In a home game against Changwon LG in the fourth round of the "2023-2024 Jeonggwanjang Professional Basketball" held at Anyang Gymnasium on Monday, Jeonggwanjang won 84-80 with Park Ji-hoon (24 points, 3 assists), who scored 15 points in the fourth quarter alone. Jeonggwanjang (11 wins and 18 losses), who escaped from seven consecutive losses, maintained his seventh position. LG (18 wins and 10 losses) fell one notch to fourth place from a tie for third.
Before the game started, LG Twins' foreign player Asem Maray was wearing a mask. He missed the last one game due to injury, but was included in the list of players who will play on the day. He was able to participate in the game depending on circumstances, but was excluded due to cold symptoms. Chung is also playing as a foreign player recently. Darryl Monroe was out of the lineup due to a hamstring injury.
The roles of Juan Tello (18 points, 11 rebounds) of LG and Robert Carter (16 points, 9 rebounds) of Chung Kwan-jang were important. He needed not only performance but also physical strength and injury management. It was also important to stay on the court as long as possible to minimize the time spent without foreign players.
LG faced a crisis first. Tello committed his second personal foul with about four minutes left until the end of the first quarter. Concerned that fouls would accumulate, LG brought Tello to the bench. Trailing 5-10 before Tello stepped down, Chung finished the first quarter by turning the tide of the game 16-12.
The opposite situation happened in the second quarter. About four minutes after the second quarter, Carter sent a substitute sign to the bench of the government office. He looked physically struggling. Then, LG, which was trailing 27-31, started to chase after him. Carter took a break for about 1 minute and 40 seconds and returned to the court, but the flow went to LG. At the end of the second quarter, LG scored a point to tease and took a 43-37 lead by six points.
LG, which had only two three-point shots through the second quarter, widened the gap by banking on its relatively quiet outer shots. Starting the third quarter with Telo's three-point shot, LG showed a 66-56 margin with Yang Hong-seok (21) scoring 10 points, including two three-point shots.
LG Electronics was on the rise, but Chung did not give up. In the fourth quarter, Korean players including Park gained strength and regained balance by 68-68 within three minutes. With the seesaw game taking place, Park hit a reverse layup shot to the rim following a one-on-one breakthrough at 11.5 seconds before the end of the game.