After the first stage of the CBA regular season, Li Nan, who coached the CBA for the first time, led the team to perform disappointingly. In 12 rounds of competition, the Jiangsu team he coached only achieved a record of 3 wins and 9 losses, ranking 16th in the CBA and 4th from the bottom. Although the delay in returning to the team affected the combat effectiveness of the Jiangsu team, it had to be admitted that the performance of the Jiangsu team did not show progress, but declined.
This season, one of Jiangsu's goals is to develop young players, but this is not an excuse for Jiangsu's poor performance. Because no team is simply for the sake of developing players and does not care about the record, the training of players is based on the struggle for victory. In other words, it's not that the team sacrifices everything to offer all the opportunities to the young players, it's that the players need to play better to impress the manager and get the chance.
But at present, the young players who have performed well in the Jiangsu team are basically only Zheng Qilong, who joined the team as a college student this year. This season, the rookie can average 11.7 points per game, one of the four players in Jiangsu who have averaged double-doubles per game. The other three are Wu Guanxi, Shi Hongfei and Huang Rongqi. Among the remaining players of the Jiangsu team, although there are some players who have a dazzling performance, Liu Yuxuan (averaging 5.7 points and 2.4 rebounds per game) and Jiang Haoran (averaging 6.3 points and 2.4 rebounds per game) who were trained by them did not perform well, and Wu Yujia and Xu Mengjun, who joined the team, also performed badly.
This led to the Jiangsu team fighting back and forth, and finally relying on Wu Guanxi, Shi Hongfei and Huang Rongqi. Although Li Nan has been stressing that playing tough, Jiangsu's performance this season has not been tough. In the first stage, they conceded an average of 102.4 points per game, but they averaged only 92.8 points per game. It also makes their defense count down, their offense down, and almost no aspect of performance is outstanding. Of those, they averaged just 39.3 rebounds per game, just in third-to-last place.
Compared with the Jiangsu team led by Besirovic last season, this season's Jiangsu team under the leadership of Li Nan, the offensive end of the performance declined significantly, the average defensive end lost 3.4 points per game, but overall, the Jiangsu team is not competitive. The performance of Shi Hongfei and Huang Rongqi's two major outside lines has improved a lot, but the performance of main center Wu Guanxi has declined. This has led to Jiangsu being a literal fish belly in the eyes of many opponents, although there is no foreign support, but this team that has played in the playoffs for two consecutive seasons now looks really vulnerable.
This is Li Nan's first season in charge of the CBA, he himself is also studying hard, and the outside world should indeed give him some tolerance and patience. But after 12 rounds of playing, the Jiangsu team has hardly made much progress in all aspects, but it has regressed significantly, and it has to be said that Li Nan has not been able to prove himself in the Jiangsu team at present. I don't know if Shi Linjie, the general manager with a poisonous eye, regrets asking Li Nan to come out of the mountain?