Although the second phase of the CBA league has not yet started, fans who follow youth training know that the national U19 and national U17 leagues have taken the lead in fighting, and the traditional youth giants Guangdong Hongyuan has also sent main players to participate in the U17 league, and several high-profile young stars Zhang Huafei, Yang Yi, Zhao Baole, Li Yizhen and Wu Yuanji have the opportunity to play. In a U17 opener that ended not long ago, Guangdong Hongyuan won 101-56 against Dezhou Didong through the fourth quarter, and won the opener! In terms of statistics, mixed forward Zhang Huafei, known as the strongest talent in Hongyuan's youth training, scored 16 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals in just 20 minutes, Zhao Baole 13 points and 4 assists, Li Yizhen 13 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, and Yang Yi 5 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists.
Many fans may not understand very well, in the U19 competition, the players sent by Hongyuan are not their own youth training members except Huang Mingyi, where did their real youth training main force go? In fact, the players of Hongyuan's current second team are basically 05 or 06 or even 07 level, most of them are not enough to meet the age threshold of U19, so Zhu Fangyu decided to let the youth training main team participate in the U17 competition, U19 only sent Huang Mingyi, and the rest of the team members were replaced by other non-Hongyuan youth members. Therefore, in this U17 competition, Hongyuan Youth Training has devoted its main efforts, and we can well investigate the level of Hongyuan Youth Training at this stage. In the first game, Hongyuan's victory over Dezhou Didong is actually not very good to see the problem, because the opponent's strength is weak, Hongyuan's side can only rely on the full court pressing and conversion counterattack to defeat the opponent, and the players' basic skills and projection are difficult to reflect. However, Hongyuan's next opponent is the championship-winning Qingdao men's basketball team, led by the recently famous Yang Hansen, and this match is the pinnacle of the U17 showdown.
In terms of game performance, Chang Huafei, who scored 16 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals in only 20 minutes, performed in the only way in the game, and he showed us the characteristics and performance that we should play as a mixed-race player: a strong body, strong defensive awareness, excellent ball combination and all-round offensive and defensive quality. Hua Fei played this data as a shooting guard, with his height of 1.96 meters and 2.06 meters of arm span, even playing small forward is more than enough, and the scoring position can better reflect his advantages. We can see that he can do everything on the court, and this side uses his excellent defensive awareness long arm to gently break off the opponent's ball, turn his head and carry a big stride directly to the three-point line to complete the layup, and the next round he holds the ball and enters the inside to complete a wonderful dunk. Many fans say that Changhua is not completely a bankrupt version of Marchand, except that the pace is indeed much worse, and the physical condition and playing characteristics are very similar.
After Zhu Fangyu took office, he carried out vigorous reform and adjustment of Hongyuan Youth Training, in addition to expanding the scope of materials, he focused more on polishing the basic skills of young players. We can see that a player with explosive physical qualities like Changhuafei still has to practice the basic skills of projection and ball holding more in Hongyuan, and he has not been letting him crush and play with his body because Changhuafei is not physically strong. Zhu Fangyu knows that when going to a higher stage, solid basic skills and excellent skills are the decisive elements of a player's ceiling, and this aspect really has to be praised for Zhu Fangyu!