"27.27% 13 points." Taylor's disappointing V-League debut
"27.27% 13 points." Taylor's disappointing V-League debut
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Pepper Savings Bank Ends First Round Schedule in Third Place... Five consecutive losses
Industrial Bank of Korea won against Pepper Savings Bank to finish the first round in third place.
IBK Industrial Bank Altos, led by head coach Kim Ho-chul, beat the AI Pepper Savings Bank AI Peppers by a score of 3-0 (25-21, 25-13, 25-15) in an away match in the first round of the Dodram 2024-2025 V-League Women's League held at Pepper Stadium in Gwangju on Sunday. IBK, which secured 10 points by winning all four away matches in the first round, moved up to the third place by beating over Jeong Kwan-jang Red Sparks, who lost 1-3 at the Hillstate match of Hyundai Engineering & Construction on Sunday (4 wins and 2 losses).
Industrial Bank of Korea led the attack with Victoria Danchak scoring 28 points with a 53.49% attack success rate, including five sub-scores, while Yuk Seo-young and Hwang Min-kyung also scored nine points side by side. On the other hand, Pepper Savings Bank did not show much presence as a foreign player, as new foreign player Taylor Fricano made his V-League debut, but Taylor scored only 13 points with a 27.27% attack success rate in his first game in the V-League.
In the 4 seasons since the foundation, the first place has been picked three times
The order of nomination is very important in the V-League's foreign player system, which introduces a draft based on tryouts rather than free agency. The order of nomination is very important because foreign players who are evaluated as capable of playing in the V-League are limited, and foreign players who were highly evaluated in the tryouts can be selected if the order of nomination is high. Pepper Savings Bank has acquired the top pick in three out of four drafts of foreign players since its foundation.
Pepper Savings Bank selected Elisabeth Ine Varga (Bacherievler Belediyespor), an affogit spiker with dual Hungarian and Romanian citizenship, as the top overall pick in the 2021 foreign player draft. However, Pepper Savings Bank did not have a definite main setter in its first season. It was fatal that the first coach Kim Hyung-sil picked him as the top overall pick in the rookie draft that year and only played in 11 games due to injury.
Despite playing with Lee Hyun and Gusol, who had no experience as starting players in the 2021-2022 season, Elizabeth played her part as a foreign player with an attack success rate of 41.45% (4th) and 598 points (6th). However, Elizabeth failed to renew her contract as Pepper Savings Bank remained at the bottom of the first season. After moving to the Jeonggwanjang the following year, Elizabeth became the top scorer by displaying her "power" by scoring 1,015 points in the regular league.
Pepper Savings Bank, which gave up renewing its contract with Elisabeth, drafted Nia Reid (Prya Clube), former top scorer of the Brazilian league, as the top overall pick in the foreign player draft of the 2022-2023 season. While playing as the main striker of Pepper Savings Bank, Reid showed good performance by scoring 717 points (4th) in 33 games. However, he was suspended from the rest of the game and left Korea after being caught smuggling jelly containing hemp in the latter half of the season.
Pepper Savings Bank, which exercised its first overall pick in the draft of foreign players for two consecutive seasons thanks to the benefits of its new team, acquired the second pick after Industrial Bank of Korea last season, and nominated Yasmin Bedardt (Shigota Shop), who has extensive V-League experience. Yasmin raced hard last season by scoring 827 points (fifth) with a 42.48 percent success rate (seventh), but Pepper Savings Bank was at the bottom of the list for the third consecutive season, setting the record of most consecutive losses (23 consecutive losses) in the women's team's history.
Taylor's first shutdown loss of the season amid disappointing performance
Pepper Savings Bank, which named Jangwi, a 197-centimeter-tall middle blocker, as the first overall pick in the Asian quarter, also got the first pick in the foreign player draft, and selected Barbarra Zavic, a Croatian-born apogee spiker. After graduating from college in the U.S., Zavic played in Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Swiss leagues, and was expected to be of great help to Pepper Savings Bank's strength as he has excellent attack and blocking ability.
However, Javic, who scored 14 points in the opening game against the Korea Expressway Corporation, suffered a shoulder injury after scoring 20 points in the second game against Chung Kwan-jang. Pepper Savings Bank decided to replace Javic as it judged that his injury would not be able to recover quickly and replaced the foreign player with Taylor Fricano on Oct. 29. It was the shortest-ever replacement during the season.
Taylor joined the Korean team on the 1st after joining the team, but was not able to play until a week after he entered the country because he was not registered as an official player. This is because the international transfer agreement and visa issuance have been delayed. Meanwhile, Pepper Savings Bank fell into a swamp of four consecutive losses, losing the GS Caltex KIXX and Hyundai Engineering & Construction match without foreign players. It was natural that foreign players felt sorry for their lack of offense during the losing streak.
Taylor, who had been cheering for the club and its fans, made his V-League debut in the match against Industrial Bank of Korea on Sunday. Was it because he had high expectations? Taylor attempted 44 attacks, more than Victoria (43rd inning) of the Industrial Bank of Korea, but managed to score 13 points with a success rate of 27.27 percent. Of course, as it was his first V-League match, he had a hard time communicating with teammates including setter Lee Won-jeong, but Taylor's performance in his first game did not satisfy the fans of Pepper Savings Bank. 토토사이트
Pepper Savings Bank, which showed a different history by winning at least one set in five games after the opening of the season regardless of the presence or absence of foreign players, suffered a 0-3 shutdown defeat for the first time since the opening of the season against Industrial Bank of Korea on the 9th. Pepper Savings Bank has not been able to add points for the last four consecutive games after the second game, the Jeonggwanjang match. The first opponent in the second round of Pepper Savings Bank, which finished its first round schedule with 1 win and 5 losses, is Hyundai Engineering & Construction, which is winning 5 consecutive games on the 13th.