Coach Lee Seung-joon's 3-on-3 basketball team is eliminated from the group stage of the Asia Cup

The national team, which challenged the FIBA 3-to-3 Asia Cup under coach Lee Seung-joon, who played in professional basketball when he was active, was eliminated from the group stage.

The national team, led by head coach Lee, lost 19-21 to Sri Lanka in the third Group B match of the 2024 FIBA 3-3 Asia Cup held at a special court in Singapore's OCBC Square on the 28th.

As a result, the national team, which had one win and two losses in the group stage, fell to third place in the group, behind Sri Lanka 3 wins and Indonesia 2 wins and one loss, and packed early.

The national team beat the North Mariana Islands 21-8 but lost to Indonesia 11-13 and Sri Lanka 19-21.

Coach Lee Seung-joon, whose father is American, played as a foreign player for Ulsan Mobis currently Hyundai Mobis in the 2007-2008 season and later played for Samsung in Seoul, eastern Wonju and SK in Seoul as a Korean player.

Coach Lee, who won a silver medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games as a member of the national team for 5-on-5 basketball, is also the husband of Sonia, who plays for Shinhan Bank in Incheon, the women's professional basketball team.

Earlier this month, the Korea Basketball Association appointed him, who had been a 3-3 player after retirement, as the coach of the 3-3 national team.

Coach Lee selected Kim Jung-nyeon, Park Rae-hoon, Seok Jong-tae, Lim Won-jun, Lim Hyun-taek, and Jung Sung-jo as the preliminary entry for the men's representative, and among them, Kim Jung-nyeon and Jung Sung-jo were excluded from the final list.

Kim Jung-nyeon, who was eliminated, was the highest player ranked by the Basketball Association over the past four years among the six preliminary entries.

Last year's competition featured a national team of professional basketball players, including Heo Hoon kt, Song Kyo-chang KCC, Kim Nak-hyun Korea Gas Corporation, and Park Jung-hyun LG, but they fell out of the group stage after struggling with a different game environment from 5-to-5 basketball. 토토사이트

The 2022 national team, which selected amateur players who were not professional, including Kim Jung-nyeon, Park Min-soo, Seok Jong-tae, and Ha Do-hyun, advanced to the quarterfinals in the competition.