Senior fans: Why is CBA Guangdong Hongyuan Xu Jie always being questioned?

Although the topic is about our CBA, we might as well look back at the NBA draft history first. Even in the current small ball era, NBA team drafts also tend to select big players, not to mention the traditional era of the NBA! When we count the top picks in the NBA, they are basically occupied by all center players. What about the smaller players? Even if he is as talented as Jordan, he is only the No. 1 pick, and Kobe is only the 13th pick in the first round. It is really a small probability for a small man like Iverson to get the No. 1 pick.

The reason why the topic suddenly jumped from CBA to NBA is because of the widespread height worship in the basketball world! If you want to play professional basketball, you must be taller than 1.9 meters, otherwise you will always be looked down upon.

Xu Jie of the Guangdong Hongyuan team is a typical small player. In the CBA, Xu Jie basically has no physical advantage. He is small, not fast, and has relatively average jumping and explosive power. A great pitcher in the traditional sense, therefore, from the day he entered the CBA league, doubts have always been raised one after another.

Although it is said that height is the stepping stone to enter the professional basketball league. For example, the veteran Su Wei, Xu Jie’s teammate in the Guangdong Hongyuan Team, used his height advantage to switch from kayaking to basketball. Now the head coach of the Shandong Men’s Basketball Team, Gong Xiaobin, switched from football to basketball because of his height. !

Xu Jie has no advantage in physical talent, but after he entered the CBA league, everything was cleared up! The main basis for evaluating players is their performance on the court.

Compared with other defenders, Xu Jie has three major advantages. The first is clear thinking and calmness. The combing of the ball is done relatively well! He is able to control the rhythm of the ball just right and rarely makes mistakes while controlling the ball, which is commendable!

The second is his outstanding skills and high golf quotient. Xu Jie has a very good sense of space when playing on the court. He can always find suitable routes and shooting opportunities in the crowd!

The third is the strong sense of the ball. In CBA games, we can often find that the short Xu Jie can grab frontcourt rebounds many times.

Small players do face many difficulties if they want to gain a foothold in the CBA league, and their deficiencies in defensive confrontation are more prominent. Compared with his teammate Zhao Rui, Xu Jie really struggles on the defensive end, and it is easy for his opponents to seize misplaced advantages on the court!

In the regular season this season, Xu Jie averaged about 22 minutes per game, scoring 7.8 points and 3.4 assists. This data is the lowest among the Guangdong team's defenders. Hu Mingxuan has 13.2 points and Zhao Rui has 11.3 points!

More importantly, both Zhao Rui and Hu Mingxuan have gradually found their own characteristics, while Xu Jie is still in the process of exploring.

I hope his performance will get better and better.