After more than two months of rest and adjustment, the first team and youth team of the Shanghai men's basketball team ended their holidays on June 16 and started summer training at the Sanjiagang Training Base and the Oriental Green Boat Training Base respectively. It is understood that the new head coach Li Chunjiang and assistant coach Jiejun will meet with the team at the end of this month because of their personal affairs.
After another painful season, the Shanghai men's basketball team first adjusted the coaching staff in this offseason, hiring champion coach Li Chunjiang to take charge of the coaching whip, and the club hopes that his arrival will bring different changes to the team. Under the proposal of Coach Li Chunjiang and the discussion with the club, the first-team coaching team of the Shanghai men's basketball team in the new season has also settled, and the successor Jun, Liu Peng and Zhang Wenqi who followed from Guangsha will form a new assistant coaching team to help Li Chunjiang lead the Shanghai men's basketball team to make new breakthroughs in the new season. At the same time, Li Qiuping will continue to serve as the head coach of the club, and continue to promote the construction of the club's youth training while fully cooperating with Li Chunjiang to grasp the training and preparation of the first team in the new season.
It is worth mentioning that in the case of the goal of cultivating Liu Wei as the future head coach of the Shanghai men's basketball team, Liu Wei, who served as the leader of the first team and the head of the Chinese coaching team last season, will transform into the head coach of the Shanghai men's basketball U19 youth team in the new season. It is understood that the purpose of the club to make this adjustment is to allow Liu Wei to gain more experience in practice, give full play to what he has learned and think in the team, improve his coaching ability, and lay a solid foundation for future coaching.
It is understood that Liu Wei has obtained the B-level coach certificate of the Chinese Basketball Association at the beginning of the year, and was recruited to the Chinese men's basketball U19 youth team in May, where he led the team for a three-month training camp with head coach Wang Jianjun at the Shanghai Chongming Training Base. In addition to Liu Wei, Lu Wei, who served as the assistant coach of the Liaoning men's basketball team last season, will return to the Shanghai men's basketball family in the new season as the assistant coach of the U19 youth team.
At the suggestion of Head Coach Li Qiuping, the club decided that Tang Tao would be responsible for coordinating the daily youth team affairs. According to the arrangement, Peng Fei and Lu Zhiqiang will serve as the head coach and assistant coach of the U17 youth team; Wang Yong will serve as the head coach of the U15 youth team; and Wang Jianguo and Meng Lingyuan will serve as the head coach and assistant coach of the U13 youth team.
While focusing on the present, the Shanghai men's basketball team also does not forget to plan for the future. Last season, the team introduced three national youth players Li Tianrong, Dai Hao and Zhang Zhiyao, and these three have now invested in summer training and have the opportunity to represent the Shanghai men's basketball team in the new season. At the same time, Li Hongquan, who plays for Caspian University in the NCAA first division, Dong Hao, who plays for Real Betis in La Liga, Liu Lijia, who is quite talented and famous in the Chinese men's basketball team U17 youth team, is expected to represent the Shanghai men's basketball team in the CBA League in the future, coupled with the team's existing Guo Haowen and Ou Junxuan, the Sharks have become the leader in the first echelon of the league in terms of young player reserves.