Internet Reporter Kim Min-soo] The defense prepared by head coach Jeon Hee-chul perfectly ate two-to-two games between the league's best point guard and national center. 스포츠토토

Seoul SK won 86-70 against Suwon KT in the second round of the 2024-2025 KCC Professional Basketball semifinal playoff at Jamsil Student Gymnasium on the 25th.

It was a perfect victory with a gap of up to 23 points at one point in the fourth quarter. This gave SK a 2-0 series lead, with just one win left until the championship game.
The series seems to end with an easy victory for SK. The MVP duo of Jamil Warney and Ahn Young-joon is in good shape, and the records of the two veterans, Kim Sun-hyung and Oh Se-geun, cannot be ignored.

Adding to this is the resourcefulness of Jeon Hee-chul, who received the Coach of the Year award, there is no way to stop him. He was like Zhuge Gongmyeong who was playing with Guan Yu and equipment.

Coach Jeon Hee-chul, who met him ahead of the second round, explained how to attack Heo Hoon and Ha Yoon-ki. Heo Hoon's strategy was simple. He somehow managed to reduce Heo Hoon's physical stamina.

Coach Jeon Hee-chul said, "It is better for Hoon to score 24 points than to spray 12 assists. It is better for him to score by himself, and to hit the drum and the janggu. If Hun doesn't move because he's tired of playing alone, other players don't move and just look at Heo Hoon. That's better."

"We have an advantage in the physical match because three (Choi Won-hyuk, Oh Jae-hyun, and Kim Tae-hoon) can be added. It would have been difficult if there was only one. This is because defense has more physical damage. We will take turns attaching the three to relieve Hun's strength," he said.

On the day, Heo had only five points, six rebounds, and six assists. He only scored two two-point shots in eight attempts, and missed all three-point shots in seven attempts.

After the game, coach Jeon Hee-chul said, "Everyone played their roles well. In particular, the three defenders pushed him so hard that he ran out of energy," expressing satisfaction in defense.

The defense prepared by head coach Jeon Hee-chul did not stop there. He also prepared perfect defense for the 2-2 game between Heo Hoon and Ha Yoon-ki.

"During the 2:2 game between Hoon and Ha Yoon-ki, I instructed him to make a dive (movement toward the goal), and Hoon should block Ha's pass towards Ha Yoon-ki," coach Jeon Hee-chul said. "If the ball goes in, you just get two points."

"Originally, it is common for a defender who blocks a screener to leave the hedging (movement to check the ball handler) and then come back. Usually, in that case, the ball handler can't spray the ball on time to hide the ball. However, when I played that defense during the regular season, Hoony sprayed all the passes even at that moment. Down or up. So I'm going to let Hoony buy it rather than give it to Yoongi as much as possible," he said.

In fact, Choi Boo-kyung and Oh Se-geun, who blocked Ha Yoon-ki, came down under the basket to suppress Ha Yoon-ki's movement, rather than checking him, even if Oh Jae-hyun and Choi Won-hyuk, who were blocking Heo Hoon, were caught on Ha Yoon-ki's screen. Heo Hoon, who had difficulty passing Ha Yoon-ki, had no choice but to try his own shot or find another player.

As a result, Ha scored an average of five points in two playoff games. This is less than half of Ha's average score of 10.2 points for this season.

Huh Hoon had 10.4 assists against SK in this regular season, the most among the nine teams he played against. However, he recorded only four assists on average in this year's semifinal playoff.

Jeon Hee-chul's defense based on regular season data. It's not that Huh Hoon and Ha Yoon-ki couldn't do it, but coach Jeon Hee-chul and SK were perfectly prepared.