The game had only been underway for three minutes, and Wang Yi had already scored 15 points all by himself.
The entire Golden 1 Center erupted.
Five straight threes.
He'd made five lucky threes in a row—a spectacular sight never before seen in NBA history.
At the sideline, Coach Saunders was astonished. At last, he believed that Wang Yi's threes tonight weren't just luck.
Could this really have been ordained by Jesus?
Still reeling from the shock, Coach Saunders and his assistants heard one female assistant offer a comforting thought:
"At least Wang Yi has used up a huge amount of energy. He won't be able to do much in the second half."
Coach Saunders nodded.
Even so, he had to make a few adjustments. He couldn't let Wang Yi keep launching those luck shots without a care in the world.
Otherwise, the game would be out of reach by the second quarter, and Wang Yi wouldn't even need to play in the second half.
So he called to his players from the sideline:
"Double-team him! You have to double-team Wang Yi!"
Honestly, double-teaming a guy who'd just made a lucky shot was a little ridiculous.
But if they didn't double-team him and simply let him keep taking one lucky shot after another, wouldn't that make the coach look like an idiot?
In fact, Coach Saunders wasn't the only one who felt like an idiot when facing the Kings. Plenty of coaches did.
After all, the Kings had Wang Yi.
That guy often did things that made no sense, so whenever they played the Kings, they had this strange feeling that everything they'd learned in all their years of coaching had been useless.
Every move Wang Yi made was completely different from anything they'd learned as coaches.
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