The first stage of the CBA regular season has come to an end. Except for the players selected for the Chinese men’s basketball training list, the rest of the CBA players have entered a short holiday. However, some players did not give up this opportunity to seek improvement. The two young guards of the Shanghai team were like this. The 21-year-old Guo Haowen and Li Tianrong followed the team’s foreign aid Franklin to work overtime to increase their strength and show their attitude. Get further improvement through additional training.
On November 19, Franklin personally posted a video of training with Guo Haowen and Li Tianrong in the strength room. In the video, the two young guards are each focusing on strength training. As young players can have such an attitude, I believe that the development of Guo Haowen and Li Tianrong will be even greater in the future.
In the previous first stage a total of 13 rounds, Guo Haowen and Li Tianrong both performed brilliantly. The first is Guo Haowen. After rushing to the United States for personal training during the offseason to prepare for the NBA draft, Guo Haowen’s personal comprehensive ability has improved significantly. The focus is on improving the handling of the ball and breakthrough offense. It is no longer the reckless chaos like the past. Will seek a good time to give full play to their advantages.
After the 13th round of the regular season, Guo Haowen averaged 17.9 points per game. As a defender, he shot 59%. In addition, Guo Haowen also improved his historical weakness in three-point shooting. The three-point shooting rate reached 43% of the excellent level, with both scoring and shooting percentages. A career high, Guo Haowen is already an excellent CBA scorer. Taking into account the Shanghai team’s first eight results of 10 wins and 3 losses in the first stage, Guo Haowen’s performance so far this season is the CBA All-Star level.
Then there is Li Tianrong. The rookie’s performance is even more rare. Unlike Guo Haowen who has three CBA professional seasons, this season is Li Tianrong’s first CBA league appearance. In the past two years, Li Tianrong first played in the Australian NBL league and then returned to China. Signed with the Shanghai Youth Team and played in the youth team for two seasons before being promoted to the first team. In the first year of playing in the CBA League, Li Tianrong quickly adapted and played a good role as the main attacker of the team’s second team. He averaged 11.6 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 19.5 minutes per game. His shooting rate was a terrifying 70%, and his true shooting rate was 70%. First in the league, Li Tianrong played a record card that could compete for the honor of the best rookie.
It is extremely rare for these two new stars to take the initiative to work overtime after their amazing performances and seek to improve themselves. It means that this Shanghai men’s basketball team will be able to be competitive for many years to come, as young players do. “Inward roll”, Shanghai Shark is not afraid of not developing.
It is worth mentioning that the Shanghai men’s basketball team can have such a new star, we need to thank the former Guangdong godfather Li Chunjiang. During the offseason, Li Chunjiang was invited by the Shanghai team to coach and completely changed this team. In addition to the reasonable combination of Wang Zhelin and Ren Junwei, it also continued the past habit of coaching Guangdong and Guangsha. Help the team develop excellent young players. Looking back on Li Chunjiang’s more than 20 years of coaching in the past, he has trained Zhu Fangyu, Du Feng, Yi Jianlian, Wang Shipeng, Zhou Peng and other historical basketball players, and coached Guangsha also taught such national players as Hu Jinqiu, Sun Minghui and Zhao Yanhao.
Now coming to Shanghai to coach, Li Chunjiang has created two outstanding works of Guo Haowen and Li Tianrong. Before this season, Guo Haowen was the core of the former National Youth Team. A talented player who had scored a triple-double in the World Youth Championship has been criticized. Off-court problems, misconduct, and no improvement in his professional career for three years, until he joined the Shanghai team halfway through last season, Guo Haowen did not change his shortcoming of only 24% of his three-pointers. However, under Li Chunjiang’s coaching arrangement, Guo Haowen played the best season of his career, and his three-point shooting percentage rose to 43%.
On the other hand, Li Tianrong is even more an excellent work trained by Li Chunjiang. The first 4 games of the season only totaled 31 minutes and averaged only 2.9 points. From the 5th round, Li Chunjiang was given a heavy responsibility, and he was out of control. The last 9 rounds were 6 Scored in double figures, including scoring more than 20 points in two games, averaging 14.2 points per game. Li Chunjiang has thoroughly stimulated Li Tianrong’s potential and placed him on the bench to play in the second team, making perfect use of Li Tianrong’s outstanding athletic qualities. Once the game enters the rotation phase, the energetic Li Tianrong will become the object of headaches for all opponents.
Summarize:
An excellent CBA team needs a good culture, a correct tactical system, and an excellent head coach. Today, the Shanghai Sharks have it. As a new CBA team that has invested a lot in recent years, the Shanghai team owns The season has officially become a new force in the CBA pattern, and Li Chunjiang has cast all of this.