Zou Yang, from Tsinghua University, was selected by the Fujian team with the 5th pick in the first round of the 2023 CBA Draft. At the beginning of the draft, Chen Guohao and Zou Yang competed for the champion extremely fiercely, and finally Chen Guohao became the champion, and Zou Yang fell to the 5th pick. Many people are not optimistic about Zou Yang's prospects in the CBA, because he is thin and has poor confrontation ability. However, Zou Yang himself doesn't think so, and he has played steadily and steadily, and he has averaged 11 per game so far this season4 points 75 rebounds 15 assists 14 steals data, scores, rebounds are crushed Chen Guohao.
In this round of the home game against Tianjin, Zou Yang, who started the game, became famous, he played 10 of 16 in 44 minutes and 54 seconds, and scored 26 points, 19 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks of all-round data, leading the team to defeat the Tianjin team with a foreign aid advantage of 5 times in 4 quarters.
Zou Yang's 26+19+3+3+2 data in this game does not seem to be exaggerated, but it is rare in the history of the CBA, and he is the 11th local player to do so. Before him, Zhou Qi, Tao Hanlin, Tang Zhengdong, Butler, Mo Ke, and Zhang Kai each did it once, Wang Zhizhi did it twice, Yi Jianlian, Wang Zhelin did it 3 times, and Yao Ming did it 5 times.
The most important thing is that the above players casually brought out a figure who is ranked top in the history of the CBA, and most of them are centers with a height of more than 2.10 meters, while Zou Yang is only a forward with a height of 1.99 meters, and he is only from a college draft, which shows the gold content of such data in this game.
In this game, the Tianjin team played 44 minutes and 29 seconds when the 2.05 meter big man had only 2 rebounds, and Tian Yu, who played 2.08 meters for 17 minutes, only had 1 rebound, and Zou Yang was able to win 19 rebounds under the siege of David James, Shi Deshuai, Tian Yu and others, which was indeed not easy.
In this game, the Fujian team led Tianjin 42-37 in rebounds, and with the guarantee of rebounding, Fujian made 16 more shots than the Tianjin team in this game, even if the shooting rate was 494%-54.8% lost to their opponents, but Fujian still defended their home stadium and won the game. Among them, Zou Yang certainly contributed a lot. Some fans even bluntly said: This child can be taken to the national team for training.
Chen Linjian, the local core of the Fujian team, only played 9 games this season and was reimbursed for the season, and in addition to Chen Linjian, Zou Yang has become the team's top scorer after the team's three foreign aids. It is indeed Zou Yang's honor to get the opportunity to perform in such a weak team in Fujian, but it is also inseparable from Zou Yang's own efforts to get to this point.