Intern Hu Jie, The Paper, reporter Qi Dong
On May 20, the Shanghai Jiushi Sharks men's basketball team finally officially announced the team's new coach - championship coach Li Chunjiang.
In fact, before the official announcement of the Shanghai Jiushi Shark Club, the Network has already reported the news that Li Chunjiang joined the Shanghai Jiushi Men's Basketball Team. At the same time, some netizens took pictures of Li Chunjiang appearing at the Shanghai Railway Station.
This operation of the Shanghai Jiushi men's basketball team is not difficult to understand - for the team, it needs a local coach with strength and qualifications to quickly sort out the team, and the "seven champions" Li Chunjiang is currently the most qualified coach on the market.
For the 58-year-old Li Chunjiang, joining the Shanghai Longshi Sharks, which has a clear team system and strong capital, is also a great opportunity to make a comeback.
Li Chunjiang.
"A river of spring water flows eastward"
Coincidentally, last season, Li Chunjiang sat idly in the coaching staff for half a season and had a direct relationship with the Shanghai men's basketball team.
On December 23, 2020, when Zhejiang Guangsha was at the lowest point of 1 win and 6 losses, they encountered the Same 2 consecutive losses of the Shanghai men's basketball team, and the situation of both sides was not good.
However, Sun Minghui was injured, and Wilson Chandler had already hung up the exemption card, making Li Chunjiang even more stretched. Although Guangsha scored 111 points under the leadership of Li Chunjiang, the Shanghai team scored 7 in double figures, fredette, Deng Meng and Luo Hanchen, taking advantage of the weakness of Guangsha's outside line to cut 20+, Guangsha had no choice but to swallow 3 consecutive defeats.
Since then, Li Chunjiang has put down the Guangsha teaching whip and retreated into the background, with Wang Bo leading the Guangsha team. Although the announcement says that Li Chunjiang took the initiative to resign due to excessive coaching pressure, this is just a conventional statement of the CBA...
In the seven seasons at the helm of Guangsha, Li Chunjiang's achievements are obvious to all - every season the team must enter the playoffs, win the first place in the regular season, win the seven major battles, and break into the finals stage... The military order of "breaking into the finals in five years" at that time made people see Li Chunjiang's arrogance and self-confidence.
However, the luck of the champion coach does not seem to be very good. Except for the 2017-2018 season, which reached the finals stage, Guangsha's playoff journey has always been unsatisfactory. They fall in the first round of the playoffs almost every year, and most of their opponents are the teams that reached the finals that season – Beijing in 2014, Liaoning in 2015, and Sichuan in 2016.
After Guangsha repeated the same mistake last season and was eliminated from the first round by Fujian Xiake, Li Chunjiang said: "The responsibility is borne by me alone, and I will give an account to the club and the board of directors." ”
In 7 years, Li Chunjiang has created a strong Guangsha men's basketball team; it is also 7 years, Li Chunjiang's "leather whip" can not twitch Guangsha forward, and another one is the best choice.
Liu Zheng served under Li Chunjiang for many years.
On the banks of the Huangpu River, the master and apprentice are reunited
The "Seven Year Itch" finally let go, and the signing of the Contract with Shanghai began over, which is more like a common need of both sides.
The Shanghai Jiushi men's basketball team has experienced two seasons of sinking, and it is in urgent need of someone to lead them out of the trough; Li Chunjiang left Guangsha and also needs a competitive CBA team to prove itself.
For the Shanghai men's basketball team, Li Chunjiang will not be unfamiliar at all.
Dong Hanlin has been in the league since 2008 and has won three consecutive championships in the first three seasons of his career, when he was under Li Chunjiang. In the first year of transferring from Guangdong to Shanghai, I met Li Chunjiang, who coached Guangsha, and Dong Hanlin had to go to say a few words of greeting when he warmed up before the game.
Although Ju Mingxin did not serve under Li Chunjiang, he came from the Hongyuan Youth Academy and had heard Li Chunjiang's teachings in his early years.
As for Liu Zheng, who just joined Shanghai, he played in Guangsha for 4 seasons and was personally trained by Li Chunjiang to become one of the league's top defensive top soldiers...
In addition, according to domestic media, in addition to Li Chunjiang as the head coach of the team, Li Qiuping is also expected to return to the club as a team consultant.
Dong Hanlin was also a former disciple of Li Chunjiang.
At the moment or the future, Li Chunjiang's answer is?
Li Chunjiang served as the head coach of the Shanghai Jiushi men's basketball team, and the first problem that needed to be solved was the pinching of the team lineup.
In the past two seasons, the Shanghai team has introduced too many players - from Ou Junxuan to He Zhongda, from Liu Zheng to Kolan Baike, the Shanghai men's basketball team is not bad on paper, but it is always almost hot.
When the wind is downwind, the Shanghai Jiushi men's basketball team will always show good strength, even in front of Guangdong, Liaoning and Xinjiang, it can become a "giant killer"; but once the wind is against the wind, the team will also become a "point boy" in front of Tianjin and Fujian.
In the final analysis, it is still the style of the Shanghai men's basketball team that emphasizes attack and light defense, and the team does not have a mature defensive system. Last season, Shanghai ranked 8th in the league with an offensive efficiency of 115.0, but its defensive efficiency was 115.7 in 14th in the league...
It just so happens that Li Chunjiang's iron fist rule of the army is his consistent style. Whether it is Guangdong during the 7th Crown era or Guangsha today, defense is in the first place.
In the 2019-2020 season, guangsha foreign aid replacement was extremely frequent, but even so, guangsha still ranked third in the league in terms of defensive efficiency, second only to the Two Teams of Beijing and Guangdong.
In addition, everywhere Li Chunjiang goes, he will dig out a group of young players. Needless to say during the Guangdong period, Hu Jinqiu, Zhao Yanhao, and Sun Minghui's Guangsha Sanshao also grew up under the wings of Li Chunjiang.
Today's Shanghai men's basketball team is also enviable in the reserve of young players: last year's U19 National Youth League, Shanghai team won the championship again after 20 years, and 4 members of the team were selected for the national youth; Li Hongquan, who played for the NCAA first-level league team Caspian University last season, is also expected to represent the Shanghai men's basketball team in the new season; as for Guo Haowen, who joined the team in the middle of the season, he is also the top talent in the league.
At present, the team has players such as Kelan Baike and Liu Zheng, as well as veterans such as Zhang Zhaoxu, which is the time to impact good results; and the growth of Guo Haowen, Ou Junxuan and others needs a lot of opportunities to continue to "level up".
So for the Shanghai men's basketball team, whether it needs the present or the future is a choice that Li Chunjiang needs to make. However, this champion coach with great personality should have the classic line in mind: "I want it all!" ”
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