[Guo Qifang, Central South University, signed up for the CBA talent show and hopes to join Guangdong]]
On the morning of June 7, the results of the lottery in the CBA talent show lottery area in 2023 were announced, and Ningbo, Sichuan and North control took the top three shunts. It is predicted that zouyang of Tsinghua University and Chen Guohao of Guangdong University of Technology are the top candidates in 2023. Two days ago, the CBA company started the registration process for the 2023 CBA draft. The deadline for online pre-filling registration form was 17:00 on June 30. Players who passed the preliminary examination delivered the registration materials to the CBA company, the deadline for receiving is 17:00 on July 5th.
According to the news source, Guo Qifang, who performed well in the top 32 and the top 8, helped Central South University return to the top four in the country two years later, is also preparing to sign up for this year’s CBA draft.
At present, Guo Qifang is paying more attention to the CUBAL top four competition held in the music power sports center of Chengdu Xindu district on June 16-18. At 19:30 on the 16th, Central South University faced the national runner-up of Guangdong University of Technology last year. The winner will face the winners of Tsinghua University and Beijing Sports University in the finals. I played the last two games in my college life to help my alma mater Central South University go further. At the same time, I can also let more CBA teams and fans know him on the top stage of college basketball.
“I think our system is similar to that of Guangdong Southern Tigers. I still want to go to Hongyuan, and Du Dao is also a very strict coach.” Although the players are passive choices in the draft, Guo Qifang has his favorite team. In September 2020, Du Feng was hired as a part-time professor of Central South University. Guo Qifang and his teammates also received Du Feng’s brief guidance.
“He should go to a good team, a team suitable for him. The coach can trust him and give him time to grow up. I feel that giving him 10 to 15 games should be able to adapt to CBA.” Bai Jiang, the chief basketball coach of Central South University and “Iron handsome”, said when talking about the team Guo Qifang should go to, “he already has this ability now. It depends on his adaptation to the rhythm and confrontation of CBA games, after all, college basketball is completely different from CBA defense. He must adapt himself.”
Guo Qifang was born in Zhengzhou, Henan province in 1999. Neither of his parents had a sports professional background. The two sisters were not tall either. He smiled and called himself “gene mutation” when he grew to 1.9 meters “. When I started to practice basketball in the first year of junior high school, I entered the school team and got the top four in Zhengzhou city. Senior High School studied in No. 74 Middle School of Zhengzhou, and the senior high school coach recommended it to Bai Jiang, the basketball coach of Central South University.
At that time, in Central South University, Li Yilin, who had the nickname “Big Snake”, was more in rotation role than Guo Qifang. With Li Xiaolin being selected by Shanxi men’s basketball in the third place in the CBA draft in 2021, Guo Qifang played an increasingly important role in the system of Central South University and has become the core player of Central South men’s basketball.
In the CUBAL Southwest Division competition in March this year, Central South University won the Southwest King again, and Guo Qifang, who averaged 19 points and 3 assists in the game and 31 points and 4 assists in the final, also won the MVP. In the national top 32 competition, Central South University 80-77 reversed Taiyuan technology into the top 8 in the country. Guo Qifang scored 32 points, 4 boards and 5 aids. When the team fell behind by double digits in the fourth quarter, he scored 9 points and 1 assist, he helped Central and South Africa successfully reverse, and he also won the scoring king of the national top 32 with 92 points. Facing East China Normal University in the top eight, Guo Qifang won the big score in the two rounds of central and south China. In the first round, Guo Qifang scored 32 points, 6 boards and 5 assists. In the second round, he also sent 25 points, 12 boards and 5 assists.
Local fans affectionately call Guo Qifang “Guo Jordan”, his mentor Bai Jiang and his disciples Sun Dahu and Peng Jiaxin, who are already coaches, sometimes called him “Guo Jordan” in private and half serious “. “Xiao Guo can play No. 1. In our team, he is playing No. 1. His two advantages are that he can attack independently and the basket is very accurate, so he has the ability to play CBA.” Bai Jiang said.
Bai Jiang told Guo Qifang very early that if you want to play a higher level of CBA, you must also be able to play number one and become a dual-capable defender with excellent transmission and shooting skills. Perhaps, Wang Lanying, the champion of last year’s draft was one of the development directions.
In 2022, Wang lanzhang, a defender from Tsinghua University, was elected as the first star show and joined Tongxi in Nanjing. The rookie season performed well, sending out 13.3 points, 4.3 boards and 5.5 assists. Guo Qifang once fought with Wang Lanzhen in CUBA and has been paying close attention to his development in CBA.
“I did pay attention to Wang lanzhang and also watched some of his competitions in CBA. He plays basketball spiritually and intelligently. He plays basketball with his brain. He has something I need to learn, how to organize activities to join the team. Relatively speaking, I may be a bit more aggressive and can do better in terms of organization.” He said so.
According to the level of this year’s draft players, the outside world predicts that Tsinghua University zouyang and Guangdong University of Technology Chen Guohao are the most popular candidates in 2023. From the previous situation, the players who entered the CBA in the CUBA draft did not develop smoothly because of the height gap. On the contrary, the outside players played in the wind, such as Zhang Ning, zhu Mingzhen and Wang Lanqi, etc. The projection ability is very strong. Guo Qifang, a combat capability good dual-capable defender, should be selected in the lottery area. Perhaps the low-key Guo Qifang will become a black horse in this year’s CBA draft. However, Guo Qifang’s favorite Guangdong Southern Tigers, the current talent show is only the 14th in the first round.
