Daniel Zhang Jun, a native of Huangshi, Hubei Province. The former national player of the Chinese men's national basketball team scored a total of 35 three-pointers at the Spanish World Men's Basketball Championship in 1986; in the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, he scored 4 three-pointers in 6 minutes to single-handedly reverse the host South Korea team; in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, he ranked fourth in the scoring list with an average of 20.4 points per game. Due to the accuracy of the three points and the strange shooting posture, people gave the nickname "crooked handle machine gun".
From 1993 to 1997, he played for Guangdong Hongyuan FC. After retiring from the club in 1997, he directly took over the coaching seal from the former Hongyuan team coach Wang Limin and embarked on a coaching career.
The Hongyuan team handed over to the Daniel Zhang Army, although it won the runner-up in the just-concluded season, many of the main veteran players in the team retired, making the team also fall to the bottom instantly. In the face of difficulties, the fledgling Daniel Zhang Army showed great boldness and directly let Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu and other young people who had just been promoted from the youth team serve as the main force. And "fast, accurate, spirit" as the teaching philosophy. It is required that the front line players should be flexible in running position, can shoot from the outside, and can break out from the basket when playing, and the defender players are required to be able to shoot and organize and be fast. As it stands now, this concept also runs through the direction of Hongyuan's training of youth training and the team's tactical play style of play for more than 20 years (only broken during Yunas' coaching). Whether it is Du Feng and Zhu Fangyu, who were trained by the coaches of the Daniel Zhang Army, or Zhou Peng and Zhu Xuhang later, until today's Du Runwang and Zhang Haojia. Defenders are also known for their small, sudden and fast speed, such as Li Qun, Wang Shipeng, Chen Jianghua, and now Hu Mingxuan and Xu Jie.
Time pulled back to the 99-00 season, the Hongyuan team at this time, after two seasons of careful tuning by the coach of the Daniel Zhang Army, with the continuous growth of Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, Zhang Boyu and other young players, under the play style of fast attack and long-range shooting, won the second best regular season record since the establishment of the team. Second only to the Bayi men's basketball team and the Shanghai men's basketball team with Yao Ming, they rushed into the playoffs.
In the first round of the playoffs, the victory over Liaoning was a revenge for the tragic sweep of last season's semifinals. But it was also very helpless in the semi-finals, which also made the Shanghai team with Yao Ming bleed the hatred of being eliminated by Hongyuan last season, and once again stopped in the semi-finals with a big score of 1-3.
Although it failed to lead the team to a historic breakthrough, it was still a full season. Daniel Zhang Jun was named the best coach of the season, Li Qun was the best defender, and Du Feng also shared the title of best newcomer with Jiao Jian. Li Qun and Du Feng were also selected for Jiang Xingquan's national training team, becoming the first batch of national players selected from the Hongyuan team. At this time, the Hongyuan team was considered by the media and fans to be one of the teams that had the strength to challenge the hegemony bayi team for many years in the league like the Shanghai team.
The media praised Daniel Zhang Jun: "Daniel Zhang Jun, as a young coach of the young zhuang faction, is good at observation, diligent in using his brain, knows people and makes good use of people, and boldly devotes himself to the cultivation and development of young players, so that the entire Hongyuan team got rid of the unfavorable situation of the general age of players at the beginning of the establishment of the team, so that the team glowed with unlimited vitality." The fast, changeable, outside projection style of play of the southern faction under the rule of the team has made many people applaud." The media even believes that Daniel Zhang Jun is one of the best candidates for the chinese men's basketball team.
Under the overwhelming clamor, the popular coach and the Young Guards suddenly made the hongyuan team's scenery infinitely better. Directly brought is an extremely hot ball market, the home game is full, even the aisles are full of fans who come to the scene to "listen to the sound". The average ticket revenue per match is 200,000, which was amazing more than 20 years ago! The Hongyuan team took the opportunity to vigorously develop club members, when the membership fee of gold card members reached 3180 yuan (at that time, the monthly salary of the editor was only 1200 yuan), even so, the gold card members had more than 200 people. Among them are Liu Hongjiang, who later founded the Dongguan New Century Basketball Club, and Sun Qikai (Zhao Rui's old owner) who founded the Dongguan Park lane basketball club.
As a coach, Daniel Zhang Jun is worthy of the evaluation of him by the media and fans, understands uniquely, and dares to think and dare to do. To say that ability is the basis of success, then character should be the guarantee of success.
Daniel Zhang Army has always been outspoken and fast-talking, and its mouth is not covered, mainly because it is not taken seriously. For example, in the 99-00 season, liaoning team performance suffered a big decline, this is the "next door old Wang family" thing, as an outsider Daniel Zhang Jun actually talked to the media: "It is very normal for the Hongyuan team to beat the Liaoning team, but the game has played such a big gap, which I did not expect... It is likely that there is a problem within the Liaoning team, which is certainly not something that Wu Qinglong and a head coach can solve." There are still many such things, and it is very strange to make oneself in the league. And after leading the national youth team to defend the title in the Asian Youth Championship in 2001, he actually put the blame on the young players and objective factors (how does this make me want to blow the bangs?). ）。 Not only that, but even in the Hongyuan team, even in the Hongyuan Group, many people have offended many people, and many internal people have a lot of criticism of him. But the highlights in the league at the time weakened, covered up, and even artificially healed.
When the time came to the 00-01 season, everyone's expectations of the Hongyuan team at this time can be said to have reached the peak. Fans all over the country are watching the Hongyuan team to see if it can really stir up the league's dominant "backwater" for many years (which has to make me feel the feeling of reincarnation, and today's Hongyuan team is not treated like the Bayi team in the past).
In the first round of the league, the Hongyuan team is still full of momentum, not only losing less and winning more, but also the real guy pulled the Bayi team off the horse with 107-100 in the sixth round! But the next development surprised everyone. In the second round of the game, Hongyuan first lost 109-120 away to Shanghai, then lost to Aoshen 95-109, lost to Liaoning 90-91, and lost to Jilin 97-104, ushering in a rare four-game losing streak.
On January 16, 2001, three days after losing to Jilin Team, Daniel Zhang Jun submitted his resignation to the board of directors of Hongyuan Group. Hongyuan Club quickly made a decision and agreed to the resignation of Daniel Zhang Jun, and assistant coach Li Chunjiang was promoted to the position of head coach of Hongyuan Team.
Unexpectedly, Daniel Zhang Jun, who was promoted by the media to the popular candidate for the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, became the first coach to leave class in the new season. For Anli, although the team has encountered difficulties and seems to have the possibility of sliding into the relegation zone, the record of 8 wins and 8 losses is also justified, and it is not without room for adjustment. Besides, Li Chunjiang, who was replaced, could not necessarily do a better job than Daniel Zhang Army. Therefore, the dismissal of Daniel Zhang Army should be more than just grades. Originally, as long as it was the home field, the team owner Uncle Lin was bound to go to the scene to watch, but just before the resignation of Daniel Zhang Jun, Uncle Lin was absent from the home stadium for two consecutive games, which made some Guangdong sports reporters at the time speculate that the Daniel Zhang Army's style of going its own way has made the Hongyuan senior management unbearable. Daniel Zhang Jun submitted his resignation directly to the group, not the club, indicating that this contradiction with the management can no longer be reconciled.
But in the end, the truth, the parties involved were secretive at that time, and it is still impossible to verify. But it is certain that Daniel Zhang Jun left with resentment, even if the personnel is still in The Grand Vision, he also actively participates in the competition for the national team coach. It is to prove their strength once again and tell people that the grand choice is wrong. It is only in the next ten or twenty years of experience that people are not wrong with Hongyuan's choice.
A generation of young marshals ended in Hongyuan's sadness....
Extra Edition
In the 14-15 CBA season, the 18th round of the regular season, Hongyuan defeated Zhejiang Chouzhou 133-116 at home.
After the score was reversed, due to dissatisfaction with the referee's decision, in the final stage of the game, the surprising continuous foul action was taken, resulting in 5 people in the Zhejiang team being sent off, and allowing the Hongyuan team to get 65 free throw opportunities. Both of these figures set CBA records and have not been broken so far. After the game, Daniel Zhang Jun, who was the head coach of Zhejiang Chouzhou at the time, said publicly: "Such a game, to put it bluntly, is not interesting." The players also have no emotions, unfavorable factors interfere with the game, play this, feel that there is no hope of winning, just foul it. But I don't think our players are very good at fouling and lack experience with strong teams."
As soon as this remark came out, the Zhejiang Chouzhou team made a public statement that night, informing and criticizing Daniel Zhang Jun, and said that it would study further punishments. But the club's punishment has not yet been studied, and a paper punishment of the Chinese Basketball Association has been sent. The Basketball Association determined that Daniel Zhang Jun's passive game, which seriously violated the spirit of sportsmanship and professional ethics, was banned from 5 games and fined 50,000 yuan.
alas! Zhang Shuai is still the Same Zhang Shuai of that year, or the teenager of that year....