Working with SK as a player, front desk, and coach for over 10 years… Trained to ‘1st’ last season’s 8th place team
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hong-seok Ahn = If we were to pick the driving force behind Seoul SK, a professional basketball team that finished 8th in the regular league in the 2020-2021 season, to rise to the top in the 2021-2022 season, the leadership of ‘prepared novice coach’ Jeon Hee-cheol deserves to be put in the first place. .
It was accepted in the basketball world as a natural procedure for SK to step down manager Moon Kyung-eun as technical advisor after last season and to appoint former head coach at the time as the head coach.
Since the former coach is a leader who knows SK better than anyone, many basketball experts have pointed to him as the right person to bring SK back to the top without trial and error.
After retiring from SK in 2008, former coach Jeon worked at the front desk, which was unusual for a player. He worked as a power analyst and as the team leader who took care of the club’s livelihood.
After that, he became a coach and supported former manager Moon for over 10 years from 2011, and achieved great results, such as winning the regular league championship in the 2012-2013 season and the championship match in the 2017-2018 season.
SK explained the background of appointing the former coach as the commander, saying, “He knows the team best and is evaluated as tactically prepared.”
As expected, Jeon quickly put the team back on track.
Jeon raised the fans’ expectations by leading the team’s undefeated victory in the pre-season cup competition, which was their debut match, and in the regular league, maintaining a wide gap with second-placed Suwon KT, confirmed first place.
The face of SK’s key players this season is not much different from last season. Except for the fact that there were a lot of injuries last season, it is difficult to find a clear reason for the increase in power.
But the former manager changed the team significantly.
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It has been reborn as a team that uses the most complete attack by lowering its dependence on foreign player Jamil Werney and playing fast-paced basketball with Kim Seon-hyeong and Choi Jun-yong.
With his long coaching career, he was able to understand the players one by one, so the former coach was able to turn SK’s star players into ‘treasures’ of the top team in the regular league.
Former coach was also good at ‘pushing’ (push and pull) with the players. The scene where the former manager, who usually gives instructions calmly during operation time, sometimes shouts loudly to catch the flag, was one of the hottest topics in professional basketball this season.
In the 3rd round match against Suwon kt, when they were behind by 18 points until the middle of the third quarter, the former manager called the tactical time and sternly rebuked them, saying, “If you turn over, you won’t play?”
In the middle of the fourth quarter of the match against Ulsan Hyundai Mobis in the 6th round, the former coach ‘failed’ once again.
When the players, who showed their concentration and gave up victory, finished their operation time and prepared to return to the court, Jeon became very angry, saying, “If you go out (as it is), what are you going to do?”
SK lost these two matches in the end. However, the players recorded a winning streak starting from the next match.
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After the 3rd round match against kt, the club had a record of 15 consecutive wins for a month and a half, and after the 6th round against Hyundai Mobis, they won 2 consecutive wins.
SK won the KCC match in Jeonju on the 19th and reduced the ‘magic number’ to 1 to confirm the first place in the regular league. achievement was delayed.
However, the ‘Knights’ trained by the former coach did not waver, and on the 31st, when the former coach returned to the bench, he defeated Orion in Goyang and secured the first place.
Former coach is the 4th manager in professional basketball history after 2001-2002 season Daegu Orions coach Jin Kim, 2012-2013 season SK coach Moon, and 2015-2016 Jeonju KCC manager Chu Seung-gyun done.
Among them, former manager became the first official coach without an acting coaching period and took first place in the regular league in his debut season.
Director Jeon said, “I am very grateful to the players who ran well so that what I lacked as a novice coach would not be seen on the court.”
He continued, “I think winning the regular league is ‘half success’,” he said.
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