Recently, Shanghai Jiushi Men’s Basketball Player Guo Haowen announced that he will participate in the 2021 NBA Draft. He also follows Xue Yuyang in 2003, Tang Zhengdong in 2005, Sun Yue in 2006, Yi Jianlian in 2007, Zhou Qi in 2016 and Yuchen Zou in 2017. , The seventh player in Chinese basketball history to take the initiative to sign up for the NBA draft. Guo Haowen, known as CBA’s “strongest post-00”, is only 21 years old this year. It should be said that he has a high talent and great potential, but at the same time his advantages and disadvantages are also obvious. Then the question is: Is his chance of being selected by the NBA?
With a tattoo of up to 2 meters, Guo Hao has excellent dribbling and breakthrough skills. He is a high defender who prefers to attack. But on offense, he still has many shortcomings. For example, the timing of shots is not reasonable enough, the offensive methods are not rich enough, and the long-range shooting rate is not high. Guo Haowen averaged 25.4 minutes per game and scored 13.9 points during the season. The shooting percentage is less than 25%. For a defender, this shortcoming is very obvious. It should be said that Guo Haowen is just a piece of jade now, even if he is not a leader among domestic guards, he has not yet played the strength of the NBA, so from the perspective of “immediate combat power”, the chance of being selected by an NBA team is not It is very normal to lose the election by then. Of course, one situation is not ruled out: there are NBA teams that value Guo Haowen’s potential and are willing to select him and then put him in the Development League or other leagues to exercise, and wait for the level to improve before playing in the NBA.
Now that Guo Haowen is preparing to participate in the NBA draft, the process of participation is far more important than the result. In the process of preparing for the draft, he can actually improve his own strength by participating in training camps or trial training. This is the most important gain. At present, young domestic players have too few opportunities to communicate with outstanding players of the same age around the world. With this opportunity to participate in the NBA draft, Guo Haowen can get a hard-won opportunity to improve himself. In addition, this year Guo Haowen signed Wasserman, the second largest brokerage company in the United States. The company previously helped him arrange summer training in the United States and obtained many high-quality training and competition resources. For example, there are no shortage of draft picks who train with him. Intense and targeted training camp, the effect can be imagined.
For an international player, most NBA team scouts will judge based on his performance in international competitions, but Guo Haowen’s most eye-catching performance was in some competitions in 2018 and 2019, for example, he had participated in 2019. The Nike Basketball Summit, etc., two or three years have passed since now, and the persuasiveness has dropped a lot. Now that he has signed up for the election, Guo Haowen should actively strive to participate in the joint training camps organized by the NBA before the draft, the international player training camps, and the group trial opportunities held by various teams. These activities include team training, group competitions, and even the NBA. The sharing of player experience, etc., can help him see the training level and technical ability of outstanding players of the same age in the world. In a high-intensity training environment, it can also stimulate Guo Haowen’s potential and desire to win, and maximize his own level.
Guo Haowen said that he will use this draft opportunity to challenge himself on different platforms, further improve his skills, become a better player, and realize his life dream of winning glory for the country. It is always a good thing to have a higher dream, which will make people more motivated to move forward. For Guo Haowen, it is not necessary to think too much about the results. Working hard to prepare for the draft is a process of improving himself. Even if he fails to hit the NBA, it is also a very meaningful thing to bring the harvest of this time back to the CBA arena.
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