KB Insurance, led by coach Hu In-jeong, will play against OK Financial Group in the third round of the men’s Dodram 2023-24 V-League at Uijeongbu Indoor Gymnasium on the 6th.
KB Insurance is on the decline early in the season. During its 13 matches, it had only one win and 12 losses on seven points. Since its victory over KEPCO on Oct. 17, the first game of this season, it has been mired in a 12-game losing streak. It has had no win for 50 days.
It was expected that Na Kyung-bok and Hwang Taek-ui would leave the team for a while to solve the military problem, and that native ace Hwang Kyung-min would struggle to some extent at the beginning of the season due to a rib injury, but no one expected it to be this long.
He was completely defeated 0-3 in the match against KEPCO on the 2nd, marking the team’s most consecutive losses and 12 consecutive losses in the 2019-20 season.
At that time, Andres Villena (registered name Villena) scored 16 points by fighting an IV, but there were 22 errors, and the lack of presence of middle blocker players, who had been pointed out as a problem since the opening of the Asian quarter, Rio Hongmin, came as a regret. 토토사이트 추천
Coach Hu In-jeong said after the KEPCO match, “I understand the will of the players, but since we are athletes, we have to show our bodies. We can do it with words. We must not show with our bodies. I understand you are trying hard, but you cannot see it through actions. If you have a good performance like the KEPCO match, it will not be easy in the future.”
The rival OK Financial Group met twice this season and lost all of them. The rival team lost 2-3 in the first round and 1-3 in the second round.
In their second round showdowns, they failed to display diverse set plays by the rival team at all. They gave double-digit scores to as many as four players as Shin Ho-jin, Leonardo Leiva Martinez (registered Leo), Song Hee-chae, 14 and Bayarsai Batsu (registered Bayarsaihan) 10. They also had a high success rate. Leo only recorded 48 percent, while all three players recorded more than 57 percent.
On the other hand, KB Insurance was also active at the time with 30 points and a 58 percent attack success rate, but it was disappointing to support the team. Hong Sang-hyuk fought hard with 14 points, but Liu Hong-min, who always showed a 2 percent disappointment, only had a 3 points-success rate of 33 percent, and the receiving efficiency was also 33 percent.
Villena has displayed 100 percent, or 200 percent, on the court. It is a set with a success rate of 51.09% in 13 games. It has 0.264 serves per set of 0.642 blocks. It ranks second in score-blocking, sixth in serve, and ninth in attack success rate, among other indicators. However, Villena cannot lead the team to victory alone. Korea desperately needs to support its domestic players.
Even if Na Kyung-bok and Hwang Taek-ui are focusing on next year’s season, the number of consecutive losses and rankings that disappoint KB fans. No matter how hard they do, they should get the victory through the game and prepare an opportunity to change the mood.
Will KB Insurance be able to avoid losing 13 straight games? If it loses on the day, it will rank seventh in the V-League (the 13th consecutive loss in the 2011-12 season) along with the most consecutive loss by a team. For reference, the record of No. 1 in consecutive losses is 25 consecutive losses by KEEPCO in the 2012-13 season.