Adebayo glared at the reporter, then lowered his head and said nothing.
Booker glanced at the reporter too, but didn't say anything.
Seeing that neither of them would speak, the coach had no choice but to answer:
"The reason is simple. Losing to Wang Yi is completely different from losing to anyone else."
The reporter pressed on with a smug look. "So exactly how is it different?"
Devin Booker and Adebayo looked at the reporter again, silently cursing his ancestors.
Head coach Spo sighed, gave a bitter smile, and shook his head. "When we lose to other people, it's because we make mistakes or fail to do certain things well."
"But against Wang Yi, even when we've done everything we can and made very few mistakes, we still can't win."
By this point, the coach sounded utterly helpless.
But the reporter clearly wasn't about to let him off the hook.
He followed up by rubbing salt in the wound:
"You didn't make mistakes? If I remember correctly, you led by as many as 28 points at one point in this game. If you didn't make mistakes, how did you blow a 28-point lead?"
"Many commentators believe your biggest mistake was double-teaming Wang too aggressively, which led to him dishing out 24 assists tonight."
"Yet even then, you kept going after him with everything you had. You even had that unbelievable moment when all five players double-teamed him."
"In several key plays, you let other Raptors players get open dunks at the rim rather than let Wang shoot a three from the perimeter. You chose to send three or four players out to double-team him instead."
"Many people think that was obviously a foolish decision. Others say you'd rather lose than let Wang reach 25,000 points."
"So was stopping Wang from