10:00(UK), 21, January 20, 2009
Seoul Samsung Thunders VS Wonju Dongbu Promy
Venue : Seoul home
Summary
18W 14L (3th place of 10 teams) Season Record 23W 10L (1th of 10 teams)
3W(H1,A2) Head to Head 3L(2H,1A)
3W 2L Last 5 Games 4W 1L
80.1 Ave. Score 83.7
80.4 Ave. Lost 77.7
16.9 Ave. Assist 16
32.3 Ave. Rebound 33.2
14.4 Ave. Turnover 11.7
Defending champion, Dongbu is the strongest team in the league. They have the best domestic center and a competent foreign center, so they can build very strong inside. With the inside power, they could won championship in the last seoson, and they keep the 1th place in this season.
This strong team has a problem, whenever they met Samsung in this season, which was a final partner in the last season, they couldn’t exert their ability.(S : D, 112:95, 81:78, 80:57). Especial Samsung players showed outperformance whenever they met Dongbu, as if they tried to revenge the last season championship.
And this season Samsung’s record isn’t bad now. Their foreign player ranked in 1th about Rebound and 2th about score. And especially their domestic Guards are the best in the league.
Especially this season Dongbu’s weakness against Samsung was caused by that a Dongbu’s foreign center lost against a Samsung foreign center. Even though he contributed a lot to the championship in the last season. This season he didn’t show his strength in this season, so Dongbu suddenly traded him with another foreign center who played in other KBL team. And today match is his first performance in Dongbu.
So today Dongbu will have trouble in making new harmony with him too. And the league best domestic center of Dongbu can’t play due to his injury. So today match will be difficult to Dongbu.
But some Books put Dongbu on favorite(like Bet365), so if other company gives better rate to Samsung, it is worth betting on it.