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Women s Basketball Observation | 19-year-old selected for the Asian Cup team: What is the level of Tian Zhong in the Japanese League?

5:26pm, 21 July 2025Basketball

In the Asian Cup final of the women's basketball team, the Japanese women's basketball team lost to Australia and missed the championship. The 19-year-old Tian Zhong scored 21 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists, which caused heated discussions from the outside world. Relying on her outstanding personal abilities, she led the team in the first half of various shots and breakthroughs, becoming a key player in the fight with Australia.

was just limited in physical fitness and focused on defense, Tian Zhong did not score in the second half of the game.

However, Tian Zhong was still selected for the Asian Cup of the Women's Basketball Team with an average of 14.8 points, 2.5 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game, and a three-point shooting percentage of 48.4%.

Some reporters are curious about how Tian Zhong trains and whether they will consider the WCBA league in the future:

Tian Zhong said: "If you have the opportunity, I am willing to try to challenge the WCBA. In normal three-point shooting training, I will practice more difficult shooting, so that shooting in the game will become easier than when I was training.

{last guard in the Japanese league?

24-25 is her first career In the season, he played for the ENEOS Sunflowers team, playing 27 games, averaging 3.6 points, 1.4 rebounds and 0.9 assists per game, including 10 of 59 three-pointers, with a shooting percentage of 16.95%.

This data, compared with the WCBA league, is basically a marginal player among the substitutes. When the body size does not have an advantage, the continued inaccurate outside shooting means that the threat of the offensive end continues to decline.

Which club coach, or national coach, dares to directly take such a substitute. Guards are the starting lineup of the national team?

Perhaps only Zhao Jiwei, who also played as a substitute in Liaoning, was reused by Gong Luming.

Why can Dazhong be reused in the Japanese women's basketball team in a short time?

First of all, after Gaines took office, the Japanese women's basketball back line promoted blood change. Core players led by Lin Saki, Miyazawa Saori, and Yamamoto Mai have outstanding three-point shooting ability, but they are not selected into the latest Asian Cup main lineup.

Only retained Maki Takada, Rai Meng Tokashiki, Magua Stephanie, and O Keye Taorenhua, the tall frontcourt players, all of them are pushing for blood exchange.

Perhaps Gaines previously said that this is the real Japanese women's basketball team. After adding more frontcourt players to rotate, rebounds and franchise protection have greater guarantees, and continue to maintain a large number of outside shots and create counterattacks and kills.

Da Center has completely proved itself in training and games?

In fact, the Chinese women's basketball team and the Japanese women's basketball team played two warm-up games. , Tian Zhong is not a particularly outstanding backcourt player, and even scored only 3 points against the Philippines in the group stage.

The real turning point was that after entering the play-offs, Tian Zhong started to take over a large number of ball rights, scored 17 points against New Zealand, scored 27 points with the Chinese women's basketball team, and played 21 points against Australia. In comparison with these three games, it is completely inferior to Yuki Kawamura's game influence. She handed in a three-point shooting percentage of 10 of 21 shots, and her shooting range can reach the near-center circle. As long as the opponent is not careful, she You can punish defense through outside shooting.

It is worth mentioning that Tian Zhong also appeared on the U18th roster in the last Asian Youth Championship, and is also the lineup that has just ended the U19 Women's Basketball World Cup. At the same time as Zhang Ziyu, fans can clearly see that the Japanese women's basketball team promotes blood exchange. They would rather give up some old guards who are still capable to create opportunities for young players. If it is normal combat power, Saki Lin, The fame and problem-solving ability of Miyazaki Saiori and Yamamoto Mai will be above the current stage of the Dayun Center.

Perhaps many fans will remember that in the 21st Women's Basketball Asian Cup final, Miyazaki Saiori, who is 1.67 meters tall, can be described as "extremely perfect". In the 28 minutes of the game, 10 of 18 shots, 2 of 3 three-pointers, 4 of 4 free throws, scored 26 points, 7 rebounds, 11 assists and 2 steals, smashed the Chinese women's basketball back line, and led the team to complete the dynasty era of 5 consecutive championships.

Miyazaki Saiori this year It's only 30 years old, younger than Yang Liwei, but has faded out of the national team list of the Japanese women's basketball team.

Gong Luming also used conservative people in the Asian Cup of Women's Basketball Team this time. Perhaps it was because of the pressure on the performance. You should know that as many as 8 people in this Asian Cup of Women's Basketball Team participated in the main competition of the Paris Olympics, and veteran Pan Zhenqi returned. The young players who really emerged played an important role. The back line did not have a corresponding blood exchange. Instead, they saw a struggling Li Yuan, Wang Siyu with a very vague sense of position.

source:2vn 7m

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