Jerry Starkhouse had become the Wizards' first option since nobody knew when.
Because when he had the ball, his certainty was higher than Jordan's.
However, Yu Fei didn't care about Starkhouse; he always went for Jordan.
Jordan's scoring against him stayed at 2 points, while the points Yu Fei scored by calling for screens and targeting Jordan continued to rise.
Not counting the first quarter, Yu Fei had already racked up 20 points in the second.
With one minute left before the end of the first half, Yu Fei easily got past Jordan's defense and soared for a layup.
Starkhouse came to help on defense, wanting to prove something: Jordan couldn't contain Yu Fei, but he could, even if it was through a help defense.
But he wasn't a defensive expert. In the post-Jordan era, the biggest difference between the manufactured Jordan successors from North Carolina and the original Jordan was this—these forced successors, offensive machines, often only knew offense and not defense.