WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH JUNG SANG-MIN “IF I HAD PARK JIN-AH, I WOULD HAVE CROSSED THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA”

After leading the Korean women’s basketball team to victory in the North-South clash at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, Jung Sun-min, head coach of the Korean women’s basketball team, admitted to feeling “a lot of pressure,” but said the team’s focus came alive in the second quarter and they were able to play a great game. The South Korean women’s basketball team won 81-62 against North Korea in their women’s basketball group game at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games on Monday in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China .It was a come-from-behind victory after being down by 10 points early in the second quarter.” We were under a lot of pressure to play a game like this during the Chuseok holiday, and we prepared with the idea that we had to do better,” said head coach Jung Sun-min in a postgame interview. “From the beginning of the first quarter, the overall mood was not good and we seemed to be dragging, but in the second quarter, the players’ concentration was revitalized .”When asked how he prepared for the game against North Korea, Chung said, “I expected that there might be fights and bumps because North Korean players are usually hard-working.” “I told the players to handle it with manners and control it well so that it doesn’t affect their performance,” he said .He spoke highly of North Korean center Park Jin-ah, a 6-foot-5 center who had 29 points and 17 rebounds in the game, saying, “If we were on the same team, we would have crossed the Great Wall of China. “”I was very nervous because it was a North-South game during the Mid-Autumn Festival,” said Park Ji-soo (KB). “I didn’t find my pace in the first quarter, and it lasted until the end of the game, so I’m personally disappointed, but I’m grateful to my teammates for the win because (Kim) Dan-bi was the centerpiece.” “We met again after five years, but we didn’t get to say hello to each other,” said Park, who played on the South Korean team at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games five years ago. “On the court, we were opponents, so we just focused on basketball. “Park, who had 18 points and 13 rebounds, praised Park Jin-ah, who was born in 2003, saying, “I saw her for the first time today.” “It was more difficult than I thought, and she seems to be a good player.”Park, who was born in 1998 and is 198 centimeters tall, said, “I’m older, but I didn’t play as well as I should have.” “I’ve played against a lot of tall 바카라사이트 Chinese players, so there was no pressure, but I’m sorry that I didn’t play my best,” he said.

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