Zhejiang team player Yu Jiahao (right) and Guangdong team player Xu Xin scrambled for rebounds.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Fanyue
On the evening of September 23, the U19 and U22 teams of the men’s basketball team of the 14th National Games staged two “Zhejiang and Guangdong Wars” at the same time. The Guangdong team is the winning side, showing the demeanor of the king, and the momentum of the Zhejiang team’s rise has become more obvious. The competition between Zhejiang and Guangdong in the National Games is not just a continuation of the professional competition. It is the common wish of the coaches of the two teams to find more talents for Chinese basketball.
In the CBA arena, Guangdong has three teams and Zhejiang has two teams. Guangdong Dongguan Dayi is undoubtedly the overlord, and Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rent, which has caused the “youth storm”, is one of the challengers with the strongest momentum in the past two years. The strength of the Guangdong team and the rise of the Zhejiang team are all due to the cultivation of talents in the youth training, and the National Games arena is the best proof. There are a total of eight teams in the men’s basketball U19 group this time. Zhejiang and Guangdong are divided into two groups. They will meet in the finals. In the 2019 Second Youth League basketball final, the Shenzhen team defeated the Zhejiang team to win the championship. In the U19 group of the National Games, the Zhejiang team is basically composed of players at the time. The Guangdong team is also based on the Shenzhen team and joined several outstanding Guangdong Dongguan players such as Zhang Hao, Tong Jiajun and Xu Xin.
The two teams have a lot of unique young players, especially in the center position. Yu Jiahao, who is 2.2 meters tall, is the absolute core of the Zhejiang team. He averaged 26 points and 12.5 rebounds in the previous four games. However, in this game, facing the Guangdong team’s fast play and wheel battle, the costly Yu Jiahao scored 18 points.
The strength of the Guangdong team lies in the fact that there are more players who can play, and both Zhang Hao and Lu Pengyu in the team have already shown their prominence in the CBA arena. The sharpest scoring weapon in the team is Sun Haoqin, who scored 43 points in this game. Compared with the Second Youth League, the Guangdong team has added more distinctive players. Xu Xin, who is 2.24 meters tall, left a deep impression when he faced Yu Jiahao. He scored 11 points.
In the end, the more powerful Guangdong team defeated Zhejiang team 95 to 75 and won the men’s basketball U19 group championship. Zhejiang team coach Yu Leping is Yu Jiahao’s father. For his son’s performance, Yu Leping, who has won the CBA, expressed affirmation, but more spurs. He said that Yu Jiahao’s ability to play CBA next season does not mean that he has reached the level of CBA now, but that the club provides him with a platform for learning and growth. He is still a long way from becoming a truly good CBA player.
It is worth mentioning that Yu Jiahao will help Zhejiang U22 men’s basketball team after this game. The team lost to Guangdong by 4 points in the group stage at the same time, but the two teams still joined hands to advance to the semi-finals.
From the professional league to the old U22 group, and then to the U19 group, the confrontation between the Zhejiang team and the Guangdong team can be called a peak matchup, and it has fully demonstrated their youth training results.Return to Sohu to see more
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