The defeat was simple. It’s crazy basketball, but it didn’t work.
Seoul SK is a team that relies heavily on Jamil Warney and Kim Seon-hyung’s one-two punch. The two jointly scored 44 points per game in 6 games of the 2022-2023 SKT Adot Pro Basketball Playoffs (6th-4th rounds). In the first leg of the championship match (final) held on the 25th, Warney scored 23 points and 10 rebounds, and Kim Sun-hyung scored 22 points and 12 assists. The two of them were responsible for 45 of the team’s 77 points.
In the second match that took place at Anyang Gymnasium on the 27th, SK couldn’t be bothered. After losing the first game at home, KGC changed their defense. In the first game, KGC coach Kim Sang-shik decided that he could not completely block Kim Seon-hyung and Warney, so he focused on defending other players. The cost of blocking the league’s best one-two punch was clear. Kim Seon-hyung and Warney played 2-2 to the point where they wanted to be terrible, and KGC’s defense was confused.
Coach Kim Sang-shik, who acknowledged the failure of the defensive strategy in the first game, focused on the Warney-Kim Sun-hyung defense. Moon Seong-gon, the best defender in the league, was assigned to Kim Seon-hyung. In addition, Kim Seon-hyeong broke through to the right and added speed to prevent him from finishing the score with a floater and layup shot. Moon Seong-gon blocked Kim Seon-hyung’s right side and drove him to break through the left side. Also, even if he broke through to the left, the defender in the corner did not give space for a floater because he was assisting with the paint zone.
The defense against Warney was the same. In Game 1, Warney caught the ball at the high post and sped up the attack to enter the paint zone, but KGC narrowed the defense to the inside in Game 2 to block entry into the paint zone itself. Warney threw the floater, which is a long-term skill, but the success rate dropped sharply as the distance increased. 크크크벳 In the second game, Warney’s field goal rate was 22% (4/17).
Both Kim Seon-hyung and Warney couldn’t find a rhythm they liked. SK placed a shooter in the left corner or at a 45 degree angle to receive a kickout pass from Kim Seon-hyung, but the 3-point shot failed. KGC did not have to widen the defense that had been narrowed to the inside because the outside shot did not explode. As time passed, Kim Sun-hyung and Warnie got tired.
Kim Seon-hyung scored 10 points and Warney only 9 points. SK’s low score was a natural result as the two players who had scored more than 40 points per game fell short of 20 points. You couldn’t beat KGC with a score in the 60s. Losing 67-81, SK moved the stage from the third game to its home, the Jamsil Student Gymnasium, to avenge itself.