This season, the two teams in Shandong Province, the Shandong Men's Basketball Team and the Qingdao Men's Basketball Team, can be described as a pair of difficult brothers in the CBA League.
Last season, the Shandong men's basketball team was not optimistic, all the way to the playoffs. In the second round of the playoffs, they eliminated the Xinjiang men's basketball team, one of the favorite teams to win the championship, and fought against Guangdong to the end in the semifinals.
This season, after the high-speed group re-entered the Shandong men's basketball team, coach Gong Xiaobin quickly announced his resignation, and the new coach Xu Changsuo's coaching ability was obviously not as good as his predecessor. Therefore, although the overall strength of the Shandong team has increased this season, the team's league results can be described by the word "bad".
Until the official return of the old coach Gong Luming, the Shandong men's basketball team gradually stopped the trend of declining performance, and they are currently ranked 10th in the league standings, if they can maintain the state of the recent period, playing into the playoffs should not be too much of a problem.
This season and the Shandong men's basketball team also have the same disease as Qingdao team, as the top 6 teams in the CBA last season, this season's Qingdao team completely lost the feeling of winning last season.
Due to the loss of all-star high school forward Liu Chuanxing, Qingdao's interior performance has been very difficult this season. Although Li Yuanyu was introduced from Sichuan and signed Lu Junhu, the hope star of the interior line, at the draft, the role of these two players in the qingdao team's inner line was completely incomparable with Liu Chuanxing.
Due to the epidemic, Qingdao's big foreign aid Dakari Johnson failed to return to China in the first stage of the league. Therefore, coach Wu Qinglong can only lead the Qingdao team of the all-Chinese class to compete in the first stage of the CBA League. The obvious decline in the strength of the team allowed Qingdao to win only 4 games in the first stage of the league.
After Dakari Johnson and Wells were in place, Qingdao had a 3-1 start to the second stage of the league. But then they suffered four consecutive defeats, consecutive losses to direct rivals Xinjiang and Beikong who impacted the playoffs, and also made coach Wu Qinglong questioned as never before from fans and the media.
As we all know, Qingdao's big foreign aid Dakari Johnson is definitely the top foreign aid in the current CBA league. Last season, it was the excellent performance of Johnson and Liu Chuanxing that made Qingdao play a brilliant result.
Johnson, who officially returned to the team in the second stage of the league, was slow to find his form, which is also a major reason for the current Qingdao team to suffer consecutive defeats.
In addition, although wells, the newly signed foreign assistant of Qingdao this season, has super scoring ability, he has not yet fully integrated into the tactical system of Qingdao team. From this point of view, Wu Qinglong does have a certain responsibility for the use of new foreign aid.
Therefore, there have been many news about Wu Qinglong's dismissal recently. And the fans have now found a replacement for Wu Qinglong for qingdao, who is the former Shandong men's basketball coach Gong Xiaobin.
From 2015 to 2018, Gong Xiaobin once coached the Qingdao men's basketball team and is still very familiar with this Qingdao team. And at present, Gong Xiaobin is still idle at home, and it is time to go out of the mountain now.
For Wu Qinglong, if in the next few games, he can't lead the team out of the trough as soon as possible. Then, the club is likely to replace Qingdao with Gong Xiaobin in order to make Qingdao playoffs this season.
From Gong Xiaobin's point of view, perhaps taking over the Qingdao team now and leading the team into the playoffs will undoubtedly be a great opportunity to prove themselves to the fans and the old owner Shandong men's basketball team!