Samsung's swift moves in the spotlight of 'Recruitment of Nicholson and Kanter + Reinforcement of Domestic Players', the 2025-2026 season must be different!
Samsung's swift moves in the spotlight of 'Recruitment of Nicholson and Kanter + Reinforcement of Domestic Players', the 2025-2026 season must be different!
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From the 2021-2022 season to the 2024-2025 season, Seoul Samsung was humiliated as the lowest (10th) for four consecutive seasons. It is also a disgrace that the team failed to advance to the playoffs (PO) for eight consecutive seasons from the 2017-2018 season, but it has been at the bottom of the rankings since 2021. In the meantime, there are a total of three coaches who have served as Samsung, including Lee Sang-min (current Busan KCC coach), former coach Eun Hee-seok and current coach Kim Hyo-beom.
바카라사이트 The 2025-2026 season must be different. During the off-season, they made efforts to strengthen their capabilities by organizing teams quickly. The first priority is to remove the image of the underdog before regaining the glory of the past, which was once called a prestigious team with tradition. Just looking at the movements of the off-season, one can feel the team's commitment to rebuilding its prestigious family.
The starting point was the recruitment of guard Han Ho-bin and forward Lee Geun-hwi in the free agent market. Veteran guard Lee Jung-hyun (38) left for Wonju DB, but Lee Kwan-hee, who played only for Samsung until the middle of the 2020-2021 season, returned. It is important to work with existing resources that played last season, including Justin Gutang, center Lee Won-seok and guard Choi Sung-mo from the Philippines.
Analysts say that if guard Lee Dae-sung, who was ambitiously recruited ahead of last season but took a full season off due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury, joins the team in normal condition, Korean player Debs is not far behind other teams. "Lee Dae-sung has not joined the team's training yet, but he is rehabilitating with the goal of joining from the beginning of the new season," a Samsung official said.
He has replaced all foreign players as well. He said goodbye to Kofi Coburn, who stayed under the basket for the past two seasons. Coburn has shown extraordinary dominance under the basket, but was praised for his inefficiency due to his rather rough playing style. He reorganized the ranks of foreign players into forward Andrew Nicholson (36, 206 centimeters) and center Kerem Kanter (30, 204 centimeters).
Nicholson played an average of 25 minutes and 8 seconds in 139 games during the three seasons of the Korea Gas Corporation (KGC), scoring 21.7 points and 7.8 rebounds. His strength is his outstanding shooting ability and attack-creating ability. He is a resource that will enable Samsung, which had the lowest average score (74 points) in the last season, to display its offense capability. A native of Turkiye, Kanter is the younger brother of center Enes Kanter who played in 748 games in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and is considered to be strong in playing under the basket.