But one of the rookies was not so lucky. Like Zhang Ning, Wiliam, Zheng Qilong and Yang Haozhe, he came from a famous basketball school in Cuba and achieved good results in Cuba. He ranked seventh in the draft, and the Shenzhen team chose him. But after a third of the league, he was the only one who didn't play in the draft. He is Meng Xiang, a shooter from Huaqiao University in Cuba.
Meng Xiang: Cuban super shooter Meng Xiang, 23 years old (born in 1997-2- 14), is 195cm tall and weighs 85kg, and is a small forward on the court (he can also play the second or third position). Meng Xiang has excellent ball control skills, good physical coordination and flexibility, and is very good at scoring in the transition between attack and defense. His best skill is three-pointers, and he hit 35% in college (29% in the last year of Peking University Zhang Ning University).
Although the development of Wiliam and Zhang Ning in CBA is better than that of Meng Xiang now, it is actually Meng Xiang who hits hard:
On May 26th, 20 18, Huaqiao University in Cuba played against Peking University. Zhang Ning and Wiliam played for Peking University, with 25 points; Meng Xiang of Huaqiao University scored 34 points, 7 of 3-pointers 12, and hit 58.3%.
In the end, Huaqiao University narrowly beat Peking University by 78 to 75.
In 2020, Meng Xiang's CUBA career ended. During his five-year CUBA career, he scored 934 points, ranking eighth in CUBA history and third in Huaqiao University team history.
It is particularly worth mentioning that Huaqiao University, which represented China in the 20 18 World University Basketball Competition, won the men's team championship, and Meng Xiang was the champion.
On August 2 1 2020, Meng Xiang was selected by the Shenzhen team with the seventh place in the first round, becoming the first player to enter the CBA in the history of Huaqiao University, a famous basketball school with nine titles in Cuba.
Cuba is allowed, is it still allowed in CBA? Some people say that occupation is very different from amateur. Being accurate in Cuba does not mean that you are accurate in CBA.
It's true. However, if you want to be accurate in CBA, at least in Cuba; It was impossible not to be allowed in Cuba, but it was suddenly allowed in CBA. Meng Xiang has at least a good foundation.
Before the start of CBA, all players are organized to have a physical examination, and only those who pass the physical examination can qualify for the competition (national team players are exempted from the examination, and each team also has 1 quota). It is reported that Meng Xiang failed the exam for the first time, but passed it successfully in the subsequent make-up exam.
Recently, some media have exposed some medical examination results. In the 2-minute high-intensity shooting test, Meng Xiang ranked eighth among all the players.
The so-called 2-minute intensity shooting test is to complete the number of shots at the designated position within 2 minutes and calculate the number of hits to set the score. The perimeter requires five 3-pointers, five shots per ball, and ***25 goals. It is a perfect score to hit 22 goals this year; There are 30 2-pointers on the inside. The shooting process is all self-investment, and it must be finished within 5 seconds.
This year, Yuan Shuai (Shaanxi team) and Shi Hongfei (Jiangsu team) came first, with 22 shots (but shooting time was not enough, so they shot less1); Zheng Zhun (Guangzhou Team) is the first inside player.
There are two contestants in the fourth place. Both Wang Xiankai (Guangdong team) and Cong (Liaoning team) scored 24 goals in 2 1 ball, with a difference of 1 ball.
There are also two players in the sixth place, Fu Lei (Zhejiang team) scored 20 goals in 24 goals; Jiang (Jilin team) scored 20 of the 25 goals (quick shooting is Xiao Jiang's characteristic).
There are four players in the eighth place: Chen (Fujian team) and Jia Mingru (Guangzhou team) both scored 19 of 24 goals; Luo Hanchen (Shanghai team) and Meng Xiang (Shenzhen team) both scored 19 of the 25 goals.
All the famous marksmen in CBA are on the list, which shows that this test is scientific and can draw with them, which in itself shows that Meng Xiang's projection skill is really quite good.
Why didn't Shenzhen let Meng Xiang play? The situation in Meng Xiang is confusing. Since the Shenzhen team selected him, head coach Qiu Biao praised him in an interview, praising him for his "excellent three-pointers". "I still have great confidence in him, and I personally like him."
In the first round of physical examination, Meng Xiang failed; But then he passed the make-up exam and got the first place in the shooting test.
It is said that the coach of Shenzhen team reflected that Meng Xiang's confrontation still failed to meet the competition requirements, so he did not go to Zhuji with the team in the first stage of the competition, but stayed at the Shenzhen team base to train alone.
However, in the first stage of the competition in Zhuji, in the seventh round, the Shenzhen team once signed Meng Xiang. It shows that he reached the standard of playing and went to Zhuji with the team, but he was not allowed to play in the end.
Then until the 16 round, Meng Xiang still did not appear in the team's big list. In the senior draft, Meng Xiang is the only one who hasn't appeared yet.