KB Stars, Rookie Song Yoon-ha's explosive 21 points beat Shinhan Bank to continue the fight for fourth place
Jan 29, 2025
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KB won 69-64 against Shinhan Bank in the 「Hana Bank 2024-2025 Women's Professional Basketball」 held at Incheon Dowon Gymnasium on the 29th, breaking its second consecutive loss. In addition, the victory narrowed the gap with fourth-place Shinhan Bank to 0.5 games, continuing the possibility of advancing to the playoffs. If it had lost to Shinhan Bank on the day, the ride would have been 2.5 games, and it could have put a lot of pressure on the rest of the game, but KB showed tremendous back-to-back strength and won the game.
On the other hand, Shinhan Bank, which had previously won three consecutive games to secure fourth place, has lost all three of its recent games so far, and is in danger of allowing KB to chase.
KB's four players, Song Yoon-ha (21 points), Nagata Moe (16 points), Heo Ye-eun (13 points), and Kang Yi-seul (11 points), scored double-digit points for the first time in a long time, but Song Yoon-ha was the main player of the victory. Song Yoon-ha, who has not graduated from high school yet, is playing a role in blocking the opponent's center in the team while Park Ji-soo is out of the overseas league, and he scored 21 points, his highest ever, including three points, while facing Rika Tanimura, the center of Shinhan Bank. In particular, he showed a relaxed play that was not like a rookie, using his left and right hands alternately at every crisis and hitting a hook shot under the basket. In addition, he overwhelmed Hong Yoo-soon, a Korean-Japanese player at Shinhan Bank, who had virtually dominated the competition for the Rookie of the Year until the middle of the season, and threw a strong challenge. In the case of shooter Kang Yi-seul, his shooting sense was not good on the day, but he served as a driving force for victory by delivering as many as nine assists and focusing on defense.
KB trailed 9-17 in the first quarter, but Song Yoon-ha Heo Ye-eun's outer shot began to burst from the second quarter and finished the first half with a 31-29 lead. In the third quarter, both teams scored 20 points each, and the addition of the game was rarely tilted.
Immediately after the start of the fourth quarter, Shinhan Bank, which succeeded in reversing with Lee Kyung-eun's thunderous three-point shot, opened the scoring inside and outside by Hong Yu-soon, Rika, and Choi Yi-sam, and KB added Moe and Kang Yi-seul's points following Song Yoon-ha's under-the-goal play, continuing a 61-60 seesaw game with Shinhan Bank leading by just one point with about three minutes left before the end of the game. Here, Kang Yi-seul's three-point shot, which attempted as many as seven 3-pointers on the day but failed all of them, finally burst after his 8th attempt, and KB succeeded again in a 63-61 victory, which eventually became a watershed in the game.
Since then, KB's under-the-goal shots of Heo Ye-eun and Song Yoon-ha have succeeded in succession, while Shinhan Bank has failed to overcome the gap caused by Choi Yi-sam and Rika's three-point shoot attempts.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
