On January 16, 2001, Zhang Yongjun, then the head coach of the Hongyuan team, submitted a resignation letter to the Hongyuan Group’s board of directors after four consecutive losses in the league. After the approval of the Hongyuan team, the head coach of the team will be assistant coach Li Chunjiang.

Recall that the Hongyuan team was originally a team assembled by collecting retired national and provincial team players from all over the country. The average age of the team has reached 30 years old. Although in the first two seasons of League A, relying on a solid technical foundation and rich practical experience, they achieved runner-up and third place respectively. But he is also jokingly called an "elderly mercenary" in circles. When the 1997-1998 season was handed over to Zhang Yongjun, the team was not only old, but also disabled. With the retirement of a number of main veterans, Zhang Yongjun is faced with the Hongyuan team that is "full of waste and waiting for improvement". But in early 2001, what Li Chunjiang got was the "Young Guards" whose average age was only 21 years old and who were in the rising stage.

This made the media and fans feel injustice for Zhang Yongjun, so much so that some people came up with the "fruit-picking theory" that "*** plants trees, *** picks fruits".

It can be said that Li Chunjiang took over the coaching job of Hongyuan team under huge pressure from public opinion. Lao Li is trying hard to do something to respond to the doubts from the outside world. Unfortunately, God did not go with people's wishes. In the first game when Li Chunjiang took over the team, he met the league's dominant Bayi team. With main guard Li Qun injured, we fell behind by 29 points in the first quarter of the game! The Bayi team scored 91 points at halftime, and in this game that entered garbage time early, the Hongyuan team ended up losing 95 to 148 to the Bayi Men's Basketball Team with a huge score difference of 53 points, ushering in the team's fifth game. Losing streak! This point difference is also a record in the history of the Hongyuan team and has not been broken yet.

This is a world of difference from the first-round contest between the two teams in the first cycle. This has further amplified the aftermath and controversy of the coaching change. Captain Li Qun said at the time: "I was really surprised when I heard the news (coach change), because Director Zhang had no signs of resigning before, but now he just resigned, which makes me feel sad." And foreign aid Jackson did not restrain his "Yankee" character at all, saying bluntly: "It's unbelievable! The club would use this method to save the game (results), it's useless! We lost because There are many players (in bad shape), not the head coach (in command)." Obviously, what faced Li Chunjiang at this time was not just the players' condition and technical and tactical issues, he also had to find a way to get the players to accept him as a "rookie-level" new coach.

Fortunately, the Hongyuan team, which returned to its home court, defeated the Beijing team, which had both Battelle and its main foreign players off, 106-89. This allowed Li Chunjiang to achieve his first victory in his coaching career and stop his five-game losing streak. However, this victory was ridiculed by some media at the time as a "tacit understanding" between Shougang and Hongyuan. This hurt Li Chunjiang's self-esteem a lot, and the team still didn't improve well after that, but it made Li Chunjiang's strong and difficult personality fully exposed. Even if the team is lagging behind by a big score, in the last few seconds, he has to call a timeout to arrange tactics. It's fine at home, but when it comes to away games, he gets all kinds of unpleasant comments.

Although they successfully avoided relegation two rounds early in the eventful 2000-01 season, they were still swept out by the Beijing team 2-0 in the first round of the playoffs.

In the 01-02 season, foreign aid Jackson, who had played for the team for three seasons, left Cyprus on the grounds of "higher salary." This makes the Hongyuan team, which is already in danger inside, even more difficult. Although Du Feng, Zhang Boyu, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng and other young players were qualified to play the main roles, they were still defeated by the Shanghai team led by Yao Ming in the first round of the playoffs.

In the 2003-04 season, March 3, 2004, as the saying goes, "ten years of hard work finally paid off." Under Li Chunjiang's perseverance and careful training over the past three years, Du Feng, Yi Jianlian, Zhu Fangyu, Wang Shipeng, Zhang Zhe and other young players have finally assumed the main role, and it has been a year since Jackson returned. Finally defeated their old rival, the Bayi Men’s Basketball Team, and won the first championship in team history, which also relieved the hatred of losing the championship last season!

Only after experiencing the wind and rain can we see the rainbow! Defeating the Bayi Men's Basketball Team in Ningbo's 100th home game and succeeding in revenge is a great pleasure in life. Li Chunjiang said in an interview: "I am very excited! After struggling for more than ten years, I finally stood on the top podium on the shoulders of the Bayi Team. This is not easy.

"As for the rumored "Hongyuan Dynasty", Li Chunjiang did not refute, believing that a group of young people on the team have grown rapidly and made significant progress, and will continue to dominate the game in the next few years. However, there are also some Li Yuanwei, who was the director of the Basketball Management Center at the time, believed that the Hongyuan team might not be able to dominate the CBA for a long time like the Bayi team. What he was more concerned about was that in addition to cultivating players, the league also wanted to let The fans found the game interesting... (This... is really interesting)

In the next two seasons, the Hongyuan team won two more championships, completing their three consecutive championships in one fell swoop. , and it seems to go with the flow.

In the sixth round of the 2005-06 season, this is an interesting away game for all Guangdong fans. I didn’t leave Dongguan because this was a game against the new CBA team, Dongguan New Century. This was the first Dongguan Derby, the first men’s basketball top league match between Li Chunjiang and Zhang Yongjun, and it was the Hongyuan Gold Card. The confrontation between the fans (the New Century boss was a gold card member of the Hongyuan team) and the Hongyuan team

Before the game started, Li Chunjiang made his first comment on the "fruit-picking theory" from a few years ago. Responding positively. Li Chunjiang was very angry at the media's remarks: "To be honest, when I took over, this team was ranked 9th in the CBA, and I later led them to the playoffs. , brought to the championship podium! "Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that what Li Chunjiang took over was not a championship team, but he eventually led the team into a championship team. Moreover, Lao Li also remembered wrongly. When he took over, the Hongyuan team was ranked third. 11th place.

After three consecutive championships in the 06-07 season, Li Chunjiang was sent by the club to the American Basketball Academy for further training. Although the Hongyuan team was still strong in the regular season. They won first place, but in the finals they were once again defeated by the Bayi men's basketball team led by Wang Zhizhi, who had just returned from the United States. They regretted losing the championship. This was also the last CBA championship for the Bayi team. Yi Jianlian also regretted after losing the championship. Say goodbye to the CBA and embark on the journey to join the NBA Bucks

In the 2007-08 season, Li Chunjiang returned from school and regained his leadership, quickly reviving the team's strength and ranking first in the regular season. In the first two rounds of the playoffs, they won all 8 games and went straight to the finals. In the end, the Hongyuan team defeated Liaoning with a big score of 4-1 and won the championship again! Slogan.

After another four consecutive championships, the dynasty established by the Hongyuan team can no longer be shaken. But behind the success, Li Chunjiang often scolded the players, opponents, and referees. , The fiery character of the roaring technical stage was also fully demonstrated.

In the 2007-08 season, the Hongyuan team challenged the Shandong team in an away game. The game was once interrupted by the excessive behavior of the home fans. Zhang Boyu, the assistant coach and translator of the Hongyuan team. Li Chunjiang, who was already arguing with the referee about the penalty, was hit in the head by a water bottle thrown by a fan from the North Stand. In the end, the Hongyuan team took the lead in the final 0.8 seconds. was defeated by the Shandong team. After the game, Li Chunjiang still refused to give up. The game supervisor Zhang Jinghai said that if he was not convinced, he could appeal to the Basketball Association. At this time, Lao Li Biao said another classic quote: "The game is over, is my *appeal* useful? ! Can I get two points if I appeal? Can it? "(This reminds me of what he said later when he was leading the Guangsha team, "*Teacher, look, he said he wanted to review it for me. What he said was a man in his forties, and his words were so awkward. Does it count? Huh? Give me an explanation.” The referee actually refused to shake hands with the head coach after the game.)

In the 11-12 season, Li Chunjiang’s fiery personality of daring to love and hate finally reached its peak. In the finals match against the Beijing team, he even used the famous saying, "If you commit a foul, you must be ruthless. If you don't call me ruthless, I will brag you ruthlessly. Why not be ruthless?" ! "Go up and fuck them. Don't make a move when you get on the stage. Just give me a leg. Do you understand?" ! Do you understand? ! "These words, although Du Feng and other team members have explained that these are Director Li's usual training words, asking everyone to pay attention to their steps, and have no other meanings. But Li Chunjiang still encountered severe public criticism. But think about that sentence" Go to the basket! "The referee is good for us", and then think about what the director said many years ago, "It makes the fans feel interesting...". I can also understand Li Chunjiang's mood at the time.

After the season, January 6, 2013 On the same day, Li Chunjiang resigned as the head coach of the Hongyuan team due to health reasons.

At this point, Li Chunjiang, the founder of the dynasty in Hongyuan team history and the "Roaring God", left the team he had worked for for more than 20 years. At that time, many fans spontaneously wrote on Weibo that "the tea will cool down when people leave."

This has to be reminded of the famous "three-year rate" of the great Hungarian coach Bela Gutman: "If the coach stays in a club for more than three years, his players will tend to Out of boredom and complacency, adversaries begin to develop countermeasures." And Lao Li has led the team for five consecutive years. Liu Hongjiang's words can well represent the atmosphere in the team at that time: "The team may be like a military camp. When one day I am unable to help the team progress, or have become an obstacle to the team's progress, I will leave."

In other words, seven championships in eight years, isn’t it a kind of pressure?

Let us remember that "where the spring river is, there is the champion"!