Under the actual rules of basketball, when you're fighting for a rebound, you can put your hand on your opponent, but you can't bend your arm and then straighten it.
If you make that motion, the referee can rule that you're pushing.
And call you for a rebounding foul.
But when two players are going one-on-one, there's no referee.
So no one calls a foul.
Of course, when Reggie Miller beat Jordan with a buzzer-beater back in the day, he first gave Jordan a hard shove, then caught the ball and buried the game-winning three.
That foul was even more obvious than this one.
But later, when people asked Jordan what he thought about Reggie Miller pushing him, Jordan said, "If the refs don't call it, it's a good play."
That's what a truly skilled player was like.
If you beat me with a foul this game, then next game I'll pay you back tenfold.
Of course, paying him back tenfold didn't mean fouling him ten times as hard. It meant using my skill to crush him ten times over.
These days, star players were always whining and complaining to the referees on the court. Some even kept arguing after getting fouled when the refs didn't call it, refusing to get back on defense and eventually letting their opponents score with ease.
By comparison, Wang Yi admired Jordan's approach more.
So he didn't dwell on Jordan's foul. He simply turned around and went right back on offense.
This time, after Jordan passed the ball to Wang Yi, he didn't stick as close to him.
He was afraid Wang Yi would blow past him.
Rather than let Wang Yi drive past him and score an easy two, he'd rather let him shoot a three—even though Wang Yi had just hit four