On September 23, Beijing time, Dragon and Lions Basketball Club officially signed a contract with Guangzhou Securities, which means the birth of Guangzhou's first CBA men's basketball team, and the Foshan men's basketball team, which was previously known to fans, will compete in the CBA as a Guangzhou men's basketball team from next season.
As early as the first two seasons, when Evergrande was playing in the Chinese Super League, there were rumors that Evergrande also wanted to enter the CBA, and most of the rumors pointed to the Guangdong basketball overlord Guangdong Hongyuan team at that time, and there were also a few rumors that Foshan was the target of Guangzhou's enterprises.
Foshan men's basketball team, formerly known as Shaanxi Dongsheng Basketball Team, was founded in 2000, in 2001 it won the championship in the then A-B League into the CBA, and once won the eighth place, in the 2010-2011 season Shaanxi team moved to Foshan and renamed Foshan Men's Basketball Team.
Since its establishment, the Foshan men's basketball team has been in the middle and lower reaches of the CBA, ranking fourth from the bottom in the 10-11 season, second from the bottom in the 11-12 season, seventh from the bottom in the 12-13 season, fourth from the bottom in the 13-14 season, tenth in the 14-15 season, and only 6 games in the 15-16 season ranking first in the CBA. In six seasons, except for the season with three foreign aides, foshan team spent most of its time wandering at the bottom of the standings.
Foshan men's basketball team has poor results, but Foshan is a city that loves basketball very much, with endless basketball events held by localities, a large number of participants, and the attendance rate of the Foshan team is also good. The local NBA-level competition venue is being built to be used as a venue for the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, and Foshan originally planned to set this venue as the team's home stadium in 2017.
It is this series of plans and investments that make many fans feel that the Dragon and Lions Club will not leave, but the fact that makes local fans sad still happens, so why can't Foshan, which loves basketball, keep a CBA team?
The first is that the record is too poor, Foshan team in addition to the 14-15 season to play the 10th CBA, and has signed a short-term contract with Marbury, almost did not play any famous in the CBA, more senior fans may also remember that Foshan team defeated the Xinjiang men's basketball team last season, if it is an ordinary CBA fan may only remember that Foshan team almost did not win last season. If such a bad record continues, the club will only continue to lose money, and there is almost no possibility of profit.
But the club itself is not unwilling to invest, before the start of the 15-16 season, the Foshan team that did not have three foreign aides at that time frequently introduced reinforcements before the season, Tang Zhengdong, Gong Songlin, as well as Li Tao, Su Yijie, a defender from Baodao Taiwan, Zhao Lizhou, a liaoning youth striker, and Zhang Xiaolei, a former national youth inner line in Jiangsu, Foshan introduced 6 players of all ages in one go, but in addition to Tang Zhengdong, other players did not get many opportunities in the following seasons. Tang Zhengdong, who was introduced at a high price, averaged 14.7 minutes per game, scored 5.8 points and 3.5 rebounds, and returned to Jiangsu basketball after a season in Foshan.
At the same time as the domestic aid is invested, the choice of foshan team's foreign aid is incomprehensible, when the Foshan team signed Hopson and Benimon, these two NBA marginal players simply can not bear the heavy responsibility of leading the Foshan team forward, the team lost consecutively while their self-confidence was gone, playing worse and worse, falling into a vicious circle.
The most criticized is the coaching team of the Foshan men's basketball team, according to media reports after Jiang Xingquan left office, the Foshan team announced that Yan Songtao would serve as the team coach. But in fact, foshan has three managers, one is the team's nominal coach Yan Songtao, the other is executive coach Dean Murray, but the most interesting is the former Chinese women's basketball coach Sun Fengwu. Sun Fengwu does not have any title at the Foshan club, but many people think that he is the real one who exercises the authority of Foshan manager. Although Sun Fengwu does not have any title, he is actually participating in the coach's work as a consultant to the club's shareholders.
Such a complex relationship reflects the club's management contradictions, which also make the players confused, and the unfavorable and chaotic management of foreign aid allowed Foshan to play a bad 18 consecutive defeats last season. Moving from Foshan to Guangdong, everything starts over, and finding a more suitable investor may be a new starting point for the Foshan men's basketball team.