James said, "But Wang Yi only turned the ball over once. On his second behind-the-back dribble, he was probably testing how far the problem area on the floor extended."
"On his next two possessions, he deliberately dribbled the ball right over that spot. Then he pulled out all kinds of fancy moves and nailed his shots, just to show Popovich what he could do."
"You messed with this part of the floor, didn't you? Fine. I'll show you what I can do right on top of it."
Jordan nodded. "If that's really what happened, then Wang Yi is terrifying."
James added one last thing:
"Of course, that's just my guess based on what we saw earlier. We won't know whether there's really something wrong with the floor until we test it after the game."
Meanwhile.
The 18,500 spectators at the AT&T Center had to admit that Wang Yi's play had been incredible.
"Even though he's our opponent, that play just now was amazing."
"If Wang Yi hadn't pulled off that whole sequence, a lot of people might have forgotten just how flashy he used to be five years ago."
"Some haters keep saying Wang Yi has no skill. Take a look—this is what skill looks like."
In fact, the people most stunned and impressed weren't the spectators or the commentators, but the players and coaches on both teams.
Everyone else had only seen how smooth Wang Yi's dribbling was and how flashy his moves looked.
They had no idea that Wang Yi had pulled off that whole string of moves despite the problem with the floor.
The faulty area was about a yard to the left of the extended line from the Raptors' free-throw line in the frontcourt, covering roughly one square yard.
And the smooth sequence Wang Yi had