The bare face of OK Savings Bank's "Ogino Magic" revealed after just two games... The price of giving up Leo may be even harsher in the future
The bare face of OK Savings Bank's "Ogino Magic" revealed after just two games... The price of giving up Leo may be even harsher in the future
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OK Savings Bank, a men's professional volleyball team, has replaced its head coach ahead of the 2023-2024 season. OK Savings Bank, which appointed Kim Se-jin, the first head coach, and Seok Jin-wook, who had been with the team for six years as the head coach since its foundation, as the second head coach in 2019, has hired Ogino Massage, a former member of the Japanese national team, as the third head coach after the 2022-2023 season.스포츠토토
Ogino's stance was different from previous coaches. He sought to play volleyball to reduce errors in serve and ensure internal stability. He also tried to transfer the strength of Japanese volleyball, in which the entire team plays offense and defense, to OK Savings Bank.
Leiva Martinez (registered Leo), who has been with coach Ogino's volleyball philosophy for three years, is considered the best foreign player in the men's V-League, which was not right. Leo, who occupied 77% of the team's attacks in a game during the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance period in the past, boasted a strong power that was not weak at all, is a style with excellent high ball handling ability. In the 2012-2013 season, Leo's success rate in open attack was 55.43%, the only success rate in the league. The success rate of open attack reached 57.36% in the 2013-2014 season and 56.24% in the 2014-2015 season. Leo, who left the V-League and played in other leagues, returned to the V-League in the 2021-2022 season, and although he was somewhat less powerful than in his early 20s, he still reigned as the strongest foreign player with his seasoned skills. His serve ability was a weakness during the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance period, but he boasted the best level in the V-League during his three years playing at OK Savings Bank.
As Leo was responsible for about half of the team's offense, he had to make many mistakes. Coach Ogino also tried to intimidate Leo to reduce the share of his offense, and even blocked him from hitting Kang Seob without fear of making mistakes on the serve.
However, Leo was a player who could not be kept by Ogino's volleyball philosophy. As a result of pursuing volleyball, which reduced Leo's share in the third round of the 2023-2024 season, OK Savings Bank, which lost all six games in the third round, won all six games as soon as it significantly increased Leo's share in the fourth round, and returned to spring volleyball by finishing third in the regular season.
OK Savings Bank, which won the semi-playoff single-round match against Hyundai Capital after a close game of a full set with Leo, also passed the playoff against Woori Card with two wins and reached the championship match. It was the first time in eight seasons that it has advanced to the championship match since it achieved two consecutive championship games (2014-2015 and 2015-2016) in the era of Simone and the three players from Gyeonggi University (Lee Min-kyu, Song Myung-geun and Song Hee-chae).
However, copyright, which is eying its fourth consecutive win, was a different team from its predecessors. It lost all three games and ended up in second place. Despite this, Ok Savings Bank's runner-up finish was praised as "Ogi no Magic."
While preparing for the 2024-2025 season, Ogino made a big decision. He gave up renewing his contract with Leo, the alpha and omega player of the team's offense. Rather than strengthening the remaining positions by retaining Leo, the team has decided to fix the team system from the beginning. Although there is a 7.14 percent chance of winning the first place by putting only 10 of the 140 beads due to the runner-up at the 2023-2024 Championship, Ogino has decided to reject Leo and select a new foreign player.
Ogino's choice brought about a huge impact. Teams were even scrambling to renew contracts with foreign players to catch Leo. To that extent, Leo is the best card that can be picked under the tryout system, and Ogino put his volleyball philosophy to the market.
In the end, OK Savings Bank, which had the second-lowest probability, exercised its seventh-place nomination, the last place in the tryout, and named Italian apogee spiker Manuel Lucconi (registered name Lucconi).
Although it is only early days of the season, I can say this clearly. Coach Ogino's decision to give up Leo is wrong. If he joins Luconi who replaced Leo, he will have to worry about whether he will fall to the bottom, let alone advance to the championship that he enjoyed last season.
OK Savings Bank held its home opener for the 2024-2024 season at Sangnoksu Gymnasium in Ansan on the 24th. Coincidentally, the opponent was Hyundai Capital, which nominated Leo, who coach Ogino put on the tryout market, as the second priority. Leo, who has reigned as Ansan's "King" for the past three seasons and presented numerous victories to Ansan fans, is now wearing a different uniform to bomb Ansan's home court.
The result was a set score of 3-0 (25-21 25-19 25-19) shutout by Hyundai Capital. OK Savings Bank's volleyball was colorless and odorless. Neither the offense nor the blocking wall was strong, nor the team shook the opponent with serve. On the day, the team's attack success rate was 38.27 percent, and the receiving efficiency was only 28.81 percent. On the other hand, Hyundai Capital's attack success rate was 50.57 percent and its receiving efficiency was 46.3 percent. Hyundai Capital has an overwhelming advantage with 11-5 blocking points, and Hyundai Capital has an advantage with 3-2 serving points. Ogino's emphasis on substantial volleyball was on 17 team errors, just three less than that of Hyundai Capital (20). He was the epitome of volleyball that the team could never win if it wanted to win.
On this day, Leo of Hyundai Capital showed his usual uncharacteristic appearance with 15 points and an attack success rate of 42.42%, but Leo is a player who can bring about the dispersion effect of opponent blocking just by his presence. Heo Soo-bong, who has established himself as the best striker in Korea in name and reality, slammed the OK Savings Bank court with a 68.18% attack success rate with 17 points, the highest in both teams, and Choi Min-ho also took over the middle of the court with 11 points (77.78% attack success rate), including four blocks.
In contrast, Lucconi, who OK Savings Bank caught Leo after giving up, scored only 11 points and had a 32.14 percent success rate in attack. No matter how tall his jumps are, it is not easy to break through the blocking barrier of the V-League with his 195 centimeter-tall performance.