The basketball team, led by head coach Ahn Joon-ho, lost 80-88 to Japan in its second warm-up match at Ariake Arena in Tokyo on the 7th.
South Korea, which won 85-84 with Ha Yoon-ki’s free throw just before the end of the match on the 5th, lost the match and finished the away warm-up match with Japan with 1 win and 1 loss. 실시간 바카라사이트
In the FIBA rankings, Japan ranked 26th and Korea 50th, showing a wide gap. Despite the loss, Korea, which is comprised of young players aged 24 on average, saw the possibility by playing an equal game against Japan, which is ahead of Japan in objective performance.
Korea was unilaterally pushed back by 24-44 in the rebound fight, but it did not easily push back by increasing the shooting accuracy. Korea’s outfielder success rate exceeded 40 percent.
Lee Jung-hyun played an active role with 23 points, 5 assists and 3 steals, including 5 3-point shots, and Lee Won-seok and Yoo Ki-sang also helped the offense with 18 points and 17 points, respectively.
In the first quarter, Korea dominated Japan, which committed five turnovers with Lee Won-seok who scored seven points and Lee Won-seok who scored two 3-pointers. Lee Jung-hyun, who served as the point guard, also opened a channel for offense by stabilizing the game.
South Korea, which entered the second quarter with a 22-19 lead, caught the flow with 3-pointers from Lee Won-seok and Lee Jung-hyun. Moon Jung-hyun then steadily scored and Yoo Ki-sang again scored a 3-pointer to spread the score to 36-27.
However, Korea’s offense was blocked, and in the meantime, Japan fought back and narrowed the distance. In the end, Japan scored 14 consecutive points, overturning it 36-41.
South Korea broke their silence with a three-point shot, but failed to stop a score by Josh Hawkinson, a naturalized Japanese player, to end the second quarter 39-43.
In the third quarter, the gap between the two teams began to widen. While Korea failed to penetrate the opponent team’s strong defense and scored just three points for about 5 minutes and 30 seconds, Japan fired up its offense both inside and outside. Korea was pushed to 42-58, or 16.
Lee managed to break his silence by making both of his free throws four minutes and 23 seconds before the end of the third quarter. Lee then penetrated the path of attack, finishing the third quarter with a 57-68 catch-up.
Korea fired back at Lee in the fourth and final quarter. Lee scored a 3-pointer with 1:35 left to play, narrowing the gap to 77-83, six points.
However, Korea ended up chasing after him. As the team failed to block Hawkinson’s attack, it had to swallow its disappointment of losing by eight points in the end.
In Japan, active NBA players Rui Hachimura (LA Lakers) and Utah Watanabe (Memphys Grizzlies) were absent, but Hawkinson played 34 points and 14 rebounds and Yuki Kawamura played 17 points and 9 assists.