China Team sent Zhang Jiacheng and Yang Hanson back onto the court, letting the two of them lead the rotation lineup through the stretch between starters.
That finally gave Japan Team a chance to catch its breath.
In the final two minutes of the first quarter, Japan Team scored five points in total.
At last, they'd reached double digits in the first quarter.
But China Team had scored seven points in those same final two minutes.
When the first quarter ended, China Team led Japan Team 47–10, a full 37-point margin.
In just one quarter, they had shattered the Japanese fans' wishful thinking.
Especially those ten girls holding banners who didn't know much about basketball.
They had thought that this year's Japanese Team was the strongest in history and should be able to compete with China Team. Even if they weren't as strong, they could at least put up a fight.
But China Team had blown the game open in half a quarter and led by 37 points after one.
Even they could tell that Japan Team had little hope of winning today.
By now, from the players to the coaches, every member of Japan Team had lost even the ability to despair. All they had left was their Bushido spirit.
As the saying went, if you didn't play basketball, you'd look up at me like a frog in a well gazing at the moon;
if you did play basketball, you'd be like a mayfly looking up at the open sky.
If you didn't understand basketball, you wouldn't know how powerful Wang Yi and China Team were. But if you really did understand the game, you'd know they were so powerful that you didn't even have the strength to despair.
Facing Wang Yi and China Team, the only thing the