Because the level of domestic basketball is far lower than that of basketball in the United States, in the hearts of most people, players with average performance in the United States can make a name for themselves in China, Zhang Zhenlin is the best example, he averaged 5.8 points per game in the NCAA, and averaged 14.2 points per game in his first season in the CBA, shooting 49.1% from the field and 38.6% from three-point range, which is very good.
Therefore, in the CBA draft, American players have more advantages than domestic college players, but the probability of them becoming parallel players is not lower than that of domestic college players, the champion Ou Junxuan in 2020 and Wang Yixiong in 2021 are all representatives of parallel imports, the latter has been abandoned by the CBA and has switched to 3x3 basketball, and the former is not far from being abandoned by the CBA.
On March 7, 1999, Ou Junxuan was born in Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, after graduating from primary school, his height has grown to 1.70 meters, and he was sent to Dongguan Basketball School by his father to receive systematic basketball training. He only came into contact with systematic basketball training at the age of 14, and he started later than most players, but his height grew very fast, and his physical fitness was good, and he became one of the best players after a few years of regular training.
He helped the team win the U15 and U16 national championships, was voted the best player in the school twice, and in 2015, he performed well in the Dongguan basketball tournament when an American scout in the audience invited him to study in the United States, and he was awarded a half-scholarship to attend the American high school Monno School.
In high school, he was also a good performer, being named to the New Mexico High School Basketball Team three times, helping the team finish second in the state, which led him to receive a full scholarship invitation from California State University, Northridge, before graduating from high school, and successfully became a student at the school to represent the team in the NCAA.
Although his stats in college were mediocre, with his best season averaging only 4.2 points and 2.4 rebounds per game, the domestic filter for players in the United States made his CBA draft prospects very good, and before the start of the 2020 CBA draft, almost everyone decided that he was the top pick in that class, and the result was expected, and he was selected by the Shanghai Sharks with the first pick in the first round.
In his rookie season, he averaged only 5.5 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, and was exchanged to the Fujian team in the second season, and the Fujian team in the rebuilding period gave him a lot of opportunities, he averaged 9.9 points, 5 rebounds, 0.6 assists, 0.3 steals and 1.2 blocks per game in 18.8 minutes of playing time per game, and his shooting rate was 61.7%.
However, his shortcomings are too obvious, his official height is 2.06 meters, but during the trial of the Beijing Control team, his height is not as tall as the former national player Sun Yue, and there is moisture in the height of 2.06 meters, and as an inside player, he was easily knocked away by the outside player Sun Yue, which shows that his strength and confrontation are relatively poor, short height, weak strength, and poor shooting, which is very fatal for a center, especially in the CBA without a three-second zone.
His height and weight are good for playing power forward, but he doesn't have a consistent shooting ability and doesn't move fast enough to be up to the position. His technical characteristics are suitable for playing as a center forward, but his height, weight, and confrontation do not allow it, which makes him in a very awkward position.
If you want to survive on the inside of the CBA, you must either have the ability to attack independently, or you can provide good blocking quality, be able to create shooting opportunities for guards, and you can also block and score the ball after picking, both of which are not available to Au Junxuan. Don't look at his good performance in the Fujian team, in fact, his contribution on the offensive end is not as big as it seems in the statistics, and he is even more manipulated by the opponent on the defensive end, so in the second half of the season, the head coach of the Fujian team is not willing to use him.
At the end of the season, he was traded back to the Shanghai team, with almost no chance to perform, averaging only 6.4 minutes of playing time per game, averaging only 0.9 points and 1.7 rebounds per game, shooting only 33.3%, and after playing 7 games, he was exchanged for the Qingdao men's basketball team.
I thought that a change of environment would make a new start, but in the first season of joining the Qingdao team, when Yang Hansen had not been promoted to the first team, Ou Junxuan did not get many opportunities, playing an average of 11.2 minutes per game, averaging only 1.1 points and 2.6 rebounds per game, shooting only 36% from the field, and only 41.7% from the free throw line, which was a very bad performance.
This season, Yang Hansen entered the Qingdao men's basketball team, and Au Junxuan got even less time, averaging only 8.4 minutes of playing time per game, averaging 1.8 points and 2.4 rebounds per game.