Editor's note: The original article was written in February 2021, which was Chen Yingjun's first year of following Guo's guidance, and the transformation was obvious, but it was really unexpected that he would take another big leap in the second year. At the end of the season, although there are regrets, the honeymoon period of master and apprentice is still continuing, looking forward to the next season!
Guo Shiqiang arranged tactics in a Northeastern dialect, Chen Yingjun's standard Taiwanese accent at the post-match press conference, this is the interesting highlight of the Guangzhou team this season, the two people who are not matched suddenly met, and the uncle smiled and let go of his dreams for the 182CM treasure island small man.
In the Guangzhou team struggling for the playoffs, Chen Yingjun in Guo Shiqiang's eyes is both Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei.
The CBA's idealized point guard should have Guo Allen's height, speed, strength, and hot blood, with Zhao Jiwei's calmness, overall view, defense, of course, if you add Sun Minghui's bounce and Wu Qian's projection, it is simply a perfect all-round warrior.
There is always happiness in dreams, Chen Yingjun neither has the height and speed of Guo Allen, nor does he have the same defense as Zhao Jiwei's brown candy, but under Guo Shiqiang, he has rewritten his career single-game assist record twice in the past half a month. He gave 18 assists against Shanghai and shared the record of active local players with Guangsha core Sun Minghui and Tongxi general Xi Relijiang.
So far this season, treasure island defenders have averaged 7.9 assists per game, ranking fourth in the league, while averaging 13.3 points per game to win the team's homegrown player scoring champion. This season, the people who can lead both assists and local players in the team are Zhejiang Wuqian, Liaoning Guo Allen and Tongxi Relijiang, they are all in the top five of the assist list, and the fourth place with Chen Yingjun is Guo Shiqiang's nephew.
Although Chen Yingjun was born in Baodao, there is a good fit between the style of the ball and the Liaoning defender.
In 1993, Taiwan's Miaoli, Chen Yingjun was born here, the same year across the strait, 18-year-old Guo Shiqiang entered the Liaoning basketball team and began the road of professional basketball. When he was a child, Chen Yingjun was already a prominent figure in taiwan's campus basketball industry, and he had won many honors in elementary school and middle school, and what really made him famous on Treasure Island was after studying Nengren Family Business.
The name of Nengren Jiashang, today probably many fans have heard, in the 2018 Naigao Finals, Nengren Jiashang and Tsinghua Fuzhong Narrow Road met, the average height is shorter than one head more than Nengren Jiashang played a landmark little fast spirit, rushed down tsinghua Fuzhong proud of the steel Janissaries, that battle is impressive.
Chen Yingjun is a typical product of the Nengren family business xiao kuai ling, under the rule of Coach Lin Zhengming, he won the HBL League rookie king in his first year of high school, three years of high school, two runners-up, two assist kings, one steal king, and eight sides of the mighty wind. Unfortunately, the young Xiao Chen met the "Green Aegis" Matsuyama High School three consecutive champions and failed to win the championship, so that Coach Lin Zhengming led the team to win the championship for the first time 9 years late.
Interject to talk about coach Lin Zhengming, his coaching career is also legendary.
Noh's playing style is in line with the Chinese Taipei team, and Lin Zhengming once coached the Taipei U18 youth team. His basketball philosophy emphasizes high-speed attack and defense, full-court pressing, extremely high requirements for the physical fitness and tactical execution of players, and there is a 60-meter-long 40° slope on the Nengren Family Business Campus, which is the nightmare place of the players, and the coach's favorite turn back to heaven.
After 2012, coach Lin Zhengming took over the coaching seal of the professional league SBL Yulon team, and later returned to campus to lead the team to win 17 games in the 18-19 season to win the late high school championship. He is also the father of Lin Tingqian, the tianjin eye of the eye, and the Qingdao team's well-played defender Lin Weihan is also his favorite at Yulon.
As a teenager, Chen Yingjun began to be known to mainland fans, starting from the 2010 U18 Asian Youth Championship, he averaged 11 points, 3.6 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game, leading Chinese Taipei to defeat Iran to win the third place, and successfully qualified for the World Youth Championship, the second time in history. By the way, the MVP of that tournament was Guo Allen, who averaged 18.6 points per game and successfully won the championship.
At the 2011 U19 World Youth Championships, Chen Yingjun faced Guo Allen for the first time.
The world youth tour of the two youngsters is not very smooth, and Taipei's strength on the world stage is naturally not enough to see, but Chen Yingjun can contribute 13.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2.2 steals in each of the first five games, which is a rare highlight of the team. Guo Allen is also very sad, although he has performed well personally, but The national youth did not barely reach the 13th place in the tournament until the final victory over Taipei.
Chen Yingjun and Taipei only won one game, against Tunisia, he made a big splash, cut 24 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, all three statistics to lead the team. At that time, he met Guo Allen, a professional player who had already played a season in the CBA and won the MVP of the Star Sharps Tournament, and he himself was only a high school student who could be a benevolent businessman, so the different life trajectory continued, and he decided to go to the United States to study.
Before the language and cultural barriers, Chen Yingjun first went to The Gaiston High School in North Carolina to study preparatory school, and then entered the NCAA second-level institution Belmont University. The difficulties in life are always more than it seems, and his freshman season can only be watched by the red shirt for a year due to his academic performance, which is not a small setback for young people in the upswing period.
Chen Yingjun's NCAA career is not brilliant, but it is inspiring enough.
The sophomore finally ushered in the game, averaging 9.4 points, 2.2 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game, and the junior hit the main force, averaging 14.1 points, 3.4 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game, and in the senior season, he started all 27 games, averaging 16 points, 3.5 assists, 3.6 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game, shooting 47.9% from the field. This is not easy for a yellow person who is in his early eights with a height of one meter and eight heads.
After graduating from college in 2016, Chen Yingjun had planned to enter the professional league, but The University of Liberty in the NCAA First Division threw him an olive branch. As a freshman, he still had the opportunity to play, and his dream of playing in the First Division prompted him to return to the United States to study for a master's degree in sports management while playing for the Flames in the NCAA.
Chen eventually became the second player in Treasure Island to receive a NCAA First-Class College Scholarship. The first one is actually familiar to everyone, is Wu Yongsheng, who joined Xinjiang this season, he joined the Sacramento State Hornets in 2015, averaging 6.2 points, 1.3 rebounds and 1 assist in his freshman year, but unfortunately suffered a knee injury in his sophomore year and failed to go further.
In the 16-17 season, Chen Yingjun's last year in the NCAA, averaging only 7.1 minutes per game, the data was only 1.74 points, 0.54 assists and 0.86 rebounds, but he played all 35 games, one of the team's most appearances. This experience let him know the beauty of realizing his dreams, but also saw the cruelty of dreams, and the principle of competitive sports is strength.
After six years in the United States, Chen Yingjun was 24 years old when he left the United States.
Before becoming a CBA champion, Chen Yingjun did a few more spectacular things, he averaged 20.4 points, 6 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game in the 39th Jones Cup, and was selected for the best team in the game. The 2017 Universiade was held in Taipei, with Chen Yingjun leading the team.
As the host, Chen Yingjun can be described as a limelight, first beating Hungary to let the team win the first Universiade in ten years, and then leading the team to break through Mexico. By August 24, with the enthusiasm of the Taipei Arena, he exploded with 26 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists, and scored 4 points to beat his rival South Korea. At this point, Chen Yingjun finally completed the tortuous road before entering the professional league.
In the 2017 CBA Draft, Guangzhou selected Chen Yingjun, becoming the first champion in history to come from Treasure Island. Guangzhou favored him, and soon after the selection, he sent a 6-year contract, the annual salary of the first quarter was close to 1 million yuan, and in the last two years, he also had the right to choose players, which is probably extremely rare in the history of the CBA league.
In the double heaven of ice and fire of anticipation and ridicule, Chen Yingjun's CBA career began.
Guangzhou did not misread this mature defender, on October 29, 2017, Chen Yingjun scored 13 points in his CBA debut, Guangzhou beat Shanghai, he is the only player in the team outside the three foreign aides to score in double figures. The second game of his career was against Guangdong, Chen Yingjun shot 4 three-pointers off the bench, cut 20 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, which can be described as amazing.
In the first five games of his CBA career, Chen Yingjun averaged 14.4 points per game, but he did not expect trouble to come, and in the 9th game, the right palm bone was broken, so he was absent for up to 3 months. After returning at the end of the season, he once scored in double figures in seven consecutive games, which can be regarded as a non-negative title.
In the following two years, Guangzhou lost the glow of three foreign aides leading the team into the playoffs, and once again became a fish belly, while Chen Yingjun was constantly honing his skills and groping for a way forward in the abyss of losing. Until this season, Guo Shiqiang went south and brought two pamphlets to Chen Yingjun, one called "The CBA Survival Rules of 183 Defenders" and the other called "Guo Shaoxia Quick Attack Experience".
Fate sometimes has to be created by themselves, and there is a story before Chen Yingjun and Guo Shiqiang meet.
On June 23, 2020, Guangzhou against Liaoning, Chen Yingjun shot 12 of 20, a career-high 29 points, and 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal, he made 8 mistakes under the crazy rush of OJ Mayo and Guo Allen, but he still withstood the pressure, scored key goals, and won the cold. Five days later, Guo Shiqiang resigned and left Liaoning, and soon after he decided to go south, taking over Guangzhou.
Today, the 27-year-old Chen Yingjun has played his best season under Guo Shiqiang, currently averaging 13.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 7.9 assists and 2.2 steals per game, rebounds, assists and steals are career highs, shooting 44.7% + 40.7% + 88.2% of the three shots, and he averages 2.7 turnovers per game, the lowest in the top five assists.
Guangzhou's local players have a weak foundation, far weaker than Liaoning, and the defender line is even thinner, so there are fans laughing, under Guo Shiqiang, Chen Yingjun is a two ambassadors, both Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei. This is true, he now leads the team in assists, steals, three-point shooting rate, free throw shooting rate 4 items, but it is both offensive and defensive, busy and happy.
It is often said that Liaoning is a defender, and Guo Shi emphasizes that there is indeed a set of teaching defenders.
Accustomed to watching Guo Shiqiang take Liaoning and watching him coach Guangzhou, there is always a feeling of Tengger's cover singing of "Invisible Wings", the absurdity of the master, and the wonderful sense of violation. By the way, Tengger also sang a cover of a song "Can You Please", if you want to feel the collision of Guo Shiqiang's Northeast dialect and Chen Yingjun's Taiwanese accent, it is recommended to listen to it, the lyrics are also very good: maybe I hit the south wall to turn back, maybe I will die when I see the Yellow River, maybe I want a road to the black bar...
Deviated, Guangzhou under Guo Shiqiang, with the discipline and teamwork that is difficult to see by weak teams, Guangzhou averaged 21.3 assists per game this year, a new high in team history, but the score was the lowest in 4 years. Chen Yingjun went from being a Nengren family businessman to traveling in the United States to the past few years of experience, and his tactical execution ability quickly flashed after meeting Guo Shiqiang, jumping to the top of the league assist list.
Chen Yingjun and Guo Shiqiang may be a match made in heaven, he plays with fierceness in his bones, has the tenacity of Liaoning, and is defensive enough to fight. However, he still has a lot of shortcomings, offensive stability needs to be improved, defensive end forced to change fouls and effective defense is a trouble, he averaged 3.4 fouls per game this season, 9 games received 5 fouls.
Soldiers die for confidants, women are pleasing to themselves, and Chen Yingjun is repaying Guo Shiqiang's trust.
When he came to the CBA in 2017, Chen Yingjun was already 24 years old, his playing style was relatively mature, and his performance was very good, in fact, in the next three years, his data was mixed with "water", in the 18-19 season, he had nearly 7 appearances and only played less than 20 minutes, the data was extremely poor, even last season, playing several games in Liaoning, Guangsha, and Beijing, he was only on the bench for ten minutes. It hurt his data and hurt his heart even more.
Under Guo Shiqiang, Chen Yingjun has gained absolute trust, and so far he has made all his debuts in the first season of his career, and the shortest playing time has exceeded 26 minutes. As long as he plays hard to fight, he no longer has to worry about losing the opportunity to play because of poor hand feeling, and Guo Shiqiang always believes that he can finally adjust to his state.
The pair hated each other late, against Shanxi, Chen Yingjun made a mistake in pressing near the middle circle, but failed to really control the ball, and failed to save the ball after the two people hit the ground, watching the ball slip out of the sideline. Chen Yingjun lay on the ground and slapped the floor angrily, while Guo Shiqiang, who was beside him, bent down slightly, and kept applauding him. Vote for me with a wooden peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao.
Chen Yingjun was also a handsome man with big eyes, and when he sat on the bench, stared at the glowing eyes, and looked at Guo Shiqiang, who spoke a Northeastern dialect, you could probably see the light called hard work coming from behind the young man. Whether it is a Northeastern dialect or a Taiwanese accent, in the basketball world, some hearts naturally attract each other, and some words are understood before they are exported.
Guangzhou's future is still far away, but it is already on the road, whether it is a city or some people, we must learn to appreciate the sparks of collision in order to continue to grow.