For the defending champion Liaoning Men's Basketball Team, this offseason's recruitment can be considered a failure. The team signed Aqiu'er and Shayaok early, both of whom have shown impressive performances in the CBA, but they are clearly incompatible with Liaoning. The former has rebounding ability inferior to Morand, and his playing style is too soft, completely unable to support the hardness of the inside line. As for Shayaok, he has no dribbling at all and his shooting is also unstable. The management thought they were like Zhuge Liang and Zhu Geliang, but it turned out they really were. The Liaoning management made a big mistake by directly cutting both players before choosing new recruits.
Aqiu'er just looks soft and can't attack, but his defensive efficiency is in the top five. Even if the opponents in the first stage were not strong, his real defensive ability is definitely not weak. Currently, the inside line can only rely on Han Dejun and Li Xiaoxu to struggle to support. Normally, in the fourth quarter, the big foreign aid would play for 5 minutes first, then send in Han Dejun, and the small foreign aid would finish the game. But now, the more they play, the more tired they get.
Liaoning can only rush to remedy the situation. They have already terminated the contract with the previous foreign aid, Toure, and the new recruit is Justin Patton, an interior player from the NBA. I specifically watched a few of Patton's games; he played a season in Shanxi before. His strengths are defense, help defense, cooperative defense, and top defense, all of which are basically online. He is not slow, and his awareness is also good. His wingspan is particularly exaggerated, and his offense is very limited, relying entirely on feeding. This is actually nothing for Liaoning because they don't lack offensive points; mainly, there is no facilitation. However, compared to Morand, Patton is definitely weaker.
But Liaoning fans are now eager for foreign aid, as long as they are stronger than Toure. If he has no injuries, he will definitely be stronger than the current Toure. Toure's problem is eight months of injuries, and it's obvious that his physical confrontation hasn't recovered. Toure played in the Turkish Super League, French Ligue 1, and Spanish La Liga a few years ago, so his confrontation couldn't possibly be this poor; it can only be said that the injury problem is indeed serious. Currently, Liaoning's lineup has many problems. Even if they win, it's by consuming the efforts of two veterans and Fergie, three players over 35 years old, fighting hard. Before the start of the season, Liaoning had a bench depth that was envied by the entire league, but now they dare not use any of them. When there's a problem, they're taken off immediately. Yang Ming really needs to reflect on this.
In addition to the big foreign aid, Liaoning also has good news. Tan Houren and Zhao Weilun, two national youth team players, will represent Liaoning in next year's National Games. However, the National Games are the National Games, and youth training is youth training; there is no necessary connection between the two. It's equivalent to these two being loaned to Liaoning to play in the National Games. Liaoning can talk to Zhao Weilun; Ji Wei is getting older and has more injuries, and this season it's visibly going downhill. However, Tan Houren currently belongs to Shanxi's youth training, just like Zhang Boyuan representing Shandong in the National Games but being from Shanxi's youth training. Playing in the CBA means helping Shanxi, so the National Games and youth training should be discussed separately.