When pride still matters

Chapter 132 Rey-ray
Anthony Mason was furious at first, then irrational, and finally impotent.

Most Bucks players are worried that Mason will fight with Yu Fei.

But this is actually a misunderstanding of people like Mason.

Mason does have violent tendencies, but Yu Fei defeated him with his real skills.

There is no opportunism, no fraud, this is pure strength.

In this case, Mason's foul language was more to encourage himself, but as Yu Fei used more and more tricks to defeat him, his self-confidence also declined.

By the final minutes of the game, Mason was largely silent.

Yu Fei dominated this game.

Not only did Yu Fei's teammates not expect this, but the Bucks' coaching staff also didn't expect this.

The savage and rude Mason, the Mason who bullied his teammates, the Mason who even scared Karl, was restrained by Yu Fei in a confrontation.

The Bucks' coaching staff thinks they know Yu Fei.

But their reference for flying strength mainly comes from the Wizards game last season.

By tracking Yu Fei's performance throughout the season, Karl believes that Yu Fei's strength has reached the All-Star level, his potential is very high, and he has the potential to grow into a superstar.

However, no matter how high the potential is, it will take time to realize it. Therefore, he does not have high expectations for the immediate combat ability of second-year Yu Fei. As long as he does not hit the rookie wall, he will be successful.

As a result, Yu Fei's strength in the first intra-team competition he participated in was significantly stronger than that of his rookie season.

Both technical movements and physical fitness have improved a lot.

Karl doesn't know what Yu Fei's strength is now, but he can completely defeat Mason, which is something no one else in the Bucks can do.

As for the Hannibal mentality of beating opponents while humiliating them at the same time, this may be the key reason for the discord between him and Jordan.

"George, we made a good deal."

Chief assistant Ron Adams said with joy as he tried to control his excitement.

Thinking of last season's failure, thinking of the humiliation of coaching the Dream Team this summer, and thinking of people laughing at him at the moment, Karl's lips trembled with excitement, "Yes, yes, he looks great!"

"It's just that the time to control the ball needs to be shortened a little." Karl said thoughtfully, "This is one of his shortcomings."

Adams is optimistic and has chatted with Yu Fei several times.

The impression Yu Fei gave him was not that of a "self-centered" person like Mason.

"It was definitely easier to convince Frye to shorten the possession time than it was to convince Mason," Adams said. "He's a good guy."

Carl quipped: "Yes, and 'great character.'"

Hearing this, not only Adams, but also several other assistant coaches present laughed.

They all agreed with Jordan's original view of Fei, a young man with a great character.

They all saw it!

The match ended with a resounding victory for Yu Fei's team.

Yu Fei scored 32 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists. His ability completely surpassed everyone else on the court.

Including Mason's teammate, Ray Allen, who needs the ball from his teammates and has few people to pass it to him.

For Ray Allen, Yu Fei is now not only the person who inherited the "big closet", but also the person who completely defeated Mason in the competition and gained the right to speak at the St. Francis Training Center.

This is something Ray Allen himself failed to do, and it is also something neither Sam Cassell nor Glenn Robinson did.

What he didn't expect was yet to come.

After the game, Yu Fei was drinking the nutritional solution just prepared by the trainer, but Mason walked over shirtless, which made the people around Yu Fei nervous.

"I'm not here to cause trouble." Mason opened his hands to signal Lawson and the others not to be nervous, and then said to Fei, "You win."

This is a fact that everyone knows without Mason’s appearance.

Yu Fei looked at him, wondering what he was going to say.

"I've heard about you. I mean, I know what happened between you and Michael in DC. That's why I wanted to know how much you weighed. In the end, you won. You have the strength." Mason said He meant to be subdued, but his words didn't make it feel like, "I won't be your problem."

Yu Fei understood this sentence to mean that if he wanted to control the Bucks, Mason would not hinder him and would even support him.

is that so?Did he do his hearing test correctly?
Yu Fei responded: "As long as you don't affect me, I won't be your problem."

"OK, OK, this is the best, man, welcome to the Bucks!"

It's been almost four months since the Wizards-Bucks trade happened, and is this guy just welcoming someone else now?

Yu Fei smiled, the scene was joyful, and the smell of gunpowder that appeared during the competition disappeared.

Devin George jokingly complained that Yu Fei had played too many singles just now and ignored his own openings many times.

Laettner said: "Even in DC, if Michael wants to get the ball, it depends on his face. Just be content."

This explosive statement was indeed very funny. Everyone was happy and started asking about Yu Fei and Jordan.

Yu Fei glanced at Laettner. He almost forgot when his relationship with this guy began to ease. It might have been in the second game against the Lakers last season, or it might have been the time when he was leading the team alone. .

Laettner was the person with whom he had the worst relationship in the Wizards, but due to the team's unfavorable situation, the relationship between the two eased. When they were traded to the Bucks together, Laettner began to take the initiative to repair the relationship between the two.

Yu Fei really doesn't like Leitner because he is keen on bullying rookies.Kwame Brown was so sad in the training camp, and he had to take the blame.

Later, Yu Fei discovered that it was true that Laettner liked to bully rookies, but his abuse of Brown was just to "test" him in compliance with Jordan's wishes.

Now, Laettner and Yu Fei have been traded to the Bucks.He knew that Yu Fei didn't like bullying newbies, so he decided not to do what he originally loved.

Then, when his teammates teased Yu Fei, he told a joke in time to save Yu Fei from embarrassment.

This is the NBA survival rule for a veteran entering the final years of his career.

Yu Fei accepted Leitner, although sometimes he still had grudges in his heart, but as long as he thought about how Leitner's style of play suited him, his doubts would be instantly dispelled.

After the competition, today's training is over.

"Starting from this year, the league requires all teams to be fully open to the media during the training camp. A group of reporters will come to St. Francis tomorrow. You'd better rest early tonight." Karl said with a sullen face, "If, I mean if If any of you were found tired by reporters because you didn't get enough rest, and then asked me to read such nonsense in the newspaper a few days later as "the morale of the Bucks is low", I promise you, I will use the harshest words. Training to 'boost' your morale!"

This is how Yu Fei's first day of the Bucks' pre-season training camp ended.

According to the old practice, Yu Fei will stay and practice shooting.

But not today.

The new players who joined the team planned to have dinner with the old players at a nearby restaurant. Yu Fei, as the big boss who beat Mason speechless on the court, although he was young, everyone wanted to know him better.

Because after today's training, both newcomers and old people will realize that Yu Fei's arrival will change the power structure of the Bucks.

Only one person refused to attend the dinner.

That man is Ray Allen.

The reason?
"I made 9 of 2 shots in the match today. Obviously I need more time to recover."

After saying that, he didn't give others a chance to continue to persuade him, turned around and started practicing more.

"Don't mind, this is Rey-ray (nickname)." Kevin Ollie laughed, "He's not targeting anyone, he just simply doesn't like this kind of thing."

Later, Yu Fei learned from Sprewell what happened in the parking lot while eating.

Anthony Mason laughed when Sprewell said he stole Ray Allen's parking spot.

"Yo man, you're great!" Mason said. "When I first got here last year, I felt like the Bucks were all softies, and of course that included Ray, but I found that he just didn't care about me, as long as I didn't affect him, he Just leave me alone. He has severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. His daily plan is fixed. If someone breaks this, he will feel very uncomfortable. This will of course affect his hand feeling. Now I finally know why he You played so badly just now!" Sprewell didn't expect that Ray Allen still had this problem.

After listening to Mason's explanation, he could also understand why Ray Allen had such a big reaction to the incident of having his parking space robbed.

But Sprewell didn't feel guilty. Instead, he felt it was fun. Maybe he could steal a few more times to see if he could cure Ray Allen's obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Yu Fei listened silently. Although many people took the initiative to talk to him, he would basically end the conversation within two or three sentences.

Because he is not familiar with these people.

He would rather listen than talk.

He can use this to understand the character of this group of people.

After one day of contact, he felt that although the Bucks did not have as serious internal problems as the Wizards, there was still a long way to go before they could work together and move forward toward the same goal.

After the dinner, assistant Alex Clark asked Yu Fei about his future arrangements.

"Go back to the arena." Yu Fei said, "I want to shoot a few balls."

Clark will be flown back to St. Francis Training Center.

Before Yu Fei even walked to the court, he heard the sound of hitting the ball from the court.

Then there was the sound of a basketball going hollow into the net.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Ray Allen.

He obviously practiced more after the competition.

Allen was also surprised to see Yu flying away and coming back.

"Can you give me your court?" Yu Feixiao asked.

Ray Allen said indifferently: "There are still a few empty courts here."

"But this is what I want from you."

"No, I won't give it to you."

"why?"

"I don't have to tell you."

"Because you are used to shooting here?" Yu Fei said, "It is not a good habit to indulge in your own comfort zone."

Ray Allen said coldly: "When I entered the league, you were still wearing crotchless pants."

Let us explain this sentence in Jordan's tone: I have played in the NBA for 5 more years than you. You are not qualified to tell me what are good habits and what are bad habits.

"What do you do if someone in the game doesn't let you play the way you want? Do you ask God to bless you every time you take a shot?"

As soon as Yu Fei finished speaking, Ray Allen really struck a chord.

He looked at Yu Fei coldly, "Just because you inherited Glenn's wardrobe doesn't mean you inherited anything else. You are nothing here. Don't try to give me orders!"

"Oh, well, if an opponent insists on letting you play outside your comfort zone, I will pray to God for you." Yu Fei said, "I hope this works."

God?

Ray Allen picked up the ball on the ground and sneered.

Yu Fei could clearly feel Ray Allen's hostility towards him.

And the animosity was by no means due to his rude demands for the other side to get off the court.

It comes from deeper.

In the eyes of Ray Allen, Yu Fei is a robber.

He took something that rightfully belonged to Ray Allen - Glenn Robinson's closet.

Yu Fei thought of this man's disrespect for Jordan last season.

What did he say then?

The media has given too much publicity to Jordan, but Jordan is no longer that Jordan. The Bucks are a good team and deserve more attention.

Is this a complaint about the Bucks' lack of attention?

At first, Yu Fei saw it this way.

Now, he thinks this is Ray Allen's subtle way of asking for the spotlight.

Because before that, Ray Allen had just staged a wonderful showdown with Allen Iverson in the Eastern Conference Finals last season. That was the period when he was most frequently exposed by the media since he joined the NBA.

Who would hate the halo around themselves?

This is Yu Fei's understanding of Ray Allen's hostility towards him.

Although there are some deviations, the general direction is correct.

Thinking of this, Yu Fei couldn't help but laugh.

I thought that everything would be fine after subduing Anthony Mason, but I didn't expect that that might be just the beginning.

Why did he just step out of the toxic atmosphere in DC, only to step into Milwaukee, which is full of pitfalls?
Yu Fei quickly put down this idea.

Do calm teams really exist?No, no such team exists.

As long as basketball remains a five-a-side game, as long as each team’s roster still has 15 players, as long as the salary cap remains, as long as the media remains obsessed with the narrative of sports heroes, as long as humans have not evolved to include “jealousy, greed, Arrogance." These problems will not disappear until all bad qualities are eliminated.

It's the same no matter where you play.

Compared with the Wizards, the Bucks are much better.

At least those who compete with Yu Fei are players, not player-coach-general manager-owner.

After thinking about it, Yu Fei relaxed more.

He began to look to the future. If he wanted to succeed in Milwaukee, he would be unable to do without the help of Ray Allen.In terms of style, Allen suits him so well.

So, how can he get rid of Rey-ray's grudge?

"boom!"

Yu Fei shoots and hits the iron.

The basketball flew to the court where Ray Allen was.

"Can I do you a favor, Rey-ray?"

Ray Allen's body trembled, he picked up Yu Fei's ball, turned around and shouted: "Don't call me that!"

Many years later, Ray Allen will regret what happened tonight. He doesn't know why he said this without knowing Yu Fei.

If he knew Yu Fei, he should know that when he asked Yu Fei "don't call me that", from today on, Yu Fei would take the trouble to call him by this nickname that was so intimate that it made his scalp tingle.

If this was a prison sentence, then what Ray Allen got was a life sentence.

Yu Fei will keep shouting like this.

Never stops.

⑴I don’t know why Ray Allen’s nickname is “Rey-ray”. Every time I see this nickname, I think of Sun Honglei calling Wang Lei “Leilei” in “Extreme Challenge”.This is such a drama.

(End of this chapter)