Pepper Savings Bank has definitely changed, but ‘main gun’ Park Jeong-ah needs to come back to life.
Pepper Savings Bank lost with a set score of 0-3 (19-25/24-26/27-29) against Heungkuk Life Insurance in the first round of the ‘2023-24 Dodram V League’ held at Samsan Gymnasium in Incheon on the 22nd.
Looking at the set score alone, it was a complete loss, but in the 2nd and 3rd sets, it was a close deuce match, showing a spicy taste that had not been felt before.
Pepper Savings Bank, which lost the initiative due to Kim Yeon-kyung’s open attack, Yelena’s rear-guard attack, and Lee Joo-ah and Kim Su-ji’s fast attack, gave up the first set helplessly, but showed its ability to lead 24-24 in the second set and 27-27 in the third set.
Pepper Savings Bank, which recorded its first win in two games after defeating the ‘defending champion’ Korea Expressway Corporation in the previous home opening game, attempted to record its first consecutive win since its founding, but was unable to stop Kim Yeon-kyung (20 points) and Yelena (23 points).
Unlike Heungkuk Life Insurance, which displayed the power of a double gun, Pepper Savings Bank’s Yasmin scored 28 points (55% attack success rate), the most in the game,카지노사이트 but Park Jeong-ah only scored 9 points (33% attack success rate).
In order to further increase the offensive power of Park Jeong-ah, who along with Kim Yeon-kyung receives the highest salary in the V-League (annual total compensation of 775 million won), the burden of receiving, which is her weak point, must be eased. After the loss to Heungkuk Life Insurance, Coach Trinsey also cited this as a task for this season and said, “We need to find a way to utilize Yasmin and Park Jeong-ah at the same time.”
Park Jeong-ah, who defeated Heungkuk Life Insurance last season and led the Korea Expressway Corporation to victory in the championship game, is also called ‘Clutch Park’ for her league-leading scoring ability and decisive offensive success that changed the flow at critical times. He is a player who has already held the championship trophy five times.
However, he has receiving anxiety on both the international and domestic stages. Her former team, the Korea Expressway Corporation, even used the method of adding one more defensive player to the libero in order to alleviate Park Jeong-ah’s weakness in receiving and maximize her offensive power.
Yasmin alone cannot overpower the winner. In the end, Park Jeong-ah’s attack must be saved. Attention is being paid to what solution Director Tringe, who has identified the problem, will come up with to maximize the power of the twin guns.
Meanwhile, Heungkuk Life Insurance (8 points), who defeated Korea Expressway Corporation (3-0) and Hyundai Engineering & Construction (3-2) after the opening, regained the first place that they had lost to Hyundai Engineering & Construction (7 points) with 3 consecutive wins in the opening game.
Kim Yeon-kyung, who surpassed 4,000 points in her V-League career, was selected as MVP of the game that day and said, “There were difficult situations in the second and third sets. We were able to win because all players played well in their respective positions. “I think we can show better performance in the future,” he said.