Their defensive efficiency had ranked first in the Entire League all season.
On top of that, they also ranked among the top six teams in the league on offense. Compared to the Lakers, the Pistons were a far more balanced team on both ends of the court.
So many commentators thought the Pistons would easily take down the Lakers.
But judging by this first game, the exact opposite had happened: the Lakers had easily beaten the Pistons.
As for the commentators' claims that the Lakers were unbalanced on offense and defense, that didn't matter at all.
After all, the Lakers had Wang Yi!
A team with Wang Yi on it didn't need to worry about all those rules, or things like probabilities.
After all, Wang Yi was a miracle.
Besides, this Lakers team had an offense on a historic level.
Compared to the Pistons, their offense was far, far stronger.
No matter how good the Pistons' defense was, they simply couldn't stop the Lakers' offense.
And on offense, they couldn't match the Lakers, either.
The Lakers stuck to just one principle: offense was the best defense.
That was how they ended up beating the Pistons with ease.
And it was easy to predict that unless the Pistons made some major changes, the Lakers would keep winning without breaking a sweat.
What made the Lakers happiest of all was Wang Yi's condition.
After the game, Wang Yi looked as if nothing had happened. He didn't even seem to have broken much of a sweat.
Throughout the game, King Arthur had carried the heaviest workload for the Lakers.
He had to rebound, run the offense, and score. Wang Yi had only one job: score, score, and score some more.
He kept widening the gap between the teams with his points.
The Pistons