SK Escapes Successive Losses, Coach Jeon Hee-chul Wins At least 100 Games
LG beat Korea Gas Corporation to win after 3 consecutive losses
Professional basketball team Ulsan Hyundai Mobis has won three consecutive games and created a foothold to rise to the top.
Hyundai Mobis won 94-77 against Busan KCC in the 2023-2024 professional basketball regular league home game held at Dongcheon Gymnasium in Ulsan on the 10th.
Gage Prim scored 25 points and Park Moo-bin and Lee Woo-suk added 13 points each, Hyundai Mobis maintained its sixth place without a win with KCC (21-17).
Hyundai Mobis, which won one game after four losses in the season's showdown with KCC, also caught up with fourth-place Changwon LG (25 wins and 16 losses) by 2.5 games, igniting a mid-range fight. 스포츠토토
With this victory, Hyundai Mobis also achieved a victory against the entire team this season.
Hyundai Mobis, which finished the third quarter 65-60 in the fourth quarter, widened the gap with Prim's consecutive under-the-goal scores in the fourth quarter, and beat KCC's willingness to chase by making it 83-63 with Park Moo-bin's layup.
KCC showed an inferiority of 30-47 in the rebound fight, and even ahead of the first quarter, it later handed over the lead to Hyundai Mobis.
Hyundai Mobis will meet KCC again in an away game in Busan on the 12th to seek a leap forward in the top ranks.
Seoul SK ended its long losing streak and presented Jeon Hee-chul with at least 100 wins in games.
SK defeated Anyang Jeonggwanjang 84-72 with Jamil Warney (22 points, 9 rebounds) and Heo Il-young (17 points) in a game held at Jamsil Student Gymnasium.
Oh Jae-hyun scored 16 points and Oh Se-geun also scored 13 points to help him win.
Coach Jeon Hee-chul of third-ranked SK (24 wins and 15 losses), who won after five consecutive losses, achieved 100 wins in 147 games after becoming the head coach in the 2021-2022 season, breaking the previous minimum game records of Shin Sun-woo and Kang Dong-hee (151 games).
SK, which lost to Chung Kwan-jang in the championship game last season and handed over the trophy, won all five games in this season's showdown.
Jeonggwanjang was unable to escape the slump of 13 consecutive away games along with five consecutive losses.
The two teams, which were in urgent need of escaping consecutive losses, were hit hard from the first half.
In SK, Warney and Heo Il-young led the scoring, and Chung Kwan-jang countered with eight three-point shots in the first half alone.
SK, which was superior under the basket, finished the second quarter with a 49-45 lead, and in the third quarter, the gap widened by tying Jeong Kwan-jang's score to 10 points through pressure defense.
SK, which entered the fourth quarter with a 69-55 lead, scored consecutive points by Heo Il-young, Warney, and Oh Jae-hyun, and ran away 82-65 with 5:50 left.
Although Jamil Wilson fought hard with 23 points, Jeonggwanjang failed to find a clue to the chase by making 21 turnovers.
Changwon LG beat Daegu Korea Gas Corporation in an away game at Daegu Gymnasium to win 87-80.
LG, which recently lost two consecutive games to Korea Gas Corporation, led the team with 3 wins and 2 losses in the season's showdown, broke its third consecutive loss and secured a victory.
Josh Ibarra led the victory with 16 points and Lee Kwan-hee and Justin Gutang scored 14 points each.
LG took a 50-35 lead in the first half with eight players, including Josh Ibarra, taking turns to score.
Korea Gas Corporation, which is chasing, threatened LG at the end of the fourth quarter by chasing Kim Nak-hyun's two three-point shots to 80-85, five points difference.
LG, which launched the attack with 29 seconds left, scored two points with Gutang's reverse layup to seal the chase of Korea Gas Corporation.
