"In fact, he is a foreign player. He scores 30 points even if he blocks him."

This is the evaluation made by Cho Dong-hyun, head coach of Ulsan Hyundai Mobis in professional basketball, to Lee Jung-hyun (Sono), who rose to the top guard this season.

As Red Army evaluated, Lee Jung-hyun exploded 38 points in the 2023-2024 professional basketball regular league home game against Hyundai Mobis (102-87 wins) at Goyang Gymnasium in Gyeonggi Province on the 22nd.

It exceeded 30 points in three consecutive games following the Daegu Korea Gas Corporation match (35 points) on the 17th and the SK match (34 points) on the 19th.

This is the first time in professional basketball that a domestic player has scored more than 30 points in three consecutive games since Cho Sung-won in the 2000-2001 season.

Lee Jung-hyun, who has scored 22.6 points in 42 games this season, is the first Korean player to average over 20 points in 13 years. Even if Lee fails to score a single point in Sono's remaining two games, he still crosses the 20-point mark.

Moon Tae-young (22.04 points) was the last player to play in the 2010-2011 season. If the scope of the draft is narrowed down to a total of Korean players, it can be traced back to Bang Seong-yoon (22.09 points) in the 2007-2008 season.

He has grown to rewrite professional basketball history, but Lee Jung-hyun wants to improve further.

Forward Lee Hyun-joong (Irawara), who was a teammate during his youth team, recently gave Lee a lot of encouragement.

Lee Hyun-joong, considered Korea's best forward, was born in 2000, a year younger than Lee.

Lee Hyun-joong, who headed to Australian professional basketball with the aim of entering the National Basketball Association (NBA), is currently playing in the Japanese B League for a while as the league schedule is over.

Lee Hyun-joong, who made his Japanese debut in the Osaka Evesa uniform on the 20th, showed off his skills to the next level with Japanese players and scored 24 points.

Lee said, "I watched an edited video of the match. I thought the levels were really different. They scored with an extremely high success rate through various attack routes. Levels have changed."

He added, "Of course, I was stimulated. I'm not saying that I'm going to challenge myself abroad right now, but I think I have to work hard one step at a time (like Lee Hyun-joong) and go up slowly."

Instead of knocking on the door of a domestic university or KBL, Lee Hyun-joong entered Davison University, a member of the NCAA, and encountered advanced basketball from an early age.

Lee Jung-hyun is growing on a different path than Lee Hyun-joong.

He is dominating the domestic stage under intensive training by Kim Seung-ki, director of Goyang Sono.

Sono's foreign player Chinanu Onuaku also recognizes Lee's performance. As Kim put it, only Lee can be found.

If Lee Jung-hyun is on the court, he finds Lee Jung-hyun and passes, but without Lee Jung-hyun, he rarely passes the ball to other domestic guards.

Onuaku has also played in the NBA and played in the Spanish league, which is considered the second highest level league after the United States.

Lee said, "We trust each other. There is a trust that there is a lot of competition in training and games and that it is okay to make mistakes. I thank you for always fighting and protecting me under the basket."

Onuaku scored 27 points and 23 rebounds to beat Hyundai Mobis' Big Man Jin alone, where Gage Prim holds out.