Chapter 15: You Are Like My Child
Some of the top college basketball recruiters who had only heard of Tai Fei's name but had never seen him play live had begun with concerns that Yu Fei wasn't fit enough to play as a center at a higher level.
Now, that thought is gone.
Yu Fei has been playing as a center because no one on the Royal team can fulfill the duties of a center in a high-level high school game except for him.
He is a center on the defensive end and does what a defensive core should do, but on the offensive end, he is no different from a forward or even a defender.
He likes to dribble, is skilled with the ball, can use a variety of guard-style dribbling movements, and has a single hand to shoot, although he has just developed this skill, he is full of confidence, dare to shoot, shooting posture seems to be no problem, as long as you practice consistently, you can definitely turn shooting into a regular offensive weapon.
Long Beach High School was defeated by Yu Fei from both offensive and defensive ends.
They are unable to effectively attack the restricted area where Yu Fei is stationed.
The more you hit in, the more you can't score.
This is the biggest problem with Long Beach High School, they are a team that likes to play inside, they lack strong firepower points on the outside, and they can blossom in the center of the opponent's penalty area by relying on the overall advantage of Larry Turner and the book lineup, but they can't play when they meet Yu Fei, a talented boy who is beyond the 4A high school level in Washington State.
To make matters worse, Yu Fei not only dominated the defensive end, but also made people desperate on the offensive end.
Yu Fei enthusiastically displayed his elegant guard skills, making people completely forget that he was a center who constantly sent opponents hot pot on the defensive end.
In the first half, his shooting was a little worse, but from the second half, he began to hit open three-pointers, so Long Beach High School could no longer empty his shot.
Yu Fei defeated Long Beach High School with outstanding offensive and defensive dominance, scoring 51 points, 18 rebounds, 6 assists and 10 blocks in this championship battle, leading Kent Merridian High School to win the first state championship in team history.
At the end of the game, Yu Fei was surrounded by his teammates, and the key arena fell into an indescribable frenzy.
Experts, scouts, and university recruiters all felt that the trip was worthwhile.
Yu Fei is genuine.
This wasn't just because Yu Fei single-handedly tore Long Beach High School apart, but because he showed a lot of skills that could be effective in more advanced competitions.
Yu Fei is a top 10 high school student in the country, and this matter has since become a consensus.
Rational professionals are gradually withdrawing.
The celebration began.
Yu Fei climbed into a folding chair wearing a cap emblazoned with the Kent Merridian High School logo, cut the net, and handed it to the principal.
Subsequently, Seattle SuperSonics' Gary Payton came forward to present Yu Fei with the MVP trophy.
To be honest, before the crossing, Yu Fei didn't know Peyton for a long time.
Is it an exaggeration? This is not an exaggeration at all.
Who told the supersonic legends led by Payton to have no roots? Their team was stolen to Oklahoma, and they didn't recognize the team, so the Thunder also cut off with them, and the two sides didn't break the river.
Peyton, who has no parent team, made a large-scale appearance on the public platform after 2008 or was stained with the light of the dog Michael Jordan, at that time, when the epidemic in the United States was out of control, the documentary "The Last Dance" was released, and Peyton showed his face in it (lost his face).
Yu Fei just watched this documentary, although he didn't know Peyton at the time, he felt that it was a very unseemly behavior for Jordan to humiliate his past opponents in the documentary, and people never did this.
Well... But then again, since the crossing, Yu Fei has relied on his new body and skills in his previous life to cross the court, and it is difficult to find opponents, so he suddenly understood Jordan's scumbag mentality of "the strong should humiliate the weak".
Whenever he humiliated an opponent on the court, he felt no less thrilled than a perfect hand, but afterwards he was ashamed of his actions and he felt that he shouldn't have done that.
But every time he fights, he starts to ignore the dignity of his opponent, and all kinds of unbearable trash talk soars out, and then the happiness does not decrease at all, which makes him intoxicated and entangled.
He wondered if he had developed a mental illness that he didn't even know about because he didn't take away Fei Ben and didn't fly properly.
Well, the topic flew away, let's return to reality from Yu Fei's thoughts.
Payton, who witnessed Yu Fei's performance, did not forget to take out the posture of his predecessors to educate his juniors when he handed over the trophy, "Boy, you are very good, I like your attitude of playing, and I also like you to spew trash talk, but I have to tell you, if you want to play in the NBA, you have to develop offensive skills on the inside, you are too high, you can't always hold the ball on the outside, you know?" You know, well, that's good, uncle, I like you like an obedient stinky little ghost like you! ”
Yu Fei echoed Peyton with a smile: "Thank you for saying this to me, I am grateful." ”
Won't he attack inside? To be fair, that kind of traditional inside back play is really not very good, but he has been learning for a long time.
The reason why he didn't fight back was because this skill was too cost-effective for him now.
The back play is very tiring, and in terms of grasp, it is not as good as the medium and long range shot, in the face of a strong opponent like Long Beach High School, the Royal team has no margin for error, and Yu Fei must use the way he is best at playing the game.
The inside offense is definitely going to be developed, but not now.
Now it's all about winning.
He won, and that's enough.
After that, all the Washington State 4A high school teams that made it to the finals gathered on the spot and began to present various awards.
Yu Fei won the most important awards, and the others are not worth mentioning.
Afterwards, the basketball team players met with their parents and booked a restaurant for dinner near the Key Arena.
They were celebrating, playing, and everyone got carried away.
For the Royals, a state championship was something they never dreamed of, and now it's a reality.
The principal of Kent Meridian High School toasted with emotion, saying that many of the parents were native to Kent, who were born here, grew up here, and will be buried here, and most of them were in tears of pride when they found out that the Royals had won not only the first overall championship in K-M history, but also the first state championship in high school basketball in the history of Kent City.
From the beginning of the dinner, people kept coming into the restaurant to congratulate the Royals.
There's a magic thing about sports that they can make people become indifferent to other external things.
Today, in 2001, the United States is entering a turning point in the new century, in which the order established since the Cold War of the last century will be completely overthrown.
Compared to the unpredictable times, Yu Fei is just a special mortal, his presence is special to Kent City, and even Seattle, ten miles away from Kent City, and today, he led Kent Merridian High School to win the state championship, and the news swallowed everything around him like a vortex.
Suddenly, the yellow-skinned, dark-haired twelve-grader became the most popular topic of conversation in Washington state, and the resulting wave engulfed Yu Fei as well as Seattle, and he became a more popular presence than Gary Payton and Rashad Lewis.
Hope rose in the hearts of those who watched him grow up, and the once vague or unfirm expectations had become beliefs, and they believed that one day in the future, Yu Fei would step onto a bigger stage and completely destroy his opponent with a cold smile like today.
The most interesting thing is that when Yu Fei was ready to go home, the owner of the restaurant, an old Latino lady who looked to be in her sixties, dressed appropriately - like those ladies who often go out to country clubs - walked up to Yu Fei and said sincerely: "Fulai, when I watch you compete with other players, I feel like I am looking at my son, congratulations on winning the championship." ”
Yu Feijie smiled sexually and responded: "Thank you for your support, I also feel the same kindness as my grandmother in you." ”