The 2021-22 CBA regular season MPV answer was announced, and Guangsha captain Hu Jinqiu defeated 11 other candidates to win the MVP trophy. In season 7 of his career, the 24-year-old Korla teenager reached a new peak.
This is not the first time Hu Jinqiu has competed for MVP. In the second grade, at the age of 19, he entered the shortlist and ranked second in the competition of only 5 people, and finally lost to Ding Yanyuhang by a narrow margin. After that, he became a regular candidate for MVP. After years of hard work, Hu Jinqiu has now fulfilled his wish.
Heaven rewards hard work, 15-year-old basketball practice but became MVP
Hu Jinqiu's basketball path is different from most people.2
He was not born into a sports family, and he was not carefully crafted from a young age. At the age of 15, he left his hometown of Korla in Xinjiang and went south to Hangzhou to join the Zhejiang Guangsha team, and only then did he really start professional basketball training. Before that, basketball was just Hu Jinqiu's hobby, and he was eager to go to college and change his fate with knowledge. After resting, Hu Jinqiu's favorite thing to play is not basketball, but willful and crazy like a "wild child" in the Taklamakan Desert, one kilometer from home.
At the age of 15, Hu Jinqiu chose Guangsha to reduce the burden on his family and politely refused tsinghua attached high school, a student of Beijing basketball. At that time, Hu Jinqiu, who lacked basketball foundation, was almost a blank piece of paper. His level is comparable to that of Guangsha's 13-year-old player, and even the technical statistics are not understood. Adhering to the principle of "asking if you don't understand", Hu Jinqiu constantly absorbs like a sponge, and rapidly improves in one humble consultation after another.
"If it doesn't ring, it's already a hit." After that, Hu Jinqiu soared into the sky, from the main force of the Guangsha youth team to the core of the inner line of the national youth team; from the fledgling CBA rookie to the second-grade regular season MVP who won the ticket to beat the big brother Yi Jianlian; from the main force of Guangsha to become a national team and an all-star regular... Now, Hu Jinqiu has become the first local player in the history of Guangsha to win the MVP of the regular season, and explains what is "Heavenly Reward" with a magical counterattack.
Four years ago, Li Chunjiang, then head coach of Guangsha and single-handedly promoted Hu Jinqiu to a team and greatly cultivated him, said: "Hu Jinqiu has been engaged in professional basketball for less than 6 years, he himself is very hardworking, basketball talent is also very good, in the league, the national team are the result of his efforts, of course, and the team is also related." Some people may not be able to catch up with Hu Jinqiu for 10 years. Four years later, Brother Chun's words were still in his ears, and Hu Jinqiu, who was sleeping at night and always put his efforts on his lips, finally blossomed.
Bidding farewell to the pie king, MVP season has become the top internal line
For a long time, the label "Cake King" accompanied Hu Jinqiu.
But now, he has already completed his metamorphosis. This season, Hu Jinqiu's shooting percentage (73.1%) and true shooting rate are ranked first in the league (more than 60 shots in total). In the 2019-20 season, Hu Jinqiu's low-post back-play efficiency has ranked third in the league, second only to Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhelin, and can score 1.03 points per round of back-play (Yi Jianlian 1.21 points, Wang Zhelin 1.04 points). This season, Hu Jinqiu's back singles can score 1.2 points per round at one point. In addition, Hu Jinqiu's attacks such as mid-shots, fast drops, air cuts, and secondary attacks have been at the forefront of the league for many years.
Compared with the past, Hu Jinqiu's biggest improvement is the improvement of his offensive ability to hold the ball. Guangsha has hardly had outstanding small foreign aid in the past three seasons, and the offensive organization is almost only Sun Minghui, but Hu Jinqiu's data has not declined, but for the first time in his career, he has averaged 20+ per game for two consecutive seasons, and the shooting rate this season has exceeded 70% for the first time, and he relies on the superposition of singles technology. It is precisely because of this that Hu Jinqiu's offensive efficiency this season (146.7) can create a new career high, rank first in the league this season, and the efficiency value can also rank first in the league.
On the defensive end, Hu Jinqiu, who has gained more than 40 pounds in 7 years, has also performed steadily in protecting the basket and supplementing the defense with the continuous improvement of his confrontation ability. This season, his defensive efficiency (105.5) is also a career high. Compared with the offense, Hu Jinqiu's defensive data this season is not particularly prominent, but in the hard battle, he can always stand up when the team needs himself. In his first meeting with Zhejiang, he had defended Zhejiang center Yu Jiahao, who was 2.21 meters tall.
This season, Hu Jinqiu averaged 19 points and 7.6 rebounds per game against the league's top five teams, shooting 77 percent from the field. The stats are basically the same as this season's individual averages (21 points and 7.6 rebounds per game), and the shooting percentage is higher than the individual's shooting rate this season (73.1%). If it were not for the number of shots in multiple games or the limited playing time (and Shanghai and Guangdong did not play more than 20 minutes in the second game, playing Zhejiang and Shanghai have shot 7 times in a single game), Hu Jinqiu's performance will be more "strong when strong", which is also a better embodiment of Hu Jinqiu's ability.
No matter how hard he works, he knows better how to be a leader
This season, Hu Jinqiu's data is actually not as prominent as last season.
After the average playing time and number of shots per game dropped, Daqiu's average points and rebounds per game decreased slightly compared to last season. But Hu Jinqiu, 24, is worthy of a leader more than ever. When the team needs him in difficulty, he is obliged. When his teammates had better chances, he was willing to give up his position and work hard.
This season, before and after Guangsha introduced super foreign aid Okafor, Hu Jinqiu's sacrifice was very obvious. Before Okafor came, Hu Jinqiu averaged 32.6 minutes per game, averaging 21.9 points per game for the league's local players, averaging 12.3 shots per game; after Okafor came out, Hu Jinqiu averaged 28.7 minutes per game, averaging 18.2 points per game and slipping to the 11th place in the league's local players, and the average shot per game dropped to 10.4.
Compared with the undulating Okafu, Hu Jinqiu is the dinghai god needle of Guangsha. When He double-killed Zhejiang in the second game, Hu Jinqiu shot 15 of 17 and shot 32 points and 17 rebounds with an 88% shooting rate, and only rested for 2 minutes. But after the game, Daqiu's interview only had "we" and no "me". "This ball is a team victory, everyone is not easy, everyone is doing their best to help the team. Everyone fought very well, no matter how backward or how, they did not give up. ”
This has always been the style of Daqiu. Two years ago, in the rematch, Hu Jinqiu achieved an outbreak, at that time, he was very grateful to his teammates, "On the field, I will go all out to help the team and win the game." Of course, my own play is inseparable from the help of my teammates, everyone is a team, teammates help each other, encourage each other. In the third season as captain of Guangsha, Hu Jinqiu also knows how to be a leader better than ever.
epilogue
For a long time, the top spot in Guangsha belonged to Lin Zhijie, the "soul of the team". To this big brother who used to sleep in the same room and teach himself a lot, Hu Jinqiu was extremely grateful. When Lin Zhijie left the team, Hu Jinqiu said: "I will continue to work hard, improve myself, assume my responsibility, inherit your spirit, and wish us better and better in the future." ”
Three years later, Hu Jinqiu had already taken over the gun left by Lin Zhijie. After winning the first regular season MVP in the history of the Guangsha team, Hu Jinqiu will also launch an impact towards a higher goal.