Withdrew from the draft for 2 consecutive years! With a height of 2.24 meters, he really can't be the second Yao Ming

On June 1, Beijing time, Chinese center Zhou Zhihao officially announced his withdrawal from this year's draft.

This is the second year in a row that he has announced his withdrawal, and the reason is almost the same: the draft is not good.

As the NCAA's most dominant star center, Zhou Zhihao averaged 22.3 points and 12.9 rebounds per game this season.

But in the mock draft list, he was considered by many media to have no chance of being selected.

Zhou Zhihao, born in 2002, is currently 21 years old, English name Zach Edey, nationality Canadian.

He has a Chinese name because his grandfather came from China, but for various reasons, he later chose to immigrate.

Zhou Zhihao is 2.24 meters tall, has an arm span of 2.31 meters and a weight of 129 kilograms.

In high school, he played for IMG Academy, a top school, and was named a three-star player.

Because of his unique body advantage, after graduation, Zhou Zhihao won a full scholarship to Purdue University and successfully stepped into the NCAA.

In his freshman season, Zhou played in 28 games as a freshman, only two of which were starters.

It is only in the last two years that he has gradually established himself as the main player of the team and has gradually become famous.

In addition to his impressive average per game, Zhou is also the NCAA Player of the Year and Center of the Year winner.

The soft finish feel, coupled with the powerful protective frame, makes many people like to compare him to Yao Ming.

But it turns out that Yao Ming is Yao Ming, Zhou Zhihao is Zhou Zhihao, these two players, are not at the same level at all.

Yao's advantage is that he is not only tall, but also very flexible and fluent.

On the other hand, Zhou Zhihao's horizontal footsteps are slow, basically unable to prevent blocking and demolishing, and moving gives people a feeling of slow swallowing.

If it was twenty or thirty years ago, maybe you could rely on the height advantage to mix the end of the first round, or the second round.

But unfortunately, it is now in the small-ball era, and the status of traditional centers is not as good as before.

A center like Zhou Zhihao, unless he can practice accurate three-pointers, it is basically impossible to stand in the NBA...