User talk:Director Wi Sung-woo of "The Great Man" said, "I'm more worried about women's basketball than about winning."
Lee Sang-woo, the coach of Asan Woori Bank in women's professional basketball, is nicknamed "The Great Man."
Starting with raising Woori Bank from last place to first place in the 2012-2013 season, which was his managerial debut season, he won six consecutive league titles, and his achievements such as the 2014 Incheon Asian Games gold medal, 300 regular season wins, and eight championship games are truly unrivaled.
So fans nicknamed him "The Great Man," inspired by Woo Sang-woo's "Sung," which means "The Great Man."
The championship match of the 2023-2024 season was a game in which Lee Sang-woo's "great figure" shone again.
Even before the start, all experts expected the Cheongju KB, the No. 1 regular league player led by Park Ji-soo, to lead the team, but it overturned and came out on top with 3 wins and 1 losses.
With this, Woori Bank has achieved its 12th win, the most among the four major professional sports in Korea. The professional baseball Haitai Tigers and KIA Tigers have won the Korean Series 11 times, the second most after Woori.
Coach Wi said in an interview with Yonhap News held at Woori Bank Gymnasium in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul on the 4th, "This victory is the most memorable."
Coach Wi said, "We cannot forget our first win in the 2012-2013 season. It was a victory that we had no idea at the time, but if it was difficult and touching, I think this is the happiest victory."
Coach Wi met KB in the championship game two years ago, but lost 0-3 after failing to use his strength. "I was very worried about what we would do if we lose like that again this year," Wi confessed
"Some people around me predicted that I might lose 0-3 this year, but I still thought that I would win at least once," Wi said. "Honestly, I felt very little pressure as I was second in the regular season, and I was second in the regular season. My goal was to have fun games unlike a year ago."
The third game, which was the watershed moment for the series, was also tied 1-1, and he almost gave up." KB was leading by a whopping 16 points in the second quarter of the third game.
"KB passed the semifinals of the playoffs more easily than we did, and the difference in physical stamina seemed to have begun to emerge from then on. So if the gap widens, I thought about throwing out the third game and focusing on the fourth game," Wi said.
However, the first half was narrowed to 12 points and ended with 16 points, and Coach Wi instructed the players to go all out in the locker room, saying, "Hey, let's push this."
Coach Wi said, "I thought it would be difficult if I couldn't catch up after the third quarter, but the players won by 15 points in the third quarter and took the game," adding, "If KB had managed the score better in the third game, it would not have been able to catch up and won in the end."
