"I'm not going to let that happen to me."

If the other people on the plane were not wearing headphones, this would have been heard by many people.

As one of the few staff members on the Wizards team who can talk to Yu Fei, Steve Wise sees Yu Fei as an "anti-social personality" in the professional basketball world.

Regardless of nature, 99% of NBA players are docile and well-behaved babies in the rookie stage.

How humble was Jordan, the tyrant of today's world, when he entered the League? Make it your goal to be an All-Star; Before stepping into the evil path, Rodman, the demon king of the mixed world, was a shy boy who cried when he won the trophy; Even Abdul-Jabbar, one of the most remarkable figures in NBA history, had no signs of illness in his first two years in Milwaukee.

Yu Fei is another kind of existence.

He's high-profile, flamboyant, full of thorns, undisciplined, and whoever wants to educate him, whether you're Jordan or Collins, he has his own set of logic to defend against.

This makes Yu Fei an alternative existence for the Wizards.

The last rookie to feel so difficult was Bill Wharton in 1974, and the next one was Wizards legend Elvin Hayes.

Whitch doesn't know Wharton, but he knows Hayes.

The guy who gives every coach and the teammates he works with is a headache, the guy who's completely succumbing to his emotions and making his on-court performance horribly polarizing, the guy who can give up on the game for a little thing, and don't care if he's humiliated in the playoffs. Is it really reasonable to compare Fei to a Hayes-like character?

Whitch reflected, but he decided to maintain his judgment.

Hayes's terrible thing is not that he habitually collapses on the court, but that he has an uncontrollable personality, his pathetic personality that causes him to always collapse in mental exhaustion, while Yu Fei has a sharp energy and is good at transferring this energy by venting his frustration to the outside world, and both styles will achieve the same result.

Yu Fei and Huaiqi did not communicate again.

Until the plane landed, a notice came on the radio, and Yu Fei woke up from a light sleep, "Arrived?" ”

"Yes," Wise asked, "did you sleep well?" ”

"Very good, thank you for your concern." Yu Fei got up and prepared to get his luggage, "I hope I can win tonight." ”

Wai Qi looked at Yu Fei.

At least for now, Yu Fei seems to be a very easy young man to get close to.

Like Ervin Hayes, when not playing, Hayes is generous and charismatic, visiting the orphanage regularly every month to play with the children.

But what matters most in professional sports is the performance of the players, and if you fly to your alma mater for your graduation ceremony on the day of the playoffs, as Vince Carter did, and then lose the season-saving game that night, that seemingly normal behavior will be criticized.

So, the most important thing is performance, so, go for it, Fry, at least do the opposite of a big E, if you really want to play against MJ.

There was a lot of media outside the airport, and this was Jordan's first visit to Boston after his comeback.

Only at this time can Yu Fei feel the benefits of being teammates with Jordan, that is, being ignored by the media, they only want to interview Jordan.

The Boston media has been hyping up the Jordan-Pierce matchup, while the Wizards' coaches have been very pragmatic.

Especially Johnny Bach, a veteran assistant coach who has worked with Jordan for many years: "I don't think you can expect Michael to defend Pierce and then ask him to do everything we expect on the offensive end. It's going to wear him out. He was able to do that when he was younger, but it's hard now. I'm sure he'll play against Pierce in the game, but we'll try to make sure that doesn't happen too soon. ”

"If Michael doesn't play against Paul, who are you going to use against Paul?"

Bach's eyes twitched, and he smiled lightly: "I think Frye can try." ”

Bach thought it was happy, but it was only happy.

Yu Fei did not make the starting list tonight.

Doug Collins' "secret weapon" for Pierce is Tyrone Nesby.

As the hardest-training player on the Wizards team outside of Yu Fei, and one of the few loyal dogs who are determined to kneel and lick Jordan, letting him start will not bring any discomfort to Jordan.

As for whether he can defend against Pierce, that's not Collins' concern.

If anyone wants to assume how Pierce will tear up Nesby on the offensive end, then Collins will play a "believe in Jordan" card, and while he hasn't really played a Jordan-style game since his comeback, who can be sure it won't be tonight?

As before, Yu Fei came to the center of the fleet two hours before the start of the game.

He was accompanied by Kwame Brown and Chris Whitney.

"You like to warm up early, forget it, why do you want to take me along?" Whitney is now labeled as "Yu Fei's best friend", but he really doesn't want to have that identity.

"Uncle, don't complain, do you want to guess a riddle?" Brown asked excitedly.

Whitney gave him a blank look, "Okay, as long as it's not a question of how many 1+1 equals"

"You say, what is so big and hard that it can make a woman scream non-stop?" Brown asked wickedly.

Yu Fei was speechless, thinking to himself, he is here again.

Whitney really showed a smile of "everyone who understands", "Boy, you are still young"

"Uncle, where do you want to go?" Brown snorted, "The answer is the ironing board, I knew you would want to be crooked, you're just like Fry, you're a fake!" ”

Whitney glared at Brown in disbelief, then turned to Yu Fei.

Yu Fei shrugged his shoulders and said, "This is a small game that he has been obsessed with recently. ”

Sexually suggestive brain teasers? Whitney sighed, MJ was still too gentle with the young men.

It was Yu Fei's idea to let Brown and Whitney communicate.

Whitney is the team's starting point guard who can't be beaten, and Brown's butter hand is a bit serious, so he usually communicates with Whitney more, and like this kind of pregame training to the game site in advance, let Whitney know how to pass the ball to Brown, maybe it can reduce the frequency of the butter hand.

"Thankfully" to Jordan, Brown now has no top-notch frame at all, is very obedient and teachable, and does whatever Whitney says in training.

After Yu Fei and they practiced for an hour, Jordan also came.

The previous four regular-season games were all warm-ups, important for the Celtics, and Jordan didn't want to become a stepping stone for the young stars to rise to the top.

That's what his comeback is about, and he wants to prove that even at the age of 40, he's not a star player to touch now.

As for the incident that was blown up by Jerry Starhouse a few days ago, forget about it, the incident of the junior brother beating the senior brother belongs to the internal communication of North Carolina alumni, don't take it seriously.

At this time, Yu Fei had already completed the shooting warm-up and was doing various foot training on the sidelines.

However, Jordan actually shouted to him from afar: "Rookie, come and play a few balls with me!" ”

Yu Fei's first reaction was, "You called the wrong person, right?" But Jordan was still pointing at him, "That's you!" ”

Yu Fei pointed at himself, "Isn't that mistaken?" ”

"What are you rubbing?" Jordan shouted impatiently, "Come here! ”

Almost everyone has a "good show" face, and Leitner, a dog mongrel, will enjoy it, and he went straight to hug a bucket of popcorn.

Obviously, everyone remembers what happened the last time Brown went head-to-head with Jordan.

"I'm attacking, you're defending, you know?" Jordan didn't ask Yu Fei's opinion at all, it was completely a gesture of sending tasks to his subordinates.

Yu Fei's face was full of expressions that he didn't know what to say, "You'd better change someone, I'm very heavy on the old man." ”

"Humph!" He gave Jordan all the fun, "Rookie, don't be ignorant, no matter how heavy you are, can you still be as heavy as Paul Pierce tonight?" ”

Yu Fei really can't say whether Pierce is willing to step on Jordan to take the position, or whether he has accumulated more malice towards Jordan in the past few months.

But since the boss said so, it would be rude for Yu Fei to refuse again.

Thus, this one-way offensive and defensive confrontation began.

Yu Fei's words and deeds are consistent, saying that if he wants to increase the intensity, he will really increase the intensity. Jordan came up and tried to break through, but he pushed him hard.

Then, Jordan created space with a delicate dribble and made a jumper before flying.

"What are you guarding against?" Jordan began to blush.

Yu Fei really didn't want to say anything, Jordan's performance in training has always been good, but he has not played at that level in the game so far.

But he really didn't want to see Jordan's old doggy expression anymore.

Yu Fei's concentration has been raised to a higher level, from now on, he not only has intensity, but also attention, and the importance of defense is completely in the state of actual combat.

The current Jordan, in fact, has three axes on the offensive end.

Catch and shoot after running without the ball, stop with the basket dribbling, and shoot with your feet after hitting your back.

All three of these things need to be maintained by the feel, and if you don't feel it, it's over.

Moreover, when the stamina is reduced, the efficiency of the basket dribbling and back play is very bad.

Yu Fei's stature made Jordan directly give up the back-to-back option, so he could only dribble in front of the basket.

Jordan, who has no absolute speed, relies on rhythm, shaking Yu Fei once or twice, but the same trick is too much, and Yu Fei has experience.

When Jordan tried to shoot for the second time, he was caught by Yu Fei, burst into a block, and fanned the ball to a place ten meters away.

"I really don't want to fight against an old thing like you, except for blind dribbling, there are only weak shots, like that kind of shot, I'll see one on the court and cover one by one."

After Yu Fei said this, Jordan became anxious.

During training camp, Jordan in this form destroyed Kwame Brown.

But the same thing did not happen on the grounds of the center of the fleet.

Although the furious Jordan played more vigorously, his shooting percentage did not increase, and Yu Fei was able to complete an obvious interference or direct block every three defenses.

The game lasted 20 minutes, until the end, Jordan had to admit that with his current strength, he could not take Yu Fei in a heads-up.

This is still their state of attacking and defending, if according to the regular bullfighting rules, let Yu Fei have the opportunity to attack, maybe there will be more surprising results.

Steve Wise was one of the witnesses to the showdown.

Unfortunately, Jordan did not beat Yu Fei as planned.

In White's view, this may be a watershed moment for something.

What would happen if you let a sociopath who had already done damage find that the strongest people here could only fight him?

Whitch glanced at Doug Collins, and sure enough, the servant who had worked so hard to maintain God's authority was worried about the outcome of the showdown.

Whitech could feel that something was disappearing from Jordan's body.

That thing is inexplicable, but it caused everyone to scramble, Jordan's successors were born for this, and even Pierce, who can't fight with "Jordan's successor", wants to get a piece of the pie, but Yu Fei indirectly proved that he is also qualified to compete for it through this game.

"Will the current version of Elvin Hayes destroy this team, or will he turn into a butterfly and become the 1977 Bill Walton?"

With this thought, Wai Qi looked at Yu Fei.

At 7:45 p.m., 15 minutes before the start of the game.

The Celtics had already arrived at the scene, and Yu Fei said hello to Pierce.

The last time they met was when Fei tried out for the Celtics, and the Celtics also gave him a draft promise and made a certain amount of "effort" off the court, but unfortunately he didn't work hard enough and was robbed by the Wizards.

If he had to choose between these two teams, Yu Fei would prefer to play for the Celtics, because the team's boss Walker and second Pierce are not the kind of condescending and domineering bastards.

"Fry, I often see you in the top 10 balls, it's a shame that you don't come to our team!" Pierce said with a grin.

Yu Fei smiled lightly: "I'm also sorry, I hope you treat Michael better tonight." ”

"Hmph, I don't put that thing at ease, is there anything to be proud of winning against an old man?" Pierce's face was full of indifference, "I just don't like to hear people ask about MJ all day long, as if MJ saved the world from the Millennium Bug, who is the one who saved the world?" It's the firefighters who rushed into the fire, the fighters and journalists who fought on the front lines."

Got it, I know you didn't take such a great thing as beating Jordan seriously, you don't have to say so much, damn little warhawk!

Unlike Pierce's "don't take it personally" attitude, the Wizards played against the Celtics in the preseason, and Jordan and Pierce briefly faced each other a few times at that time, during which Pierce hit him with an arm several times, and this irreverent offense made Jordan unhappy. Arguably, making New Century fans aware that he can still play against young stars has been one of the main motivations for his comeback, and at least for now, Pierce is a lower-level test that he wants to use as a flag. So, when an NBC reporter mentioned his entanglement with Pierce in a pregame interview before the game, Jordan didn't shy away from saying, "This kid wants to knock me down hard, but I'm ready for it." ”

Ironically, the NBC reporter used the same language as Yu Fei: "Oh, Michael, don't be too Paul, he's still an ignorant young man." ”

Jordan smiled and said charmingly, "Before he dies, I'll treat him to a drink." ”

This is the Jordan that people love.

Talkative, funny, and full of dominance, vowing to liquidate the mentality of every usurper, a perfect supreme god.

As long as you don't get close to him, the charm of this person is endless.

Since he was not in the starting lineup, Yu Fei changed into his playing uniform and sat down on the bench 10 minutes before the game started.

"Don't you think you're a better fit to start than T-Nez?" Brown whispered to Fly, "There's no way he's going to be able to stop Paul Pearce." ”

It's okay, our head coach just randomly selected an unlucky guy from the squad to suffer in place of the boss, he didn't choose me, thank you to his mother, can I ask for more?

"It's okay, let's think about what the boss will do." Yu Fei replied indifferently.

What will the boss do? Brown didn't believe that Jordan could beat Pierce, after all, he couldn't even beat Yu Fei now

Jordan tonight was obviously different from before, after making the ball to Hamilton at the beginning of the game and being spit out, he quickly caught the ball in the process of rotating counterattacks, and made a sharp stop to the left crotch cross.

Joe Johnson simply didn't have time to react.

"Huh!"

Seeing that Joe Johnson can actually start with the Celtics, it is difficult for Yu Fei not to have other ideas.

If you say that there is a big brother in the same position on the team, forget it, the problem is that the Wizards' lineup is a hole, except for the No. 2 position, there is no particularly strong position.

To Yu Fei's surprise, Collins' so-called secret weapon, Tyrone Nesby, was not playing the third position, but the fifth position. It was used to treat him as Ben Wallace.

So far, I can't see any effect.

In addition to bringing the Wizards' interior height back to the Unseld era, Nesby's playing the No. 5 position also represents one thing - the defensive end of Pierce is either Jordan or Hamilton.

Since the coaching staff didn't want the "Jordan defending Pierce" picture to come out too soon, it was now the only time to suffer Hamilton.

Watching Hamilton use his thin physique against Pierce, Yu Fei was not worth it.

I saw Pierce sit Hamilton away, turn around, and shoot, not as handsome as Jordan, but they are all two-point jumpers, and there is no difference in essence.

Jordan was in a hurry and aggressive, but this time he was opposite Antoine Walker, and the two were not matched in size.

Jordan had a hard time getting a spot in front of Walker.

It's understandable why Jordan sees Walker like he sees a lucky package.

Because as long as his teammates pass the ball smoothly, he has absolute confidence to complete the attack.

Walker's defensive threat was only before Jordan received the ball, and once he received the ball, Walker's defense was almost zero.

Jordan's body swayed back and forth, and this shaky position made Chris Whitney afraid to pass the ball.

"Can't you pass it on?!"

Hurry, Jordan was in a hurry.

If you can't receive the ball and pressure your teammates, the result is that you will be in a hurry.

Whitney made the worst decision in the chaos and pulled out three-pointers from the outside.

"What is Uncle doing?" Brown couldn't read it.

"Alright, now let's see what the boss will do." Yu Fei is completely in the state of a happy person.

Brown looked at him strangely: "You've said this several times today. ”

Then, Nick Anderson, the Celtics' starting point guard, also burned the CPU and forced a shot without getting rid of the defense.

However, the shot didn't go in, and the Celtics still had rebounds.

Tyrone Nesby is not in the same dimension as Big Ben in other aspects except for his height like Big Ben.

Walker brushed an offensive rebound first, but missed the rebound.

Pierce rushed in and brushed another one, but still didn't get in.

Walker jumped up again, brushed out his second offensive rebound, and this time went in.

In the next few rounds, the Wizards pursued transmission excessively, and although they all created opportunities, Hamilton, as a cake eater, looked like he didn't want to win tonight, repeatedly spit cakes, and even the opportunity ball under the basket was covered.

In the end, Jordan had to step up and trick Joe Johnson into touching himself with a shooting feint at the free throw line, and the referee decisively blew the latter's defensive foul.

It has to be Jordan!

After that, it almost entered Jordan's show.

Still facing Joe Johnson, after meeting the rookie, the muscle memory of the bully young man returned to God, he was almost full of tricks, holding the ball with both hands in his abdomen, and the unpredictable left-right-left left shaking made Johnson lose the defensive direction and was shaken away by Jordan without dribbling.

Jordan scored on an inside switch to a layup, and a minute later, he made a clever pass to Christian Leitner in the high post to eat cake.

Regarding what happened on the field, Yu Fei's heart did not have any waves, this is Jordan's performance that should have played a long time ago.

Pierce continued to enjoy Hamilton's snack platter on the offensive end.

On the Wizards' side, Leitner suddenly made a cold arrow from the outside, and Antoine Walker, who should have prevented him from shooting, exposed his essence of not defending at all.

This made Leitner's aggressiveness much stronger, and the next round, in almost the same position, Leitner shot Walker again.

This wave of Walker's defensive dividends made Leitner feel good, and it also made the situation on the court more and more staggered, and it was impossible to see who had the advantage.

Seeing Jordan and Leitner play brilliantly, Yu Fei no longer had expectations for his playing time tonight.

15 minutes is considered a victory.

It's ironic that his playing time needs Jordan and Leitner, especially Jordan, to pull their hips to improve.

Because Collins put Jordan in the No. 3 position and identified Yu Fei as the No. 3 position, and after determining Yu Qiao's position that Yu Qiao could not be on the same court through the performance of the Pistons a few days ago, Yu Fei's playing time can be said to be directly linked to Jordan's performance.

This is unacceptable to Yu Fei.

Communicating directly with Collins will not lead to results, and it is even more impossible to bow to Jordan, the first thing he has to do is to seize every minute of playing opportunity to make every second he plays worthwhile, so as to put pressure on Collins.

The better he plays, the more effective the pressure will be, and if Collins is determined to ignore all of this for Jordan's sake, then Yu Fei has only one choice left.

(End of chapter)