Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Sharks Basketball Club.

Zhuang Yu and his group arrived in Shanghai the day before yesterday. Yesterday, Zhuang Yu met with Yao Ming. The two reminisced about the past and asked Yao Ming to help Anderson find his relatives.

Zhuang Yu certainly couldn't do this by himself, so he not only asked Yao Ming for help, but also Li Chengdong from Anta.

Li Chengdong also came to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

He came here mainly to discuss the release of a new generation of sneakers and some commercial activities with Zhuang Yu. He took a private plane to come here, and it was also a gift to Zhuang Yu. Just like last year, Anta arranged a private plane for Zhuang Yu to use during his stay in China.

After meeting with Yao Ming and Liu Chengdong and settling the Anderson family, Zhuang Yu came to the Sharks Club.

Because the most important thing this time is getting married, Zhuang Yu has to hurry up and deal with his work matters.

Previously, An Xin had been in charge of the Sharks Club. Now that An Xin was pregnant, Zhuang Yu naturally couldn't let her suffer. In addition, as the boss of the Sharks Club, it was a rare opportunity for him to come back, so he should indeed visit the club and take care of some work matters.

"boss."

"Hi boss."

As soon as he arrived at the club, Zhuang Yu saw a large group of people waiting there.

Seeing Zhuang Yu, a group of people led by Liu Qun immediately came forward.

"Manager Liu, Coach Ma." Zhuang Yu greeted Liu Qun and Ma Yuenan with a smile, "We are all family, no need to be so polite. Let's go inside and talk."

"Okay, boss, please."

This time, not only Zhuang Yu came, but also An Xin, Yang Jinsong, Anna, and the Anderson family.

An Xin is the executive director of the team, so he came along.

Zhuang Yu and An Xin were both here, so Yang Jinsong and Anna naturally came along as well. As for the Anderson family, they were just here for a visit.

Anderson was very curious when he heard that Zhuang Yu had bought a football team, so he brought his family to visit.

The group entered the club. Zhuang Yu asked Liu Qun to arrange someone to take the Anderson family, Yang Jinsong and Anna on a tour, while he and An Xin went to the conference room.

In addition to Zhuang Yu and An Xin, there were Liu Qun, Ma Yuenan, and three other members of the team's management in the conference room.

The meeting started soon.

First, several team managers gave a work report on their work in the past season.

An Xin actually told Zhuang Yu all this, but it is still necessary to let the club's management make their own work report.

After listening to the work reports of several people, Zhuang Yu nodded and affirmed their work results in the past season.

This past season, the Sharks Club successfully made it to the playoffs. It is indeed worthy of recognition that Zhuang Yu made it to the playoffs right after taking over the team.

Then Zhuang Yu said, "Let's talk about the work arrangements for next season. What do you think? Let's hear it. Manager Liu, let's start with you."

"Okay." Liu Qun responded, sorted out his thoughts and said, "We have achieved good results in the past season, but this is not enough. We should have higher aspirations. Our goal next season is to compete for the championship. So I think we should make some reinforcements while retaining the existing main lineup, mainly local players."

"Last season, our two foreign players, Fred and Yabusele, performed very well. I think they are the championship puzzle pieces we need. I plan to renew their contracts and let them stay in our Sharks club for a long time and fight for the championship with us."

"But the number of foreign players is limited, and it is obviously impossible to win the championship relying solely on foreign players. The strength of the local players in the team needs to be further improved."

Listening, Zhuang Yu nodded in agreement.

In fact, Zhuang Yu cares more about local players than Liu Qun.

Many CBA teams are centered around foreign players. It can be said that the changes in the overall strength of the CBA teams have almost been influenced by foreign players.

This is not a good thing. In the long run, CBA will become more and more dependent on foreign players.

Foreign players are not Chinese. They come to China today and become players of a CBA team, but they may leave tomorrow.

Zhuang Yu also discussed this with Yao Ming. Both of them believed that foreign players can play an important role in the CBA, but they definitely cannot be the foundation and pillar of the CBA.

If CBA wants to develop and grow, it cannot rely solely on foreign aid.

However, Zhuang Yu is now the owner of the Sharks Club. As the owner of the team, he wants the team's performance first. So he is not opposed to Liu Qun's proposal to build a team with two foreign players as the core and local players as the auxiliary.

Liu Qun then continued: "I hope to strengthen the team through signing or trading, and build a team with championship potential."

Then he also came up with a reinforcement plan.

After listening to Liu Qun's introduction of his reinforcement plan, Zhuang Yu nodded and said, "Manager Liu, just do it boldly. The capable ones will be promoted and the mediocre ones will be demoted. This is what I have said long ago. If you want to build a championship team, you can't be timid. If the lineup needs to be adjusted, layoffs, trades, as long as it can make the team better, these are all fine. Don't have any concerns."

Hearing this, Liu Qun was delighted and couldn't help but feel a little excited.

CBA is a relatively special league. Due to the existence of the youth training system, the player mobility in CBA is very poor and player transactions have become very complicated.

This leads to many CBA teams often not making drastic changes to the team's lineup, and if they do make any changes, they will only make changes to foreign players.

There are even CBA teams that change foreign players every year, but the local players remain the same, with almost no changes.

Judging from the results, replacing foreign players can indeed significantly improve the team's strength, but the number of foreign players is limited, and their playing time is also limited. Relying solely on foreign players cannot bring about a qualitative transformation of a team.

Such a team may be able to achieve a good result, such as making the playoffs, but it is almost impossible to win the championship.

Liu Qun was naturally clear about this.

But he also knows that trading local players in the CBA is rather troublesome. If it is not handled properly, it may even lead to disputes. Therefore, in order to avoid such troubles, many teams would rather focus on foreign aid than touch local players.

He was also worried that Zhuang Yu would not let him make drastic changes to the team's local player lineup in order to avoid trouble.

Now that he has Zhuang Yu's recognition and approval, he can boldly do it.

Then the team's head coach Ma Yuannan also talked about his work plan for next season and the goals he wants to achieve.

He had obviously communicated with Liu Qun in advance, and their goals were very consistent - both wanted to win the championship.