No. 1 DB in the regular league vs. Rising KCC. Director Jeon Chang-jin and Kim Joo-sung 'Confrontation of the Priest'
Professional basketball Busan KCC's "Spring Basketball" momentum is fierce.
KCC won 97-77 at home against Seoul SK in the third round of the 2023-2024 professional basketball semifinal playoff PO·Three wins out of five games held in Busan on the 8th.
KCC, which easily passed the semifinals with three consecutive wins, will also play a semifinal playoff of three wins in five games against Wonju DB, the No. 1 player in the regular league, on the 15th.
KCC, which was called a "super team" even before the opening by building a brilliant lineup including Heo Woong, Choi Jun-yong, Lee Seung-hyun, Song Kyo-chang, and Ra Gun-ah, remained in fifth place with 30 wins and 24 losses in the regular league, but has completely changed from the playoff of the sixth round.
After winning 81-63 in the first game and 99-72 in the second game against SK 31 wins and 23 losses in the fourth place in the regular league, all three games were completely won by around 20 points until the third game.
KCC, who earned a week's break until the first round of the semifinal playoff, will face off in a situation where it is not far behind DB 41-13 wins in terms of physical strength.
In the professional basketball playoffs so far, the fifth-ranked team in the regular league has never played in the championship game.
The overall record of the semifinal playoffs of the 4th and 5th places was 14-13, slightly ahead of the 4th-place team, but it was a tight result, while the 4th-place team, which went through the 1st and 6th-place teams in the regular league, was 24-2 with the 1st-place team showing an overwhelming advantage.
The fourth-place team in the regular league beat the first-place team twice in the semifinals, but the fifth-place team met the first-place team and lost all 12 games.
The first place in the regular league was eliminated from the semifinals twice, including Ulsan Mobis currently Ulsan Hyundai Mobis in the 2008-2009 season and Busan KT currently Suwon KT in the 2010-2011 season.
However, as KCC, ranked fifth this year, was a strong candidate for the championship before the season's opening, it is expected that KCC, which has regained its "Super Team" true colors, will also be a threat to the DB.
DB showed an overwhelming advantage against KCC in this season's regular league, with domestic big men Kim Jong-kyu and Kang Sang-jae in regular league MVP Lee Sun-Bano and foreign player award-winning Didrick Lawson.
KCC is expected to have an interesting match as Choi Jun-yong, who was hired as a free agent FA ahead of this season, was revived in the semi-finals PO, and Calvin Jeffrey Epistola, an Asian quarter player, is also on the rise from the semi-finals.
In particular, DB coach Kim Joo-sung and KCC coach Jeon Chang-jin worked together as coaches and players when coach Kim Joo-sung was active.
The last time DB won the championship game was in the 2007-2008 season when it was in the former East, when the head coach of the East was Jeon Chang-jin, and the MVP of the championship game was Kim Joo-sung.
Coach Jeon Chang-jin, who was called the "Chiaksan Tiger" when he was at the helm in the east of TG Sambo, the predecessor of DB based in Wonju, will face "Friendship" in the postseason for the first time in 13 years since the 2010-2011 season when he was KT coach. 토토사이트
In the semifinal PO of the 2010-2011 season, KT, led by head coach Jeon Chang-jin, was the first in the regular league, but lost to Dongbu, the fourth-place team, and was eliminated.
The first round of the semifinal PO between the two teams will be held at Wonju Gymnasium in Gangwon-do at 7 p.m. on the 15th.