The league's 20th, 2 wins and 36 losses, this is the 2021-22 season of the Tongxi men's basketball team. After ending the 38 rounds of regular season competition throughout the season, Tongxi also ended the season with the penultimate first.
Compared to last season, Tongxi's ranking has dropped by one place this season, and the winning percentage has dropped from 16.7% last season (9 wins and 45 losses) to 5.3% this season.
27 consecutive defeats
If there is one word to describe Tongxi's performance this season, then "dismal" is undoubtedly the most appropriate. They are not a small part of the injury, but the injury is obviously not enough to allow Tongxi to win only 2 games in the whole season. Not to mention, they also saw a staggering 27 consecutive losses during the season, setting a record for the longest losing streak in CBA history.
Throughout the season, Tongxi's record was also extremely dismal. 2 wins, 36 losses, and a 5.3 percent win rate are the worst CBA records in the last 19 seasons. The last time the CBA had a team with a lower single-season win rate than Tongxi and fewer single-season wins than Tongxi was in the 2002-03 season. That season, the Hong Kong Wyvern had only 1 win and 25 losses, with a winning percentage of 3.8%. In the 38 rounds of regular season, Tongxi only defeated Jiangsu and the new army Ningbo. At the same time, they also lost to their opponents in the second game with Ningbo, becoming the first team in the league to lose to Ningbo, which also became a hot search for the CBA at that time.
Before the start of the season, Chen Guangchuan, chairman of Tongxi Group, said at the team's departure ceremony: "I believe that under the leadership of the head coach, we will definitely achieve satisfactory results this season. The new season wishes everyone more wins in the next competition. As a result, Tongxi's performance was the worst in the calendar year. Since entering the CBA in 2014-15, Tongxi's previous single-season wins were the fewest single-season wins in 2016-17, with a minimum win rate of 16.7% (9 wins and 45 losses) last season. This season, whether it is the number of wins or win rates in a single season, Tongxi has created the worst team history after entering the CBA.
Change of coach
Tongxi has also made some changes in order to improve competitiveness. On November 25 last year, Tongxi officially announced that the team's former head coach Besinović would no longer be the team's head coach, and former Tianjin coach Liu Tie replaced Bei Shuai to coach Tongxi. After joining Tongxi, Liu Tie is indeed as conscientious as ever, not only actively helping players polish their skills in training, but also passionate on the field. After Liu Tie joined, Tongxi also signed Edwards, a former Tianjin foreign aid and had played for Liu Tie, in the second stage of the regular season, but the unknown foreign aid had limited ability, averaging only 14 points, 7.9 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game this season, and the success rate of sports warfare was limited.
Therefore, no matter how hard Liu Tie tries, he cannot hide the fact that Tongxi's overall competitiveness is limited. In the end, Liu Tie's joining failed to lead Tongxi out of the trough.
Notification door
During the season, there was also a farce within Tongxi. After the first stage of the regular season, an online "internal document of the Tongxi Group" was exposed. The content is the tongxi group's report criticism of the results of the first stage of the tongxi men's basketball team. At that time, Tongxi, who ranked 19th in the league and only had 1 win and 12 losses, was obviously different from the top 12 goals of the league promised by the team to the group, and in the end, the team's general manager Huo Nan and the coaching staff were criticized by the Tongxi Group. Different from the general network documents, this document is stamped with the red seal of the Tongxi Group, for this reason, the credibility of the document is higher, and the "notification door" was also once boiling, and this also exposed the internal contradictions of Tongxi.
MVP in the team: West Heat River
Tongxi's best performance this season is still team defender Xi Relijiang. Throughout the season, Celiko averaged 17.2 points, 8.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game, all three of which were the highest in the team. Although Xi Re's shooting rate is not high (35.6%), in the case of a long absence from the game due to injury and the limited overall strength of Tongxi, Xi Re can play such a performance is already good, because Tongxi's foreign aid performance this season is even worse than Xi Re. As a projection defender, Nishi needs to change his playing style, he not only organizes but also defends and attacks, which is indeed a bit difficult for him. But as one of Tongxi's top-paid players, Xi Relijiang still played his best performance.
Last season, Tongxi's then-head coach Besinović said that the team only had two semi-professional players, one was Xi Relijiang, the other was Moortree (a foreign aid at the time, who joined Xinjiang this season), and the "half" was Wan Shengwei, who lacked some experience. Today, only Xi Relijiang still has a good performance in Tongxi.
Future outlook
As the penultimate number one, Tongxi will also have a high-ranking draft pick this summer, which will help them continue to select good players in the draft. For example, Zhao Baiqing, who was selected by Tongxi last year, averaged 12.8 points and 5.3 rebounds per game this season, becoming the highest average draft player in the history of the CBA. However, in recent years, there are few particularly good draft players who can change the fate of a team just after entering the CBA, so the draft can only appropriately improve the strength of Tongxi, but it cannot change their fate.
In order to play better next season, Tongxi can only bring in better players, whether foreign aid or local players. In the case of limited youth training strength, this is also the best and fastest way for Tongxi to change his own destiny. Given the limited cost of Tongxi over the years, it is difficult to attract particularly good local players, so they should at least do better in external invocation. For example, this season, they let Mortree go in vain, but this tough foreign aid can average 29.6 points, 14.8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.4 blocks after joining Xinjiang this season, and the scores and rebounds are second in the league, and the performance is very good. If he can be left behind, Tongxi will not be so devastated this season.