Pepper Savings Bank Is Over With 'Storm Wind'
Pepper Savings Bank Is Over With 'Storm Wind'
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After the most three consecutive wins since its foundation, it has lost five consecutive games, with one point in five games
The second half of the women's V-League can be summed up as a rebellion of the lower ranks. The lowest-ranked GS Caltex KIXX, which ended the first half with one win and 17 losses including the most consecutive losses (14 consecutive losses) in the club's history, achieved a dramatic rebound by winning four of its seven matches in the second half. Of course, foreign player Giselle Silva, who has risen to the top scorer (649 points) even after missing four games, is agonizing over the high share of the foreign player, but GS Caltex's performance in the second half is clearly a surprising turnaround.
Korea Expressway Corporation Hi-pass, which had been sluggish with two wins and 11 losses in 13 games since the opening of the season even after recruiting "FA's biggest fish" Kang So-hwi, is back on track with six wins and six losses in the next 12 games. Rookie Kim Dae-eun, who received the first overall nomination, adapted to the professional league faster than expected, and Kang also showed steady performance despite difficult situations. On top of that, Tanacha Tana's surge in the Asian quarter has started to gain momentum in earnest.
With the performance of the lower-ranked teams making the top teams nervous, the AI Peppers of Pepper Savings Bank, which won the most wins (six wins) in the team's history in the first half, recently fell into a quagmire of five consecutive losses, dampening its momentum. In particular, many bad parts are bursting at once during the losing streak, making fans even more sad. If the current slump continues, Pepper Savings Bank cannot be optimistic about its 10th win of the season, which it aimed for this season.
Rise of Lee Won-jung Setter, who was hired as the main player
Pepper Savings Bank, which had only 3 wins and 28 losses in the 2021-2022 season, which was its first season as a professional player, hired Lee Go-eun setter (Hungkuk Life Pink Spiders) for three years and 990 million won as soon as the FA market opened in March 2022. However, Pepper Savings Bank's first coach Kim Hyung-sil resigned as it lost its opening 10 consecutive games in the 2022-2023 season with Lee Go-eun, and eventually finished bottom for two consecutive seasons with a poor performance of 5 wins, 31 losses and 14 points.
Pepper Savings Bank suffered another setback when Korea Expressway Corporation named Lee Go-eun setter as compensation player in the process of recruiting FA Park Jung-ah in 2023. Unable to afford to lose the key setter, Pepper Savings Bank gave the Korea Expressway Corporation the right to appoint Choi Ga-eun (GS Caltex), the main middle blocker, and the first-round rookie to bring back Lee Go-eun. However, Pepper Savings Bank was at the bottom of the list last season, recording the most consecutive losses (23 consecutive losses) in a single season.
Pepper Savings Bank, whose manager Yoo Ji-yeon took office in March last year, replaced the main setter from Lee Go-eun to Lee Won-jeong through a trade with Heungkuk Life Insurance in June. Lee, who experienced two championships as a backup setter during his time at Korea Expressway Corporation and GS Caltex, had a considerable amount of experience as the main setter as he played championships for two consecutive seasons even after moving to Heungkuk Life Insurance. Therefore, it seemed like a good choice to change the mood.
However, Lee, who had suffered from chronic wrist injuries since the days of road construction, has not been able to play in cup competitions due to injury even after transfer to Pepper Savings Bank, and has been sidelined for nine consecutive games due to injury even after the opening of the regular season. Coach Yoo Ji-yeon appointed Lee as the main setter for this season, but he has been absent for a long time recently. On the other hand, Lee Go-eun, Lee's trade partner, has been playing a strong role as the main setter for Heungkuk Life Insurance.
Of course, Pepper Savings Bank has a fourth-year professional doctor and setter who were the first overall rookie draft in the 2021-2022 season, but they sometimes show ups and downs because they do not have much experience as a main player. Therefore, if the doctor and setter are shaken, they need to be replaced with a backup setter, and currently, the only backup setter at Pepper Savings Bank is Park Soo-bin, who is in his second year, who did not play a single game last season. This is why the entire team is bound to be shaken by the injury of setter Lee Won-jung.
You can't win if you lose serve-receive
In the V-League, which is adopting the rally point system (a system in which scores increase regardless of sub-rights), the shortest way to a strong team is to make setters comfortable with stable sub-receiving and shake the opponent's defense with tricky sub-receiving. During the past three seasons when the team was struggling at the bottom, Pepper Savings Bank was always at the bottom in the team's serve and receiving categories. This was a critical reason why they had to struggle every season.
Pepper Savings Bank, which has 0.92 sub-scores per set this season, remains at the bottom of the team's sub-scores. Middle blocker Jangwi is ranked fifth in the sub-scores with 0.32 per set, but there is relatively a lack of players who can display tricky sub-scores to shake the opponent's receiving. This means that chances are high that the opponent will be able to easily attack.
Pepper Savings Bank ranks sixth among the seven teams in receiving efficiency with 25.59 percent. Pepper Savings Bank recruited Libero Han-hye, a member of the Korean national team, ahead of the upcoming season, but it is unlikely that the team will serve quietly to Han, whose receiving efficiency is 40.45 percent. In contrast, outside-heater Park Jung-ah and Lee Han-bi, who are participating in receiving subs with Han, only receive 14.95 percent and 22.68 percent, respectively.
It is also a concern for Pepper Savings Bank that Park Jung-ah, who should be the center of the team, is losing power in the second half. Park Jung-ah, who scored 68 points with a 32.42% success rate in six games in the fourth round, scored only 9 points with a 21.88% success rate in the first game of the fifth round against IBK Industrial Bank Altos on January 31. Of course, Pepper Savings Bank has Lee Ye-rim and Park Eun-seo, but Park Jung-ah is Pepper Savings Bank's "native ace" who should always perform steadily. 스포츠토토
Pepper Savings Bank, which seemed easy to win 10 games in the season when it beat Hyundai Engineering & Construction Hillstate on January 12 to win its first three consecutive games, has recently lost five consecutive games and is in a big crisis. With 11 remaining games to play, 10 wins in the season is still a sufficiently achievable goal, but 10 wins, which rise blandly after the last-minute ranking competition of the season, will inevitably be less valuable. This is why Pepper Savings Bank needs a rebound before the losing streak is longer.