Looking back, Hongyuan team was originally a team pieced together by collecting retired national and provincial players from all over the country. The average age of the team is 30 years old, although in the first two seasons of A, relying on a solid technical foundation and rich practical experience, they won the runner-up and the third place respectively. But in the circle, they are also nicknamed "old mercenaries". 1997- 1998 When the season was handed over to Zhang Yongjun, the team was not only old, but also disabled. With the retirement of a number of leading veterans, Zhang Yongjun is facing the Hongyuan team, which is "a hundred wastes to be revived". But by the beginning of 200 1, the average age of the "Young Guards" that Li Chunjiang got was only 2 1, which was just on the rise.
This made the media and fans feel wronged for Zhang Yongjun, so that some people put forward the theory of "planting trees and picking fruits".
It can be said that Li Chunjiang became the coach of Hongyuan Team under the great pressure of public opinion. Lao Li is trying to do something to respond to outside questions. Unfortunately, things didn't go according to people's wishes. Li Chunjiang took over the team's first game and met the league overlord Bayi Team. In the case that the main defender Li Qun was injured, he fell behind by as many as 29 points in the first quarter! Bayi team scored 9 1 point at half-time, and the game entered garbage time early. In the end, Hongyuan team lost to Bayi men's basketball team with a huge difference of 53 points, 95- 148, and ushered in a five-game losing streak! This loss difference is also the team history record of Hongyuan team, and no one has broken it so far.
This is a far cry from the contest between the two teams in the first round. This further magnifies the sequela and controversy of coaching change. Captain Li Qun said at the time: "I was really surprised after hearing the news, because Zhang Dao had no signs of resigning before, and now he has resigned, which makes me feel very sad." Jason Dixon, a foreign aid, did not converge on the character "Yankee" at all, and bluntly said, "It's incredible! The club will save the game in this way, it's useless! We lost because many players (state) were not good, not the head coach (conductor). " Obviously, at this time, Li Chunjiang is facing not only the players' state and skills and tactics, but also how to make the players accept his new coach.
Fortunately, Hongyuan, who returned home, defeated the main foreign aid Bater and Beijing with 106-89. Li Chunjiang won the first victory in his coaching career, stopping the decline of losing five games in a row. This victory was ridiculed by some media at that time as a "silent ball" played by Shougang and Hongyuan. This hurt Li Chunjiang's self-esteem, and then the team didn't improve very well, but it showed Li Chunjiang's tough character. Even if the team fell behind by a big score, he asked to suspend the layout tactics in the last few seconds. It's okay at home, but when he's not here, it's all kinds of ugly sprays.
Although in the eventful autumn 00-0 1 season, it was successfully relegated two rounds ahead of schedule, but it was swept out by the Beijing team 2-0 in the first round of the playoffs.
0 1-02 season, Jason Dixon, an old foreign aid who played for the team for three seasons, left Cyprus on the grounds of "higher salary". This makes it more difficult for Hongyuan team, whose inside line is in jeopardy. Although Du Feng, Zhu and Wang all qualified for the main position, they eventually lost to the Shanghai team led by Yao Ming in the first round of the playoffs.
03-04 season, March 3, 2004, as the saying goes, "Ten years of hard study at a cold window will bear fruit." After three years of perseverance and careful training in Li Chunjiang, Du Feng, Yi Jianlian, Zhu, Wang, and other teenagers took charge of the outline and returned to China for one year. Finally defeated the old rival Bayi men's basketball team, won the first championship in team history, and also solved the hate of losing the championship last season!
You have to go through the storm to see the rainbow! Revenge after defeating Bayi Men's Basketball Team at home on 100 in Ningbo is a great pleasure in life. Li Chunjiang said in an interview: "I am very excited! Because I have struggled for more than ten years, it is not easy to finally stand on the highest podium on the shoulders of the Bayi team. " Li Chunjiang didn't refute the rumored "Hongyuan Dynasty", thinking that a group of young people in the team have grown rapidly and made remarkable progress, and will continue to dominate the stadium in the next few years. However, there are also different opinions. Li Yuanwei, then director of the Basketball Center, thought that Hongyuan Team might not dominate CBA as long as Bayi Team, but he was more concerned that the league should not only train players, but also make fans feel interesting. (This ... really has an inner flavor.)
In the next two seasons, Hongyuan team won the championship twice in a row, and completed three consecutive championships in one fell swoop. At that time, it seemed to let nature take its course.
05-06 season, the sixth round of CBA league, for all Guangdong fans, this is an away game with a lot to watch. In fact, I didn't leave Dongguan because it was a game against the new CBA army-Dongguan New Century. This is the first Dongguan Derby, the first match between Li Chunjiang and Zhang Yongjun in the top league of men's basketball, and also the match between Hongyuan Gold Card fans (the boss of the new century is a gold card member of Hongyuan Team) and Hongyuan Team.
Before the competition, Li Chunjiang responded positively to the "fruit picking theory" a few years ago for the first time. Li Chunjiang was angry with the media: "To be honest, when I took over, this team was ranked ninth in CBA. I later brought them into the playoffs and boarded the championship podium! " Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that Li Chunjiang didn't take over a champion team, but he finally brought the team into a champion team. Moreover, Lao Li still remembered wrong. When he took over, Hongyuan ranked 1 1.
In the 2006-07 season, after three consecutive championships, Li Chunjiang was sent by the club to the American Basketball Academy for further study, and the head coach was Li Qun, an assistant coach. Although Hongyuan team still won the first place in the regular season, it was defeated by Bayi men's basketball team led by Wang who just returned from the United States in the finals, and unfortunately lost the championship, which is also the last championship of Bayi team CBA. Yi Jianlian also bid farewell to CBA after losing the championship and embarked on the journey of joining NBA Bucks.
In the 2007-08 season, Li Chunjiang returned from school, regained his command position, quickly revived the team's fighting capacity, and won the finals with the first place in the regular season and eight wins in the first two rounds of the playoffs. In the end, Hongyuan team defeated Liaoning with a big score of 4- 1 and won the championship again! Excited Guangdong fans played the slogan "Spring River is coming, champion is coming".
The next four consecutive championships, the dynasty established by Hongyuan team at this time, have been shaken. Just behind the success, Li Chunjiang cursed the fiery personality of the players, opponents, referees and roaring technology desk.
In the 2007-08 season, Hongyuan team challenged Shandong team away from home, and the game was interrupted by the excessive behavior of home fans. Zhang Boyu, assistant coach and interpreter of Hongyuan Team, was hit on the head by a water bottle thrown into the stadium by fans in the North Stand, and fell to the ground. Li Chunjiang, who was arguing with the referee about the penalty, was furious and led the team directly back to the lounge. In the end, Hongyuan team was killed by Shandong team in the last 0.8 seconds. After the game, Li Chunjiang remained resolute. Zhang Jinghai, the competition supervisor, said that if you are not convinced, you can appeal to the Basketball Association. At this point, Lao Li exploded another classic quotation: "The game is over. Is it useful for me to complain?" ! Can I get two points for my complaint? Is it okay? "(This reminds me of what he said later when he took the Guangsha team." Look, teacher, he said he would give me a look back. He said that people in their forties are so bad? Huh? You give me an explanation. "And the referee refused to shake hands with the head coach after the game.
1 1- 12 season, Li Chunjiang's hot personality who dares to love and hate finally reached its peak. In the match between the finals and the Beijing team, it is even more famous that "foul will be cruel." If I don't blow you hard, I will blow you hard. Why not? ! ""Go and kill them, stop fighting and give me your leg, understand? ! You got it? ! "These words, although Du Feng and other players have explained that this is the usual training language of Li Dao, and everyone pays attention to their steps, which means nothing. But Li Chunjiang was still severely criticized by the public. Think about this sentence "Run to the basket! The referee is kind to us ",and think about what the director said many years ago," Let the fans feel interesting … ". I can understand Li Chunjiang's feelings at that time.
After the end of the season, Li Chunjiang resigned as the head coach of Hongyuan Team on 2013,6543816 October, citing health reasons. At this point, Li Chunjiang, the founder of the dynasty in the history of Hongyuan Team and the "roaring Buddha", left the team that he had struggled for more than 20 years. At that time, many fans spontaneously wrote in the Weibo that "it's cool when people leave tea".
This has to remind people of the famous "three-year fixed rate" of the great Hungarian coach Bela Guttmann: "If this coach stays in a club for more than three years, his players will become bored and complacent, and his opponents will start looking for countermeasures". Lao Li led the team for five years in a row. Liu Hongjiang's words can well represent the atmosphere in the team at that time: "The team may be a military camp. When one day I can't help the team improve myself, or it has become an obstacle to the team's progress, I will leave. "
In other words, eight years and seven crowns, isn't it a kind of pressure?
Let's remember that "Chunjiang is here, and the number one scholar is here"!