In the final few minutes of the third quarter, Wang Yi went to the bench to rest, and the deficit grew to six points.
But that wasn't all.
At the start of the fourth quarter, with Wang Yi off the floor and the Raptors' backcourt thin, King Arthur kept using Pick and Rolls to switch onto Zhang Jiacheng, then exploited his physical advantage to overpower him.
He made three shots in four consecutive possessions.
Little Rivers also fired away from beyond the arc, knocking down two three-pointers.
On defense, they kept using a zone defense to force the Raptors to shoot threes from the perimeter.
With their current lineup, the only Raptors who could shoot threes were Zhang Jiacheng and Frank.
As luck would have it, neither of them had been shooting well from deep since the preseason.
Zhang Jiacheng had made just 28 percent of his threes in the preseason.
Frank had fallen to 17 percent, the lowest mark of his career.
It wasn't just them, either. Everyone else's Three-point Percentage had dropped, too.
Even Wang Yi's Three-point Percentage had gone down.
One reason was that officials were allowing more physical play this season.
When you shot, it was fine for an opponent to have a hand on you, as long as they didn't go through the motion of bending and then extending their arm.
Naturally, that affected players' shooting percentages.
Just imagine: if someone put a hand on your chest while you were shooting, wouldn't that bother you?
Another reason was that ever since Pang Bo left, Wang Yi had been the Raptors' only major offensive threat.
That naturally meant the other players were getting more attention from opposing defenses.
Their offensive efficiency was bound to suffer.
But Zhang Jiacheng and Frank had been hit especially hard by