Park Ji-soo dominates the scoring with 17 points and 15 rebounds
Cheongju KB, a women’s professional basketball team, opened the first playoff game with a strong win.
KB, ranked 1st in the regular league, easily defeated Bucheon Hana One Q,
ranked 4th in the regular league, 69-51 in the first game of the Woori Bank Woori WON 2023-2024 Women’s Professional Basketball Semifinals Playoff (3 wins out of 5)
held at Cheongju Gymnasium on the 9th. 바카라사이트
Hana One Q
Park Ji-soo showed her skills unchanged from the regular season with 17 points and 15 rebounds,
and Heo Ye-eun revitalized KB’s attack with 15 points, including three 3-point shots.
In the history of women’s professional basketball,
the probability that the team that won the first round of the playoffs would advance to the championship game was 85.7%.
KB won its first eight playoff games and advanced to the championship game six times.
The second game will be held at the same Cheongju Gymnasium on the 11th.
KB had an overwhelming advantage over Hana One Q by winning all 6 games in the regular league this season,
but struggled because their long-distance guns did not explode.
Cheongju KB
KB threw 22 3-point shots in the first half and failed to score a single one.
Hana One Q defeated KB 23-24 in the first half with its players scoring evenly,
with veteran Kim Jeong-eun (15 points) scoring 7 points, Yang In-young (9 points) scoring 5 points,
and Shin Ji-hyun (9 points) scoring 4 points.
KB began to take control of the game in the third quarter with 3-point shots from Kim Ye-jin and Heo Ye-eun.
With about a minute left until the end of the quarter,
Kang I-seul and Kim Ye-jin hit 3-point shots again, increasing KB’s lead to 49-35, 14 points.
Hana One Q showed its will to turn the tables by trailing by 10 points, 46-56,
with Kim Jong-un’s 3-point shot 6 minutes and 31 seconds before the end of the fourth quarter.
However, Ji-Soo Park responded with an additional free throw following the goal in the ensuing attack,
and KB did not allow the game to get within 10 points after that.
When the score widened again to 63-49 with about 2 minutes left,
Cheongju KB called Park Ji-su and Kang I-seul to the bench to prepare for the second game.