[Tianjin men’s basketball plans to hold a retirement ceremony for Zhang Zhaoxu at the beginning of the new season]]
News source, Tianjin men’s basketball plans to hold a retirement ceremony for Zhang Zhaoxu, the center of the team for two seasons at the beginning of the 2023-24 season, to thank him for his contribution and contribution to Tianjin men’s basketball in the past two seasons. Zhang Zhaoxu joined Tianjin men’s basketball in the 2021-22 season and helped the team return to the playoffs after eight years.
Zhang Zhaoxu left Shanghai men’s basketball for 11 seasons two years ago and signed Tianjin men’s basketball with a two-year top salary contract. At that time, Tianjin men’s basketball was short of people in the internal line. They decided to introduce Zhang Zhaoxu, who was in the second half of his career, to try to make up for the shortcomings of the internal line. Zhang Zhaoxu had suffered injuries such as waist during his first season in Tianjin men’s basketball, which affected his performance during a period of time. Zhang Zhaoxu was worried at that time. He even cried during a chat with the management. Since then, with the injury getting better, after Zhang Zhaoxu returned to the game, he did his best to contribute his strength. Backboard, cover, frame guard, defense, etc., Zhang Zhaoxu will try his best to do the work he can do on the court. That season, although Zhang Zhaoxu’s average data was not very prominent, he did bring a lot of help to the team. At that time, Tianjin men’s basketball completed the super car in the second half of the league and successfully entered the playoffs. The team said that many of Zhang Zhaoxu’s roles on the court were not directly reflected by the data.
In the 2022-23 season, Tianjin men’s basketball encountered more difficulties. When they lost the bonus of foreign aid usage and encountered a lot of injuries during the season, Tianjin men’s basketball’s record was not ideal. While Zhang Zhaoxu felt powerless on the court many times as he got older and suffered more injuries. “As you get older, your body functions have changed a little bit. There will suddenly be a feeling that during training and competition, I can obviously do this ball, or I can prevent it, or I can enter and grab it, but now it is just my mind that my body can’t keep up with it. After slowly starting to increase, this mood is actually a bit solemn and stirring. In this case, I have the idea of retirement.” Zhang Zhaoxu said. After the 2020-23 season ended in Tianjin men’s basketball, Zhang Zhaoxu’s two-year contract with Tianjin men’s basketball expired, and he also decided to retire. Zhang Zhaoxu did not leave basketball after retirement. He joined the ranks of TV commentary. At the same time, he has other plans.