When the 8th rank of the draft in 2020 entered CBA, the league official had a scout report of Zhang Ning, which was: Excellent physical confrontation, good ability to hold the ball and attack, and good competition temperament, he is a key gentleman with a big heart, and all kinds of competitions in the past have proved his characteristic of being strong.
But at the same time, the scout report summarizes his shortcomings: first, the stability of shooting is not high; Second, it occupies too much ball power; Third, it starts quickly; Fourth, it relies too much on the right hand, the left hand has weak breakthrough ability.
Once Xu Haoqing Wudaokou, he became Taihang west from now on. So two years later, compared with the past, what changes have Zhang Ning made? Has his fighting capacity been enough to support his discussion on entering the national team list?
Continuously progressive ball-holding attacker
He scored 27 points to destroy Liaoning, and a basket attack in overtime beat Carl Fogg to 6 criminals to leave the game. Zhang Ning played a phenomenal performance in the first five battles of this season. Starting from Yang xuexeng’s guiding change, Zhang Ning was promoted into the starting line-up, Shanxi took down four consecutive wins and once climbed to the second place in the league. Zhang Ning in CUBA was a very good frontend, with good temperament and heart. Zhang Ning is very good at scoring,
The ball-holding attack was the biggest characteristic of Zhang Ning. In his sophomore year, he scored 21 points against Tsinghua University in the national semi-final, and in 2018, CUBA final scored 30 points on the head of Central South University, in 2019, he won 27 points in the semi-final victory over Xiamen University, and played Tsinghua in the final, which was the highest 23 points for the whole team. He averaged 16.7 points in the Universiade.
However, the feature that Zhang Ning relied too much on the attack of holding the ball was also the most worrying thing for fans in those years. When he couldn’t get the ball right in CBA, could he still stand by losing this feature?
Looking back at Zhang Ning’s matches in the past two years, his football style is still very fierce, but at the same time he also has obvious college basketball color. This is how he handled these rounds:
High difficulty back
Turn around hard and lean back
Turn around and force your hand
If there is no chance to break through, you can only stop the ball and make mistakes.
Jump assists in the crowd
Fast attack strength also avoids defenders
It can be found that compared with the past, Zhang Ning’s attack style of holding the ball has not changed much. No matter whether he scored or not, what Zhang Ning showed in these rounds was still a university-style superstar playing with the ball, not completely reasonable way of dealing with the ball and using the body will often make his game fall into polarization. If he plays smoothly, he is a bandit on the bench. If he gets stuck, he will be a little poisonous.
When entering the alliance, a very important problem of Zhang Ning was the imbalance between the left and right hands. The breakthrough on the strong side of the right hand was very powerful, but the breakthrough on the weak side of the left hand was often soft when the attack was completed.
The left hand broke through, but it had to be replaced with the right hand to end the attack, so it was sealed
On the right side, it is much smoother to fight against it.
In the early days, Zhang Ning’s weak side attack was not very good, and his confidence was not enough. Two years later, he improved in these aspects, and his ability to break through on the left was improved. Against Liaoning, his first two scores were all from the left side breakthrough (but these two goals were replaced by their right hands to end).
The bottom line of the left hand holding the ball is strong, change the right hand to cross the bridge and put on the basket
In essence, it is still the right hand to complete the attack.
Of course, Shanxi’s tactical changes also have an impact on Zhang Ning’s breakthrough and end efficiency. Comparing his scores in rookie year and this year carefully, the same right hand is strong, but due to the difference between the position of cover and internal defense, the final end difficulty is completely different.
Rookie season: it is more of a person’s hardness to many people, often facing internal defense.
Rookie year: people on the left, one-to-many hard
Rookie Year: Breakthrough on the right hand
Rookie Year: still a hard one-to-many
This season: more opportunities can be opened to eat opponents one by one.
This season: After the high block is removed, it is strong, and only the assistant defender has extended his hand slightly.
This season: directly fight against the speed before landing, and the coordinator has no time to interfere
It is worth mentioning that in the third season, that is, the season when CBA advocated confrontation, Zhang Ning ushered in the period of best physical condition after entering the league. His weight is a little heavier than that of the rookie year, but his body fat can be seen to the naked eye, his body shape is light, and his speed is faster.
As a result, he played such a fast attack against Liaoning:
Fast Attack and hard carry Fuge, impact the basket, show the physical advantage
In short, the current zhang ning has made significant progress compared with the past, but it has not completely separated from the problems in college. At the same time, many parts of his attack data and performance with the ball come from the bonus of tactical system, it remains to be seen whether it can play features in higher-level Asian and even international competitions.
Trustworthy rebounding and confrontation
In Shanxi’s first victory this year, Zhang Ning grabbed the key rebound and reversed Qingdao, which was his first starting game and the first winning streak. Zhang Ning, whose weight is currently 97kg, has excellent core strength and rebound has always been one of his characteristics.
Zhang Ning’s rebounding consciousness is very prominent, which has been the case since the rookie year. Please lock the No. 8 player in the following moving picture:
Follow up quick attack with teammates and actively card
After grabbing the first front rebound, actively prepare for the second card position.
In these rounds, Zhang Ning may not be able to really grab the backboard, but his backboard consciousness is very good, and he keeps sticking, recycling and refilling, which are all the favorite qualities of the coach. Zhang Ning is obsessed with the rebound, so, look at the next round, this rebound is really hot.
Zhang Ning’s continuous rebound caused foul
Shooting is not successful, fight with the internal line
Zhang Ning’s offensive rebound data has always been very beautiful. There were 2.1 offensive rebounds in 28.4 minutes last season. This year, after he added more balls and started to deal with them, he still had two offensive rebounds in the game.
In addition to the rebounding board, Zhang Ning’s score under the basket is not like a swing man with a short size (1.91 meters in height), but more like a number four for horizontal muscle training.
Hard, squeeze out foreign aid to complete the attack under the basket
The empty cut did not enter, and the second rebound continued until it entered.
Fight in the basket
In the past, Zhang Ning ate more weight when fighting under the basket, but now his movements are more neat, and the use of the core trunk seems to be very effective, which also benefits from his polishing during the off-season period. Because of this, he was able to fight for 49 minutes in the fight with Liaoning, and he was able to make an impact on the basket at the last moment.
As a defender, the outstanding confrontation and rebound are also Zhang Ning’s biggest advantage in the competitive national training team, but this does not seem to constitute his core competitiveness in this position.
Excellent ball defender
Zhang Ning in the rookie year can gain a firm foothold in the league. The most important transformation is to change from the offensive core of the university to a very hard defender. Since then, Zhang Ning has been regarded as a consumable for foreign aid, constantly fighting with the main force on the opposite side. His defensive steps are very positive and his physical confrontation is excellent.
Continuous winding front card position Shen Zijie
Low hit Zhang Ning is not a good choice
The pursuit and defense of the outside Guard of the team are fast.
Zhang Ning, who grew up after the experience, is currently an excellent external defender among local players. His restrictions on the players are very powerful. Against Qingdao, he contributed six steals in the game, and at the end of the game, he made the local players in Qingdao eat flat one by one.
Grab on the alert
Complete snatching without losing position
This year’s league matches encourage confrontation scale. Zhang Ning’s physical quality advantage has been shown incisively and vividly when playing against many local outside lines. He is more and more comfortable in defense. On the other hand, Zhang Ning, who was easy to draw the ball in the defense in the first two years, paid great attention to the control in this aspect this year.
After a strong confrontation, Zhang Ning kept his position, waited for the opponent to make mistakes, and then seized the opportunity to fight for it. At present, Zhang Ning had 2.2 steals, far exceeding the previous two seasons, he is also the first defense choice of Shanxi team for the ball-holding organizers. In the future, as a reserve of defense options on the guard line, Zhang Ning is absolutely qualified.
The external projection cannot meet the requirements.
At the beginning of last season, Zhang Ning once hit more than 50% in three points, but at the end of the season, he finally fell. It is foreseeable that his three points are not stable enough. In college, he preferred to attack with the ball, but even though he has a lot of ball rights now, too many shots and three points are not allowed by Yang xuexeng’s guidance.
Zhang Ning’s current three points in Shanxi array are almost receive the ball three points. In this item, he has also made some fine adjustments in recent years. Before, his receive the ball three points were like this:
Receive the ball three points 3+1
Running receive the ball points, (the pause rhythm is not good)
Hesitation and lack of delicate adjustment of pace and rhythm are the key factors of zhang ning’s instability in three points. It can be seen that the shooting talent is not up to the top level or how much affects zhang ning’s shooting confidence in the periphery,
This season, Zhang Ning’s good three points are basically smooth and directly receive the ball Pilling three points, compared with the following figure (but there are not many such shots):
Zhang Ning receive the ball key points
Due to the change of shooting mode and rhythm, a large amount of physical effort on the defensive side, and zhang ning’s energy distribution on breakthrough and ball scoring, zhang ning’s external projection has never recovered to college. So far this season, Zhang Ning’s three-point hit rate has dropped to 26.1 percent, which is already very horrible.
The ability to handle balls is still insufficient.
At present, although Zhang Ning has 3.6 assists in the game, he has as many as three mistakes, and his organizational ability is not high enough to organize his brain in guest mode for a long time.
Many of his assists in Shanxi are the same as the following round, mainly because of the open attack system.
Quickly transfer the ball and assist teammates
This is also the welfare brought to him by the team’s offensive space. With the ball in hand and space, the teammates are still accurate, and the increase of assists should be taken for granted. The following two rounds of Zhang Ning’s almost wrong passing can let you know why Zhang Ning has a high number of mistakes and why his organizational ability is still under fire:
Backward passing, rich and expensive
Zhang Ning broke through the counterattack
Generally speaking, Zhang Ning’s current stadium positioning is actually similar to that of last season, but it has changed from substitute to starting. He is still a player who needs teammates and system drive. Zhang Ning’s advantage is that he has grown into a generalist and is like a duck to water in the current environment, but there are still many details that need to be polished.
Can Zhang Ning play the national team?
On this issue, there has been a long debate on the internet. The strong feng wei swing man similar to zhang ning has appeared in CBA for nearly ten years, such as li gen, jiang yuxing and he xining, whether Zhang Ning can play the national team, just need to compare with them.
Li gen was once a player of the zhengyin national team and has played international competitions such as asian championships and olympic games. The peak leblanc root is the strongest local outside line and has an average of 20 + in CBA, in the national team, he also had the performance of 4 out of 4 in a single section and 4 out of 4, chasing the body and sealing the cover. To prevent you from thinking about it, see:
Li Gen fought hard under the basket.
Li Gen jumped into the air and stopped throwing the basket.
Li genzhong rushed
Li Gen chased large hat
Li Gen has much better athletic ability than Zhang Ning, and also has the ability to shoot in one hand. If compared with Li genbi, it is more like Jiang Yuxing with Zhang Ning, which may be another template more suitable for comparison with Zhang Ning. The big ginger style of the ball is also a strong and quick one, a strong and quick attack, the rebound in the front court is all good at it.
Jiang Yuxing breakthrough pull rod
Jiang Yuxing’s all-round Dragon
Jiang Yuxing made a quick breakthrough
Jiang Yuxing broke through against the layup
Last season, Jiang Yuxing averaged 16.2 points and 5.6 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 1.3 steals, with a hit rate of 56%. He was once the most efficient outside player in the league, but even so, he still didn’t get the favor of the national team. If you look into the reasons, big Ginger of the football style is domineering in the league, but it may be a double-edged sword in the national team.
On the one hand, jiang yuxing can fight, defend and break through, but on the other hand, his three points (this season has made great progress, from “you can throw” to “you can’t empty”) and processing balls are not stable enough. When you change from the more important offensive position of the club to the national team into a role player who may have a few minutes of opportunity every time, sometimes disadvantages are more important than advantages, unless your advantages are too strong to be replaced.
More directly, there are many players in the current national team’s guest guard. When you promote Zhang Ning to compare with Jiang Yuxing and even Zhao Rui, Guo Allen and others in the national team, the gap will naturally come out.
Therefore, Zhang Ning has a good chance to enter the national team’s large-scale training pilot test, but to enter the national team’s official competition, maybe we should be more patient.
Before the article was finished, Zhang Ning and Shanxi suffered a fiasco. After the battle with Liaoning, they had a physical crisis, especially the two foreign aid obviously couldn’t raise their spirits. This also gives Zhang Ning a direction for his current role. Before discussing whether he has the ability to play the national team, he might as well expect him to keep his strength at the beginning of the season, and it really became the most threatening outside ball-holding attacker in Shanxi.
The sound of reading by the unknown Lake seemed to be still in my ears. The domineering performance in the CUBA finals seemed to be just yesterday. Zhang Ning had made great progress with two years of efforts like sleeping on the back. This veteran and Sun Wukong went through the alchemy furnace of the senior emperor together. He had seen the female concubine mending the sky and learned the big knife in the Great Wall. He praised the cold-eyed ridicule. This legend of blood continued. He just rushed forward, the honor and future that you deserve will not be less after all!
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