Then, from the right-side mid-range, he used a Buddha Move to get past Tatum, who had come over to help on defense, and reached the right baseline.
There, he was met by Jerati, the Celtics' Power Forward.
Wang Yi used a Crossover Dribble and stepped straight back.
He retreated beyond the right-corner three-point line.
Tatum came over to help again, so after stepping beyond the three-point line, Wang Yi didn't shoot immediately. Instead, he dribbled once more and moved another big step closer to the corner.
By then, both his feet were planted at the very edge of the right corner.
He was at a negative angle to the basket.
The next moment, Wang Yi rose up and launched a negative-angle three!
A negative angle was a terrifying shooting angle.
It was a spot where neither Amateur Players nor professionals had a particularly high shooting percentage.
That was because one corner of the backboard jutted out between you and the basket.
Although that corner didn't completely block your shot, its presence made you think about avoiding the backboard when you shot.
As a result, you instinctively aimed farther away from the side where the backboard was.
Often, you ended up aiming too far away.
And if you tried not to aim too far away, you might hit the corner of the backboard.
It put you in a real bind.
That was why, unless they had no other choice, you almost never saw players attempt negative-angle shots in a game, especially negative-angle threes.
Wang Yi could have shaken his defender at the right-side mid-range and shot, yet he had deliberately gone all the way to the baseline and backed out to the corner.
In the end, he took a negative-angle three. It was enough to leave people baffled.
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