After Wang Yi's astonishing dunk, the Nuggets' momentum seemed to take a hit. On their next possession, they looked like headless flies, failing to put together any kind of effective offense before Wang Yi eventually stole the ball.
Wang Yi passed to Bronny, then headed upcourt.
Bronny used two pick and rolls to get to the mid-range, while Wang Yi had already slipped in from the right baseline.
Bronny tossed the ball toward the rim again.
Cousins, under the basket, saw what was happening and immediately grew furious.
Seriously? Again?
So this time, when Wang Yi came within two meters of the rim, Cousins once again positioned himself in Wang Yi's path, ready to play dirty.
If Wang Yi dared to leap over him and dunk, he'd shove Wang Yi right out of bounds.
Being posterized once was already a crushing humiliation. There was no way he'd let Wang Yi do it a second time.
This time, though, Wang Yi reacted quickly. He knew how hot-tempered Cousins was. If he tried to leap over him again, Cousins really would play dirty.
So he merely made a simple motion as if to jump.
Just as Cousins had braced himself for Wang Yi to fly over him and prepared to shove him, Wang Yi slipped around his left side like a loach, skimming past the baseline and arriving beneath the backboard.
By then, because Wang Yi hadn't managed to catch it right away, the ball had already hit the backboard and bounced away.
Wang Yi was still behind the backboard. He suddenly stretched out his long arm and hooked the ball just as it sprang away, then pulled it back and slammed it into the hoop.
Whoosh—
The entire Golden 1 Center erupted once more.
The play wasn't quite as explosive to