Daegu Korea Gas Corporation, which had been in the bottom half of the professional basketball season, even caught the second-place team, Seoul SK.Korea Gas Corporation defeated SK 88-75, led by Andrew Nicholson, who scored 33 points, in the 2023-2024 Jeong Kwan-Jang Professional Basketball Regular League held at Jamsil Student Gymnasium in Seoul on the 22nd.Korea Gas Corporation, which recorded 5 wins and 1 loss in the last 6 games, ranked alone in 8th place with 12 wins and 21 losses.Their season record against SK was balanced at 2 wins and 2 losses, showing that they were a tough opponent.
If SK’s key players Kim Sun-hyung, Ahn Young-jun, and Heo Il-young did not play due to injuries, Korea Gas Corporation also had Kim Nak-hyun and Lee Dae-heon miss out due to injuries. However, for Korea Gas Corporation, Nicholson showed his power again by scoring 42 points in the Ulsan Hyundai Mobis game on the 20th.Nicholson scored 14 points in the first quarter and 6 points in the second quarter, helping Korea Gas Corporation take the lead at 49-34 in the first half.Sam Josef Belangel, who has a bad ankle, also led the upward trend with 9 points and 3 assists in the first half.
The score, which had grown to 16 points at one point in the third quarter, narrowed as SK Jamil Warney scored.Warney’s consecutive scores, Choi Boo-kyung’s free throw, and Song Chang-yong’s 3-pointer made the lead 8 points, 48-56, with 2 minutes and 44 seconds left.Korea Gas Corporation immediately responded with Nicholson’s mid-range shot, Belangel’s free throw, and Nicholson’s two 3-pointers, entering the final quarter with a 67-54 lead.The atmosphere at Korea Gas Corporation heated up as Park Ji-hoon hit two 3-pointers to make it 75-58 three minutes into the fourth quarter.SK, which was unable to find a clue to its pursuit, called its main 무료슬롯게임 players to the bench with about 4 minutes left to prepare for the next game.