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Is the Beijing Men’s Basketball Team’s runner-up finish last season related to an offseason move? Beijing Enterprises will follow suit this year.

6:19pm, 10 October 2025【Football】

During the offseason last year, the Beijing Men’s Basketball Team started military training after coach Xu Limin led the team. This aroused heated discussion among many fans at the time, who felt that this "formalism" had no great effect on basketball itself. But the Beijing Enterprises Men's Basketball Team in the same city doesn't seem to think so. Perhaps because they saw the Beijing Men's Basketball Team achieved good results last season (runner-up), they also imitated it in style this offseason.

A few days ago, the Beijing Enterprises Men's Basketball Team started a five-day military training activity, which aroused the ridicule of many fans: "Imitation show in the same city" and "What era are you still working behind closed doors? Open your eyes and see the world." Professional players , in fact, what they need to do in the offseason is self-discipline, and "formalism" such as military training can be said to have no effect on improving their skills. If Beijing Control fails to improve their record in the new season, this military training may be laughed at by fans again.

Last season, the Beijing Enterprises Men's Basketball Team fired Min Lulei due to illness in the second half of the season and replaced foreign coach Gran as the team's interim coach. However, he also failed to help the team achieve the desired results. During this offseason, the Beijing Enterprises Men's Basketball Team chose to hire Zhang Qingpeng, who had been the head coach in Tianjin for the past few seasons, to take over the team's coaching position. Although Zhang Qingpeng did achieve good results as a player, he is indeed a rookie in the position of coach.

In the past few seasons, Tianjin was not able to enter the playoffs under the coaching of Zhang Qingpeng. When he came to the new team, although Beijing Enterprises’ attention may not be as good as Shougang, which has more foundation, it is a Beijing team after all. If Beijing Enterprises’ record in the new season is still not ideal, or even worse than last season, then Zhang Qingpeng will also face huge pressure from public opinion.

Although nominally a Beijing team, the predecessor of the Beijing Enterprises Men's Basketball Team is actually the Chongqing Men's Basketball Team. In 2014, the Chongqing Men's Basketball Team was promoted from the NBL to the CBA. However, it only played one season in Chongqing (the 14-15 season) before moving to Beijing in the second season. As a "new team" that has just arrived, Beijing Enterprises Men's Basketball Team did not make Beijing fans too cold. If Marbury hadn't joined later and coached the team later, Beijing Enterprises Men's Basketball Team would not have gained much attention in the past few years.

Although the Beikong men's basketball team chased national players such as Zhao Jiwei and Wang Lanyi this summer, they all failed in the end. This time they learned from last year's Shougang and engaged in military training. If the record of Beikong still does not improve much under the guidance of Zhang Qingpeng in the new season, this "Beijing junior team" that is not recognized by Beijing fans may be forced to change coaches again.