Busan KCC coach Jeon Chang-jin, who will have a “priest battle” with Suwon KT coach Song Young-jin for the professional basketball throne this season, made the remarks at the 2023-2024 professional basketball championship match Media Day held at KBL Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 25th and vowed a great match.
Coach Jeon Chang-jin easily overpowered Wonju DB, the No. 1 team in the regular league, in the semifinal playoff (PO) as the head coach of KCC, the fifth-ranked team in the regular league, and entered the championship game first.
Coach Song Young-jin led third-place kt in the regular league and won Changwon LG, second-place in the regular league, after a bloody battle in the semifinal PO.
The two coaches agreed more than a decade ago as coaches and players.
KCC coach Jeon Chang-jin served as the head coach of KT from the 2009-2010 season to the 2014-2015 season when KT was based in Busan, and Song Young-jin played a role as a kt player during this period.
Director Song Young-jin vowed to attend Cheongchul.
“I have fond memories with the coach when I was a player. It is an honor to face a veteran coach in the championship game,” Song said. “A game is a game. I will become a champion beyond the coach.”
Coach Jeon Chang-jin also has no intention of giving up the trophy to coach Song.
“After the semi-finals PO Media Day, coach Song, Heo Hoon (kt), and me and Heo Woong (KCC) had a meal together,” Jeon said. “I asked Song, ‘Why can’t we talk about having a match in the championship match? Are you not confident?’ He didn’t say anything. Instead, I asked him to meet me at the championship first, but this really happened,” he said, adding that he was deeply moved.
“Coach Song has displayed strong mentality since he was a player. He always keeps in touch with me and cares about me,” Jeon said. “As a coach, I have good bench manners and I think he is good at managing the game with a cool head.”
At the same time, he said, “I will work harder and study to do my best to beat young coach Song.”
In the regular league, kt took the first to third rounds and KCC took the fourth to sixth rounds, fighting 3 wins and 3 losses.
Coach Song Young-jin said, “Looking at KCC’s performance at the end of the regular season and in the playoffs, there seems to be no weakness,” adding, “However, the matchup against Paris Bath will be a domestic player, so I will take the direction derived from it.”
He also said, “I hope Moon Sung-gon puts in at least three 3-pointers in every game. Heo Hoon is always confident, but I hope he makes good use of Moon Sung-gon.”
In response, Heo Hoon replied, “Moon Sung-gon is always crazy in the championship, so I think he will do too well. On the other hand, I think I will be the only one who will do well,” and Moon Sung-gon vowed to “work hard to do as told.”
“Bath is an outside player, and Ha Yoon-ki defends under the goal,” coach Jeon said of KT. “We think that if 1 option Ra Gun-ah’s score in the paint zone goes smoothly, it will open to the outside,” and then hid his defeat, saying, “I will show you what I envisioned more than that on the court later.”
Coach Jeon also expressed his plan with provocations, saying, “I will leave Heo Hoon, who averaged only 9.2 points in five semifinal PO games.”
“Bath is fast and dribbling, which makes it difficult to block,” Jeon said. “The same applies to Heo Hoon (which is difficult to block). Since there is no player in our team to block Heo Hoon, we will not block Heo Hoon. I will ask him to score 50 points by himself.”
BY: 토토사이트
