On February 19, Beijing time, Beijing Shougang officially announced that after friendly negotiations between the two sides, the employment contract between the club and Zhou Yixiang has been officially terminated, and the latter will also officially leave the CBA and return to the Taiwan League to join Pelague's Kaohsiung Steelman Club. In fact, not long ago, there was news that Zhou Yixiang would accept the Chinese Taipei men's basketball team's call-up and play in the World Preliminary Tournament from February 25 to 28, just when everyone was beginning to worry that he might not be able to catch up with the second stage of the game, who had thought that Zhou Yixiang would "never return" and completely left the CBA stage.
As the two MVP winners of SBL, Zhou Yixiang also has the reputation of "treasure island LeBron", in 17 years Zhou Yixiang officially left SBL and brought talent to the CBA stage, but because the CBA official for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan players to participate in the CBA has been correspondingly reformed, must participate in the CBA draft to be able to enter the CBA, Zhou Yixiang also directly participated in the draft, and was taken off by the Tongxi men's basketball team as a leader show. However, in the Taiwan league has been accustomed to the core playing style of one ball in hand, this time suddenly joined a strange stage with more intense competition intensity, which also made Zhou Yixiang encounter the dilemma of water and soil.
The first season played in the Tongxi period, Zhou Yixiang averaged only 3.5 points per game, the three-point shooting rate was as low as 22.8%, completely mismatched with his own status, and then Tongxi loaned him to the Xinjiang men's basketball team in the next season, and it was in this traditional team that Zhou Yixiang found the right positioning, that is, to lower his stature and become an auxiliary 3D role, and Zhou Yixiang, who successfully transformed, also became the main rotation of the team in the Xinjiang team. He averaged a career-high 4.9 points per game and improved his three-point shooting percentage to 41 percent.
Sacked in Xinjiang successfully played a price, Zhou Yixiang was also favored by Beijing Shougang, Tongxi also loaned him to Shougang after that, the first season Zhou Yixiang also maintained the same skill as Xinjiang, with a good play, the result was able to officially buy out with Tongxi last season, and signed a multi-year plural contract with Shougang, Zhou Yixiang also began to slack up, the offensive aggression was greatly reduced, the first time to receive the ball was not as decisive as before to choose to attack, but no matter who there was no one, the ball would be passed out. Coupled with the decline in the threat of the defensive end, after Yannis returned to shougang manager, he also gradually fell out of the team's main rotation list.
This season, Zhou Yixiang failed to grasp the opportunity to show in the first stage, and was completely abandoned by Yannis after the end of the second stage, he only played 7 games for Shougang in total, playing as low as 6.3 minutes, not a point, and even 0.6 rebounds and 0.9 assists are more than his average score per game, which is really lamentable. And this time leaving the team to return to play in the Taiwan league, for the 31-year-old Zhou Yixiang who was in the year of playing is not a bad thing, just like Wu Yongsheng, who sat on the cold bench in Xinjiang last season, after returning to the Taiwan league this season and joining the treasure island dreamers of the pleague, he also successfully found himself and played a good performance, and it is difficult to ensure that Zhou Yixiang, who was already in the Taiwan league before, can usher in the spring after returning to his hometown.