When pride still matters

Chapter 353 This is what you deserve
Kidd thoughtfully called a timeout for James.

"I really don't know what the chances are of winning this fight," Boozer complained. "Who can stop Frye?"

Howard laughed and said: "If he doesn't come inside, I can try it."

"You can't guard him one-on-one," Prince said. "You have to double-team."

Kidd then said to James: "LeBron, I don't think you're ready to face him."

This sentence sounds ridiculous to James, but his performance on the court proves it. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he was indeed avoiding a head-on confrontation with Yu Fei.

He could comfort himself by saying that this was strategy.

But no matter how much he avoided it, Yu Fei beat him up in front of him and humiliated him with trash talk. If he didn't respond, the scene would be too ugly.

"His defensive actions were all fouls!" James complained, "and zone defense. In fact, I faced an entire white team!"

Boozer asked, "If they put a whole team on you, why don't you pass the ball?"

If it weren't for Yu Fei, Durant would never have had the chance to participate in such a high-intensity competition in Las Vegas.

When the white team led by 11 points, James hit a high jumper. This was his first mid-range shot tonight against a zone defense.

"Okay LeBron!" Paul shouted from the sidelines, "This is how you should behave!"

Now, as soon as Yu Fei came up, he pretended to defeat James, making the white team full of momentum.

Durant hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner.

Yu Fei directed Durant to stand in the bottom corner, and he went to pick and roll for Deron.

When James was trapped in zone defense, he had to endure Yu Fei's ridicule and forcefully throw the ball to Kidd. Yu Fei had the ability to make strong shots from the outside even if he was double-teamed. Even if he didn't get the ball, his presence was greater than that of the white team. It should be obvious to anyone.

Moreover, Yu Fei happens to be the kind of star with great leadership ability.

Because the composition of this team mainly comes from the blue and white teams.

Yu Fei pointed lightly, nodded and said: "Not bad."

This not only avoids Yu Fei's single-point breakthrough on the defensive end, but also allows James to regain his confidence.

Compared with the red team where the top stars are gathered together, it is easier for them to adapt to their supporting roles.

Before coming here, they were the top players in their respective teams, enjoying the highest tactical status and number of shots. However, in the national team, they were forced to accept the position of role players.

James has calmed down.

Fei's gravity attracted Boozer to Yu Fei, and Yu Fei only needed to pass the ball to Durant.

"I passed it!" James' eyes widened.

The game habits of the Bucks made him very skilled in commanding tall and thin long-range shooters like Durant. What's even more strange is that he, who always likes to control the ball, can't play with core point guards like Deron who can't show their strength without holding the ball and playing pick-and-rolls. Sparks flew.

On the defensive end, Yu Fei is double-teamed without any brains. On the offensive end, he focuses on the inside. If James gets the ball, let him call a pick-and-roll and play out of position.

After the timeout, the red team clearly adjusted its offensive and defensive tactics.

This is the biggest problem with a team made up of stars.

"Our advantage lies in the inside line!" Boozer complained, "But you never care about our inside line!"

When James knocked Durant away and dunked, Yu Fei mocked: "Is this your response? Respond to me by beating up a rookie who has not officially entered the NBA?"

The red team is falling apart in a predictable way.

Limiting Yu Fei's outside singles by double-teaming, and then emphasizing inside offense and outside pick-and-rolls to find the white team's loopholes to attack, and avoid direct confrontation with Yu Fei. This is the way for the red team to regain the situation.

James also nodded, his domineering face glowing with confidence.

Iguodala focuses on defense, and his scoring basically depends on eating cakes and making quick plays. Brown has no sense of presence tonight.

It's not his fault, he was fully covered by Howard on both offense and defense.

After a few minutes, even if James starts to score, Yu Fei's evaluation is opening up a gap with him.

Yu Fei is the kind of bastard who gets more excited the more you respond to him.

Unlike the fierce pursuit of James at the beginning, after the timeout, the red team's targeted adjustments allowed Yu Fei to demonstrate in front of the US team's coaching staff why he is more suitable for the Dream Team's starting three position than James.

Such comments began to appear on the sidelines.

Prince took the initiative to take the blame: "My problem is that I didn't make the shot."

After seeing with his own eyes the way Da Fei treated James, and feeling that the other party patiently helped him adapt to the rhythm of the game, Durant had a strange feeling in his heart.

After a few rounds, Yu Fei began to change his style of play.

He knew not to respond to Yu Fei's trash talk.

"The wing lineup of Frye + Melo will be invincible."

There are stars in these two teams, but most of them are rookies who have just entered the league and the second and third players of their respective teams.

Deron ripped open the defense and passed back to Yu Fei.

Once the ball is distributed unevenly, the stars' egos will inflate.

Deron controls the ball from the outside and raises his hand to pick and roll.

Yu Fei chose to come to the White Team to play his first match with the national team, which indirectly avoided this problem.

The emperor's confidence seemed to be returning. After covering for Durant, Yu Fei suddenly came to the low post and jammed James' body: "Give me the ball!"

Yu Fei's roar stopped all Delong's movements.

When Da Fei continued to cooperate with him in pick-and-rolls regardless of his identity, Deron knew who the only person he needed to serve tonight was.

If Dafei wants the ball, he will give it to him. This is the basic service concept.

The moment Yu Fei received the ball, he stepped back and turned around to shoot. How could James, who had never practiced low-post defense, tell whether this was a real shot or a fake shot? The only thought in his mind was to block Yu Fei, which made his body loaded with endless energy jump up.

The greater the talent James displayed at that moment, the stronger the mockery of reality on him.

Yu Fei took advantage of the time difference between his landing and passed his body, jumped up, dialed the ball, and hit the ball with the board. “It’s so nice to not have to act like a big brother and pretend you’re improving every year!”

Yu Fei's cynicism towards James is the theme tonight, and those who know the grudge between Yu Fei and O'Neal will not be unfamiliar with this scene.

But James hasn't realized yet that this is the person he will face in the future.

However, Yu Fei's taunt did not dampen James' fighting spirit. He felt that the time had come and he would no longer be as embarrassed as he was at the beginning.

So, he called the pick-and-roll and stormed to the basket to score.

"If this is what you want!" James' confidence reached its limit at this moment, "I can satisfy you!"

At this moment, the game between the red and white teams was no longer important.

No matter how angry Kidd and Boozer are, this game is the stage for Yu Zhan to compete, and everyone else is a supporting role.

Yu Fei stayed in the backcourt, and Deron already knew what to do.

All he had to do was roll to the side and let Yu Fei dribble across half court.

The red team's double-team did not appear. The person who came to defend Yu Fei was James. Everyone pulled away in tacit understanding, but Yu Fei did not need such a large space.

Yu Fei's movements seemed simple and straightforward, not a single move was redundant. He pulled the ball with his hips, changed direction, and suddenly stopped after a strong thrust. James reacted, but was still one step behind.

When Yu Fei's shot flew out of his hand, his block came too late.

"Shh!"

"Satisfy me?" Yu Fei said, "Is this a line that a weakling who has escaped from the beginning to now can say?"

All eyes are focused here.

Reporters, writers, players, and coaching staff all had a premonition that the climax of this game was coming.

The same is single defense, Yu Fei versus James.

James made a tank-like breakthrough and scored two more points. However, Yu Fei turned around and made a three-pointer from a 45-degree angle to the left.

There is no time to breathe, James must continue. Although the savage but talent-only breakthrough is useful, it does not work every time.

Yu Fei took the initiative the moment before James started, slapped his ball aside, and then caught it.

The balance between you and me suddenly tipped towards the chosen one.

The Emperor is still using the most powerful basketball talent in the world, but no one tells him how to use the talent correctly, and no one warns him how to deal with it in order to survive the attack of the Chosen One.

Yu Fei came from the backcourt to the frontcourt without stopping the ball. The moment he hit James at full speed, he actually completed a difficult and fast turn against the opponent's body. His elbow then shook off the defender's body. He hit the latter hard on the back.

James felt sharp pain behind him, and a second later, a harsh dunk sound came from the air.

"Tell me!" Yu Fei didn't even look at him. He began to pick the fruits of victory blatantly, "Who is the strongest No. 3 position in the United States!!!?"

Da Fei's fans, including Bosh, responded loudly: "Da Fei, this has to be you!"

Yu Fei then pointed at James: "Then why does this bastard compete with me?"

Even those who support Yu Fei don't want to take sides in this feud. What's more, James looks shaky. His heart is not strong enough, his will is not firm enough, and his skills are simply unable to compete with Da Fei under FIBA ​​rules.

So, why does he become the starting three position of the US team?

James's strong attack was once again accurately predicted, but it must be said that his talent is too high. Even if Yu Fei knows where he is going to attack, if he cannot take the initiative to intercept before he makes a move, he will be knocked away.

Yu Fei learned from experience and adopted a close-fitting but not hard-top defense. In the end, he forced a block with the ball with his hands before James, and was fouled by the whistler.

"What's the use of giving him free throws?" Yu Fei glared at the referee who always whistled for James, "You don't think he can make the free throws, do you?"

James made one of two free throws, but the missed shot was the second free throw.

Yu Fei immediately launched a fast break counterattack and scored with a dunk.

This is hell, and the sense of loss and powerlessness is like an electric current that makes James feel numb. He can bear part of the blow, but once the load is exceeded, he will lose the will to fight.

He had fantasized about a decisive battle with Yu Fei countless times, but the reason why he fantasized about it was because he never knew Yu Fei's true appearance.

The devil in front of you is the most real side of the other person.

James' offense was affected by Kwame Brown and he missed a layup. He retreated as before, with no other thoughts in his mind. He just didn't want anyone to think that he had completely lost to Yu Fei at the end of the game.

The obsession with not wanting to fail led James to step forward. Such an extreme defense would either succeed or fail, with no middle option.

Yu Fei pushed James' body to the right. In the process, he realized that he had put all his focus on his strong side. Such a reckless defense had obvious flaws. He didn't know what James was thinking. Something went wrong, but since the other party gave him the opportunity, he would not let it go.

The moment Yu Fei forced the ball to the free throw line, he suddenly stopped, swayed his body and dribbled the ball behind his back to his left hand. James, whose whole body lost its fulcrum, collapsed like a landslide in front of Yu Fei.

At this moment, Kwame Brown remembered Yu Fei's last visit to DC that season in 2003.

He felt that James was even more miserable tonight than Jordan was at that time.

George Karl thought of every game between Yu Fei and O'Neal in recent years, but he didn't know if O'Neal had a game that was more embarrassing than James today.

Kidd thought of Kenyon Martin.

Prince thought of Richard Hamilton.

The strange thing is that they all feel that James is more embarrassed at this moment.

But everyone was wrong.

In Yu Fei's eyes, the ugliness of these people was exactly the same, because losers were always like this, and every defeated dog suffered the same blow and finally fell in a similar way.

But, to onlookers, forgetting makes everything better.

But abusers never forget.

will never.

Yu Fei's ball flew out of his hand and flew along the basket. Soon, the mission was completed with a "swish".

James raised his eyes and saw Yu Fei's stern face, and then heard the other party say ruthlessly: "You deserve this, LeBron."

(End of this chapter)