KB Insurance’s special striker Keita Nomori is canceled for three weeks due to a thigh injury.
KB Insurance has an emergency.
KB Insurance lost 3-0 with a set score of 3-0 in the 5th round home game against Korean Air at the Uijeongbu Gymnasium yesterday (3rd).
It was a face-to-face match between 1st and 2nd place, and although it was a whistle with 2 wins and 2 losses in the match against the season, the difference between with and without Keita was big.
KB Sonbo knelt helplessly in the midst of a jolt of less than 20 points in all three sets.
No player scored double digits.
It was a game that clearly showed how much Keita occupies a large portion of KB Insurance.
Keita was diagnosed with a torn thigh muscle about 1 cm and went into rehabilitation for about 3 weeks.
Keita, who was nominated for the first place in the Foreign Player Draft in May of last year, by KB Sunbo, shook the league with his debut in the V-League.
The height of 206cm, the overwhelming arm length, and the flexibility unique to black people were added to the opponent’s blockers.
On November 3, last year, at the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, a whopping 54 points were scattered.
It was a tie for 2nd place with the highest score in a match ever, and was 4 points on the 2011-2012 season’s best record (58 points) by Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Gavin Schmidt.
With Keita, the overwhelming league scoring 1st place, KB Sonbo continued to compete for the lead.
The postseason cruelty also seemed to end this season.
KB Sonbo is a team that has not experienced’Spring Volleyball’ for the longest time in the V-League Men’s Division.
The last postseason is the 2010-2011 season, 10 years ago.
However, at the time of the last minute spurt for the postseason, Keita, who was responsible for 54.28% of the team’s attacks, faced the bad guys who were deprived of power due to injury.
KB Insurance has the lowest receive efficiency in the league at 32.06%.
Even if the receive was unstable, it was not easy because Keita solved the difficult ball quickly.
However, that Keita was missing, and KB Insurance could have a bigger blow than a foreign player from another team.
KB Insurance is now in a situation where it cannot guarantee’Spring Volleyball’, let alone recapture the leader.
Currently, with Korean Air being a soloist in the men’s division, the gap between KB Insurance and KEPCO, which ranked second and fifth, is only 8 points.
The men’s semi-playoffs will be held only when the difference between 3rd and 4th place in the regular league is 3 or less.
With the opening of a big hole in KB Insurance’s power, the post-season competition has become unclear.
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