With the fresh blood that the Guangdong men's basketball team has continued to emerge in the past few seasons, and has made great contributions to the team's championship, the league's other strong Liaoning men's basketball team has also harvested the growth of young players in the team in the past two years. In the latest Liaoning basket 118-102 victory over the new ningbo Fubon game, because Guo Allen has left the division, coupled with Han Dejun also returned to Shenyang because of the ban, this game Yang Ming simply gave the team young players ample opportunities to show, in the case of the rotation of Zhang Zhenlin, 21-year-old young player Yu Zechen also ushered in a big outbreak in this game, the whole game he came off the bench for 29 minutes, 9 shots 6, 7 of 7 three-pointers, won a career-high 18 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist and 2 steals, It became the biggest surprise of this game.
Compared with Zhang Zhenlin, who has been famous last season, Yu Zechen may not be so familiar to everyone, the 21-year-old Yu Zechen, 21 meters tall, weighing 94KG, plays as a striker, was transferred to the first team by Liao Basket in the offseason last year, but he did not follow the team to Zhuji, but was arranged to play in the U19 youth league, and there, Yu Zechen played the highest score of the whole team many times, compared with other young players in the team, Yu Zechen is indeed "standing out". It is also the infinite potential shown in the youth league that Yu Zechen has finally been able to officially wear the Liaoning basketball shirt this season.
In fact, in the first stage, Yang Ming let Yu Zechen wear on the battlefield from time to time, in the "Northeast Derby" with Jilin on November 6 last year, Yu Zechen ushered in the first scoring double-double performance of his career (scoring 12 points) in the 20 minutes of playing time, and at the end of the second stage, following the 13 points scored against Xinjiang on January 20, Yu Zechen also refreshed his career scoring record with 18 points in the match with Ningbo.
As of now, Yu Zechen has averaged 4.4 points and 1.1 rebounds per game in 12.1 minutes of playing time, shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate to 44.8% and 42.3% respectively, while having a good bouncing ability, he can also maintain such an efficient accuracy on the outside line, in time, he is definitely an important rotation of the Liaoning basketball forward.
And the 22-year-old Zhang Zhenlin, as a "liu yangsheng" who returned from the United States, completely sat in the starting position of the team when he joined Liaoning Basket last season. Averaging 14.2 points, 5.6 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game, especially against Guangdong that game Zhang Zhenlin is the highest 46 points in his career, it is indeed not simple, after the end of the season, Zhang Zhenlin also won the best rookie award without suspense, but it is a pity that Zhang Zhenlin did not win the championship as he wished in his first season of joining Liaoning Basketball, although Liao Basket lost guangdong 1-2 and became the runner-up again, but the fledgling Zhang Zhenlin, in the first finals trip of his career, can contribute 17 points and 7 rebounds, throughout the CBA these years, there is really no such rookie player who is full of combat strength.
This season, Zhang Zhenlin has also been given more responsibilities by Yang Ming to play the role of organizational striker, although the average data per game has declined (12.8 points, 4.9 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.6 steals), but this is also a rookie player must go through the growth process, if he wants to have higher achievements, he really needs to overcome these bottlenecks. For this Liaoning basket, in the case that Han Dejun, Guo Allen, Li Xiaoxu, and other veterans have gradually aged, they really need to replenish young blood, and Yu Zechen and Zhang Zhenlin, the group of forward twin stars, will also be an important puzzle for the future of the team!