In the 19th round of the CBA regular season, Beijing men's basketball team VS Guangzhou men's basketball team, before the game, Beijing Executive Vice President Zhang Yunsong was interviewed by the media and talked about the team's replacement of head coach.
Zhang Yunsong said: After the last game with the Xinjiang team, Leyden felt a lot of pressure, whether it was the fans or other aspects are very concerned about us, and there are a lot of expectations, this season's schedule is very tight, Lydon is also older, after high-intensity games and training, he may indeed be under huge pressure both physically and mentally, and he has been out for a long time, and he misses his family more.
Therefore, Layden asked if we could make adjustments, and we also made the decision to change the coach in light of various circumstances, including Layden's ideas. ”
Lydon coached 18 games in the new season with a record of 10 wins and 8 losses in the ninth position in the standings, the same record as the seventh Qingdao men's basketball team, standing in the core competitiveness of this group of players, in fact, it is more in line with the status quo, but after a period of 3 consecutive defeats in the second stage, the team's morale and fighting spirit are facing a relatively large blow, especially the loss to the Fujian men's basketball team, and the voice of controversy after the game is relatively loud.
On the bright side, Layden's tactics don't meet the needs of the team, and without a high-quality defense, it's understandable that the management has ideas. Lydon's offseason contract extension didn't go as smoothly as expected, and the breakup may be reasonable.
But from another point of view, the lack of competitiveness of Beijing's core players is already a very realistic part.
Since April 4, 2022, when Beijing was defeated by Jilin and missed the quarterfinals of the playoffs, Yannis announced that he would leave the Beijing men's basketball team, and his follow-up experience was Xie Libin, Layden, and now Jorio, and he has experienced 4 head coaches.
Jorio joined Beijing Shougang with Payagani, who became head coach in 2020, but the latter's results failed to meet expectations and his early dismissal was announced, while Jorio stayed with the team as an assistant coach and was even qualified as the club's youth director.
In just 3 years, Beijing has changed 5 head coaches, and they are indeed not at a good level?
The biggest problem for Beijing now is that the old core players still bear a lot of playing time and tactical positions, and the selection of foreign players has not met expectations, resulting in a lack of tactical adjustment. Especially Zhai Xiaochuan, Fang Shuo, Zhu Yanxi, a group of veterans over 30 years old, their personal ability may have the ability to match Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui, Zhao Jiwei, Zhang Zhenlin, Zhao Rui, A Budu, Hu Mingxuan, Zhou Qi and others, but they have proven for many seasons that they are not enough to reach the level of high-intensity matching.
And Zeng Fanbo, Fan Ziming is not a young player who can decide the trend of the game, before the young origin led by Yang Ali left the team, and Fan Yiming, who was born in the 00s, is not a pure young player to some extent, but he got playing time in the last game, and there is almost no chemistry with the players of the first team.
The more reasonable results of the Beijing men's basketball team in the new season are the playoff quarterfinals, and it is difficult to go up with Keane and Leaf as the double foreign aid system, and it can be clearly seen from the standings that Beijing played Guangdong, Xinjiang, and Liaoning all lost. It is impossible to say that the league period will reach the point of significant adjustment in a short period of time, and Beijing's squad does not have an absolute advantage compared to any team in the top four.
It is worth mentioning that Beijing once had in-depth exchanges with Xinjiang clubs involved in the transaction of Zhou Qi in the offseason, but when it came to the transaction of Fan Ziming, Beijing failed to make concessions and communicate effectively, and in the end, Zhu Fangyu used Zhao Rui as a bargaining chip to promote the transaction before the men's basketball team's departure ceremony. From this point of view, Zhao Rui and Zhou Qi swapped to achieve a win-win ending, and Guangdong and Xinjiang were among the favorites to win the championship.
And Beijing's missing out on a Zhou Qi with its own tactical system, and the previous purchase of Fan Ziming and Li Muhao by spending tens of millions of dollars, does it mean that the management has made another wrong assessment?