Zou Yang, from Tsinghua University, was selected by the Fujian team with the 5th pick in the first round of the 2023 CBA Draft. At the beginning of the draft, Chen Guohao and Zou Yang competed fiercely for the champion, and finally Chen Guohao became the champion, and Zou Yang fell to the 5th pick.
Many people are not optimistic about Zou Yang's prospects in the CBA, because he is thin and has poor confrontation ability. However, Zou Yang himself doesn't think so, he has played steadily and steadily, and so far this season, he has averaged 11.4 points, 7.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.4 steals per game, and has crushed Chen Guohao in scoring and rebounding.
In this round of the home game against Tianjin, Zou Yang, who started the game, became famous, he played 10 of 16 in 44 minutes and 54 seconds, and scored 26 points, 19 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks of all-round data, leading the team to defeat the Tianjin team with the advantage of 5 foreign aid in 4 quarters.
Zou Yang's 26+19+3+3+2 data in this game does not seem to be exaggerated, but it is rare in the history of the CBA, and he is the 11th local player to do so. Before him, Zhou Qi, Tao Hanlin, Tang Zhengdong, Butler, Mo Ke, and Zhang Kai each did it once, Wang Zhizhi did it twice, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhelin did it 3 times, and Yao Ming did it 5 times.
The most important thing is that the above players casually bring out a person who is ranked top in the history of the CBA, and most of them are centers with a height of more than 2.10 meters, while Zou Yang is only a 1.99-meter-tall striker, and at the same time, he is only a college draft, which shows the gold content of such data in this game.
In this game, the Tianjin team played 44 minutes and 29 seconds when the 2.05 meter big man had only 2 rebounds, and Tian Yu, who played 2.08 meters for 17 minutes, only had 1 rebound, and Zou Yang was able to win 19 rebounds under the siege of David James, Shi Deshuai, Tian Yu and others, which was indeed not easy.
In this game, the Fujian team led Tianjin 42-37 in rebounding, and with the guarantee of rebounding, Fujian made 16 more shots than the Tianjin team in this game, even if the shooting rate was 49.4%-54.8% lost to the opponent, but Fujian still defended the home court and won the game. Among them, Zou Yang certainly contributed a lot. Some fans even bluntly said: This child can be taken to the national team for training.
Chen Linjian, the local core of the Fujian team, only played 9 games this season and was reimbursed for the season, and in addition to Chen Linjian, Zou Yang has become the team's top scorer after 3 foreign aids. It is indeed Zou Yang's honor to be able to get the opportunity to perform in such a weak team in Fujian, but it is also inseparable from Zou Yang's own efforts to get to this point.