BNK, who is leading the first place, eventually needs to overcome high to win!
Dec 10, 2024
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BNK Sum, the women's professional basketball team, is running alone in first place this season. This is due to internal and external factors, such as actively recruiting proven FA such as Park Hye-jin and Kim Sonia, and weakening the power of KB Stars and Woori Bank, which formed a two-way structure for six seasons, as outstanding stars such as Park Ji-soo and Park Ji-hyun embarked on overseas league challenges.
BNK has a golden opportunity to challenge for the top for the first time since it acquired OK Savings Bank, a management club, and newly founded it ahead of the 2019-2020 season. However, he literally won the game against the lowest-ranked Shinhan Bank on the 9th. It was due to 'height', which was pointed out as almost the only weakness of the team.
BNK has poor center resources compared to guards and forwards organized as a national team lineup. Jinan moved to Hana Bank as an FA, and Park Sung-jin, who has to replace it, is only a rookie in his third year and still needs more time. There are no players over 1m80 among the main players. It can be said to be a 'Smallball' team that utilizes faster transitions than heights.
Shinhan Bank dug into this well. He played a difficult game throughout this season, taking control of the basket by two players, Rika Tanimura, the first overall pick in the Asian quarter player draft, and Hong Yoo-soon, a Korean-Japanese player who is the first pick in the rookie draft. Rika and Hong Yoo-soon cleared as many as 23 rebounds, especially Hong Yoo-soon, who continued to harass BNK's defense by catching eight offensive rebounds alone. Of course, Hong Yoo-soon, who laid a solid foundation in Japan, has excellent athletic ability and movement when she is not 19 years old, and is the only player among the two teams who showed amazing physical strength to play full-time on the day, but there was no matchup opponent to properly block Hong Yoo-soon of 1m79.
If Shinhan Bank's scorers such as Choi Yi-sam, who is currently injured, were in operation, it could be said that the match between No. 1 and No. 6 for BNK was a close game itself that could have lost regardless of the ranking. Park Jung-eun said that BNK coach also had a difficult game because of Rika and Hong Yoo-soon, and predicted a change in tactics against the big man team during the All-Star Game break.
Prior to this, BNK will meet with Samsung Life Insurance on the 12th and be put on another 'test'. BNK suffered a 55-80 defeat to Samsung Life Insurance on November 30. It was the only one of the two losses recorded this season that was unilaterally pushed back. BNK also had a 69-64 new victory after approaching the first showdown of the season on October 30.
Samsung Life Insurance has a lineup that is never behind BNK by position, including tall forward Lee Hae-ran and technology guard Kiana Smith, along with veteran center Bae Hye-yoon. This is because he also dedicated double-digit points to the three players in the game, and Kim Sonia, Park Hye-jin, and Lee So-hee only scored low points in the attack due to the burden of blocking them.
Therefore, it is expected that he will be able to run first and try to win the title in the second half of the year with the direction of tactical modification if he finds a solution to some extent in the third confrontation of the season.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
