PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL KT DEFEATS LAST-PLACE SAMSUNG AND WINS 7 GAMES IN A ROW... HEO HOON SCORED 11 POINTS IN HIS RETURN MATCH
KT wins 106-86 over Samsung... ‘National team big man' Ha Yoon-ki also defeated KCC by 14 points, leading the DB with 21 points… Lawson exploded with 32 points and 14 rebounds
Suwon KT, a professional basketball team, won 7 consecutive games by defeating Seoul Samsung in the first game after the national team call-up break.
KT defeated Samsung 106-86 in the 2023-2024 CheongKwanJang Professional Basketball Regular League away game held at Jamsil Indoor Stadium in Seoul on the 29th.
Second-place KT, which recorded its 29th win (13 losses), widened the gap with third-place Changwon LG (26 wins, 17 losses) to three and a half games, raising expectations for advancing to the semifinals of the playoffs (PO).
This is a total win in the 7 games played this month. 카지노사이트
The 1st and 2nd place teams in the professional basketball regular league skip the 6th round PO and go straight to the 4th round PO.
On the other hand, Samsung, which had been doing well with 4 wins and 2 losses in the last 6 games, suffered a complete loss from the first game held at home after the break and its upward trend slowed.
Samsung, with 9 wins and 34 losses, will suffer the disgrace of being in last place for three consecutive years if things continue this way.
In professional basketball, which was launched in 1997, no team has yet fallen to the bottom for three consecutive seasons.
The gap with Anyang Cheonggwanjang (13 wins, 30 losses), which fell to 9th place after 9 consecutive losses, is 4 games.
In KT, Heo Hoon, who injured his leg muscle against Wonju DB on the 8th of last month, announced his return by scoring 11 points.
Heo Hoon, who stepped on the court 37 seconds before the end of the first quarter with a 31-21 lead, easily scored 3 points in the early part of the second quarter, showing that he had completely shaken off the injury.
KT, with national team big man Ha Yoon-gi scoring 12 points through the second quarter, ran away with a 15-point lead, 56-41, at the end of the first half.
Then, about 7 minutes before the end of the third quarter, main gun Paris Bass scored to increase the lead by more than 20 points.
Samsung's large center Kofi Coburn, who is over 210cm tall, fought hard, scoring 21 points in the third and fourth quarters, but the score gap was too large to overturn the game.
KT's Jeong Sung-woo scored 10 points in the fourth quarter alone, putting the game on hold.
Ha Yoon-ki, who posted a double-double with 13 points and 14 rebounds in the 2025 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Asia Cup Preliminary Group A match between Korea and Thailand (96-62 win) held on the 25th, was in full swing on this day as well.
He had 21 points and 9 rebounds.
A total of five players, including Ha Yoon-gi and Heo Hoon, as well as Bass (21 points), Jeong Seong-woo (15 points), and Han Hee-won (10 points), performed evenly, scoring in double digits.
For Samsung, Coburn scored 30 points, the most among both teams, but the light faded in defeat.
Leading DB also defeated Busan KCC with a score of 92-78 on the road and won three games in a row.
DB, with 34 wins and 10 losses, maintained the gap with KT, which was chasing after them, at 4 games.
On the other hand, 6th place KCC (22 wins, 19 losses), which lost 5th place to Ulsan Hyundai Mobis (24 wins, 19 losses), which defeated Cheong Kwan Jang the day before, failed to regain the ranking after consecutive losses.
Leading forward Choi Jun-yong, who left early this month due to injury, returned in the home game, but was unable to match the momentum of the leading DB.
DB's main gun Didrick Lawson led the way to victory with 32 points and 14 rebounds.
Filipino guard Ethan Albano also scored 25 points and 8 assists, defeating the KCC guards on the perimeter.
The national team's big man duo, Kim Jong-gyu (9) and Kang Sang-jae (8), contributed to the fight behind the goal by combining for 17 rebounds.
In KCC, Song Kyo-chang played hard with 17 points and 8 rebounds, but was disappointed as he lost out in the battle with foreign players.
Choi Jun-yong, who made his return, scored only 9 points and 4 rebounds.
He committed 4 errors, and his field goal percentage dropped to 23%.
