After the CBA enters the offseason, the current change of the head coach is greater than the dark tide of the player transfer market. In the early morning of May 4, there were media reports that Liu Tie, the head coach of the Tongxi team, left his job, and the Tongxi team began to look for a new head coach. With Liu Tie no longer serving as the head coach of Tongxi, the CBA's coaching wave is also continuing.
Before Liu Tie, three teams had officially replaced their managers. First the Beijing team, then the Zhejiang team, and then the Qingdao team.
The first to make the change was the Beijing team. After being beaten 0-2 in the first round of the 2021-22 playoffs, the Beijing team, which aims to go further, also parted ways with head coach Yannis. On the evening of April 4, Beijing officials announced the news on the night the team stopped in the first round of the playoffs: "I never thought I would end the season with a word of apology. I'm sorry to live up to expectations. After the game, head coach Yannis expressed his parting intentions with a letter. ”
But even if it wasn't for Yannis voluntarily leaving, it would be difficult for him to stay in office. Yannis coached Beijing for 5 seasons, and all beijing teams reached the playoffs and successfully completed the reconstruction under his leadership. But in these 5 seasons, Yannis, who is good at adjusting defense and not good at directing attacks, has never been able to lead beijing team too far. In the 2019-20 season, Beijing reached the semifinals and narrowly lost to the final champion Guangdong, but in the playoffs, the team was directed by firefighting coach Xie Libin, and Yannis has not been able to return to Beijing after the epidemic. Other times, Yannis led Beijing to the quarter-finals. There has been no progress in leading the team for many years, and the sweet period of Yannis and Beijing has obviously passed, and now after stopping at the first round of the playoffs, it is natural for Yannis to leave.
Compared with Yannis, Liu Weiwei, who also voluntarily left after 5 seasons of coaching, is much more surprising. From the head coach of the Zhejiang youth team to the head coach of the Zhejiang team, the young coach Liu Weiwei has led the Zhejiang team from a playoff marginal team to a CBA team in the past two seasons, and in the last two seasons, The Zhejiang team has won the first four consecutive regular season team history, and the 2020-21 season is the best result in the semifinals to create the best result in team history. However, in the 2021-22 season, after Zhejiang lost 0-2 to Guangdong in the quarterfinals and the results were regressed compared with last season, Liu Weiwei resigned from the team management again after the game, and finally obtained zhejiang's consent, and the head coach who single-handedly built the CBA Super Youth Army left the team. The outside world once speculated that "Zhejiang will refuse Liu Weiwei's resignation like Last season's Liaoning Wan refused Yang Ming's resignation", but in the end it did not come to fruition.
After that, the Qingdao team and Wu Qinglong no longer cooperate. According to Qingdao officials, Wu Qinglong left the team at the end of the 2021-22 season due to being drafted by the original unit, and after friendly consultations between the two sides, Wu Qinglong no longer served as the head coach of the team. However, after leading the team to the playoffs this season and the results have regressed significantly from the quarterfinals in the past two seasons, it is not easy for Wu Qinglong to stay in office.
As for Liu Tie, who is now rumored to be leaving, it is not surprising to leave Tongxi. This season, Liu Tie replaced Besinovic as the team's head coach after the first stage of the regular season. Although Liu Tie is still conscientious, Tongxi's competitiveness is limited, and it is not unusual for Tongxi to change the head coach after creating the longest 27 consecutive defeats in CBA history and ranking first in the bottom of the season with 2 wins and 36 losses.
In addition to these four teams, two other teams have also been exposed to the possibility of changing the head coach. One is Shenzhen and the other is Shandong. Among them, the news of Shenzhen is somewhat surprising, and the performance of young coach Qiu Biao in the quarter-finals led the team to the 2021-22 season has improved. If Shenzhen changes coaches, it can only be attributed to the lack of control of Ru Shuai Qiu Biao. As we all know, in the quarter-finals of this season, Shenzhen had infighting between Shen Zijie and He Xining at the scene of the game, and was finally reversed by Shanghai in a good situation. As head coach, Qiu Biao's prestige has also been widely questioned. As for Shandong, their head coach Xu Changsuo in the 2021-22 season has been questioned throughout the season, and it is reasonable if the coach is changed.
So many head coaches have left or passed away, and it's quite surprising that the CBA has just entered its offseason. For now, this is already one of the most turbulent offseasons for CBA coaches, after all, there are still some teams whose positions as head coaches are not stable. For example, the North Control team, which invested heavily but missed the playoffs for the second consecutive season, the Fujian team, which has been changing its head coach all year round, and some teams that have also had unsatisfactory results in the 2021-22 season, do not advance and retreat, and their head coaches want to keep the coaching position.
The reason why many teams change their managers early is naturally because they are not satisfied with the head coach's performance or other performance, in other words, these teams still hope to improve by changing the head coach. When the CBA introduced standard contracts and transfer specifications to make it more difficult for big-name players to move, changing coaches has become one of the inevitable choices for many teams to strive for breakthroughs. Especially in the 2021-22 season, some team coach changes have indeed changed, such as Shanghai hiring Li Chunjiang to enter the semifinals after 12 years, Shanxi inviting Yang Xuezeng to reach the quarterfinals, and Tianjin returning to the playoffs after 8 years with Zhang Degui, which has also touched other teams to change coaches. At the same time, there are also reasons why individual head coaches have voluntarily resigned, just like Liu Weiwei.
As for the head coach who has left, he does not necessarily have to go far away. Like the young marshal Liu Weiwei has already spread the news of being pursued by many teams, with his team leadership experience and plasticity, he still has the ability to lead new teams to achieve breakthroughs. Other head coaches who have been replaced also have the opportunity to join new teams to re-pick up the coaching whip or serve as assistant coaches, after all, the CBA's current coaching turnover has become frequent enough, and it is not difficult for coaches to take up posts again.
It's only been a week since the end of the 2021-22 CBA Finals, and several teams have already chosen to change coaches. With the passage of time, there will surely be teams to join the wave of coaching changes, and this offseason is not destined to be quiet.