Hana Bank Beat Samsung Life Insurance, With Psaki's 34 Points Lead, Re-certified as a Dark Horse This Season
Nov 24, 2025
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Hana Bank is the team that is receiving the most attention this season.
Although he was a veteran head coach in men's basketball, he thoroughly utilized young team colors under the guidance of Lee Sang-beom, who experienced women's basketball for the first time this season, overwhelming Woori Bank, the regular league winner last season, in the opening game. However, in the next game, the match against Shinhan Bank, it seemed to collapse on its own in the third quarter as bad plays in previous years came out.
Ahead of the match between the 'all or all' and the 'BNK Finance 2025-2026 Women's Professional Basketball' held at Yongin Indoor Gymnasium on the 24th, head coach Lee said, `I still don't know where to set the standard," he said with a smile. Then "Unlike male farmers, there seem to be so many things to pay attention to. The rudeness is still there. I think I'll have to go through the first or second rounds." Like the players, I have to adapt by fixing it, but first of all, I have to actively use veteran Kim Jong-un from the first half, not from the second half, to maintain balance. You want it", signaling a different change from the previous two games.
In the end, Hana Bank won its second victory of the season with its inconsistent performance thanks to two veterans, Iijima Saki and Kim Jong-un, who took the center stage in offense and defense. Young players actively led the victory with a strong pressure defense and active participation in rebounds. It is expected that they will be out of the lower end of their lives and fight in the middle enough.
Psaki, who led BNK Thumb to its first championship since its foundation with a seasoned defense last season, exploded in attack as expected by the team at Hana Bank. After the start of the first quarter, he was responsible for six points by himself and scored 14 points by himself in the first quarter alone, making two three-pointers. Kim Jong-un, who was put in the second quarter, defended effectively enough to tie Bae Hye-yoon, Samsung Life's main scorer, to scoreless, and in the meantime, Hana Bank came from behind 38-32 to finish the first half.
In the third quarter, Hana Bank, which continued to induce the opponent's errors with a full-fledged coercive defense with physical strength, only allowed Samsung Life Scorer Lee Hae-ran to score two field goals and thoroughly blocked other players, and the attack was led by Saki and Jinan, and effectively won the game by running to 56-42 at the end of the quarter.
Samsung Life followed 51-64 with about five minutes left in the game, but the outside shot was rarely made and it was no longer possible to chase. Psaki scored as many as 34 points, including six three-pointers alone, leading his team to a 76-64 victory. Of course, it's your WKBL career high record.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
