Tang Zihao, a slightly mysterious name, he competed in the American High School League, he was invited to enroll in a number of NCAA schools, he was known as the next Jeremy Lin, and before this name was mentioned by the American media, he was still unknown in his homeland on the other side of the ocean.
The 2019 NBA Draft came to an end, and Cain Williamson was successfully elected as the champion. In this rookie season, there are many high hopes, especially Yamura, who was selected by the Wizards in the 9th place. It is worth mentioning that before the draft, Li Nan, the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, was also very optimistic about him, saying that his physical talent was extremely high. Let's take a look at Hachimura's resume, as a mixed-race player born and raised in Japan, he naturally developed from the sports circle from an early age, until the age of 14, he showed outstanding basketball talent and muscle talent. Seeing such an experience, it is easy to think that there is also a basketball player in our country, his name is Tang Zihao. Tang Zihao and Hachimura are very similar in that they have super physical fitness and super good muscle lines, and they are also very well known in high school and have been paid attention to by fans. Today, Hachimura was selected by the NBA Wizards, who played 37 games for Gonzaga in his junior year, averaging 30.2 minutes per game and scoring 19.7 points; while Tang Zihao only averaged 2 points per game in his last season in the NCAA, such a performance could not support him to go to the NBA.
Tang Zihao's personal information
Chris Tang (born January 10, 1996 in Donghai County, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province) is a Chinese professional basketball player who plays as a defender for the CBA Shanghai Bilibili basketball team. On April 25, 2014, Tang zihao joined the University of California, Riverside and received a full scholarship from the NCAA First Class Alliance. On November 12, 2015, Tang Zihao joined the NBDL Iowa Energy team. On July 28, 2016, Shanghai Oriental Shark Club selected Tang Zihao with the ninth pick in the first round of the 2016 CBA Draft.
As a defender with a height of 1.90 meters, the 23-year-old Tang Zihao weighs 90 kilograms and has good confrontation and strength, but his technique is very general, the ability to hold the ball is not outstanding enough, and there is no particular prominence in three-point shooting and breakthroughs. And, even more embarrassingly, his position is primarily as a shooting guard, but his scoring ability is average, and his height is completely at a disadvantage to score guard. And if he plays point guard, his ability to hold the ball and divide the ball is very average, which makes his position very awkward. In the past, Tang Zihao went to the United States to study and play in high school, and that was when Jeremy Lin broke out in the NBA, and Tang Zihao was also known as the next Jeremy Lin because of the outbreak in the American high school, however, Tang Zihao has been playing in the CBA for 3 years now, but he is still the team's dragon set. With his contract expiring now, it is uncertain whether he will be able to stay with the Shanghai team. If he can stay, he may not have a good position in the Shanghai team. And if it is to leave, perhaps the team that wants to get him is also very few, after all, he has not proved himself for 3 years.
Chinese name is Tang Zihao
His foreign name is chris tang
Nationality Is Chinese
Ethnic Han Chinese
Birthplace Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province
Date of birth: 10 January 1996
Graduated from the University of California, Riverside
Height 190 cm
Weight 90 kg
Sports basketball
Belongs to the sports team Shanghai Bilibili Basketball Team
The CBA Draft was selected by Shanghai in the 9th place in the first round of 2016
Position defender
Growing up
Tang Zihao was born on January 10, 1996 in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province. In 2004, Tang Zihao's father began to cultivate his son's basketball skills. In 2006, Tang Zihao entered the Lianyungang City Gymnasium for formal basketball training. In August 2007, Tang Zihao won the first place in Nanjing with a total score of 112 points and was shortlisted for the national finals. Tang Zihao beat his opponent in the Jazz Finals to win a place to go to the United States to experience the NBA All-Star 2008. In 2008, Tang Zihao watched the NBA All-Star Game live in New Orleans, USA. During the All-Star Game, the Chinese NBA Junior Team played against the American NBA Junior Team, and Tang Zihao was given the MVP and the opportunity to go to the American Basketball School for further professional training. In April 2009, Tang Zihao returned to China to participate in the Liu Wei training camp. In May, Tang Zihao participated in the Adidas Training Camp held in Beijing.
High school career
In 2010, Mr. Tang enrolled at the Newport News Hampton Roads Academy in Newport, Virginia. In the 2010-11 season, Tang Zihao played for Newport News Hampton Road College, averaging 17 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, and was selected for the Virginia High School Star Team. In the 2011-12 season, Tang Zihao played for Newport Newth Hampton Road College, with 41 and 42 points in a single game. On September 1, 2012, Tang Zihao was selected for the 2012-13 season of Oak Hill High School, a famous basketball school in the United States. In the 2013-14 season, Tang Zihao transferred to the Spanish Basketball Academy, and in the Spanish U18 League, Tang Zihao averaged 15.5 points per game, becoming the team's top scorer, shooting 44% of three-point shots.
College Life
On April 25, 2014, the official website of NCAA Riverside announced that Tang Zihao officially joined the UC Riverside men's basketball team and represented the team in the 2014-15 NCAA League, and Tang Zihao became the first Chinese defender to join NCAA in China. In the 2014-15 season, Tang Zihao represented the University of California, Riverside, averaging 4 minutes per game and averaging 1.8 points per game.
Why was Tang Zihao abandoned
Tang Zihao was born in 1996 in Donghai County, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, his father Tang Wenzhong was an athlete, who had practiced basketball and rowing and other sports, with a height of 1 meter 90 meters, and his mother was also 1 meter 67 tall. Thanks to genetics and his parents' love of sports, Tang Zihao grew up tall and obsessed with basketball, as long as there is nBA TV broadcasting, he will not land on the field. In order to cultivate his son's basketball skills, his father began to coach Tang Zihao from the age of 8. Since 2006, Tang Zihao has entered the Lianyungang Gymnasium for formal basketball training.
As we all know, Tang Zihao now plays for the Shanghai Sharks of the CBA, and we look at his CBA data only averaging 2.1 points per game, and the highest single-game score in the CBA career so far is only a pitiful 10 points. Seeing the success of Hachimura, we also take a look at why Tang Zihao, who was also physically qualified and had muscles in his youth, was abandoned. The reason seems to be very simple, Tang Zihao, who showed talent in junior high school, went to Oak Hill High School in the United States in high school, and from then on Tang Zihao's fate began to change, he became less important, and there was no chance to play. Because Oak Hill High School is a well-known basketball school in the United States, even Tang Zihao, who is muscular, cannot have a chance to perform in this Durant alma mater. It can be said that in the end, the gap between Tang Zihao and Hachimura was getting bigger and bigger, and the two also embarked on a completely different basketball path.
Club career NBA career
On June 22, 2016, Tang Zihao became the losing draft and full free agent of the 2016 NBA Draft.
NBDL career
On November 12, 2015, the NBDL Iowa Energy announced the team's final 12-man roster, and Tang Zihao officially joined the NBA Development League (NBDL), becoming the fourth Chinese player to join the NBDL after Battle, Sun Yue and Yi Jianlian. In the 2015-16 season, Tang Zihao played in 9 games for the Iowa Energy, averaging 7.5 minutes per game and scoring 1.6 points.
CBA career
On July 28, 2016, Shanghai Oriental Shark Club selected Tang Zihao with the ninth pick in the first round of the 2016 CBA Draft. [1] On December 19, in a 94:116 away defeat to Shanxi in Shanghai, Tang Zihao played 13 minutes for Shanghai, scoring seven points, two rebounds and two assists to make his career CBA debut. In the 2016-17 season, Tang Zihao played 15 games for Shanghai, averaging 2.3 minutes per game and scoring 1 point. He was the first draft winner in the history of the CBA and the only player in that year to be selected. Fang Junlei is a cuba player, his career is very unhappy, sitting on the bench in the CBA, only played once, played 2 minutes and 1 assist. After the rookie season, he did not renew his contract with the team, but chose to retire. His career statistics are also fixed at 2 points and 1 assist. After retiring from the army, Fang Junlei went to Xinhua Bookstore to work, responsible for business development. The first CBA draft was a complete failure, but fortunately the second draft improved, with 8 players selected this year.
The second "Jeremy Lin" fell? From the peak to the trough, the former NBA teenagers are now unnoticed
Tang Zihao may be about to be abandoned by the Shanghai men's basketball team. Tang Zihao's name is not unfamiliar, in the early years of the List of potential newcomers in the Chinese basketball world, this teenager from Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, was once considered to be the hope of the rise of the men's basketball team, since he was a child in his peers to play excellent performance, in high school to play in the United States and was the core of the high school at the time, averaging 17 points per game, With 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists, he was selected for the Virginia High School Star Team, and due to the lin crazy fever created by Jeremy Lin in the United States, Tang Zihao was once considered to be the second Jeremy Lin and became famous for a while. It's just that sports have always had the law of hot must die, Tang Zihao began to slump after getting a full scholarship from the NCAA first-class league university, in the UC Riverside varsity team, Tang Zihao became the patron saint of the water dispenser, completely without the sharpness of high school, not the role that coaches are willing to trust, since then, Tang Zihao has fallen from the peak to the trough, after doing nothing in college, he naturally lost the draft in 2016, and then participated in the NBA Development League competition, which was also abandoned, The former future star fell to the point where no one wanted, so Tang Zihao, who had no way back, chose to return, and at the end of 2016, he participated in the CBA draft, was selected by the Shanghai men's basketball team, and played as such.
In fact, Tang Zihao is not a parallel goods player, from childhood to adulthood, his physical sports level and confrontation ability are the best of his peers, during the exercise in the United States, even if he can compete with other American players, even when playing in Europe, he also has an average of 15 points per game under the high-intensity confrontation, but under the premise of the body, Tang Zihao's technical talent is exaggerated, he is the kind of player who will be every but not very refined, early in the media under the praise, His weak basic functional ability was ignored, which led to his inability to execute the team tactics well in formal professional games, in the organizational ability did not meet the requirements, playing the second shot accuracy was not enough, 1.91 meters Tang Zihao completely lost his way out, in the past two years in Shanghai, in addition to the scarcity of playing time, he has not been able to cash in on the talent, he has gradually disappeared, after playing an average of 1.0 points and 1.8 points and 2.8 points per game for three seasons, Tang Zihao's abandonment has become inevitable.
Off the field
Tang Zihao's father, Tang Wenzhong, is an athlete with experience in sports such as basketball and rowing, and as long as there is NBA TELEVISION broadcasting, he will not land on the ground to watch.
Social evaluation
Tang Zihao has talent, has a good physique and speed, and is also a very hard-working, powerful point guard. With a body, speed, and a good sense of position, Tang Zihao has the potential to become a good point guard. (Then NBDL Iowa Energy head coach, Comments by Bob Dunward Jr.)
Compared with players of the same age, Tang Zihao has obvious physical advantages, especially the bounce is more prominent. In his sophomore season, he averaged more than 20 points per game. At 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m), he is 17 years old and can serve as both an organizational guard and a scoring guard. (Yahoo Review)
Tang Zihao is an excellent two-point guard, with strong 3-point projection and organizational skills. (Coach of the Canary Basketball Academy, reviewed by Rob Orilana)
The year of 2014 was a very fast progress under the tutelage of Canary Basketball Academy coach Rob Orilana. Tang Zihao's three-point shot is very accurate. (Head coach of the UC Riverside team, Katz review)
Why was Tang Zihao blown so badly that year
I don't understand too much, why tang Zihao was blown so badly, and now how can't he even enter the rotation of the CBA? If all goes well, Tang Zihao should be able to become the first Chinese defender to join the NCAA basketball team - before him, Ma Jian, Ji Xiang, Zhang Zhaoxu, Xia Chao, Shang Ping studied in NCAA Chinese, and the college basketball career can not be considered too successful. Can Tang Zihao become the first Chinese to make a name for himself in NCAA? Can you challenge the NBA with ncaa as a springboard? Become the next Jeremy Lin? In this 16-year-old, there are still many unknowable futures, let's wait and see!
With the Shanghai team officially completing the change of ownership this summer and introducing more well-funded sponsors, the Shanghai team is also expected to make a big effort this summer to transform the team lineup, and Tang Zihao, who has performed poorly, is also facing an extremely embarrassing situation after the contract expires. Since entering the CBA in the 2016-17 season, Tang Zihao has been playing for the Shanghai team. Although he has been highly optimistic in the past, and in the summer of 2017, he also represented Shanghai in the preliminary round of the National Games and became the team's scoring king, but in the CBA, Tang Zihao was unable to play a good performance. In the first two seasons, Tang Zihao's inability to play well was related to his lack of playing time, and in the first two seasons, when Liu Peng was coaching the Shanghai team, Tang Zihao's playing time averaged 2.3 minutes and 4.8 minutes per game, which also seriously limited his play.
But in the 2018 season, Li Qiuping gave Tang Zihao a lot of opportunities after coaching the Shanghai team, and as a result, he still did not prove himself. This season, Tang Zihao has rarely won 13 games to start the game, and his playing time has improved significantly compared with the past, but he still has not been able to prove himself. In the entire season, he has only reached double digits in one game, and he has only 10 points. To say that Tang Zihao's situation this season is quite favorable, as we all know, Shanghai team has been very seriously injured this season, especially the team's defender line is seriously injured, Liu Wei, Luo Xudong, Fredette and even Luo Hanchen have suffered injuries, Liu Wei and Luo Xudong have been affected by injuries for a long time to miss the game, which also allows Tang Zihao to get a lot of opportunities. However, whether it is a starter or a substitute appearance, Tang Zihao has not proved himself, even if the playing time is much more than in the past, Tang Zihao did not play a particularly outstanding performance, and for a long time, Li Qiuping did not have too many expectations for him. From the former NBA teenager to the current CBA, no one cares, where does Tang Zihao go in the future?