T Korea basketball instructor says team strike wall at world championship
WUHAN, China, Sept. 4 (Yonhap) -- After his staff lost for typically the third straight game on the men's hockey world championship on Wednesday, South Korea head coach Betty Sang-shik said it felt like his group had slammed in to a wall.
Nigeria hammered South Korea 108-66 in Party B action from the FIBA Basketball World Cup in Wuhan, China. South Korea had earlier lost to Perú 95-69 and and then to Russia 87-73.
South Korea was only down 17-15 after the first quarter but then went on to be outscored by 62-35 over the next 20 minutes in the rout.
South Korea's finest game so much in the competition came against Russia, when Kim's players put in strong, physical defensive efforts.
Kim said he or she expected much of the same, yet Nigeria was simply too good.
"I wanted the players to be able to be as actual physical as they had been against Russia, inch Kim said. "But the Nigerian players were too solid and too quick. We got pushed about. Despite a manufactured basket, we needed to push the particular ball up the particular court, but all of us didn't execute that very well. It seems like we've struck into a wall again"
South Korea is trying in order to win its very first world championship sport since 1994. That will take a couple of more cracks in it in the classification round upon Friday and Sunday.
"We have to be able to get used to be able to switching on security, " the coach said. "We have to be able to hold our ground when we get mismatches on protection. "
South Korea have been playing every single other day considering that last Saturday, and many of the team were banged up right at the end of Wednesday's rout.
"Our participants did their greatest, but we could not do anything concerning the size disadvantage, " said Kim, whose tallest player, middle Kim Jong-kyu, is listed at 207 cms, or 6-foot-9. Nigeria brought 6-foot-11 middle Micheal Eric from the bench, and he or she led his staff with 17 factors and nine springs back.
South Korea also played with a heavy heart on Wed, with a Korean Basketball League (KBL) veteran Jung Jai-hong having died about Tuesday of the stroke.
Two regarding the national staff players, Kim Sun-hyung and Choi Jun-yong, were Jung's teammates with the SK Knights, and just about all of them have played with or against the late player at several point in their careers.
South Korean players wore a new black patch upon their jersey inside tribute to Jung, but they could not deliver a win for his or her fallen comrade.
"When we obtained the news, we were all shocked, " Kim said. "The guys tried not to show it, but I am positive this was hard for them. inch
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