Asan Woori Bank, the leader of the women’s professional basketball league, succeeded in escaping from a losing streak and reduced the ‘magic number’ to 2 to recapture the championship in the regular league for the first time in two years.
Woori Bank won 69-59 in a home game against Cheongju KB Stars in 2022-2023 women’s professional basketball held at Asan Yi Sun-shin Gymnasium on the 5th. Woori Bank, which suffered its first consecutive loss of the season recently losing to Shinhan Bank and Samsung Life Insurance, took a big step toward winning the regular league championship with this victory.
Woori Bank, which recorded 19 wins and 4 losses, widened the gap to 2nd place Busan BNK (13 wins and 9 losses) by 5.5 games. Two more wins from the remaining seven games will confirm the regular league championship on its own.
Woori Bank ranked first in the regular league in the 2020-2021 season, but was unable to go to the championship match due to a blast from Yongin Samsung Life Insurance in fourth place in the playoffs. Last season, KB, who overwhelmingly beat Park Ji-soo, placed second in the regular league and finished runner-up in the championship match. This season, after recruiting ace Kim Dan-bi, Woori Bank made a big splash from the beginning, and again led the league unrivaledly and established a solo system, putting the championship within sight.
On the other hand, KB, without Park Ji-soo, lost against Hanawon Q in Bucheon, which was the lowest in the league, and gave up the match today, making it difficult to advance to the playoffs with 8 wins and 15 losses. In particular, in this game, he was pushed back in the rebound fight. After Ji-soo Park, the “National Center”, overcame a panic disorder and returned, KB, which was running on a winning streak, felt the vacancy in which Ji-soo Park left again due to a finger injury.
In Woori Bank, Kim Dan-bi (19 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists) and Park Ji-hyun (24 points, 16 rebounds), who recorded a ‘double double’, led the attack alternately in the first and second half respectively.
With Kim Dan-bi’s 3-point shot at the forefront, KB was pushed hard from the beginning of the first quarter. 슬롯사이트 They led the game by running 12-2 in about 3 minutes of the first quarter.
At the beginning of the second quarter, KB took the mood by winning offensive rebounds one after another. They caught up to 26-22 in 1 minute and 20 seconds from the start of the second quarter. However, Danbi Kim opened the attack with an outside shot again. Go A-ra and Park Hye-jin’s 3-pointers burst out one after another and ran away to 35-26.
Kim Dan-bi, who threw three 3-pointers in the first quarter and made all of them successful, threw 5 3-pointers in the first half only to break KB’s will to pursue.
Entering the 3rd quarter, Park Ji-hyun started scoring shots both inside and outside, and Woori Bank ran away again with a score of 50-38. Park Ji-hyun scored 14 points in the third quarter alone. He also threw three 3-pointers and made two. He also showed an even performance on both sides of the offense and defense, grabbing as many as five defensive rebounds.
KB tightened the reins of the chase with Kang Iseul’s scorer in the 4th quarter, but it was not enough to catch up. In KB, Iseul Kang scored 17 points and Yeeun Huh scored 14 points and 9 assists. However, they trailed 30–38 on rebounds. No player on the team recorded double-digit rebounds.