Brevin Knight, Karim Rush, Gerald Wallace, Okafor, and Brezec, the starting five, fought tough battles against the opposing Joe Johnson, Royal Ivey, Al Harrington, Josh Smith, and Zaza Pachulia.
Zhang Yang had an idea for his new thesis—the Importance of a Regular Point Guard on a Basketball Team.
He was curious about which genius coach had put Joe Johnson as the point guard. Looking at the opposing bench, Mike Woodson?
If he remembered correctly, Woodson had been Larry Brown's... defensive assistant for the past five years.
No wonder he was using Joe Johnson like Iverson, requiring him to score as well as orchestrate the offense.
Zhang Yang got to play sooner than expected. Halfway through the first quarter, after the score was tied at 11-12, he and Felton were substituted in.
Alongside were Gerald Wallace, Jack Voskuhl, and Brezec.