Maddy had limited playing time in the first half due to foul issues, and the Magic were counting on Hill to hold the situation, but they didn't expect him to go down again like the undefeated Zoffe.

The moment Hill fell, you could see the shattered look on Doug Rivers' face.

The best team in the East, 60 wins, and a three-game winning streak in the Finals against the OK Lakers will never happen again.

Maddie didn't feel as deeply as Rivers, he had a sense of loss.

A year ago, he had come to assist Ciel, and a year later, it had become Ciel's assistant.

So far this season, although Maddy has averaged 26 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game, he is always constrained and difficult to exert his full strength, because he needs to give Hill the ball so that he can quickly get back to the game.

However, this respectful run-in has not worked, and the Magic have only won 50 percent so far this season, so some have compared them to Julius Irving and George McGuinness in 1977.

The same pair of similarly similar styles that need to be humble to coexist with each other made it to the Finals, and in an era of low competition in the East, a ticket to the Finals is the bare minimum for the Magic.

Hill was injured again, and the so-called Floor Finals became empty talk, and Maddie didn't know what he lost in that moment, he only knew that the ball would be monopolized by him again.

Is there anything better for a young superstar at just 22 years old than to have unlimited ball possession?

In the second half, Maddy scored 24 points, but the Magic was not in good morale and failed to achieve a reversal, and in the end, the Wizards at home defeated the Magic 105-94.

The same question gets different answers on different nights.

Today, Richard Hamilton, who scored the team's highest score, was asked in an interview what he did to help Jordan in this game.

"Throw the ball into the baby!" Hamilton gleefully said, "I just put the ball in!" ”

Then, the reporter asked: "Tonight is the first start of Frye Yu's career, but you are on the bench, do you think there is a rivalry between you?" ”

'No, you just have to watch us play a lot to know that we've got all sorts of starting lineups this season, everybody could start, everybody could come off the bench, and I'm not worried about that.

Jordan was happy, and while Maddy's final stats overpowered him, the Magic lost.

As long as you win, there are naturally experts who speak for you.

Moreover, Jordan's performance was indeed crucial, and if he hadn't put Maddie in a foul crisis in the first half, maybe Hill wouldn't have fallen so early, and the Magic's morale wouldn't have collapsed.

"I don't have an advantage in front of Tracy," Jordan said on the surface, but in fact he was conceited, "and the only thing I had was experience, which he didn't have." I know how to create chances, he's still young and there's still a long way to go. ”

Jordan was inevitably asked about Yu Fei's outstanding performance on his first start.

"He's done a great job," Jordan said succinctly, "and I'm happy for him." ”

In contrast, Collins is more direct and realistic.

When asked by reporters about Yu Fei's performance, Collins replied: "His performance is unimaginably good. ”

"Will he continue to start?"

Collins said self-deprecatingly, "Unless we don't want to win." ”

"What about Kwame Brown?"

"We don't expect anything from him right now," Collins said sensibly and calmly, "and he and Frye are two extremes. ”

Tonight, Yu Fei played 30 minutes, scored 17 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, and he was basically satisfied with his performance.

"Fry, this is your first start, how many points do you rate yourself?"

"You know, I don't like to rate myself, it's the fans and the media."

"Do you think you'll continue to start?"

'You know, I can't decide who starts and that's the manager's job.

"What do you think of your chemistry with MJ on the court?"

Good question, one of us likes to play fast, and the other likes to grind the position even though he can't fight positional battles, how do you say we have a tacit understanding? I think it's a little better than Tian and Doinb in the second week of the S11 group stage, what do you say?

"You know, there's no one better suited to MJ than me."

The pleasant evening passed quickly.

The next day, the Magic announced that Grant Hill suffered a severe contusion to his left ankle and will be suspended indefinitely starting today.

The news is reminiscent of Hill suffered a medial fracture of his left ankle last April, and now he has a severe contusion of his left ankle bone, will he still be okay?

Either way, that's a problem for Orlando, and the Wizards need to rush to Philadelphia to play in back-to-back games against the 76ers that night.

It was also the Wizards' final game in November.

The Wizards, who have won two in a row, will be hoping to win three in a row on the road, which will give them more confidence heading into December's game.

With Allen Iverson out injured, last season's Eastern Conference champions started the season on a five-game losing streak.

It's certainly a testament to Iverson's worth, and despite his inefficiency, he's the reason the 76ers went so far last season.

Not long ago, Iverson signed a lifetime contract with Reebok, and as a member of Reebok, Yu Fei was arranged by the company to attend events with Iverson after he came to Philadelphia with the team.

Privately, Iverson is Kwame Brown's dream self.

Iverson is very "big brother", no matter where he goes, he looks like a boss, but Yu Fei has no idea of getting closer to him.

Yu Fei's feelings for many stars come from memories of his past life, and Iverson, as a player who has to come to China every once in a while to pan for gold after retiring, almost always just consumes his feelings, rather than consolidating his connection with Chinese fans like Maddie.

This is a person who can't even cut leeks, Yu Fei's impression is that the most smiling time he came to China was surrounded by princesses of unknown composition in KTV.

After the event, Yu Fei returned to the hotel to rest, and then took a bus with his teammates to the Fuva Jovia Center Arena (1), the home of the 76ers.

(1) The 76ers' home court was not renamed Phu Quoc Center until 2010.

With the 76ers' starting power forward Derrick Coleman, Collins tried to start Yu Fei at the No. 4 spot tonight.

In that case, Richard Hamilton is back in the starting line-up.

The only thing left of Coleman now is a bad reputation and a body that still has some talent left.

Although Coleman has a talent that Malone envies, he can't even play Yu Fei at the No. 4 position now.

Larry Brown dismissed Collins' mistake in placing the No. 4 position and asked the team to make a fuss about Coleman's opening to the game.

However, Coleman currently weighs only 230 pounds, which is not much better than flying.

The most important confrontation advantage of inside singles is not there, and Coleman's skills are not good enough to make up for the lack of physical confrontation, but the seriously declining physical fitness is restrained by Yu Fei.

At the beginning of the game, Yu Fei gave Coleman two blocks in a row, both of which allowed the Wizards to complete the counterattack.

Then Iverson entered Babel mode, devouring Chris Whitney alive on the offensive end, and intercepting Yu Fei's pass on the defensive end, and the two sides entered the second quarter with a tie.

Yu Fei, who was temporarily appointed as the starting No. 4, was not as familiar with the Wizards' high post as Leitner, and he used his personal offensive threat more to create more chaos in the area from the free throw line to the paint, either shooting himself or scoring the ball indiscriminately.

Jasidy White is Yu Fei's Chaos Bonus winner.

This made Kwame Brown red-eyed off the court, "I can score those opportunities if I give them!" ”

But no one listened to him, the more chaotic Yu Fei stirred up the situation, the more uncomfortable Jordan became, he has a core position under the Collins system, and the characteristic of chaotic warfare is that there is no core, whoever has the opportunity will shoot.

Collins saw that although the situation was good, but the big daddy was not playing well, he gave up the idea of letting Yu Fei continue to play the No. 4 position, and replaced Yu Fei with six minutes left in the second quarter and replaced Leitner.

Jordan was liberated, he became the core again, and he could continue to shoot with an average shooting percentage of more than 30% per game.

Yu Fei sat on the court with 7 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists until the end of the half, and the advantage gained by the chaotic battle was gradually caught up by the red-eyed Iverson.

In the second half, Yu Fei played as the starting No. 3, Hamilton returned to the bench, and Jordan was still trying to blast Aaron McGee on a single point, but he was far less comfortable tonight than Allen Iverson opposite.

"Enough, if you don't feel it, you will shoot less, don't you understand such a simple truth?"

When Jordan shot 1-of-6 in the third quarter, Yu Fei said the words that had been backlogged in his teammates' hearts.

Remember, Jordan didn't like to be questioned.

Jordan directly called a timeout, and walked up to Yu Fei and said with an annoyed face: "I have played basketball for decades more than you, and you are not qualified to tell me which truth is right and which is wrong!" ”

It's really a thief to be old and not die!

Yu Fei didn't eat this, and said even more harshly: "If you don't want to win, just keep shooting, but don't tell me how many years you've been playing, what's the use of?" Can it give you an extra goal or can it drive Aaron Iverson crazy like you? ”

“！ ￥@#”

"Fry seems to be at odds with MJ."

"It's not like. They do have some unpleasantness. ”

"Oh my, this is definitely the headline for tomorrow!"

"Young people do do irrational things because they are hot-headed."

Collins activated the ostrich dafa, pretended that everything was okay and picked up the tactical board and said to Fei, "Fry, let's fight like this when the timeout is over."

Collins drew a beautiful tactic, but the endpoint was Jordan.

Jordan was 1 of 6 in the third quarter.

The tactics are good, but Yu Fei doesn't believe in Jordan tonight.

However, Yu Fei will not waste Collins' timeout, since the tactics are drawn like this, they will play like this, but he will be prepared for Jordan to hit the iron to rush for rebounds.

At the end of the timeout, the Wizards began to run along the tactical route drawn by Collins.

Things went well, Yu Fei played the ball early in the second before Jordan appeared, and the moment he hit the ball, he had already run to the basket.

Jordan catches the ball and has a beautiful position, but he may be the first person in the court who knows that this ball will hit the iron.

The feel is not deceiving!

"Bang!"

Coleman was already in position, and he could grab the rebound with a light jump, but he ignored the people behind him, and he didn't expect someone to run in and rush to the board with reckless impact.

Yu Fei grabbed the rebound ball almost against Coleman's body, and smashed the ball into the basket at the moment when the whole court was shouting.

It may be a foul, but the NBA is a commercial league after all, and referees usually don't embarrass the offense when it's the kind of moment that can be included in the highlight of the season.

Coleman suffered a loss, and Iverson came up front to respond quickly.

Yu Fei said to Whitney after serving, "Give me the ball!" ”

Yu Fei used practical actions to determine that the original set of play has become invalid, after dribbling to the front court, he didn't look at Jordan at all, Coleman dared to come out to defend and break through, if he changed people to defend, he called the opposite Coleman's people to come out to block and dismantle and change positions, and soon, Larry Brown couldn't stand Coleman's defensive hole.

Coleman was replaced.

Then, Yu Fei began to name Mutombo.

The throwing and emergency stop jump shot that broke through to a certain position after the block was dismantled are the two sharp weapons of Yu Fei's military training, and now he is emotional, he does everything regardless of the consequences, and in the remaining 5 minutes of the third quarter, Yu Fei shot 7 of 9, Jordan did not touch the ball once.

"That's not our way of playing!"

When the Wizards entered the fourth quarter with an 11-point advantage, Collins didn't know whether to be angry or happy, and that complicated expression couldn't even be played by Tom Hanks.

"But." Johann Bach said, "It works. ”

"But that's not our way of playing!" Collins said weakly, "He isolated everyone." ”

The harm of letting Yu Fei enter the starting line is emerging, his style, his style of play, and his personality are almost incompatible with Jordan.

Especially tonight, which was particularly bad for Jordan and happened to be a night when Yu Fei performed well, had an obvious weakening effect on the majesty of the former.

It was only his second start.

In the fourth quarter, another thing happened that made Collins nervous.

Teammates began to trust Yu Fei and accept Yu Fei's leadership, especially starting point guard Chris Whitney and starting center Jasidy White.

Whitney gave the ball to Yu Fei as soon as he passed the half.

White actively gave Yu Fei a block because he knew that Yu Fei could let him eat countless chance balls.

Jordan was left behind at one end of the line.

Yu Fei doesn't look at him as long as he gets the ball.

Is Yu Fei openly isolating Jordan, or has he not found a way to cooperate with Jordan?

Collins didn't know, intellectually, he leaned towards the latter, but emotionally, it was definitely the former.

The feud between the two has been a semi-open secret since the beginning of training camp, and now it is just a matter of telling the world what everyone knows about this wizard.

Five minutes before the end, Yu Fei was replaced, and at that time, the Wizards led the 76ers by 19 points, and the game was almost garbage time.

Yu Fei scored a team-high 24 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 blocks, which was his best game of the season so far.

Johann Bach found that when Yu Fei left the field, almost all of his teammates on the field kept a certain distance from him.

They were afraid of Yu Fei just like they were afraid of Jordan.

Only Kwame Brown can afford to joke: "Fry, I'm a reporter for the Washington Post, congratulations on your three-game winning streak, what did you do to help Michael tonight?" ”

Yu Fei laughed and said rebelliously: "I avoided his shooting rate from continuing to decrease by not passing the ball to him, and I'm glad I did this." ”

"Wow, Fry, you're such a perfect teamist, Michael will appreciate you, right?"

"yes, it's like you spend half an hour in bed every day thanking him for picking you out with the first pick."

There was no suspense, in the slow-paced 2001 NBA game, where the 19-point lead in the last five minutes of the fourth quarter was close to zero, and the Wizards only needed to grind their positions patiently to win the game.

And that's exactly what they did.

In the end, 99-85, the Wizards won three straight on the road and put themselves back in the playoff rankings with this victory.

Post-match interview

"No. 44 is so brilliant that I can't believe he's a rookie, he was dominant in the second half, and even the AI was overshadowed by him." - Larry Brown on Yu Fei.

"I'm amazed that this guy on the pitch hasn't played in three years, and you can't imagine a guy who hasn't played a competitive game for three years can maintain such a high level." - Larry Brown on Jordan on 6-of-20 shooting.

"At the start of the season, everybody thought Michael would be the Wizards' teacher to the youngsters, but in a sense, it wasn't." - Doug Collins on Jordan's status on the team.

"I know you want to get the so-called shock, but let me tell you, the arguments between Frye and Michael happen all the time on the pitch and you see something like that in every game, they're all very individual contenders, and I'm not worried about that." —Doug Collins on the argument between Yu Fei and Jordan during the game.

"I've always heard that Frye is Rookie of the Year, but I'm telling you, he's by far the Rookie of the Century." - Doug Collins spoke highly of Fly.

'You have to trust your team-mates so that things can open up completely.' - Michael Jordan on the game's turnaround.

"I don't have a problem with Fry, I know what kind of person he is, he knows what kind of person I am, and after tonight, this matter will be over." - Michael Jordan on his quarrel with Yu Fei.

"Believe me, Michael is the best mentor in the world, and only he can bring out the full potential of young people." - Allen Iverson speaks highly of Jordan.

"Fry, what do you think of the rumors about your feud with Michael?"

"You know, here, no one respects MJ more than I do."

"So, you think it's fake news?"

"Yes, definite fake news for sure."

"Would you like to talk about the argument you had with Michael during the game tonight?"

"You know, it's because I respect MJ that I dove him with cold water when he's not in a good state, and it turned out to work well, and from that moment on, we were in control, and I don't know who else would suspect that I didn't have a good relationship with MJ, and in my opinion, it was a testament to our deep friendship."

"Deep friendship? Has your relationship with MJ developed to this point? ”

"Yes, I've said it many times, but I don't mind saying it again. MJ is my mentor and friend, and I will always respect MJ. ”

- Yu Fei's post-match interview

(End of chapter)