Chapter 150: Who Do You Say Is Overrated?
As one of the NBA's well-known and successful marketing campaigns, the Christmas Game is promoted to fans every year as a focus at the beginning of the season.
The alliance focuses on promoting strong confrontations that have a story to tell.
As the No. 1 team in the East, the Bucks, who are currently 22-7, will face the New Jersey Nets, who are third in the East, tonight.
From the moment Yu Fei was sent to Milwaukee in the offseason, the Bucks were destined to play in this year's Christmas game.
The question is only which team to match the Bucks.
Yu Fei is a balloon star, although he has only played for less than a season and a half, he has already had a grudge with many people, so it can be said that arranging a team for him is interesting.
The league chose the Nets mainly because of what happened in the first round of the playoffs between the Wizards and the Nets last season.
Yu Fei and Kenyon Martin fell out and were promoted after the game, and in the first game of the season, the two escalated the conflict into a feud.
So there is this wildly publicized Christmas war.
Continental Airlines Arena
Walking into the home court of the Nets, Yu Fei could feel the frenzy in the crowd.
After all, the Nets reached the Finals last year, and although they were swept 4-0, it is definitely a strong stroke in their team history, and it is normal for the ball market to become hot.
Yu Fei and Kenyon Martin's feud made the New Jerseys on the scene very unfriendly to tonight's guests.
"Martin is going to dunk you the head!"
"Pseudo-strong team!"
"No. 1 in the East if you don't qualify!"
All sorts of outrageous trash talk came from the audience.
When Yu Fei and Ray Allen came to the midfield, Jason Kidd said lightly to Allen: "The next time we meet, you should wear a supersonic jersey, right?" ”
The trade rumors of Ray Allen and Gary Payton are one of the biggest scandals in the NBA in recent times.
But Yu Fei believes that Kidd brought up this not just to greet Ray Allen.
Ray Allen didn't like this kind of greeting either.
"I don't care." Rey-ray once again put on a tsundere posture, "I'm just playing." ”
Then Yu Fei asked a question: "Jason, why don't you see your team's big talk king?" ”
Kidd glanced at Yu Fei cautiously, "Ken Young refuses to shake hands with Ling, he won't shake the enemy's hand." ”
"It seems that the experience of breaking his leg in college didn't teach him anything." Yu Fei cursed calmly, "I wouldn't be surprised if one day his hand was also broken. ”
Kidd didn't reply, he already knew that Yu Fei was a difficult person to deal with, but he didn't expect to speak so rudely.
The two sides separated.
Ray Allen didn't say to Fei until he was back in the Bucks' backcourt: "You don't really want to break Kenyon Martin's hand, do you?" ”
If you take it too seriously, you'll lose a lot of fun in life, Rey-ray.
"Did you know that trash talk only happens in a second space outside of reality?" Yu Fei thoughtfully made an analogy, "For example, I said that Kenyon Martin's mother died, but his mother in reality will not really die, it is his mother in the second space who died." And this mom is always produced in batches and dies when I need her. ”
Ray Allen showed an expression of "the old man in the subway looking at his phone": "I understand every word you say, but I can't understand it when you connect it." ”
Yu Fei spread his hands and said, "Okay, I won't break his hand." ”
Ray Allen breathed a sigh of relief.
Subsequently, everything went according to normal procedures.
The two sides warmed up, shot, and barely communicated.
Before the opening, Karl called Yu Fei to his side and said, "Fry, you have to pay more attention to my gestures tonight." ”
Yu Fei responded: "George, I don't want to be a stupid player. ”
"Unless you think you're smarter than Jason Kidd."
"I do think I'm smarter than Jason Kidd."
"Shut up and be obedient, you damn Gen Y!"
"Well, if that helps."
Yu Fei could indeed sense that Carl was serious about teaching himself something, but what he did gave others a sense of déjà vu that they were eager to let their children realize their dreams. Yu Fei felt that he could succeed in his own way, but Carl felt that he couldn't because he knew more about basketball.
Tonight, Carl decided to let Yu Fei be the full-time point guard and Kidd went head-to-head.
For the Nets, Dekembe Mutombo replaced Aaron Williams as the Nets' temporary starting center.
There's only one reason why the top defender with a defensive impact spanning the '90s suddenly entered the starting lineup, and that is that the Nets need to use his ability to protect the basket to reduce Yu Fei's impact on the interior.
In the opening stanza, Mutombo won the jump ball.
Kidd didn't move forward with the ball very quickly, but he was very organized.
On the one hand, he carried Yu Fei's close pressure, and on the other hand, let his teammates settle in an orderly manner.
Up front, Kidd passes the ball to Corey Kittels, who then turns to Richard Jefferson. Jefferson hit a three-point shot.
3 to 0
"See? That's the difference between you and Jason Kidd! ”
Yu Fei heard a woman on the sidelines calling, he turned his head to look at the other party, with long black hair, rose red lips, and beautiful facial features.
Then, Karl's roar will be pulled back from the imagination of the flyer: "Fry, let's play the inside!" ”
The Nets' starting five is Mutombo, who is still the best basket protector in the league when he is full of physical strength, and now he challenges the inside, seriously?
Thinking about it, Yu Fei still carried out Carl's intention.
He called for Mason's pick-and-roll to bring Kenyon Martin out, then called straight to the paint, made a quick stop to shake off the defense, and made a close-range jumper in front of Mutombo.
It was so close, but Mutombo could hardly interfere with half a point, and watched Yu Fei's ball fly into the basket in front of him.
3 to 2
Yu Fei glanced at Martin, "How can someone not even know how to defend closely?" ”
Then, Yu Fei heard the fans in the front row scolding him again.
The other party is also a beauty, but obviously not as good as the previous one.
Let Yu Fei score in front of him, and Martin, who was still being sprayed trash talk, ran to the front court, directly blocked and dismantled Kidd, and pulled away horizontally.
Martin's blocking quality is not high, and the habit of blocking people is not good, and his most sure way to score is to go down to the restricted area to eat cake, but now he actually takes a step into the three-point line in the bottom left corner.
Kidd gave him a pass, and Martin took it and threw it.
Such an unreasonable shot will naturally not end well.
Martin's shot hit the ball and popped out of bounds, not even a chance to grab an offensive rebound.
"How can someone not even know where they are good at attacking?"
Yu Fei's cynicism really made Martin a little angry, and he bit his lip and wanted to explode with someone Yu in the front court.
As a result, his teammates saw that he was buried a little over, and hurriedly pulled the person away.
"It's time to get the rest of the people moving, don't hold the ball too long!"
When Yu Fei played point guard in the Wizards, he played with enjoyment. But in the Bucks, playing point guard is complete torture.
Because Karl would walk to the sidelines before every offense and tell him what to do afterward.
This made Yu Fei think that Carl was manipulating his body to play.
And this kind of over-coaching seems to be the mainstream at the moment, but Yu Fei's previous head coach has no real power, otherwise it is inevitable to remote point guard on the sidelines.
This shows how rare the Nets' main control is.
Their head coach, Byron Scott, is not even qualified to coach Kidd on how to play.
Yu Fei followed Karl's arrangement and passed the ball to Sprewell when he went to the frontcourt.
Then, Sprewell attacked the inside with the ball, was shrouded by Mutombo and passed the ball out.
Ray Allen catches the ball, clicks, and shoots two points from inside the three-point line.
Wonderful and unforgettable, this is contemporary basketball in Yu Fei's impression.
"Bang!"
Ray Allen's shot seemed to give Carl another reason to trade him, and his roar came from the backcourt: "Ray, don't you know that we still have plenty of time to put together an effective offense?" ”
Just when Karl turned on the hair dryer mode against Ray Allen, the Nets' counterattack had already come to the frontcourt.
Kidd knew Yu Fei was right behind him, so his aim was simply to draw the attention of the defense until the two of them were in the paint area together and passed the ball back.
Kenyon Martin followed up, and he knew Kidd's passing habits all too well.
There is no suspense, and Yu Fei, who was taken out of the defensive position by Kidd, could not have stopped Martin's dunk.
5 to 2
"I said you were overrated, and that's not a big word, it's a truth, you bitch better remember my words!"
Martin yelled at Yu Fei.
The audience, who were familiar with the grievances between the two, also stood up to cheer for Martin.
Washington Wizards reporter Steve Whitch once did an analysis of Fei, and he believes that Yu Fei is an antisocial personality in the NBA.
Because once Yu Fei is provoked by something, he does everything regardless of the consequences.
This has been taught by the Wizards up and down.
"You're not going to leave it at that, are you?" Sprewell asked with a smile.
Yu Fei replied expressionlessly: "Of course." ”
George Carr shouted out Fly's name again: "Fry! ”
“Shhh!” Yu Fei "shh
Carl knew that his kite had broken again.
Usually, Yu Fei will echo him for a section or two, but tonight it will be over in a few rounds.
What went wrong? Carl remembered the trash talk after Martin's dunk.
Kenyon Martin, it's this dog mongrel who delayed his big fly transformation plan, this dog mongrel is really damned!
Yu Fei, who came to the frontcourt, did not directly find Martin, but called a No. 5 blocking tactic.
It looks like he's given up on fighting Martin, and in fact, it's only by moving Mutombo out and letting Martin go to the basket to get there.
When Mutombo was forced out of the paint area, he and Yu Fei were in a high position. Yu Fei broke through him easily. Mutombo dared to leave the basket because of Martin's ability to protect the basket for the team with his athletic talent even in his absence.
What Yu Fei wants is for Martin to stay under the basket.
He burst through Mutombo's defence at almost full speed, stepped inside the free throw line, collected the ball quickly, and then leaped into the air at the same time as Martin.
Kenyon Martin is known as a brutalist power forward, but he weighs less than Yu Fei, and in this case, he doesn't have any advantage. Yu Fei rushed over recklessly, knocking Martin away in the air, the visual effect was no less than that of a bicycle hit by a car on the road, Martin was so embarrassed that he looked completely powerless to resist.
What about Yu Fei? He steadied himself like a god, grabbed the ball and smashed it towards the basket with all his might.
“BOOM!!!!!!!”
(Whistle blows)
Martin, who was knocked under the hoop, struggled to open his eyes, just in time to see Yu Fei holding the basket with one hand and staggering down at him.
"Who do you say is overrated?"
(End of chapter)