On April 29, Beijing time, the Chinese Basketball Association announced the list of short-term training camps for the national men's basketball team, 12 young players will participate in this training camp, and the Chinese men's basketball coach Djordjevic will personally preside over the training camp, and will lead the team to play two warm-up games with the Macau Black Bears, inspect these young players, 18-year-old Zhao Weilun is among them. This is Zhao Weilun's first time entering the senior national team training camp, and perhaps this will be the beginning of his competition for the Chinese men's basketball team.
List of 12 Chinese men's basketball short-term training camps: Jiao Boqiao, Liao Sanning, Chen Guohao, Wang Lanyan, Lin Wei, Duan Angjun, Zhao Jiayi, Yang Hansen, Wang Haoran, Zou Yang, Li Xinyi, Zhao Weilun.
The two players who stayed in the United States, Li Xinyi and Zhao Weilun, are undoubtedly the focus, especially the talented Zhao Weilun. In last year's U19 Men's Basketball World Cup, Zhao Weilun had an eye-catching performance, but unfortunately the coach of the national youth men's basketball team at that time did not let Zhao Weilun start, and only in the last few games did Zhao Weilun be pushed to the starting position, just because the original starting point guard was indeed sluggish.
Zhao Weilun has played in Italy since he was a child, and he is a Serie A Varese academy graduate, and has performed well in Serie A junior level competitions, as well as in the Italian B2 League. Zhao played a number of games in April and performed very well, including on April 22, Zhao led Varese to a 90-85 victory over Arezzo in the Italian B2 League, where he played 28 minutes, shooting 10-of-14, 7-of-10 from three-point range and 9-of-11 from the free-throw line, finishing with 36 points and 8 assists.
Zhao Weilun is 1.85 meters tall, and among the point guard players, he is not tall, but he has superb ball skills and accurate three-point shooting, and he is a point guard that the Chinese men's basketball team needs very much. The Chinese men's basketball team lacks high-quality point guards all year round, and in the World Series, it is often difficult for point guards to dribble past half the court when they encounter the opponent's pressing.
Even Zhao Jiwei, the current main point guard of the Chinese men's basketball team, was widely questioned in a series of games last year. Obviously, the Chinese men's basketball team needs to vigorously tap young point guards. The rise of Zhao Weilun has given hope to the Chinese men's basketball team.
Djordjevic explained the purpose of the short-term training camp, saying: "The purpose is to assess the level of selected players and the desire to play for the national team more intuitively on the premise of paying attention to the performance of all players, and to expand the range of young players worthy of consideration. ”
In other words, these young players have entered the scope of Qiao Shuai's inspection, and he may draw people from these young players to join the final Chinese men's basketball team full lineup training.
In the last few days of the training camp, Qiao Shuai will lead the team to compete with the Macau Black Bears. The Macau Black Bears have 6-8 foreign players, and the Macau Black Bears won the championship at the Asian Tour in Foshan, Guangdong. It is worth mentioning that Wade's eldest son, Zaire, is in the Macau Black Bears. He made one appearance in Foshan, Guangdong, and scored 2 points, which is equivalent to lying on the crown.
The Chinese men's basketball team's short-term training team will play against the Macau Black Bears, which means that Zhao Weilun may have to go toe-to-toe with Wade's eldest son, Zaire.