Pro basketball Wonju DB grabbed Goyang Orion on an expedition thanks to the witty buzzer beater of 2nd place, Kyungmin Doo, and bitten the acceleration gear toward’Escape from Last’.
DB beat Orion 92-90 in the 2020-2021 Hyundai Mobis Professional Basketball Regular League away game held at the Goyang Gymnasium in Gyeonggi Province on the 22nd.
The lowest-ranking DB was the last of the 10 teams to reach 10 wins (22 losses).
The gap with Changwon LG in 9th place (11-20 loss) narrowed by 1.5 games.
He ended the previous season against Orion in three games, and recorded a winning streak for the first time after the opening three consecutive wins, raising the atmosphere significantly.
Orion, who lost their winning streak in three games, fell to 2nd place (18-13) with Ulsan Hyundai Mobis.
DB took the lead with Yante Mayton and Justin Knox, who jointly scored 25 points in the first half.
Nox boasted a keen fingertips enough to record a 100% fielding success rate.
Taichi Nakamura also assisted in the attack by spreading assists in the right place at the right time.
However, when DB tried to widen the gap, Orion ended up with Lee Dae-sung and Lee Seung-hyun scoring and ending the first half with 42-43.
DB escaped by 14 points in the 3rd quarter, but this time, it entered the 4th quarter by allowing the pursuit of 70-65 to 5 points in 3 stores of Didric Lawson and Kim Kang-seon.
Heo Woong left 30 seconds to finish and scored 3 points to make 90-88, and the match tilted toward the DB.
However, Hobin Han managed to score a tie again with 9 seconds left.
The subsequent DB attack ended with the ball going out of the line with 1 second left to end.
The game was divided in this one second.
Doo Gyeong-min, who was in charge of starting the attack, hit Kim Kang-seon’s back, grabbed the ball as it was, and scored the finish line with a bottom shot.
This was the first goal of Doo Gyeong-min, who had an exceptionally bad sense of shooting.
In a broadcast interview after the game, Doo Gyeong-min said, “I hated to go into extension because I had a very headache and waited for Kim Kang-sun to turn his back.”
Overall, Maton made a double-double with 26 points and 10 rebounds, showing the most outstanding performance in the DB.
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