The Paper's reporter Hu Jie
Four years ago, the player Yang Ming was the first to lift the championship trophy, in addition to becoming Fan Zhiyi's "game did not go up for a second, but the first to win the cup", he is the captain of Liao Basket for the longest time.
Four years later, the opponent is still Zhejiang Guangsha team, still four cups, still just won 100 points of the game, coach Yang Ming first bent down to give the trophy to the old coach Jiang Xingquan, and then handed it to the current captain Han Dejun, the trophy is only symbolic in his hands.
Yang Ming, who was the manager for the second year, won the gold medal of the National Games first, and then won the CBA championship. This time, his answer was loud: "We deserve this championship." ”
Veteran coach Jiang Xingquan held aloft the overall champion Wang Ding.
The one who knows the most about Liaoning basket is still Yang Ming
At 56.6 seconds, Yang Ming, who was sitting on the sideline, suddenly got up and replaced Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu, Liu Zhixuan, Guo Allen and Zhao Jiwei on the field.
The moment Yang Ming signaled the replacement, the assistant teacher Wu Naiqun next to him looked surprised. The victory or defeat has been divided, and there is still a substitution?
Obviously, Yang Ming's idea has not been told to anyone, but silently remembered in his heart - these five people are the main five-man group of the whole Chinese class in addition to the two foreign assistants of the Liaoning team, Hudson and Bass, four years ago, and they are also the five most senior people in this team.
A northeastern man who wants to be strong all his life, but he has a romance in his bones.
The man wearing the Liaoning team's 15-year-old jersey is the captain of Liaoning Basketball for the longest time, and the first person in Liaoning Basketball to have a retired jersey, since he took over as captain in 2012 to retire, he has always been the spiritual leader of the team and the captain of the locker room. Privately, Yang Ming called the gang members "Little Brother".
Yang Ming made Guo Allen more mature.
Even when Fu Hao joined the team, Yang Ming posted a photo of him and Fu Hao, "Uncle Kill Matt welcomes you home." Even covering his mouth with Guo Allen's photo, he could find Guo Shiqiang and Yang Ming's own cosmos, and sighed a "inheritance".
These may be the original reasons why Yang Ming can serve as the coach of Liaoning Basketball.
"The biggest shortcoming of the team", "a good hand of cards is played poorly", "My grandmother will not be worse than him when she is a coach"... But last season, Liaoning lost the finals, and overwhelming public opinion swept Yang Ming, but the team still left Yang Ming who resigned, because no one knew this team better than him.
On experience, technology and tactics, Yang Ming at that time was obviously not the most mature one, but it was the most appropriate.
After all, in the 2019-2020 season when Guo Shiqiang resigned, Liaoning, who broke into the finals, made the choice to abandon Zhao Jiwei in the life and death battle, which made the latter extremely indignant: "What am I? I am willing to do anything for the Liaoning team, but today I really can't stand it! ”
At that time, acting coach Martinez was called a tactical master by fans, but he was still unable to tap Liaoning's maximum potential.
Yang Ming lifted the CBA championship trophy as a player and coach.
Over the years, Liao Basket has always been like a big family, full of human feelings in addition to the game - Yang Ming is the big parent of this family, leading the "little brothers" all the way through the thorns.
Just like the five most senior members of the team at the last moment, the one who knows Liaoning best at the moment is Yang Ming.
At the end of the game, when the players rushed into the entrance to celebrate, Yang Ming quickly adjusted his mood and walked to the reporter for an interview: "The last four years were players, these four years were coaches, but the joy enjoyed was the same, even more exciting than the last time. ”
"After all, there was less participation in that time, this time as a coach involved in the whole league, it was not easy for everyone, and I was satisfied to get such a return."
Yang Ming, who returned to Shenyang, finally smiled.
Win the championship and be careful
With a 2-0, a 3-0, and a 4-0, Liaoning became the third team in CBA history to win the championship after Bayi and Guangdong.
Guangsha, which lacked Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao, hardly caused much pressure on Liaoning in the finals, and Guangdong, which also lacked major generals, failed to impact the powerful Liaoning. On the scene, Liaoning won quite easily, but the real situation was far more difficult than it seemed.
This is also why, Yang Ming's first words in the locker room are, "No matter what the outside world says, I personally feel that this championship is really deserved!" ”
In fact, this season's Liaoning team has almost never been in order in the regular season. Before the start of the season, Liu Zhixuan and Wu Changze suffered palm fractures; in the second stage, Han Dejun fractured the bridge of his nose and Guo Allen suffered a strain on his hamstring.
Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu, Liu Zhixuan and Guo Allen are four veterans, the playing time has dropped off a cliff compared to last season, and in the core squad that won the championship four years ago, only Zhao Jiwei missed only one game...
Along the way, all teams have encountered trouble, Guangdong Zhejiang has a core injury stop, Guangsha and Shanghai are killing eight hundred self-inflicted losses of one thousand, and even Shenzhen teammates spray each other's self-detonation, but liaoning, which has not been neat in the regular season lineup, has become the most stable and healthy team in the playoffs.
In addition to some luck, there is also a precautionary plan for the coaching staff.
Yang Ming's use of Zhao Jiwei's "sixth person" was also very successful.
As mentioned in the second sentence of Yang Ming's dressing room, "We can complete this season completely and healthily, and we cannot do without the scientific arrangement of the coaching staff." Including the logistics support of the translation of foreign aid, including the logistics support of the team to everyone, especially the three team doctors. ”
For the health of the playoffs, Yang Ming was scolded by fans. In the third stage of the regular season, the Liaoning men's basketball team, which played at home, was first upset by qingdao, followed by a 21-point reversal by Shanghai, and then lost to Zhejiang, which was a single foreign aid.
In the match that lost to Qingdao, a Liaoning fan shouted in the stands: "What a fight, there is no blood at all!" Foreign aid is not good, domestic players are not motivated! You can lose, but you have to work hard! ”
Even if netizens shouted for class, Liaoning did not rush to let Guo Allen, who was strained by the hamstring, come back from the line of fire, but took two more games off. Although three consecutive defeats caused Liaoning to fall from the top of the list to the third place in the league, the Liaoning team, when the personnel was neat, completed the regular season with a wave of seven consecutive wins.
It is the coaching staff that dares to choose between the regular season and the playoffs, and the cautious Liaoning men's basketball team can play in the playoffs smoothly.
And Yang Ming has also become the third player in the history of the CBA after A's Jiang and Du Feng and the person who has won the championship in the coaching era.
Yang Ming praised the performance of the players.
Yang Ming's tiredness
If Liaoning overcame injuries with a touch of luck, then the adjustment of players tests the coach's skills.
In the playoffs, the "winner and loser" Morland, was once regarded as a "parallel foreign aid" in the regular season. In the first four games of the third stage, Moland, as a foreign player, only scored a total of 12 points, but in the playoffs, he rubbed some strange CP feelings with Yang Ming.
The reason for the change may be found in yang ming and Moland's answers.
When Moland's avatar was the most fierce, Yang Ming explained: "Social media is also a display of mood, in this team he feels love and respect, he has made greater efforts to repay the team." ”
In addition to preparing gifts and dinners for Moland for Christmas and birthday, the team is constantly adjusting the way it uses Moland and the way it plays.
Morland's response was: "Yang Ming is one of the hardest and most dedicated coaches I have ever met, otherwise he would not have achieved such results, these will not lie, nor can they cheat." ”
Black circles and hairlines have appeared in Yang Ming's ridicule, and they are also his current situation - in the first season of coaching, black circles hung on Yang Ming's face.
At the National Games, the Liaoning team also won the gold medal.
"These two years have been very tired, and the body has also experienced various discomforts, but fortunately the results are very satisfactory and can make up for some losses." After winning the championship, Yang Ming sighed like this.
Even in terms of on-the-spot strain, Yang Ming is no longer as overwhelmed as last year.
With the G2 of the Shanxi men's basketball team, Liaoning once fell behind by 17 points in the second quarter, even if Jonathan Simmons was sent off, Shanxi also played with Liaoning in the last quarter with the hot performance of single foreign aid Kai Feld. In the last 4 minutes, Yang Ming withdrew his foreign aid and changed to play the all-Chinese class, and finally won the game.
In the third game against Guangdong, Yang Ming let Cong Mingchen, who had only played 10 minutes per game, play 33 minutes, and in the end, his plus-minus was the highest +17 in the whole team.
What is more mature is that throughout the game, Liaoning is almost behind, and in the face of Guangdong's ultimate lineup rotation, Yang Ming's face is not too panicked. And last season, the picture of Yang Ming coaching was more of a sip of dried mineral water and a shirt full of wetness...
Jiang Xingquan's guidance has been supporting Yang Ming behind him.
The last medal
When the host announced that Liao Basket had won the championship, Yang Ming deliberately pushed Jiang Xingquan's guidance to the first place, and then politely followed behind him to stand on the podium.
When the 82-year-old Jiang Xingquan lifted the "Mou Zuoyun" trophy, the oldest meritorious man in the Liaoning men's basketball team finally won his first CBA championship trophy.
The same was true of the National Games half a year ago, when Yang Ming hung his medal on the podium of his mentor Jiang Xingquan.
From 1970 to 1990, for 20 years, Jiang Xingquan was the head coach of the Liaoning team. Jiang Xingquan's most recent time as the head coach of the Liaoning team was from September 2004 to December 2005, although it was only more than a year, but It was during this time that Yang Ming was promoted by Jiang Xingquan from the youth team to the CBA.
When Jiang Xingquan left the Liaoning men's basketball team, the fledgling Yang Ming had not yet become Yang Shaoxia who "raised his hand to listen to the scolding of the country and broke his wrist to shine in the capital". On that day, when the staff told him that Jiang Xingquan was no longer coaching Liaoning, Yang Ming stared at the picture of the teacher on the wall in the empty training ground, and sat alone for a long time.
And when Yang Ming first served as the manager of Liaoning, the first thing he thought of was also Jiang Xingquan. Under Yang Ming's "Three Gu Maolu" and in Elder Jiang's feelings for his hometown, the 80-year-old Jiang Lao relaxed.
"One is the hometown team, very emotional; the other, Yang Ming's coaching experience is really poor. Like Liu Weiwei, the coach of the Zhejiang team, he also took the youth team, and Yang Ming did not even bring the youth team, and he really needed help. ”
Jiang Xingquan pointed out Yang Ming.
So in the past two years, every game of the Liaoning men's basketball team, there is a white-haired old man sitting on the bench, calming the mood of the young marshal and young players, and giving advice to the game at any time.
The coaching team around him is Wu Naiqun in 1970, Yang Ming in 1985 and Chai Changyi in 1992. The four generations of coaches trained by Liaoning continue to nurture the continuous growth of Liaoning basketball.
Last year's Liaoning Basketball Finals defeat Yang Ming asked to resign, and it was also Jiang Xingquan who persuaded the young marshal, "As a coach, you must have the courage to bear failure, and you can't leave as soon as you lose, so you are not responsible for yourself and the team!" ”
And Liaoning, who has restarted, after a 3-0 victory over Guangdong in the semifinals of this season, the 82-year-old Jiang Xingquan stood outside the locker room door and high-fived the Liaoning basketball players one by one. At this moment, Jiang Xingquan finally crossed Guangdong Hongyuan, who had not won three finals.
This was Jiang Xingquan's last season as an adviser in Liaoning, and after the finals, Jiang Returned to the field and returned home to enjoy his old age.
The finals ended, and Yang Ming made up the last piece of regret for his mentor. Elder Jiang turned and left, leaving Liaoning basketball with generations of wealth.
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