When pride still matters

Chapter 363 The person trying to reason with the dog referee

Chapter 363: The person trying to reason with the dog referee
No one enjoys watching Yu Fei duel with Durant more than Kwame Brown.

This reserved program before the start of each game was initially the most popular program within the team, but when everyone discovered that Durant had no power to fight back, and the script was the same every day.

Yu Fei was trash-talking and beating Durant violently.

As time goes by, everyone loses interest.

But Brown watched with amusement.

Because it was interesting to watch Yu Fei imitate Jordan offline, and he wanted to know how long Durant could endure it.

Brown still remembers what happened when Jordan took the initiative to challenge Yu Fei before the game started.

By any measure, the intensity of that duel exceeded the level of a bullfight.

Jordan just wanted to find Yu Fei to practice, but Yu Fei escalated it into a war.

For the project to work, Durant needed to convince himself that he was as good as Nike expected him to be.

This is Brown's perception. Now it seems that Durant can't do it either.

If we count it from the beginning of the pre-season training camp, it has been more than a month now, and Durant has never been angry. No matter how Yu Fei puts pressure, he always calmly accepts his situation.

"No."

"why?"

His goal is not to be next.

When Yu Fei mentioned Durant's habit of giving his mother a kiss before the game started, Durant's mood fluctuated, but it was still very small.

Some people are ruthless in their bones, and some people are cowardly in their bones.

"Why do you always look so weak?" Yu Fei asked, "What are you worried about, KD?"

Perhaps at some moments, Yu Fei even made Jordan doubt whether he still had the ability to dominate the court. It turned out that he lost that ability.

Durant said: "Because I can't pretend that you are my opponent."

"You want to say that you are unwilling to hurt your teammates, but what if I am your opponent?" Yu Fei asked, "Can you treat me as your opponent?"

He couldn't even defeat the 18-year-old Yu Fei.

And, that’s scary, isn’t it?
Even if Durant is ambitious, he would never dare to fall out with Yu Fei at this stage. He has already seen James' end.

Jordan trash talking? Yu Fei squirted harder.

The good-guy persona is another great image project carried out by Nike for Durant.

In response to Fei's questioning, Durant's answer was quite mild: "Because we are teammates."

The bullfight ended 11-3.

Six years later, recalling this past event again, what surprised Brown was not that Jordan tried to teach Yu Fei a lesson but failed, but that Yu Fei dared to take the initiative to attack.

"What do you mean, you will be ruthless when dealing with your opponents?" Yu Fei wanted to force out the devil Du who opened a trumpet to scold his teammates, shamelessly scolded netizens, and could only be incompetent and furious in the face of Green's formula.

Only a few can.

But he now suspects that Devil Du may not exist.

In other words, Devil Du has not yet been born.

In the end, Yu Fei firmly believed that the Durant he saw was still in disguise, but he was afraid of his own majesty so he didn't dare to show his true face.

In this case, let's look at his attitude towards his opponents.

Unexpectedly, Durant actually said: "I will treat each of our opponents based on legitimate basketball logic and professional sportsmanship."

"What do you mean?"

Brown next to him couldn't help but laugh: "It means, he has sportsmanship, Da Fei, he actually has something you don't have."

"you can."

Yu Fei had nothing to say to Adu and walked away with a complicated expression.

A few minutes later, Yu Fei saw a strange thing happening on the magic field.

Dwight Howard was surrounded by his teammates like a preacher, praying to God devoutly: "Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us the opportunity to play this game. Before the game begins, please protect us, give us strength and Wisdom. Let us compete with humility and teamwork and give you all the glory. Amen.”

"What is this?" Yu Fei asked jokingly, "Choir Basketball Team?"

Howard smiled and said: "Fry, everything that happened tonight was the will of the Lord."

"Is it the Lord's will for you to sleep with different women every day in Las Vegas?" Yu Fei asked.

When a person is so hypocritical that he believes that everything he does is arranged by God, other people's ridicule cannot hurt him in the slightest.

Howard said with an O'Neal smirk: "I think so."

Yu Fei decided not to communicate with this person ineffectively.

Before the game started, Yu Fei said hello to his old teammate Bell and Carter, who failed to join forces with him in Seattle as he wished.

Looking at the position, Yu Fei discovered that the Magic actually arranged for Bell and Durant to face off.

So, after Yu Fei was in position, he said to Bell: "Laga, are you sure you don't want to guard me?"

Bell said with a straight face: "Not interested." "Are you sure? If you are beaten by me, you can say that you lost to the best in the league, but if you are beaten by a rookie,"

Hearing this, Bell stared at Durant maliciously.

Durant looked at him and said without hesitation: "Nice to meet you."

Bell has heard of Durant and knows that the outside world believes that he is the next superstar.

But no matter what his future holds, he is just a rookie now.

"I hope you're still this happy after the game."

Why not? Durant didn't know where Bell's ill will toward him came from.

He just wants to be a good person in his duty, so why does the world want him to follow the path of a bad person?

Can't he be a good person?

At the beginning, Howard showed an amazing bounce and won the ball for the Magic.

Howard dropped low, and although Brown was stuck in position, it was the only thing he could do.

The Magic ball passed from the outside into the inside. Howard's exaggerated shoulder width allowed him to easily get stuck on Brown. He rotated his body inward to push away the defense, jumped and scored with a hook.

In terms of playing close to the basket, there is no difference between Howard and O'Neal. They both rely on their bodies to fight hard. But Howard's height and weight are not as good as O'Neal, so he can only bully insiders like Brown, and it is difficult to perform against big centers.

The Magic asked Carter to defend Yu Fei, but unexpectedly, Roy was the first to attack for the SuperSonics.

Roy faced Nelson and made consecutive pull-up jumpers, easily scoring 2 points.

Howard enjoys the joy of beating opponents in the paint too much. As a new generation of super centers, the most criticized thing about him is that he does not have the same stable singles ability as other super centers.

He wants to prove that he is not incapable of playing in singles. If he is given an opponent like Kwame Brown in every game, he can definitely play like O'Neal.

However, if you blindly regard Brown as your own dish, you will also be frustrated.

Brown was not a low-post punching bag without the power to fight back. Howard hit him from behind again. This time, Brown predicted the opponent's attack direction. Just before Howard turned around and exploded, he shot the ball away.

This allowed Yu Fei, who sneaked in and wanted to double-team, to take Howard's ball, rush to the frontcourt, run over Carter's body, and score a dunk.

"How many points can I get in the dunk contest with this shot?"

Carter said angrily: "I will give you 6 points at most!"

The stars of both sides started to work hard at the beginning, with the Magic focusing on the inside and the SuperSonics on the outside.

However, there is nothing about Durant here.

In his two seasons with the Bucks, Raja Bell has established himself as the league's No. 3 D player. This season, he assisted Howard and turned the Magic into the most resilient defensive team in the East. Now they have to deal with the rookie Du, who is flying at the first touch. In fact, There is no difficulty.

Durant felt targeted.

Not only opponents, but also referees are targeting him.

Bell's movements are basically obvious. All kinds of small movements and body contacts that affect the feel are all walking on the boundary between fouls and non-fouls. Durant believed that if these actions were used on Yu Fei, the referee would definitely blow the whistle.

After being invisible for a few minutes, Roy finally fed Durant a ball.

Unexpectedly, when Durant was about to take a shot, Bell hit the ball first and then slapped the ball away.

"Mr. Referee, he committed a foul!" Durant asked, "Didn't you see it?"

In order to increase his persuasiveness, Durant even demonstrated how Bell committed three fouls. The result was that the referee was frightened. Bald referee Crawford believed that Durant had offended the referee's authority, so he added a technical foul.

"No sir, I didn't"

"I'm sorry, Joe, this newbie is undisciplined."

Yu Fei smiled and smoothed things over, then dragged Durant away.

"He fouled me, Frye, I swear, I didn't do anything incorrect! That referee had an improper relationship with Orlando!" Durant blushed with anger, "He is Donaghy II! "

"Everything you said is right." Yu Fei shouted to stop him from continuing to defend himself, "But these won't work against a dog referee who will eject a player who is sitting on the court and giggling!"

Durant was speechless.

The Magic made two free throws and still had the ball.

Then, James Posey showed Durant how to tell the referee that he was dissatisfied with the call.

Reasoning is useless.

When Posey defended Turkoglu and was called for a foul, and in turn, he provided a screen for Yu Fei and then passed the ball down the field but was ignored by the thugs, he directly bared his teeth at the deputy referee: "This kind of ball is fucking impossible. What do you want if you don’t blow? If your fucking bullshit whistle doesn’t work, I can stuff it in you!@#”

The Sonics got another technical foul.

But the strange thing is that from that moment on, it became much easier for Posey to cause fouls, and the referee did not want to further stimulate his emotions.

Durant didn't understand this. Bell almost suffocated him when he defended him. The occasional opportunity he got was restricted by the opponent's improper basketball moves.

Halfway through the first quarter, Karl replaced Durant with Childress.

Seeing Durant's "I don't know whether it's me or the world that's wrong" expression, Childress pretended to be a wise man and preached: "Don't be discouraged, rookie, this is how our evil alliance works, damn it. The referees think they need to treat rookies harshly so that we can feel awe of them deep down in our hearts. In fact, we all know they are shit. This is why I hate the NBA. European basketball is more pure and the NBA is just a circus. "

Durant didn't understand, but was shocked. Whether it was Posey getting preferential treatment after swearing, or whether he was being criticized for being stupid despite his efforts to be reasonable, this made him have to rethink whether his way of playing was correct.

(End of this chapter)