Seoul SK scored 37 points off fast breaks alone to blow out Busan KCC.
SK defeated KCC 93-57 on Monday at Jamsil Student Gymnasium in Seoul, South Korea, in a home game of the 2024-2025 KCC Pro Basketball League regular season.
With its sixth win of the season (2-2), second-place SK cut the gap to one game over leader Daegu KOGAS (7-1).
KCC (4-5), which is without last season’s championship-winning forward Choi Jun-yong-Song Kyo-chang and Heo Woong, who are both nursing injuries, 카지노 사이트 추천 dropped below the 5 percent mark.
SK dominated KCC in the first half, scoring 18 points on fast breaks alone.
Recognizing KCC’s height weakness without Choi Joon-yong and Song Kyo-chang, SK relied on Jamil Warney’s rebounds and let Oh Jae-hyun, Kim Sun-hyung, and Ahn Young-joon sprint to the opposing court.
Leading 43-29 at halftime thanks to a dominant rebounding advantage (25-9), SK outscored KCC 24-17 in the third quarter as Oh Jae-hyun effectively shut down the opposition’s leading shooter Dionte Burton.
Warney’s back-to-back dunks with just over three minutes to go in the quarter pushed SK’s lead to 59-40, and a Warney-Kim Sun-hyung-Oh Jae-hyun combination made it a 21-point advantage with just over a minute to go before Ahn Young-joon’s dunk.
SK scored 37 points on fast breaks alone on the night. The 19 fastbreak points would have been a franchise record if Gomez del Riano hadn’t missed a dunk with no defense with 2:28 left in the game.
The current franchise record for fast breaks is 19, which came from this game and last month’s game against Anyang Jeonggwanjang on March 20th.
Warney, who overpowered KCC’s big men with his height, recorded a triple-double with 22 points, 22 rebounds, and 10 assists.
Oh Jae-hyun (17 points), Ahn Young-joon (16 points), and Kim Sun-hyung (12 points) also scored in double figures.
KCC was unfortunate to be held to one point from foreign player Burton, who was selected as the main shooter, due to the close defense of Choi Won-hyuk, Oh Jae-hyun, and others.
Changwon LG (3-5) fell to its fifth straight loss after a close 65-59 defeat at home to Suwon KT (5-4).
Leading 60-59, KT won the game when Heo Hoon’s three-pointer hit the rim with 1:27 left in regulation.
Heo, who had been plagued by shooting woes due to a wrist injury, missing nine of 10 shots in the fourth quarters of the previous two games, was brilliant on this occasion with 19 points and six assists.
Heo Hoon, who was referred to the KBL’s finance committee for kicking a billboard in frustration with the officiating after a game with the previous commissioner, showed his focus on the night by taking 12 shots, hitting eight of them.
KT forward Park Jun-young also chipped in with 15 points and nine rebounds.
Chung Kwan-jang (3-5) handed Seoul Samsung (2-2) their seventh loss of the season with a 102-59, 43-point blowout at home.
Samsung, which was looking for its third straight win, trailed 28-54 at the half. Even in the third quarter, when they needed to turn things around, they missed all six of their three-point attempts and scored just eight points.
Jung Kwan-jang, on the other hand, scored 28 points to make it 82-36 before the fourth quarter even started, virtually sealing the victory.
Caddy Laren led the way from the floor with 19 points and 11 rebounds, while shooter Bae Byung-joon chipped in with 17 points and five assists.
Samsung was led by Kofi Coburn with 24 points and 11 rebounds.