Chapter 130: Defeated

Objectively speaking, Ye Feng is indeed a talented small forward, and his physical fitness will also make people subconsciously ignore his bloodline, but this time it is James who stands in front of him. www.biquge.info Whether it's speed, bounce, power, explosiveness, agility or endurance, James' performance is historic, he has a strong frame that makes people feel intimidated, and in a sense, he is a small forward with the weight of a center and the speed of a guard.

Since he came into contact with basketball, Ye Feng has been putting a lot of effort into physical training, but it is completely not enough to see compared to James. Whether it's the regular season or offseason, James makes the most of his time outside of competition to train and strengthen an aspect of himself through other sports, such as cycling and boxing. In the U.S. national team, he was stimulated by Kobe and Kidd to continue to increase his training, which also made his already extraordinary physical fitness even more terrifying, and he really looked as if he had steel bars and gears embedded in his body.

After the start of the game, the first offensive round of the Trail Blazers was fruitless, the reason is very simple, Ye Feng, who wanted to get the ball in the elbow area, did not play his back-to-back singles skills at all, because he couldn't squeeze James behind him at all, and he was directly slapped off by the opponent when he forcibly turned around. Then there's the scene James does most often in games, and Cleveland fans love to see the most - a single-handedly dribble with a fast break, followed by a flying slam dunk like a roc spreading its wings. It stands to reason that Ye Feng must return to defense, but James accidentally bumped into him when he started, and Ye Feng, who seemed to have been hit by a hammer in the shoulder, was obviously one step slower than his two guards, let alone catch up with James.

Unbelieving in evil, he continued to raise his hand to Blake to ask for the ball, but unfortunately he failed to hit the shot in three consecutive singles, but instead let the Cavaliers play an 8-0 start, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ye Feng is completely inferior in one-on-one situations. He had no choice but to make a gesture to Roy and let the captain take over the team's offense, while he himself planned to switch to an off-ball offense. But he underestimated James, in fact, he didn't underestimate it, after all, he watched a lot of James's videos, but only when he stood in front of this person, he would find many details that could not be found in the videos.

Judging from the data, it is obvious that James has a strong offensive firepower, but this is because the Cavaliers need a star like him to lead the team's offense, just look at their starting lineup, except for Xiao Mo may be able to provide some support, neither Vallejo nor Pavlovic are good at offense, as for the remaining one...... Forget it, counting on the "Big Ben" offense, it is better to ask him to grab a few more rebounds, besides, the hero of the 2004 Pistons championship is thirty-four or five years old, and he can't force him to fight for muscles under the basket with a young man in his early twenties like Oden.

However, Ye Feng's most intuitive feeling is James's defense, this man has never shown himself as a defensive titan in the news reports of major media, but his defense is quite good. Although Ye Feng deliberately increased the proportion of running without the ball, James still followed him effortlessly, and what made people feel even more speechless was that even if Ye Feng went around the cover to catch the ball, James could squeeze directly from the side of the player who was doing the wall, you must know that among the five people who started the Trail Blazers, only Oden's size could compete with him, and the cover of others did not play a role at all.

In the entire first quarter, Ye Feng only took advantage of James' negligence to hit a three-pointer, and if it weren't for Roy and Ade's consecutive scores, the Trail Blazers might have been directly beaten by the Cavaliers in the first quarter. Not only James, but under his leadership, Xiao Mo also showed a good outside shooting touch in the first quarter, and the two burst out to lead the Cavaliers 32-27. There is no doubt that now Ye Feng has become the biggest weakness of the Trail Blazers, but there is no way, there are not many wings in the league that can take advantage of James, at least Ye Feng's performance is still expected by the head coach.

After the two sides fielded a second lineup, the Trail Blazers' offense was played well under Rodriguez, and fellow rookies Batum and Bayless were surprisingly eye-catching, both of whom carried most of the team's offensive load. The only thing that made McMillan feel a little uncomfortable was that Oterlo, who was supposed to be the leader of the team's second team, looked cold and missed shots several times in a row, but fortunately he was not the kind of player with a stubborn personality, and simply focused on the defensive end when the offense was not effective, but also did a good job of keeping the Cavaliers' bench wing Szczebiak at bay.

But when the Trail Blazers just tied the score, Mike Brown waved his hand, James took the other four starters to the game again, and McMillan had to put on his starting lineup in the same way, otherwise he would really be blown up by the Cavaliers. Facing James again, Ye Feng still didn't find a good way, and his anxious mentality affected his shooting, and he missed all three outside shots in half a quarter, and didn't score a point in the second quarter. What's even more helpless is that he can't prevent James, yes, he is indeed better than James in terms of ball skills, but the extent of exceeding is limited, and James doesn't play skills with you at all, and directly uses his non-human physical fitness to run over all the way, and even took Ye Feng to eat two personal fouls in half a quarter, and even Oden was hit by the pond fish and sent James two free throws.

Ye Feng understands that this is a completely different power-based style of play from himself, although his strength is also good, but he is really embarrassed to say such things in the face of James. Indeed, it seems that James's style of play is indeed not as elegant and handsome as himself, but the professional arena is a consequential place most of the time, and it doesn't matter if the action is not good-looking, as long as you can put the ball in the basket and lead the team to victory, then you are a star and a hero! When it comes to being handsome, those guys who play streetball are definitely good at it, but how many of them can succeed in the NBA?

A great man once said, "It doesn't matter if it's a black cat or a white cat, it's a good cat if it catches a mouse." Of course, this can also be used in the NBA, no matter whether your movements look good or not, as long as you can score. It's not that James can't make his ball skills look better, it's just that he doesn't think it's necessary, it's better to further expand his advantages and score in a simple way, why choose those flashy ball skills?

Ye Feng felt that he still had a lot to learn.