Guo Ailun's top salary is now being scolded by fans, defense becomes a decoration, Liaoning Basketball team's biggest water goods?
After Guo Ailun left, the Liaoning Basketball Club gave him the top salary. However, after returning from the national team, his performance was exceptionally poor. In a situation where the team was short of players due to illness, he continued to perform poorly. At critical moments, Yang Ming could only rely on two veterans within the team, Han Dejun and Li Xiaoxu.
For Fu Hao, mediocre performance in the regular season seems to have become commonplace. During the offseason, Fu Hao received the Class D top salary contract left by Guo Ailun after his departure. Liaoning also hoped that Fu Hao would continue his excellent performance from last season's playoffs. However, this season, Fu Hao still struggled. After returning from the national team, it's unclear what happened with Fu Hao. Giving him the top salary was meant to be an incentive for him as a pillar player. But now, they still have to rely on the two veterans.
In the game against Beijing, whether it was frontcourt and backcourt rebounds or one-on-one defense, Fu Hao was basically unable to stop his opponents from scoring. Fu Hao defends very hard, but the problem is with his ability, not his attitude. He moves slowly laterally. Being short, light in weight, he can't defend against fast or strong opponents. Furthermore, there are offensive issues. Fu Hao is a very standard self-initiated offensive player. Looking at his early years in Bayi, he always played with the ball in hand. It was only when he came to Liaoning that he started playing without the ball. However, his efficiency is very low. Currently, the reality is that Fu Hao is working hard, and it's not an issue of attitude. On the contrary, Fu Hao is actually a very hardworking player. The problem is with his abilities, which makes things more difficult now.
Currently, Fu Hao has problems with his awareness and body coordination. His defensive positioning is incorrect, he turns slowly, has slow footwork, poor jumping ability, and slow reaction time. Basically, the ball goes in before he even understands what happened. His defensive habits are also not good. He always relies on his teammates to defend so that he can be the first to rush for a fast break. Therefore, his positioning is always conducive to quick counterattacks rather than key defensive positions, just thinking about easy baskets.
Unable to open up offensively, Fu Hao's playmaking is also currently lacking. When Fu Hao gets the ball near the three-second zone, it basically ends there. He rarely actively asks for the ball near the free-throw line. In these past few seasons of the regular league, it was always Er Ge who held it down. Whenever he came off the bench, points were lost. He's like a defensive ATM, missing open shots on offense, completely disconnected from the team. Fans are quite tolerant of Fu Hao. If Zhang Zhenlin had performed like this, he would have been criticized to the point of melting. At Fu Hao's level, under the current foreign aid policy, he will always face foreign players. Coupled with Liaoning not having a big foreign player to share the pressure, Fu Hao's performance becomes very纠结 (a Chinese term expressing a mix of confusion and helplessness).
A power forward weighing 112 kilograms with no muscle definition at all, how could his footwork not be slow? Daily training doesn't seem to be very useful at the moment; he should lose weight. Currently, it seems that Liaoning giving the top salary to Fu Hao was a loss. What do you think of Fu Hao's performance this season?