Why do I personally think that Zhang Ziyu, who is 2.28 meters, is difficult to be selected for the Olympic national team of this year's senior women's basketball team? Because it is not suitable at the moment. Continuing from the previous video, it is mainly reflected in the following three most serious weaknesses, focusing on the defensive end.
In order to reduce brainlessness, we must clarify the following stem keywords:
First, the senior team. It means that the physical maturity, speed, strength, confrontation, etc. will be very different from the current U18 opponents. The Australian girls who developed earlier in the U18 finals can already use their strength to compete for Zhang Ziyu's exposed low ball, use bounce to destroy Zhang Ziyu's one-handed grasp of the ball, and even block her second attack under the basket.
Second, the Olympic team. The national youth team competition is a U series limited by age group, and players can be counted as one session at most. The main national team players can usually last at least 2 Olympic cycles without injury, and even the main players can last for a generation, which means that there is a lot of talent and the average strength is stronger.
Thirdly, the most serious weakness. It refers to the shortest board of the barrel effect, which is mainly limited to the team on the defensive end. Don't open your mouth and say that she can't dribble, can't hook hands, etc., and other specific little technical flaws, it doesn't matter. And don't ignore her current top-tier talent and huge advantage on the offensive end.
Fourth, it is not suitable at the moment. It's a squad rotation that is difficult to discuss and become a regular lineup, but if it's for the purpose of training, bring the Olympic long-term insight, or even occasionally go up and play two to experience it, it's no problem at all.
Okay, after talking about the "Statement on the Anti-Bar Essence", I can finally get to the point
First, she barely has any pick-and-roll ability at the moment.
Limited by her slow movement speed, she has no ability to follow whether the opponent has an on-ball screen or an off-ball screen, and even when she is the most suitable for the slow big man's sinking defense, she sometimes can't complete the rim protection, or even don't need to block and dismantle, and when the right inside line starts, she is also difficult to effectively protect the frame. Of course, there may be a small reason that the coaching staff is now protecting her who is still developing, and does not allow her to jump in the game, which reduces the quality of the frame to a certain extent.
So you will see a strange scene, as long as Zhang Ziyu is present, the U18 national youth women's basketball team can only defend against 2-3 regional joint defense, and never dare to defend against people and men, that is, to prevent the opponent from launching a block and dismantle when marking people, and she was trained by the opponent with the ball. This brings us to the second major weakness.
A change in strategy and tactics that made the team lack on the defensive end.
The advantage of mark-to-man defense over 2-3 joint defense is that it can limit accurate pitchers and target the opponent's key people, such as dogskin plaster-style defense, which constantly consumes the physical energy and mentality of the opponent's core through scratching and confrontation. In yesterday's final, due to more joint defense, there was not much confrontation consumption, Australia's main Sears scored 31 points, and she was able to play the whole game at the last moment, and the commentator called her really good physical fitness.
If it is replaced by the Olympic national team, under the premise that the countries are more abundant in technology and tactics, if our side only sets up joint defense to protect Zhang Ziyu, it will be difficult to prevent the opponent. Even if the joint defense is used, the coach can't arrange the active pinch link in the joint defense, such as the half-court 3-2 joint defense and 1-3-1 joint defense, which can be designed to be corner pinch attacks, but this will involve the overall rapid offset and rotation of the formation, and Zhang Ziyu's movement speed is currently unable to support.
In the most extreme case, if the team is behind in the final moments, Zhang Ziyu can't even use the extended man-to-man press or full-court press to force the opponent to make a mistake and chase the point when she is on the court, unless she is replaced.
Third, the defensive awareness of teammates is more demanding.
Australia also has a trick in the final, that is, although they can't prevent Zhang Ziyu's attack, but whenever they are scored, Zhang Ziyu's inside line will go straight down, because Zhang Ziyu can't catch up even if he goes all out to defend himself, the result is that the opponent is obviously also in the center position, but he has become the best candidate for fast attack, and directly scoring 2 points or making rules can also offset Zhang Ziyu's score.
If you want to solve this situation, either our defenders must block the opponent's pass in the front court, slow down the passing speed and reduce the quality of the pass; Either our No. 3 or 4 forwards must have enough lateral speed, first give a fast man a physical confrontation near the three-point line, help Zhang Ziyu intercept the opponent's center, and then quickly return to the bottom corner to defend his own person. Both of these methods can be dragged until Zhang Ziyu returns to the position, but it is equivalent to letting other teammates have been performing a double-threaded task in their brains, which is a great test of ball quotient and defensive awareness, and requires long-term training and running-in.
Therefore, based on these three serious limitations on the defensive end, it is really difficult to adapt to the Olympic national team at present. But it must be said that her current movement speed, coordination and flexibility are definitely very good in her height and weight, and it should be the result of years of targeted training, but there are relatively disadvantages compared to the complex situation on the field, so don't open your mouth to say that people are bulky, stupid and big, and other derogatory terms. I believe that with weight loss and more targeted training in the future, she will slowly make up for these shortcomings and become better.