The modern game asks for a higher level of conditioning than Allen needed in his first seven years.
“In a perfect world nowadays, (you) pick up full (court), you're guarding multiple actions and cutters, rebounding, pushing the pace and crashing. If you have a four-minute stretch and you want to be able to do (all of) that, it's a different level of shape than what I've done the first six, seven years of my career.”

