4 wins and 1 loss, ranking 4th in the league, Shanxi with a dark horse posture to move forward, Sanjin seems to smell the familiar smell of ten years ago, blowing a river fenhe water, not the autumn wind is the soul of war.
Shanxi beat Liaoning, the first cold goal of the new season.
Even without Guo Allen and without foreign aid, Liaoning is still the team in the league in the first gear, there is no doubt about this. In the offseason, Ren Junwei was sent away in vain, and Shanxi traded Jamal Franklin's preferential contract extension, surprisingly giving Liaoning the first defeat of the season. In this battle, the Shanxi team had as many as 30 assists, only 10 goals were not from assists, and 15 three-pointers were shot with nearly 50% shooting.
Yes, such a wide-open attack came from the handiwork of Yang Xuezeng's guidance. The Fenhe River has flowed quietly for ten years, the 2011 Shanxi men's basketball team, the previous season has just created the 9th team in the best league history, in the first full season led by Yang, the leap forward to create a new record for the 3rd team in the regular season, the first time to reach the top four, the "trouble him" wave spread to the north and south of the river.
To this day, the 11-12 season is still the most legendary season in Shanxi, with smooth and gorgeous offensive art and a blood-boiling atmosphere. The "pants combination" Marcus Williams and Charles Gannis rampaged, assisting Wang Lu Xiaoming to point out jiangshan, desperately Sanlang Zhang Xuewen, veteran Pan Jiang, and six-veined Excalibur Duan Gongzi were guarding, and the young generals followed closely.
Ten years later, Yang coached Shanxi for the third time, and the young generals Ge Zhaobao, Yan Pengfei and Xing Zhiqiang, who made their debut under him, are now also veterans of the Hundred Battles. Ge Zhaobao has averaged 18.8 points, 8.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 2.2 steals per game so far, which is an all-rounder, Yan Pengfei is also playing the best of his career, Xing Zhiqiang is averaging 2.4 three-pointers per game, and they are successful in Yang's familiar system, supporting Shanxi's internal barrier.
What can really represent Shanxi and Yang's coaching style is the outside line, and the CBA version of "Three Musketeers" shines.
Against Liaoning, Kai Feld blasted down 20 points, 13 rebounds and 15 assists, the team's top scorer Yuan Shuai scored the second highest 19 points, Zhang Ning also had 17 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and the three major post-event scores scored 56 points. Their performance made Guo Allen's liaoning outside line suffer from the enemy, Zhao Jiwei alone threw 13 three-pointers on the outside line, which is the record of his personal career shooting three points in a single game, but he only scored 4 in total, which is the epitome of Liaoning's entire game.
The offensive performance of Shanxi's three major outside lines is not a temporary feel, so far this season, they can score 58 points per game, which is amazing. At the same time, they have to shoot 18.1 three-pointers per game, which also makes Shanxi the second most three-point shooting team in the league, Felder scored 2.3 points per game, the original coach scored 3.2 points, Zhang Ning 1.6 points, full of firepower.
Yang coached the "running bomb master" of the CBA in the past, and coaching the offense is his best play, the first time he coached Shanxi, he spent half a season to make the team average second in the league, almost reaching the playoffs. In the 11-12 season of full coaching, Shanxi averaged 111.1 points per game, ranking first in the league, and coached Zhejiang in the 12-13 season, averaging 110.6 points per game, which was the first in the league.
In 2015, Yang ended his second coaching in Shanxi and went to Sichuan, where the Sichuan army averaged 114.7 points per game, of course, it was still the first in the league. With Hamad Haddadi town guarding the basket and having a stable basic set on the defensive end, Sichuan, who had three foreign aides, finally reached the finals and defeated Liaoning to win the championship, which was also the highlight of his Yang coaching career.
Although he had just taken over, Yang's running bombardment had already been revealed in Shanxi.
For the two scenes of Liaoning, first at the end of the second quarter, Shanxi launched a conversion attack, Jia Hao did not stop, on the right side of the 45 degrees without hesitation to score 3 points, he shot 4 three-pointers in the same position, as long as there is a gap in the face of the inside line and conversion opportunities he must be resolute to shoot. A small forward shooter from the NBL Henan team, Jia Hao is a good fit for Shanxi, and he currently shoots 47.4% from three-point range.
The second scene at the end of the third quarter, or to switch offense, Zhang Ning is also near the right 45 degrees, facing Zhang Zhenlin's defensive confidence shot, three-point shot. This is the only three-point shot by Zhang Ning that game, and his confidence comes from 50% of the three-point shooting rate, on the other hand, it is the arrangement of coach Yang Xuezeng.
The key to both rounds is that they both come to the end of the season, and in fact most teams think about pressing time first at these times, but the team coached by Yang only sees the basket and space. In the round of the relatively loose space conversion or accelerated attack, Shanxi's offensive resoluteness is unbelievable, Jia Hao and Zhang Ning are not stars with the right to fire at will, and their choice is Shanxi's current attitude towards attack.
This offensive style spawned an average of 104.6 points per game, averaging 30.6 three-point shots per game, hitting 11 three-pointers, 114.5 offensive efficiency, 91.7 rounds, 26.4 assists, 9.4 steals, all of the above rankings in the top 5 of the league. Shanxi is now a fast-paced offensive brigade, speeding up the conversion, running up and playing, while defending the chinese and foreign lines is also extremely aggressive, using mistakes to score and quick attack scores are also in the top 7 of the league.
The secret of The Shanxi attack was not only the system, but also the three musketeers who were released.
Small foreign player Feld was not happy in Guangsha last season, averaging only 13.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 5.9 assists per game, but the new season is currently coming to Shanxi, averaging 25 points, 9 rebounds, 11.5 assists and 2 steals per game. There are many reasons for the downturn in Guangsha, one of which is naturally to compete with many ball carriers, and the second is that Guangsha is a team with a poor pace and three points, which is not suitable for him.
In fact, Felder has already shown his love for fast pace in Xinjiang, and in the 18-19 playoffs, he and Abdul Shalamu and others blew Xinjiang into the finals like a gust of wind. Feld, who is only 175 cm tall, will always suffer from a physical disadvantage in position battles, but when he has unlimited firing rights in Shanxi, the personal ability of the American small guard is fully activated, yes, the basketball environment he grew up in is popular with this kind of indiscriminate head-to-head and freestyle attack.
If Felder's outbreak just happens to fit yang's guidance system, then the change in the original coach is very amazing. In a clip from the last quarter of Shanxi and Liaoning, yuan Shuai confronted Hao near the top of the arc, continuously dribbling left and right to change direction and pull back to win three points, pulling the point difference to 8 points, forcing Liaoning to pause. That's right, that's what a player who has been a three-point shooter for a long time in his career has done.
Yang's Shanxi under the guidance of the army advocates attack, but also simplifies a large number of cumbersome tactics, on the contrary, the defenders hold the ball to block and dismantle, misplaced attacks, sudden points, the most basic offensive principles are infinitely magnified. It was in this way that the original manager suddenly became a reliable ball-handling attacker, in an open offensive environment, his offensive options became diversified, and he is now more like a real shooting guard than just a shooter.
So far this season, the coach has averaged 40 minutes per game, averaging 18.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, shooting 42.1% from three-point range. On top of that, his attacking threat continues to grow, with his average free throws per game rising to four times in the new season, almost doubling, and his shooting percentage remains at 95 percent. In the 10th year of his career, the original coach is still showing his plasticity and bringing more surprises to people.
Even more changed than the original shuai, that is naturally Zhang Ning.
Although the original coach has become more ball-holding, in the final analysis, it is the most efficient job of a shooter, and he has long proved that he has no talent in the organization, breaking points and other aspects in the past decade. At the same time, Zhang Hanjun and Zhou Zhandong are also difficult to rely on in attack, Zhang Ning has stepped forward in a timely manner, so far this season, he has averaged 14.8 points, 4 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 0.6 steals and 0.4 blocks, which is simply a changed person.
Yang's guidance requirements are actually very much, for this third ball holder on the bench, he must be able to defend, shoot, hold the ball, but also be able to pass the ball, it just so happens that Zhang Ning in the Peking University period is such a player. This is the perfect combination of opportunity and his own efforts, Zhang Ning while maintaining the defensive task of last season, he was allowed to hold the ball a lot to face misalignment and blocking on the offensive end, and he suddenly changed from a tied rookie to an all-round bench bandit.
Or against Liaoning, at the end of the first quarter, Zhang Ning held the ball outside the line through the block to kill the basket to score, with a Guo Allen-style attack unreasonably broke through the entire defense line, completed the final attack; the fourth quarter of 84 draws, Zhang Ning broke through Zhang Zhenlin from the right side, through the bottom line to send the ball to the bottom corner, assisted the original shuai three-point hit, right, this conversion from one side to break through the bottom corner of the other side is now a common offensive technique in Shanxi.
Last year's preseason, when Zhang Ning scored 40 points, I said that his career could not look at people with the old eyes from that game, and he was a brand new person in the CBA. His desire for victory did not waver, but contrary to the untamed appearances shown in CUBA, variety shows, etc., humility can accept any accusations and demands, defense, substitution, attack and other problems are not a problem in him, it is this plasticity and all-round skill that has his current all-round performance, and this seems to be the way he really should go.
Ten years later, Shanxi quietly began the dark horse journey in the new season, or the familiar taste, Yang Xuezeng guided the team, super small outside + defensive player + three-point shooter group, to add, in fact, also need a strong inside line to ensure rebounding. In fact, this is the basis of modern basketball's spatial offense, a strong outside line of independent offensive ability, unlimited ability to create offense and attract defense, the continuation and upgrade of the firepower of three-point shooters, rebounding, cutting and following up on the inside line, and even Ge Zhaobao has a hand pass.
What Shanxi lacks at present is enough rebounding protection, Ge Zhaobao is excellent, but if the teams join the big foreign aid, I am afraid it will not be enough, and an excellent big foreign aid rebounder will be an excellent guarantee for running and bombardment. To make up for the big outside, the most lacking should be the defensive toughster, to raise Zhang Ning's defense to the level of Iguodala, and the Golden State Warriors will praise it.
Shanxi's attack was like a horse running wildly on the grassland, full of strength and vitality, Zhang Ning, Yuan Shuai, and Feld had one hand reins and the other musket.