In fact, as early as a month ago, there were many fans of the Liaoning men's basketball team who asked me to talk about Yu Zechen, a young player who rose to prominence at the National Games. My response at the time was: Are you sure I want to write? I can't bear to write, but do you really have the heart to read it? Because to be honest, although I also think this child is good, I am really not optimistic about his development in the Liaoning men's basketball team, because the timing of his team is really too bad, and it is difficult for the Liaoning men's basketball team to have his place in the short term.
In fact, we say that Yu Zechen, a young man with a good foundation, is a 201-tall forward and swing man, with excellent running and jumping ability, good ball holding ability and long-range shooting ability. And Yu Zechen is also a full-fledged ball second generation, Yu Zechen's mother is the former Liaoning women's basketball celebrity Pei Ying. With so many big similarities, it is inevitable that Liaoning fans will compare Yu Zechen and Zhang Zhenlin together, and even put them together to talk.
But to tell the truth, Yu Zechen and Zhang Zhenlin are really not a level player, and zhang Zhenlin's upper limit is much higher than Yu Zechen's ceiling. Just to say that the physical fitness is not in a grade, Yu Zechen can only be regarded as outstanding, and Zhang Zhenlin can be said to be against the sky. Generally when looking at a player's ceiling, the static conditions and dynamic conditions of the body will account for a very large proportion, because these are not practiced, they are innate.
But even if Yu Zechen's ceiling is not as good as Zhang Zhenlin's, he is also better than many people, at least on par with Wu Changze, who was known as the Liaoqing Gemini Star with him. The two people were born in the same year, the height is about the same, compared to the physical quality, Wu Changze is better, but Yu Zechen contacted basketball earlier, whether it is ball sex or ball quotient is better than Wu Changze. Looking at the ability that Wu Changze showed last season, I believe that Yu Zechen will not be too bad.
However, Yu Zechen was injured last year and failed to be promoted to the team with Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze, and this injury is likely to be an injury that Yu Zechen regrets for life. Because last summer was the most lacking season in the Liaoning men's basketball front, Li Xiaoxu He Tianju was absent due to injury, Cong Mingchen had just come out of the injury, and the waist had not yet fully recovered, and he did not dare to exert force at all, and could only degenerate into a flanking shooter.
Therefore, Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze both started in the first game of their careers, and under the crazy feeding of the strong defender line of the Liaoning men's basketball team, the two people's scores were all in double figures, which can be said to have made a good start to their entire career. Throughout the season, both have gained a lot of playing time, and in their first playoff, even if Yang Ming changes to a small lineup, both can alternate as starters, it can be said that Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze's career starting point is very high.
If Yu Zechen was not injured last season and promoted to the first team with two people, even if he can't get the starting position, but at least he can get a lot of rotation time, and he may also play a good data, after all, the feeding ability of the Liaoning men's basketball defender line is obvious to all, and there is a center Han Dejun with strong dominance ability, which is very important for a rookie. If that's the case, at least Yu Zechen should be a potential rising star who is not inferior to Wu Changze now.
But this season, although Yu Zechen's performance at the National Games is good, it should be known that the National Games can only have four overage players, and there is no foreign aid, coupled with Wu Changze's injury, so Yu Zechen became the first round of the second and third positions, got a lot of playing time, and compared to Han Dejun, Zhou Qi, Guo Allen, Zhao Jiwei, Zhang Zhenlin and others, Yu Zechen's goal is the smallest, and the defensive pressure encountered is also the smallest.
But back in the league, although Wu Changze will miss a large number of games in the early stage due to injury, but the veteran Li Xiaoxu has returned, coupled with Fu Hao, who joined in the middle of last season, Zhang Zhenlin can be firmly fixed in the third position, basically do not need to make a cameo in the fourth position. And Cong Mingchen, who has been recuperating for a summer, seems to have completely healed his waist injury, the center of gravity can also be lowered, and he dares to make a move when he breaks through, and it seems to be back to the state he was in when he first debuted.
Fans who have only watched the ball in the past two years may not know, and even many old fans have forgotten the state of Cong Mingchen when he first debuted, he is even more eye-catching than Yu Zechen at this National Games. 199 height, running and jumping ability is outstanding, cosmopolitan shooting ability is very strong, the ability to hold the ball is also good, as a Heilongjiang person, squeezed out the original marshal born and raised in Liaoning, his ability can be imagined. At that time, Cong Mingchen, who was also a shooter, squeezed out the capital of the original coach, which was a good ability to hold the ball and defend.
In 2016, Cong Mingchen only used 18 games to attract du Feng's attention and directly recruited Cong Mingchen to the national training team. But then a series of injuries, especially the one in 2019, was a low-back fracture that led to Cong Mingchen's degeneration from an all-powerful forward swinger to a fixed-point pitcher. Whether it is running or dribbling, all of them are straight, and the center of gravity cannot be lowered at all. Anyone who has played the ball knows that there are many actions you can't do without lowering your center of gravity.
But this season's Cong Mingchen has become the forward guard swinger who can suddenly shoot and defend the ball, and Yu Zechen is completely in line with Cong Mingchen in terms of position and technical characteristics. This season, although Cong Mingchen has not served as a starter, his playing time is far more than that of Zhou Juncheng, who has played six starts, because of the characteristics of playing both two and three, he has become Yang Ming's most trusted substitute, the first round of the second and third positions.
Coupled with the characteristics of the Liaoning men's basketball team, it often poses a double-guard formation, and the time to play a large lineup is not too much, so the time that really needs the regular second position may be more than ten or twenty minutes, and it has all been occupied by Cong Mingchen. When playing the small lineup, zhang Zhenlin and Cong Mingchen also occupied the first two places in the rotation in the third position. As a result, Yu Zechen had very little time on the court, and even did not break the scoring drought until the fifth round of the league, and so far the three-point shot has not been opened.
And today, the small foreign aid Fogg has reached Zhuji, and when Fogg's body can reach the standard of playing, it is bound to occupy a very main position in the main rotation, and even Cong Mingchen's playing time will be compressed, not to mention that the rotation order is still Yu Zechen after Cong Mingchen. If in the second half of the season, after the return of Liu Zhixuan and Wu Changze, Liu Zhixuan himself is also a swing man in the front guard, and Wu Changze is a swing man in the third and fourth positions. Their rotation order will be ranked before Yu Zechen.
And this situation will continue for several years, Wu Changze and Yu Zechen in the same year, both in 2000, Zhang Zhenlin was only one year older than them in 1999, and cong Mingchen, the oldest in 95 years, was only 26 years old. You know, behind them, there is still Sun Xiangxiang in the United States, Sun Xiangxiang, like Cong Mingchen and Yu Zechen, is a front guard swinger who is about two meters tall. The most important thing is that Sun Xiangxiang's current full expenses of playing in the United States, and even part of the living expenses are from the Liaoning team, if you can't impact the NBA, it is ironclad to return.
There are Cong Mingchen in the front, Sun Xiangxiang in the back, and there are two Zhang Zhenlin and Wu Changze of the same age around, and these two have more explosive physical talents than Yu Zechen, and they can serve as the fourth position, Yu Zechen is destined to be difficult to get out, so many years later we will look at Yu Zechen's injuries last summer, which really makes Yu Zechen miss the best time to grow. Perhaps the best way for Yu Zechen to get out of the way is to leave the Liaoning team like Gao Shiyan.
In fact, there would have been a chance this summer, before the final stage of the National Games. The Shandong men's basketball team once found the Liaoning men's basketball team and talked about the trade between Gao Shiyan and Zhu Rongzhen. Because at that time, Shandong men's basketball team Ding Yanyuhang and Liu Guancen had not yet decided to return, so Gong Xiaobin wanted to exchange Zhu Rongzhen and other chips for Gao Shiyan and Yu Zechen, and the Liaoning team also had such an intention. But then a series of changes, the deal was also shelved.
This is Yu Zechen's current situation in the Liaoning men's basketball team, to be honest, I also think this young man is good, but it is too bad to have a chance to get ahead. That's why I said to the Liaoning fan: Do you really want me to talk about Yu Zechen? I can't bear to talk, can you bear to listen?