Data map: Li Chunjiang communicates with the players.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
Chinanews Client Beijing, December 31st (Wang Hao) Earlier this month, the second phase of the 2020-2021 CBA regular season kicked off in Zhuji, Zhejiang.
In the second stage, there is no shortage of classic events.
In addition to competitions, the changes in the head coaches of some teams have also attracted attention.
On the evening of the 22nd, Zhejiang Guangsha Club announced that the head coach Li Chunjiang had been appointed as the team consultant and the team assistant Wang Bo was appointed as the head coach.
In 19 games coached by Li Chunjiang this season, the team has 9 wins and 10 losses, ranking only tenth in the standings.
However, many fans expressed surprise. In their opinion, there is another team's head coach that should be dismissed.
Pajagani in team training.
Screenshot of video data.
In the offseason, Beijing Shougang, who introduced Li Muhao and Fan Ziming, two insider generals, the performance after the start of the season was surprising.
On the day of Li Chunjiang's dismissal, Beijing lost 83:105 to Liaoning. After 19 games this season, they only scored 7 wins and 12 losses. Head coach Pajagani's call for dismissal is getting higher and higher.
Sure enough, the Shougang Club announced on the 23rd that Pajagani had changed to be a team consultant. Xie Libin, who led the team in the semifinals and played three games in Guangdong last season, took over as the head coach.
Although in the past CBA teams have often changed their head coaches, the two coaches are still a little special after class, especially Li Chunjiang has been coaching Guangsha for seven years.
In fact, due to the impact of the epidemic and changes in league policy, the CBA coaches this season have to face more difficulties.
Since the CBA rematch last season, the entire league has been concentrated and closed.
Being isolated from the outside world for a long time is a big challenge to the players' psychology.
It's okay when the team's performance is good. Once the performance fluctuates or even falls into a losing streak, the players are prone to negative emotions, which further affects the state of the court.
Pajagani in team training.
Screenshot of video data.
Under such circumstances, the head coach needs to have more control over the team than before.
As a European coach, Pajagani must have his merits at the tactical level, but after coming to Beijing to coach, he was somewhat "unaccustomed".
According to Beijing media reports, after the 17th round of Beijing’s loss to Shanxi, the visiting team was supposed to hold a press conference first, but after the home team Shanxi’s press conference ended, Pajagani was late with foreign aid.
This is because no domestic player wants to show up at the press conference.
Of course, the team that shows negative emotions on and off the court is not only the Beijing team.
This situation must be the result of multiple reasons, but it seems that changing the head coach is the most likely way to improve the situation immediately.
Almost every year on Li Chunjiang’s birthday, Guangsha’s official Weibo will send blessings.
Affected by the global epidemic situation, since last season, some teams' foreign aids have been unable to return to the team. Not only that, but also many teams have reduced their budgets for signing foreign aid.
In addition, as the CBA continues to promote foreign aid related regulations this season, it has further restricted the playing time of foreign aid.
Based on the above reasons, CBA has temporarily departed from the path of "drenched" full of foreign aid, and even timely adjustments are no longer easy.
Because of this, Li Chunjiang's dismissal from get out of class was inseparable from Guangsha's poor performance and the sudden departure of foreign aid Chandler, which accelerated his departure to a certain extent.
The situation in Guangsha is similar to Shanxi. In the 17th round of Shanxi’s 110:95 victory over Beijing, Shanxi’s foreign aid Franklin, who averaged 28.6 points per game this season, was injured and has yet to return to the field.
In the six games since then, Shanxi has 2 wins and 4 losses and lost in the head-to-head matchups with similar records in Sichuan and Shenzhen.
Shanxi is currently ranked 10th, but if Franklin misses the game for a long time, the long regular season to maintain such a ranking, the head coach Ding Wei pressure is not small.
Data map: Franklin (white) flew to block the opponent's shot.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Wei Liang
In this special season, both strong and weak teams have to face unprecedented difficulties. In a closed competition zone, the management, coaches, players, and logistics within each team have become a system.
Any problem in any link will inevitably affect the team's progress.
The head coach does have an obligation to be responsible for the record. The team must have problems with their poor performance, but to be fair, it must not be the only problem with the head coach.
An interesting coincidence is that after Li Chunjiang and Payagani left get out of class, the first games of Guangsha and Beijing both ended in failure.
Perhaps, the outside world still needs time to observe, how many people should be responsible for the team's poor performance.
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