At present, with the end of the first stage of the CBA regular season, the league has entered its first break window period. Teams are taking advantage of this rare opportunity to catch their breath and regroup for future battles. At the same time, a wave of changes in foreign aid has quietly arrived. First, Guangdong team took down two foreign players at the same time, followed by Shenzhen team, who sent their big foreign player Perry packing...
According to Shenzhen media personality Zheng Zhipeng on social media, Shenzhen men's basketball team has cut Reggie Perry. He said, "Judging from the data alone, Perry was indeed the best performing foreign player in the first stage of Shenzhen men's basketball." "Basketball is a game of five people. It is difficult to say that Perry, born in 2000, is a 'professional' foreign player. From daily training to playing games, his emotional style of play, passive defense, enthusiasm for complaining about teammates, and locker room igniter." "Cutting a capable 'time bomb' and returning to a clear training and competition environment, the pros and cons are self-evident."
A few days ago, after losing to Guangdong in the closing battle of the first stage of the regular season, Zhou Peng said at the post-match press conference: "Some of our players lack professional spirit on the court and violate the basic principles of a player. They think they are better than everyone else and put team interests at the bottom." Everyone was speculating at the time who Zhou Peng was referring to, and now it seems these words were directed at Perry.
In the first stage of this season's regular season, Reggie Perry started 10 games and averaged 25.3 points, 8.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and 1.3 blocks per game. His average points ranked 8th in the league, average rebounds ranked 16th, average blocks ranked 12th, and three-point shooting percentage ranked second in the league (50.0%). Perry's statistics can be described as comprehensive and luxurious...
Why was such a versatile foreign aid cut? First of all, Perry thinks he's a big shot both on and off the court. He plays emotionally, takes on opponents single-handedly, does whatever he wants, doesn't follow the coach's tactical arrangements, and often criticizes and complains about his opponents. At the same time, Perry's defensive attitude is very poor, a typical offensive-only foreign player. In Shenzhen's away defeat to Xinjiang, Perry scored 40 points. After the game, Xinjiang head coach Liu Wei said, "He can really score, but he doesn't defend, doesn't come back to defend, and we counterattack with 5 against 4."
Behaving like a big shot on and off the court, not setting up defenses during the game, and refusing to follow the coach's tactics, such a cancerous foreign aid should be sent packing!