In the morning, I saw such a message: the Shanghai men's basketball team officially announced that it would loan player Tang Zihao to the NBL League Hunan Changsha Yongsheng Team to compete in the 2020 league.
When the NBL season is over, he will return to Shanghai.
Tang Zihao, a familiar and unfamiliar name.
Seeing this news, brother first went to check his data for this season, and the result was very glaring: 0 appearances in the season.
Last season, he averaged 8 minutes per game and contributed 2.1 points and 1.2 rebounds, which is already a new CBA career high.
Remember a few years ago, he was the number one person who was blown to the sky by the major media!
"Next Jeremy Lin", "The next Chinese guard to enter the NBA", "Durant's brother", "The answer to the Chinese men's basketball guard online"...
And now it seems that the higher you hold it, the more miserable it falls! Today's Tang Zihao, let people sigh!
Tang Zihao, born in 1996, began to contact basketball at the age of 8.
In 2007, basketball teenager Tang Zihao took a solid step in his basketball path, and that year he represented China in the Amway Junior NBA game in the United States and won the MVP of that game.
But unlike most athletes in China, he did not choose traditional Chinese training, from youth teams to careers, but went to the United States to study and receive American basketball education.
In 2010, he entered Newport Newth Hampton Road College in Virginia to compete in the high school league. This school has a lot of success, and has produced NBA superstars such as Iverson and Mourning.
In the rookie season, he became the team's main defender, averaging 17 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game.
In his sophomore year of high school, he had twice played 40+ in 10 days! Since then, there has been the title of Jeremy Lin's successor.
Since then, Tang Zihao has aroused widespread concern and heated discussion among fans.
In his junior year of high school, he transferred to the first place in the United States: Oak Hill High School. This is Durant and Anthony's alma mater, a high school known as the "Basketball Star Factory.".
As a result, during that school year, he could only sit on the bench for most of the time, averaging 2.9 points per game. At the end of the season, he chose to transfer again...
Although I experienced twists and turns in high school, I have shown my talent in many performances. Therefore, many NCAA schools have thrown an olive branch at him.
In 2014, 18-year-old talented teenager Tang Zihao officially joined the University of California, Riverside, becoming the first Ever Chinese defender to land in the NCAA First Division with a full scholarship.
In his freshman season, his growth did not meet expectations at all, and he only played for the team in a total of 10 games, averaging 1.4 points per game, and playing very little time...
Although Riverside is a tier 1 team in the NCAA, the overall strength is not outstanding. When you can't stand out at this level of colleges and universities, it only means that your skills are inferior.
In 2015, Tang Zihao also entered the national Olympic team, but he never gained a foothold.
That being the case, it's okay to play the CBA, right? Not necessarily.
At the beginning, the Shanghai men's basketball team had reached a 3-year agreement with him, but the basketball association believed that he had to pass the draft to enter the CBA, and Tang Zihao had no professional league experience and did not meet the draft requirements.
So, he joined the Iowa Energy team of the NBA Development League, and the team was headed by former Chinese men's basketball coach Deng Huade.
After having the experience of the professional league, in 2016, tang Zihao, who struggled to get the ninth pick, was selected by the Shanghai Sharks at the time to officially compete in the CBA...
Then, there is no then. In the CBA, he sat on the bench.
First of all, the core defender of the Shanghai men's basketball team for many years is Liu Wei, and there are players such as Luo Xudong and Luo Hanchen, and there is no shortage of people on the guard line.
But the most important point is that Tang Zihao's shortcomings in technology are too obvious. Although he is known as a dual-powered defender, he lacks organizational skills when playing point guard.
And if he plays the score guard, his score is mainly a breakthrough, and the shortcomings in the body and shooting are infinitely magnified, so he can't mix in the CBA.
In this season, not to mention, although the Shanghai men's basketball team has average results, it has invested a lot of money and introduced a number of domestic good players.
Therefore, Tang Zihao's position is even more embarrassing, and it is reasonable to be loaned.
Looking at his basketball experience, the gap is too big!
From the rumored ability to play the NBA, to the only way to go to the NBL; from Jeremy Lin's successor, to Tang Zihao, who has no ball to play.
But Di Ge still hopes that Tang Zihao can try to prove himself, he is only 23 years old, and there are still many possibilities in the future.
Don't be the next one, just be a better version of yourself!