Professional basketball team Seoul SK defeated Suwon KT in a home match thanks to the performances of veterans.
SK won 91-82 in the 2022-23 professional basketball regular league match against KT held at Jamsil Student Gymnasium in Seoul on the 14th. SK, who recorded 25 wins and 17 losses in the season with the victory on this day, tied for third place with Ulsan Hyundai Mobis, which was ahead by half a game. On the other hand, KT, which raised its hopes for spring basketball with a single 6th place before the match, recorded 24 losses (18 wins) in the season and fell back to 7th place.
SK won the game that day, with veterans Heo Il-young and Kim Seon-hyeong dominating the second quarter, the match-up. Heo Il-young scored 13 points, including two 3-pointers, in the second quarter alone, recording a total of 3 3-pointers and 16 points. Kim Seon-hyeong became the main character in the best match of the day with a total of 16 points and 6 assists, including successive plotter scores in the second half of the second quarter, when KT was chasing.
In addition to the two players, Jae-Hyun Oh made a big success with 22 points, including 4 3-pointers, and Jameel Warney recorded a double-double with 19 points and 13 rebounds. SK coach Jeon Hee-chul worried that it would be a difficult game before the game, but he overcame KT with a score of 17-4 in the long-term fast attack and took the victory comfortably. 토토사이트
In KT, Ha Yoon-gi, the main axis, struggled with 18 points and 7 rebounds, and 1 option foreign player Jared Jones scored 15 points. However, Jones was sluggish with a 25% 3-point shot success rate, and Yang Hong-seok, who SK announced before the game that he would focus on keeping him in check, only scored 4 points and failed to support Ha Yoon-ki.
SK took the momentum from the beginning of the game that day. In the first quarter, Oh Jae-hyun became the main character. SK blocked KT’s strong point, not allowing a single 3-point shot in the first quarter. In the process, Oh Jae-hyun played an active role with 11 points in the first quarter, recording the team’s first score, a 3-point shot, and a series of 3-point shots that turned the game around. Thanks to Oh Jae-hyun, SK finished the first quarter 22-17.
In the second quarter, Heo Il-young passed the baton. Heo Il-yeong started the game by putting in a 3-point shot at the beginning of the second quarter. After scoring two shots in a row, he added a 3-point shot with 6 minutes and 51 seconds remaining, and scored an additional point through Andone play, which even earned a foul on KT Lester Prosper.
KT pursued to 45-39 thanks to the performance of Ha Yoon-gi and Jones in the second half of the second quarter. This time, Kim Seon-hyung saved the match. Kim Seon-hyung quickly drove a dribble under the goal 1 minute and 16 seconds before the end of the first half, and then succeeded with a high-difficulty right-handed floater using a backboard from the left. He then used the ball that Warney had rebounded 18 seconds before the end of the first half and succeeded in a floater with a buzzer beater at the end of the quarter, widening the lead to 49-41 and ending the first half.
The atmosphere, once passed, was seldom reversed. SK expanded its lead to 27-19 in the third quarter as well. The performance of Kim Seon-hyeong and Warney widened the score gap little by little, and in the middle of the third quarter, Heo Il-young and Oh Jae-hyun, who led the scoring at the beginning of the game, scored again in a row. On the other hand, KT’s field goal rate in the quarter was only 38%, which was shaken. In particular, the 3-point shooting success rate, which was his main weapon, fell to 28%.
The game, which went up to 76-60, did not have a big turnaround even in the 4th quarter. KT chased after recovering the field goal success rate in the 4th quarter, but could not narrow the score gap significantly. With 1 minute and 27 seconds left, SK scored more than 90 points with Choi Won-hyeok’s pass and Oh Jae-hyun’s fast-breaking layup, solidifying their winning streak that day.