Over the years, Beijing Shougang has always adopted pure point guards in the selection of Xiaowai, whether it was Marbury, Jackson, and Jeremy Lin last year. But this season, when Jeremy Lin returned to the United States to continue to pursue his dream, Beijing Shougang had to change the original "point guard law" and signed a more scoring combo guard and CBA old acquaintance Gibson. In the recent dilemma of the team losing streak in a row, the management chose to sign an alternate foreign aid McRae. The scoring leader of the Development League is also a swingman who focuses on scoring. Shougang's choice has been questioned when two consecutive scoring guards were selected.
During the coaching of the foreign coach Pajagani, Gibson has been unable to find out his position in the team, because his main method is to attack. Regardless of the previous teams in Guangsha, Qingdao, and Jiangsu last season, Gibson's personal ability is definitely not a problem in terms of scoring output. But in terms of organization, Gibson has averaged only 4.7 assists per game in his career. Obviously, he is not an excellent backcourt commander. Although Gibson also wanted to force himself to change his style during Pashuai's coaching, he still couldn't find a balance between offense and organization. Although his personal data seemed good for a while, the team record was not good.
In the 6 games from December 5, 2020 to December 17, 2020, Gibson averaged 35.1 points and 4.3 assists per game. This period was when he had the most assists. It is indeed impeccable, but the team only achieved a record of 2 wins and 4 losses, including a wave of three consecutive losses. Gibson also became a tragic empty-cut group leader during this time. However, after Xie Libin took over as the team coach again, he finally began to make changes for Shougang. After fully defining Zhou Yixiang and Fang Shuo as point guards, Gibson finally returned to his most familiar second position. Coupled with the comeback of Hamilton, Gibson seemed to have recovered himself.
He doesn't have to take on the offensive responsibility of the team in every game. How to play efficiently has become the most difficult effort he needs to overcome in the team. Because after Xie Libin took office,He successfully activated Liu Xiaoyu and Zhou Yixiang, the two "Wolong and Phoenix Young" who had been criticized for a long time by fans at the beginning of the season. Both of them will make contributions to the team on the offensive end from time to time. Especially the former, once played a season-best 22 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists in the first game of the New Year against Chouzhou Bank. In this way, Gibson's pressure is even less.
In the last 4 games, Gibson has indeed played more relaxed and comfortable. Recently, with only 26.7 minutes played (far below the season average of 33 minutes), he can score 21.5 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 4.2 assists, shoot 55.3% from the field, and achieve excellent three-pointers. 46.1%, excellent offensive efficiency. Unlike being forced to serve as a point guard before, Gibson will also choose to split teammates from time to time while finding an offensive feel. However, it is a pity that in his game against Liaoning and Chouzhou Bank, he has assisted 5 times, but the team lost. It seems that Gibson may still be more suitable to be an offensive finisher.
However, before McRae has not arrived at the team, the team may still have to rely on this old CBA acquaintance to provide more stable firepower output on the offensive end. Shougang’s "non-mainstream option" this time , How far will they go this season, let us wait and see.
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