'10 mistakes in the first half → 1 in the second half.' In the LG half, Cho Sang-hyun was in a half-time 'furious'! "That's the director's style"

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Changwon LG Sakers, the "KBL leader," overcame 10 turnovers in the first half alone and overpowered the Anyang Jeonggwanjang Red Boosters. The players' concentration seems to have shone with the half-time rage of Cho Sang-hyun (50), head coach of Changwon LG, in the first half of the turnovers. Yoo Ki-sang (25), who scored 12 points in the fourth quarter alone, revealed such an episode himself and expressed his grave feelings.

Changwon LG won 77-69 in the fifth round of the "2025-2026 LG Electronics" professional basketball away game at Jeonggwanjang Arena in Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, on the 8th. LG's concentration was shown in the fourth quarter of the match, which was tight.

With this victory, LG won four consecutive games and succeeded in widening the gap with the joint second-place group by three games. On the other hand, Jeong Kwan-jang failed to win three games in a row.

It was no exaggeration to say that LG's first half was a "turnover party." He finished 32-34 behind, but gave up the lead by scoring as many as 10 turnovers, and he was clearly struggling with the strong pressure of Jeong Kwan-jang in defense. Considering that Jeong Kwan-jang had only four turnovers in the first half, LG more than doubled the figure.

According to Yoo Ki-sang, Cho Sang-hyun gave a strong rebuke to the players in the half-time locker room. Director Cho Sang-hyun's locker room anger effect was immediate. In the second half, LG players' concentration was completely revived, and the number of errors from 10 in the first half dropped sharply to only one in the second half. Promised plays also revived in defense, preventing Anyang's offensive, and succeeded in turning the game around by accumulating points one by one. In particular, the scene where he showed his concentration to take a whopping seven points in 61-61 with about six minutes left until the end of the fourth quarter was truly overwhelming.

Yoo Ki-sang, who interviewed reporters as a Su-hoon player with 22 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, including 5 three-point shots, said, "In fact, the coach was very angry after the first half. Still, the coaches and seniors comforted me, saying it was okay. The director also asked me to do what I had to do without worrying about what I was saying after yelling. That's the director's style. "Because you have to tell us everything if you have one to ten, our players have adapted and I think we came out with our performance by encouraging each other," he said. He stressed that Cho Sang-hyun's rebuke was a measure to find the players' composure, not just anger.

Coach Cho Sang-hyun also said of Yoo Ki-sang, "I'm a player I trust. It's the same in the defensive and offensive parts. In the case of Tamayo, there are many cases where organic phase can't hold the ball a little. Still, he is playing a good role as a ball handler now, but when Tamayo somehow returns, it seems to be still homework on how to use the organic phase. But I think he's doing too well," he said.

Yoo Ki-sang, who was recently listed on the national basketball team, maintained his composure in the face of new challenges under the new coach Nicolás Marjules (46), who took over. "The first thing is to quickly grasp the new director's style and find his role," he said, leaving the interview room with a smile, expressing his ambition, "I will melt my strengths within the given role."

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