Even Heungkuk head coach Park Mi-Hee got another chance. Three seasons ago, she led Heungkuk to win the regular-season title but lost the championship. The following season afterward was a nightmare for Heungkuk where they came in last place. Park Mi-Hee managed to keep her job was then able to recruit Kim Mi-Youn and Kim Se-Young as well as the getting Lee Ju-Ah from the rookie draft. This allows her to sort out Heungkuk weaknesses and help Heungkuk to another regular-season title and their fourth title championship.
So I think Kim Jong-Min deserve a bit more leniency. I don't care much for any of the Korean head coaches but he did lead them to two straight finals and help Hi-pass win their first championship. He deserves at the very least one more season to get things right but if the poor results continue then he needs to be shown the door.
Sanchez had a terrible match and if this is all she got then Hi-pass shouldn't have even bother recruiting her. It would have been better if they had just given their young Korean players game time. This season everything that could go wrong for Hi-pass did go wrong. They might as well come last and hope they win the first picks for both the 2020/21 rookie draft and foreign player draft.
I think the media will only report about a player relationship if their partner is someone that is known to the public like a celebrity or an athlete.
I came across another piece of news about Lee Jae-Yeong's injury today. The article re-stated the fact that it will be difficult for Jae-Yeong to come back in round 5. However, it went on to state that Jae-Yeong coming back for Heungkuk's last match of the regular season on March 12th will also be difficult. I haven't seen other articles stating this yet so let keep our fingers crossed that this isn't the case. Source: 1
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I thought he is quite good coach so far, but his choice of foreign players are so terrible. Hi-pass's line up was almost perfect in recent years, but has won only 1 title and I think it is because of their foreign players.
In 2016-2017, Kennedy Brian was their foreign player, and she was as terrible as Sanchez right now. She usually taken out of the court because of the bad performance and they play without foreigner many times. After changing foreign player to Hillary Hurly, they won 5 games in a row, which means their korean players are good.
In 2017-2018, Ivana Nesovic was their foreign players and she was excellent. But she was the 1st choice of that draft, all the other coaches said they would choose her.
In 2018-2019, Ivana was hired again. But she has waist injury, which was said before the draft but Jongmin insisted on going with her. As a result she almost did not play with the team and hi-pass again have to play without foreigner for 7(as I remember)games. After Patou Diouck has come, they won 9 straight games and reached the championship games but lost to Heunguk.
In 2019-2020 this season, he could choose Patou again and she wanted that either. She played amazing in the play-off and the championship games, but he didn't choose her.
He chose Sherridan Etkinson and she got out even not playing the 1st match of the regular season. It is said she didn't follow the training session and she was so stubborn.
Hi-pass tried to get Patou again but she was dissapointed that Jongmin didn't chose her, so she didn't come.
He chose Taylor Simpson who has so bad reputation. Again she didn't show up in the games like the past 2 seasons in Heunguk, and hi-pass was planning to accuse her for not fulfilling the contract , but she escaped to US without saying goodbye to teammates.
Their last choice was Sanchez, but as we can see she is no better than korean players.
My patience is done. As we can see hi-pass performed excellent with just middle level foreigner because their Korean member was so good. But they won only 1 title with so many bad foreigners and I think they should win much more with this member.
It is very important to choose good foreign players as a Korean league coach. Lee jungchul got so much title with that. However Kim jongmin is soooo terrible with this task.
Moreover he put aside the substitute players and not using them. As a result they didn't grow well and the starting players got old, there is no one left to play well now.
I would accept hi-pass just go with Jongmin for winning the 1st title, but he already made so many errors with the foreigners. I don't want to see players suffering from bad foreigners agian😥