Lenny Cook's back-to-back setbacks made it difficult for the Aces to get a second consistent point of attack.

Fortunately, Anthony is always Anthony, and in addition to his poor defensive effect, his offensive performance is not dazzling.

Compared with Anthony, Iguodala, who is also a player in the same class of 2002, feels much worse.

Iguodala doesn't have Anthony's all-around offensive skills or reliable scoring tools, and he seems to be able to do anything, but when he encounters stronger opponents, he tends to play nothing.

Anthony is best known for his physical talent.

His body can give a glimpse into the future.

Then, Brandon Roy made a move.

From Roy, you can see how big the gap is in a grade.

Roy at this time is not the future Roy, just as the current Anthony is not the future offensive kaleidoscope of 30,000 points in the NBA.

In terms of rankings, Roy is currently not in the top 100 in the 2001 class, and Anthony must be parachuted into the top five in the 2002 class after training camp, but Roy still scored points with his mature style of play and helped the Emerald team withstand the pressure when Anthony was at his most aggressive.

Roy's outburst is also inseparable from Yu Fei.

Roy's every offensive initiation and catch-and-shoot with the ball comes from flying.

This is another technical feature of Yu Fei's previous life. Due to his lack of height at that time, he often fed the talented boys and shooters in the team during the game, and after a long time, he naturally knew how to send comfortable passes to his teammates.

Yu Fei, who played as a center in K-M for a year this year, has more of a physical talent in front of the scouts, and after coming to the ABCD training camp, he has played more freely.

Today, he showed the pundits his defense, then leadership, then playmaking and passing.

These displays of talent are different from Anthony's sheer offensive talent.

Versatile teenagers tend to have more possibilities.

Like Anthony, you can be very skilled at finding a template for him – Pierce or Mashburn.

What about Yu Fei? Before the training camp, everyone thought he was Lamar Odom, but now he looks a bit like the taller Scottie Pippen.

Can he still surprise people?

Anthony's dry pull after the tentative step was still smooth, but it didn't go in.

Yu Fei sniffed the landing point of the rebound, put it in place in advance, jumped to grab the ball, and shouted "fast attack" at the moment of landing, and the Jade team instantly went down quickly.

During the march, Yu Fei looked at the left and crossed to the right, assisting Iguodala to break the dunk quickly.

“AI！” Yu Fei shouted to Iguodala, "I won't watch the slam dunk contest the day after tomorrow without you!" ”

Iguodala excitedly replied, "I will definitely participate!" ”

This scene was watched by Jerry West, 63, who usually doesn't like to watch teenagers play because he likes perfect things.

If you want to see perfection in a high school student's game, you're going crazy.

If he hadn't been at home, he wouldn't have come here, and if he hadn't been invited by Sonny at the same time, he wouldn't have come here. But since he came, out of professional habits, he would carefully observe the performance of the teenagers.

LeBron James has a lot of potential, D'Angelo Collins has nothing to offer, a shark at 6-foot-9? Hmph, the shark was called the seven-foot Barkley when he first debuted, so any pocket shark who is named a shark should be the template for his game. But does Collins have a hair like Barkley?

A precocious high school student inside usually means losing yourself in a higher game. West sincerely hopes Collins isn't next, but he's 99% yes.

And then, what about Carmelo Anthony? Scouts say he has skills that many NBA players don't have in their careers, but isn't that another kind of precociousness? West has been playing basketball for almost 50 years, and he's met a lot of people like it. Anthony's performance is no different from the offensive small forwards who emerged in the early '80s, and given his approach to defense, West could even throw out a bold prediction that his future will not be any different from those guys.

A couple of All-Star rounds, plus a ten-year All-Star regular, that's pretty good, right? That's good, but West won't be thrilled that ABCD camps have teenagers with that kind of prospect.

It's fair to say that no one in this training camp shook West's heart like Kobe Bryant back then, and LeBron can take another look, but others... No, not a single one.

There was someone who gave West as many questions as he had about Kobe Bryant.

West looked earnestly at the boy named Frye Yu.

His face is a rarity in American basketball, who was the last Asian to make a name for himself in high school basketball? West didn't know, and maybe there was no such person at all. Not to mention that he never liked Asians, it had nothing to do with racism, it was a scar left on his heart by the war (1), but it didn't affect his opinion of performance on the flying field, just like he didn't like Chamberlain, but they still won the championship together.

According to the standards of perfectionists, Yu Fei is a mess.

Terrible offensive skill set, poorly coordinated jump shots, feints that lack detail, and an aggressive defensive style.

Yu Fei doesn't seem to understand Russell's philosophy of play, just like other high school students who are addicted to blocking, wanting to block every ball of their opponent's game, rather than making the opponent fear that "every ball of mine may be blocked".

But then again, he also has a lot of highlights.

His height and arm length are exactly what a modern forward would look like, and he has the ability to handle the ball for his height to rival Lamar Odom, and the shooting details need to be perfected, but his shooting consistency around the free-throw line is excellent, and every shot selection is reasonable, which is a stark contrast to his defensive style.

His leadership of the team, his control of positional battles and his veteran organisation are his highlights.

If that's all Yu Fei has, West will quickly classify him as an Odom-esque big ball carrier and then ignore him.

The problem is that Yu Fei has more than that.

His game language is even more savorable.

Yu Fei has the mentality of retribution, Anthony scored in front of him, and he must fight back in the next round.

He puts pressure on his teammates and even complains if they don't finish well enough.

When the arrogant Lenny Cook provokes him, he collapses him with brutal counterpoint displays and trash talk.

He is also generous with praise when his teammates finish to his satisfaction.

Some of these tables belong to the temperament of the competition, some belong to the leadership, and some belong to the personality.

Where a talented player ends up is largely up to them.

With Yu Fei's talent and competitive temperament, how far can he go?

West can't have an answer, but if he has this year's lottery pick (and assuming Yu Fei participates in this year's draft), he might be able to take a gamble on Yu Fei.

However, he wasn't sure that this was a safe choice, unless Yu Fei showed a more reliable performance.

At the end of the first half, the Emerald and Aces were tied, and Vacarro came over to probe West's tone; "How's it going, Jerry, is there a player you're interested in?"

"Cameron is good." West gave Vacarro an answer that could not be wrong.

"I'm also very optimistic about that child." Vaccaro nodded in agreement, then asked, "What do you think of Fry?" ”

West didn't want to show his affection for flying, as Vacarro was from Adidas, and if he said he admired fly more, it would have a lot of unintended consequences.

And, he really didn't want to make public overtures to Fei, and again, he had never liked Asians.

"He's gifted," West said cautiously, "but it's a rough rough in every way." Of course, his dribbling ability is impressive. ”

Vacaro seems to have known for a long time that West would say that.

Everyone who doesn't know Yu Fei will have such an evaluation, which is a very rational evaluation.

There's nothing wrong with being rational, but if it's rational without knowing the details, it's another form of bias.

"If I told you that he was still playing volleyball at the beginning of last year, and if you think about it, he only had a year of systematic basketball training, would you still think so?"

Vacaro looked at the LOGO man with a smile and looked forward to his answer.

West's cheek twitched, "F***, are you kidding me?" ”

Vakaro's smile proved that he was right.

When West looked at Yu Fei again, he felt completely different.

(1) Jerry West's older brother died in the Korean War. For this reason, if there were other NBA novels that write that West has a natural aversion to Chinese Americans, I would think it makes perfect sense. But considering that the LOGO has a good image in the domestic fan circle, I will not do it.