After participating in the group stage of the U18 Women's Basketball Asian Cup three times, Zhang Ziyu can be said to have quickly become popular all over the country, and even many fans abroad know that the Chinese women's basketball youth team has such a treasure-level player, and the outstanding height advantage has been undoubtedly revealed through the three group games, and the doubts have been dispelled step by step. The three opponents, Indonesia, New Zealand, and Japan, are stronger than one another.
Especially the opponent of the last game, the Japanese team, is the world's top eight, Asia's top strength, if her height advantage can play a dominant performance in this kind of game, then we can basically say that Zhang Ziyu can go sideways in the world arena at this age, she was worried about her confrontation ability, her slow movement speed, and defense will become a loophole targeted by opponents. At this age, few teams can find a way to deal with Zhang Ziyu's height.
Now the second topic left for the Chinese women's basketball team and Zhang Ziyu is to continue to grow across levels, and not to stay at this stage forever, because there is no opponent at this stage. Now that is the opportunity. According to Shandong media person Liu Baojie, Zhang Ziyu is likely to land in the WCBA league next season and join her hometown team, Shandong High-speed Women's Basketball Team, which will be very good news for Shandong women's basketball team, including WCBA.
On the one hand, Zhang Ziyu's current popularity is very high, if she joins the WCBA game, it will undoubtedly make the Shandong team and the entire league pay more attention, which is very much needed by the league, and the women's basketball team itself is an easily ignored group. In addition, for the Shandong high-speed women's basketball team, they have created a big miracle last season, in the playoffs, the following grams defeated the Xinjiang women's basketball team, this is what everyone did not expect before the game, showing a strong dark horse potential, if you add Zhang Ziyu, I don't know if the Shandong women's basketball team will have the opportunity to challenge the two major Inner Mongolia women's basketball teams and the Sichuan women's basketball team next season?
Of course, it doesn't mean that it is really possible to beat these two teams, and it is also a success to be able to make these two teams feel the pressure of some games, although there are many teams in the women's basketball league now, but the internal competitiveness is obviously insufficient, Sichuan and Inner Mongolia have opened a gap with other teams, in this case, I think it is also very good to have more teams stand up to challenge these two giants.
At the same time, for Zhang Ziyu, this will be a very big challenge in her career, which is equivalent to crossing several levels in a row, can she adapt to such intensity? In the world of senior women's basketball, in the face of such a player with an obvious altitude advantage, how will the defense be deployed in a targeted manner? These will be the highlights of Zhang Ziyu after he lands in the league next season.