"A fence three piles, a good man three gangs", this old Chinese saying is very reasonable, anyone who wants to achieve a career, need to have a few good helpers around. This is a timeless truth in all walks of life in the country, and so is our CBA League.
As we all know, the former coach of the Shandong men's basketball team Gong Xiaobin is a very character coach, whether in the player era or after the transformation into the head coach of the CBA team, the untamed Gong Xiaobin has made countless enemies, and even had irreconcilable contradictions with jiang Xingquan, the mentor of the national team, and thus did not have the opportunity to compete with the national team in the Sydney Olympic Games at his peak.
Despite this, there are still several good helpers of Gong Xiaobin in the Shandong team, among which the most iron relationship with Gong Xiaobin is undoubtedly Yang Wenhai. Gong Xiaobin and Yang Wenhai were known as the Five Tigers of the Golden Age of Shandong Men's Basketball in their player era, together with Ji Minshang, Ju Weisong and Xu Changsuo, and the two had established a deep friendship when they played in the Shandong team.
After officially retiring in 2003, Gong Xiaobin soon became the manager of the Shandong men's basketball team, and Yang Wenhai also entered the coaching team of the Shandong men's basketball team and became an assistant coach in Gong Xiaobin's team. It can be said that after becoming a coach, Gong Xiaobin and Yang Wenhai have always been in the Shandong men's basketball team.
When Gong Xiaobin first left the Shandong team, Yang Wenhai also left the team to join the Men's Basketball Team of Taiyuan University of Technology in Shanxi, became the head coach of the varsity team, and led the team to win the overall championship of the National Collegiate League a year later.
In 2011, Gong Xiaobin returned to the Shandong men's basketball team and became the manager of the team again. Yang Wenhai also returned to Shandong and joined Gong Xiaobin's coaching team for the second time. Due to serious disagreements with the club's investor, Gao Gao group, Gong Xiaobin left the Shandong men's basketball team again in 2015, and Yang Wenhai once became the firefighting head coach of the Shandong men's basketball team during this period. After Caesar became the new coach of the Shandong men's basketball team, Yang Wenhai also quickly left the Shandong team and switched to Shanxi, becoming the head coach of the Shanxi men's basketball team.
In 2019, after the high-speed group withdrew from the Shandong men's basketball team, Gong Xiaobin returned to the Shandong team for the second time and became the team coach, and Yang Wenhai also returned to the Shandong men's basketball team shortly after and continued to assist Gong Xiaobin in the team. This season, with the high-speed group once again entering the Shandong men's basketball team, Gong Xiaobin immediately announced his resignation, and his coaching team also left the team, and Yang Wenhai was also among them.
Although gong Xiaobin received invitations from several teams after leaving the Shandong men's basketball team, he did not immediately choose to go out of the mountains again, but has been idle at home. However, Yang Wenhai recently found a new job. It is reported that he is likely to join the CBA League's hegemony Guangdong men's basketball team in the near future.
Guangdong coach Du Feng and Gong Xiaobin and Yang Wenhai's relationship has always been very good, especially Yang Wenhai, Du Feng in charge of the national team, the two have cooperated many times. After Yang Wenhai left Shandong with Gong Xiaobin, Du Feng also sent an invitation to Yang Wenhai in a timely manner, hoping that he could go to the Guangdong team to help him. Yang Wenhai also accepted the olive branch thrown by Du Feng and decided to go to Guangdong to assist Du Feng.
Joining the Guangdong men's basketball team, the triple crown team of the CBA, Yang Wenhai found a rather satisfactory job for himself. I just don't know if he will have the opportunity to return to Shandong in the future and work with Gong Xiaobin to coach the Shandong men's basketball team again...