The strong rise of the national youth insider Wang Hongze is the key to Guangdong s return to the peak?

This year's National Youth Men's Basketball Team International Challenge, the Chinese U19 Men's Basketball Team and the German Würzburg Men's Basketball Team have a warm-up match, which is a key battle to warm up for the World Youth Championship. We only won 8 points in the two teams before. After this running-in, the condition was obviously different. Wang Hongze led Hou Mengze, Zhang Boyuan and others to win 47 points in the fourth quarter 98-51. When watching the game on the spot, you can clearly feel that the pick-and-roll coordination between the players is much smoother, especially when Wang Hongze responds at high positions, and has torn open the opponent's defense line several times. This dominance does not come suddenly. I heard that the coaching team had specially trained for two weeks of special training for the European team's defensive rhythm. The players practiced until 10 o'clock in the evening every day, which led to an explosion on the court.

Wang Hongze played this game very steadily, scoring 10 points and 8 rebounds in 21 minutes, and 2 assists and 1 steal. When he was on the court, we had a net advantage of 27 points. I remember that there was a very typical round in the second quarter. The opponent's power forward hit him on the back. As a result, he not only wasn't squeezed away, but he also broke the ball down. Then he passed the half-time game and swung the defender outside the three-point line, and directly scored the open teammates in the bottom corner to hit a three-pointer. This kind of inside line that can be both defensive and organized is too scarce in the current national youth team. It's interesting to say. When I watched Hu Jinqiu play in the Asian Championships, I also had this all-round style, but Wang Hongze's three-point shooting was more decisive. In the last warm-up match, he made 2 of 3 three-pointers, which is rare in the traditional fourth position.

Guangdong team has high hopes for Wang Hongze. After all, he won the MVP of this year's Naigao CHBL finals, and it was found in the youth training system. I heard that Du Feng had already set his sights on him, so I waited for his age to meet the standards and quickly mentioned the first team. Now Ren Jun is retiring in the team very quickly. Wang Hongze just fills this gap in the interior. I talked to the fan group last week and an old Guangdong fan said that Yi Jianlian was also treated like this when he first joined the team. The team would rather sacrifice his achievements than train newcomers. Now it seems that Wang Hongze is taking a path similar to Alien, who is directly transitioning from the core of the national youth team to the main force of the club.

However, the news that the Guangdong team has been in contact with Chen Guohao recently has been very popular. Many people find it strange that Du Runwang and Huang Mingyi are in the fourth position in the team. Why do you have to spend a lot of money to get Chen Guohao? I think that business factors may account for the majority. Chen Guohao is a local player in Guangdong and is very famous in the wild ball circle. Any video on Douyin has hundreds of thousands of likes. His popularity is similar to Xu Jie and the others. If the team signed him, home tickets and sales will definitely increase. But when it comes to training, Wang Hongze still has to be one level higher than Chen Guohao's physical talent and technical comprehensiveness. Just as a friend of mine said, Chen Guohao may be the box office guarantee, but Wang Hongze is the puzzle of winning the championship.

Now looking at Wang Hongze's development trajectory, he really has the opportunity to become a top insider. But then again, there are many obstacles in the middle from the national youth league to the CBA and then to the national team. When Xu Xin first debuted, everyone thought he could become Yao Ming's second place, but he is still polishing the second team. Whether Wang Hongze can avoid these pitfalls depends on the growth rate of the Guangdong team in the past two years. If Du Feng could give him enough playing time to learn more defensive experience from the old players, he might be able to take over Yi Jianlian's class. But if you are like Huang Mingyi, if you have good talent but can't play, then the future of the Guangdong team will be in lingering. Anyway, there are a lot of debates in the fan circle now. Some people think he is the next Hu Jinqiu, and some people think he needs more tests in major competitions. This matter depends on how the next World Youth Championship and the CBA new season develop.