With big rookies such as Heo Hoon and Ha Yoon-ki... If you pick Moon Jeong-hyun, you will be in the national team lineup.
Suwon KT became the 'winner' of the professional basketball draft by winning the first draft pick this year.
Except for 2019, when he was selected 7th out of the last 7 drafts, he has had the 1st or 2nd pick every year. 토토사이트
In 2018, both 1st and 2nd place picks were secured, and only 7 picks within the 2nd place were collected over the past 7 years.
KT was selected as the first overall pick in the 2023 KBL domestic rookie player draft ranking draw held at the KBL Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 14th.
KBL conducts a drawing for the 1st to 4th rankings (highest order) by rotating a total of 200 balls with each team's name written on them and then randomly drawing them out one by one.
Out of 200, KT had 32 balls.
In terms of probability, it is 16%.
Coach Song Young-jin said, “I had expectations, but I didn’t know if we would actually be ranked first.
“I was really surprised that he actually came out,” he said.
In fact, last year’s draw was more dramatic.
KT had the second-choice pick last year as well and selected center Lee Doo-won from Korea University.
Of the 200 balls, KT's share was only 10, and after Changwon LG took first place, KT's ball, which had only a 5% chance, was chosen.
KT received the second-place pick in a row in the 2020 and 2021 drafts, where the probability was 12% (24 out of 200 balls), and was jealous of other teams.
KT, which selected tall guard Park Ji-won from Yonsei University in 2020, was able to bring in Ha Yoon-ki, who has established himself as a pillar of the team, in 2021.
In 2019, he was ranked 7th and faltered, but in 2018, he received the first pick against a 16% chance and chose Park Jun-young, who was responsible for Korea University's goal.
The peak was in 2018.
KT, which took first place despite a 16% probability, secured Changwon LG's second place pick through a trade, becoming a 'historical winner' by taking both first and second places.
KT, which nominated Heo Hoon as its first choice, quickly strengthened its strength by recruiting forward Yang Hong-seok (currently LG) as its second choice.
If KT, who laughed in the draft lottery again this year, nominates Korea University forward Jeong-Hyun Moon, one of the leading candidates for first place, they will be able to form a national team starting line-up consisting of Heo Yoon, Moon Jeong-hyun, Moon Seong-gon and Ha Yoon-ki.
The current draft method guarantees a 16% probability of the teams ranked 7th to 10th in the regular season being drawn for the 1st to 4th positions.
The 2 teams that advanced to the semifinals of the playoffs (PO) are 12%, and the 2 PO teams in the semifinals are 5%.
The odds of winning the championship and the runner-up team are slim at 0.5% and 1.5%, respectively.
KBL originally guaranteed the same probability of 12.5% to the eight clubs excluding the championship winning and runner-up teams, but in 2017, it slightly increased the probability of drawing the top-ranking draft pick for lower-ranking teams in the name of preventing power imbalance between teams.
Starting next year, the current system will also change.
The winning and runner-up teams are automatically assigned 10th and 9th rankings.
For teams that advance to the semifinals PO, the probability of being drawn for the 1st to 4th picks drops significantly to 3%, and for teams that advance to the semifinals PO, it drops significantly to 7%.
Accordingly, the probability of being drawn for teams that did not advance to the PO increases to 20%.
Another ‘draft powerhouse’ hidden behind KT is Ulsan Hyundai Mobis.
Hyundai Mobis, which obtained the 3rd place in 2020 and nominated Lee Woo-seok, beat the 5% probability in 2021 and received the 4th place, the last of the top picks (1st to 4th places), and brought in Shin Min-seok.
He then smiled as he secured the second-place pick this year.
Koo Bon-geun, secretary general of Hyundai Mobis, said with a laugh, "I was worried that there might be fraud in this draft, so I washed clean in the bathroom the day before and prayed with a pious heart.
I told coach Cho Dong-hyun to lay out a red carpet in the gym."
Secretary-General Koo said, "The draft is truly luck.
There is a certain probability, but the fact that things do not always happen according to that probability cannot be explained without saying that it is luck."
In fact, the probability of LG and Goyang Sono being selected 1st to 4th in this draft was 5%.
However, while LG managed to take 3rd place, Sono failed to secure the top nomination and had to be satisfied with 8th place.
Hwang Myeong-ho, Secretary General of the newly founded Sono, is the first to hold a lottery for nomination rights.
Director Hwang said, “I heard that it was a battle of odds, but when I saw that we didn’t make it to the top 4, I gave up my mind,” and added, “Luck didn’t come our way.”
At the same time, he added, "If we pick the 1st to 3rd rankings, Coach Seung-gi Kim said he would take a break from training this afternoon, and I feel sorry for the players.
However, if we pick good players, the coach will nurture them well."
Sono is not the only team that is disappointed.
Samsung, which was at the bottom last season, dreamed of reinforcing its strength by bringing in Moon Jeong-hyun, Park Moo-bin (Korea University), and Yoo Yu-sang (Yonsei University), who are considered big fish among draft applicants, but ended up receiving the 4th pick.
A Samsung official said, "It's unfortunate, but it's a rule that everyone has agreed on.
If the probability of a low-ranking team being selected for the top spot becomes too high, tanking (an operation that gives up season performance for the sake of the draft) occurs, so we understand that it is a process of adjusting the probability by continuously adjusting to each other." He said.
He added, "Seeing that teams with better records than us get better turns, I think it's really difficult.
Of course, it's difficult to create perfect rules.
We have no choice but to work as hard as we can within the power we have."