"I feel good"…Heungkuk Life beats SOOP 3-0, from a 24-point cup margin to a 13-point regular-season margin

Heungkuk Life beat SOOP 3-0 on the 1st for their first win of the season. Despite Kindelan's 21 points, the coach pointed to the need to improve connections. The point margin shrank by 11 compared with the cup.

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"It's our first game, but since it was a win in our home opener, I feel good." Kindelan said this after the November 1 win over SOOP, in an interview with The Volleyball. In the same win, Coach Yoshihara Tomoko pointed to the need to improve connections and situational judgment.

Heungkuk Life vs. SOOP set score 3-0, cup margin 24 points → 13 points

Sports World and other on-site reports, the set scores for the V-League Round 1 match on November 1 were 25-20, 25-20, 25-22. The cup match 17 days earlier also ended 3-0. Yonhap News reported the October 15 score as 25-12, 25-20, 25-19. JoongAng Ilbo gave the date as October 16, but the club's official match record also lists October 15.

Two 3-0 wins, set scores (from Heungkuk Life's perspective)

Category	Cup (October 15)	V-League Round 1 (November 1)
Set 1	25-12	25-20
Set 2	25-20	25-20
Set 3	25-19	25-22
Set total	75-51	75-62
Total point margin	24 points	13 points

Adding up the set scores reveals the gap. In the cup, the total was 75-51, a 24-point margin, while the regular season was 75-62, a 13-point margin. The two matches were in different competitions, so they are not combined into the regular-season head-to-head record. The November 1 figures have also not been directly checked against KOVO's official score sheet.

Kindelan's 21 points, 28% of the team's total of 75 points

Multiple reports agree on Kindelan's 21 points. The Volleyball reported that these included 2 blocks and 1 service point. Dividing by the team total of 75 points gives a share of 28%. Jastis scored 11 points and Pyo Seung-ju 10, so the three players combined account for 42 points, or 56%. Because the 75 points also include the opponent's errors, the breakdown of the remaining 33 points has not been confirmed.

Heungkuk Life scoring share (based on team total of 75 points)

Player	Points	Share (%)
Kindelan	21	28.0
Jastis	11	14.7
Pyo Seung-ju	10	13.3
Three-player total	42	56.0

According to Newsis, Kindelan is a Cuban attacker picked third overall in the draft. In the KOVO Cup, he had 106 points in 4 games, the most in the women's division. His simple average is 26.5 points per game, so his points in the SOOP match were 5.5 below that.

SOOP total 62 points, four straight official-match 0-3 losses since taking over Pepper Savings Bank

Sports Chosun reports that SOOP launched after taking over the Pepper Savings Bank volleyball team. When reading the term "new team," the first-season record under the SOOP name should be separated from the record from the Pepper Savings Bank era.

SOOP lost 0-3 to IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, KGC Cheong Kwan Jang, and Heungkuk Life in the cup and was eliminated with three losses. Including this defeat, official matches under first head coach Kim Se-jin have been 4 consecutive 0-3 losses. There is also evidence to the contrary. SOOP's total points against Heungkuk Life rose from 51 to 62. Sports World reported that Park Eun-seo and Seo Ji-hye were sidelined by injuries, but no official medical announcement from the club has been confirmed.

Coach Yoshihara's Assessment: Adjusting Kindelan's Timing and Angles, Improving Connections

The Volleyball's account of Coach Yoshihara's diagnosis is specific. Adjusting the attack timing and angles and improving connections with teammates could draw out more of Kindelan's ability. This assessment came right after the win, about a match in which Kindelan scored 21 points.

The third-set margin was only 3 points, and the total margin shrank from 24 in the cup to 13. One match cannot decide team strength. Current standings are omitted because no source with a clear reference date was found.

The remaining variables are on both benches. It is still not known whether the connection Coach Yoshihara pointed to will change in the next match, or whether Kindelan's scoring will move closer to the cup average.

Related official sites

Korea Volleyball Federation official homepage — check V-League schedule and official records
Heungkuk Life Pink Spiders official homepage — check club news and roster information
Heungkuk Life official match schedule and results — check match schedule and results

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