Chapter 64: The God of a Split Personality
Knowing that Yu Fei was in a situation, Arne Trem called to inquire as soon as possible.
Yu Fei explained in detail what happened in the stadium.
For Trym, Yu Fei's fight with Leitner is not worth mentioning, but it is a headache to fight Jordan.
"Fry, you know MJ's place in D.C., right?" Trem smiled wryly, "You won't get anything to gain from competing with him." β
"I repeat, it's him who stirs the trouble, I'm just responding."
Yu Fei doesn't understand, why does everyone assume that Jordan is innocent?
Even his agent had to "put aside the facts" and make him befriend Jordan.
Friendship? Of course you can, but today he has learned Jordan's character face-to-face, is this a good person? It is really difficult to befriend him without betraying his dignity.
Later, Trem gave a few more words, which were basically the same clichΓ©s.
As for this set of rhetoric, several people have already said it to Fei today.
It's not that Yu Fei doesn't want to appreciate it, it's really Jordan pressing step by step, if he doesn't resist, he can only let others ravage him, which is unacceptable to him.
The next day, Yu Fei was ready to be "tested" by Jordan.
However, Jordan did not participate in group training today.
He arrives on the scene, but only with Tim Grover.
The clash between Yu Fei and Leitner has fermented, and the media across the country has heard the news, and this is the biggest news during the training camp, and no one wants to miss the headlines.
Yu Fei and Leitner had already learned a set of words to deal with the media in advance before the interview.
Yesterday's brawl was described as an insignificant incident.
"We're all adults now, and we're not going to take it seriously," Leitner said. β
Are his words true? It can only be said that the swollen right cheek, dark circles under the eyes and the blue bridge of the nose can't deceive people.
Jordan today seems to be better along with Jordan than yesterday, he laughs more, maybe because of the presence of multiple media outlets, he is very conscious of his image.
When Yu Fei completed a fast-break dunk in an open intra-team match, Jordan, who was watching the game, happily walked to the sidelines and high-fived him.
Yu Fei stretched out his hand to complete the action.
What a hypocrisy!
Yu Fei said in his heart that if there was no media on the scene, Jordan would definitely not do these superficial efforts. If Yu Fei is anti-Mike, then what Jordan is doing now is an "anti-Jordan" thing.
Many people overestimated the negative impact of what Yu Fei did yesterday and underestimated the positive impact.
Whether it was Yu Fei standing up for Brown, facing Jordan head-on, or being rough with Leitner, it fundamentally changed the power structure of the Wizards.
That's what the Wizards' player class would have been.
Jordan, Hamilton and other veterans.
Their status is strict and full of ladders.
Yu Fei has achieved a personal status through yesterday's performance, he is no longer a rookie who can be bullied, but a prickly thorn, Leitner and other veterans can't control him, Hamilton's influence on Fei depends on how the latter views him, and now it is obvious that he does not dare to confront Jordan, therefore, Yu Fei will not treat him as a senior who can be trusted.
Suddenly, Yu Fei's position of power surpassed that of a group of veterans, hovering between Jordan and Hamilton.
Jordan didn't try to bond with high school students.
On the fourth day of the training camp, Jordan set up a game between training and invited Yu Fei and Brown to join.
Yu Fei has no interest in playing cards, but Brown intends to use it to repair his relationship with Jordan.
He was wrong again.
Brown didn't realize that the breakdown in his relationship with Jordan was that the aura on him was dissipating, and if a top pick couldn't perform as expected, the person who drafted him would be questioned. Jordan is a god, he cannot be questioned, and once there is an irrefutable question, God will only transfer his anger to those who make him questioned.
This is the source of Brown's tragedy.
His relationship with Jordan stems from his succession, and when the legitimacy of the champion is not questioned, Jordan is his dearest uncle. Once he is questioned and unable to respond to it, Jordan's anger burns in.
Brown joined Jordan's game several times, and although he had fun, the feelings at the poker table were like friendships at the wine table, and when the wine woke up, the relationship faded, and that could not replace the real relationship.
When Brown's performance and training motivation lagged behind the others, Jordan and Collins began to lose patience.
The most terrifying thing is that there is no "red-faced and black-faced" arrangement between them, both of them are blackfaced.
Yu Fei was the only one willing to support and help Brown.
But if Brown can't get up from Jordan's PUA with the head coach himself, it's useless to support him.
As training camp enters the mid-to-late stages, Jordan no longer misses group training due to tenosynovitis, and the more he attends, the more mean it feels.
Jordan isn't just targeting Fly and Brown.
He was determined to bring the "Crash Course to Champions" model to the whole team.
Tyronn Lue was verbally abused by Jordan for refusing to shoot an open three-pointer.
Coach Lu obediently made a move, but he didn't enter, and Jordan's brown eyes widened, as if the Americans who saw the plane crash into the Twin Towers with their own eyes.
When Hamilton and Yu Fei didn't show up in the right place, Jordan sarcastically used a caustic tone.
The scariest thing is that Jordan sometimes acts like a gentle mentor.
He smiled kindly, as if people didn't know what he was.
Kwame Brown is the biggest victim of Jordan's split-personality PUA.
Sometimes, Jordan felt that he was pushing Brown too far, so he said a few words to Brown that clearly felt kindness, some as reminders, some as teaching, and some as jokes. However, it was only a moment of Jordan. In the next round, if Brown makes the same mistake, Jordan will reveal his true nature and humiliate Brown with the most ugly words in the world. Brown is not psychologically strong, and he can't afford this kind of inhuman bullying.
Personal dignity is trampled on, psychological defenses are destroyed, and Brown becomes sluggish and sluggish.
Brown became like a child who hadn't grown up, couldn't understand Collins' tactical system at all, and was slow to tell Jordan.
When Jordan hurled insults at him, he would listen silently and then move on to individual training at the end of the group session.
He keeps dunking in individual training, which is his way of comforting himself.
Yu Fei is the only one who can communicate effectively with him.
Yu Fei didn't know how to help Brown because Jordan and Collins hit him far above the threshold.
On this day, they returned to the locker room, and Jordan patted Brown on the shoulder like an elder and whispered to him, as if that would counteract his personal insult to Brown that had lasted for a day.
After Jordan left, Brown laughed at himself: "He said I worked hard today to keep it up." β
"Think you're working hard and then scolding you in a match?" Yu Fei rolled his eyes.
"yes," Brown muttered, "how the hell am I going to end this life?" β
Yu Fei didn't answer, and there may be no one who can give Brown a clear answer.
Yu Fei should be grateful to Brown, because of Brown's existence, Jordan is mainly focusing on Brown in training rookies.
And although Yu Fei is a thorn, he is a thorn who plays hard and ignores the rules of the rivers and lakes.
For this kind of person, Jordan prefers to convince Yu Fei through the dominance of the trickle, and a bastard like Brown who has begun to seriously affect his sacredness, he has to train vigorously.
The problem is, Jordan doesn't understand the truth of overreach.
Moreover, his leadership is in doubt.
In 1998 and even earlier, Jordan had decisive strength, and in that case, even if someone was dissatisfied with Jordan, they did not dare to show it, and now Jordan does not have that kind of strength.
At the same time, tenosynovitis is still Jordan's Achilles heel, and as long as he continues to participate in group training, the injury will not get better.
Yu Fei noticed that Jordan often hobbled to the side to sit down at the end of training, and whenever he had the opportunity, he would take an ice pack to cool his knee joint.
Yu Fei could see that he was suffering from injuries, but even Jordan, who had been away from the field for three years and was still injured, quickly regained his sense of play after group training.
Jordan's technical use, game experience, and on-court feel are not available to anyone else on the team.
If Jordan is willing to mentor the young players on the team with his heart, many will benefit from it.
It's a pity that Jordan didn't want to be a respected mentor, and he probably tried, but soon found that tyrants were more suitable for him.
Yu Fei could only observe Jordan as much as he could, and remember every mistake he made, especially those that Jordan pointed out.
He was still the first to train and the last to leave.
Practicing three times a day is a habit he's developed since the offseason, which he brings to training camp and has continued to do so.
Leitner thinks Yu Fei is putting on a show, but almost everyone on the Wizards staff has the experience of running into Yu Fei at the arena at night.
Yu Fei's competitive state and training attitude are the best in the team, which has earned him the recognition of the coaching staff.
By the end of the training camp, Yu Fei was already one of the top five players in the team.
If Collins had autonomy, he would have let Yu Fei start the new season, but with the Wizards, the decision on this matter is in Jordan's hands.
What is Jordan's attitude?
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post's Steve Wyech on the closing day of training camp, Jordan said, "These youngsters need to work hard to prove that they deserve more opportunities in a team that is striving for the top, and so far, they haven't proven it." β
Doug Collins said something similar to the media as if he heard a dog whistle: "Frye has been great, he's been in great shape, he's trained hard enough, well, he's really good, but he still needs to wait for the opportunity to come." β
Frye can't? And what about Kwamei?
"Kwame is good." Collins quipped, "It's a good fit for high school." β