'Deja Vu' 3 years ago, director change was in chaos... Repeated reset button
'Deja Vu' 3 years ago, director change was in chaos... Repeated reset button
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This scene as if pressing the "Finger Snap" button is not unfamiliar. There is a chaos of changing coaches in men's professional basketball teams. However, the current landscape is not unfamiliar.
Exactly three years ago. The same thing happened with five teams welcoming new coaches ahead of the opening of the 2022-2023 season. At the time, the KGC, the predecessor of Jeong Kwan-jang, appointed Kim Sang-sik, former coach of the Korean men's national basketball team, and Kim Seung-ki, former head coach, headed for the new team Carrot (currently Sono).
At that time, Hyundai Mobis decided to promote Cho Dong-hyun, its chief coach. His twin brother, Cho Sang-hyun, joined LG. It was the moment when the first "brother coach" narrative of the Korean Basketball League was born. In addition, Eun Hee-seok took over as Samsung coach in April 2022. At this point, however, four players, excluding Cho Sang-hyun, have resigned as former coaches.
Kim Sang-sik won the title in the first year when he met at the KGC. In the two seasons, he finished ninth and sixth in the regular league, respectively, before leaving the team due to expiration of his contract. As soon as Kim took office, he also led Carrot to advance to the fifth and fourth-tier playoffs in the regular league. He coached for two seasons under the Sono era, but voluntarily resigned due to controversy over player assault during the 2024-2025 season. The Korean Basketball Federation (KBL) imposed a two-year suspension of qualification.
Coach Cho Dong-hyun, who has made consecutive inroads into spring basketball, failed to extend his contract by ranking fourth, sixth, and third in the regular league at Hyundai Mobis. In the case of Coach Eun Hee-seok, he had to suffer from the withdrawal of his contract as he had difficulty escaping to the bottom after joining Samsung for two years.
The only one who stayed in the position was LG manager Cho Sang-hyun. He not only won the 60% win rate (0.667-0.667-0.630) in the regular season league for the third consecutive season but also the first championship game since its foundation in the previous season. He has maintained a sense of stability, which is rare for LG even in the KBL, where managerial replacement clocks are relatively fast.
Changing the head of a team is not the only answer. However, the current league seems to be replacing poor performance and the need for reform and change with a managerial change.
It is a kind of justification for "everything." In a way, it is questionable whether the coach is forced to bear the responsibility of the entire club. It remains to be seen how this trend will affect Korean basketball. 안전놀이터