How can the Chinese men's national basketball team have foreign aid? When Zhu Mingzhen wore a men's basketball jersey to meet Japan on June 20, 2021, people in the unknown pointed out his skin color, but did not know that Ujin was red in blood outside, and the rivers drank together.
Zhu Mingzhen is the first mixed-race player to represent the Chinese men's basketball adult national team in an international competition, just as he has suffered from childhood to adulthood, the word black skin and foreign aid have been equated by many people on him. This Beijing kid has explained many times in authentic Beijing dialect, he is a Beijing grandfather, but there are always some people who don't pay attention to it.
Verbal power is limited, and you may have to fight for breath on the court.
After playing the CBA rookie season, Zhu Mingzhen was called by the national team, and he was the fastest player in CBA history to complete the college-professional league-national team triple jump. Against Japan, he shot 0 of 3 in 11 minutes, and the national team debut was not outstanding, but at the same time, he also spelled out 4 rebounds and 1 assist, which was remarkable.
Back in the CBA, he went one step further in the second year of his career, currently averaging 12.7 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 0.9 steals per game, and is firmly in the starting small forward position in the Guangzhou team under the guidance of Guo Shiqiang. It took him only half of the games to tie last season's four 20+ single-game scoring performances, and against Gilling, he shot 12-of-18, hitting six three-pointers, and blasting down the first 30+ of his career.
Since childhood, he has been mistaken by many people for foreign aid, Zhu Mingzhen has been a silver saddle white horse all the way, chasing a shooting star to start a winner's life. Zhu Mingzhen first flashed in the public eye in 2013, on Dwyane-Wade's trip to Guangzhou. The teenager, who has mixed Chinese and Ugandan descent, has already changed from shot put to basketball, and has gradually gained fame in the famous basketball school Beijing No. 4.
That year, 10 people were selected from the Chinese junior high and high school basketball league to form an all-star team, with Guo Allen, the new national player of the Liaoning men's basketball team, as the coach, against the grassroots star team coached by Wade. There are 9 high school students in these 10 people, in addition to Zhu Mingzhen, there is also Wang Shaojie, the MVP of the boys' group of the high school league that year, as well as Wang Siqi, Bi Jinchuan, Zheng Yi and others, and the MVP of the women's group, Zhang Tianchan from Shijiazhuang No. 2 Middle School, and finally the MVP of the junior high school group, Zhang Dianliang of Tsinghua Affiliated High School.
Zhu Mingzhen used a key attack to hold the victory and won the applause of the whole hall.
Wade praised the young man and gave him the signed sneakers as a gift for the most promising award. Zhu Mingzhen was not yet 17 years old at the time, and had just finished his first year of high school at Beijing No. 4 Middle School, but he had already stood out from the high school league, and even led the team to defeat the overlord Tsinghua High School at one point and grab the championship in Beijing. The last four lieutenant generals to do the same thing is Qi Lin in Xinjiang, who is now playing.
After graduating from high school, Zhu Mingzhen chose to join Peking University, and before starting to compete in CUBA, he participated in the 3X3 Golden League with Zhang Ning, who entered the school in the same year, as well as seniors Wang Shaojie and Wang Zeqi, and won the championship all the way to the final. From this point on, Peking University's future champion team was about to come out, and Zhu Mingzhen also began to transform into a guard with a knife.
Since the sophomore year, Zhu Mingzhen and Peking University have defeated Zhongnan and Tsinghua in three consecutive years to complete the great feat of cuba's three consecutive championships. Low-key he is very efficient in 3 Finals, averaging 11.4 points, 3.2 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game in his first four seasons of college, shooting 40% from three-point range, averaging 1.4 three-pointers per game, and the offensive and defensive ends are the real championship puzzle.
At the same time as cuba killed four parties, Zhu Mingzhen also represented China at the World University Games in 2019, with Peking University as the team, and also joined Tsinghua double stars Guo Jian and Yang Chen, as well as Xiamen University Yuan Tangwen, Shanxi University He Siyu and civil aviation Jia Mingru. A year later, Peking University was blocked by Ningbo University, and Zhu Mingzhen and Zhang Ning ended their 5-year CUBA career and officially entered the professional league.
Zhu Mingzhen, who has transformed into 3D in his college years, became the highlight of the 2020 CBA Draft.
Although Zhu Mingzhen has performed very low-key in variety shows and college competitions, in the eyes of coaches, this style of team attributes is obviously a major advantage. Coupled with the 196CM height, 202CM arm span, and 105KG weight, the mismatch between the body shape and position faced by most college players after entering the professional league did not occur to Zhu Mingzhen.
It can be said that in terms of body, he seems to have been a well-prepared professional player very early on. Guangzhou, which is desperately short of small strikers, has a tradition of using university players, but Guo Shiqiang's guidance and management still decided to let Zhu Mingzhen play as a substitute first. On October 18, 2020, he made his career debut against Xinjiang, shooting 3 of 5 from three points, scoring 16 points, 8 rebounds and 2 steals, except for not winning, almost a perfect debut performance.
After two games, Guo put Zhu Mingzhen on the starting list, and he was also one of the first players in the new generation to sit firmly and start first. With excellent standing and active scrambling on the defensive end, and pulling away three-pointers and dexterous empty cuts on the offensive end, Zhu Mingzhen quickly understood the mystery of 3D players, and his progress was even more obvious in the second half of the season.
Against Tianjin, he abruptly and cleverly cut from the bottom line in the final moments, received a pass from Dallas Moore, and scored a key quasi-kill before the defense formed a pinch. During the critical period of competition for a playoff spot, he scored at least 15 points in five consecutive games in March and 20+ in two consecutive games in April.
Zhu Mingzhen, a rookie, averaged 32.9 minutes per game, and since the two games at the beginning of the season, he has started all games, contributing 9.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 0.8 steals per game, shooting 37.9% from three-point range and 1.6 three-pointers per game. In his rookie season, he was already one of the league's homegrown 3D strikers, which won him the favor of the national team.
In less than a year, Zhu Mingzhen completed the triple jump.
In August 2020, he was still playing for Peking University, and by June 2021, he had red-robed and shawl to play for the national team in the Asian Cup qualifiers. This selection for the national team is a new baptism for Zhu Mingzhen, his performance in the game is not good, in addition to a positive attitude, on the field seems to be a little overwhelmed, dealing with the weakness of the ball and the higher requirements of the defensive end, overwhelming to him.
The Guangzhou training led by Guo Shiqiang was very hard and sweaty, and Zhu Mingzhen used a off-season of hard training to make up for the previously exposed deficiencies. At the beginning of the 21-22 season, Guangzhou first met with the all-Chinese class, and in the case of lack of offensive strength, Zhu Mingzhen, who had just returned from the national team, seemed to have really become a "foreign aid".
Continuing the good form of the previous season, Zhu Mingzhen scored double figures in the first 8 games 7 times, averaging 16.3 points per game, and Guangzhou won 6 and lost 2. At this time, few people have made a big fuss about his skin color, but instead they have cast a look of approval, and this Beijing kid even confused the foreign aid who just came to the CBA on the field, and for a while he really thought that he was also a foreign aid.
Zhu Mingzhen, who was born in 1996, is still a few months away from turning 26, but age does not limit the growth of their college players who entered the CBA through the draft. Not only him, but also Zhang Ning and others, they still showed strong learning ability in the second grade.
Zhu Mingzhen is now steadily advancing towards elite 3D.
This season, while improving his points to an average of 12.7 points per game, he has also increased his not-so-good shooting rate from last season to 44.5%, especially the most critical three-point shooting rate, which has also increased from 37.9% in his rookie year to 40.3%. He ranks 24th in the league with a three-point shooting percentage and 50 three-pointers, tied for 23rd in the league.
Zhu Mingzhen has made Zhu Mingzhen shine this season more than this, last season he had a quasi-kill performance, this season against Shanxi first leg, he completed the layup in the last 13 seconds, and hit a key three-pointer in the second leg to kill the game. In the final moments of facing Jiangsu and other games, he also repeatedly had key ball performances, and this kind of big heart moment, he really looked like a powerful foreign aid.
However, even if he has already had the experience of the national team and has made great progress this season, Zhu Mingzhen is just the first step in the long march to truly reach the level of foreign aid and become the number one star of a team. He is indeed one of the main small forwards in the league's offensive and defensive balance, 3D has been completed, but the word elite is still far away.
Guangzhou has now ranked 7th in the league this season, Zhu Mingzhen has been entrusted by Guo Guidance, in addition to the regular offensive and defensive tasks, even in many games, he will be in the top of the five small lineup to the No. 4 position, frequent position movement and lineup matching also makes a lot of his data are not so good.
Zhu Mingzhen is already a defender above the level, but his lateral movement speed is not fast, the arm span is only good, and the defensive experience is still slightly lacking, making him not good enough when defending small foreign aid. Guangzhou is more often a defender to limit small foreign aid, and Zhu Mingzhen is doing more work to assist in defense and pinch attack.
In the comparison with the same position, Zhu Mingzhen's defensive data only has a block rate that can be ranked higher, while the steal rate and defensive rebounding rate are very bad. This also shows his current role in Guangzhou, attacking and defending, can top multiple positions, but is not yet an experienced veteran, unable to control the rhythm of the field through personal performance, and his outstanding performance this season is still a further understanding of the blue-collar role.
The road always has to go step by step, Zhu Mingzhen's style of play is already very mature, he just needs to accumulate more experience and make better judgments on the field. After all, he's still a sophomore and has only played 82 professional games, and the road has only just begun, as he said in the draft, "I know that college training time may be relatively limited, so I hope I can strengthen something as much as possible." 」 ”
As if foreign aid is not foreign aid, Zhu Mingzhen has embarked on the Kangzhuang Avenue from the yang intestine path, as for the future, if you want to take off, why not.