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The following article comes from Su Qun, author Zhao Huanyu
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Shortly after the end of last season, xireilijiang received a phone call from his boss, hoping that he would also be the head coach, which made him feel a little confused. He just scored and rebelled from a new career, “a new career”. In the interview, he emphasized it to me at least three times. In addition, he can contribute 8.9 assists per game, and he is confident that he can play another 3-4 years.
Xirelijiang made two phone calls, one was to call the broker and ask for advice from the latter, and the other was to call the old handsome man Yan Shumin. They had cooperation in the 2017 National Games, yan Shumin agreed with him at that time: “Four years later, you will be the head coach and I will be your assistant.” He wanted to know whether he could join hands with Shumin in CBA. After getting two positive replies, he decided to take the job.
As soon as the news came out, many people believed that Tongxi was going further and further on the wrong road. Last season, their coaches were bessilovich and Liu Tie. The change of coach showed that they were still struggling at least. However, when the West heat River took office, it gave people a sense of fragmentation of lying flat and laughing. Fans want to know: what can he teach the players? Tik Tok video recording or fight with opponents?
Everyone knows that xihelijiang is a good big brother. He likes to help young people and dares to knife inserting for his teammates-even if he does not hesitate to use violence, there are not many people who believe that he is a good coach. As a coach, he lacks experience, is not stable and serious enough, and is keen to show off with his teammates. In the history of Chinese basketball, there has never been such a No. 1 coach.
Moreover, Tongxi team is a real mess. In the last two years, their operation in the draft Convention and the free agent market was full of questions, but they never formed a decent fighting capacity. Last season, they only won two victories, there was also a wave of 27 consecutive defeats that created league history in the middle, becoming the object of being laughed at by the group.
Coach Internet celebrity brought Internet celebrity teams, and the whole thing was full of comedy effects from the beginning.
If you are a Tongxi fan and want to see what the West heat River is busy with after taking up his new job through TikTok, you will find him unpacking, exploring shops, bringing goods, kebabs, dancing, taking part in street events and even teaching the team members to drink tea, they do almost everything, but they do not do what the coach “should” do. You take a breath of cold air: it’s over. It’s really a bad job.
In the first game of the season, 18-year-old young general Lin Yu beat Tianjin with a whistle. The new Tongxi made people shine at the moment. However, the joy lasted only two days, followed by a three-game defeat. The familiar Tongxi seemed to come back again, as if all the progress was to leave enough space for a larger retreat. Some fans said: Never expect Tongxi.
However, something outrageous happened next. They beat the strong Shenzhen and super local tyrant Shanghai one after another. Both of the two games were a shots break, especially in the first world war with Shanghai. They finished 17 points and plot twist, the two three points in the last moment of Lin Ying’s regular time were shocked by heaven and man. Then, Tongxi won three games in a row instead of two. The first stage ending war’s victory over Xinjiang directly led to the completion of the class of the Adijiang River. There was a scene worth playing in that game: The West heat river roared with its arms and looked at the river with a pause gesture.
In the first stage, there were 9 games, Tongxi won 6 and lost 3, and temporarily ranked the fifth in the league, which was the peak of their young pioneer team history. They have hired many famous coaches, and only Cainiao coach Xirelijiang who is wearing jerseys to command the competition can do this. This is incredible. And you have to know that the 10 main rotation players of Tongxi, except for the two foreign aid, Prince Rui, Dong Hanlin and West heat River, the other five are all newcomers in grade one and grade two.
It seems that everything has changed, and it seems that everything has not changed. Xireli River still claps jokes and tries hard to deconstruct the seriousness of the coach’s business-of course, from another perspective, he is also changing the stereotype left by this business. He was proud of the jokes he made, especially the one that received 127000 likes of “West heat” and sent fruit basket to “West guide”. “Look at my only promise, is the performance OK?” He asked me proudly.
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Xireli River is an excellent Internet celebrity. On the TikTok platform, he is one of the CBA players with the most fans, reaching 1.22 million. In addition, he is also the initiator of the training camp, the owner of the restaurant, the director of the brand, and the spokesperson of the sports brand. He is a “slashie” wandering between multiple identities “. Under every important status, he is confident that he can do nothing worse than anyone else.
He is too confident and always has a sharp edge. There seems to be no low-key and restrained words in his dictionary. Many of his words are easy to bring him the name of “low EQ.
After moving to Guangzhou, he fought the old master again. He shouted, “without me, you can only win the weak team at home! Where am I? Where is the strong team.” He commented on the CBA draft: “As long as I run, every session will be the top.” He also said that college student players “how many good things are there in learning? Aren’t they all recruited alone “?
Some of these words are true, while others are not. For example, Guangzhou team was not a strong team that season. They did not enter the playoffs, while Xinjiang team was the third in the regular season. The reason why xihelijiang said these words was only because he felt right and he wanted to say that he didn’t want to hide his views. I asked him if he had a moment of forbearance. He thought for a long time at the end of the phone: “You make me think now, I really can’t come out. I am not good at forbearance. Why should I forbearance? Living your true self is the best.”
The West heat River is like a wild lion, rejecting the secular discipline of him. Before the birth of the big batch, there were many “real people” like this, but later it became an endangered species.
He showed cynicism in TikTok just because he wanted to show this side, while in his other aspects, of course, there were elements of hard work. In 2013, according to the Morning News of urban consumption, he has to throw 600 three-point goals every day. But when I asked “what do I want to say to my 20-year-old self most”, he baffled: “I will tell him to work harder and be more self-disciplined.”
He went on to talk about going to the United States to participate in the Dallas Lone Ranger training camp in 2019. When he saw the youth unlimited walel Araki, the racecourse hero and the rich and brave tree, the passage of time seems to be a particularly specific thing. Training camp is a place for young people, and he is 28 years old. “Alas, it would be better if my career would retreat for a few years and come back again. If I do it again, I will be several times better than now.”
How can such a person not work hard even if he is a coach?
As soon as he took office, he added the number of training to three or even four exercises a day. As a team member, he also had to follow the training, and he had to take the lead in the training. After the training, he switched to the status of head coach, handling contracts, selecting foreign aid, learning business, and making training plans. He revealed that from early June to before August 20, most of the time he could only sleep for 1-2 hours a day. The morning in the mainland is too early, which always makes him feel that the night is particularly short.
When there was no clue in choosing foreign aid, the boss recommended luval achur who worked for Australia’s NBL. He watched all the game videos of achur last season, including the match he played with Zhou Qi, he sent the photos of achur and Qingdao team Lisi to Zhou Qi, and asked Zhou Qi to help the staff, in the end, he chose achur, who was “better to protect the basket”, instead of Rees, who was good at projection.
The lack of sleep for a long time made him slow to respond on the training ground. He didn’t know how many times he was hit by the ball, so he once said to himself, “why bother him so much? If love becomes a burden, then forget it.”
Of course, he persisted.
I asked him, since he was tired, why not reduce the training volume? He said: “That won’t work. We are a civilian team. We don’t have big players or stars. We play harder than others, practice more and practice harder, there won’t be much change.”
He knew what to do to wash the “curse”. He only needed to send a video of his studying business all night, and the image of a coach who was steadfast and willing to work and forget to eat and sleep was established. But he didn’t do it because he thought it was meaningless to do it. He just wanted to do what he wanted to do and say what he wanted to say, in TikTok-at least for now-he just wants to be a Internet celebrity without any formality.
“Other teams are definitely studying you. If the results of the second stage decline, will you continue to make jokes? Are you afraid that others will say that your performance will decline due to your failure to work properly?” I asked the West heat River.
“Oh, this thing is so funny. I took them to shoot waka to challenge. In fact, it took less than 2 minutes. I turned left and right. After that, I opened my palm and Drew left and right. It was simple. Do I have to shoot for another hour or two? Am I so untalented? 24 hours a day, I broke into five faces, which did not affect my training.” Xirelijiang said, “I can’t change this style, but my life will not change because of what they say. I can’t change them. Why should they change me?”
“I’m not saying that if I play well, I will shoot. If I don’t play well, I just think there is not only basketball in life.” Xirelijiang went on to say that tiktok is a way to record life. With those jokes, he will not forget what he is doing at that time and place. When the child grows up, he also showed these jokes to the child, “take you for example, you haven’t been interviewing all the time, writing all the time, it’s impossible.”
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The home of the West heat River is a place called “Pai Lou” 130 kilometers northwest of Kashgar city, which is an oasis in the desert. There was a basketball court on the ground in his primary school. He liked basketball and wanted to play it very much, but senior students didn’t let him play. They told him, “If you want to play, learn to pick up the ball first.” He picked up the ball for others stupidly. There was no fence on the court, and sometimes the ball would collapse far away.
“If you want to play, learn to pick up the ball first.” This was the first lesson basketball taught him. In fact, this sentence is not logical at all. It is only the brainwashing technique of the powerful to the weak. The real situation is that picking up the ball will not make one learn to play, but only play.
The early basketball career of xireli River was not smooth. When he was still in the youth team of the autonomous region Sports Bureau, he competed with another team member for the opportunity to go to Dongguan New Century (now Shenzhen men’s basketball). He did not choose. After playing the teaching competition with Guanghui, he got the highest score of the team, but Guanghui transferred five people, not including him. So far, he can skillfully recite the names of those five people. Until Jiang Xingquan saw kelanbai who played hard, he suddenly wanted to ask me to buy Wulan: “Is there any minority defender?” Only then did he have the chance to try out in Guanghui.
Before leaving, the coach of the youth team said that it would be enough to bring toiletries and clothes for playing basketball, and they would have to come back if they were not guaranteed. He didn’t listen and packed all the luggage. “I didn’t plan to come back when I went there. I want to seize this opportunity.” West heat River said.
About two or three days later, after the team’s match, everyone practiced shooting separately. The West heat River threw a basket, and his mind was thinking about how to make a good impression on Jiang Xingquan. Just thinking, Jiang Xingquan walked slowly, and he was nervous. “Young man, your hand shape is good, and it feels good, but it is too slow.” Xirelijiang said, in fact, he was not slow, but deliberately slowed down the shooting speed for the hit rate.
He was not sharp at the beginning. When he arrived in Xinjiang men’s basketball, his machine was hidden.
“Do you know? When I was young, I didn’t say a word. I only talked to Keran (Bai Ke) and Shaw about them. Director Jiang asked me to play the defender and shout tactics. My voice was really small.” Xirelijiang said that after the training, everyone went to dinner. Jiang Xingquan left him alone and asked him to shout from 1 to 10 over and over again. But he couldn’t find the feeling of shouting. He was always listless when shouting. The manager talked to him: “If you can’t even shout as a defender, then we won’t sign with you.”
“After two weeks, I have to adapt. My little character, right?” West heat River said.
After entering CBA, Xirelijiang learned a sentence from Jiang Xingquan: “If you practice well, you can fight.” This sentence is especially for the temper of the West heat River.
“Some teams are experienced players who practice and take a rest, keep the state, and play the league is enough. It is not easy to play in director Jiang. It is impossible to practice and not to play. Now we are, too. Without worldly wisdom, we are the purest basketball.” West heat River said.
Because of his good practice, he played 17 times last season. The first stage of this season all appeared, and the number of starts exceeded all of last season. According to the west heat Lijiang, the 2-minute strength shooting during the off-season, in most cases, the result of Ji Tingjia’s 24 three-point shots was 22 or even 23, so even if Ji Tingjia failed 12 consecutive shots in the three-point goal, he insisted on keeping him on the court.
Xihelijiang also learned to reuse young people by Jiang Xingquan, so his playing time was less and less, from 32 minutes of the opening battle to single digits, and sometimes he simply hid himself. This is the source of inspiration for the paragraph “send fruit basket. Xireli river wants to play, and he is confident and capable of playing more. “If they don’t play well, I can take over at any time.” -Maybe someone will have different opinions. But training young people is obviously his higher priority as a coach.
He told me a story.
At the end of the Cainiao season, Jiang Xingquan called him aside: “West heat, you come back to train immediately after you go home for a week.” During that off-season, others had a 45-day rest, while he came back early for life training. In the second season, 16 of his 30 regular season games started, there were even three finals starting. In the G5 finals, he shot the highest 17 points of local players, which was called “the biggest harvest” by the media at that time in Xinjiang “.
During the off-season period this year, xihelijiang cleared up some old contracts and raised a number of youth team generals. Tongxi suddenly became a “kid boss”. He was not worried, because he is going to blow a storm of youth. Since Jiang Xingquan dared to let him start in the second grade in the finals, there was no reason for him not to let young people play more in the regular season.
The cards in his hand are not good. Youth is only one aspect. What’s more, the lineup configuration has congenital defects-the outside line is too short. Lin Jian is 1 meter 91 tall, but he has to reach number 3. Qu Tingjia lacks organizational ability. He can’t play number 1, but he can only play number 2, but his height is only 1.8 meters, which is easy to be targeted. Xirelijiang explained that Yan Yijia was short, “but the defense and footsteps are good, and I felt when I first started out.”
Xirelijiang is good at barbecue. Roasting is a very important process. Mutton is thin, thick and small, and charcoal fire is prosperous and not prosperous. This is a very test of the ability of barbecue masters to adapt to changes at random. If they keep a minute, it’s easy to mess up. The same is true for being a coach. Good coaches know how to arrange troops according to the characteristics of the players in hand, instead of always hoping to get a perfect lineup. I only saw the short of Yi Yijia, but the West heat River saw something else.
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In the first stage, the West heat River contributed several famous scenes of denouncing the players, such as Liu Dong, Qu Tingjia, Prince Rui…… All of them have been criticized, and his eyes are split and canthus look horrible. Pitson didn’t want to play according to his tactics. He was angry and hammer coaching board, pointing at pitson’s nose and outputting “fxxk you” and “shut up”. This video was hot searched, because fans rarely see any soil handsome who dares to be so rude to foreign aid.
Xirelijiang brought his hot character as a player to the coach’s position and tried to establish authority in his own way.
There is also an imperceptible game detail. The first reaction of the West heat River was not to give him a high-fives to celebrate, but to shout something with his eyes wide open. Later, when I asked Xirelijiang, I realized that he was angry because qu Zhengjia ran the wrong position, which directly led Lin Jiong to ask for a post of Junwei higher than himself, although the result was good, but the flaws in the details overshadowed the joy of escape from death.
The result is that he can’t control it, but the tactics are good, and the tactics are more reliable than the hero ball. In the implementation of tactics, xihelijiang has strict standards, as if sand is not allowed in his eyes. But if you look at Tongxi’s ball, you will also be surprised by their free and unrestrained attacking end and the wanton flow of imagination. Lin Yan needless to say, the performance is obvious to all, and all kinds of difficult singles are fascinating; Wang Lan Yi is still as unrestrained as in the university, sending out many bold and delicate passes.
In the first stage, they all scored 101.9 points, ranking fifth in the league. Even the three foreign aid era or Joseph Yang era are far from reaching this level, let alone last season.
How to keep balance in the West heat River: not only let the team members fear the tactical arrangement, but also not let them tie their hands and feet?
“It’s very simple. I told them that everyone makes mistakes when playing basketball. You can just let go and make mistakes on the court. You are not Jordan or curry. Even Jordan and Curry will make mistakes.” Xirelijiang said, “at the beginning, they will be annoyed when they don’t score goals. I said, ‘who are you? You are shooting machine. You can defend if you can’t score’. The defensive end is good, the offensive end you think is your chance, just do it, it doesn’t matter if you invest more and less.”
“Any young man who loves basketball should not press their personality and imagination on the bench, and let them play to show, otherwise, there will be much less possibility.”
During the pre-competition preparation meeting in Shanghai, the assistant coaches finished all kinds of precautions, and Xirelijiang wrote two big words on the whiteboard: enjoy. Many people are talking about “enjoyment”, but few people can really do it, because the burden in their hearts is too heavy. Does Tongxi’s team members have any baggage? It’s hard to say, but the West heat River made them do it lightly. He proved with practical actions that he was a tough guy, but not a bold man.
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The classic image of the player xireli River must be a “evil man” who is brave and tough and full of thorns “. In order to raise his head for Zhou Qi, he dared to elbow Zhang Yi of Tianjin team under the eyes of the referee; In order to revenge the abuse of Wei Fu, the foreign aid of Shanxi team, he stood up his middle finger secretly on the bench; he played an “umbrella” in Wukesong and became the public enemy of this field since then; He ran to Hudson quickly after hitting the three-point goal, almost shouting on the latter’s face.
He never hid his dissatisfaction. Because of Weaver’s incident, he blacklisted two journalists because he felt that the media they worked for had no balanced report, “there are telephones, WeChat, why don’t you ask me? And about Hudson, I won’t slap him on the face for no reason, because he scolded me before, but he pretended to be innocent. You can write this in, it’s okay.” The West heat River showed signs of getting angry.
Whether he is a tough guy or an evil man, xihelijiang is definitely not a man who is willing to be wronged. He did say that he did not know how to endure. I am curious, will such a person have a fragile moment? When I asked him “when was the last time I cried”, I was confident that I could get a very long date.
“The last time I cried, I won the press conference in Shanghai. I was actually a little choked, tears coming out, forced to hold back, and put it back.” I was surprised and looked back at the press conference. There was indeed tears flashing in the eyes of xihelijiang, but because most of my face was hidden behind the mask, everyone ignored this imperceptible detail.
Fans and the media were keen on creating gods and destroying gods, and suffered the ups and downs at the beginning of the season. He was not sure whether the players could resist the storm of public opinion. As he said, he was out of control: “For the young players of our team, they play a good game, don’t hold them too high, don’t play well, don’t step them too low, I hope everyone can treat our young players, including my young coach, give more tolerance, let’s improve slowly and make progress slowly.”
Three consecutive defeats are not all a matter of strength. Little foreign aid Pitson suspended two games, Zhao Baiqing was injured and missed three games. Tongxi met strong teams like Guangdong, Shandong and Zhejiang.
But when losing the game, Xirelijiang didn’t want to make excuses. He said to the boss, “I’ll correct it and I’ll adjust it”, encouraging and relaxing the players, he also paid a bonus to the team’s mid-circle shooting competition to adjust his mood. No one knew what kind of mood he was in. He watched the video of the 36-point defeat in Zhejiang three times a frame by frame, and he always saw the dawn.
“Praise and doubt are a little too much for me and young players. We are not that good and not so bad. I don’t care. Just scold. Anyway, I have a thick face. You said that I am over the class and have no ability. I can digest it, but I am afraid that they will not digest it.” West heat River said.
The weakness of the West heat River is his teammates and players. In the past, Zhang Yi “bullied” Zhou Qi. He could fight back with his iron elbow. Because Zhang Yi was tangible, he stood there “waiting” for revenge. The iron elbow was lifted up, and Zhang Di fell to the ground in response, and his purpose was achieved. However, the pressure on the team members was invisible, which made him wonder whether his measures could work.
His ruthlessness was only aimed at the enemy and treated his teammates and players with broad gentleness.
He shared the Xinjiang cuisine sent by his friends with Jiao Engel to ease the homesickness of the latter; At the beginning of his tenure, he set himself a goal to guarantee a group building once a month, he cooked himself to give everyone kebabs; He also signed a contract with his own brand to come to the tight shoes and give them to the team members as a reward; He also deliberately did not remove the tag on the clothes, he gave it to the young team members after several passes (not even), and he knew the material needs of young people.
“When I was in the last team, my monthly salary was only 4500, and they paid for it when they went out at pug (Battel) and brother Yi (Xu guowan).” Xirelijiang told me, “Now it is right to make some small benefits for the team members. They are young. They have just arrived in a city like Nanjing, and their parents are not around. If the Big Brother in the team no longer cares, they will not regard this place as home.”
I asked Xirelijiang, “If you become a coach, will you still stand out for your teammates?” The reason why he asked this question was to see that his temper was obviously restrained in the new season, and he also called the referee “teacher” for the first time and stipulated that the number of T (technical fouls) he ate should be controlled within a certain range. He seemed to be trying to tame his inner lion.
“I will stand up. Whoever wants to bully my team members, I will automatically switch the combat mode, but it will not be the form of big pig’s feet.” Xirelijiang said that in a teaching competition during the off-season this year, the other party made out-of-the-box actions to Lin Wei and Zhao Baiqing one after another. He rushed over and shouted, “he’s X, bully young people, right? Come to me!” After all, regardless of the game, he directly led the team and left.
It has to be the West heat River.
He made a joke. He randomly asked the team members to punch. After touching, the fist opened and there was a lollipop inside. Seeing that lollipop, everyone laughed like a child. This is really a wonderful metaphor. The appearance of the West heat River is a hard fist, but inside it is a lollipop.