On July 6, after a long flight to Guangzhou after a long flight to the Olympic games, coach Du Feng said in an interview that Jiang Weize, Zeng Fanri and Tao Hanlin would enter the national team to prepare for the final stage of the Asian Cup starting next month. Shandong men's basketball team's "little shark" Tao Hanlin, as an inside lineman, has the ability to fight hard battles that is not inferior to Zhou Qi, and now he has finally entered the national team, and it is also Du Feng who redeems the previous selection mistakes.
Tao Hanlin, who has just spent his 30th birthday, has a height of 2 meters 09, he plays very tough on the inside line as a center, with a tall and strong figure and flexible steps, he often kills to the basket to stage violent dunks, his back under the basket is also very impactful, in recent seasons, he has gradually developed the technology of mid-range shooting and face frame hookers, and both ends of the attack and defense have shown a tough style and full of hard work, so it is called "little shark" by fans.
Born in a sports family, Tao Hanlin has had excellent physical conditions since childhood, and at the beginning Tao Hanlin practiced swimming, which also fully exercised his upper limb strength. When he graduated from junior high school, Tao Hanlin's height was more than 2 meters, becoming the "fragrant food" in the eyes of many high school basketball coaches. In 2006, Tao Hanlin joined the Shandong youth team, he especially loves dunks, if he can complete the dunk can also create fouls on the other side, this is his most exciting moment. In order to be able to fly under the basket, Tao Hanlin lost 60 pounds of weight through training and running. In the National Youth League, he showed his domineering and powerful with repeated opportunities to wreak havoc on the basket, and began to call out the nickname "Little Shark".
In 2009, Tao Hanlin entered the Shandong men's basketball team as desired and began to compete in the CBA League. Although he only had 3.9 points and 3.2 rebounds in his CBA debut season, in the following years, Tao Hanlin gradually played his own name after hard work. In the 2015-16 season, Tao Hanlin played in 41 games for Shandong, averaging 29.2 minutes per game, with 14.3 points and 7 rebounds. Tao Hanlin has since become the main scorer of Shandong team, averaging more than 10 points per game in the past 7 seasons.
Especially last season, Tao Hanlin, who was instructed by Gong Xiaobin, suddenly opened up, and has greatly improved both offensively and defensively, from the previous "mangy man" under the basket to a "tough guy". Last season, Tao Hanlin played in 57 games for Shandong, averaging 15.3 points, 9.4 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.8 steals and 1.2 blocks per game. In all four playoff games, he averaged 19.8 points, 11.3 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 1 assist in four playoff games, shooting 56 percent from the field and 90 percent from the free throws.
In the playoffs against Xinjiang, facing Zhou Qi and Motai, two major centers, he played 9 of 13 to get 20 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block, helping the team eliminate Xinjiang 105-101. Zhou Qi only got 16 points and 10 rebounds, and only 6 of 19 shots, scoring efficiency is very low.
In the playoffs against the Guangdong team led by Du Feng, Tao Hanlin showed the ability to fight a hard battle. In the first leg, 99-117 lost to Guangdong, Tao Hanlin cut 23 points, 11 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks, including 5 offensive rebounds, Du Feng had to use fouls to prevent Tao Hanlin's score, but Tao Hanlin's free throw shooting rate in 13 free throws and 11 was also very eye-catching. In the second leg, 112-118 was defeated by Guangdong, Tao Hanlin shot 8 of 13 and 4 of 4 free throws to cut 20 points, 13 rebounds and 1 block, which surprised Du Feng in a cold sweat.
Tao Hanlin has been selected for the national team since 2014, and has been selected many times since then, and has also been selected for the national men's basketball training blue team commanded by Du Feng, and has a good performance. This time the Chinese men's basketball team went to the Asian Cup qualifiers and the Olympic Games, because Zhou Qi's eye needed surgery, and there was a shortage of people in the national team, but Du Feng did not make up for Tao Hanlin, who was quite loud, but recruited the rookie Wang Shaojie. As a result, Wang Shaojie's physical confrontation ability was seriously insufficient, and he was the second-to-last in the plus-minus value of the whole team, and only scored 1 point in the two games of the Olympic games. Therefore, Wang Shaojie's departure from the national team is also expected by fans.
Compared with Wang Shaojie, Tao Hanlin's confrontation ability is stronger, the basket finishing ability is more outstanding, the experience is more abundant, and the stability of the free throw is also higher, and the attitude of the court is more professional, even compared with Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi, Wang Zhelin and other first-class centers, he is not to let go, this time the selection is also expected. Hopefully, "Little Sharks" can prove themselves in the Asian Cup!