On November 3, Beijing time, the CBA regular season continued, and in the already concluded Liaoning basket against Ningbo team, Liaoning basket's small foreign aid Fergus also ushered in his debut this season. But honestly the performance is not good, and even a great disappointment.
Although he scored 11 points in the 22 minutes of the first game, it is absolutely justified for a player who has just finished quarantine, and the two-point shooting rate of 4 of 3 and 75% shooting is impeccable. But as soon as fans saw Fergus' 1-of-5 three-pointer, it immediately triggered a crazy groove.
Why would fans collectively criticize Fogg's poor three-point shooting ability?
It's not that he's angry that he only hit 20% of the shots in this game, even if it's 0-of-5, no one will blame him, mainly because the "outside projection" has not been Fogg's strong point. The small foreign aid that liaoning baskets need most is like Hudson in the past and Omey, who shot more than 40% of three-pointers in the first half of last season, rather than foreign aides like Fogg who score by breaking through and shooting from mid-range.
Because the sharpshooters in the local lineup of Liaoning Basket are relatively scarce, Cong Mingchen is an empty pitcher that Liaoning Basket has cultivated for many years, but after experiencing major injuries, he is less and less confident, with large ups and downs, but occasional highlight performances. Although Yu Zechen has high hopes, he still needs to slowly adapt to the intensity of playing cba, and he cannot count on it for the time being. Thanks to Allen and Ji Wei's three-pointers are becoming more and more reliable, but the task on their shoulders is too heavy, both to organize and attack, it is impossible to specialize, functionalize, and specialize in shooting three-point shots.
The author has collected Fergus' three-point shooting rate in each season in the CBA, which is enough to confirm the fans' concerns.
1. Guangzhou team played: In the 2017-18 season, Fergus shot 38.2% from three-point range; in the 2018-19 season, the three-point shooting rate was 38.7%.
2. North Control team play: 36.7% shooting rate from three-point range in the 2019-20 season.
3. Liaoning basketball performance: 43.5% shooting rate of three-pointers in the 2020-21 season.
Some people may see that Fergus has proved his three-point ability as a fire-fighting foreign aid at Liaoning Basket last season, after all, the 43.5% shooting rate is already quite good. But his extremely unstable three-point shooting is on the one hand, and on the other hand, he does not have the ability to shoot "fairy balls" against strong teams.
Example: None of Fogg's outside touches were online in the six games of last season's playoffs.
1, play Guangsha three-pointer 2 of 0; 2, play Zhejiang team two three-pointers are 1 in 0, a total of 2 out of 0; 3, the finals to play Guangdong Hongyuan team three games of three three-pointers are 8-2, 7 in 3, the last life and death battle is not in contentious 3-0.
Looking back now, if Fergus had a stable outside projection ability, Liaoning Basket would not have lost 1-2 to Guangdong Hongyuan in the championship battle. This is what fans and friends are most worried about.
However, Liaoning basketball head coach Yang Ming did not think much of the reporter's questions after the game between Fogg and Ningbo, and he thought that Fogg was worth looking forward to, and calmly responded with 4 words: "Run-in lineup". Meaning, it's too early to make up your mind about Fergus, believing he can surprise the team and the fans!
In fact, Liaoning Basket once again chose to sign Fergus is also a last resort: one is that Ferge is willing to play in the CBA League, such foreign aid is good management, will desperately help the team; second, the epidemic factor to find a new face is quite difficult, good foreign aid, but the time cost is too expensive, this year only 38 rounds of regular season, Liaoning Basket does not want to eat last season's Fogg and Taylor because the team is too late to almost did not play a role in the loss; third, in fact, Liaoning Basket will not be in The "hanging on a tree" of Fogg, it is reported that they are also considering signing another foreign aid in case of emergency.
Write at the end:
In the author's opinion, Fergus is not useless, maybe he really does not have the potential and ability to become a three-pitcher, but it also depends on how Yang Ming uses him. If you can create two sets of lineups, let Allen play the starting lineup with one set, let Fogg take a set to play the bench, and match Cong Mingchen or Yu Zechen, who have a three-point threat, it will make his breakthrough more relaxed.
Do you think that fans who are not optimistic about Ferge are unfounded or not? Welcome to express your opinions and suggestions, and jointly provide suggestions for Liaoning Basket!
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