Recently, the news that Zhang Zhenlin wants to join the Liaoning men's basketball team has attracted the attention of the majority of fans, and it is also reminiscent of Tang Zihao, who once played in the NCAA in the United States and was known as the "Jeremy Lin's successor" with his outstanding performance, but the fans have not seen Tang Zihao on the court for a long time, and the former Chinese basketball genius is now very bleak.
Born in 1996, Tang Zihao, began to play basketball at the age of 8, in 2008 represented the Chinese NBA Junior Team and played against the American NBA Junior Team, won the MVP and went to the American Basketball School for further professional training opportunities, in 2010, Tang Zihao joined Iverson's former alma mater, Newport New spton Road College in Virginia, to participate in the Auu League High School League. Rookie season with an average of 17 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game to become the team's main defender, the following year is to blast out two games of 41 points and 42 points of the data, high school transfer to join Anthony and Durant's alma mater, with the "basketball star factory" known as Oak Hill High School, three years of excellent performance in high school, so that Tang Zihao attracted the attention of the American basketball world and Chinese fans, known as Chinese basketball genius and Jeremy Lin's successor.
In 2014, Tang Zihao joined the University of California, Riverside at NCAA on a full scholarship, becoming the first Chinese defender in China to join NCAA, but Tang Zihao did not get too many opportunities to play, averaging 4 minutes per game and scoring only 1.8 points.
In 2015, Tang Zihao joined the NBA Development League NBDL Iowa Energy Team, played 9 games for the Iowa Energy Team, averaged 7.5 minutes per game, scored 1.6 points, and participated in the 2016 NBA Draft, but ultimately lost.
Then Tang Zihao participated in the CBA draft, was selected by the Shanghai team in the ninth round of the first round, joined the Shanghai team Tang Zihao appeared obviously unsatisfied, the American training he received from childhood made him unable to adapt to the rhythm of the Shanghai team, in the 2016-17 season, Tang Zihao only represented Shanghai in 15 games, averaging 2.3 minutes per game, scoring 1 point, to the 2018-19 season, Tang Zihao represented 39 games, started 13 games, averaged 7.9 minutes per game, shooting 36%, With a three-point shooting rate of 16.6%, averaging 2.1 points, 1.2 rebounds, and 0.5 per game, who would have thought that this was already the peak season of Tang Zihao's CBA career.
In the 2019-20 season, Tang Zihao was loaned by the Shanghai team to the NBL Hunan Changsha Yongsheng Jin Jian Rice Club, leaving the CBA, Tang Zihao is 24 years old this year, the technology is far from the intensity of the CBA game, but there is still room for improvement at this age, I hope Tang Zihao will train hard, strive to return to the CBA, do not become injured Zhongyong, and everyone is lost.