Green was called for a technical foul, so the head coach took him out of the game. It was time to let him rest, anyway.
Watching this, commentator Van Gundy nodded and said approvingly, "Wang Yi has shown tremendous aggression on defense today. First, he held the opposing team's star, Curry, scoreless in the first quarter. Then he defended Green so well that Green got himself ejected with a technical."
"That threw off the Warriors' rotation. You could say that in the first quarter, Wang Yi disrupted the Warriors' entire game plan almost single-handedly on defense."
The other commentator beside him, silver-haired Brown, was also a seasoned broadcaster who had covered the NBA for many years.
He could see at a glance what had happened in the first quarter, and he strongly agreed with Van Gundy:
"Exactly. We can say that Wang Yi's defense alone destroyed the Warriors' offense in the first quarter. So giving this year's Defensive Player of the Year award to Green is an absolute joke."
"Looking at Wang Yi's games this season, it's not that his defense is worse than Green's. It's that his offense is so strong that it overshadows his defensive brilliance. It's like Curry's three-point shooting is so good that it overshadows his ability to drive and shoot from mid-range."
Van Gundy agreed wholeheartedly. "I don't know what those voters are thinking. All I know is that not giving Wang Yi the Defensive Player of the Year award is the biggest joke in the NBA this season."
With both Green and Curry off the court, only Poole and Thompson remained out there for the Warriors.
The Warriors' offense and defense had both taken a hit.
For the Kings, James and Paul had gone to rest, leaving Wang Yi to play with a group