The Liaoning team won the 2021-22 CBA championship. After the game, Liaoning coach Yang Ming signaled to let Jiang Xingquan guide him to the podium first. The 81-year-old veteran coach took the first step to the podium with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and stood in the middle of the team, holding up the championship. tripod.
18 years ago, Jiang Xingquan became Yang Ming’s mentor, and 18 years later, Jiang Xingquan helped “rookie coach” Yang Ming to become the champion coach.
Looking back on Jiang Xingquan’s basketball career, this old coach who has won the China Basketball Special Contribution Award is full of peach and plum, and his disciples are all over the coaching and management positions of various CBA teams. It is not an exaggeration to call him the “Godfather of Chinese Basketball”.
In 1990, Jiang Xingquan was officially appointed as the national team coach by the national youth team coach. He began to make a big change for the national team. These new players were brought up by Jiang Xingquan from the youth team. Hu Weidong, Sun Jun, Wu Qinglong, Wu Naiqun, Gong Xiaobin, Zheng Wu and other Chinese basketball legends were called by fans as the “golden generation of the Chinese men’s basketball team”. “.
In the 1994 Toronto World Championships, the Chinese men’s basketball team was assigned to a group of death. The Chinese men’s basketball team first defeated the South American champion Brazil, and lost the second game to the Dream Team.
Facing Spain in the third game, coach Jiang Xingquan gave a passionate speech, “When it’s time to shoot, what are you afraid of, it’s yours, if you’re wrong, it’s mine.” The men’s basketball team completed a 17-point reversal.
In the end, the Chinese men’s basketball team achieved a historic breakthrough. Under the leadership of Jiang Xingquan, they won the eighth place in the World Championships. This is the first time that the Chinese men’s basketball team has entered the quarter-finals in a world competition.
In 1996, Jiang Xingquan’s younger brother, Gong Luming, led the “Golden Generation” to the top eight of the Olympic Games.
When it comes to Jiang Xingquan, he has to mention his training method of “Three Obligations and One Greatness” – “Strictness, difficulty, actual combat, and large-scale exercise training are all the rules of experience that volleyball and other advantageous sports have explored from long-term actual combat. , it has scientific content.”
“Tiger King” Sun Jun recalled in his autobiography that during Jiang Xingquan’s leadership, the daily running distance was estimated to exceed 13,000 kilometers. “He has established absolute authority in our hearts with strict management and outstanding results.”
Jiang Xingquan himself revealed a small thing in the interview. In 1994, the Chinese men’s basketball team was preparing for the World Championships and invited Latvia, a strong team in Europe, to play a warm-up match. The air conditioning in the arena was broken at the time. In the second half of the game, the players of the Latvian team were almost dragged down, while the players of the Chinese team seemed to have become accustomed to this game environment and won the game “easy”.
In 1999, Jiang Xingquan took charge of the national men’s basketball team again, and finally successfully led the team to win the Asian Men’s Basketball Championship in Japan and entered the Sydney Olympic Games. Four years later, when the national team was in trouble, Jiang Xingquan took charge of the national team again, stabilizing the situation and helping the national team successfully enter the Athens Olympics. So far, Jiang Xingquan is the head coach who has coached the Chinese men’s basketball national team the most times.
Pay close attention to the youth training, the peach and plum are all over the world
Since 1970, Jiang Xingquan has been the head coach of the Liaoning men’s basketball team. From 1976 to 1990, he served as the head coach of the Liaoning men’s basketball team, and led the team to win two championships in the National League, Championship, Basketball Association Cup and Club Cup. Zhang Xuelei, Li Chunjiang, Sha Guoli, Wu Qinglong, Wang Zhidan and other players have been trained.
As a proud disciple of Jiang Xingquan, Li Chunjiang once commented on his teacher: “He doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol. As far as I know, Mr. Jiang has almost no hobbies. He is dedicated to basketball and is very dedicated. I myself have been doing it for 10 years. The manager is out, and I don’t think I can do what he did.”
In the 2004-2005 season, Jiang Xingquan once again served as the head coach of the Liaoning men’s basketball team. He used the 19-year-old Yang Ming. In the second season, Jiang Xingquan boldly used the 16-year-old Li Xiaoxu.
In the 2007-2008 season, Jiang Xingquan went to Xinjiang to coach for the second time, pulling out players such as Xirelijiang, Kelan Baike and Xu Guochong. Xirelijiang once said: “If it wasn’t for Jiang’s guidance, I would still be selling mutton skewers in Kashgar.”
After the establishment of the CBA, Jiang Xingquan failed to win the league championship in the face of Bayi and Guangdong dynasty teams. But this does not affect the youth training results of the Chinese basketball godfather.
Yan Yuzhijun, adhering to the style of “three from one big”, can see the shadow of Jiang Xingquan in the coaching of his disciples.
In 2017, Liu Weiwei took over as the head coach of the Zhejiang team. He personally flew to Shenyang and asked 77-year-old mentor Jiang Xingquan to come out as a consultant. Jiang Xingquan, who is nearly 80 years old, has been doing it himself, and he has always followed the team on his home and away journeys. The Zhejiang Youth Guards represented by Wu Qian, Wang Yibo, Cheng Shuipeng, etc. rose rapidly.
plan to retire and come out again
Before the start of the 2020-21 season, Yang Ming officially became the coach of the Liaoning team. The first thing he did was to imitate Liu Weiwei and invited his mentor Jiang Xingquan to come out.
With the departure of Guo Shiqiang, the Liaoning basketball team that won the first championship is aging. The foreign coach Martinez, who succeeded Guo Shiqiang, still has a certain gap with the local coach in terms of communication with the players. For example, Zhao Jiwei tweeted after the 2020 finals, “What am I?”
After Yang Ming retired, he had no plans to become a coach. He became the deputy general manager of the Liaoning Club in charge of business and promotion. But in the face of the already precarious Liaoning team, Yang Ming had no choice.
Yang Ming, who became the coach at that time, had neither experience nor qualifications. Asking the mentor Jiang Xingquan to sit in the office can give him on-demand broadcasts on the one hand, and on the other hand, have Lao Jiang in the office, so that he can be united.
At that time, Jiang Xingquan, who was about to celebrate his 80th birthday, had already decided to retire and go home to enjoy his family. However, it was difficult for Yang Ming to visit the door many times, and he decided to come back again and stand for the last post for Liaoning.
Yang Ming, who is diligent and studious, reciprocates the efforts of his teacher with his grades. The 20-21 season CBA runner-up, the 21-year National Games champion, and then this year’s CBA champion.
When he won the National Games last year, Yang Ming put the gold medal on his teacher’s neck. This year’s CBA championship, Yang Ming let his teacher lift the championship tripod for the first time.
Today’s Liaoning is full of wings, and Yang Ming can also be on his own. Will Jiang Xingquan, the godfather of Chinese basketball, choose to retire at this time? Only his iron fist ruled the army and filled the garden with peach plums.
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