First, the first task: complete one steal.
Generally speaking, a player who made four or five steals in a game had already made a lot.
Even Wang Yi, who was great at stealing the ball, had only managed nine steals in the 38 minutes he'd played so far in this game.
That showed just how difficult steals were. They were the sort of thing you couldn't force.
Now he had to make one steal in just 25 seconds. The difficulty was obvious.
The second task was to lead the team to a comeback from behind.
Under these circumstances, if all he had to do was lead the team to a comeback, Wang Yi could simply have used the foul strategy.
As soon as the other team inbounded the ball, the Raptors would foul.
The clock would stop as soon as they fouled.
After the other team took their free throws, the Raptors would rush upcourt and shoot quickly.
If the shot went in, the other team would inbound again, and the Raptors would foul again.
That would send them back to the free-throw line.
And it was worth noting that the three South Sudanese players on the other team weren't particularly good free-throw shooters. Their percentages were between 70 and 80 percent.
The bet was that one or two of them would miss at least one free throw.
But now the system had added a condition: he had to lead the team to a comeback from the brink of defeat without using the foul strategy. That drastically narrowed his options.
Even from Wang Yi's perspective, with the game as it stood, there was almost no chance of a comeback without using the foul strategy.
The other team could use up all twenty-four seconds and then toss the ball toward the