KB Stars' relentless spring basketball made me happy
Mar 11, 2025
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Among the KB Stars players who lost the final 5th playoff game against Asan Yi Sun-shin Gymnasium and Woori Bank on the 10th, Heo Ye-eun and Nagata Moe continued to wipe away tears. The biggest regret would have been to end the season without reaching the championship, but it also contained the meaning of joy in challenging the limits and achieving its own results.
It was definitely a meaningful season that confirmed another possibility of KB Stars.
He topped the regular league last season with a record winning percentage of 90 percent with 27 wins and 3 losses, and compared to his 12 wins and 18 losses this season, his chin-up is only 40 percent, which is clearly a regression. However, considering the sudden variable of center Park Ji-soo's overseas expansion, which accounted for virtually more than half of the team's power, KB's performance can never be underestimated.
KB Stars has literally formed a 'two mountain range' with Woori Bank, with Park Ji-soo ranking first and second in seven regular leagues from the 2017-2018 season when he began playing full-time leaguers to the last season, and two of them winning combined championships. However, in the 2022-2023 season, when Park Ji-soo played only nine games due to panic disorder and finger injury, he remained in fifth place with 10 wins and 20 losses and failed to advance to the playoffs. It was a part that clearly imprinted Park Ji-soo's 'existence', and without Park Ji-soo, it was also criticized that it was a team that would be difficult to appear in PO, let alone in the second round.
This is why even a cold evaluation that classified KB as the lowest ahead of the opening of this season came out. However, this eventually became the driving force behind the KB team's unity.
Center Kim So-dam, the center of the team, Yeom Yoon-ah, and Na Yoon-jung, the only power reinforcement player recruited as FA, were injured one after another, and fell to the bottom of the list. However, in this crisis, two core members, including Kang Yi-seul and Heo Ye-eun, are in the Asian quarter, Nagata Moe, only a rookie in the first year, Song Yoon-ha, who enters the fifth and sixth year, and is more familiar with the bench than the court by playing mercenary skills using three Sixmen, Lee Yun-mi and Lee Chae-eun, who are more familiar with the bench than the court, beat Shinhan Bank by a single relative margin to finish fourth, and then beat No. 1 Woori Bank by a dramatic winning shot in almost every game in the PO against No. 1 Woori Bank, and pushed it to Game 5 with a thrilling match.
After Game 5, even Woori Bank coach Wi Sung-woo "I'm so grateful and touched that KB, who had worse replacement members than us, played such a good game by playing to the end. I also respect KB coach Kim Wan-soo, who even expressed his feelings 'real' rather than lip service. Coach Kim Wan-soo, who has been recognized for his solid leadership through this season, also said, `I think who can blame KB players. He has grown a lot, and I believe he will be able to become a stronger team next season because all the injured players will return. Then, Park Ji-soo, who will return to Korea someday, will be able to join the team without any burden. "It was a happy season and PO with the growth of the players."I smiled with a relieved expression.
As head coach Kim said, in addition to the bench members who have grown significantly through this season, the existing main players, plus Park Ji-soo, KB is expected to be another version of the team without the label of 'Park Ji-soo's one-man team'. This is why KB's relentless 's spring basketball' was even more meaningful.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
