Since Qin Xiaowen joined Beijing Shougang, the club's operating model has undergone earth-shaking changes. In order to pursue excellent results in the short term, the Shougang team not only purged a number of veterans, but also abandoned the team building model of cultivating new people to make their own blood, but blindly invested heavily in reinforcements to improve the overall strength of the team.
Under such circumstances, the investment of Shougang Club is increasing year by year, but the team's performance is indeed getting worse and worse. In fact, this is also very easy to understand. Because when Shougang won the championship that year, the team's personnel structure was very reasonable, both veterans with outstanding ability and experience, as well as top CBA mesozoic players such as Morris, Sun Yue and Li Gen.
At the same time, a group of post-90s players such as Zhai Xiaochuan, Wang Xiaohui, Zhu Yanxi and Fang Shuo have also begun to rise rapidly. Such a team, under the leadership of Min Lulei, who is good at integrating the strength of the team, naturally became a strong CBA team with championship strength.
After Min Lulei left and Yannis became the manager of the team, Shougang never really cultivated a new person. In the last 2 seasons, the club has only been able to solve the problem of no potential newcomers in the team by buying and buying.
Judging from the current player lineup of the Shougang team, there is only one young player who qiu Tian is cultivated by Shougang itself and can enter the team rotation lineup.
Qiu Tian, born in 1998, is now 24 years old, and he was also the main center of the national youth team at that time, and was once optimistic by many fans and the media that he could become the new core of Shougang's inner line in the future. In the summer of 2017, the 19-year-old Qiu Tian entered the Shougang first team, and his Bole Min Lulei also left the Shougang first team this season.
However, the new coach Yannis does not seem to appreciate Qiu Tian very much. Although Qiu Tian plays very hard, the spirit and courage on the field are very worthy of recognition. But frankly, his physical fitness is not particularly prominent, the ball quotient is not too high, he lacks the ability to attack with the ball, and he does not have the kung fu of medium and long distance.
As a result, Yannis has not given Qiu Tian enough playing time, and has pressed him on the bench in many games. It is not until the team has a firm victory or no one is available that Qiu Tian can be given some chances, which also makes Qiu Tian miss the most precious stage of the goal.
In the past many seasons, Shougang's lack of good interior players has been the biggest shortcoming of the team. Last season, Shougang invested heavily in the introduction of two top local interior players, Li Muhao and Fan Ziming, to make up for this biggest shortcoming.
The addition of Fan and Li further compressed the playing time of Qiu Tian, who originally did not invite Yannis to "wait to see", and he was even abandoned by Lao Ya at one time, and the news that he would be traded by the club was also reported.
Despite this, Qiu Tian did not have any discouragement, as long as he could play for 1 minute, he would pay 120% of his efforts. Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared, and this sentence has been verified again in Qiu Tian's body.
In the playoffs Shougang and Jilin team's G2 match, Qiu Tian re-entered the team's lineup, and in the case of the sluggish performance of Fan and Li, Qiu Tian, who was replaced, played a role as a surprise soldier. In this campaign, he had 8 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal in the case of 24 minutes, and his performance was obviously better than That of Fan Ziming and Li Muhao, who were worth more than ten times more than him.
Although the Shougang team was eventually defeated by the Jilin team, it left the playoffs early. However, Qiu Tian's performance in this game was unanimously recognized by the whole team. As a result, the club also quickly completed a contract extension with Qiu Tian, who will expire this summer.
For the 24-year-old Qiu Tian, who has now reached a critical stage in his career, if he can be reused by the team's new coach next season, then his future in Shougang will become brighter. Here, we also wish Qiu Tian to be able to play his own piece of the team and enter the main squad of the Shougang team as soon as possible.