Player A: After playing only 16 games in the 2020-21 season, he was cut by his former club and was labeled as a parallel foreign aid. After joining the new owner this season, during the regular season, he was also criticized for a time and was considered to be unable to support Ah Dou.
Player B: Played only 28 games in his old club in the 2020-21 season, and after entering the second half, he hardly got playing time. At the end of the season, he was abandoned by his old club and lost his job for several months, and did not find a new owner in the CBA until the start of the third stage of the season. He is also considered to be re-employed by relationships, and he is an old acquaintance with the head coach of the new owner. The regular season, because of the mediocre data, is considered to be cheap and old, and has been embarrassed.
Player C: Over the past few seasons, it has been a rotational player without showing the mountain dew. Although he averaged 9 points per game last season, there were not many highlight moments. The roles have also been substitutes for most of the season, with few games with 20 points in a single game. Within the team, it is also a role that is often overlooked.
The three players are Simmons, Zhang Chunjun and Yan Pengfei. Before the start of the 2021-22 playoffs, they were either frustrated or mediocre. But in the first playoff game against the Guangzhou men's basketball team, they became the miracle players who decided the game.
Simmons played 19 minutes and scored 21 points. The efficiency is also high, Simmons shot 9 goals in 14 shots, becoming an unstoppable killing god for the Guangzhou men's basketball team. The team's offense was also well organized, with Simmons delivering eight assists. Defensively, Simmons can also act as an arrow, with 3 steals in the book. In addition, Simmons grabbed 6 rebounds. Judging by the performance of this game, Simmons is completely super foreign level.
Zhang Chunjun played his best match since the 2015-16 Finals. In that year's finals, Zhang Chunjun could act as a defensive gate, frequently won rebounds in the front court, and also used the attack to collapse the Liaoning men's basketball front. Helping the Sichuan men's basketball team win the CBA championship, Zhang Chunjun also became the best local player of the Sichuan men's basketball team in the finals that year. In this game, Zhang Chunjun was as good as he was that year, providing a solid defense and grabbing 9 rebounds, 6 of which were rebounds in the frontcourt. On the offensive end, Zhang Chunjun did not shoot much but was efficient, 4 of 7, including 2 of 4 three-pointers.
Yan Pengfei's performance is no worse than Simmons and Zhang Chunjun, and his outbreak also surprised the Guangzhou men's basketball team. Playing 31 minutes, Yan Pengfei scored 28 points. The efficiency was amazing, Yan Pengfei shot 11 of 15 and 6 of 7 from the free throw line. He also did a good job of protecting rebounds and defense, grabbing 9 rebounds and delivering 2 steals. Playing at a high level at all three ends of the attack and pass, Yan Pengfei's performance, Shanxi men's basketball fans who are familiar with him did not expect.
You can make 3 surprises in a game because Yang Xuezeng will employ people. This is also the main reason why Yang Xuezeng joined the Shanxi men's basketball team for the third time and can succeed. Last season, the Shanxi men's basketball team only achieved the 15th place result, which is an uncompromising fish belly. At the end of the season, the Shanxi men's basketball team sent away super foreign aid Franklin and the core of the inner line, Ren Junwei, and made it clear that he wanted to break the jar and break it.
Yang Xuezeng's ability to employ people is first manifested in the ability to play out the strengths and avoid the weaknesses according to the characteristics of the players. Felder had previously played in the Xinjiang men's basketball team and the Guangsha men's basketball team, because of his height of 1.76 meters, there were natural shortcomings in defense, and he was not recognized. But Yang Xuezeng let him play to the fullest on the offensive end, and he played a super foreign aid level, which became the perpetual motion machine for the Shanxi men's basketball team to take off.
Secondly, Yang Xuezeng is more patient and willing to give players the opportunity to find a state. When playing in the Liaoning men's basketball team, Simmons performed badly and failed to stay in the team. After joining the Shanxi men's basketball team this season, Simmons is also in poor shape, and public opinion has called for his replacement. But Yang Xuezeng never gave up on Simmons, constantly giving him the opportunity to try, and finally contributed to his outbreak in the playoffs.
Finally, it has to be mentioned that Yang Xuezeng's system is still very open, and whoever is in a good state has a lot of opportunities. This has also contributed to the Shanxi men's basketball team can always be in the game, the emergence of strange soldiers, Yan Pengfei's outbreak in the first game of the playoffs is the best example.
Good at employing people, but also Yang Xuezeng's coaching characteristics. In the 2015-16 season, when Yang Xuezeng coached the Sichuan men's basketball team, he led the team to win the CBA championship. At that time, the team had 3 foreign aides, Haddadi, Harris and Duntermont, and Yang Xuezeng was believed to have won the championship by holding the thighs of the three foreign aides, and ate the dividends of the CBA policy. In fact, this is not the case, in the 2013-14 season, these three foreign assistants played in the Qingdao men's basketball team and only reached the semifinals. Yang Xuezeng further improved the combat effectiveness of the three foreign aides, and only then did he have the basis for winning the championship.
Yang Xuezeng's use of local players is even more impressive. At that time, the Sichuan men's basketball team was a new CBA army, and it only entered the CBA in the 2013-14 season. The local lineup of the Sichuan men's basketball team is pieced together, and the players are mostly unwanted by other teams. Zhang Chunjun, who later crushed the Liaoning men's basketball team in the finals, played in the NBL before the 2015-16 season, and Yang Xuezeng fished him into the CBA. But it is such a set of local lineups, used by Yang Xuezeng, and the surprise soldiers continue to emerge in the finals, thus beating the Liaoning men's basketball team.
In the CBA, Yang Xuezeng's name is not as big as Li Chunjiang, Du Feng and other multi-crown coaches, and even less famous than the former Chinese men's basketball team Guo Shiqiang and Li Nan. But in terms of employment, Yang Xuezeng is no worse than any teaching head, even if he is not the first, he can rank in the top three.