Professional basketball Seoul SK defeated Ulsan Hyundai Mobis and extended their winning streak to 15 games.
SK defeated Hyundai Mobis 76-70 in the away match of the 2021-2022 KGC Ginseng Corporation Cheong Kwan Jang professional basketball regular league held at Dongcheon Gymnasium in Ulsan on the 15th.
On December 29 last year, SK, who had forgotten how to lose in the 15th game following a month and a half since the match once morest Daegu Korea Gas Corporation, sprinted to the lead with 33 wins and 8 losses.
The 15-game winning streak is the same as SBS’s record for the longest winning streak in professional basketball history from February to March 2005.
On the 17th, SK’s win-myeon once morest Samsung in Gyeonggi-do is on par with the record for the most consecutive wins in a single season and the second most consecutive wins in the 2011-2012 season Dongbu (current DB) held.
Regardless of a single season, the KBL record for most consecutive wins is 17 wins set by Hyundai Mobis from February to October 2013, and SK has only two wins left.
Hyundai Mobis maintained third place with 26 wins and 18 losses.
SK took the lead while both teams were in chaos as several players were absent due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19).
Leading the first quarter 18-16, SK widened the gap by scoring consecutively with Jun-yong Choi’s 3-point shot, Oh Jae-hyun’s 2-point shot, and Choi Jun-yong’s free throw in the middle of the second quarter, 29-28.
At the end of the first half, Oh Jae-hyeon’s 3-point buzzer made it 41-30.
In the middle of the third quarter, Hyundai Mobis’ outer cannon exploded and the game became a close battle.
Hyundai Mobis turned the tide 49-47 with 4 minutes and 6 seconds left in the third quarter, thanks to Shin Min-seok’s 3-point shot and Shin Se-jin’s steal, and Lee Hyun-min’s 3-point scoring.
However, SK finished the third quarter with a 57-51 lead once more thanks to Lee Hyun-suk’s three points and Choi Bu-kyung’s free throws in 51-51.
In the early 4th quarter, SK met a variable where Choi Jun-yong stepped on the opponent’s foot on the landing following the shot and broke his ankle, so he might not run further, but Jamil Warney, Lee Hyun-seok, and Ahn Young-joon held up well and did not miss the lead until the end.
Warney scored 20 points and 17 rebounds, Ahn Young-jun scored 17 points, and Lee Hyun-suk added 10 points.
In Hyundai Mobis, Seong-jin Seo was 16 points and 5 assists and Eric Buckner was 12 points and 12 rebounds.
At the Jamsil Indoor Gymnasium in Seoul, Korea Gas Corporation achieved a 95-93 victory over Samsung.
Korea Gas Corporation, which escaped from two consecutive losses, maintained 8th place with 18 wins and 24 losses, and Samsung, which fell into a swamp of 9 consecutive losses, stayed in the bottom 10th place (7 wins and 32 losses).
Nak-hyun Kim’s layup score 4 seconds before the end of the match, which was 93-93 in a tight flow, leading to the victory of KOGAS.
Andrew Nicholson scored 26 points and 13 rebounds, Kim Nak-hyun scored 24 points and 8 assists, and Lee Dae-heon also contributed 19 points and 7 rebounds to the victory.
For Samsung, Kim Dong-ryang scored 18 points, Kim Hyeon-su scored 17 points, and Thomas Robinson (16 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists) played a close to a triple double, but it did not lead to an escape from a losing streak.
On the other hand, the match between Anyang KGC Ginseng Corporation and Suwon KT, which was scheduled to be held at Anyang Gymnasium on the same day, was postponed due to the outbreak of Corona 19 in both teams.
With 5 additional confirmed cases from KT and 3 from Ginseng Corporation, the number of people missing from both teams increased to eight.