(1) Differences in identity and status
Lang Ping is a symbol of the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team, known as the "Iron Hammer", she not only has a brilliant career as an athlete, but also has remarkable achievements as a coach after retiring. Lang Ping is the meritorious coach who led the American women's volleyball team out of the trough and returned to the world's strongest team, and is the legendary coach who led the Chinese women's volleyball team to regain the World Cup championship and the Olympic championship.
Cai Bin is also a volleyball player, who served as a substitute setter in the national team of head coach Wang Jiawei, the main setter is the famous Zhou Jian'an, and Shandong women's volleyball head coach An Jiajie is teammates. The international performance of the Chinese men's volleyball team is obviously not comparable to that of the women's volleyball team, so Cai Bin's athlete career is just mediocre. After retiring, he served as the coach of the women's volleyball local team, and was known as Xiao Zhuge because of his flexible mind, and won the best coach of the league in 2016 and 2017.
Therefore, Lang Ping's identity and status determine that the platoon management center must compromise with Lang Ping, and the conditions proposed by Lang Ping are basically met, and Lai Yawen is Lang Ping's former teammate, and he is willing to assist Lang Ping, so that Lang Ping has no worries, so there is a chemical reaction of "Lang Ping + Lai Yawen = success".
And the model of "Lai Yawen + Cai Bin" is not so lucky, first, Lai Yawen's status at this time is different, the deputy director of the Volleyball Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China is specialized in volleyball, and Cai Bin is just the head coach of the national team. Can you not listen to the leader's words? What do you want to be like Lang Ping and want autonomy? Besides, Cai Bin himself is the vice chairman of the Shanghai Volleyball Association, and he is very clear about the relationship between his superiors and subordinates in the system, knows how to measure proportions, and knows how to advance and retreat. Therefore, Cai Bin did not dare to make rash decisions on many issues alone.
(2) Personality differences
Lang Ping is a typical temperamental person, when the athlete plays, he has passion, decisiveness, and never drags mud and water. When the coach is the same, he never compromises easily when communicating with the volleyball management center on the construction of the women's volleyball team, and does not want to be interfered by external factors. Especially in the choice of the players, do not give an inch, based on reason, and strive to replace the veterans directly with young players, rather than conservatively with the old with the new, the employment on the field is not determined by fame, and the success or failure is judged by the state, Lang Ping insisted on taking the injured Wei Qiuyue to compete in the Olympics, and Wei Qiuyue used excellent performance to help the Chinese team win the Olympic championship is the best reward for Lang Ping's persistence. Lang Ping is still a loving mother, strict requirements for the players on the court, and care about the team off the field like a mother, like Zhao Ruirui, Feng Kun and other players who went to the United States for treatment of injuries were all contacted by Lang Ping. There is also Lang Ping who dares to admit his mistakes and shortcomings, for the bad performance, Lang Ping can always point out the shortcomings of the players in the game and the mistakes of his own command according to objective facts, and never shirk. Such a coach is convincing and willing to give her life.
Look at Cai Bin again. Cai Bin himself has a soft personality, some people say that this is called Confucian Shuai, well, Confucian Shuai is Confucian Shuai. Cai Bin's personality is more introverted, he likes to speak carefully, and he has a sense of strangeness when communicating with the team members. is relatively indifferent to the players, Li Yingying walked off the field with a limp in the Olympic qualifiers, and Cai Bin hugged his shoulders and watched coldly. The manager's indifference made the whole team seem cohesive and the overall atmosphere was not good. It can be seen from Li Yingying's rare smiling face in the national team, and when she returns to the Tianjin team, she looks like a younger sister that her sister is not happy in the national team, and this situation does not exist in Lang Ping's team. Cai Bin's personality of liking to dump the pot is also the main reason why he has been criticized, and we need an objective and responsible coach.
(3) Differences in coaching experience and philosophy
Lang Ping has been a coach in the United States before, and the re-emergence of the American women's volleyball team is Lang Ping's masterpiece. When the American women's volleyball team fell into a trough, Lang Ping was moved by the sincerity of the American sports department, and the American sports department also gave Lang Ping full rights, from personnel selection, technical and tactical training to game command, the head coach had the final say. Americans are very fond of Lang Ping because she is a Chinese athlete on a par with Heyman, the greatest volleyball player in American history. Lang Ping boldly reformed the U.S. women's volleyball team and recruited all newcomers, and the players only respect and look up to Lang Ping. Her unique vision and high-level technical and tactical training convinced the American players, and the American women's volleyball team soon returned to the world's strongest team.
Since Lang Ping took over the coaching whip of the Chinese women's volleyball team in 2013, he boldly reorganized, gave up a group of old players, trained and selected young players, such as Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Yuan Xinyue, Lin Li and other young athletes have grown rapidly under Lang Ping. It is this wind of youth that has allowed the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the World Cup and the Olympic championship in a row.
Lang Ping has rich experience in overseas coaching and has a lot of knowledge of new concepts and trends in the international volleyball world. After taking over the coaching whip of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Lang Ping carried out an all-round reform of the Chinese women's volleyball team according to the latest development trends and technical and tactical requirements of the international volleyball world. First, recruit a large number of young players and carry out a major change. The second is to innovate women's volleyball skills and tactics in accordance with the development trend of the international volleyball world. The third is to advocate training by competition, and play more with foreign high-level teams.
The reasons for this are, first, that the peak period of athletes is actually three or five years, so the younger team is an inevitable trend. Second, the traditional Chinese women's volleyball players are relatively short and mainly use fast-changing tactics, while foreign teams are tall and selective, so we suffer very much in terms of offense and blocking. Therefore, it is very important to find tall and good seedlings, especially in terms of offense, the masculine three-dimensional attack has become the mainstream of the world, and the main attack has become an important means of scoring for European and American teams. Third, the training time of foreign teams is not guaranteed, so they must quickly improve themselves through the game, and only the actual combat is the most real and effective, therefore, Lang Ping asked the players to play more games. It is Lang Ping's persistence that has seen the emergence of superstars like Zhu Ting and Zhang Changning in the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Look at Cai Bin again. has been coaching in domestic clubs, and his achievements have always been shrouded by the aura of the Tianjin team. Some are clever, known as Xiao Zhuge , but as netizens said, there is only Zhuge Liang, not Xiao Zhuge . The weakness of his coaching experience makes it difficult for him to serve in China. After the experience of failing to coach the national team for the first time, Xiao Zhuge wanted to turn over the battle too much, so he designed the concept of lightspeed volleyball on paper. In fact, this concept itself is not wrong, and many strong teams in the international volleyball world are now playing very fast, and the representative is the Turkish Vakifer Bank. But this kind of fast is based on the very strong foundation of the first and second pass systems, and Lang Ping asked Li Yingying to practice hard for this reason, and our first pass is originally a weakness, and it is a little inaccurate to engage in this set.
Another thing is that Cai Bin's employment is too conservative, and there are basically no newcomers in the women's volleyball team formed by Cai Bin. The advantage of using veteran players is that they have more experience, no need to deliberately cultivate, and produce results quickly, but the disadvantage is that the skills of veteran players have been stereotyped and difficult to change. Cai Bin wants to implement new techniques and tactics and play the speed of light, but he doesn't want to train new people, so he wants to transform the old players, which is a contradiction in itself. Even Cai Bin's team in the Jiangsu team can't master the speed of light volleyball, so this tactic is bound to fail.
In terms of the core philosophy of the team, the difference between the two is also very large.
Lang Ping himself is the main attacker, the soul of the team is Zhu Ting, and the strong teams around the world all take the attacker as the soul of the team, such as Gabi in Brazil, Boskovic in Serbia, and Thompson in the United States, all of whom are the best star attackers. A team must have a star attacker who can step up when the team is in trouble and help the team get out of trouble.
Cai Bin himself was born as a setter, and mistakenly used the team's brain as a soul. No matter how strong the setter is, the final score also depends on the attacker, so the setter should be organized around the attacker, otherwise it is putting the cart before the horse.
(4) Differences in on-the-spot command
Lang Ping is a master of technique and tactics, and her pauses are all purposeful, basically arranging tactics for the players to deal with. And the players on the field are not famous, whoever is in good shape will be on whom, even if Zhu Ting is restricted, she will also be replaced.
Cai Bin's pause problem is very big, the famous scene is that the skills and tactics are not talked about, and the time is basically spent correcting the player's blocking hand and setter technique, and there is a pause in the Olympic qualifiers and I don't know what to say, ask the setter Diao Linyu who he is going to pass the ball to, Diao Linyu obviously didn't expect the coach to ask so, and he paused before giving an answer, and Cai then arranged it down. This is the first time I've seen it in volleyball. And Cai Bin basically doesn't change people, and the Seven Fairies won't end up if they don't have lame legs.
From the above comparison, it can be seen that the Chinese women's volleyball team now urgently needs to find a Lang Ping-style coach to use advanced concepts and full autonomy to push the existing system of the Chinese women's volleyball team to rebuild, otherwise it will only get worse and worse, and the difference in concept cannot be made up by hard training.