"5 years?" When he learned that he had been banned from coaching by the Chinese Basketball Association for five years because he led the team to play negative games, Li Chunjiang asked with some disbelief, and then fell silent for ten minutes.
In these ten minutes, Li Chunjiang's eyes were red almost all the time, not knowing what he was thinking, and finally he gathered the team members and announced the punishment result, and this training session of a generation of famous marshals was quite bleak.
It is said that character determines destiny, and this sentence is especially evident in Li Chunjiang's body, and everything was bought like a seed a long time ago.
Dare to do it
Born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in 1963, Li Chunjiang won the National League A championship and the Asian Club Cup championship for the Liaoning team, became a national player, and then won the Beijing Asian Games as a member of the Chinese men's basketball team, and participated in the Barcelona Olympic Games.
Can become a national player and participate in the Olympic Games, Li Chunjiang is obviously not an idle person, there is strong blood in his bones, he once lamented when he went to Spain in 2018 to select foreign aid: "A few days ago in Barcelona, I went to see the Olympic Village of that year. We came home at the bottom of the table in 1992 and I really didn't want to play basketball for the rest of my life! Now I am back here, but I feel so happy to be a player! ”
In 1992, when the American "Dream Team" was born, their imaginative performances shocked the world, although they were not in the same group as the Dream Team, but Li Chunjiang must also be familiar with Jordan, Pippen, Ewing and other superstars.
At the end of his career, Li Chunjiang did not choose to continue to stay in Liaoning, but went south to Guangdong to join the Hongyuan team, thus laying the foundation for future achievements in Guangdong.
Later, as you know, Li Chunjiang took over the Daniel Zhang army's whip in 2001, and gradually brought the Guangdong men's basketball team from a mid-table team in the CBA to a dynasty team, with three consecutive championships and four consecutive championships, Li Chunjiang personally ended the "Bayi Dynasty", blocked the dream of Jiangliao championship, and made Jiangsu slump after being reversed in the 2005 finals.
Li Chunjiang showed his coaching ability to the fullest. The most impressive thing is that in the 2010-11 season, Xinjiang and Guangdong met in the finals for the third consecutive year, Xinjiang foreign aid Quincy Dolby won the first game like a god, slamming 53 points to take away the victory, although the Guangdong men's basketball team then won a game, but few people are optimistic that Guangdong can win the championship, especially in the third game Dolby scored 28 points and 7 steals, helping Xinjiang defeat Guangdong 118-85.
However, in the fourth game, Li Chunjiang decisively changed his formation, using Zhou Peng to defend Dolby, while Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng and others assisted in preventing delays, and constantly created physical contact for Dolby. In addition, Wang Shipeng was arranged to attack Dolby on the offensive end, Wang Shipeng did not fail in his mission, not only scored continuously, but also used trash talk to disturb Dolby's mind, and the domineering declaration of "if you want to do it, do the first foreign aid" is still deafening after many years.
Guangdong won three consecutive games with a decline in overall strength, and won the championship with an aggregate score of 4-2! Li Chunjiang won his last league title to date.
Li Chunjiang lost the title in the 2012 finals when he encountered an even more unscrupulous Marbury, and the following year he left Guangdong, where he had stayed for 20 years.
Li Chunjiang did not stop, he soon "started a second business", became the head coach of the Guangsha men's basketball team, and boasted that he "led the team to the finals in five years". Li Chunjiang did not break his word, and in 2018, his fifth year in charge of Guangsha, he led the team to the finals for the first time in its history and won the runner-up.
At that time, Li Chunjiang's prestige reached its peak.
stern
The so-called strict master is a high apprentice, Li Chunjiang is known for his harshness, or strictness, to his disciples, in Guangdong, Liu Xiaoyu is one of the players who have been scolded the most by Li Chunjiang.
As a point guard, Liu Xiaoyu is responsible for delivering shells for Du Feng, Zhu Fangyu, Yi Jianlian, Wang Shipeng, and foreign aid, but because there will be some mistakes in his youth, Li Chunjiang will inevitably spit fragrance at him, and regardless of the occasion, even the fans and media are a little unbearable.
Later in Guangsha, Hu Jinqiu did not score the ball because he was not very serious in a training session, and was immediately interrupted by Li Chunjiang and asked to do it again, and Hu Jinqiu could only obediently do so. And when Bolossis "sleepwalked" on the field, Lao Li also decisively replaced it, and then there was a fierce spray against the Greeks, and Borosis did not dare to complain or refute at all.
But the players recognized Li Chunjiang very much, and they generally understood the coach's deep meaning. "I think Coach Li is a good coach in training and in life, a big brother-like person." The veteran Lin Zhijie thinks that Li Chunjiang is like a big brother. Hu Jinqiu compared Li Chunjiang to a "bright light", saying that Li Chunjiang has laid a good foundation for himself, and usually Li Chunjiang cares about the players, once in a away game in Sichuan, he was angry because the temperature of the stadium air conditioning was too low, because Lao Li was very worried about the players catching a cold. Li Chunjiang also particularly opposed the training and competition of players with injuries, and cared for his disciples.
Li Chunjiang also nicknamed the players and coaching staff, and when he saw Hu Jinqiu, he shouted "I have an autumn", and Wang Bo's nickname "big long legs" has spread throughout the CBA.
Anti-moe
Li Chunjiang did not try to change himself, the way he chose was fishing. Every weekend, Li Chunjiang would pick up a fishing rod and go fishing with his friends. "It doesn't matter how many fish I catch, I use fishing to sharpen my temper and develop stability and patience. After two years of fishing, there has been real progress in this area. Li Chunjiang said that sometimes even if he can't sleep, he will lie in bed, even if he takes sleeping pills to force him to fall asleep. Especially after coaching Guangsha, Li Chunjiang will still scold the players, but the players reflect that "the scolding is not as fierce as before." Now on the pitch, when we make mistakes, he talks more, teaches more, scolds less. ”
In 2018, Li Chunjiang unexpectedly opened Weibo, in addition to keeping the training and games of the Guangsha men's basketball team informed, he also asked fans for the color of the tie for each game, and it lasted for an entire season. After winning the "Best Coach Award" that year, Li Chunjiang wrote humorously: "Do you still have to give an acceptance speech? Not very good at expression, still have to thank. Thank you to the CBA, to Zhejiang Guangsha Club, to the coaching staff, the players and all the staff of the team. Thank you to Hangzhou fans and fans across the country for their support to the Guangsha team! In fact, this is a traditional award, because I am older and have participated in the league for a long time, so I have won more times, and I hope to win this award again in the future! ”
Li Chunjiang even directly responded to netizens' questions on Weibo, such as a GIF in front of his finger, which seemed to accuse the other party, netizens said "see once and laugh once", Li Chunjiang's response is also humorous, "I also think it's funny!" When netizens asked Li Chunjiang if he was scolding the "Three Character Sutra", he responded: "I don't know." ”
"I don't know if you have such a feeling that Chunjiang Guidance has a contrasting cuteness, seems to be the kind of person who is not angry and self-threatening, super harsh, and then through Weibo, I found that Chunjiang Guidance is super warm, super cute, and super cute." Some netizens commented on Li Chunjiang, and even the veteran Zhang Qingpeng joked about Li Chunjiang's son Li Jinglong, "Too handsome, but Xiao Li is more handsome." ”
What is not well known is that Li Chunjiang once teamed up with the "Happy Twist" team to join forces to compete in the Super Penguin League Super3 League, the most serious Li Chunjiang in the CBA, coached the "most funny" Happy Twist basketball team in the universe, it is really "live for a long time", Li Chunjiang not only announced the news on Weibo, but also had an interaction with his new apprentice Allen.
Unlike coaching in the CBA, on the sidelines of the Super Penguin League Super3 League, Li Chunjiang changed his stern appearance in the past and became a Confucian marshal, sitting on the bench, quite a little smiling at the clouds and clouds, and the years were quiet together. Even if the most proud disciple Allen's three-point shot deflected out of the sky, Li Chunjiang was also forbearant and calm. Seeing the score of former national youth captain Bai Haotian, Li Chunjiang also grinned and blossomed.
controversy
But Li Chunjiang's last Weibo update was dated September 22, 2019, which seems to mark the end of his anti-meng change, and Chunge is originally a controversial person, which is difficult to change.
Just after the news that Li Chunjiang was banned for 5 years for leading the team to play negatively, a basketball commentator from Beijing said that because Li Chunjiang was banned, Marbury was on the hot search, and according to this person, Marbury had long put aside the grudge with Li Chunjiang, but Li Chunjiang definitely did not.
With Li Chunjiang's qualifications and ability, leading the Chinese men's basketball team is not more than enough, but it is also expected by everyone, but he who established the Hongyuan dynasty in 2008 when he coached the national youth men's basketball team because he was dissatisfied with the referee's decision in the Asian Youth Championship, led the team to strike directly, resulting in the Chinese team being canceled and missing the World Youth Championship the following year, Li Xiaoxu, Dong Hanlin and a group of young talents also lost the excellent opportunity to prove themselves in the World Youth Championship.
Basketball commentator Su Qun revealed that in 2009, the Chinese Basketball Association publicly bid for the position of head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team, originally Li Chunjiang was full of confidence in the coach, but the competition time stipulated by the basketball association conflicted with the playoff schedule, resulting in Li Chunjiang unable to arrive in Beijing on time. After that, Li Chunjiang seemed to know that the basketball association had set Guo Shiqiang, and he automatically withdrew from the competition with a strong personality. Later, Yao Ming made a list, and Li Chunjiang did not participate in the competition for the national team manager, and has not been with the national coach since then.
In the league, Li Chunjiang's post-match angry referee penalty is just a routine operation, and his grudge with Marbury is well known to the world. In the first game of the 2011-12 Finals, Marbury threw his knees on Brooks Jr.'s head with a very fierce move, and Guangdong had been trailing by a large margin, and during the timeout, Li Chunjiang said in a fierce tone to tell the players, since Marbury moved so much, then we must also foul a little harder. After seeing that the situation did not improve, Li Chunjiang shouted angrily at the team members: "Upper leg, upper leg, upper leg, don't start." Upper legs, understand? Upper legs, do you understand? ”
Since then, the bond between Li Chunjiang and Marbury has been forged, and during his time in charge of Guangsha, Li Chunjiang twice led the team to lose to Marbury's Beijing in the playoffs, because he was fouled by Guangsha players in the game, Marbury bluntly said: "I think a coach should not let his players hurt others, which is a very bad thing." The "one coach" in Lao Ma's mouth is obviously Li Chunjiang, and the contradiction between the two has further deepened.
Until Marbury became the head coach of the Beikong men's basketball team, Li Chunjiang scolded Marbury in the game last season, which simply became a scene in the game, and the two almost moved after the game. These grudges have accumulated until now, it is the last round of the regular season this season, facing Beikong who has missed the playoffs, Li Chunjiang still puts the main force on the court, can win 100 points and never win 99 points, which has become the fuse of the conflict between Ma Yong and Bledsoe, and also caused Blood Cloth to be banned for 4 games, in order to play one more round to help Blood Cloth wash the ban, Su Hu's negative game was produced, and Li Chunjiang was also banned for 5 years.
As a Guangdong fan, I like Li Chunjiang's straightforward personality, and I am even more grateful for the supreme glory he has brought to Hongyuan; As a Xinjiang fan, he hated Li Chunjiang for letting Xinjiang lose the championship for three consecutive years, and Beijing fans have always held a grudge against Li Chunjiang, and once scolded Chunge and his beloved son Li Jinglong in Wukesong. Of course, most people have two sides, but it is indeed embarrassing that a generation of famous coaches has been banned for 5 years now.