After leading the team to the second highest ranking in team history (second in the regular season this season) and equaling the best record in team history (31 wins and 7 losses), the 39-year-old Guangsha men's basketball coach Wang Bo was finally elected as the "best coach" in the regular season this season, becoming the second coach to win the "Chenghai Cup" after Du Feng.
As a young marshal who has been coaching for only one and a half years, Wang Bo's team results are beyond the imagination of many people. In the upcoming playoffs, he will also create glory with Guangsha again.
In danger, he was ordered to help Guangsha out of the predicament
Wang Bo's first coaching came on December 23, 2020. At that time, the Guangsha men's basketball team suddenly announced the announcement that Li Chunjiang submitted his resignation due to excessive coaching pressure. In the face of Brother Chun's resignation application, Guangsha retained it, and after that, Brother Chun stayed in the team as a team consultant, and Wang Bo was ordered to serve as the coach of "Fire Fighting".
Prior to this, Wang Bo, who retired in 2013, had been the assistant coach of Guangsha and the deputy of Li Chunjiang, and he was known as "Li Chunjiang's successor" for a long time, just like Du Feng, who served as Li Chunjiang's assistant coach in the Guangdong team for many years. Similar to Du Feng, Wang Bo also retired early at the age of 30. Although the player period was not as successful as Du Feng, Wang Bo, who played in Jilin and Guangsha, was also the core of the two teams. During the Jilin period, Wang Bo, known as the "Invisible Tiger", was once called "Little Sun Jun". In 2009, he joined Guangsha, and the transfer fee of 10 million yuan for 5 years set a CBA record. Throughout his playing career, Wang Bo has also been selected for the Chinese men's basketball training team for many times.
Suddenly from assistant coach to head coach, Wang Bo was once questioned. In the first game of coaching, Guangsha was reversed by North Control. After the game, Wang Bo admitted: "The first time I coached the CBA main game, there was tension and mistakes, including the timing of substitutions and the timing of suspension. The first game (coached) was also a tuition fee. After this, Guangsha lost to Tianjin and Jilin, and did not stop losing consecutively until facing the weak brigade Fujian. Successive defeats have allowed Guangsha to continue to decline in the rankings, and at this time, the voice of "missing Li Chunjiang" has become more and more noisy among the Guangsha fans.
But Wang Bo's adjustment was quick. After stopping the decline in the losing streak, although Guangsha had ups and downs in the late season, their performance was still relatively stable in most of the games. Regular season double kills Liaoning and Xinjiang, revenge Beijing and Zhejiang... It is enough to reflect Wang Bo's ability to lead the team. When Li Chunjiang was in charge, Guangsha's regular season record last season was 9 wins and 10 losses, with a winning percentage of 47.4%. After Wang Bo took charge, Guangsha's regular season record was 21 wins and 12 losses, with a winning rate of 63.6%. In this way, Guangsha, which was once considered to be in decline after Li Chunjiang left class, did not decline, but rebounded strongly. It's not easy for a young coach to make an improvisational appearance. Although the quarter-finals defeated Liaoning, it can not erase Wang Bo's leadership credit for more than half a season, after all, the Guangsha lineup he took over is no different from the Li Chunjiang period.
This season is Wang Bo's first full season in charge. Leading Guangsha, whose lineup configuration is not outstanding, Wang Bo further proves himself. In the first stage of the regular season, Guangsha's record was second only to Liaoning. In the second stage, Guangsha did not add the unknown foreign aid Jarod Jones until shortly before the start of the tournament, and Hu Jinqiu and Sun Minghui represented the national team in Japan to participate in the World Preliminary Tournament, but Guangsha still maintained a stable performance. With the addition of Okafor in the third stage, Wang Bo led Guangsha to finally finish second in the regular season. In just one and a half seasons, Guangsha has become a CBA champion again, of which Wang Boju has made great contributions.
Go all out to rate Guangsha to the peak again
Unlike the hot-tempered Li Chunjiang, Wang Bo, who has a gentle personality, is a Confucian shuai. He was calm and elegant on the sidelines and never roared at the players. And this calmness also makes him stand out from the CBA coaches, especially as a young coach who is not experienced, it is not easy to do this.
"Since I first took over the team last year, I have always reminded myself that sometimes the brain is congested with too much blood, (the train of thought) is easy to break, I have been reminding myself that I am still less angry, or think faster about the problem, solve the problem, and hope to keep it up." Wang Bo said.
Some people may think that Wang Bo is "cool after the people planted trees before", which is a dividend for Li Chunjiang, but in fact, this is not the case. The team, which reached the Finals for the first time in the history of the 2017-18 season, has seen a marked decline in performance in the past few seasons, and the playoffs have also been out early and have been stagnant for many consecutive seasons. Although the team has "three young" Sun Minghui, Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao, the other players in Guangsha are not prominent, and the thickness of the lineup is an obvious flaw. It can be said that the pressure faced by Wang Bo after leading the team is no less than that of Du Feng, Yang Ming and other young marshals when they first took office. But after only one and a half seasons of taking over the team, Wang Bo has made Guangsha quite deep, Zhu Junlong and Zhao Jiaren, Zhao Jiayi and others have been able to share the pressure for sanshao, and Zhu Junlong has entered the candidate list of MVP in this season's regular season. Last summer's excellent summer training and meticulous craftsmanship of young players also allowed Wang Bo to gain this season.
Another place that is easy to be overlooked is that after Wang Bo coached, the "three youngsters" in Guangsha have truly achieved a full outbreak. Previously, Zhao Yanhao's play has lagged behind Sun Minghui and Hu Jinqiu, but in Wang Bo's system, Zhao Yanhao set sail again, and the three young men broke out, and Guangsha finally picked out strong enemies again and again this season and became a CBA strongman again.
Such results should be enough to make Wang Bo proud, and such a team-leading performance is not lost to young marshals Du Feng, Yang Ming and Liu Weiwei. But he's rated his coaching performance this season at just 8.5 points, and he feels he still has a lot to improve. "It's really the first year of coaching, the pressure is also relatively large, I hope at least it can be better than last year." Wang Bo said.
For the team's outlook for this season, Wang Bo is also very modest: "As long as these players play the level of summer training, I think there will be a good result." If you must say the team's outlook, last year was seventh, then this year at least can be in the top six. ”
epilogue
In the CBA regular season awards a few days ago, Guangsha is undoubtedly the team that has gained the most. In addition to Wang Bo's best coach, Hu Jinqiu also won the regular season MVP, while Hu Jinqiu and Sun Minghui were also selected into the first team of domestic players. Such results are also comparable to Guangdong last season.
On Wang Bo's 39th birthday last year, the Guangsha men's basketball team officially blessed Wang Bo and said: "I wish Wang Bo guidance can lead his disciples to realize their own ideas in the next CBA league." Now, Wang Bo and Guangsha will also launch an impact on what they want.