After defeating the Sichuan men's basketball team 117-99, the Shanxi men's basketball team record came to 20 wins and 14 losses, ranking 9th in the CBA, and locked up the playoffs qualification four rounds in advance. Before the start of this season, I am afraid that no one could have imagined that the Shanxi men's basketball team could achieve this result. At that time, the Shanxi men's basketball team was like a broken house, and the 2 most important pillars were also sucked away, which can be described as unbearable.
It is often said that the past is unbearable to look back on, and the same is true for the Shanxi men's basketball team. Pull back the time back to the 2020-21 season, the Shanxi men's basketball team has a bad record, in order to change, but also changed the coach at one time, the young coach Pan Jiang replaced Ding Wei, but all the efforts were to no avail, and finally only achieved a record of 19 wins and 33 losses, ranking 15th in the CBA. At the end of the season, the Shanxi men's basketball team released Franklin and Ren Junwei. In the 2019-20 season, Franklin averaged 30.1 points, 10.1 assists and 9.5 rebounds per game, which is the number one contributor to the Shanxi men's basketball team to enter the playoffs, and in the 2020-21 season, the average data is also 24.8 points, 9.4 assists and 8.2 rebounds per game. In the first three seasons of leaving the Shanxi men's basketball team, Ren Junwei averaged double-double points per game, and in the 2019-20 season, he scored 15.8 points, which was the core of the interior attack.
Letting go of the two thighs inside and outside, the Shanxi men's basketball team looked flat, and it was clear that it wanted to rot and rebuild, and it was believed that it would sink further and become a big rotten team that was deceived by everyone. But the Shanxi men's basketball team did not slide down as expected because of the arrival of a person. He is the champion coach Yang Xuezeng, who has coached the Shanxi men's basketball team twice before, and has brought the team into the playoffs. This season, Yang Xuezeng has shown his superiority and saved the Shanxi men's basketball team from water and fire.
The reason why yang Xuezeng is good at adjusting foreign aid is also the basis for his success in the Shanxi men's basketball team. Before joining the Shanxi men's basketball team, Feld played for the Xinjiang men's basketball team and the Guangsha men's basketball team, but because of his height of only 1.76 meters, the defense was too weak, and he never received real recognition. But under Yang Xuezeng, Felder's weaknesses were covered up, and his firepower and passing ability were fully released. Becoming the offensive arrow and engine of the Shanxi men's basketball team, Feld played a super foreign aid level.
It is Simmons, who was returned after playing only 16 games in the Liaoning men's basketball team, after joining the Shanxi men's basketball team in the middle of the course, under the guidance of Yang Xuezeng, he also gradually played some high-level performances. In some games, Simmons was even used as a super foreign aid. For example, against the Tongxi men's basketball team, Simmons had 48 points and 8 assists in a single game, playing the Sichuan men's basketball team, and he scored 30 points, 4 assists and 5 rebounds in 18 minutes of playing time.
This is not the first time that foreign aid has taken off at once, and when he coached the Sichuan men's basketball team, he had a bigger stroke. In the 2015-16 season, Yang Xuezeng coached the Sichuan men's basketball team, with three foreign assistants, Haddadi, Harris and Duntemon. In the regular season, the three foreign assistants performed well under the coaching of Yang Xuezeng, leading the Sichuan men's basketball team to achieve a good result of no. 3 in the regular season. In the playoffs, their performance further increased, defeating strong teams such as the Guangsha men's basketball team and the Xinjiang men's basketball team, and entering the finals with a dark horse posture. Before the start of the finals, the Sichuan men's basketball team was not considered to be an opponent of the Liaoning men's basketball team. However, in the finals, the three foreign aides became a problem that the Liaoning men's basketball team could not solve, and the Sichuan men's basketball team won the championship.
Because of one more foreign aid than the opponent, the Sichuan men's basketball team's victory was controversial, and Yang Xuezeng was also considered to be just holding his thigh. In fact, this is not the case, haddadi, Harris and Duntmon joined the Sichuan men's basketball team, before joining the Sichuan men's basketball team, they played for the Qingdao men's basketball team in the 2014-15 season, but only reached the semifinals. In the Sichuan men's basketball team, the combat effectiveness of the three foreign aides can be further increased, and Yang Xuezeng's contribution is indispensable. In particular, Haddadi, under the guidance of Yang Xuezeng, has become an insurmountable barrier for the Liaoning men's basketball team.
Of course, if Yang Xuezeng will only use foreign aid, the Shanxi men's basketball team is only walking on one leg, it is difficult to achieve real transformation, and he also has a hand in the use of local players. Before Yang Xuezeng returned to the Shanxi men's basketball team, Ge Zhaobao had been mediocre for many years. This season, Ge Zhaobao achieved a big explosion, averaging 17.5 points per game and rebounding to 7.2. What is even more rare is that Ge Zhaobao has been stimulated to have greater potential, both to score on the inside and to shoot three points. As a first-class local insider, Ge Zhaobao was also selected as an All-Star.
Xing Zhiqiang, another veteran of the Shanxi men's basketball team, also has a huge leap forward. In the 2020-21 season, Xing Zhiqiang averaged only 4.5 points and 1.7 rebounds per game, reaching 12 points and 6.9 rebounds this season. From the obscure role to being compared with some local first-class forwards, Xing Zhiqiang has also become the thigh of the Shanxi men's basketball team. Not only veterans, zhang ning and other young players, there are also a lot of progress.
Being able to stimulate the potential of local players is also a major feature of Yang Xuezeng's coaching. When coaching the Sichuan men's basketball team, Yang Xuezeng once trained Zhang Chunjun and other teams to become championship-winning soldiers. In particular, Zhang Chunjun, who had the upper hand in the PK of Liaoning men's basketball national player He Tianju and Liu Zhixuan, became a strong point for winning the championship.
The local strength has quietly improved, and the shanxi men's basketball team has also become a natural thing. This is the third time that Yang Xuezeng has led the Shanxi men's basketball team into the playoffs, and the difficulty is far more than the previous 2 times, and even compared with when the Sichuan men's basketball team won the championship. Can lead the championship team well, but also save the fish belly, Yang Xuezeng can be called a magical leader.