CBA chaos: Guo Allen was expelled from the scene to set off a controversy, Yang Ming apologized for it, and the two whistles were just punished for cheating

Reporter | Joe Tudi

On the evening of November 4, 2021, Beijing time, in the 9th round of the 2021-2022 CBA regular season, Liaoning defeated Shanxi 129-97, ranking first with Zhejiang and Guangdong with a record of 8 wins and 1 loss.

However, Liaoning men's basketball defender Guo Allen was expelled from the field for eating two technical fouls in succession, causing huge controversy, and the entry "Guo Allen was expelled" continued to dominate the first place in Weibo's hot search.

In the entry was Guo Allen's post-match Weibo: "I can't understand it, I went to play the game, goodbye", and the Weibo has received more than 200,000 likes.

With 4 minutes and 37 seconds left in the third quarter of the game that night, Guo Allen faced Shanxi Yang Kai's defense to complete a breakthrough layup, and because the referee did not blow Yang Kai's physical contact, Guo Allen immediately complained to the referee and expressed his doubts.

The referee ignored this and instead gave Guo Allen two technical fouls to expel him from his position.

At this time, Guo Allen did not want to leave the field and still tried theory, until head coach Yang Ming went forward to carry Guo Allen off the field, and the game continued.

At the post-match press conference, Yang Ming took the initiative to talk about the field and apologized for Guo Allen.

Yang Ming said: "The only thing that is deficient is that Allen apologized to everyone and apologized to the referee through the media lens. For the referee's judgment too much complaints, the team will summarize, and strive for the coaching team to grasp the field environment and the scale of the referee's penalty in the future, and not make similar mistakes. ”

After that, the entry "Yang Ming's press conference apologized for Guo Allen" also continued to appear in the top three of Weibo's hot searches.

Three days ago, on Nov. 1, Guo Allen was just named the CBA's second-week player of the week — in rounds 5 to 7, Guo Allen averaged 31 points, 4 rebounds and 9.7 assists per game, shooting 73.3 percent from three-point range. Liaoning also won all three games.

Before that, Guo Allen missed several games for not paying the fines the league issued last season.

In the first stage of the new CBA, controversial penalties occurred frequently, and the referee's refereeing standard was also questioned by the public.

On November 1, Guangzhou men's basketball coach and Guo Shiqiang, who is also Guo Allen's uncle, was suspended for five games and fined 20,000 yuan.

The incident stemmed from the away match against Jilin in Guangzhou on October 31, because the scores of the two sides were very close, and Zhu Mingzhen chose to pursue fouls after entering the countdown, and six times he needed to leave the game. However, the Guangzhou team insisted that the referee did not blow the whistle when the previous generation of Huaibo walked illegally, and the coach Guo Shiqiang also refused to be replaced, and the referee seat was deadlocked, and the team initiated the voluntary abstention procedure on the spot and began the three-minute countdown.

The CBA League pointed out that Guo Shiqiang's behavior "seriously interfered with the normal progress of the game and caused adverse effects on the CBA League".

The referee report released by the CBA on November 1 showed that Dai Huaibo's failure to walk without a whistle was indeed a mistake for the referee, and the handling of the Guangzhou team's "initiation of the team's voluntary abstention procedure" was also a referee's mistake.

On the afternoon of November 4, the Chinese Basketball Association issued an announcement saying that two CBA referees, Wei Guoliang and Ye Nan, colluded to cheat in the 2021-2023 FIBA Technical Officer Certification Physical Fitness Test held on January 6, 2021, to test the non-standard version of the music instead of the standard version, resulting in a 20-second extension of the actual test time and not obtaining the international technical officer certification qualification. The Basketball Association decided to revoke the technical level qualifications of Wei Guoliang and Ye Nan as national basketball referees from November 4, 2021.

At the same time, the Basketball Association also announced the reform measures of the referee management system and mechanism, including "adjusting and enriching the referee committee; strengthening the pre-job assessment and training of referees; unifying the management of referee selection, supervision, assessment and evaluation; abolishing the special regulations for refereeing in the CBA League; uniting with the International Basketball Federation to supervise the referee's referee; implementing the linkage between referee promotion and demotion and supervision, eliminating the last ten percent, and improving the referee incentive mechanism." ”

In addition, the CBA also issued a penalty notice on November 4, indicating that on the evening of October 14, Zhang Chi, president of the Athlete Development Department of China Basketball Federation (Beijing) Sports Co., Ltd., and Miao Shoushou, general manager of Zhejiang Guangsha Club, drank alcohol illegally while having dinner in the hotel where they lived in the competition area, and the league organizing committee gave a warning and notified the handling of criticism.

On November 1, Tongxi player Xi Relijiang released a video taken in the team's shared gym, pointing out the problem of players wasting water, and the video attracted attention. CBA issued a post-announcement saying that it would implement a "one person, one water" system.