KB vs Hana One Q, Women's Basketball PO Game 1 clash on the 9th
Can Woori Bank overcome Samsung Life's 'PO jinx'
Spring Basketball in the 2023-2024 season will kick off on the 9th.
The match between Cheongju KB and Bucheon Hana One Q in the first round of the women's professional basketball semifinal playoff (three wins in five games) will be held at Cheongju Gymnasium in Chungcheongbuk-do at 6 p.m. on the 9th.
KB finished this season's regular league with 27 wins and 3 losses and a 90% win rate, and won all games at home.
On the other hand, Hana One-Q was the only team among the four teams to reach the playoffs with 10 wins and 20 losses, below the 50% winning rate.
KB also overwhelmed the regular league opponent with all six wins.
Based on these indicators, I wonder if Hana OneQ will win once, and there seems to be nothing particularly entangled between the two teams, but there has been a "relenting evil relationship" between the two teams recently.
First of all, KB coach Kim Wan-soo and star shooter Kang Yi-seul will face "friendly" in this playoff.
Kang Yi-seul, a key resource of Hana One Q, became a free agent in April 2021 and changed to KB uniform.
In addition, about 10 days before Kang Yi-seul moved to KB, head coach Kim Wan-soo, who was a Hana One-Q coach, was appointed as KB's head coach and also moved the team.
Coach Kim Wan-soo and Kang Yi-seul, who were in Hana One Q with a short time difference, seem to have moved to KB together.
It must be a bad memory for Hana One-Q, who made an all-out war to remain in Gangseul at the time.
Even at the end of the 2022-2023 season, Kim Ye-jin, who topped the steel at the time, became an FA and moved to KB.
If you go back a little more time, you can't miss the 2015-2016 season playoffs.
At that time, Hana One Q ranked second in the regular league and KB ranked third, so they faced off in the playoffs.
Hana One-Q won the playoffs with two wins and one loss at the time, which was two wins out of three games, and advanced to the championship game.
However, as Chelsea Lee, who played for Hana One Q this season, was later found to be a fraudulent player, all of Hana One Q's performances in that season were invalidated.
However, because the championship game was already over, KB was eliminated from the playoffs.
In particular, the current Busan BNK coach Byun Yeon-ha, who was KB's flagship player at this time, retired after the playoffs, which was even more regrettable.
Of course, most of the team's members have changed since then, but KB's current power analysis team leader Jung Mi-ran missed his shot just before the end of the game, one point behind in the third playoff game at the time, confirming Hana OneQ's advance to the championship game.
Hana One Q veteran Kim Jong-un also tasted the joy of beating KB and advancing to the first championship game in his life while playing in the playoffs at the time, but it led to a futile situation where the record was later canceled.
Woori Bank's "Playoff Samsung Life Jinx" is the point to watch in the game between Asan Woori Bank, the second-ranked team in the regular league, and Samsung Life Insurance, the third-ranked team in Yongin, where the first game will be held on the 10th.
When the two teams meet in the playoffs, Samsung Life's record of 11 wins and 5 losses is superior.
In both the 2018-2019 season and the 2020-2021 season, when Woori Bank's power was stronger, Samsung Life Insurance won the second and third games after losing the first game and advanced to the championship game.
The latest case in which Woori Bank beat Samsung Life Insurance in the playoffs to go to the Champions League was the summer league in 2005, 19 years ago.
Woori Bank's Kim Dan-bi said in a media day on the 5th, "This is the result of when I was not at Woori Bank," vowing to win a must-win, saying, "I will show the superiority against Samsung Life in the playoffs in the future." 토토사이트