On the third day of the public application for resignation, Liu Weiwei finally failed to be rejected like Last Season's Liaoning basketball coach Yang Ming. On the evening of April 12, the Zhejiang men's basketball team issued an official notice agreeing to Liu Weiwei's resignation. At this point, the 39-year-old young marshal who has been working hard in Zhejiang for more than 20 years will temporarily retire to the jianghu.
As the CBA's second departing head coach in the playoffs this season, Liu Weiwei is different from Yannis, the first to leave the team. Although all the coaching teams were defeated, the first round of Beijing led by Yannis was swept by Jilin 2-0 was obviously unexpected, and Zhejiang's loss to defending champion Guangdong was not unacceptable, after all, Beijing's paper strength looks far better than Jilin, and Zhejiang has no obvious advantage over Guangdong.
However, Liu Weiwei still received the approval of the Zhejiang men's basketball team and officially left the team after 5 years in charge. In a zhejiang official statement, they claimed that the resignation application three days ago was the third time Liu Weiwei had publicly resigned from the team this season, including physical, family, responsibility for this season's defeat, and wanting to learn and improve. In this official notice of about a thousand words, there is no "thanks" to Liu Weiwei throughout, but in fact, the Zhejiang men's basketball team should really thank Liu Weiwei.
Liu Weiwei has been in the Zhejiang youth team since 1998, and after a short CBA experience (2004-05 to 2010-11), he retired as the head coach of the Zhejiang Youth Men's Basketball Team. In the youth training for many years, Liu Weiwei led the Zhejiang youth team to win the national championship for many times, and he also became the assistant coach of the national youth team for a time.
In the summer of 2017, after the dismal end of the previous season (2016-17 season, 16th place), the team made adjustments, liu Weiwei became the head coach of the Zhejiang men's basketball team and the youngest head coach in the history of the Zhejiang men's basketball team, starting his CBA coaching career for the first time. At the beginning of his tenure, not many people knew about Liu Weiwei, and the bland CBA career and the limited attention of the Zhejiang men's basketball team at that time led to the neglect of the young marshal. It was not until Sangu Maolu invited his mentor Jiang Xingquan to return to Zhejiang as a team consultant that Liu Weiwei entered the public eye.
At that time, Liu Weiwei's adjustment was very difficult. Before he took over, the Zhejiang men's basketball team still focused on foreign aid, and the local players had almost no big responsibilities except Wu Qian, and Liu Weiwei needed to start from scratch to let the local players of the Zhejiang men's basketball team gradually carry the banner.
But in the first season of coaching (2017-18 season), Liu Weiwei transformed well, although zhejiang in transition still relies on foreign aid, but Wu Qian began to play more important roles. With an average of 41.7 minutes per game and an average of 16.6 shots per game, Wu Qian averaged 19.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 2.2 steals per game, averaging 3.4 three-pointers per game, and the seven statistics in addition to assists have been the highest in Wu Qian's career so far. In the penultimate game of the regular season, Wu Qian's 42 points made more fans remember him. But there is obviously Liu Weiwei's painstaking efforts behind this. At the end of the regular season, Zhejiang lost to Shanghai with a slight small point disadvantage (the same record) and missed the playoffs with 11th place (the top 10 into the playoffs). But if it weren't for Zhejiang's intolerable layoffs of foreign aid Stokes, who repeatedly injured and frequently missed training and games for no reason, they would probably have made the playoffs.
The following year, Liu Weiwei led Zhejiang back to the playoffs. In the 2018-19 season, Zhejiang entered the playoffs at the last minute with a record of 23 wins and 23 losses, although it was difficult, it was also the first step to the success of Liu Weiwei's team. Unfortunately, Zhejiang foreign aid Deng Meng and main defender Cheng Shuaipeng were injured in the first round of the playoffs. Although Zhejiang defeated Guangsha in the first battle, after missing the two main forces, they lost Guangsha by 3 points in the second game, and lost Guangsha in the third life-and-death battle and were eliminated.
These regrets were transformed into more motivation in the 2019-20 season and the third season of Liu Weiwei's coaching. This season, Zhejiang's record climbed to 30 wins and 16 losses, ranking 6th in the regular season, and equaling Guangsha in 5th place. At that time, Zhejiang was no longer a sworn enemy of the same province that was trampled under the feet of Guangsha, but a youth army that could resist Guangsha with a strong rise. Interestingly, after being killed by Tongxi for the second time in the regular season, Liu Weiwei said "Hum, Ying" in a post-match interview, and since then he has been out of the circle and has become an "Internet celebrity" coach. Entering the playoffs, Zhejiang cut shanxi in the first round, and lost to Liaoning in the second round with a 4-point difference, this battle, Wu Qian's crazy 48-point and 9-point performance not only surprised Liaoning into a cold sweat, but also let Zhejiang begin to be truly pinned on unlimited hope.
With the accumulation of the first three seasons, Liu Weiwei began to be independent. In the summer of 2020, Jiang Xingquan left Zhejiang to return to Liaoning as a consultant to mentor another disciple, Yang Ming, while Liu Weiwei led the young Zhejiang coaching team back on the road. In the 2020-21 season, Liu Weiwei led Zhejiang to the third place in the best team history in the regular season. In the first half of the regular season, Zhejiang Quanhua class was invincible, and the opening game beat the defending champion by 25 points, 20 points to reverse Shenzhen hao to win 10 consecutive wins, 26 points to reverse Shanghai... Let Zhejiang show a strong demeanor. Although the foreign aid was not stable enough after joining, they still reached the semi-finals to create the best result in the history of the team.
This season, Zhejiang finished fourth in the regular season and entered the playoffs as the top four in the regular season for the second consecutive season. Although it was ultimately defeated by Guangdong, if it were not for foreign aid Taikeng, Zhejiang could have gone further.
But even if the reinforcements have not been effective in recent years, it has not covered up Liu Weiwei's contribution to Zhejiang. This group of Young Zhejiang people, who he called "unremarkable and no talent", has become the first youth army of the CBA under his leadership. This season, the average age of zhejiang domestic players is only 22.11 years old, which is the youngest team in the CBA this season. Compared with the weak brigade appearance of Zhejiang when Liu Weiwei took over, Zhejiang has improved too much now. Wu Qian began to take on a more important role, Lu Wenbo, Yu Jiahao, Cheng Shuaipeng, Liu Zeyi, Wang Yibo, Zhu Xuhang and other people have become the backbone of Zhejiang, which is the key to the rise of Zhejiang, and almost all the players cultivated by Liu Weiwei. Five years ago, when Liu Weiwei was the coach of Zhejiang, Zhejiang officials said: "We believe that the new coaching staff will bring new changes to the team, and lead our energetic team to create good results in the league in the new season and provide more exciting games for the majority of Zhejiang fans." "5 years later, Liu Weiwei did.
Coaching Zhejiang for five seasons, Liu Weiwei's regular season record is 142 wins and 78 losses, ranking fifth in the league in the same period, behind Guangdong, Liaoning, Guangsha and Xinjiang. Zhejiang's foundation is completely inferior to the three giants of Guangdong, Liaoning and Xinjiang, and it has lagged behind Guangsha significantly. But in 5 seasons, Zhejiang has taken one step at a time and steadily become a strong league.
Therefore, even if Liu Weiwei leaves now, it should only be temporary, after all, with his ability and age, it is not excluded that other teams invite him to join, and the CBA will definitely reappear the figure of "humming guidance". When we see Liu Weiwei again in the future, it may be like the fans say, "May the peak meet.".