The Korea Basketball Association appointed Lee Seung-joon as the head coach of the 3-on-3 men's adult national team early last month and prepared for the FIBA 3-on-3 Asia Cup.

The national team, led by head coach Lee Seung-joon, played in the FIBA 3-3 Asia Cup in Singapore in late March, but was eliminated from the group stage with one win and two losses.

They beat the North Mariana Islands 21-8, but lost to Sri Lanka and Indonesia in a row and packed early.

It is difficult to say that Korea did well in the FIBA men's 3 to 3 ranking, 41st, 110th in the Northern Mariana Islands, 78th in Sri Lanka, and 62nd in Indonesia.

However, it was argued that player A, who was selected as a representative player in the process, had a special relationship with manager Lee Seung-joon.

Player A is working as a coach at the skill training academy that coach Lee Seung-joon belongs to.

On the academy's Internet website, coach Lee Seung-joon, his younger brother Lee Dong-joon and three A players are introduced as coaches.

In other words, coach Lee Seung-joon selected A, who has a partnership or employment relationship with him, as the national team member.

Player A applied for the KBL rookie draft in 2017 as a general public but failed, and it is a general evaluation that he has no experience.

Last year, he appeared on a TV station basketball survival entertainment program and won.

Controversy over preferential selection has grown as player A, who has no choice but to say back words even if his skills are outstanding in this situation, showed below-level performance in the Asia Cup.

The bigger problem is that about three weeks have passed since the Asia Cup ended at the end of March, but the Korea Basketball Association has no signs of taking any action.

A key official of the Korea Basketball Association's 3-on-3 performance improvement committee said, "It is true that player A's skills are falling from the video of the game," adding, "However, we decided that it was right to give power to the composition of the players envisioned by the coach because the coach was appointed and there was not enough time to prepare for the tournament."

The official said, "Also, since the pool of players in 3-on-3 basketball is not large, most of them are entangled in any relationship," adding that he believes the relationship between coach Lee Seung-joon and player A will not have much to do with the selection of the national team.

He even said, "There was a lot of criticism when the Asian Games soccer team selected a wild card in 2018," and asked back, "If the national soccer team's performance was bad at that time, wouldn't it be similar to what it is now?"

Even if it is a second question of whether there was criticism about the wild card selection at the time, there is a level difference between the wild card players at that time and the current A player, and it was not a relationship between the men's national soccer team coach and the wild card player at the Asian Games in business or money.

Against this backdrop, even other officials from the same 3-on-3 performance improvement committee disagreed, saying, "This type of player selection is ruining Korean basketball," adding, "It is an inappropriate selection no matter who looks at it."

The Korea Basketball Association explained on the 12th, "We will convene a 3-on-3 committee next week to hear about the coach."

However, critics point out that it is likely to be a formality to give an "exemption" to the explanation that "it was a selection to strengthen the team's organizational power" at a time when the team gathered almost a month after the Asia Cup and the coach could not admit that "it was a preferential selection."

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