James continued to marvel:
"Nonhuman! He's really nonhuman! I remember there was a movie in China with a center for the study of abnormal humans. This guy should be locked up there and dissected for research.
In the end, James and Johnson exclaimed in unison:
"A miracle!"
"A miracle!"
"This guy himself is a miracle!"
Through James's commentary, everyone finally learned why Wang had changed his impending dunk into a layup.
And the more you learned about Wang, the more amazed you became.
"Good lord, is he even human?"
"So you're saying he glanced at the timer while he was dunking, decided there was still a little too much time left, and changed it to a layup at the last second? What***? That's the kind of thing you only see in those cringey web novels, right?"
"I've only read one basketball novel, by some guy called Yi Jiang Qiu Yue. The clichéd scenes in it nearly made me throw up!"
"But I'll say this: the replay of Wang glancing at the timer while dunking was absolutely crazy."
Meanwhile, as the Raptors celebrated, Pistons head coach Bickerstaff wore an expression of helpless despair.
He'd miscalculated. He'd really miscalculated.
If they'd stuck firmly to their pregame strategy of double-teaming Wang and limiting his scoring, they might have lost the game, but they probably could have kept him under 75 points.
But after the first half, the huge temptation of a 50-point lead had made him forget his original plan.
He'd wanted to win and keep Wang under 75 points.
The result was that they'd neither won nor kept Wang under 75 points.
Did he regret it? Of course.
Did that help? Not one bit.
People said you had to stay true to your original purpose, and there was certainly some truth to