Group D, Day 4: Korea vs. Slovenia

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Highlights

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Jongkyu KIM follow up dunk

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http://www.sportando.com/en/national-teams/national-teams/133495/korean-nt-player-park-uses-backboard-to-shoot-free-throws.html

Korean NT player Chan Hee PARK shoots free throws in an old style way using backboard.

[Straight forward]

I don't know why people always doubt Slovenia. Every time they get overlooked and every time they remind people that they're right up there with Lithuania, Croatia, Serbia, etc.

Can't go till the end. Till the podium. In some tournaments Slovenia was ridiculously good and deep, but choked in knock out stage.

[Joško Poljak Fan]

I don't know why people always doubt Slovenia. Every time they get overlooked and every time they remind people that they're right up there with Lithuania, Croatia, Serbia, etc.

A major switch in generations.
For european standards out of Rasho, Brezec, E.Lorbek, Smodiš, Nachbar, Jagodnik, Gorenc, Tušek, Milič, Lakovič, Bečirovič, Udrih, Vujačič, G.Dragič, Slokar and some other specialist players... those were some sick potential teams, arguably most stacked potential NT in europe at some times, yet always without exemption underperforming at one point of the eliminating stages from one reason to another. One factor accordingly is the fact that since Slovenia didn't manage to win anything with those players it's really hard to believe with could do it with... one third that talent or so.

With the switch in generations, we're producing a surprising ammount of guards unlike most other countries with smaller player bases that ussualy live and die off their centers.
Evenmore with the international 3pointer being moved by half a meter (1.6 feet towards the NBA one), not really sure that was a matter of planned development, most of these players just love to penetrate and are decently athletic along. A lot of other NT's haven't yet made that transition to the way basketball is optimaly played atm.

So basicaly the strenght of this Slo team isn't in individual quality (if that was the case, we're... 7th, 8th, 9th in europe, maybee worse) but in the fact our perimeter is a mold of good defenders, penetrators and recently all of them are improving their shooting skills while a lot of them (Dragic bros., Blažič, Murič, Klobučar) were actually really terrible shooters in youth cathegories. Vast majority of teams lack the talent pool to be able to pick 12 players for a specific game plan, we somehow got lucky and got 7-8 players that actually work great when together on court. Individualy sure both Dragič's are great, others aren't exactly bad either, but they're not in the talent range some other NT's posses.

[miloje]

I don't know why people always doubt Slovenia. Every time they get overlooked and every time they remind people that they're right up there with Lithuania, Croatia, Serbia, etc.

cause they almost always underachieve. hope things will change

[Joško Poljak Fan]

Good game by Korea, better than I've expected after seeing the result of the game vs. Aussies 2 days ago.
Slovenia missed the chance to press on defense early, the opponent got hot and later we had to work our arses off to get this win. On the bright side (there always is one) Slovenia did manage to lose a lot of games like this in the past, this team managed to pull themselves together and win.

Some of the coaches in the studio of SLO TV said some good stuff about Korean game and some players and I have to agree. Using their speed our best defensive lineup that might be causing troubles to some reknown teams in the future followed through 1,2,3,4,5 screens yet unlike in some other games only managed to follow it without enforcing half as many TO's as ussual. Slovenia's lineup in third really did work their asses off to get those few hardly won defensive stops needed to get away.

I am a bit dissapointed as obviously with the tournament pace the players aren't in their ussual training regime and 20+ minutes for some players that ussualy get half less might help us in the future. BUt anyway, a win is a win.

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1. Jonghyun LEE (KOR) 3.0

3. Jongkyu KIM (KOR) 2.3

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Good game~ 72 : 89

Our naturalized player is half-korean. The Koreans are one ethnic family speaking one language. People acted closed around not-lated naturalized foreigners.

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I don't know why people always doubt Slovenia. Every time they get overlooked and every time they remind people that they're right up there with Lithuania, Croatia, Serbia, etc.

Korea is still years off from being on that level. There's no shame in admitting that.

[FrankieJB]

South Koreans are dominated on all matchups, virtually. So much naïveté and so many unforced errors, including costly fumbles... if they are not interested in this competition, why not giving their spot to another Asian team, like Taiwan? By the way, your import looks as careless as Blatche, but without all the latter's skills... so, a bad pick...

[Joško Poljak Fan]

The idea to let Korea shoot at will is just plain brilliant
well yeah, one of the common scenarios after two consecutive great games and a third one against roster wise inferior opponents is a pure element of suffer as far as Slovenia goes. I should get used to that by now.

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Korea may upset Dragic's team.

[christodoulou76]

Korea playing great so far!

[KORADZ]

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