Professional basketball Samsung defeats Korea Gas Corporation and ends 11 consecutive losses… win in one month
Input 2022.01.07 (20:54)
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Seoul Samsung, a professional basketball team, broke the dreadful 11th straight losing streak by winning the first time in a month.
Samsung defeated Daegu Korea Gas Corporation 85-73 in the 2021-2022 KGC Ginseng Corporation Cheong Kwan Jang professional basketball regular league match held at Jamsil Indoor Gymnasium in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 7th.
With this victory, Samsung, which had recently lost 11 consecutive games, won regarding a month following the win once morest LG in Changwon on December 5 last year.
With 7 wins and 23 losses, Samsung is still in the bottom 10th place. It is 4 games behind Jeonju KCC (10 wins and 18 losses) in ninth place.
Korea Gas Corporation, which had won all three previous matches once morest Samsung this season, recorded 13 wins and 17 losses with the loss on that day, pushing their ranking from joint 7th to 8th.
If they had lost that day, Samsung, which was on the verge of losing 12 consecutive losses for the first time in almost 10 years since December 2011, pushed Korea Gas Corporation with strong fighting spirit from the beginning of the game.
At the end of the first quarter, Kim Hyun-soo’s buzzer beater Kim Hyun-soo took a big lead 29-14, and Samsung escaped by 17 points with a 62-45 score in the middle of the third quarter.
However, from the last minute of the third quarter, Korea Gas Corporation’s counterattack began.
Korea Gas Corporation narrowed the gap in 45-62 with Kyung-Min Doo’s fast attack and Dae-Heon Lee’s middle shot, followed by Kyung-Min Doo with 2-point and 3-point shots in succession, catching up to 56-65.
Afterwards, Du Kyung-min scored two free throws from an opponent’s foul, and the Korea Gas Corporation ended the third quarter with 58-65.
In the first attack in the 4th quarter, Korea Gas Corporation caught up to 65-61 with Shin Seung-min’s three stores, creating a comeback atmosphere, but following that, Samsung widened the score once more and sighed.
Afterwards, Samsung made 70-61 with Kim Dong-ryang’s under-goal goal and Kim Si-rae’s three points, and following that, following Lim Dong-seop’s two goals, Jeon Hyung-jun fired two three-pointers in a row, and 5 minutes and 48 seconds before the end, the score was 78-61.
After Shin Seung-min’s 3-point shot at the beginning of the 4th quarter, Korea Gas Corporation did not score for more than 5 minutes and might not continue their pursuit.
In Samsung, Dong-seop Lim scored the most points in the team with 16 points, and foreign players such as Thomas Robinson (10 points, 10 rebounds) and Daniel O’Shefu (15 points, 11 rebounds) achieved double-doubles side by side.
Jeon Hyung-jun performed a ‘surprise performance’ by scoring 15 points with five 3-pointers.
Korea Gas Corporation, where Andrew Nicholson was absent due to a back injury, lost 29-44 in the rebound fight and lost 5-11 in the 3-point shooter, both inside and outside.
[사진 출처 : 연합뉴스]
