After an official announcement announced Hamilton's official return, Beijing became the only team in the CBA this season to have four foreign players.
Before Hamilton and Beijing team will merge and complete all registration procedures, Beijing team already has three foreign assistants, Jeremy Lin, Gibson and Brown. Affected by the epidemic, this season's CBA is still implementing the game system, the resumption of home and away game format is far from expected, for this reason, many teams are tightening their pockets in the reinforcements, many teams have only one foreign aid, and the team with three foreign aid is very few, let alone four foreign aid. But the wealthy Beijing team did it.
To a certain extent, this is a necessary supplement to the Beijing team to improve the record. Unlike last season's reinforcements of Li Muhao, Fan Ziming, Raymond and Tian Yuxiang, this season's Beijing team has not made a big move in the local lineup, so hoarding foreign aid will inevitably become an option for the Beijing team. Up to now, the overall performance of the Beijing team this season is indeed not ideal.
At present, Beijing team only ranks eighth in the league with a record of 17 wins and 11 losses. In the second stage of the regular season, the Beijing team used three foreign aides, but their ranking did not improve much compared with the first stage, and in the first stage, the Beijing team used the all-Chinese class.
In the second stage, Beijing's record was 9 wins and 6 losses, and the winning rate (60%) was even worse than that in the first stage (8 wins and 5 losses, a winning rate of 61.5%). Looking at the record of the Beijing team against the strong teams in the first and second stages, it seems to be quite good. Among them, they faced Liaoning, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangdong all 1 win and 1 loss. But the key to influencing Beijing's promotion of the ranking is that their performance is too unstable, and they have great ups and downs when facing the lower ranked teams, the most typical of which is the reversal by Fujian and the loss to Tianjin after 7 years. When it is impossible to win the game that should be won, and there is not enough confidence to win against a strong team, the Beijing team can only hover in the middle.
Today, one of the biggest problems facing the Beijing team is the aging of the personnel. In the local core framework, Zhai Xiaochuan, Fang Shuo and Zhu Yanxi are all veterans of the four-year triple crown, and Liu Xiaoyu, who was entrusted by Beijing coach Yannis, will soon be 33 years old, playing the 16th season of his career, and he is also one of the longest-serving players in the CBA this season. Even Li Muhao, who was born in 1992, is 30 years old. In terms of foreign aid, Jeremy Lin, Who Isnis trusts most, will soon be 34 years old. After contracting COVID-19 last year, Jeremy Lin's physical functioning has not recovered satisfactorily, which directly led to his ups and downs after his second-stage comeback.
This season, the average age of Beijing's domestic players is 25.7 years old, which is the fourth oldest team in the league, but at the same time, they have registered 24 local players, ranking first in the CBA. Of these, 5 players were registered through the draft or a promotion to a team. Embarrassingly, Beijing coach Yannis does not like to use new people.
Fan Yiming, a 21-year-old rising star trained by the "Young Eagle Project", originally planned to go to the NCAA for training last summer, but was eventually left behind, playing only twice this season, averaging 4.5 minutes per game; Luan Licheng, who was officially called by the Beijing team as "with the hope of the whole village" and was selected by beijing in the 5th pick in the first round of last year's draft, only played 4 minutes this season; Yang Ali, a 01-year youngster who has had some experience in the first two seasons and is optimistic about many fans, has only played 7 games this season (average 3.7 minutes per game). ......
For managers, it is not unusual to trust veterans because of the experience of veterans. However, one of the major drawbacks brought about by this is the slow progress of the replacement of the old and the new. The beijing team relies on this group of players who have experienced hundreds of battles, tough and defensive styles, and they are definitely opponents that no team is willing to face in the playoffs. But that, it seems, is their upper limit. Even if there are four foreign aides sitting on luxury today, after all, they also need to follow the policy of using 4 festivals and 4 people. Therefore, it is not easy to expect that hoarding foreign aid can make the Beijing team produce qualitative changes.
Throughout the CBA in recent years, the successful teams are the new and old alternate teams in front, if this can not bring inspiration to the Beijing team, I am afraid that waiting for them is not a sustainable development road.