In the CBA offseason, another player chose to leave our league and switch to the Japan league, that is, Ou Junxuan, who was signed by the Shanghai team with the champion, and he finally decided to join Japan's Chiba Jets next season, which is also a championship-level team in the league, with Yuta Watanabe returning from the NBA and Japan national Yuki Tomiken. These two people, coupled with the addition of Ou Junxuan, will undoubtedly greatly enhance the strength of the entire team, which is equivalent to having relatively good players on the inside, forward and outside.
It is indeed a pity that Ou Junxuan and Zhang Zhenlin were both high school students in the United States. Players who have played famous in college, the two of them returned to China almost at the same time period, and they were also expected by fans, but unlike Zhang Zhenlin's smooth sailing, he became the main champion of the CBA, an all-star, and even represented the men's national basketball team and played in the World Cup as the main player, Au Junxuan's growth is obviously far from people's expectations.
In the past few seasons, his performance has been relatively bad, and he has been running around many teams, and the Shanghai team has never wanted to give up on him, so he has been loaned out before, but after each loan return, it is difficult for Shanghai teammates to provide him with more positions, and finally joined the Qingdao team last season, averaging only 2.2 points and 2.2 rebounds per game, it is estimated that it is difficult to get a suitable contract in the CBA before choosing to go to the Japan league.
Ou Junxuan's growth has a lot to do with the platform he chooses, in fact, he is not without strength, when he was on loan to the Fujian team, he was still able to get 9 points plus 5 rebounds per game, if he can stay in this team for a long time, or if he chooses a team of similar level, he may get more playing time, I dare not say that he will be able to reach the level of Zhang Zhenlin, and it will not be like now, it is more difficult to get a contract in the CBA.
But in the end, he returned to the Shanghai men's basketball team. The Shanghai team has indeed had too many young players in reserve in recent years, and the team has a lot of money, so it has purchased some very strong foreign aids, so that Ou Junxuan's playing time in the Shanghai team is relatively small. Last season, the Qingdao men's basketball team chose to introduce Ou Junxuan, and the team was originally worried that Yang Hansen would not be able to adapt to the rhythm of the CBA, so Ou Junxuan was used as an alternative, but he didn't expect Yang Hansen to play very well, so Ou Junxuan had no chance. Au Junxuan is indeed too unlucky, and every choice is always not suitable for him.
In recent years, there have been a lot of Chinese players who have chosen to play abroad, mainly because of the priority renewal system we introduced, so that many young players have been constrained by the club when they sign contracts, such as Zhu Songwei and Liu Chuanxing, all because they are unwilling to sign a long-term contract with the original club after the rookie contract expires, and they can't play in the CBA if they want to get the maximum salary earlier, but the situation of Ou Junbao is different from the first two. The first two played better and wanted to sign a short-term contract, but Au Junxuan did not play as expected last season. There should be a team that proposes a contract to Au Junxuan, but it should be difficult to meet his expectations in terms of years and salary, so he chose to play abroad.