The Chinese women's basketball team is preparing for the 2024 Paris Olympics qualifying tournament, and recently recruited Beijing women's basketball guard Zheng Ming into the national women's basketball training team. Zheng Ming once entered the Chinese women's basketball training squad, but this is her first time training with the Chinese women's basketball team. The guard, who was born in 2001, ushered in a new chapter in his basketball career.
Zheng Ming is a rising star of the Chinese women's basketball team, she used to be the captain of the national youth women's basketball team, and later mainly participated in the 3x3 basketball national team. In the 2023 U23 3x3 Basketball World Cup, Zheng Ming is the core of the Chinese U23 3x3 women's basketball team, and she teamed up with Hong Xinyan, Huang Yali, and Wu Mengjie to help the team win the fourth place, tying the highest ranking achieved by the Chinese team in the U23 World Cup.
It is worth mentioning that this team was expected to achieve better results, in the semi-finals, the Chinese women's team lost 15-17 to the host Poland in overtime, Zheng Ming scored 10 points, she was fouled by the opponent in overtime but was ignored by the referee. If they reach the final, the Chinese U23 women's basketball team will at least finish as runners-up, and unfortunately they are one step away from writing a new history.
Zheng Ming is a 1.78-meter-tall guard who can play both point guard and scoring guard, and her breakthrough is sharp, and she is praised by some fans as Yang Liwei's successor. Zheng Ming averaged 10.9 points, 3.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 0.9 steals per game in the Beijing women's basketball team this season.
As a young defender, she has a lot of room to grow. This time, the Chinese women's basketball team recruited 7 guards, including Yang Liwei, Yang Shuyu, Li Yuan, Wang Siyu, Jin Weina, Wu Tongtong and Zheng Ming. Obviously, Zheng Ming is unlikely to stay in the final list, but as the only 22-year-old star, she is one of the hopes for the future guard line of the Chinese women's basketball team, after all, Yang Liwei, Wang Siyu, Jin Weina and Wu Tongtong are relatively older. Yang Shuyu, Li Yuan and Zheng Ming are worth cultivating and excavating.
Zheng Ming's three-point shooting is not good enough, and it can even be said that it is a shortcoming at the moment, this season she has a three-point shooting rate of 32.2%, averaging 1.9 three-pointers per game. Zheng Ming also needs to polish her shooting skills. If Zheng Ming can improve her shooting ability, the probability of following the Chinese women's basketball team to compete in the game will increase a lot in the future.
Of course, Zheng Ming's physical fitness is outstanding and her breakthrough ability is very strong, and if she is taken to the competition, she can also be used as a surprise soldier. The talent pool of the Chinese women's basketball team is still relatively strong. In this year's WCBA League, Luo Xinqi has made great progress and is known as Li Meng's successor. Zheng Ming can be used as a dual-energy guard, and should be on par with Yang Liwei, the captain of the Chinese women's basketball team, in the future.