KCC is "Slow" on the first come of the championship
The two teams' semifinal POs are tightly contested with two wins and two losses as LG takes the first and third games and KT takes the second and fourth games.
Looking at the flow until Game 4, LG, which had the lead in Game 1, expected to be advantageous in Game 2 held at home, but KT changed the atmosphere with a great victory by 20 points in Game 2, and on the contrary, in Game 3, KT took the lead throughout the game, but LG, which was chasing at the end of the fourth quarter, won with Yoon Won-sang's three-point turnaround.
In the fourth game, KT's main gun Paris Bath, who was on the brink of the cliff, committed three fouls in the first quarter alone, and the atmosphere seemed to shift to LG, but eventually, KT won 89-80, which is likely to lead to an unpredictable neck-and-neck race in the fifth game.
LG Yang Hong-seok and KT Huh Hoon, who were relatively quiet in the first and third games, scored 18 points side by side in the fourth game, raising expectations for the fifth game.
KT manager Song Young-jin said, "He hurt his ankle a little in Game 4, and he will show good performance in Game 5 because he is a player who has a greater passion to win than an injury." LG manager Cho Sang-hyun said, "Jeong Hee-jae has a back discomfort, but we need to use him as much as possible to ease the burden on Yang Hong-seok's Paris Bath defense."
On the other hand, LG Lee Jae-do and kt are somewhat disappointed with Moon Sung-gon's performance in Game 4.
Lee Jae-do made only 1 out of 9 three-point shots, and Moon Sung-gon, who drove in 8 three-point shots in the 2nd and 3rd games, scored no goals in the 4th game.
Coach Cho Sang-hyun expected Lee Jae-do, "Because he is a big player, he will play more responsibly in Game 5."
Although Moon Sung-gon's main task is to do bad things such as defense, he needs to revitalize the outside like in the 2nd and 3rd games so that kt can play a much more comfortable game.
Another important variable is how LG Dante Cunningham and kt Michael Eric, who are foreign players of "Option 2", fill up for about 10 minutes.
Busan KCC, ranked fifth in the championship game first, is relatively relaxed while LG, ranked second in the regular league, and kt, ranked third, are in a "blood fight" in Game 5.
KCC, which confirmed its advance to the championship game on the 21st, earned relatively more time until the first round of the championship game on the 27th, but LG and KT have to rest only two days on the 25th and 26th regardless of who goes up, and play in the first round as a daytime game on the 27th.
In professional basketball, which was launched in 1997, there have been eight cases in which the semifinals have been completed until the fifth game, and three of them have also won the championship game. 토토사이트 순위
However, in the 2001-2002 season, both semifinal matchups went to Game 5, so it can be said that two out of seven (28.6%) actually won the championship over the disadvantage of Game 5.
In the 2008-2009 season, KCC reached the top after a physical battle in which it played all six and four rounds until Game 5 and even the final seven rounds of the championship game, and in the 2002-2003 season, TG also played Game 5 of the semifinals and defeated Dongyang, who was in the semifinals first with three wins.
Dongbu in the 2014-2015 season, Samsung in the 2016-2017 season, and KCC in the 2020-2021 season, which are the last three cases of Game 5 of the semifinals, were all runners-up in the championship game. Among them, Dongbu and KCC lost 0-4 in the championship game.