In the league's local player scoring list, Zhang Fan, a defender from The North Control Team, ranked 7th with an average of 19.1 points per game, and is the only point guard among the top seven players. His score is even higher than that of Wu Qian and Zhao Yanhao in the same position!
Compared with Guo Allen, Hu Jinqiu, and Abdul Salam, Zhang Fan has always been the most talented one, and even in the first few seasons of his career, he could not even play the ball, and has always been a role at the end of the bench. However, after several years of growth, Zhang Fan has now become one of the best scorers in the league, and has also become the absolute core of the North Control team now!
Zhang Fan is a player trained by the Bayi youth training system, but the starting point of his career is indeed the Guangzhou men's basketball team, the 2015-16 season is his first time to step on the CBA field, in the Three Years of Guangzhou Team, Zhang Fan is basically a relatively marginal player, adding up to only 40 games, and the average score per game has not exceeded 3 points. As the saying goes, people move the tree to die, so in the 2018-19 season, Zhang Fan chose to leave Guangzhou to join the Beijing Control men's basketball team, and now it seems that this choice has changed his career.
After coming to the North Control team, Zhang Fan not only played the ball, but also improved year by year, and in the 2021-22 season, especially when there was no foreign aid, he became the absolute offensive core of the team, averaging 19.1 points and 4.8 assists per game, and was able to shoot 3.2 three-pointers with a 39% shooting rate in each game, becoming the top second player in the league. Zhang Fan's growth, in addition to his own efforts, head coach Marbury also has a very big credit, just take his training of defender players, it is really very good, whether it is Fang Shuo, He Xining, who has worked with him before, or zhang Fan and Liao Sanning, they have made great progress in playing around Marbury, which is very worthy of recognition.
In 7 years, Zhang Fan staged a perfect version of the counterattack, explaining how a player with mediocre talent can become the absolute core of the team by relying on his own step by step. Talent is important, but only talent without effort is absolutely not OK, I have seen how many examples of young people who became famous for their talent and ended up with no ball to play. Therefore, the emergence of Zhang Fan has also given many basketball dreamers a good example, how important it is to work hard!