Pro basketball team Changwon LG won 5 consecutive wins against Daegu Korea Gas Corporation, continuing their dream of winning the regular league championship 9 years after the 2013-2014 KBL regular league.
LG defeated Korea Gas Corporation 108-102 after a close match in the 2022-2023 SKT A-Dot Pro Basketball regular league away game held at the Daegu Gymnasium on the 8th.
Asem Marey led LG to victory with 27 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists. Jeong In-deok added a lot of strength with 14 points, including 4 3-point shots.
With this, LG, who was unable to continue its upward trend after winning 4 consecutive victories, lost 64-87 in an away game against Jeonju KCC on the 5th, and immediately recovered its mood.
LG, who became 25-14, narrowed the ride with the leader Anyang KGC Ginseng Corporation (28-11) to 3 games.
In third place, Ulsan Hyundai Mobis (23 wins, 16 losses) widened a gap by two games.
As a result, LG went beyond advancing to ‘Spring Basketball’ in 4 years and continued its dream of winning the regular league championship 9 years after the 2013-2014 KBL regular league and winning the first championship match ever.
LG ranked 3rd in the 2018-2019 regular league and advanced to the playoffs in the round of 6, but over the next 3 years, they placed 9th (16-26), 10th (19-35), and 7th (24-30) failed to advance to ‘Spring Basketball’ for three consecutive years.
On this day, LG reaffirmed that it was a ‘natural enemy’ by singing victory songs in all five confrontations with Korea Gas Corporation this season. 메이저사이트
Even last year, the first season of Korea Gas Corporation’s KBL, LG had the upper hand with 4 wins and 2 losses.
The 9th place Korea Gas Corporation recently fell into a 6-game losing streak and became 13-25.
Murphy Holloway contributed 21 points and 9 rebounds, Lee Dae-seong scored 19 points and 7 assists, and Jung Hyo-geun scored 16 points, but the team’s losing streak could not be broken.
In the first half, KOGAS narrowly led by 50-49, and in the third quarter, the seesaw game continued as the outer guns of both teams spewed fire.
When KOGAS turned around with Chabawi’s successive 3-pointers and tried to run away, LG also turned the tide of the game again with Jung Hee-jae’s response with a 3-point shot.
In the third quarter alone, KOGAS scored four three-pointers, but LG scored six three-pointers, more than the sum of the first and second quarters (four), widening the score little by little.
Starting the fourth quarter with an 82-74 lead, LG ran away with a 94-84 lead with a series of 3-point shots by Jung In-deok, who received a pass from Marey in the middle of the quarter.
Korea Gas Corporation followed Hyo-Keun Jeong’s 3 points and Lee Dae-Heon and Lee Dae-Sung’s points, leading to a 3-point gap, but LG regained 101-93 with Marey’s offensive rebound followed by a dunk and Jeong In-deok’s decisive 3-pointer 1 minute and 34 seconds before the end. ran away
Korea Gas Corporation, desperate to escape from the losing streak, pursued again to 97-101 with 47.4 seconds remaining with Jeong Hyo-keun’s 3-point shot and Lee Dae-sung’s steal followed by Holloway’s goal.
With 17.9 seconds left, LG was beaten by Jeong Hyo-geun for 3 points and was chased by 104-102. However, after Jeong Hyo-geun’s additional free throw was missed, he won the rebound, and then Lee Jae-do’s foul free throw shook off the opponent’s pursuit.
