South Korea NT 2016 - 2018

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The recent Kookmin Bank Cup demonstrated how Lim Dong-Seop (Samsung) is considered as top 3 of the KBL's SF. Averaged 14ppg and 8.8rpg on a team that includes Lee Seung-Hyun.

Lim played for Korea in the Asia Cup but Hur Jae made the mistake in calling up Yang Hee-Jong, who is at the last legs of his career. Lim, Choi Joon-Young and Yang Hong-Seok should be in the pool.

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The recent Kookmin Bank Cup demonstrated how Lim Dong-Seop (Samsung) is considered as top 3 of the KBL's SF. Averaged 14ppg and 8.8rpg on a team that includes Lee Seung-Hyun.

Lim played for Korea in the Asia Cup but Hur Jae made the mistake in calling up Yang Hee-Jong, who is at the last legs of his career. Lim, Choi Joon-Young and Yang Hong-Seok should be in the pool.

who are your next opponents next month?

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who are your next opponents next month?

Korea has a rematch with NZ and then HK.

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Ricardo Ratliffe's naturalization could come to a resolution as early as next week:

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2018/01/11/2018011100453.html?rsMobile=false

If granted by the ministry of Justice, Ratliffe will still need to take the legal steps in attaining his citizenship as approval is only just a start. Then he will need to get FIBA clearance for him to be submitted for inclusion in Korea's player pool that will be given to FIBA.

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Korea has a rematch with NZ and then HK.

I'll put korea at the upperhand against tall blacks. Well, tb looks like a different with paul henare. They become weaker right now compared when nenad vucinic was handling the team.

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Korea's newest export: 200cm SF Lee Hyun-Jung, a product of the U16 and U17 NT from Samil HS. He will be training overseas, bypassing the KUBL in his dreams to reach the American NCAA one day.

January - Train in the Australian Global NBA Academy
February - Las Vegas player development camp / games with AAU selections
March - AIS in Au
April Onwards - Find a prep school to get into the NCAA

Last time a prospect tried this route was Goyang's Choi Jin-Soo, who ended up with Maryland but left early to get drafted in the 2011 KBL draft.

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About the Canberra Global Academy, it is 7 foreigners and 5 Australians as scholarship holders. I always had the impression that they were offered 1 or 2 year scholarships, like the AIS/College of Excellence. I DO know that his March 2018 stint must be at the global Academy as the AIS/COE don't accept foreigners. I would be interested to know if Tanaka is still in Canberra.

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Ricardo Ratliffe clears alleged character demerits and misconduct allegations. That's one major hurdle passed and his special naturalization procedure looks almost a done deal.

http://www.sportalkorea.com/general/view.php?gisa_uniq=201801151547772940&key=&field=&section_code=D1000&search_key=y

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After being snubbed from the national team last November, despite playing well in EABA 2017 prior to the Asia Cup, Doo Kyung-Min is averaging: 16.4 points 3.9 assists 3.0 rebounds in 34 games in the KBL.

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Ministry of Justice approves the 'special naturalization' process of Ricardo Ratliffe. He will begin the formal procedures of acquiring a Korean nationality.

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With the KBA's assistance, Ricardo Ratliffe has completed his naturalization process and can now be included in the pool of players to be submitted to FIBA. http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_...0000000&mobile

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Korea NT for the Asian Qualifiers second window:

Park Chan-Hee (Incheon ET Land), Doo Kyung-Min (DB Promy), Heo Hoon (Busan KT), Lee Jung-Hyun (KCC Egis), Choi Jun-Young (SK Knights), Heo Ung (DB Promy), Jeon Jun-Beom (Ulsan Mobis), Yang Hee-Jong (Anyang KGC), Oh Se-Keun (Anyang KGC), Lee Jong-Hyun (Ulsan Mobis), Kim Jong-Kyu (LG Sakers) and Ricardo Ratliffe (Samsung Thunder).

Missing are Kim Sun-Hyung and Lee Seung-Hyun due to injuries. I feel that Yang Hee-Jong's inclusion would not have been justified given that SFs such as Yang Hong-Seok of Busan or Lim Dong-Seop of Samsung are healthy. Same with Heo Ung, who is also in the military but Wonju is winning without him. Heo Ung could have made way for bigger SGs like Heo Il-Young or Lee Dae-Sung.

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Lee Jong-Hyun (Ulsan Mobis) will miss Korea's 2018 campaign due to an ACL tear. Either Kang Sangjae (Incheon) or Choi Bukyong (SK Knights) will replace him as Hur Jae is still weighting the options.

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Seoul SK's Choi Bukyung will replace the injured Lee Jong-Hyun for the 2nd Window of the Asian Qualifiers.

http://www.trendingpod.com/entertainment/sports/choi-bukyung-replace-lee-jong-hyun-second-window-asian-qualifiers/

Initially, Hur Jae eyed Lee Seung-Hyun as a re-inclusion but his knee was not healed yet. Then it was Ha Seung-Jin and Song Kyochang but Hur deemed Seung-Jin to be unfit for his uptempo attack while Song lacks experience. So it was Choi, who got the nod as he played in the 2016 FIBA Asia Challenge Cup.

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OT:

17pts, 9 rebs and 1 blk for 200cm Lee Hyun-Jung but NBA Global Academy lost to VIC U20 Team 93-81. Lee averages 19.9ppg and 8.7rpg in the Middleschool varsity league.