Marjules and Cho Sang-hyun, the 'new national team coach', have already met → Did he ask the secret of 'two consecutive wins against China'

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Coach Nikolais Majuls (46), who was appointed as the first-ever foreign head coach of the Korean men's basketball team, is making an unconventional move. Immediately after entering the country, he met with KBL coach and began "Korean basketball fever," especially with Cho Sang-hyun (50), head coach of Changwon LG Sakers, who recently led the team to two consecutive wins against China.

At an inauguration press conference held at the press center in Gwanghwamun, Seoul on the 16th, Marjules said, "I have already met Cho Sang-hyun, head coach of Changwon LG recently. We shared our thoughts on basketball with each other. "As I talked about it, I felt a lot that vision, tactics, strategies, etc. have a very similar direction," he said.

It also added details of the conversation. Marjules said, "I dealt with how to use the players and how to put them in order to win, but there were a lot of things I quite agreed with. I think it was a very good meeting. In the future, I want to meet not only coach Cho Sang-hyun but also all other coaches in the KBL to ask and get to know about the players. "If I meet the coaches, I want to be a relationship that helps each other develop and grow Korean basketball, not a competitive relationship," he said.

It is clear why the basketball community and fans are paying attention to the meeting between Marjules and Cho Sang-hyun. The South Korean basketball team won two consecutive home and away games against China in the 2027 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers held in November and December last year. Cho Sang-hyun, who was at the core of the national team's coaching staff along with Jeon Hee-chul at the time, played a decisive role in destroying the "Great Wall" with elaborate spacing and customized defensive tactics. In particular, Changwon LG, led by head coach Cho Sang-hyun, is currently leading the league with 22 wins and 10 losses (0.688 winning rate).

The basketball community is looking forward to how coach Majuls, who led the Latvian national team by age and distinguished himself as a tactician on the European stage, will combine Korea's unique "team basketball" with Cho Sang-hyun's "know-how."

Regarding KBL, Marjules also said, "I think it's a systematic league. Just by looking at them cheering, I think it's a passionate league and it's a professional league. "In terms of technology, foreign players are mainly in charge of big men and the guards' shooting bases are good, so I think I can play spacing-based basketball a little better."

Meanwhile, Marjules will make his official debut as the head coach of the Korean national team through away matches in the Asian qualifiers against Taiwan and Japan scheduled for February.

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