Since Zhou Qi withdrew from the NBA, the NBA has not been able to see Chinese players for several years. However, this situation is expected to be broken this year. According to the previous media news, China's 4 young players Zeng Fanbo, Zhang Zhenlin, Yu Jiahao, Guo Haowen have planned to go to the United States to train in the NBA, of which Zeng Fanbo, Yu Jiahao, Guo Haowen, three players have been granted the right to participate in this year's NBA draft.
Among these 4 people, the most popular is undoubtedly Zhang Zhenlin. Zhang Zhenlin has the physical quality of not losing CBA foreign aid, and can often see him staging a dunk in the game again, last year he won the CBA All-Star Dunk Contest championship, and this year he helped the Liaoning men's basketball team win the championship. Because of this, many fans believe that Zhang Zhenlin should not waste his talent in the CBA, he should go to the NBA to break through. But can Zhang Zhenlin really gain a foothold in the NBA, not long ago an NBA scouting report was accidentally exposed. The report pointed out that although Zhang Zhenlin has excellent physical fitness, his defensive ability is average, his independent offensive ability is limited, the three-point shooting is also very unstable, and he is 23 years old, which together almost locks his NBA path.
As for Yu Jiahao and Guo Haowen, both players also have very fatal flaws. As a tall center of 2.21 meters, Yu Jiahao's athleticism is not outstanding, and his three-point shooting ability is almost non-existent, which is incompatible with the NBA in today's small-ball era. Guo Haowen's body is very thin, with a height of 2.01 meters, and his weight is only 91 kilograms. In this year's playoffs, it can also be seen that Guo Haowen's physical confrontation ability is very weak, and it will be more difficult to gain a foothold in the NBA. In addition, Guo Haowen, as a forward guard swingman, his long-range shooting ability is very poor, and almost all of his scores come from breakthroughs, which also directly restricts his NBA development path.
In fact, among these 4 players, the most likely to enter the NBA is Zeng Fanbo. Like Zhang Zhenlin, Zeng Fanbo also has the experience of playing in the United States. In 2017, Zeng Fanbo went to Play at Windermere High School in the United States through Beijing Shougang's Eagle Program and became a core player of the varsity team, helping the team to win the second place in the Florida regional competition. Due to his outstanding performance in high school, Zeng Fanbo ranked 73rd in the national high school student ranking and 8th in Florida. However, last year, Zeng Fanbo gave up joining the NCAA Gonzaga University and instead chose to go to the NBA Development League.
The 19-year-old Zeng Fanbo has now grown to 2.11 meters tall, and it is not excluded that there is a possibility of continuing to grow tall in the future. As an inside player, Zeng Fanbo has excellent explosiveness and bouncing ability, good ball holding ability, and his ability to assist in defense is also remarkable. Players like Zeng Fanbo are currently scarce in the NBA. In the previous mock draft, Zeng Fanbo ranked 33rd, and it should be known that Zhou Qi's draft pick was only 43rd, and Wang Zhelin was selected in the 57th pick, which shows that everyone's expectations for Zeng Fanbo are very high.
Not long ago, a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily exposed Zeng Fanbo's NBA scouting report. The report shows that if Zeng Fanbo is in the right direction, then he will become a qualified NBA player, and Zeng Fanbo is likely to be selected in the second round of the draft. This scouting report is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for fans, and after so many years of anticipation, there is finally a player who may be based in the NBA. Of course, the scouting report also pointed out Zeng Fanbo's shortcomings, he still has shortcomings in body, confrontation, offensive choice, basketball and almost all, and needs to be further improved. Finally, I hope that Zeng Fanbo can work hard to improve these shortcomings during the special training in the United States and strive to enter the NBA.