When pride still matters

Chapter 473 Passing Master (One)

This is another attack Yu Fei launched against Jordan after the Today Show.

If "The Today Show" was a defensive counterattack, this time it's an offensive one.

After retiring, Joe lived in seclusion. Just like those great actors, they knew that they had to maintain enough mystery to gain enough popularity in the circle.

But now, Yu Fei, who has won his sixth championship, is a real GOAT contender.

In terms of basketball honors, Jordan's supporters can no longer say that Jordan is a better player than Yu Fei.

Now Yu Fei takes the initiative to create trouble, points the finger at Jordan, and indirectly denies Jonny Flynn. This is unacceptable to Flynn's fans and Jordan himself.

Fans from Syracuse University went berserk under Yu Fei's latest tweet.

They were quickly suppressed by more than ten times the number of Yu Fei fans.

Then, public opinion fermented to the point where Jordan himself had to respond.

"He said he traded me, but isn't that a denial of me?" Yu Fei asked, "Is that what he said?"

Now the TV station needs his traffic and popularity.

Lin Kaiwen answered on his behalf: "Because Frye likes it."

But Yu Fei rarely accepts TV interviews before games.

They had no plan to watch the game. They just wanted to see how Yu Fei responded to Jordan and changed his mind. Now that the game was about to start, they were willing to take a look for Yu Fei's sake.

Then, ESPN arranged for an interview with Jim Gray.

"Of course he has the right to say whatever he wants to say, I don't care what he thinks." Jordan responded to Fei with a nonchalant attitude after a golf Masters tournament in the Charlotte area. "He said that most of the people I was optimistic about ended up failing. I wonder, has he forgotten that I was optimistic about him? Does he want to say that he is a failure? Yes, I traded him, but this is competition and grudges. , is not a denial of him.”

Even if they came to watch the game, most of their attention was on Fei.

Ever since James publicly broadcast his "decision," ESPN has fallen in love with the term special.

But Yu Fei often chooses more lethal methods.

They keenly grasped Jordan's question: "Has Michael's ability to understand declined? Frye clearly said that '99% of the people he values ​​​​will end in failure.' Any normal person can interpret this sentence It’s understood that Frye is the 1% exception, but Michael doesn’t seem to understand.”

"What did he say?" Yu Feixiao asked.

Jordan's response was less forceful.

As for the SuperSonics-Pistons game? Not that many people care.

In debates on the Internet, people always like to catch the other party's language errors to counterattack. This is a common thing.

In the second game of the new season for the SuperSonics, they went to Detroit to play away.

Gray repeated Jordan's response, and the fans in front of the TV saw the video of Jordan's live interview.

Yu Fei laughed sarcastically: "This is like Nixon saying, 'Except for the Watergate incident, I have done a pretty good job as president.'"

As a rebuilding team, the Pistons shouldn't have received so much attention, but because their opponent was the Sonics, they got the opportunity to be broadcast nationally.

Fame is a watch, and its appeal is the same to everyone.

ESPN arranged a one-on-one interview with Yu Fei and Durant before the game.

The Pistons were one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference over the past decade until they let go of Ben Wallace a few years ago, then sent Billups in the Allen Iverson trade, and then again this year. Summer inevitably watched Richard Hamilton become a member of the Avengers.

But Yu Fei didn't like it, so he asked ESPN to change the program's name to "Special Military Operations."

Joe Dumars confoundingly believes Rodney Stuckey is the Motor City's hope for rebirth, while Jason Markhill has a 50 percent chance of becoming 2010s Ben Wallace, with 30 more to go % chance of being better than Big Ben. Then, Dumars believed that Stuckey and Ben were inexperienced, so he spent a large contract to get Ben Gordon, and then signed Ben back after having been idle for several years.

Gray nodded firmly: "That's right."

And Yu Fei has passed the time of accepting this arrangement to please the TV station.

ESPN wants to know why.

On the Internet, Yu Fei has an overwhelming number of fans.

The relationship between the two has already turned against Tiangang.

However, Yu Fei and ESPN's "Special Military Operations" program successfully brought millions of viewers to the game.

Because the TV station often needs Lin Kaiwen's permission before asking Yu Fei what he means.

Gray first asked a few questions about the SuperSonics' preparations in a routine manner, and then stepped up his power and came to the core area: "Fry, your comment on Michael Jordan the night before yesterday has become the biggest sports news these days, but in Michael responded to you yesterday afternoon."

Many people are not here for the game at all, they just want to hear how Yu Fei responds to Jordan.

Yu Fei's interview lasted less than six minutes, but attracted millions of viewers.

Because of the persona Nike crafted for him—an unreal good guy in the real world. He always takes the trouble to spend 10-20 minutes doing interviews before the game. He will be on the show to talk about "loyalty," "winning," "the future," "the meaning of a championship" and "Kevin Durant's relentless pursuit of excellence."

ESPN just accepts it.

So they ignored the Sonics' poor performance tonight.

In other words, Stuckey wants to try to be the core next to a big boss, and Mark Hill obviously has an 80% chance of becoming the boss (or surpassing the boss), but Dumas still wants him to be next to the big boss. Learn how to play ball.

It should be noted that Durant's pre-game interviews are his repertoire.

Thanks to Yu Fei, Nixon, the most controversial American leader of the last century, became a trending topic on Twitter, and thousands of people began to compare his scandal with Jordan's trade of Yu Fei.

So when Yu Fei asked Lin Kaiwen to tell ESPN that he wanted to do an interview for a few minutes before the game, ESPN immediately gave it the highest standard and called Yu Fei's interview a "pre-game special."

Observers in the sports world always ask why geniuses never realize their talents, but they cannot answer why some general managers who seem to be geniuses magically become mentally retarded in a few years after proving themselves to be geniuses.

It's like the director of "The Ming Dynasty" can make shit like "Martial Arts" at the same time.

However, the good thing is that the Pistons are gradually becoming the team in Yu Fei's memory.

Mediocre, bad, always.

It happened that such a bad team put the Sonics into a tough battle.

In the first half, the Pistons maintained their traditional iron-blooded style and relied on defense to draw with the SuperSonics, 48 ​​to 48.

ESPN's Jeff Van Gundy mentioned: "The last time the Sonics scored 48 points in a half was back in 2008."

Even more eye-catching than Yu Fei's 48 points at halftime was 22 points at halftime.

It's not that Yu Fei's performance means that the Sonics are in trouble, but that they clearly have many scorers, but they are facing a mediocre team and constantly let their ace create opportunities.

George Karl saw Roy's limitations.

It can also be said that this is not Roy's limitation, it is the limitation of having only one ball in a basketball game.

When Yu Fei's ball rights can no longer be reduced, how to satisfy the desires of young people without marginalizing the role of a player like Bosh who takes the initiative to shoot is a problem.

If Roy is a player like Kidd, maybe the problem can be solved.

Ji Bu Gong is not called for nothing.

Kidd can not shoot a ball and only feeds the ball to his teammates, but Roy's background as the league's top combo guard cannot be erased. The prerequisite for fulfilling the responsibilities of a point guard is that he is still full of threats on the offensive end. Otherwise, his organizational ability is just a loft in the sky.

Roy couldn't help but take action, and he couldn't just watch those who were dissatisfied with their desires being ignored by him, so he kept passing the ball to Yu Fei.

This is tantamount to shifting the problem to Yu Fei.

However, Durant and the others had the courage to ask Roy for the ball, but they did not have the courage to put the same pressure on Yu Fei.

So Yu Fei continued to attack, and the Pistons insisted on single defense, and would never waver even if they were beaten.

This led to a situation in the first half.

Yu Fei performed well, but the Sonics did not present a three-dimensional offensive system at all.

"Brandon, as our organizer, do you only know how to pass the ball to the best player on the field?" Yu Fei asked in the locker room, "If so, your job is too easy. !”

Roy complained: "Every time I get the ball, there are two or three people asking me for the ball. Who do you think I should give it to? Of course I can only give it to you!"

"Brandon, I don't have to have the ball," Bosh explained.

Durant hesitated to speak.

No one wants the ball more than he does.

After intensive special training in the summer, he felt that his level had risen to a new level. Although he was beaten by Yu Fei in the intra-team competition, he believed that it was mainly because the intensity of the intra-team competition was higher than that of the official game.

Yu Fei can use foul actions at will in the competition, and no one will whistle for him. Who will do this to him in the official game?
No matter what, he is a rising star that the league is touting.

"Did you hear that? Chris doesn't like the ball as much as you think. We have all played in the national team. You should know what kind of player Chris is!" Yu Fei turned to Durant, "Kevin, you have Problem?"

Durant's problem is that he wants to average 20 shots per game.

But he can't make that claim in a world where he averages 18 shots per game.

Therefore, he can only lower his requirements. 20 goals is too many, but 18 goals is always okay, right?

"Of course, I have no problem." Kevin Durant said what he thought Kevin Durant should say at this time.

Yu Feixiao asked Roy: "Did you hear that, passing master?"

Roy was ridiculed by Yu Fei and became angry: "OK, in the second half, play according to the tactics. Whoever the tactics come from will belong to him!"

Kwame Brown laughed.

"Kwame, why are you laughing again?" Roy looked at him dissatisfied.

"I said the same thing last month when I was coaching a group of junior high students to play," Brown said.

This time it was Yu Fei's turn to laugh.

"That's enough!" Roy yelled, "I've had enough of you bastards!"

It was the best locker room atmosphere Carr could have imagined.

He was surprised that the Sonics could still have such an internal atmosphere.

The propaganda of "One Empire" is not tearing the Sonics into pieces as observers predicted. At least for now, there is no such trend. The problems in the first half were solved forcefully by Yu Fei in the locker room.

His solution was not to blame Bosh and Durant, but to retreat and let them take the initiative to express their opinions, thus reducing Roy's pressure.

Brown's jokes were the metronome of the atmosphere. Karl really didn't know if the other party had communicated with Yu Fei beforehand, otherwise how could they cooperate so well.

But have the hidden dangers been resolved? Karl looked at Durant's face.

The son of America's eyes are clear, and you absolutely cannot question whether he is selfish, but if he is truly a selfless person who can compete without controversy, then he will become a paradox in the history of sports.

Pulitzer Prize winner David Halberstam said when writing his book about Jordan: "Superstars are perfectionistic monomaniacs."

If you don’t have enough persistence, you won’t be able to overcome all obstacles and win. Everyone wants a superstar to have a character like Charles Barkley, but ironically, Barkley never succeeded. Does this prove that someone like Barkley can't succeed? You can't prove it, but the fact is that he didn't succeed, so he became the representative of failure, and people like Jordan became the representative of success.

Now Yu Fei has become the representative of Jordan. He has 90% of Jordan, but the 10% that distinguishes him from Jordan is what makes him truly special. However, Yu Fei was not called a good guy by his opponents for a second in his career.

If Durant is as pure a good guy as his external image suggests, then this will be the best news the Sonics can get, even if the cost is that Durant will become a new generation of David Robinson.

But Yu Fei didn't believe everything he showed from the first day he met Durant.

So, the problem is not solved, it just hides in the deep water.

In the second half, the Sonics made the Pistons feel like what happened in the first half was a dream.

In the first half, the Sonics pointed Yu Fei alive, but at the beginning of the second half, the scene became a little cruel.

Roy has become the Roy he was last season.

His attack from the perimeter is unstoppable.

The Pistons slightly increased the defensive pressure on him, and his pass pierced the opponent's heart like an arrow.

Durant made a three-pointer from the outside, Bosh's mid-range shot combined with the face-to-basket attack to bully the inside, and then showed a three-pointer in the buzzer attack in the third quarter.

The only one who didn't perform well was Kwame Brown.

The big four in the starting lineup were responsible for the random killing, and he was responsible for the squandering. He made several mistakes due to grease on his hands.

In the fourth quarter, the Sonics already led by 16 points, and Karl replaced Brown with DeAndre Jordan.

Suddenly, Sonic seemed complete.

The combination of Roy, Durant, Yu Fei, Bosh and DeAndre Jordan maximizes shooting range, athletic ability, offensive and defensive intensity, rebounding, and positioning.

As a basketball player, Jordan was so primitive that he had nothing worth mentioning except for his physical talent.

This shows that he doesn't need the ball much.

But when he fights for rebounds and protects the rim, his physical talent, which is more than a level above Brown, is particularly eye-catching.

Within three minutes, the SuperSonics launched a 16-0 offensive, completely turning the Palace of Auburn Hills into a mute palace.

"If I were you, I would practice shooting from today on." Xiao Ou taunted Brown off the court, "You can do everything you can do as a DJ!"

Brown's arrogance has penetrated deep into his bones, and he simply doesn't think that such a garbage game can change anything.

He didn't have any respect for the rats like Xiao Ou who came to rub the championship. He didn't even bother to open his mouth. He directly gestured with four fingers with his sexy little hand: I, the four-time center, shut up!
"Okay, okay!" Xiao Ao laughed angrily, "Sooner or later, you will sit next to me!"

The game has entered garbage time. Yu Fei passed an alley-oop to Jordan before leaving the field.

However, Jordan's CPU burned out. He didn't expect that he could pass the ball like this through the alley-oop. As soon as he hesitated, the ball was snatched away by his opponent.

He immediately committed a tactical foul on his opponent, and then looked at Yu Fei with a pale face like his dead parents.

"Fry.I."

"It's okay, Kwame will make such mistakes too." Yu Fei is about to be replaced by Anthony Morrow.

He glanced at Jordan again before leaving the court, "But Kwame can make mistakes because his name is Kwame Brown. You haven't really established yourself in the NBA yet. Do you understand what I mean?"

Xiao Qiaodan quickly responded.

Yu Fei is gone.

As soon as he came off the field, he heard Brown say: "Fry, that kid is really useless. He messed up a pass that could have been a top ten ball!"

"It doesn't matter." Yu Fei smiled, "Didn't you mess up a few too?"

Brown choked.

Xiao Ao took the opportunity to taunt: "Why don't you extend four fingers to Fry?"

"Shut up!" Brown shouted angrily, "You're not even qualified to lift your finger!"

"That's enough." Yu Fei stopped Brown's noise, "DJ is still very young. We need to encourage him more and act like a veteran."

Brown started to get a little worried. Is Da Fei really optimistic about DJ?

"Did you encourage him?" Brown asked.

"Of course." Yu Fei said, "I asked him to learn more from you."

His tense heart suddenly relaxed, and Brown laughed: "That kid has nothing but physical fitness. I disciplined him for a year, and he only learned a little bit."

Xiao Ao asked impolitely: "Like being in a daze after seeing a wonderful pass?"

"Fuck you!@￥!@#￥"

Yu Fei doesn't have high requirements for Brown.

As long as it can provide strong blocking, defense and pick-and-roll in the playoffs, it will be considered qualified.

It was probably because he had too low expectations for Brown. As their careers became more successful, Brown's self-praise rose from the second center in the Eastern Conference to the first inside player in the league. His level rose, but his skills did not.

Yu Fei asked him to practice shooting. He would practice for a while, make a few shots in the game, and then gradually give up because of instability.

Because of their relationship, he can indulge Brown, but he must know that as an insider with poor static talent and basketball skills that have been worn away by many years of blue-collar career, if he cannot take the initiative to develop in this world where shooting has become a matter of life and death. In terms of offensive skills, Jordan, as a top talent who also has no real skills, can quickly surpass him based on his raw ability.

At that time, even if Yu Fei protects him, the coaching staff must fairly determine their status.

Because this is basketball.

Who is strong and who is weak is visible to the naked eye.

In the last six minutes, Jermaine O'Neal came on to replace Chris Bosh, and the game officially entered garbage time.

In the end, 119 to 87, the SuperSonics defeated the Pistons and won their second consecutive victory.

Yu Fei, who scored 22 points in the first half, scored 9 points in the second half relying on three-pointers, but the SuperSonics won by 32 points in the second half.

Reporters couldn't help but wonder why there was such a big change.

A poor answer to this question may be used by Yu Hei as material for "Yu Fei can't score and the Supersonics play better".

Yu Fei smiled and said: "It's like a tug of war. In the first half, I was the only one working hard. In the second half, the rest of us also worked hard. As the stronger side, as long as we work together, it will be easy to win the game." easy."

"Do you still want to talk about Michael Jordan?"

"Did he respond?"

"not yet."

"Forget it." Yu Fei said, "You know, I'm not a person who spends every penny."

"Fry said I was a pass master, and I was."

今晚18投8中的罗伊拿到了22分4篮板12助攻。

The second half was as good as he could have imagined.

He makes decisions at the top of the arc, and if he can't make a decision, he passes the ball to Yu Fei.

Under normal circumstances, as long as there are not many people asking for the ball, he can still organize the offense in an orderly manner.

"The important thing is to satisfy everyone," Roy said, "and I feel like I did that tonight."

However, Roy actually didn't do it.

Kevin Durant was quietly dissatisfied.

After the game, Durant immediately asked for statistics.

上面写着：弗莱·于18投11中，得到31分9篮板6助攻2抢断1盖帽、布兰登·罗伊18投8中得到22分4篮板12助攻、克里斯·波什10投6中拿下16分7篮板1助攻1盖帽、夸梅·布朗可以无视——凯文·杜兰特，也就是他，在这场比赛里15投8中拿到23分5篮板1助攻。

Don't I deserve 18 shots a game?

Durant asked himself.

"Kevin, you scored 23 points efficiently tonight, who do you think helped you do that?"

No one helped me.

Durant looked at him and replied with a smile: "You have asked me many times, and my answer will always be this. Team, I can't do it without a great team."

"Fry called Brandon a passing guru, what do you think?"

That's sarcasm, you no, I can't say that, that's not something Kevin Durant would say.

But the pass master should pass the ball to teammates with a higher shooting percentage when the shooting percentage is poor.

"He got 12 assists," Durant said. "I don't have any doubts."

"Pistons fans thought you beat them in the second half, but Kwame Brown thought the fans were too fragile. What do you think?"

"Enjoy the night." The American son smiled brightly. "The Pistons are a great team and they have a great history, but I know they are rebuilding. Once upon a time, the same was true for the Sonics. Look at us. How great is it now? Enjoy the process, you are on your way to success.”

But back home, America's son Kevin Durant still thinks about it over and over again.

Why can't he get 18 shots?
PS: How do you evaluate the fact that my city will rain heavily every day in the next week? I think it's Murray's fault. He messed up GOAT's season, and as a GOAT fan, I actually slept until dusk after watching the game. This is divine punishment.

(End of this chapter)