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| Yongin Samsung Life Insurance Manager Lim Geun-bae and players pose with trophies. March 16, 2021 / Yonhap News |
Home Final Wars Kookmin Bank Overpowered
Less than 50%’virtually lower’ odds
Established a record for winning the championship of the champ
Yongin Samsung Life, who stayed in the 4th place in the 2020-2021 women’s professional basketball regular league and seemed far from the championship match, set various new records and wrote a new’well-made drama’, such as raising the championship cup in 15 years.
Samsung Life, led by coach Lim Geun-bae, overtook KB Kookmin Bank and became the champion in the 5th round of the KB Kookmin Bank Liiv M 2020-2021 women’s professional basketball championship match held at Yongin Gymnasium on the 15th. Samsung Life Insurance won 76-71 in the first game and 84-83 in the second game, respectively, but it was expected to lose until the 5th game due to the loss of both games 3 and 4.
However, in the final game held at the home stadium, KB Kookmin Bank defeated 74-57 and stood tall as the champion team.
Samsung Life, which rose to the top 15 years after the 2006 summer league, won the first championship in a single season, and is the first team in the history of women’s professional basketball (beginning in 1998), and is the first team in the regular league, with an odds of less than 50% in the regular league. 14-16) The team has set various records, including the championship championship.
Samsung Life’s drama, which was ranked 4th out of 6 teams in the league, and was in fact’bottom’, announced the start of an upheaval by winning the 2nd and 3rd leg after defeating Woori Bank, the 1st regular league team, in the semifinal playoffs.
Until last season, only 3rd place was able to advance to the playoffs, but Samsung Life has been given the fortune of changing the rules so that the 4th place team can also advance to the playoffs from this season. Samsung Life’s determination to win, passion, and persistence were combined to win the championship cup.
After taking office as the new command tower of Samsung Life Insurance in 2015, Director Lim achieved his goal this season after three challenges to the championship. To this end, Director Lim promoted the re-recruitment of Kim Han-byul (forward) first.
Kim Han-byul, a mixed-race player born to an American father and a Korean mother, came to Korea to play basketball in 2009 and debuted in a Samsung Life uniform, but was unable to adapt to the Korean basketball culture and eventually declared retirement after the 2013-2014 season.
For Kim Han-byul, who returned in the 2015-2016 season, Director Lim said that he respected and considered his will as much as possible to adapt to the team. Kim Han-byul was selected as the best player (MVP) by receiving 66 out of 85 votes from the reporters’ vote in this championship match.
/ Reporter Song Soo-eun [email protected]