When pride still matters

Chapter 151 Who do you think is overrated?

As one of the NBA's well-known successful marketing campaigns, the Christmas Game is promoted to fans every year as a focus at the beginning of the season.

The alliance focuses on promoting strong confrontations with storytelling.

As the first-ranked team in the Eastern Conference, the Bucks, currently 22-7, will face the New Jersey Nets, ranked third in the Eastern Conference, tonight.

From the moment Yu Fei was sent to Milwaukee in the offseason, the Bucks were destined to play in this year's Christmas Day game.

The only question is which team to match up with the Bucks.

Yu Fei is a popular star. Although he has only played for less than a season and a half, he has already made enemies with many people. It can be said that any team assigned to him will have something to watch.

The league chose the Nets mainly because of what happened to Yu Fei in the first round of the playoffs between the Wizards and Nets last season.

Yu Fei and Kenyon Martin had a quarrel that escalated after the game, and in the first game of the season, the two escalated their conflict into a feud.

So there was this crazy-hyped Christmas war.

Continental Airlines Arena

Walking into the Nets' home court, Yu Fei could feel the enthusiasm in the crowd.

After all, the Nets reached the finals last season. Although they were swept 4-0, it was definitely a highlight in their team's history. It is normal for the ball market to become hot.

The feud between Yu Fei and Kenyon Martin made the New Jerseyans present unkind to tonight's guests.

"Martin will dunk it hard on your head!"

"Pseudo strong team!"

"The unqualified No. [-] in the Eastern Conference!"

All kinds of outrageous trash talk came from the audience.

When Yu Fei and Ray Allen came to midfield, Jason Kidd said to Allen lightly: "Next time we meet, you should wear a SuperSonics jersey, right?"

The trade rumors between Ray Allen and Gary Payton are one of the biggest scandals in the NBA in recent times.

But Yu Fei believed that Kidd mentioned this not just to chat with Ray Allen.

Ray Allen didn't like the small talk either.

"I don't care." Rey-ray once again put on a arrogant attitude, "I just play ball."

Then Yu Fei asked a question: "Jason, why don't you see the big talker of your team?"

Kidd glanced at Yu Fei cautiously, "Kenyon refused to shake your hand. He will not shake the enemy's hand."

"It seems that the experience of breaking his leg in college didn't teach him anything." Yu Fei cursed calmly, "I wouldn't be surprised if one day his hand is also broken."

Kidd didn't reply. He had known that Yu Fei was a difficult person to get along with, but he didn't expect that he would speak so roughly.

The two sides separated.

Ray Allen didn't say to Fly until he returned to the Bucks' backcourt: "You don't really want to break Kenyon Martin's hand, do you?"

If you take things too seriously, you will lose a lot of fun in life, Rey-ray.

"Do you know that the things trash talk only happen in the second space outside reality?" Yu Fei thoughtfully gave an analogy, "For example, I said Kenyon Martin's mother died, but in reality he The mother will not really die. What dies is his mother in the second space. And this mother is always produced in batches and dies when I need her."

Ray Allen showed the expression of "an old man on the subway looking at his cell phone": "I understand every word you say, but I can't understand it when you put it together."

Yu Fei spread his hands and said, "Okay, I won't break his hands."

Ray Allen breathed a sigh of relief.

Afterwards, everything proceeds according to normal procedures.

The two sides warmed up, took shots, and barely communicated.

Before the game started, Karl called Yu Fei to his side and said, "Fry, you should pay more attention to my gestures tonight."

Yu Fei responded: "George, I don't want to be a stupid player."

"Unless you think you're smarter than Jason Kidd."

"I do think I'm smarter than Jason Kidd."

"Shut up and listen, you damn Generation Y!"

"Well, if that helps."

Yu Fei could indeed feel that Carl was teaching him something seriously, but what he did gave others a sense of deja vu as he longed for his children to realize their dreams.Yu Fei thinks he can succeed in his own way, but Karl thinks not because he knows basketball better.

Tonight, Karl decided to let Yu Fei serve as a full-time point guard and go head-to-head with Kidd.

For the Nets, Dikembe Mutombo replaced Aaron Williams as the Nets' temporary starting center.

There is only one reason why this top defender whose defensive influence spans the 90s suddenly entered the starting lineup, and that is that the Nets need to use his ability to protect the basket to reduce Yu Fei's impact on the inside.

At the beginning, Mutombo won the jump ball.

Kidd's speed with the ball is not fast, but he is very methodical.

While he withstood Yu Fei's close pressure, he allowed his teammates to get into position in an orderly manner.

In the frontcourt, Kidd passed the ball to Corey Kittles, who then passed to Richard Jefferson.Jefferson hit a three-pointer.

3 is better than 0
"See? This is the difference between you and Jason Kidd!"

Yu Fei heard a woman shouting on the sidelines. He turned his head and took a look at her. She had long black hair, rose-red lips, and beautiful features.

Then, Karl's roar brought Yu Fei back to reality from his reverie: "Fry, let's hit the inside!"

The Nets' starting five is Mutombo. When his physical strength is full, he is still the best rim protector in the league. Now he is challenging the inside, are you serious?
After thinking about it, Yu Fei still carried out Karl's intention.

He first called Mason's pick-and-roll to bring out Kenyon Martin, then directly called his name, rushed to the paint area, stopped and shook off the defense, and made a close jumper in front of Mutombo.Although it was so close, Mutombo could not interfere even half a minute, and watched Yu Fei's ball fly into the basket from in front of his eyes.

3 is better than 2
Yu Fei glanced at Martin, "Why can't someone even know how to defend personally?"

Then, Yu Fei heard the fans in the front row scolding him again.

The other party is also a beauty, but obviously not as good as the previous one.

Let Yu Fei score a goal in front of him, and Martin, who was also trash-talked, ran to the frontcourt, directly screened Kidd, and opened it horizontally.

The quality of Martin's pick-and-roll is not high, and he has a bad habit of breaking up after blocking the opponent. His most reliable way to score is to go down to the penalty area to eat the pie, but now he actually takes a step inside the three-point line in the left corner. .

Kidd passed the ball to him, and Martin caught the ball and shot.

Such an unreasonable move will naturally not end well.

Martin's shot went out of bounds and didn't even have a chance to fight for an offensive rebound.

"How come some people don't even know where they are good at attacking?"

Yu Fei's cynicism really made Martin a little angry. He bit his lip and wanted to have a fight with Yu in the frontcourt.

As a result, his teammates saw that he was a little overwhelmed by being eliminated, and quickly pulled him away.

“It’s time for others to move and don’t hold the ball too long!”

When Yu Fei played point guard with the Wizards, he played with enjoyment.But in the Bucks, playing point guard is complete torture.

Because Carr would walk to the sideline before every possession and tell him what to do next.

This made Yu Fei feel that Karl was controlling his body to play.

This kind of over-coaching seems to be the current mainstream, but Yu Fei's previous head coach had no real power, otherwise he would inevitably have to remotely control the point guard on the sidelines.

This shows how rare it is for the Nets to be the main point guard.

Their head coach Byron Scott is not even qualified to guide Kidd on how to play tactics.

Yu Fei followed Karl's arrangement and passed the ball to Sprewell in the frontcourt.

Then, Sprewell attacked the inside with the ball, was enveloped by Mutombo, and then passed the ball to the outside.

Ray Allen caught the ball, clicked, and shot a two-pointer with one step inside the three-point line.

Wonderful and unforgettable, this is contemporary basketball in Yu Fei’s impression.

"boom!"

Ray Allen's shot seemed to give Karl another reason to trade him. His roar came from the backcourt: "Ray, don't you fucking know that we still have enough time to organize an effective game?" Attack?"

Just when Karl turned on the hair dryer mode on Ray Allen, the Nets' counterattack had already arrived in the frontcourt.

Kidd knew that Yu Fei was behind him, so his purpose was just to attract the defensive attention until the two of them entered the paint area together and then passed the ball back.

Kenyon Martin followed up, knowing Kidd's passing habits all too well.

There is no suspense. Yu Fei, who was taken out of the defensive position by Kidd, could not stop Martin's dunk.

5 is better than 2
"When I said you were overrated, that wasn't a big statement, it was the truth. You bitch had better remember what I said!"

Martin shouted at Yu Fei.

The audience who were familiar with the feud between the two people also stood up to support Martin.

Washington Wizards team reporter Steve Wyche once made an analysis of Fei. He believed that Yu Fei was an antisocial personality in the NBA.

Because once Yu Fei is angered by something, he does anything regardless of the consequences.

Everyone on the Wizards team has learned this.

"You won't just let it go, right?" Sprewell asked with a smile.

Yu Fei responded expressionlessly: "Of course."

George Karl shouted Chu Fei's name again: "Fry!"

"Shhh!" Yu Fei "booed" Karl, and then dribbled forward without even looking at him.

Carl knew that his kite was broken again.

Normally Yu Fei would agree with him for one or two quarters, but tonight it was over in a few rounds.

What went wrong?Karl thought about Martin's trash talk after the dunk.

Kenyon Martin, this son of a bitch is the one who delayed his plan to make a big leap. This son of a bitch deserves to die!
Yu Fei, who came to the frontcourt, did not go to Martin directly, but called a pick-and-roll tactic at the fifth position.

It seems that he has given up competing with Martin. In fact, only by mobilizing Mutombo and letting Martin go to the basket to protect the basket can he achieve his goal.

When Mutombo was forced out of the paint, he faced Yu Fei in the high post.Yu Fei broke through him easily.The reason why Mutombo dares to leave the basket is because even if he is not there, Martin can use his strong athletic talent to protect the basket for the team.

What Yu Fei wants is to keep Martin under the basket.

He broke through Mutombo's defense at almost full speed, stepped into the free throw line, quickly collected the ball, and then jumped into the air at the same time as Martin.

Kenyon Martin is known as a brutal power forward, but he is lighter than Yu Fei. In this case, he has no advantage.Yu Fei rushed over regardless of the consequences and knocked Martin away in the air. The visual effect was no less than that of a bicycle being hit by a car on the road. Martin was so embarrassed that he seemed completely unable to resist.

Where is Yu Fei?He stabilized his body like a god, grabbed the ball and smashed it towards the basket with all his strength.

"BOOM!!!!!!!"

(whistle)
Martin, who was knocked to the bottom of the basket, struggled to open his eyes, just in time to see Yu Fei holding the basket with one hand and looking down at him precariously.

"Who do you think is overrated?"

(End of this chapter)