Chapter 23: Darius Miles or Scottie Pippen?

When Yu Fei saw his name in the list of the best team on the first day of training camp, he was very happy. This shows that his performance today has earned the recognition of professionals.

At the same time, he also noted that James was named to the Team of the Day in the lower divisions.

This was a surprise.

What Yu Fei didn't expect was that he saw another familiar name in the training camp - if you use the words of 2023, this name made his pupils tremble, and his DNA jumped.

Really, this training camp is a DNA non-beating challenge for Fei.

Yu Fei saw Carmelo Anthony in the Senior Today's Best Team!

It says Anthony is a member of the Class of 2002, 17 years old, from Towson Catholic High School (1), and currently plays for the Aces as a shooting guard and small forward.

As an eleventh grader, Anthony was a rising force in training camp. Not many people knew him before, because his high school and division were not strong, and his national ranking was outside the 50th in the 2002 class.

This kind of ranking is not attractive at all in the competition of the senior group.

However, he proved his mettle through bullfighting, joining the senior team and averaging 25 points per game on the first day of training camp to make the All-Tournament team.

"Is 11th grade so good?"

Iguodala was almost exhausted of the bread fed by Yu Fei today, and he felt that the senior group was just like this, but when he saw a student of the same grade killing indiscriminately in the senior group, the gap in his heart immediately fed back to his face.

Roy looked at the schedule and said unexpectedly, "The aces are in our group!" ”

"When?" Yu Fei asked.

"Tomorrow's second one." Roy laughed, "But they had bad luck and after playing with us they had to play D'Angelo Collins' team." ”

Yu Fei didn't see Anthony today.

He felt that he should have met Anthony, but Anthony's physical recognition was still not comparable to James's.

After all, not everyone is like James, who is only 16 and a half years old but old.

"You're too embarrassed to gloat, if you drop the chain in front of the 11th graders tomorrow, don't say you've been to ABCD camp when you go back to Seattle."

Yu Fei damaged Roy and left the court with his teammates.

When Iguodala learned that Yu Fei did not choose to live in the players' dormitory, but opened his own room at the nearby Marriott Hotel, he said enviously: "Your family must be very rich." ”

Yu Fei didn't tell Iguodala the truth.

After returning to the hotel to rest, Yu Fei decided to invite guests to dinner.

Except for Roy and Demio, everyone else was excited.

"Brandon, the boss is going to have a treat, why are you upset?" Emerald team substitute E.J. Elder asked.

Roy rolled his eyes: "Isn't it pork chop rice?" What is there to be happy about. ”

Yu Fei smiled and asked, "Do you have an opinion?" ”

Roy shook his head and said, "No." I just feel that, with our status, we deserve a better dinner. ”

"Who are you? Squeezed out of the top 100 in the U.S. rankings? Or is it the identity of a master of abuse who kills the weak team? Yu Fei said helplessly, "Before I came here, I participated in the AAU competition in Kent City and won a prize of 2,000 US dollars, if you can perform well in the next two days, I promise, I will treat you to a big meal on the day of the end of the training camp!" ”

Yu Fei took his little brothers into a restaurant with a good business, and after they ordered, they started chatting.

Interestingly, the Emerald team has one thing they almost all have in common – they all come from single-parent families.

Yu Fei didn't talk about it, Iguodala's father only appeared when he was 10 years old, E.J. Elder never met his father, Francisco GarcΓ­a didn't talk about his father at all, Will Wilkins said that his parents divorced very early, and he grew up under his father's stick and leash.

"Guys, it's a pleasure to meet you." Yu Fei raised a glass of Coke, "To single-parent families." ”

Everyone raised their glasses, only Roy hesitated.

"Uh... I have both parents...," Roy said stiffly, "Do you want to respect a single-parent family too?" ”

"You have both parents?" Yu Fei smiled jokingly, "Sitting here, they are all single-parent aristocrats who have no father or mother, and you have both parents, so you are not qualified to sit here at all." ”

With Roy's experience, it was difficult for him to catch Yu Fei's taunts, and Demio smiled and helped him out, "You are all luckier than me, I was raised by my grandmother." ”

"I can't imagine that a small dining table can give us a glimpse of the diversity of American families." Yu Fei changed his words, "That's it, Jing Timber is tired." ”

Before the rapid start of the era of Hollywood's big logging tired, the pattern of American blockbusters was still okay, so Yu Fei decided that he would be tired of logging before the logging tired man landed in the rivers and lakes.

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The ACBD camp has a war room where the staff will discuss the performance of the players after the day of the camp.

Jonathan Burnham, Vaccarro's most trusted scout.

Varan Sam is a basketball professional for 40 years.

Daniel House, a recognized basketball expert...

The most authoritative figures in ABCD's training camp gathered here, and Vacarro had only one sentence: "Everyone answers me with only one name – who is your most impressive player today?" ”

"LeBron James."

Waran Sam, who focuses on the lower divisions, said: "He lives up to his name and I can almost conclude that he will be the most promising player in ABCD history. ”

"Carmelo Anthony." "Even against 12th graders, he doesn't fall behind, and he has scoring skills that many players don't have in their lifetimes," Howes said. ”

Then, Vaccaro looked at Jonas Burnham, who was in charge of observing the senior group.

What Vaccallo wants to hear most is his opinion.

Since 1995, Burnham's prophecies have come almost entirely true.

He thinks Garnett is extraordinary, Kobe Bryant is the next superstar, Maddie is a genius, and Odom's aggressiveness and focus will be his shackles... The only exception is Darius Myers.

Burnham thinks Myers will be the small forward's version of Kevin Garnett, however, that hasn't come to fruition yet.

Even though Myers has just had his rookie season, he's almost certainly not a wizard like Garnett.

Compared with previous years, among the old students who participated in the ABCD training camp this year, there are only a few people who deserve attention.

D'Angelo Collins would be an easy answer, however, Burnham is not optimistic that Collins' current game content will be delivered at a higher level.

Frye Yu's name lingered in Burnham's mind.

But in some ways, Yu Fei is too much like Miles.

Vaccaro asked, "Jonathan, aren't there any twelfth graders who impressed you today?" ”

After a few more seconds of hesitation, Burnham said, "I'm not sure if Frye is the second Darius Miles or the second Scottie Pippen." ”

Burnham's answer reminded Vakkaro of that funny teenager.

Whether it was his role as the only Asian-American in training camp, or his breaking the mold in Kobe's question-and-answer session and asking a question that crossed the line, or his performance today, it all made Vacarro remember him.

"What worries you?" Vacaro asked.

"He's a chaotic style of play, we know he plays center in school, but in training camp he's a total point guard," Burnham said. 6 FEET 9" (208CM) POINT GUARD! ”

"I can't imagine him playing point guard in the NBA, but if you think of him as a 6-foot-9" small forward, his ball handling skills are not as terrifying." "I've seen a lot of ball-handling and physical, but only one out of 10 of those players became Scottie Pippen and a couple of them became nondescript two-way swing forwards like Billy Owens SF, and more disappeared into the crowd like Brad Sellers (3)." ”

Burnham's eyes were first clouded by Miles' miscalculation, but Vaccarro trusted his own judgment more.

He had once looked away from a promising teenager, but that cost him only $500,000.

And what he wants to look for are people with billion-dollar prospects.

This year, he saw a James in the junior group, but what about the senior group? Will Yu Fei be that person? What if he's not? Such a person is not meant to come out once a year.

So, Vakalo smiled and uttered his mantra: "Look again." ”

(1) Anthony didn't transfer to Oak Hill High School until his senior year of high school.

(2) Billy Owens, the 1991 Flower Show, had a gimmick of the Magic Bird Combination before the draft, Wilkins vowed not to die Utah to force the Utah to trade the imitator, and the second-generation high-minded brother.

(3) Brad Sellers, a geek selected by the Bulls with the No. 9 pick in 1986, known as a magical combination of seven-foot height + marksman + dribbling maniac + rebounding maniac before the draft, did not withstand Jordan's bullying, and was considered a failed lottery by Klaus even before the first year was finished, so in the 1987 draft of the following year, Klaus selected an interior (Oakley) who can grab rebounds and a forward (Pippen) who can dribble according to the characteristics of Sellers.