He is the head coach who gives reasonable judgment and instructions in his usual quiet and soft speech.
However, the players don’t think Kang is easy. This is because it has great charisma.
He usually treats the players as friendly as his eldest brother and jokes well, but as soon as he leaves the track, he changes completely. It is relentless to deviate from pre-shared principles. No one is excepted.
A case in point is Park Kun-woo’s disciplinary move to the second division, “10 billion won FA.”
The whole story was like this.
NC excluded outfielder Park Kun-woo from the first-tier entry on the 3rd, Lee Dong-il.
An NC official explained, “There is no particular pain.” When asked, “Then why?” he said, “I think the director will explain tomorrow during the briefing session.”
There is room for interpretation. There was a lot of speculation overnight.
Park Kun-woo remained silent with no hits in two games against KT on the 30th and 1st of last month. However, he rebounded with two hits in four at-bats against KT on the 2nd, when he started as the third right fielder. It was a heavy hit, a left-center double, a shortstop grounder, and a center fielder fly. Park Gun-woo was replaced by Choi Jung-won before the defense in the bottom of the eighth inning, trailing 0-1. It was not the director’s decision.
NC allowed four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning shortly after Park Kun-woo was absent, confirming a 3-game sweep loss along with a 0-5 loss.
The moment director Kang In-kwon’s eyes stayed. The center hitter’s departure amid a neck-and-neck race by one point during consecutive 토토꽁포인트 defeats. He looked disappointed because he didn’t fit “Team First.”
It is clear that Park Kun-woo was physically difficult at the time.
Despite the risk of hamstring, which has been repeated chronically since the past, he has consistently played defense between center and right field since the beginning of the season. The aftermath is coming like a wave. It’s a time of pain and exhaustion here and there. The reason why he had no hits in the previous two games. Coach Kang In-kwon also said, “It is true that Park Kun-woo complained of a little inconvenience here and there during the game last week.”
However, the problem is that it was the end of the game with about one at-bat left in the one-point game of the losing team.
Coach Kang said, “As a senior, I have an idea that I should have virtues as well as skills. As I always said when I became a coach, I had a direction not to act away from the original team, so I was a little disappointed by Park Kun-woo in that part,” he mentioned the game that day. He then stressed, “It is never about taming or disciplining players,” and stressed, “It is a message that you should not leave the original team.” He also said, “I think this is the most important crisis in a season. “I think 15 games at the end, from nine consecutive away games to six consecutive home games, is an important point to determine where our team will be at the end of this season,” he said.
Amid a series of injuries to the native starters, it could have been thought that the team could not be prioritized in the worst situation of being threatened with the third place with only two wins and eight losses last week.
When he took office as NC’s official coach in Masan on November 3 last year, coach Kang vowed, “I will punish anyone who deviates from the original team without mercy.”
As soon as Park Kun-woo judged that he had deviated from the original team’s standards, he ordered him to go to the second division.
Park Kun-woo, embarrassed by the sudden notice of his second division, visited the coach’s office. People around him explained the situation at the time, saying, “Park Gun-woo was standing in front of the coach’s office for a long time.”
However, coach Kang In-kwon did not meet the player in the end. Asked by reporters about “how the player is taking it,” he firmly drew the line, saying, “We didn’t meet.”
It is impossible to reverse the decision that has already been made by meeting the player. It was inevitable at the time. The interview with the coach and the players is likely to take place on the day they are called up to the first division.