The King of Confidence

824 King of Confidence

These days, Wang Yi's game-winning shots, whether overseas or back home, could still make the trending lists, but they certainly couldn't dominate them.

There were only two trending topics about him: one was Wang Yi's game-winner;

the other was that Wang Yi had hit six game-winners in a single season, tying Kobe Bryant's record for game-winners in one season.

The third was Wang Yi stopping Joel Johnson's comeback.

The truth was, Wang Yi's outstanding performances had become nothing new by now.

Just imagine: if a role player suddenly scored 40 points in a game, it might trend. But if someone scored 40 every single night, people would eventually stop finding it exciting.

Maybe it would only trend on the nights he didn't score 40.

That evening, while attending the postgame press conference,

a reporter asked Wang Yi, "You just hit the game-winner against the Clippers, but you don't look very happy."

Wang Yi shook his head. "It all went according to plan. What's there to be happy about?"

As soon as he said that, many fans thought he was full of crap. Clippers fans, in particular, shot back at him, saying he was disrespecting the Clippers' players.

What the hell did he mean, it had all gone according to plan?

I don't believe for a second that any player planned before a game to hit a game-winner that night.

If they could win easily, what player wouldn't want to take care of things without a fuss? Why wait until the end to hit a game-winner?

Over at the Clippers' postgame press conference, Joel Johnson kept his head down and didn't say a word.

A reporter asked him, "You put up 19 points, seven assists, and seven rebounds tonight. You especially came alive in the fourth quarter,