Most of the team’s 22 points exploded, extended ‘Pearl Pearl’… “Even if I didn’t go in, I kept trying to shoot.”
“I also played for the national team for a long time, but it was the first time I had an evaluation game in Korea.
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Park Hye-jin (32, Woori Bank), who led the team to victory in the second leg once morest Latvia by driving five points only in extra time, expressed her feelings following completing the first evaluation match between national teams in Korea.
South Korea won the second leg of the 2022 women’s basketball national evaluation match between Latvia and KB Kookmin Bank invited by KB Kookmin Bank at the Cheongju Gymnasium in North Chungcheong Province on the 20th, 71-66 following overtime.
The national team, which had won by one point by a 56-55 in the first match the day before, ended this evaluation match with a straight win following a close battle.
After the match, Park Hye-jin said to the broadcast crew, “This is the first domestic evaluation game, so I was very nervous.
I feel a lot of pressure because I want to show a good side of myself (to domestic fans), so I think my body was stiff yesterday.”
“Today was better than yesterday,” he said.
Still, I have a lot of homework before I go to the FIBA World Cup,” he said.
The Korea Basketball Association promoted two evaluation matches between Latvia and the national team to prepare for the FIBA Women’s World Cup to be held in Sydney, Australia next month.
This is the first evaluation match between national teams held in Korea in women’s basketball history.
In the World Cup, with the United States (1st), Belgium (5th), China (7th), Puerto Rico (17th) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (26th) in Group A, for Korea, Latvia with many tall players is a good ‘sparring’. ‘I was expecting it to be a match.
In fact, while feeling “lower in height” by giving out 12 more rebounds that day, Hye-Jin Park exploded the team’s highest score of 22 points, leading to the home victory.
In particular, the concentration shined on the winning side.
34 seconds before the end of the 4th quarter, Park Ji-hyeon slipped through the defensive gap and a difficult shot came out.
With this goal, the national team seemed to have won the game, but the national team took three points from Jacobsone in Japan just before the end of the quarter and allowed the score to tie 64-64.
Looking back at this scene, Park Hye-jin said, “I don’t know who the matchup is, but player 16 (Jacob Sone) became alone (without a mark).
I reached out to the end and it felt like I was going in.”
“Honestly, that scene is the most memorable for me right now,” he said regretfully.
With this disappointment behind, Park Hye-jin flew away from the extension.
Park Hye-jin, who succeeded in daring three points from two steps behind the three-point line, calmly succeeded in all free throws, making the game 71-66.
Park Hye-jin, who had only tried two 3-pointers the day before, showed a sense of high-sensitivity shooting that puts 4 out of 6 3-points and 6 free throws on this day.
Park Hye-jin said, “I was a little depressed and upset because I didn’t feel good when I was practicing these days.”
Then I looked back, “I think I entered at an important moment because I kept trying to shoot even if I didn’t go in.”
Park Hye-jin said, “All the players are aware that Park Ji-soo’s vacancy is large.
“I’m doing my best to fill that one person’s share in the gym,” he said.
Please support me,” he said.
/yunhap news
