China Women's NT
China Women NT trainning roster:
PG:
Song Xiaoyun 175cm
Yang Banban 170cm
Chen Xiaojia 177cm
SG:
Bian Lan 180cm
Zhang Wei 184cm
Ji Yanyan 182cm
SF:
Sui Feifei 184cm
Ma Zenyu 183cm
Gao Song 190cm
PF:
Chen Xiaoli 190cm
Zhang Fan 188cm
Liu Jiacen 190cm
Guan Xing 190cm
C:
Liu Dan :190cm
Zhang Xiaoni 193cm
Huang Hongping 195cm
SG Miao Lijie 180cm dan C Chen Nan 196cm will play in WNBA thay will not play in NT 2009.
What team will Chen Nan play for in the WNBA?Originally Posted by FEIFEI
Sorry I don't konw now.
I know that Miao Li Jie signed a training camp contract with the Sacramento Monarchs on January 14 but for Chen Nan there isn't any information posted about her in the WNBA website yet.
http://www.wnba.com/transactions/WNBA_2009.html
Chen Nan will play for Chicago Sky, at least for preseason.
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Miao's rp is poor,dislike her
Chen Nan played well in her first preseason game in the WNBA. 11 min 9 pts
China NT blown out by WNBA team
http://www.wnba.com/games/20110519/C...#nbaGIboxscore
Connecticut cleared its bench (including "practice" players) and still slaughtered the Chinese team. 46-20 rebounding edge
This Chinese team is very young and missing all 5 starters from last year's Asian Games. Out of the 12 players in the US, none was on the 2008 Olympic team and only 3 were subs at the 2010 World Championship. The rest were rookies including Gao Song who's eligible for the U19 Games this year. That said, I wonder if there's anything to be done to address the rebounding situation. China actually has a couple of really tall girls (Wei Wei 206cm/6'9'', Huang Hongpin 196cm/6'5'', both listed 1989 and had been on the NT before) but couldn't get any rebounds. Wei Wei can shoot the jumpers, but is skinny, unathletic and softer than cotton. Huang is big and somewhat athletic but seems to be a step slower at everything. Both of them need to get boxing lessons because this is a waste of talent.
The good news is the prettiest girl in Chinese Basketball (Zhao Shuang) looks like a lock for the NT in the future. Needs to put on some weight and we'll have the next Sui Feifei (the previous "pretty NT star" who was also a skinny small forward.)
Last edited by sinobball; 05-31-2011 at 04:35 PM.
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Nice photo, pretty girl.
Zhao Shuang is a first time selection to the NT training camp but many have high hopes of her which is more than her looks. This chick competes really hard, only problem is she's extremely frail.
It's interesting. I've loosely followed the Chinese Women's NT before but probably had not watched more than 2 games. It's great to have you to talk to, Carlo, but social media made the difference. As it turns out, in the cyber world female players are much easier to talk to than male players, largely due to the fact they have far less fans. I originally just wanted to know more about life in Chinese professional basketball but after knowing enough names, I was interested enough to watch WCBA games for the first time in my life. Turns out the games weren’t bad, especially the Finals this year which wasn't decided until literally the last 10 seconds of the last possible game. As a result I can tell you a lot about this current Chinese NT, despite the fact that they are all very young.
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Zhao Shuang scored a team-high 15pts as China lost to Washington Mystics 67-72 in a scrimmage. Ji Yanyan and Yang Banban each scored 9. Reportedly they were only down by 3 in the final minute and all 11 players saw floor time. Crystal Langhorne led the Mystics with 16. Unfortunately there is no official box score, but there is a video.
http://www.wnba.com/mystics/multimed...ts_052111.html
Within the first 30 seconds I see Huang Hongpin (#18) receives a nice dish from Zhao Shuang (#11), and while towering over her opponents gets completely stuffed. SMH... Yang Banban (#4) the PG still dribbles way too much.
The team will play the Chicago Sky today in a few hours.
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Sky ahead by more than 30 at the beginning of last quarter, Fowles, Yanyan and Prince in double digit scoring.
http://www.wnba.com/games/20110523/CHNCHI/gameinfo.html
Sky 84 China 45, with 18pts by Fowles in less than 15' (9/11 shooting!). Ji Yanyan has been excellent as well, finishing with 17pts (and 7/10 FG). Among the Sky rookies, Carolyn Swords had 13pts and 8reb.
http://www.wnba.com/games/20110523/CHNCHI/gameinfo.html
Watching the Mystics-China highlights I saw very good plays and scoring by the Chinese girls, but in some actions Mystics were imo a bit loose in defense.
Zhao Shuang and the Chinese National Team
I went to Mohegan Sun Casino on Thursday May 19, 2011 to watch the Chinese National Team play the Connecticut Sun. #11 Zhao Shuang is gorgeous. She looks like an adorable lost puppy in her loose and baggy Chinese uniform...kinda looks like she's dragging a blanket when she runs like Linus from Peanuts. I have a pic that I took of her. Also the ladies were incredibly nice. I met the team after the game.
24 year old 6'5" #16 Xu Nuo started at center and can hit the outside three.
6'9" #19 Wei Wei came off of the bench at center.
On a side note I noticed that they were warming up, shooting around and doing drills about an hour before the Connecticut Sun appeared on the court and that most of them bowed twice in different directions when they were being substituted and checking out of the game.
Zhao Shuang
Xu Nuo
Xu Nuo and I.
The Chinese National Team in the Mohegan Sun Casino lobby after the game.
Xu Nuo
Last edited by cross0ver112; 05-24-2011 at 05:36 AM.
I agree.
China actually led 22-18 at one point before the Sky went on a monstrous 46-9 run. It's just a game but I seriously think the head coach (Sun Fengwu) needs to be replaced ASAP. He's probably thinking "I still got Chen Nan and Miao Lijie back home" but getting outrebounded by 20+ game after game is unacceptable. Chen Nan and Miao Lijie were already starters 10 years ago in 2001. What had Sun Fengwu been doing with these current youngsters all these years?
cross0ver112 thanks for the photos, passed the one with you in it to Xu Nuo. (BTW you are pretty tall) It's not that Zhao Shuang's jersey was too big, she is just too skinny! Same with Xu Nuo, Wei Wei, ... all of them need to gain more than 30 lbs at least. Look at Xu Nuo's arms, she's lucky they are still not broken yet.
The bald head in the 2nd to last photo is an Aussie named Bill Tomlinson who was brought to China by Tom Maher years ago.
There are 3 games left in the US. Hopefully they don't get massacred by so much again.
Last edited by sinobball; 05-24-2011 at 03:17 PM.
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Sinobball, so I take it that you know some of the Chinese players on a personal level since you said you sent one of the photos to them?
Could you send me some of their facebook profiles or online profiles if there are any?
I think that Zhao Shuang in fine with her weight, I don't see how her weight affects her game or will make her any better on the floor, unless she is boxing out for a rebound or posting up which I don't think that she does much. Wei Wei probably needs to hit the weightroom and add some muscle, but unless she is taking steroids it's going to be very difficult to add 10-15 pounds of muscle, especially on her ectomorphic frame. It's difficult for anyone to gain that much muscle, let alone her. Since she plays the center position she just needs to get stronger. During the game in Connecticut she only took one shot and hardly ever got the ball, but when she did she hit a turn around fade away jumper that looked good.
Xu Nuo likes to play on the outside, even though she's a center. Out of all of the players, I think that she needs to add the most weight. I wonder if she's anorexic or has been at some point in her life. With all of the strenuous exercise they do, that's incredibly unhealthy. She probably would have been a few inches taller if she hadn't been.
One last thing, I am trying to find professional teams in Europe and in China to try out for. Would you happen to have any contacts that would give me the opportunity to try out for a few teams in the People's Republic of China?
They don't use Facebook, it's banned in China. Here's Xu Nuo's weibo (aka Chinese twitter), you can see your photo here:
http://weibo.com/1893161330/24F2cneaP
http://translate.google.com/translat...1330/24F2cneaP
(Translation, don't take it literally, for example by "old United States" she didn't mean that you were old, it's just a regular expression Chinese use). Basically she said she was a bit surprised that an American asked her that many questions all the way from the lobby to the hotel and lamented the fact that her English was too poor. Also the team translator told her to just ignore you because he is suspicious of your intentions lol
I think the girls need to put on weight. I've seen many games of Zhao Shuang's and I know how much she falls going after rebounds because of her weight. She doesn't post up, true, but others post up her! (in the Chinese league Finals she was guarding Swin Cash, who looked skinny in the WNBA but basically bulldozed over her.) Wei Wei actually has a large frame on the upper body, I think she needs to get stronger down low. Xu Nuo, never seen her play but given her weight it's no surprise she lingers outside.
I don't think I can help you land a gig, what I can tell you is, unless you have the word "NBA" (be it summer league, try out or what-not) on your resume, forget about China (even the 2nd division). [Over 35 players in this year's Chinese league played in the regular season NBA.] I don't know how good your credential is, but playing professionally abroad ain't as easy as it looks. You absolutely need an agent.
Last edited by sinobball; 05-25-2011 at 02:42 PM.
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Well, I appreciate all of the information you gave me along with the translation and Xu Nuo's profile. I tried setting up an account on weibo.com to get in contact with Xu Nuo, but it just doesn't work, I can't figure out how to use it and the translation is very poor.
Yeah after we spoke for a while she called the translator and he came up to me. I repeated to him what I told her then he said something to her and she quickly sped away with the rest of the team to some kind of Chinese barbecue restaurant in the casino.
She never responded to my e-mail. I wonder why she would give it to me if she didn't have any intention of responding.
By the way I want to know if you could do me a favor and translate something into (mandarin Chinese characters) just in case I see her again (I want to give her a note) when they play the New York Liberty in Albany, NY this Friday, May 27, 2011.
Could you translate this?: Would you like to hang out in Albany after the game?
On May 30, 2011 you're going to play the Liberty and Sun in Greenburgh, NY. I live very close to their practice facility. Could you tell me what hotel you are staying at so that we can hang out the days that you are in my area?
Do you have a phone number or a faster way that we can communicate? Here is my phone number: (914) 374-1946
videos (can't see a lot though)
vs. Connecticut
http://video.sinovision.net/?id=2119
vs. Chicago
http://deerfield.patch.com/articles/...#video-6217392
They'll play the New York Liberty in Albany tonight, expecting a turnout of 3500, mostly Chinese people in the area. Just hope they don't lose by a huge margin again.
cross0ver112, check your pm
Last edited by sinobball; 05-27-2011 at 03:31 PM.
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