They focused their attention on Wang Yi and Zhang Yu.
But Wang Yi and Zhang Yu had teammates too.
Dauding and Charlie Hannum were always coming out to set screens for Wang Yi.
When Antoine, the opposing center, saw Dauding and Charlie come out, he never followed them. Instead, he stayed in the paint to keep Wang Yi from driving in.
Besides, if the Raptors missed a shot, he'd have a much easier time getting the rebound from the paint.
But this meant Wang Yi and Zhang Yu could use the screens to get plenty of open looks from three.
With three minutes left in the third quarter, the Raptors had cut the deficit to just 21 points.
In other words, they'd made up a full 29 points in just nine minutes.
That was a terrifying rate of scoring.
The main reason was that Zhang Yu and Wang Yi had both found their touch from three.
The two of them had combined to hit as many as 13 three-pointers that quarter.
That meant they'd scored 39 points from threes alone.
Wang Yi had also raised his personal scoring total for the game to 55 points.
Of course, by this point, Trail Blazers head coach Bickerstaff was finally panicking.
Games where a team came back from a 50-point deficit in two quarters were rare, but there were plenty of games where a team came back from 20 down in 15 minutes.
Fortunately, the next stretch was coming up. Given how much energy the Raptors had spent today, and the fact that only seven players were available, they'd surely have to give Wang Yi more time to rest.
As long as Wang Yi sat, their Pistons still had Spider-Man to put on the floor.
That would be their chance to widen the