Wonju DB wins Seoul Samsung and goes all the way to the 6th place fight!
Mar 30, 2025
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DB won 85-76 against home team Samsung at the 2024-2025 KCC Professional Basketball held at Jamsil Gymnasium in Seoul on the 30th, breaking the two-game losing streak and narrowing the gap with sixth-ranked Jeong Kwan-jang to 1.5 games. In the future, Jung Kwan-jang has four games left and DB has three games left, so recapturing the sixth place, the playoff Maginot Line, is by no means an impossible goal. However, Samsung lost five consecutive games and failed again to finish last.
DB confirmed its victory early in the middle of the fourth quarter thanks to its overwhelming advantage in the fight for the right to provide and the distribution of scores evenly among all players. Lee Sun-bano and Lee Kwan-hee made a total of eight three points, four each, and combined for 45 points. Omari Spellman failed to come out due to injury, and Park In-woong, who is playing well, overcame a difficult situation in which he was sent off in the second quarter.
Samsung also failed to prevent the team's defeat, although two-option player Glenn Robinson III played full time alone and scored 29 points as Kofi Coburn, a one-option foreign player, was also absent due to injury. He finished the first half well by two points, but he still repeated the pattern of collapsing in the second half due to a lack of hindsight.
The DB was fresh from the start. With Chinanu Onuaku dominating the paint zone, Albano, Lee Kwan-hee, Park In-woong and Jung Hyo-geun scored as many as 31 points in the first quarter alone.
However, the mood suddenly changed with about five minutes left before the end of the second quarter, when the team was facing 37-33. Lee Kwan-hee, defending Samsung's Lee Won-seok's under-the-goal shot, pressed down the opponent's right hand and both players fell. When Lee Won-seok approached Lee Kwan-hee to protest, DB Park In-woong pushed it with his hand, and Samsung's Justin Gutang pushed Park In-woong roughly with his body and confronted even the bench members of the two teams.
In the process, Park In-woong, who received a U-foul and a technical foul, was sent off, and as the foul decisions made on the bench with several players from the two teams were offset against each other, Samsung eventually got four free throws and even the right to attack. Due to Samsung's strong counterattack, which gained a chance to chase, DB finished the first half with a lead of 46-44.
After the start of the second half, DB's run started again, and Samsung failed to prevent it. While the score of Onuaku and Lee Kwan-hee poured into the outer four of DB's Albano and Jung Hyo-geun, Samsung was tied to scoreless for more than three minutes and the score began to widen to double digits again. In the fourth quarter, which started with a big 70-58 lead, Albano's three-point shot also broke out, and Lee Kwan-hee's three consecutive three-point shots were fierce about six minutes before the end of the game, 81-58, virtually deciding the game. Samsung chased Lee Jung-hyun with three three points, but failed to reverse the wide score in the end.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
