Not long ago, there was news that Beijing Shougang player Zhou Yixiang would temporarily leave the team to represent Chinese Taipei in the World Preliminary Tournament, and the result was just today, according to the official media of the Chinese Taipei PLOGUE League Kaohsiung Steelers announced that Zhou Yixiang will officially join the team in the next step, that is to say, the CBA's treasure island list show will officially leave the CBA stage and return to his hometown Chinese Taipei.
As a player who has won the MVP of Taiwan's SBL League twice, Zhou Yixiang has the reputation of "Treasure Island LeBron", in 17 years, that is, the peak age of Zhou Yixiang's 26-year-old, he left SBL, chose to participate in the CBA Draft, and joined Nanjing Tongxi at that time as a list show, it is true that in the SBL League is used as an absolute core, but when it comes to the CBA stage with more intense confrontation, Zhou Yixiang has not been able to adapt well to this role conversion, rookie season, In the 32 games that Zhou Yixiang played for Tongxi, he averaged only 3.5 points and 1.1 rebounds per game, shooting as low as 33.3%, and the three-point shooting rate reached 22.8%.
To know that at that time Tongxi can be said to be the bottom of the league's fish belly team, in such a weak brigade has not been able to get the opportunity to show, everyone is not optimistic about Zhou Yixiang's prospects in the CBA, but in the following season, Tongxi will be Zhou Yixiang to the Xinjiang men's basketball team, under the command of A's Jiang, Zhou Yixiang is also used as a 3D player, successfully found the positioning of him, and really played the best performance of the CBA in Xinjiang. He averaged 4.9 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, and his three-point shooting percentage reached a career-high 41%. However, in the following season, Beijing Shougang threw an olive branch at him, and Tongxi loaned him to Shougang, a traditional powerhouse.
Zhou Yixiang, who was able to join Shougang, also continued his previous playing style in Xinjiang, making sufficient efforts in outside projection and defensive ends, although the average score per game has declined, to 3.7 points, but the three-point shooting rate can still reach 40.3% above the level, and on the defensive end, he is also the best candidate to limit the opponent's main offensive arrow, after the end of the season, Shougang also discussed a formal buyout for Zhou Yixiang with Tongxi, and offered him a multi-year contract extension.
Zhou Yixiang, who was able to officially join Shougang, but did not have the spirit of the first season, the offensive desire was greatly reduced, the outside line also showed a cliff-like decline, last season Zhou Yixiang averaged only 2.9 points per game, and the three-point shooting rate was as low as 23.3%, due to the fact that at the end of the season, Liu Xiaoyu, Fang Shuo, and Zhang Cairen left the hotel to eat noodles without authorization, and was banned by the league, and Zhou Yixiang, who had already fallen out of the main rotation of the team at that time, simply did not participate in the team's playoffs in the following playoffs.
Zhou Yixiang, who was able to continue to stay in the team this season, should have ushered in an outbreak, and as a result, he did not think that he had played the worst performance since joining the CBA, in the first stage, Zhou Yixiang actually had occasional opportunities to play, but because of the lack of desire at the offensive end, coupled with the decline in the defensive end, Zhou Yixiang was also directly abandoned by coach Yannis in the second stage after that, and only got the opportunity to play in 2 games, even if he played at the garbage time when the victory and defeat were determined, Zhou Yixiang still failed to break his 0-point spell. Zhou Yixiang played in 7 games for Shougang this season, playing only 6.3 minutes, and the data he got was 0.6 rebounds and 0.9 assists. Officially leaving the CBA and returning to play in the Taiwan league at the age of 31 is not a bad thing for Zhou Yixiang, at least it is much better than continuing to sit on the cold bench like Shougang.