Chapter 7 Frye is one of the top high school students in the country
The next day, the four-day Nike Regional Invitational officially began.
The format of the official tournament is interesting, each game is divided into two halves, each half is 10 minutes long, and each team plays an average of two games per day.
Because of the time limit and the large number of participating teams, in order to take care of each team, the organizer has issued such rules.
And this kind of rule is really suitable for Yu Fei, who is currently physically unable to withstand two full games a day.
Before today's match, Hank Selwan had already secured the squad for two opponents.
Although it is an official competition, due to the large number of participating teams and the uneven level of each team, the Royals have one weak team in their two opponents today, while the other team is recognized as a hard stubble in this invitational tournament.
A team with two of the state's top high school students – the Cheeseburger.
Yu Fei felt that their name was Cheese Snow Leopard, which would be a little more effective.
The Cheeseburger team includes Chris Hill PG, the Seattle-area chief point guard, and Michael Fey C, a top 100 high school player in the United States.
Hill aside, although that fee is one of the top 100 high school students in the United States, it also occupies a name.
Because he happens to be ranked 100th in the United States...
For example, Jeffrey Day, who was just pinched by Yu Fei yesterday, is a high school student ranked 88th in the United States, and it stands to reason that Yu Fei, who easily defeated Dai, should also easily beat Fei.
But Selwan felt that it was not so simple, because this Fei had a seven-foot height and was the first seven-foot opponent since Yu Fei's debut.
The reason for the low ranking is that scouts don't think a giant like Fei who lacks speed can't survive at a higher level of play, and his instant combat power is at the level of a top high school student.
Yu Fei was so worried, because the stupid big man is not difficult to deal with, but the person who is known as the first point guard in Seattle is a bit difficult.
If Yu Fei blows up the fee on the inside line, but the outside line is completely blown up by Hill, then the game is not easy to say.
As a result, Selwan said: "Rest assured, Chris Hill is a traditional point guard, and one-line assault is not his forte. ”
Yu Feidao is short-sighted and doesn't know what a traditional point guard is, but he knows how this kind of point guard who can't attack plays ball.
The opponent almost knew it, and the Royals' first game of the day began.
According to the pre-game arrangement, Yu Fei very deliberately conserved his physical strength in the first game.
After half the game, they basically walked, and the positional battle was only blocked and dismantled on the outside, and they basically didn't take the ball, so they were played by Bobby Jonas.
In terms of positional battles, the success rate of the Royals is not as good as that of their opponents, which is a bit disappointing for the professionals who expressed their amazement at Fei yesterday.
They began to suspect that Yu Fei was a jumping man who couldn't attack at all.
However, they haven't forgotten how Yu Fei held the ball and shook off the defender to the front court to complete the windmill dunk yesterday after covering Jeffrey Day.
Yu Fei has such skills, why don't you show it?
This game did not give them an answer.
Yu Fei stepped forward to score 4 points, 13 rebounds and 7 blocks, and the Royals won with their indestructible interior defense and efficient defensive counterattacks.
After a two-hour break, they will face their second opponent of the day, the cheeseburger.
During the two-hour break, Yu Fei finally met Brandon Roy, Seattle's number one high school student, in Selwan's mouth.
Roy's team was made up of five players from Garfield High School, and as a result, they named their team the Five Tigers.
Yu Fei looked at the ball of the Five Tigers for a while, and felt that they should be the strongest team in the invitational tournament.
The five people in the team are incomparable to other teams in terms of strength and tacit understanding.
And Roy is undoubtedly the best of them all, although it doesn't seem as well-rounded as he later learned, but as a high school student, his style of play has matured.
Watching the Five Tigers beat their opponents to the running table, Yu Fei felt the pressure, and it didn't look easy to win the MVP of this invitational tournament.
After resting for a while, Yu Fei returned to his teammates and seriously prepared for the second game of the day.
During the warm-up, Yu Fei has been practicing mid-pitching.
In his previous life, his shooting belonged to the level of having a match and not a match, and in this life, it has been less than half a year now, and he needs to practice too much.
Yu Fei felt that the big man named Fei should not easily leave the penalty area to defend his shots, so using the pre-game warm-up to find the shooting touch as much as possible would help his game. Unfortunately, he didn't find the feel. This means that he needs to rely more on speed and tempo when challenging fees, as well as throwing throws specifically for big men before crossing.
Before the opening kick-off, Servan specifically did not let the Royals' top scorer Quinn Thomas enter the starting lineup.
Although she is a female player, Quinn has already used two days of games to prove that she does not let the eyebrows go, although the confrontation is difficult, but there is Yu Fei to protect the basket inside, she only needs to shoot three points, and she has done this job well.
In this game, Selvan changed his strategy, in addition to Anthony Lawson, who has always partnered with Yu Fei, he also replaced the short inside line Muhammad Healy, who is the same level as Yu Fei.
Without Yu Fei's joining, Healy and Lawson would have been the new Royals' interior starters.
However, this pair of interior starters, who are both under two meters tall, are not competitive.
Fortunately, Selwan no longer has to worry about the team's height.
The purpose of letting Healy start is to allow Yu Fei to fully show his talent in front of the professionals on the scene.
Yu Fei made his first appearance as a small forward in the invitational tournament.
With the Royals and Cheeseburgers being one of the last games of the day, and with three more high-profile hopefuls on the field, they also received the most attention on the field.
In addition to professionals from universities and the media, there are also members of the team who have finished the competition.
Before the game even started, Michael Fei laughed at Lawson, who was about to jump with him, "What did I see?" A shrimp with a mantis arm as a car, what about the Chinese guy who claimed to have blown up Jeffrey Day? Doesn't he dare to confront me? ”
"You!" Lawson was in a hurry, and his large nostrils were about to spew steam.
At this time, the referee signaled that the two sides were forbidden to communicate.
During the jump ball phase, Fei easily won possession for his team.
Subsequently, Chris Hill, the recognized Seattle chief point guard, called the pick-and-roll to break through Bobby Jonas's defense, his absolute speed is not fast, but the height of 1.9 meters is definitely a giant in high school basketball, and he directly gave Fei a high ball.
Fei pushed Lawson hard, violently poured the basket, and when he landed, he provocatively pulled the basket, and roared loudly: "Want to use the mantis arm as a car? Ha! ”
Fei's internal dominance caused a lot of discussion on the scene.
Brandon Roy's companions sighed: "That bastard played too easily on the inside, I don't think the Royals can stop him, that Fulai doesn't even dare to enter the inside, what is the lost star of Washington State, I think it's all media people bragging!" ”
Several others chimed in, but Roy remained silent.
Because he saw something unusual.
That "Fulai" actually asked for the ball from the backcourt and dribbled it to the front court himself.
Now, the Cheeseburger team didn't know who to defend.
Fei's speed is not suitable for leaving the penalty area, and the others are not tall enough.
Chris Hill made his own judgment, he thought that Yu Fei was putting on a show, trying to take the opportunity to hype himself, but in fact he didn't have that good dribbling ability.
As a result, Hill flew through the half-court and suddenly stepped forward to press on.
However, Yu Fei maturely chose to use his back against his defense, and then made a beautiful turn and dribble to get Hill out of the line, go straight to the three-point line, and score on the board with a throw in the paint area that went past Michael Fei's five-finger mountain.
Looking at Fei's unexpectedly unexpected expression, Yu Fei sneered: "Mantis arm as a car? Giggle! ”
When he returned to the defense, Yu Fei said to Lawson again: "Tony, you have to help me buy a little time, otherwise I won't be able to help you defend!" ”
Lawson replied, "I'll try my best!" ”
It is indeed a little difficult for Lawson, who is barefoot to be only 1.96 meters, to pay for his defense, but this is also Selwan's trade-off, because if Yu Fei is allowed to defend, the consumption of flying will be too great.
From the statistics, it can be seen that Fei will only attack the basket after getting the ball, and has no ability to respond.
Therefore, it is best to let a person go to the top as a sandbag, and Yu Fei's flank assistance is the best.
After that, Sakuragi Hanamichi's ultra-low center of gravity defense of Kogawada became a reality in Yu Fei's eyes.
In order to buy time for Yu Fei to assist in defense, Lawson bent down and died, which was simply a fight for his life.
It makes sense.
Offense is no longer as simple as catching the ball, topping, and turning around for dunking for Fei.
His attack was delayed, and when he held up the ball again, Yu Fei's assistance had arrived, and under the wrap, Fei's pass was wrong.
Bobby Jonas counters successfully.
Later, Yu Fei found that Fei was not good at dealing with the shortcomings of the front defense, so Lawson went around the front, and Hill took the risk of hanging the ball, which was intercepted by Yu Fei.
When Fei finally received the ball, and sat down with Lawson, ready to slam the dunk to vent, Yu Fei had already returned to the basket, jumped on one foot, jumped nearly one meter high, and slapped the ball in Fei's hand out of bounds, and the scene erupted into tsunami-like cheers.
Fei Fei, who was knocked to the ground with the ball by Lian Ren, was anxiously looking for the position of the ball, only to see that Yu Fei had already walked to the position of the ball, grabbed it with one hand, and mocked softly: "There is a reason why you are ranked 100th in the United States, Jeffrey Day is already on the way to sex reassignment surgery, do you want to join him?" ”
Because of Yu Fei's insulting trash talk, he ate the referee's T.
In addition, the referee warned that if there is a repeat offense, he will be ejected.
But this T did not have an impact on the situation.
Michael Fei was completely crushed.
His teammate, Chris Hill, known as Seattle's No. 1 point guard, tried to save the game with his individual ability, but as Sylvan said, he was a pure point guard and didn't have the ability to switch to Warrior mode and Lonely Carry.
And Yu Fei showed his other form in this game.
When he's on the ball, he's not the same thing, he's a different player.
"Washington State's chief player?"
A sports reporter at the scene thought about it and crossed out the line, and wrote in his notebook: "Frye is one of the top high school students in the country." ”