The basketball team, led by head coach Ahn Joon-ho, won 85-84 in the first round of the Softbank Cup against Japan at Ariake Arena in Tokyo at 7 p.m. on the 5th. 토토사이트 모음
South Korea, ranked 50th in the world, has made a generational change in preparation for the preliminary round of the “2025 FIBA Asia Cup” in November, with young players with an average age of 24.
With Ha Yoon-ki (KT), Byun Joon-hyung (Sangmu), Oh Jae-hyun (SK), Lee Jung-hyun (Sono), and Lee Woo-seok (Hyundai Mobis) participating, they proved their possibility by defeating Japan ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Japan, ranked 26th in the world, knelt down to Korea at home in the absence of Rui Hachimura of the Los Angeles Lakers and Utah Watanabe of the Memphis Grizzlies.
South Korea will play the second game against Japan at 7:30 p.m. on the 7th at the same place.
South Korea came from behind with Lee Jung-hyun’s successive three-point shots in the second quarter, before running up to 20 points in the third quarter to win the game.
However, Japan chased fiercely in the fourth quarter and finally turned the game around again.
South Korea, which had been losing, balanced 84-84 with a two-point shot by Lee Jung-hyun from the side 14 seconds before the end of the game.
0.9 seconds before the end of the game, Ha Yoon-ki was fouled and got two free draws, and after making one pitch, he intentionally missed the second pitch to win by one point.
Lee Jung-hyun scored 27 points, including three points six times, and Ha Yoon-ki scored 15 points and seven rebounds to help win the match against Japan.