when Li Yiyang and the CBA are combined, it is necessary to mention the name of another person - Xu Jie.
Because they were once teammates, in the Chinese basketball environment, they grew up on two completely different tracks of youth training and university, and now they have come to the same stage, and Xu Jie has achieved great success in the league.
Li Yiyang High School studied at Shenzhen No. 2 Experimental Middle School, which enjoys the "strongest basketball campus in China", and he led the school basketball team in 2016 to win the Championship of the Guangdong Provincial Basketball Championship Group A competition, at that time, in addition to the "Qingyuan Ball King", he also had a nickname "Guangdong Strongest High School Student".
But he has always paid great attention to academics, never received professional training in sports school, three years of high school has been playing diligently, quietly studying, before graduation, there are dragon lion men's basketball club, Huaqiao University and Zhejiang University have thrown olive branches to him, but Li Yiyang finally chose Xiamen University, he is worried that he will not be able to enter the first team in the future, even if he does not have a degree, this is Li Yiyang's very realistic and safe idea.
Xu Jie is from Dongguan Guangming Middle School, because he received basketball training at Dongguan Sports School at the age of 11, and was taken to the Guangdong Youth Training Team (third team) by Ding Wansong at the age of 12, and since then he has started a life of practicing while learning, and has made rapid progress under the guidance of Qu Shaobin, a famous youth training leader in Guangdong (a certain tone is very hot), and was already a member of the national junior team before entering Guangming Middle School.
Compared with Li Yiyang, Xu Jie's resources and platform are naturally better, and in high school, Li Yiyang's strength is definitely not worse than Xu Jie,but he has never played in the national youth team.
In 2017, in the National Student Games, the strongest high school team in Guangdong, composed of Xu Jie, Li Yiyang, Chen Guohao and Zhan Yusen, easily defeated the Jiangsu student basketball team with a huge advantage of 21 points, in which Li Yiyang became the scoring king, scoring 18 points in the whole game, while Xu Jie scored 13 points.
This summer, Li Yiyang went to college.
The following summer, Xu Jie was promoted to the Guangdong men's basketball team.
A year later, Xu Jie won the championship with the team.
Four years later, this year, Li Yiyang entered the CBA.
Although on the surface, Xu Jie's path is successful, but his success is not to be emulated, how many people can have a smooth ride like Xu Jie, and how many people can have a stage like Guangdong Hongyuan? Of course, it's not that he relied entirely on luck, Xu Jie's agility, alertness and concentration on the pitch helped him win it all.
But the reality is that most of the players on the academy team don't end up on the first team.
Although Li Yiyang is much late, his future is also unlimited, there are many kinds of successes, and the championship is by no means the only indicator.
Even from the perspective of life, the precious university life is not a huge regret for those players who have grown up in youth training.
So, come on! juvenile!
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