Pierce or block? Women's basketball championship is a battle between spears and shields
Mar 18, 2025
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The championship match, which Woori Bank and BNK have been facing since the 16th, is a representative 'Chang and Shield'.
Woori Bank is a team of defense, and BNK is a team that sees the game through offense. On the contrary, this means that Woori Bank's offense and BNK's defense is closer to victory as the completeness of defense increases.
It emerged as a common task between the two teams in the first round of the Champions League on Wednesday. Woori Bank exposed loopholes in the paint zone defense to the extent that the opponent's two-point shooting success rate reached 50%, while Woori Bank's outside shot, which rarely popped, and the free throw success rate, which was less than 30%, were hampered. However, as usual, Kim Dan-bi was able to set up Woori Bank, which almost fought alone, thanks to the even scoring distribution of four players, including Park Hye-jin, Kim Sonia, Ahn Hye-ji and Lee Ijima Saki. As Woori Bank coach Wi Sung-woo or Park Jung-eun said, if only two or three Woori Bank's outer guns went in, the results of the game could have been different.
Kim Dan-bi took good advantage of the mismatch situation in which BNK played switch defense near the free throw line and Ahn Hye-ji and Lee So-hee were blocked. He recorded a whopping 50% success rate of two-point shots (9 out of 18), exceeding the average record in the regular league, and even showed his unique feeding ability to create outside chances when a double team came in.
However, when he entered the second half, he was clearly feeling the physical burden to the extent that his pace dropped sharply. All six 3-point shooting attempts were missed, and only two of the six free throws were exposed as they were. In addition to Park Hye-jin and Kim Sonia, the rotation defense that caused Kim Dan-bi's physical exhaustion by joining guards such as Lee So-hee is working to some extent.
In the end, like the playoffs, at least one of his colleagues, including Lee Myung-kwan, Park Hye-mi, Shim Sung-young and Natsuki, has to carry Kim Dan-bi's burden together. Although 28 three-point shots were created, it is difficult to overwhelm BNK's offense with a 17.85% success rate of only five shots.
For BNK, it is necessary to prevent Kim Dan-bi from attacking the paint zone as much as possible and to increase the completeness of the defense, which needs to make the pass to the outside as inconvenient as possible, so that it can be close to achieving its first champion since its foundation. Except for Kim Dan-bi and Shim Sung-young, Woori Bank players are equipped with outer guns that can hit whenever they have time, although they lack experience in big games.
In addition, it is inevitable to allow Kim Dan-bi to score a certain amount of points, but it is even more important in that if all players actively participate in the rebound, the balance of the opponent's ace, who is mostly responsible for offense and defense, can be disturbed faster. Kim Sonia, who was sluggish after focusing on offense in the first half of the first half, recovered her performance in the second half by actively participating in the offense and defense rebound and led the team to win with 11 points and 14 rebounds.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
