Jenkins had assumed that since the Raptors' substitutes were playing today, the starters and bench players had made up.
So they wouldn't make Wang Yi work himself to death by playing all 48 minutes.
He planned to leave Augustin on the floor after Wang Yi checked out, so Augustin could take on the Raptors' bench.
With Augustin's abilities, he could easily dominate the Raptors' substitutes.
But what Jenkins hadn't expected was that when the time came for substitutions, the Raptors didn't take Wang Yi out.
In the Raptors' resting area, the head coach pointed to four players.
Backup point guard: George Shig.
Backup small forward: A. Nikola.
Backup power forward: Charlie Hannum.
Backup center: Victor Debro.
"You four, get in there."
The four players immediately stood up, took off their warm-up jackets, and headed onto the court.
The cameras gave each of them a close-up.
The spectators also turned their attention to the four players.
In the Chinese TikTok livestream, Xu Jingyu saw them take the court and said:
"Oh, the Raptors' substitutes are in. Will they slack off again like before, or will they go all out as soon as they step onto the court, like those Koreans just did? It's impossible to say."
"Anyway, let's wait and see."
The Grizzlies had the ball.
Augustin still didn't have the ball, because as soon as he got it, Wang Yi would stick to him like glue and make it impossible for him to move.
As before, he kept moving around the paint, running around screens.
And as before, Wang Yi kept chasing after him.
At one point, as Augustin maneuvered around a screen in the paint, he suddenly made a backdoor cut and opened up some space from Wang Yi, coming out to the three-point line on the left wing