In recent years, CBA competition has become more and more fierce, although the Liao-Guangdong hegemony has become the main theme, but other teams for the championship has never decreased, especially In Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang several local teams, itself has a rich talent reserve and strong financial resources, eager to fill the Guangdong men's basketball team after the decline of the position left, of which the Shanghai team's intention to compete for the championship is the most obvious. After a detour, Li Chunjiang took the Shanghai team to a whole new height, and most importantly, he has his own young core team, which may replicate the achievements achieved during the Guangdong and Guangsha periods.
Last season, Shanghai reached the semifinals, and before that, the road to reconstruction was not successful, and the 2019 and 2020 two-year large-scale reinforcements were mainly aimed at mature players in the league, but because there was no suitable system, they did not even enter the playoffs in the end. However, the Management of the Shanghai team still has a long-term plan, on the one hand, to achieve results, on the other hand, to the future, silently hoarding a potential newcomer, after the arrival of Li Chunjiang last year, let the team play more methodically, and he gradually gained a new team, including Guo Haowen, Li Tianrong, Li Hongquan, Ou Junxuan, Dai Hao and other 5 young players, may become the core of the next shanghai team championship.
Li Chunjiang is a CBA coach with 7 championships in his hands, and the secret of his success is to dig and cultivate a group of young people to let the team enter the upward channel. When coaching the Guangdong team, Li Chunjiang brought out Yi Jianlian, Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, Zhou Peng and others, who informed the CBA for more than a decade. After joining Guangsha in 2013, Li Chunjiang repeated his old skills, promoted Sun Minghui, Hu Jinqiu and Zhao Yanhao, and entered the finals in one fell swoop, although he did not win the championship but created a solid team for Guangsha.
At present, in the Shanghai team, Li Chunjiang has mature players such as Wang Zhelin, Ren Junwei and Liu Zheng, but their age has entered the middle and late stages of their careers, and the potential of newcomers is more worth looking forward to. Although Guo Haowen played in the CBA for 4 seasons, only coming to Shanghai is the real professional trend, in the existing post-00 players, his talent and potential are among the best, averaging 13.9 points, 2.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game last season. In the past two years, Guo Haowen will go to the United States for special training as long as he reaches the offseason, and his desire for honor is very obvious, and there is no problem in sitting firmly in the position of the national player in the future.
Recently, Li Tianrong and Dai Hao were involved in trading rumors, the Shanghai team wanted to introduce Zhao Rui, and the Guangdong team wanted two young people as chips, but at present, Li Chunjiang did not want to let go. Last season, Li Tianrong and Dai Hao were both playing in the CBA for the first year, the former showed very good offensive talent, averaging 10.9 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and the mid-season performance made fans feel amazing; the latter was a player born in 2002, only appeared 8 times, but athletic talent has been shown, although the projection is unstable, there are many mistakes, but Li Chunjiang is still unwilling to send him away.
In addition to the above 3 people, the 20-year draft Champion District Junxuan has always been considered a piece of jade by netizens, this player born in 99 years and Zhang Zhenlin the same age, athletic ability is comparable, his defensive ability in the inner line is getting better and better, next season to return to Tieding to become a stable substitute for Wang Zhelin, and the future Shanghai team will also focus on him training.
The last to mention is Lee Hong-kwon, who is a short forward of 198cm tall with an extremely good physical talent and is regarded as the second Li Gen. Last year, Li Hongquan joined the Shanghai team, but after participating in the youth team game, he was sent to the Southeast Melbourne Phoenix team in Australia, and it is not surprising that the new season will return to the CBA and officially appear in front of domestic fans.
At present, the 5 young players of the Shanghai team are still auxiliary roles under Li Chunjiang, but just like when they first coached Guangsha, sooner or later they will mature and become the core of the team, when the peak period of the Shanghai team will be more stable and continue for many years.