Yu Fei was "stranded" in Washington for half a day.

It's not that he can't bear his mother, but there is one more thing to do.

The anti-Qiao meeting in the outside world was in full swing, but Yu Fei invited a guest to dinner at his own Chinese restaurant.

"I really didn't expect you to come." Yu Fei looked at the person in front of him, "After all, everyone says that you are the most unlikely person in the world to betray Michael." ”

Tim Grover sat in front of Yu Fei with a struggling look on his face, but soon, the reality that Jordan was about to say goodbye to basketball forever made that emotion disappear.

"Michael will retire sooner or later, but I'm going to keep working." Grover reasoned and said, "This is not a betrayal, I am a trainer and my mission is to provide you with the best quality training..."

Seeing that Grover looked like he was trying to convince himself, Yu Fei smiled and said nothing.

When he was still in Washington, Lawson and Grover were close.

However, no matter how much Lawson tried to please them, Grover always ignored them, as if he was the most loyal Jordan man in the world, as the outside world said.

Maybe Grover's loyalty to Jordan is real, but only if Jordan is still playing.

As long as Jordan is playing, Grover is his man.

If Jordan doesn't play, Grover's loyalty isn't worth a penny to him. In turn, it's the same for Grover.

Trainers need to have players who are worthy of their own training to show their value.

Grover became the most famous trainer in the industry because he assisted Jordan in achieving hegemony, and Jordan is gone, but his signature is still there.

Therefore, Yu Fei believes that part of the reason why Grover ignored him in Washington was that he did not prove worthy of assistance at all.

Now, Grover believes Yu Fei has a lot to offer.

So the day after Jordan suffered the most humiliating night of his career, Grover accepted Yu Fei's invitation.

Yu Fei didn't doubt Grover's professionalism at all, but he still needed to know if he still needed the other party now.

After all, even without Grover, Lawson did his job brilliantly.

"Tim, do you think you can do anything for me now?"

"More than you think." "I know you're training hard, but the people around you don't know what basketball players need most, they just set up training for you in a formulaic way," Grover said. ”

Yu Fei didn't understand this kind of thing, so he could only listen.

"Give me a summer and I'll take your body to a completely different level."

Grover didn't say anything scientific that made Yu Fei unaware, nor did he introduce training methods.

He showed absolute confidence.

Because he has a brilliant resume.

Yu Fei doesn't doubt Grover's training ability, he once accidentally entered the opponent's official website in his previous life, where it was clearly stated that Grover provided professional training for Jordan, Maddie in 2000, Kobe Bryant in 2005 and Wade in 2008 - you know, they have all reached the peak of their competitive form after that.

A good trainer can really take a player to a whole new level.

Yu Fei asked, "When can you start working for me?" ”

"After the regular season," Grover said. ”

Is it right to Milwaukee after the regular season? Isn't it too ruthless?

Yu Fei is not so "", he doesn't want to make things too ugly, and he doesn't want to make Grover too embarrassed.

"There's no need to rush." Yu Fei said, "Before the end of this season, you are still Michael's trainer, so it is good for you and me, and you must do things from beginning to end." ”

If he joins Yu Fei's team as soon as the regular season is over, Grover will indeed need to bear the pressure from Jordan's side.

They had been friends for many years, and with Jordan's current hatred for Fly, their friendship would end if Grover threw himself into the Fly camp.

Leaving now is a complete cut, leaving after the season is a clear line.

Same result, but different perceptions.

Grover breathed a sigh of relief.

The matter was just like that, and it went more smoothly than Yu Fei imagined.

In the afternoon, Yu Fei traveled to the airport and took a lot of time to return to Milwaukee.

The aftermath of the battle between the Bucks and the Wizards is still spreading, but Yu Fei doesn't care anymore.

These are all collateral injuries, and they are the backlash that Jordan deserves after years of controlling the media.

The next day, Yu Fei returned to the team for training.

With five games left in the regular season, the Bucks currently sit first in the league with 59 wins, but they are not solid.

The league's second-place Mavericks have 58 wins.

Since the Mavericks have a direct record advantage over the Bucks, the Bucks must maintain a win lead of at least one game to stay in the first place.

The Bucks' attitude towards the standings is to keep what they can do, because they have already locked up the first place in the East, so as long as they maintain a top-three record in the league until the end of the season, they will achieve their goal.

Rather than keep the rankings, George Karl would prefer to test his lineup in the last few games.

A day later, the Bucks faced the Knicks at home.

Karl thinks that the Knicks' starting No. 4 position Kurt Thomas is no threat to Fei, so he puts Yu Fei at the No. 4 position.

During the game, the Mavericks used Nowitzki as much as Karl used it for flying.

Yu Fei's shooting performance against the Wizards gave Carl a huge surprise, but against the Knicks, after an inside confrontation, his shooting was not good.

obviously used him as Nowitzki, but he found that Yu Fei was more like Garnett.

Changing defenses, assisting defenses, big defenses and small defenses are particularly good, and the inside back play is a little jerky, but there are more powerful weak-side ball-holding singles and unstoppable one-stop counterattack fast break than the original Garnett.

Yu Fei at the No. 4 position is easier to grab backcourt defensive rebounds, and the frequency of his counterattacks has greatly increased.

After one game, Yu Fei scored 26 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 blocks, and the average number of rebounds per game officially doubled.

"How do you feel about being the only No. 3 in the league to average double-doubles in rebounds per game?"

"Please take this as a warning, just grab six or seven rebounds a game at the No. 3 position, and any more will overflow."

This game proved that if the opponent's No. 4 position is not a strong type, Yu Fei can indeed play the No. 4 position.

It's just that Carl still wants to see if Yu Fei can maintain shooting stability under high pressure.

But the idea was dissuaded by assistant teacher Ron Adams.

"We'll have time to test Frye's skills and the most important thing now is to get the team ready for the upcoming playoffs."

Adams' suggestion went to Carl's heart.

The experiment stopped, and for the next few games, the Bucks played according to the standard starting lineup.

Yu Fei's average rebounds per game also dropped from 10 to 9.

The suspense of being the first in the league was quickly ended by the Mavericks themselves.

In the last five games, the Mavericks overturned in a row, first by the Suns at home, and then in a stalemate with the old Jazz on the road to the end, and in the last half minute, John Stockton sealed his throat with a sword.

Although the Mavericks won all of their next three games, in the end, their record stayed at 61 wins, while the Bucks, who went four wins and 1 loss in the final five games, finished first in the league with a 63-19 record.

This is a disruptive moment for the league.

Since Jordan's retirement, Eastern Conference teams have been at a disadvantage in the playoff race. This disadvantage is often reflected in the regular season.

The most anticipated team since the turn of the millennium is Maddie and Hill's Magic. They are widely regarded as the most talented team in the East since the 95 Magic.

However, Healthy Hill has become a mythical figure.

Maddie finally made the "ultimate magic" a flash.

It seems like a curse.

In competitive sports, any team that is "invincible at the upper limit" will inevitably fall to an unimaginable lower limit.

As a team that suddenly rose to prominence, the Bucks improved their record from 40 wins to 63 wins after aggressively splitting up the Eastern Conference finals roster.

Yu Fei went from Rookie of the Year to Rookie of the Year.

In the second season of his career, Yu Fei worked all over the season, averaging 26 points, 9.8 rebounds, 8.4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block per game.

Now, observers no longer compare Yu Fei to magicians.

Because statistically, the second-year Magician, who was imprisoned by injuries and team tactics, is "not qualified" to be compared with Yu Feifang on the same level.

The ambitious experts gave Yu Fei the ultimate template for an all-round player: Oscar Robertson and Larry Bird.

The conclusion is that Big O, who is no match for a triple-double per game in the sophomore year, has its own advantages and disadvantages with Bird. But second-year Bird led the team to the championship, and someone still needs to work hard.

At the end of the regular season, the first round of the playoffs was revealed.

The Bucks, who are first in the East, will face the Magic, who are eighth in the East, in the first round.

One noticeable difference between this year's first-round and previous years is that the league has officially changed the first-round format to a best-of-seven format.

Facing the Magic, a fast-falling ceiling championship team, Yu Fei has a special emotion, and the first game he played as a starter in the Wizards was against the Magic.

In this playoff encounter, the Magic are no longer the team of the future that people are looking forward to.

Tracy McGrady is also destined not to have the opportunity to say that famous quote in this series as he did in his previous life.

Someone will speak for him, though.

In the first game of the playoffs, Maddie went down to earth and scored 45 points alone, but only one of the Magic scored double-doubles except for him.

Although no one of the Bucks was on par with Maddy in offensive firepower, Yu Fei, Ray Allen and Sprewell combined for 88 points, and the Magic lost the first game without any suspense.

In the second game, Maddie went down to earth again, scoring 46 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist, but Yu Fei on the opposite side helped the team play an unsolvable offensive with a triple-double of 30+10+14.

The Bucks have six players in double figures, and Maddy is the only player on the Magic team to score in double figures.

In the third game that followed, the gods were tired and no longer descended, Yu Fei finally restrained Maddie and beat the opponent with 29 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists.

The Magic were defeated.

After the game, Yu Fei told reporters: "I don't like the current first-round format. ”

"Why?"

"You know, if it had been last year, we would have made it to the second round."

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"Is Jerry Krauss' departure a sign of MJ's return?" —Chicago Tribune

"LeBron James turned down $100 million from Reebok and struck a deal with Nike." —The Cleveland Beacon

"Welcome to the MVP simulation, based on performance, impact on the team, and feedback on and off the court, we believe that Frye Yu will become the youngest regular-season MVP player in NBA history to beat Tim Duncan and Jason Kidd." - ESPN News Express

"Hey Fry, I'm married to an avid sports fan. Actually, he's a super Jordan fan, and I had to hide from him that I'm your fan, do you have any advice for me? —Diane May, New York, NY

"I don't have much to say, I'm looking forward to your call after the divorce."

"I curse you, you ungrateful bastard, MJ will never forgive you for what you're doing, you damn @¥#! @¥"—Dave S. V, Chicago, Inglewood

"Don't be surprised, every episode of our show celebrates the fascinating moments of MJ fever patients."

"Fry, when my wife and I **, she always shouts your name at the most critical moments, which bothers me a lot, can you help me?" —Tom Bronke, Milwaukee, St. Francis

"That's right, that's my fan."

——Yu Fei Radio: "Dialogue with the Chosen One"

(End of chapter)