A grudge duel became Guo Allen's unilateral personal performance.
In the first playoff game of the liaoning men's basketball team this season, Guo Allen played 38 minutes, shooting 16 of 21, 2 of 2 of three points, 6 of 6 free throws, 40 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists, becoming the first local player in CBA history to cut at least 40 points and 10 assists in the playoffs.
This season, guo allen is still surrounded by all kinds of unhappiness, rumors, doubts, injuries, but his response more often is similar to this post-match: "A normal game, I actually do my best to play badly." Sometimes the state is good and sometimes the state is bad, which is very normal. ”
Behind this is Guo Allen's continuous improvement in shooting, as well as an increasingly mature mentality.
Guo Allen's "advanced" style of play
When the Liaoning men's basketball team whistled in the first playoff game of the season, the three words "Guo Allen" immediately rushed to the top of the Weibo hot search list.
Hot search is not unfamiliar to Guo Allen, he has been on many hot searches this season - there are fines unpaid, there are injuries, and there are also big nephews who call such "network chaos", but there are not many who describe events in such pure names.
Obviously, the shock brought by a game to the fans is all contained in the three words "Guo Allen".
In the whole game, Guo Allen shot 16 of 21 and effectively scored 40 points and 10 assists, becoming the first local player in CBA history to score 40 points and 10 assists in the playoffs.
Two days ago, Shanxi's "iron barrel array" overwhelmed Chen Yingjun, and the repeated consumption of Zhang Ning, Zhang Chunjun, Zhou Zhandong and others allowed Shanxi to advance to the top 8 of the playoffs. But the same defense in front of Guo Allen became his personal show.
It is not excluded here that Liaoning's squad strength has helped Guo Allen share the pressure, but Guo Allen's single-point destruction ability has also been vividly displayed.
In this game, in addition to the iconic breakthrough and turn to the basket, Guo Allen used the most mid-range shots - 4 out of 16 goals, 2 throws and 2 three-pointers.
Five years ago, Gong Luming's advice to Guo Allen became the advice of many fans, that is, Guo Allen could not blindly break through, "What should I do if I can't move?" You have to learn to pass the ball. ”
"A real attacker, to be able to attack, pass, be able to defend, there can be no shortcomings in every link, he is now short in organization and passing."
At that time, Guo Allen did lack stable outside shooting in attack. But this is not only the dilemma encountered by Guo Allen, but also the status quo of chinese basketball as a whole - there are breakthroughs without three points, there are three points that are under-breakthrough, and as for the middle distance, few people use it.
Guo Allen has also suffered from no basket, the buried breakthrough in the World Cup, and the nickname of "Guo Yifen", which has been proof.
But these clips seem to be gradually becoming a thing of the past, and now he is no longer a fresh move in the CBA, but can better read the game, master the same rhythm changes, and more and more stable shooting.
In this game, Guo Allen shot 81.8% from the basket, 62.5% from the middle distance, and 84.6% from the field.
As netizens sighed, "Guo Allen's playing style is becoming more and more 'advanced'." ”
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After the game, Guo Allen was a little too calm in an interview.
"A normal game, I actually play well and play badly, I do my best to play. Sometimes the state is good, sometimes the state is poor, it is all to see the on-the-spot performance, these are very normal phenomena. ”
Guo has played only 21 regular season games this season, the fewest appearances since the 2013-2014 season when a broken right wrist was disbursed.
At the beginning of the season, Guo Allen missed 4 games on the one hand because of fines and on the other hand because of injuries; at the end of the second stage, Guo Allen returned to Shenyang early due to a thigh strain, missing two games at that time; at the beginning of the third stage, Guo Allen still hung up the exemption card.
It was also during this time that Liaoning, which ranked first in the league, suffered three consecutive defeats for the first time in the world... So Guo Allen made a comeback.
In an interview with Migu on the comeback battle, Guo Allen talked about his thigh strain, "Before and after I pulled several times, Jilin that time, the New Year training days to fight once, take a week off to fight the confrontation and think it is good and pulled, before and after I strained three times. Therefore, this time it is very serious, and I dare not rush to play the game. ”
"I wanted to take a few more breaks, but I couldn't do it, and I felt ok." Luckily today there was no feeling of strain and strain. It felt good after playing my legs today, which made me the happiest. ”
This season's Guo Allen, for a long time due to injury did not have the opportunity to truce, 21 games of qualification, but also let him not be eligible for the selection of various honors - did not enter the MVP selection, not in the best team, did not receive any honors.
This status quo and the previous seasons for various reasons did not have the MVP in tandem, it is easy to make fans angry for him, "the first 40+10 local player in the playoffs, even did not even qualify for the MVP selection? ”
This season alone, Guo Allen's failure to win various awards is indeed due to the hard indicator of less than 70% attendance.
However, compared with the previous seasons, the anger and competition in Guo Allen's body have faded a lot.
Even though In the middle of the season, Guo Allen also had a debate about the "big nephew", but similar situations have become less and less. In the third stage of the CBA, when fans discussed the topic of "whether Guo Allen was injured or not", he only responded with a stadium photo of "training time, the situation is better", which is much milder than before.
And Guo Allen's Douyin account, the last update was on December 19, 2021, when Guo Allen had just finished the window period of the national team game, in the "boring" stage of the isolation period.
In fact, in the past two years, when Guo Allen talked about himself, he often emphasized his identity as a veteran team member.
For example, after the match with Shenzhen last season, Guo Allen said: "I suddenly became an old player, so I have to do better, and my temper is also a little impatient, and I also need to change this aspect." ”
Against Shanxi, Yan Pengfei will use some small actions when blocking Guo Allen, and foreign aid Simmons will make a "crying ghost" action towards Guo Allen, which is nothing more than trying to provoke Guo Allen, but the latter's response is one goal after another.
At this moment, the fans have a sense of Kong Jie's déjà vu: "Xie Baoqing, Xie Baoqing, what are you going to provoke Li Yunlong?" ”
Behind this, is Guo Allen's more and more mature mentality, just like the Liaoning official micro evaluation after the game: "Normal work, normal work, Guo Allen is always so cloudy and light." ”
(The Paper)