Chapter 107: I don't hate old men, but it's impossible if I don't hate this kind of old man
With about five minutes into the second quarter, the Bucks, who had a better second lineup, couldn't close the score, and George Karl finally gave up his illusions and replaced Ray Allen and Sam Cassel after a timeout, and then replaced Anthony Mason, who had good stats but was disastrous.
When Mason walked off the court, he looked imposing, and the audience in front of the TV could still see NBC warmly playing his stats: 10 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists.
Great, but at what cost?
Facing the Wizards, a second team without core players, the Bucks' second line, which has Big Dog, Mason, and Reed, actually only chased 1 point in five minutes.
Seeing the Bucks substitution, Collins also changed to Fei.
And, before the substitution, Collins also looked at Jordan deliberately: "Michael, are you ready to play?" β
Yu Fei looked at them playfully.
Is Collins less autonomous in front of Jordan, or is Carl less dignified in front of Mason?
Jordan felt uncomfortable in his legs, and since Yu Fei was in good shape tonight, it would be okay to let the other party fight more.
He's been dragging tenosynovitis for so long, what about a break?
"We're having a good momentum right now." Jordan didn't give an answer, but Collins already knew what he meant.
Collins then turned to Fei and said, "Fry, as long as you keep the touch of the first quarter, even if you make 50 shots, I have no problem." β
Shot 50 goals?
"I see." Yu Fei didn't think he would shoot 50 goals in a game.
The Bucks have also changed their alignment strategy.
Karl has given up on the idea of putting Tim Thomas and Yu Fei in the opposite position, because watching Yu Fei tear Thomas's defense apart is a disservice to his eyes and heart, and instead of putting a person who has no defense and no offense on the court to match Yu Fei, it is better to change someone who can consume him on the offensive end.
So, Carl decided, it's Glenn Robinson.
"Glenn, I want you to put some pressure on Frye on the offensive end, I don't want to hear excuses, and I don't care if you're comfortable or not, your job is to wear him down."
Robinson just replied with a hasty "OK" and went on the court.
But the big dog didn't pay attention to Carl's orders, because they had a bad relationship.
When he came to the court, Robinson glanced at Yu Fei, originally wanted to go through the motions and finish it, but he didn't expect Yu Fei to have the leisure to probe the inside intelligence of the Bucks: "Everyone can see that Anthony Mason is a problem, why can't you see it yourself?" Are you all afraid of him? β
"It's none of your business, a rookie like you who doesn't know anything better say a few words!" The big dog took out the momentum of a veteran who had been fighting in the alliance for nearly ten years, and wanted to suppress Yu Fei.
Yu Fei took advantage of the situation to receive the ball from his teammates.
Yu Fei held the ball in his hand, seemingly watching the big dog's defense, but in fact, he spotted that Jasidi White was in a good position under the basket and only needed him to send a scalpel pass that was risky but worth trying.
In an instant, Yu Fei threw the ball into the inside line, and no one reacted except White.
In the next second, White squeezed away the defender and scored a dunk.
"Let me tell you something I know." Yu Fei said to the big dog when he was following the defense, "People like you who are openly questioned by their own coach about their resilience must be afraid of Mason." β
Robinson was furious, and Yu Fei pointed out the root cause of the breakdown in his relationship with George Carr.
It was in the offseason, and Carl gave an interview, naming him for not being tough enough, liking to excuse himself with injuries, and not having the manly manhood to endure the pain and keep playing.
Since then, Robinson and Carr's relationship has not gone back.
Yu Fei is just picking up the wound of the big dog now, and he can't stand it anymore.
"You want to know about my resilience?" The big dog opened his hand to ask for the ball, "Then I'll show you!" β
The style of play and characteristics of the big dog, the Wizards' scouting report is very clear, the mid-range shooting is quite standard, but it lacks aggressiveness.
That said, while the dude can hit mid-range shots in a variety of positions, he never uses his mid-range threat to help him hit the basket.
Since he wants Yu Fei to see the toughness, shouldn't he be a little more murderous?
The answer is no.
How can the habit of clocking in to work all year round change in one go? After the big dog was dead against Yu Fei's body, he quickly retreated and jumped up, his movements were indecent, but the way he exerted his force was very ingenious, and Yu Fei could only interfere even if he returned to defend in place.
"That's right! That's right! Just hit it like that! You're still saved, Glenn, as long as you hit like this, you're still saved! β
Carl was shouting from the sidelines, and it was okay to take it for noise.
Yu Fei had never seen such a noisy head coach.
Then, Yu Fei dribbled to the front court by himself, Robinson tried to defend well, but this is the same as his offensive habits, a person who is not good at defending all year round, even if he has a good defense at the beginning, will lose his defensive ability after a long period of rotten.
After Yu Fei met with him, he broke through with an acceleration and rushed to the free throw line, raised his hand and hit the board with his signature throw.
"Coach Karl, I don't think there's any need to save him, let's make a substitution, I want to play against a tough defender."
Of course, Carl knew that Yu Fei was stirring up a relationship between himself and the big dog, and besides, it was working.
"Rookie, you don't have to mess with right and wrong here!"
Then, the big dog charges with the ball. Robinson, who lost his mind, actually came to the basket, and then carried Yu Fei to the basket, but was given a backhand after being held by Yu Fei.
Chris Whitney picked up the out-of-control ball and quickly ran forward to counter-attack and score.
"Don't be sad, Coach Karl, people who don't have resilience are like that."
As Wiggins before Wiggins, the big dog who clocked in to work all the year round was stimulated one after another, and his emotions were a little uncontrollable, and finally after this trash talk, he pushed Yu Fei hard.
Yu Fei took advantage of his strength to sit back, and then looked at the referee for the first time.
Sure enough, the referee is still sensible, even if he is at home, he can't push people down just because the opponent is cheap.
The big dog rightfully got a T.
After Yu Fei hit the free throw from the technical foul, he continued to engage in the mentality of a big dog: "If you are really resilient, you should swing your fist just now." β
The big dog roared angrily: "You think I don't dare? β
"Shut up, big dog!"
Referee Jess Kersey glared at Yu Fei again, "Rookie, if you talk so much nonsense, I'll kick you out!" β
Regardless of whether the referee kicked Yu Fei out or not, the damage had already been done.
The big dog's heart was upset.
Carl was agitated, and the voice-activated crew's voices became louder than before.
Then, during a powerful back punch from Robinson, Carl yelled like a chicken blood: "Just hit like this!" Hit it hard! Like a man, Glenn! Glenn! Hit him! β
Yu Fei's height and weight both show that backhitting him is not a good decision.
After playing on his back for three seconds, the big dog chose to turn around and shoot a step-back jumper that made Carl angry, and the result was a three-no-stick.
"You're a fucking bastard! Bad seeds! I haven't seen you hard! It's disgusting to watch you play! Damn, why can't you just be harder? β
The big dog didn't reply.
Yu Fei could see that he was not the kind of noble black brother who commonly mixed "brainless and unhappy".
This hybrid personality has a term for itself in the United States, called "black anger."
But the big dog was not angry.
He gritted his teeth and made a "mmmmmm~~~~" sound like a dog that couldn't bear it, and it sounded like the upper tuba was stuck.
"Your coach is really 'considerate'." Yu Fei said "warmly".
The big dog glared angrily: "Don't force me to beat you, rookie!" β
"You won't be a big dog." Yu Fei smiled, "If you want to beat up, you should first beat the dead fat pig who keeps barking on the sidelines, right?" β
Somehow, Yu Fei saw the big dog and smiled.
But what Yu Fei didn't know was that the word "big fat pig" was Anthony Mason's "honorific title" for George Carr.
That's what makes the big dog laugh, that's the root of all evil.
Yu Fei and Mason are the same kind of people.
Disrespect for authority, insulting opponents and coaches as a no-big deal, and the big dog is different, it has to do with his character, but also with the education he received.
Even though George Carr openly portrayed him in front of the media as a soft guy who would die if he committed a minor illness, he still did not have the courage to stand up to the authority of the manager.
However, that doesn't mean he respects Carl.
Because Mason proved that Carl was a tough bastard on the outside.
He just likes to be tough on the softballs who don't dare to stand up to him.
So when Yu Feirui commented on Carl, this achieved the highest score for unintentional comedy - he didn't realize the impact of this sentence on the parties, but he achieved the highest comedic effect.
This is on the same level as the Canadian electric eel predicting that he would go to prison, and Cecilia Cheung's line in "Wu Ji" "Do you want to see me take off my clothes" (1).
It's so funny, the big dog can't control himself at all.
This even reduced his antipathy to Fei greatly, in the final analysis, it was just trash talk, and the examples cited by Yu Fei were all facts, if you really want to blame it, you have to blame the dead fat pig who still has the face to bark on the sidelines.
The game continued, and the confrontation between Yu Fei and the big dog was much less gunpowdery, thanks to Carl.
He was too noisy and annoyed to Yu Fei, while Big Dog liked his attacks on Carl.
But the game is still the main thing.
Yu Fei is in a state of no matter how he plays, and the game that came up in the second quarter of the big dog feels far less good than the first quarter, and the hero who allowed the Bucks to control the difference within 20 points is Ray Allen.
Personality aside, Ray Allen should be Yu Fei's dream teammate.
doesn't occupy the ball much, three-point accuracy, can play fast attack, and doesn't steal the show.
If he were to be put in the Splash era with the Warriors to replace Klay Thompson, he would be a single-point breakaway and defensive weakened version of the Buddha.
However, in the Bucks, Ray Allen is often forced to be the main attacker because of the big dog's Buddha nature and Mason's foolishness, and once he fails to attack, Carl will bark again.
Unfortunately, Ray Allen, like Big Dog, is the kind of player who is used to succumbing to the authority of the manager.
Allen's responsible individual performance kept the game out of garbage time until the end of the first half.
This is not a good thing for flying.
The later the game goes into garbage time, the more chances he has to brush his stats.
In the half, Yu Fei scored 28 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, which was undoubtedly his best game so far this season.
"You could describe Frye tonight as great." Collins said, "He's just do!" β
In the second half, Ray Allen started to be inaccurate, and Anthony Mason once again showed his cancer attributes.
This time, he was even more excessive than in the first half.
Yu Fei saw Mason dribble from the back court to the front court more than once, and then waved his hand to let his teammates pull away, and he slowly singled on one side, although the hit rate looked okay, but he had completely isolated his teammates from the game.
It's as if the competition is his one-man show.
Carl acquiesced to Mason's actions, and no other teammate dared to stand up and accuse the famous villain.
Mason's dominance exacerbated the Bucks' collapse.
Less than five minutes into the second half, the margin was widened to 24 points.
Mason singled again, and was blocked by Yu Fei, who came in to help defend it.
Then, Yu Fei picked up the floor ball again, and after he came to the front court, he suddenly hit a three-point chase at the top of the arc.
"Huh!"
There is a quarter and a half left in the game, but Bucks fans have already started to walk away.
They were disappointed with the team, although they didn't expect much.
Since Abdul-Jabbar fled Milwaukee in the early '70s on the grounds that he "doesn't belong," the Bucks have been going around and around until the late '70s, when Don Nelson's leadership, coupled with the arrival of stars like Sidney Moncliffe, brought the Bucks to their second peak in franchise history. Unfortunately, this team that could definitely win the championship in the 70s met the pinnacle Hukai led by the Magic Bird in the 80s.
Disappointment, continued disappointment, dissipation, and then peaceful despair.
That's why the Bucks will never be able to replace the packers in Wisconsin.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Glenn Robinson chose to withdraw from the game due to leg discomfort.
George Carr didn't say anything, because they were gone.
But Carl's remarks off the pitch that big dogs don't have resilience only doubled the damage to the latter on a night like this.
In the fourth quarter, Yu Fei didn't play for a few minutes before going off to rest.
He doesn't like garbage time to brush data, and neither does Jordan.
The fourth quarter was boring for a whole time, because the winner had already been decided.
In the end, the Wizards defeated the Bucks 116-88 and successfully walked away from the road with a victory.
Post-match interview
"No words can describe how proud I am of Frye, he is fantastic! He's really amazing! You can see he's getting more and more comfortable and getting better and better with Michael, he's shown that he can take the pressure off Michael, it's the player we've been looking for, he's finally showing up! - Collins lamented Yu Fei's performance.
"You earn your playing time, and if you play 10 minutes and you get one rebound and you have one turnover, you don't make a shot, they don't play you again. Keep your head up, it's just your rookie year, your chance will come sooner or later, don't be discouraged and don't feel discouraged. βCollins' response to Kwame Brown's lack of playing time.
"Michael is the best player of all time, the smartest player of all time, and he knew from the start that tonight belonged to Fry, so he did a lot of work that the stats didn't show. I'm glad he finally got a good rest on game night. - Collins responds that Jordan only played 27 minutes tonight.
'That's what I said to him, if he's complacent about it, then it's probably the best game of his career, and if he wants to get better, then after tonight, he's going to have to forget about it. I hope he listened, you know, he wasn't very persuaded. - Jordan on Yu Fei's performance.
"As we started to succeed, our goals got even higher. Now it's assumed that we're going to be a strong contender for the playoffs. If we can continue to succeed, the goal will be closer and closer. So at least we should focus on the present and keep focusing on winning the game and the improvement of the team will become a reality. - Jordan on the future of the team.
"I'm not going to answer that question." - Jordan was asked about the marriage change.
"Frye is just proving himself to the old guys who didn't pick him for the All-Star because of his age." - Whitney on Yu Fei's performance.
"We weren't tough enough, we weren't decisive enough, we played in a mess, we weren't tough enough, we didn't have a sense of responsibility, we were the worst team, it's unacceptable to let a rookie play like this, I hope everyone will reflect on themselves when they go back!" - Karl expressed his displeasure with the team's players.
'Fry screwed us up and I think we made a lot of mistakes, but I also have to admit that he played well. He's a great rookie, that, does Michael still want to trade him? Karl talks about Yu Fei's performance.
"No. 44 is good, but the problem is with us, we are very messy, not whole, very bad, and it is impossible to win like this." - Ray Allen on the game.
"What can I do if my teammates play like that every night and don't give me enough support?" - Mason blames his teammates for poor performance.
'I don't care who the coach is, if I'm injured I won't train. I don't care who you are. I don't care how many games you've won, or your historical achievements. If my body is not feeling well, if my body tells me that I can't continue, I won't continue. And I'm not the kind of person who doesn't like to practice. Sometimes I don't agree with some training because I don't feel well physically, but I think that's the case with all the players. Even when [Carl] was playing, he probably didn't agree with some of the training he did as a player. Robinson, the big dog, retorted to questions about his resilience.
"Frye, this is your third triple-double this season and the first time in your career that you've scored 40 points, what motivates you to do that?"
"You know, no one is more motivated to prove themselves than I am right now."
"Why?"
"You really don't know? Standing in front of you is an unlucky guy who missed out on being selected as an All-Star in his rookie season because of age and seniority, do you think this unlucky guy should go all out to prove himself? β
"So, are you protesting to the league in this game?"
"Protest doesn't count, you know, I'm not a conceited person. I also know that the league has their own ideas for doing this, so the most I'm going to do tonight is to accuse some of the old men in the rotten league office that they should retire early, and the only reason they like to let the old guys in [the All-Star team] and don't like the young guys is that they're old men themselves. β
"So you hate old people?"
"I don't hate old people, but it's unlikely that I don't hate them."
"Uh-huh?"
"If you don't understand, it's hard for you to grow up if I make everything clear to you."
- Yu Fei's post-match interview.
(1) The movie "Wu Ji" itself is so rotten that it can't be turned over, but the terrifying prophetic ability has raised it to a metaphysical level. There are also two unintentional comedies in this film that I will never forget (2), (3).
(2) Wuhuan (played by Nicholas Tse) said to Allure (Cecilia Cheung): "You ruined my chance to be a good person!" β
(3) Chen Kaige: "You won't be able to understand my movie until 5 years later." "Indeed, Allure's uniform temptation is beautiful.
(End of chapter)