"After careful consideration and friendly negotiations with the Guangzhou Dragons and Lions Club, I have to regretfully tell the fans that I have decided to end this CBA season ahead of schedule.", these are the farewell words Jeremy Lin left for the CBA. After playing 7 games for Guangzhou team , averaging 6.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 12 minutes per game, Jeremy Lin failed to continue his CBA career, just like he was given up by NBA 3 years ago.
Some people are confused. Although the age of 34 is the end of their careers for most players, think about it. In the 20-21 season, Shuhao can still represent the Golden State Warriors in the Development League and play well. It has only been 2 years. Why has his competitive status declined so quickly? Some people are also confused. After signing the contract with Dragon Lion , it seems that there was not much trial. Guo Shiqiang director gave Jeremy Lin very little time from the beginning. Why is this? And throughout his CBA career, Jeremy Lin seems to have more doubts than in the NBA.
In fact, all of this cannot be discussed from just one side. It is closely related to Shuhao's personal personality, playing characteristics, and even the overall style of CBA.
was targeted by CBA teams
In the summer of 2019, Jeremy Lin won the championship trophy that year with the team at Oracle Arena . He returned with great honor, but it failed to win him the next NBA contract. Therefore, CBA, Beijing Shougang , became the next stop of his career. Maybe before then. Shuhao never thought that the Chinese league would be so difficult to play!
Being targeted is a compulsory course for every foreign player who comes to CBA. Those who adapt can flourish and make great achievements, such as Ma Shang, Jones and Marbury; and those who cannot stand it, no matter how big they were, will be like a passing cloud and will be quickly given up, like Oden and others.
It is almost a consensus reached by all parties. If a foreign player wants to be retained by CBA, he does not need to pass the ball, but he must be in good health and be able to score. He may not have teammates in his eyes, but he must have a basket in his eyes. , this kind of stable output, At least it can guarantee the team's lower limit, such as Beasley , Joseph Young , and the former Quincy Dolby; and the foreign players of a championship team require them to not only be able to score, but also require technical comprehensiveness and stability. Those who can meet this requirement are Ma Shang, Marbury, Wilms and others.
Taking all aspects into consideration, when Jeremy Lin arrived in 2019, he was not the kind of foreign aid that the CBA needed, because at his core, he was still a traditional core defender: passing the ball first and controlling the overall situation. But in the CBA, your teammates don't have that ability. If you pass the ball out, they can't score. This style of foreign aid requires you to keep an eye on the domestic players. OK, just pass a few more. If they can't score, you have to follow up here immediately, otherwise the game will be easily disrupted.
Not to mention the scholar he was when he was young, his physical fitness back then could not be stopped no matter how his opponents deployed their defense in the CBA. After the injury, he has actually lost the absolute speed and explosiveness to break through. When playing in the CBA, when defending Jeremy Lin, each team would stay behind the screen and test his mid-to-long-range shooting first. Anyway, he can shoot from the outside, but he is absolutely not allowed to score at the basket. As we all know, throughout his career, three-point shooting has not been what he is good at.
And the biggest difference between Jeremy Lin and other foreign players is that he is a Chinese with black hair and yellow skin. He was once known as " Lin Crazy " and was world-renowned. This aroused the competitiveness of many players on other teams, especially those defensive engineers who thought, "I want to Jeremy Lin has been defended, and the boss can't help! "Although there is a gap in ability, one person can break it, but one wave after another comes up. The most important thing in CBA is engineers. As the saying goes, "cannot defeat four-handed ". Every game is full of confrontation, and every game is so consumed, so we have seen what Jeremy Lin once said on social media - is covered in bruises! Shouldn't
join Dragon and Lion?
first came to the CBA. At that time, the Shougang team's Zhai Xiaochuan was still at its peak, and there were several stable scoring endpoints such as Fang Shuo and Liu Xiaoyu. Even when Shuhao was under pressure or double-teamed, his teammates could continue the offense as long as they moved the ball out. Including last season, Shougang has Li Muhao + Fan Ziming twin towers inside, and they can also give Jeremy Lin a position in the backcourt.
But the Guangzhou Long-Lions are different. Their existing insiders, Jiao Boqiao, Zheng Zhun, float on the outside, and Li Yanzhe is a pure blue-collar. Without a strong inside line with both offense and defense, it is difficult to make a difference during the season, so the Long-Lions introduced Jordan Bell , this season averaged 26.7 minutes per game, Jordan Bell scored 12.3 points, 9.4 rebounds and 1.9 blocks. In the team's backcourt, there is also Chen Yingjun . In the past two seasons, he has grown into a domestic first-line defender. Chen Yingjun + Jordan Bell form an internal and external dual-core. The tactics mainly revolve around the pick-and-roll between the two.
Chen Yingjun’s rest time is an opportunity for Jeremy Lin, but with little time left, he still has to compete with another small foreign player. Compared with Jeremy Lin, Mason has two major advantages:
First, in the 16 games he played for the Dragons and Lions this season, Mason averaged 16.5 points and 4.8 assists in 22 minutes per game. This scoring efficiency is far beyond Jeremy Lin. From Guo Shiqiang's perspective, since the tactics are mainly based around Chen Yingjun, the remaining ball rights can completely simplify the intermediate steps and allow small foreign players to directly complete the digestion.
Second, Jeremy Lin has been conducting personal training in the United States in the past summer, and he and the Dragons and Lions almost started training together in the isolation area. Mason has played for the team for a season before, so both parties know the basics. The Dragons and Lions are not the top CBA teams like Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Liaoning, and there is no time for you to get familiar with them. This may also be Jeremy Lin's mistake in decision-making!
Where is the future?
There is almost a general consensus that it is already difficult for Jeremy Lin to find another job in the CBA. In his farewell article, Jeremy Lin said: "Everyone knows that I don't have much playing time this season. As a player, I definitely feel that I should play more, but I also respect the decision of the coaching staff." . Since the CBA can no longer give him time, if he wants to stay on the court longer, he has to go to a lower-level league, Taiwan, which is a good choice.
In fact, during the first intermission period, there were rumors that a P League team wanted to sign Jeremy Lin, but nothing happened. In the past 2 or 3 years, the Taiwanese league has made great progress in packaging, operation and promotion. Not only can it gain sufficient social attention, but its income is also far higher than today's CBA. Prior to this, the Taiwan T1 League provided Dwight Howard with a monthly salary of more than 200,000 US dollars, and a luxurious apartment to live in, which is much more attractive than our isolation competition area.
In an interview with a program, Jeremy Lin said that playing on the same team with his younger brother has always been a dream of his. In the past summer, Lin Shuwei left the Fubon Warriors, where he had played for 7 years, and switched to the New Taipei Kings. As the saying goes, brothers who work together can win gold, The New Taipei Kings will create greater glory!
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