South Korea's women's basketball virtually confirmed second place in the group after crushing Indonesia at the Asia Cup
Jul 16, 2025
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The South Korean women's basketball team won a landslide victory over Indonesia, raising the possibility of advancing to the semifinals as the second place in the group.
South Korea jumped to second place with a 95-62 victory over Indonesia in the final Group A qualifying match for the 2025 FIBA Women's Asia Cup held at Shenzhen Sports Center in Shenzhen, China on the 16th. If China wins the match between China and New Zealand in the same group, South Korea will secure second place after home team China and compete with the Philippines, which is third in Group B, at the same place on the 18th.
Due to the significant power gap between the two countries, the match was focused on raising the bench members' sense of play as the main members who played in the previous matches against New Zealand and China rested enough.
However, they struggled in the beginning, losing the lead in the second half of the first quarter as the players who had played for two consecutive days and the balance between the members who had little time to play on the court were hardly balanced.
However, at the beginning of the second quarter, which started 25-22, Choi Yi-sam and Park Ji-soo scored six consecutive points in the paint zone, and as the shooter's three-pointers, including Lee Myung-kwan and Jihyun Shin, came out in succession, they began to run away by double-digit points for the first time, and eventually finished the first half 55-36, effectively deciding the game.
In the second half, he rarely fought under the basket against his opponent and instead of saving his physical strength, he focused on the outside, and most of the players on the court, including Park Ji-hyun, Hong Yoo-soon, Jihyun Shin, Kang Yoo-rim, and Lee Ju-yeon, scored three points, widening the score. He threw a whopping 38 3-pointers and succeeded in 16 shots, recording a 42.1% success rate. Park Ji-soo prepared for the next game by playing for only about seven minutes, including not coming back to the court after stepping back to the bench midway through the second quarter.
The Philippines, which will meet in the semifinals, ranked third after Australia and Japan in Group B. Although he suffered a crushing defeat of 39-115 against Australia, he showed a grit of up to three points based on his strong defense in the fourth quarter when he was 20 points behind Japan, which was missing many of its main members in this tournament. Two years ago, South Korea won the 2023 Asian Cup in Sydney, Australia, 80-71, thanks to Park Ji-hyun's performance, who scored 24 points against the Philippines in the 5th to 6th place match.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
