KB vs Hana One Q, Women's Basketball PO

SILENT ILL-FATED RELATIONSHIP' KB VS HANA ONE Q, WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PO 1st GAME CLASH ON THE 9th

Can Woori Bank overcome the ‘PO jinx’ against Samsung Life Insurance?

The 2023-2024 season ‘Spring Basketball’ begins on the 9th.

The first game of the women's professional basketball semifinal playoffs (3 wins out of 5) between Cheongju KB and Bucheon Hana One Q will be held at Cheongju Gymnasium in North Chungcheong Province at 6 p.m. on the 9th.

KB finished this season's regular season with 27 wins, 3 losses, and a 90% win rate, and won all of its home games.

On the other hand, Hana One Q had 10 wins and 20 losses, the only one among the four teams that made the playoffs to have a winning percentage below .500.

KB also dominated the regular season by winning all 6 games. 파워볼사이트

Looking at these indicators, it seems like Hana 1Q will win once, and there doesn't seem to be anything particularly entangled between the two teams, but a 'subtle bad blood' has continued between the two teams recently.

First, KB coach Kim Wan-soo and star shooter Kang Yi-seul will face their ‘pro-Jung’ team in the playoffs.

Kang Yi-seul, who was a key resource of Hana 1Q, obtained free agent (FA) status in April 2021 and changed to the KB uniform.

Also, about 10 days before Kang Yi-seul transferred to KB, coach Kim Wan-soo, who was Hana One Q's coach, was appointed as KB's head coach and also moved the team.

After a short time difference, it appears that coach Kim Wan-soo and Kang I-seul, who were at Hana One Q, transferred to KB together.

It must be a bad memory for Hana One Q, which fought all out to keep Kang I-seul at the time.

Even after the 2022-2023 season, Kim Ye-jin, who ranked first in steals at the time, became a free agent and moved to KB.

If we go back a little further in time, the 2015-2016 season playoffs cannot be left out.

At that time, Hana One Q was in second place in the regular league, and KB was in third place, so they faced each other in the playoffs.

In the playoffs, which were a 2-win system out of 3, Hana 1Q won with 2 wins and 1 loss and advanced to the championship game.

However, as Chelsea Lee, who played for Hana 1 Q this season, was later found to be an illegal player, all of Hana 1 Q's performances that season were invalidated.

However, since the championship match had already ended, KB was unfairly eliminated from the playoffs.

In particular, current Busan BNK coach Byun Yeon-ha, who was KB's leading player at this time, retired after the playoffs, which was even more disappointing.

Of course, most of the team members have changed since then, but the current head of KB's power analysis team, Mi-ran Jeong, attempted a shot just before the end of the third game of the playoffs when the team was one point behind and missed, confirming Hana One Q's advancement to the championship game.

Kim Jong-un, a veteran of Hana 1Q, also played in the playoffs at the time and experienced the joy of defeating KB and advancing to the championship game for the first time in his life, but this ended in a meaningless situation where his record was later cancelled.

In the match between 2nd place Asan Woori Bank and 3rd place Yongin Samsung Life Insurance in the regular league, which will be held on the 10th, the point to watch is Woori Bank's 'playoff Samsung Life Insurance jinx'.

When the two teams meet in the playoffs, Samsung Life Insurance has an advantage of 11 wins and 5 losses.

In both the 2018-2019 season and the 2020-2021 season, when Woori Bank was stronger, Samsung Life Insurance advanced to the championship game by winning the second and third games after losing the first game.

The most recent example of Woori Bank defeating Samsung Life Insurance in the playoffs and advancing to the championship game was in the 2005 summer league, a whopping 19 years ago.

At Media Day on the 5th, Woori Bank's Kim Dan-bi pledged to win, saying, "This is the result I had when I was not at Woori Bank," and "We will show our superiority over Samsung Life Insurance in the future in the playoffs as well."