Changwon LG defeated Seoul SK and entered the sole 2nd place. LG Lee Kwan-hee scored 20 points and defeated SK, which had a dark color for attack, with offensive power.
LG beat SK 94-84 in the 2022-23 professional basketball regular league expedition held at Jamsil Student Gymnasium on the 12th. 2nd place LG made 27-14, beating 3rd place SK (23-17) by 3 and a half games.
During the game the previous day, SK’s main gun Choi Jun-yong injured his left heel and missed the match against LG. If Choi Jun-yong is missing, he will not be able to maintain an advantage in the matchup with the opponent, and one axis of the attack will be missing. SK coach Jeon Hee-chul put Choi Won-hyeok, Choi Seong-won, and Choi Bu-kyung in the starting lineup to focus on defense, while Jamil Werney (37 points) drove the offense.
However, this rather resulted in LG, which has a variety of attack routes and is good at fast attacks, flying far. Asem Marey, a foreign player from LG, was not psychologically stimulated or shaken even though Warney, his matchup opponent, succeeded in successive attacks. Marey showed a triple-double performance with 20 points, 20 rebounds and 7 assists.
The LG attack was led by Lee Kwan-hee. Lee Kwan-hee, who is good at 2-on-2 play with guard Lee Jae-do, poured 11 points from the first quarter and stood at the forefront of the attack.
From the beginning, Lee Kwan-hee made a unique ‘watch ceremony’ by pointing his right hand finger at his left wrist. Lee Gwan-hee, whose unstoppable interviews and ceremonies are his trademark, said, “I usually don’t go well as a starter, but I thought there must be a reason why the coach put me in from the beginning. He laughed, saying, “I had a ceremony from the beginning with the mindset of overpowering the steamer.”
Lee Kwan-hee said, “My watch is a Rolex. Since I am a luxury brand, I am holding a watch ceremony that suits me.” Even when SK came close to him in the second half of the 4th quarter, he did not waver and took his time with a clap ceremony.
SK was pulled to 69-82 by the middle of the 4th quarter, but Kim Seon-hyeong (17 points) scored 3 points and got an opponent foul following a breakout, making 3-point plays in a row and chasing close to 80-84 4 minutes and 36 seconds before the end. . At this time, when Lee Kwan-hee got a free throw one-shot due to SK’s bench technical foul, he clapped and celebrated, and calmly made the shot.
Since then, SK has been unable to continue its upward trend due to a series of turnovers and 3-point failures, and LG has kept its lead to the end with Lee Jae-do scoring 8 points in the 4th quarter alone.
Regarding Lee Kwan-hee, head coach Jo Sang-hyun said, “During the off-season, Lee Gwan-hee was rigged and trained to the point of harshness. He’s a very unique guy, but I don’t have anything more to say because he takes good care of himself and is doing well on the court. He said that the reason the team is doing well is thanks to Lee Kwan-hee and other players following well.”
Lee Kwan-hee said, “I thought that today’s match was the actual match for second place, and I played with a different mindset. Preparing early in the morning ahead of SK seems to have been a factor in winning.”
Meanwhile, Suwon KT beat Jeonju KCC 86-73 at home. KT’s Yang Hong-seok (20 points, 7 assists) and Ha Yoon-gi (20 points, 5 rebounds) combined for 40 points. KT defeated KCC that day and achieved victory against all teams. KCC was diagnosed with a season out due to Heo Woong’s ankle injury during the game on the 9th, and Hollis Jefferson, who had a controversy over sabotage, was dismissed from the team. 슬롯사이트
