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Yang Yi: 18-year-old Zhang Ziyu weighs 30 kilograms more than Yao Ming s NBA, overload challenges the limit

6:59pm, 30 June 2025Basketball

18-year-old Zhang Ziyu shines in the adult arena. In the game against the Japanese team, she successfully scored double-digit points in half, and achieved an amazing result of 9 of 13 shots in just 14 minutes and 29 seconds, easily scoring 18 points and 10 rebounds. Her style of holding high and playing high made the Japanese women's basketball team sigh helplessly. After the three warm-up matches, Zhang Ziyu's average per game reached 18 points and 8 rebounds, while her average playing time was less than 15 minutes.

Although she is only 18 years old, Zhang Ziyu showed strong dominance with a height of 2.27 meters, and even when facing the level of the adult national team, she is not inferior. There is no doubt that she will be the rising star and appearance of the Chinese women's basketball team in the next ten or even fifteen years.

However, media person Yang Yi raised some concerns about Zhang Ziyu's health. He noted that she is now unprecedented in size and weight. He mentioned: "Zhang Ziyu is 2.25 meters tall, but his weight has reached 300 kilograms. What is this? When Yao entered the NBA in 2002, he weighed 240 kilograms, which means that 18-year-old Zhang Ziyu would have 60 kilograms heavier than 22-year-old Yao Ming! Can she stay healthy? Can the knees and lumbar spine bear such pressure? This is beyond the normal load. Moreover, girls' bone density is usually lower than boys. No expert in the world has ever seen a girl as tall as Zhang Ziyu."

Therefore, maintaining health and being able to play normally for a long time is now the top priority for Zhang Ziyu. Women's basketball coach Gong Luming is very cautious in employed people, and he keeps it within 15 minutes in every game. In order to reduce Zhang Ziyu's defensive pressure, he sometimes even let Han Xu, who is 2.11 meters tall, partner with her to form a double tower lineup. These strategies are all to protect Zhang Ziyu. The challenges faced by Zhang Ziyu are unforeseeable, after all, the unprecedented 2.27-meter-27 female basketball player has no precedent in history. However, her weight and body shape are still the result of normal growth. After all, her parents are both professional basketball players, and her strong genetic background makes her height not surprising. Gong Xiaobin, a legend in the men's basketball world, also emphasized that she does not need to lose weight at this time, it is a manifestation of healthy development. Therefore, Zhang Ziyu does not need to deliberately control his weight, but only needs to avoid injuries during normal training and improve his physical fitness. As long as she stays healthy, she will definitely become the world's top inside player, or even the secret weapon of the Chinese women's basketball team. Zhang Ziyu has a chance to create her own era! Looking forward to her future growth.

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