So far in the new season, Yi Jianlian has shot 60% from the field and 71.42% from three-point range. He was incredibly efficient, but he played only 4 games, played 52 minutes and shot 25 goals. The UAE Playing "Health Ball" is not surprising. In the third game of last season's finals, the UAE League left the field unexpectedly due to injury, and it was confirmed that the Achilles tendon was broken. The Achilles tendon supports the body's athletic ability, and in the event of any accident, it is a devastating blow to basketball players.
Isaiah Thomas suffered a tendon injury, and the Hall of Fame player simply chose to retire. Cousins suffered a tendon injury and went from being the league's top center at the time to an outcast who now has no ball to play. Bryant, one of the most offensive players in history, and Billups, who plays with his mind and rhythm, inevitably plummeted after an Achilles tendon injury. In the history of the NBA, the Achilles tendon is broken, and the ones who can still play their peak state after returning from injury are the "essence of human cinema" Dominique Wilkins, and Kevin Durant, who is killing all sides in the alliance.
Their athleticism is also inevitably declining, fortunately, they have the support of historical talent, and they can also play dominance at both ends of the attack and defense. Yi Jianlian can't compare with these two, plus he is playing a center, the official age is 32 years old when he was injured, and it is reasonable to stop after his comeback. The former CBA king can no longer compete fiercely with young people, let alone like the 2019 World Cup, regardless of the sudden shooting. Reality is in front of us, and we must be ready to say goodbye to the UAE.
Yi Jianlian has contributed everything to himself, and even paid the price of overdrafting the future, which is really worthy of the fans and the team. Now if you are willing to fight, you can play, and it does not hurt to retire.
But the iron battalion of the flowing soldiers, the Chinese men's basketball team still has to have someone to carry the flag, and must find a successor to Yi Jianlian. Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin and Hu Jinqiu, the technology is fixed and has passed the crazy upward period, reaching the height of the UAE League is almost hopeless. Among the rising stars, none of them have played a dominance level. Finding a successor to Yi Jianlian has become a difficult task?
When participating in the NBA draft, the US media released a draft report by Yi Jianlian: in addition to strength, other physical abilities have reached excellent standards, and the comprehensive score ranks high; the basic skills are solid, can break through with the ball, and the near basket shooting is excellent; the offensive technique is single, the lack of back moves, and the basketball IQ and consciousness are decent. Can run, jump and shoot, and the old Beauty recognizes the hard talent of the UAE. In 2015, someone made a scouting report to the UAE League that returned to the CBA, and the attack and defense and organization were not at the top, but each action was balanced and solid.
Yi Jianlian is a sports genius, not a basketball genius that the world thinks, and he can become an excellent scorer by relying on hard training beyond ordinary people. Anyone who has seen the UAE League play knows that turning over and shooting backwards and blocking and receiving the ball for a long time is more visually solid. He doesn't do anything superfluous, and every link is done very steadily, which is a hard practice day by day. Not a genius like Yao Ming once in a century, just a flexible genius who practiced hard in the later stages, I have a lot of talents in a big country, but I just can't find a successor to Yi Jianlian.
Finding a dynamic center is not difficult. The most easily tapped genius in Chinese basketball is a center who is more than 2 meters tall. Regardless of the level of basketball coaches, children who are much taller than their peers will be their primary target. Physical talent is here, and there is always the value of trying. But it's one thing to find it, it's another thing to cultivate. Some talents that are not yet fully developed are easily brushed off by impatient coaches. Some coaches whose basic quality is not too hard can train talents professionally and systematically: when it is time to practice basic skills, run to strengthen their strength; when they practice strength, they fail to control their diet. One after another, disappeared.
Fortunately, Yi Jianlian's successor is not necessarily a center forward. After Jordan withdrew from the U.S. men's basketball team, people did not say that Jordan No. 2 had to carry the flag. Anyone who is dominant can become the pillar of the national team. So the older generation represented by Guo Allen and the new generation headed by Zhang Zhenlin, who can succeed Yi Jianlian?