A few days ago, some media people broke out: former Beijing Shougang coach Min Lulei will come out of the mountain to serve as the head coach of the Beikong men's basketball team in the same city. The authenticity of the message has not yet been answered, but what is certain is that Coach Marbury's departure from Beikong is a foregone conclusion.
From the last season in Beikong as a player in the 17-18 season, to the announcement of Marbury as the team's head coach in 2019, what did he bring to Beijing in the past five years between Marbury and Beikong?
First of all, of course, looking at the record, in the 18-19 season, Beikong ushered in a bottom-ranked season, look at their lineup at that time: Yu Liang, Yang Genglin, Wang Zheng, Yu Shulong, Sun Henan, Randolph, Wang Zhenyu, Zhang Fan, Jing Haoyang, Wang Zixu, Xu Mengjun, Pierre Jackson, Thomas Robinson, Ledo. It is not surprising that this lineup is at the bottom of the rankings.
In the 2019 offseason, in addition to the head coach changed to Marbury, assistant coaches added Li Xiaoyong, Zhao Yonggang, foreign quotes into Ferg, Delgado, Sonny, domestic transfers: Wang Shaojie, Sun Yue, Sun Tonglin, Gao Shang, Zong Zan, Wang Zirui, Meng Bolong, Banduo, transfers: Yang Jingmin, Sun Henan, Yang Genglin, Yu Shulong. It can be said that in the summer of 19 they put their blood into it.
The results were also satisfactory, with the historic 2019-20 season and a seventh-place finish in the 2019-20 season, which undoubtedly strengthened the management's determination and increased trust in Marbury.
In the next two seasons, Beikong was almost blocked from the playoffs at the last minute (in the 20-21 season, it had the same record as the 12th-place Guangzhou team, but ranked 13th due to the win-loss relationship, and in the 21-22 season, it was 13th with 12th place Tianjin). And in the past two years, the addition of the lineup, the talented young point guard Liao Sanning they cultivated entered the first team, and after Bayi's disbandment, they added Bayi's strong interior lineman Zou Yuchen and forward Luo Kaiwen.
And in this case, they won only 16 games in the 22-23 season, ranking 15th in the league, excluding the Xinjiang team, which played fewer games, and their record was only higher than that of Fujian, Sichuan, Tianjin and Ningbo.
The squad is getting better and worse, and the first to be the head coach Marbury is the first to leave the class, so we see that Marbury left the team in January this year, and although he eventually returned to coach the season, it was difficult to stop him from leaving class.
The team's performance does not rise but falls, so what about training players? Unlike other youth teams, there is only one young player in the true sense of Beikong, Liao Sanning, who averaged 12.4 points and 4.6 assists per game at the beginning of the 21st season and started 25 games. In the 22nd season, Liao Sanning, who thought he would get more opportunities, only started 15 games, and his average dropped to 9.2 points and 3.6 assists per game. A large reason is that they chose Gordon to occupy a large number of balls, not only did not achieve the desired record, but also delayed the growth of young players, look at the same period of Cui Yongxi, Lin Wei, all got a lot of training opportunities and display opportunities.
What is even more criticized by Beikong is that it has hoarded a large number of interior players, not only domestic players Zou Yuchen, Wang Shaojie, Yu Changdong, Sun Tonglin, Li Weihao, but also foreign aid has chosen Haas, who plays more internally. The game was only 48 minutes, resulting in no stable playing time except for the old and sturdy Yu Changdong, and the performance of Zou Yuchen and Wang Shaojie was also greatly reduced, and they did not have the majesty of the fledgling at all.
The grades were not good, the people were not developed, and I think that's why Coach Marbury left the class. Good players are not necessarily good coaches, this can be seen in the coaching experience of Wang Zhizhi and Hu Weidong, and Beikong now needs a coach like Guo Shiqiang and Liu Weiwei to systematically cultivate young players and give young players full time and opportunities for trial and error, will Min Lulei be the person they need?