"After Wang Yi inbounds the ball, he'll cut from the paint toward the top of the arc. His four teammates will set a double Elevator Door for him. Once he reaches the top of the three-point arc, he'll catch a pass and shoot in one motion. It'll be very hard for the defenders to keep up with him!"
Pistons head coach Bickerstaff was startled when he saw this.
He'd already figured it out: it was an Elevator Door screen, and a double one at that.
Back when Pang Bo was still with them, the Raptors had used the Elevator Door tactic regularly for a stretch. Later, they'd often used the Double Elevator Door Tactic.
The advantage of a Double Elevator Door Tactic was that it could completely seal off the defenders, giving Wang Yi plenty of room to shoot.
With Wang Yi's three-point percentage as high as it was tonight, giving him that much space was practically asking for trouble.
Bickerstaff hurried to the sideline, waving his arms and shouting at his players:
"Elevator Door! They're running Elevator Door!"
"Defend the Elevator Door!"
The Raptors' Elevator Door had once been so feared that nearly every team had practiced how to defend it.
When defending the Elevator Door, they put their best defender near the top of the arc.
And they positioned him outside the arc.
Then they kept moving in response to the direction of the Raptors' Elevator Door, so that when Wang Yi came around the screen to the perimeter, he'd find at least one defender waiting for him there.
It was because of this defensive approach that the Elevator Door gradually fell out of use.
After practicing against the Elevator Door for so long, the players instinctively rushed into position as soon as their coach shouted, "Defend the