Changwon LG, Suwon KT, and Daegu Korea Gas Corporation have never been the main characters of “Spring Basketball.” In the case of Goyang Sono, who played his first season this year, he had the experience of celebrating the victory in the 2001-2002 and 2015-2016 seasons when Orion was the predecessor.
Among the three teams that have a thirst for their first championship, LG and kt will face off in the 2023-2024 Jeonggwanjang Professional Basketball semifinal playoff (PO). There are not many cases where the two teams have advanced to the championship game.
LG reached the championship game in the 2000-2001 and 2013-2014 seasons, but all of them were runner-up, and KT was the only one to play in the championship game in the 2006-2007 season and also finished the season in second place.
However, LG ranked first in the regular league in the 2013-2014 season and KT in the 2010-2011 season. The advantageous side is LG, which went straight to the semifinals playoffs as the second-place team in the regular league (36 wins and 18 losses).
KT (33 wins and 21 losses), ranked third in the regular league, played the sixth-place Ulsan Hyundai Mobis (26 wins and 28 losses) until the fourth game on the 11th, and will start the first round of the semifinals with an away game on the 16th.
In the regular league showdown, LG has recently won four consecutive games, showing a 4-2 lead.
Heo Hoon (kt) and Yang Hong-seok (LG), who played as a “one-two punch” at kt until the 2021-2022 season, will face off on the one-wood bridge this time.
In the 2022-2023 season, Heo Hoon was serving in the military, and after the end of last season, Yang Hong-seok left kt as a free agent and transferred to LG.
Attention is also being paid to how LG will prevent kt Paris Bath, which averaged 29.3 points in four games of the semifinal PO against Hyundai Mobis.
While Bath is a style that crosses the inside and outside, LG’s Asem Maray is a player with a great presence under the basket. 에볼루션 바카라사이트
Another highlight to watch is showdowns between rookies. Fans are paying keen attention to the performances of Moon Jung-hyun (kt) and LG Twins, who were selected as the top three players in the rookie draft in September last year, but became the rookie of the year.
Moon Jung-hyun scored the final three points with 17 seconds left in the first round of the semifinal PO match against Hyundai Mobis.
The Rookie of the Year Award set the record for the most three-point shots (95) by a rookie in the regular league of professional basketball this season.
LG coach Cho Sang-hyun will face KT coach Song Young-jin, who beat his twin brother, Hyundai Mobis coach Cho Dong-hyun, in the round of 6 PO.
Coach Song Young-jin said at the playoff media day, “I will beat the twin coaches and go up to the championship game,” while coach Cho Sang-hyun will stage a “proxy revenge match” for his younger brother who was eliminated.
According to the team’s color, the KT Wiz led by Bath and Hur Hoon scored 86.6 points (third), slightly ahead of LG (5th), which scored 84.0 points, while LG allowed only 76.9 points to rank No. 1 in defense. The KT Wiz ranks fourth with the smallest number of goals lost with 82.7 goals.
In the past PO showdown between the two teams, LG leads with two wins and one loss.
Busan KTF, the predecessor of KT, won the semifinals of the 2006-2007 season, with three wins and one loss, and LG avenged its victory with three wins in the 2013-2014 season. In the 2018-2019 season, LG met in the semifinals and won three wins and two losses.
LG and kt, also called “communication rivals,” will meet LG Twins and kt wiz, who belong to the same sports team, in the Korean Series of professional baseball in November last year and have another pride match in “Spring Basketball” following “Autumn Baseball.”