The Eastern Conference Finals against the Nets is definitely great news for Fly and Bucks.

Since the beginning of the playoffs, some media have said that their two teams are the kings of the East.

The Bucks are the clear kings, and the Nets have established themselves as kings after an 8-1 record.

However, this is just like Meng Shu can't win against Zhuge Liang no matter what he does, and it is impossible for Xiao Wang to defeat Da Wang.

Compared with the Nets, who were swept by the Bucks during the regular season, their personnel have not changed, but Jason Kidd suddenly entered the MVP state, swept the Boston Celtics in the first round, and sent away the second Pistons in the East in four games in the second round, and also played Chauncey Billups, known as the second point guard in the East, with a significant opposition gap.

ESPN's Mark Stein wrote on the night the Nets swept the Pistons: "The Nets are significantly better in mindset this year compared to last year. At their finals last year, it was like a visitor in black socks, white shoes, and Bermuda shorts standing at the corner of 7th and 42nd streets in Times Square and being run over by a purple and gold cleaning van. Now they're back looking for revenge, and the only thing standing in their way is the Milwaukee Bucks, who are in the first place in the East. ”

Yu Fei's presence caused the Nets to have a grudge with the Bucks during the regular season.

It's just that due to the sweeping performance of the Bucks and Yu Fei's continuous evolution, the old grudge seems to have been settled, and neither side has made radical remarks before the start of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Instead, Nets coach Byron Scott said Kidd was the MVP he had in mind, and if it weren't for Kidd, he would have voted for Duncan.

In other words, as an MVP favorite, Yu Fei is not among the top two MVPs in Scott's mind.

Yu Fei believes that the reason why Byron Scott has this wrong perception is entirely because he was too light on the Nets in the regular season. If he plays against the Wizards with the Nets (averaging 50 points per game in three games), he believes Scott will definitely consider himself the MVP leader.

It doesn't matter, with the MVP revealed a few days away, he can re-establish Scott's perception of himself.

Before the opening, Yu Fei and Ray Allen came to the midfield and warmly "received" Kidd and (Kenyon) Martin.

"You've been a little quiet lately, I'm not used to it." Yu Fei said to Martin, "I still like to hear you say that I am overrated." ”

After Martin was ruthlessly educated by Yu Fei, his first reaction was to be hard-mouthed, that is, the famous "he was overrated" incident.

Then, when the Bucks swept the Nets in the regular season and won every game by a big score, Martin couldn't refute the fact that the Nets couldn't beat the Bucks, no matter how hard he was.

Therefore, in order not to make people feel that he is a soft egg who can only play tricks, he tried his best to downplay the matter.

But how could Yu Fei play his cards according to his routine? The more you try to make a big thing small, the more he wants to make a big fuss.

That's the psychological trauma left by Kenyon Martin in his rookie season as the Chosen One relied on the strength of the team and had to face off after beating the Wizards in the first round.

It would take Kenyon Martin to pay it back with the rest of his career.

Moreover, Yu Fei is a particular person, and he knows that as the years change, there will be many people who don't know what Martin has done to him, so if he can be inducted into the Hall of Fame in the future, he will also tell the fans at that time the story of Kenyon Martin's bullying and saying that he was overrated.

As a player who has been forgotten by the world before Yu Fei crosses, Yu Fei hopes that if people in the future still remember Martin, they will remember a player who has no ball morality, oral morality, and poor vision.

From this point of view, Martin should perhaps be grateful to Yu Fei.

It is difficult for him to live for a hundred years, but he has the opportunity to be stained with the light of the chosen son for ten thousand years.

At this time, Martin didn't dare to say anything cruel, but said fiercely like a tough guy: "When the series is over, we will know who is overrated!" ”

He now knew that he had left a line in everything, but it was too late.

Yu Fei walked back with a smile.

Ray Allen asked, "Do you hate him so much?" ”

"It's like you hate AI, MJ, Kobe, George. The same. ”

Ray Allen said: "I don't hate MJ. ”

"I don't hate him." Yu Fei paused, "But I'm interested in making him hate me forever." ”

Why? Ray Allen could never understand why Yu Fei was so domineering.

Even if there is a contradiction, Yu Fei's revenge before has been avenged, and it should be restored to the original state after that.

But Yu Fei's approach is that after the revenge is avenged, he will continue to add new wounds to the other party. Although he has no revenge to avenge, he can make the other party experience the pain of revenge.

He enjoyed it very much.

After the start of the game, the defensive intensity of the Nets has indeed increased significantly compared to the regular season, and their joint defense can still cause trouble for Yu Fei's breakthrough.

However, Yu Fei in the regular season has proven that as long as the shooters around him maintain accuracy, it is impossible for the joint defense to stifle him.

Even if his teammates miss, Yu Fei can still prove to the Nets that he has improved the most from his rookie season - jump shooting accuracy near the free throw line.

Yu Fei in his rookie season did not have a stable jump shot, he could be accurate for a whole game, or he could miss a whole game, and more often than not, he jumped back and forth between accurate and inaccurate.

This instability was even more pronounced in the Nets' first-round series.

In the offseason, Yu Feijia practiced shooting and spent a season with the Bucks as the main ball handler making a certain number of jumpers per game.

Gradually, he found his groove near the free-throw line, and from then on, it was one of his offensive sweet spots.

Tonight, the Nets weren't lucky.

Yu Fei first hit two jumpers at the free throw line, and then hit a three-pointer with a burst for Sprewell, who was ambushed in the bottom corner.

The Nets may be the best team in the league at using a team, but the team is vulnerable to accurate shooting.

The defensive end was shot, and the offensive end hit a few more irons, Yu Fei pushed and counterattacked, and in less than half a quarter, the Bucks had led by 11 points.

From that second until the end of the game, the Nets failed to close the margin to single digits.

In the end, Yu Fei scored a triple-double of 32 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, leading the Bucks to a good start in the Eastern Finals.

"Hey, Coach Scott." After the game, Yu Fei sent a cordial greeting to Byron Scott, "Your MVP seems to have disappeared tonight, I hope you can find him before the second game comes." I miss him as much as you do. ”

In this game, Kidd's performance was quite stable, with 10 points, 4 rebounds and 10 assists on 4-of-17 shooting, although the shooting rate was spicy, but 10 assists were enough to justify his name.

It's just that Yu Fei on the opposite side also got 10 assists and scored 22 more points, with a shooting rate of more than 32 percentage points.

is the absolute core, so the gap is obvious.

"You could almost say we didn't want to win because we let Frye Yu do whatever he wanted on the court."

Kidd's remark to the media was not kind or calm, and he meant something about the accountability team.

It can be said that the first game set the tone for the Eastern Conference Finals.

Or, the tone was set back in the regular season.

The Nets are strong enough to play even with the Western Conference favorites, but they don't have any competition against the Bucks.

Because Kidd, the core of the Nets' team, is facing a taller, more talented, more offensive player than him.

And the Nets' joint defense system in the East is also stretched in the face of the Bucks, a team with many shooters.

The emphasis on the collective and rotation of the joint defense is that due to its defensive core that compresses space, it will inevitably give up some of the players in the opposing team who are not shooting well when it is running.

However, the Bucks are a team that can put on a five-out lineup, and the lowest outside shooting percentage in this lineup is Yu Fei (36%).

The Nets, who must give the opponent an open spot in exchange for defensive tightness, can only choose those shooters who don't look high in shooting percentage but still have a shooting percentage above the league level in front of the Bucks, who can shoot most people, and the result is to be shot.

So what if they don't engage in joint defense, and instead use the favorite people of the old sect leaders to mark people?

Then Yu Fei will use blocking and dismantling tactics to launch an "X offense" and constantly find the weaknesses of the Nets.

The Bucks' dominant point hit the Nets' weak spot so accurately that ESPN's Dr. Jack Ramsey wrote in his famous series "Dr. Jack's Diagnosis": "This is probably the first time in history that the best team in the East has completely restrained the second-best team in the East." It's not a difference in strength, it's style restraint. The Nets can't beat the Bucks. ”

Then, Ramsey sentenced the Nets to death at the end of the article: "There is no cure. ”

In the second game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Nets grasped the key point and determined that Yu Fei was the reason why the Bucks were so tricky.

In principle, there is nothing wrong with that.

When Yu Fei, a tall and all-round ball handler, plays a role, the Bucks' shooter group can explode to the maximum.

However, strictly guarding against Yu Fei suppressed his individual offensive at most, but could not restrict his passing.

To block Yu Fei, it is impossible to do it alone, so the Nets must concentrate defensive resources on the court in order to do this.

The Bucks will have more open spots.

All Yu Fei needed to do was pass the ball.

The process is different from the first one, but the result is almost indistinguishable.

The Bucks beat the Nets again, and Yu Fei's individual score was limited to only 17 points, but he still had 10 rebounds and 11 assists.

It was his second consecutive triple-double in the divisional finals.

Kidd's performance was "stable", following the first game of 17 of 4, he played another game of 6 of 19, with 14 points, 8 rebounds and 10 assists in the whole game, don't look at the shooting rate is not high, how to say that it is also a quasi-triple-double data, but most of the time there is no such person, so that Yu Fei asked Byron Scott again: "Where is your MVP?" ”

It's just that Yu Fei's sarcasm is more thorough this time: "Shouldn't I have already bought a ticket to San Antonio and run away?" ”

Kidd is the biggest fish on the free market this year.

As an MVP-caliber point guard, he has yet to reach a contract extension with the Nets, so there is a possibility of leaving the team as a free agent.

And who is Kidd's hot next home? It is the San Antonio Spurs that are about to free up a lot of salary space due to David Robinson's retirement.

The Spurs have room for a salary cap that would be enough to sign Kidd naked.

As a result, rumors that Kidd will join the Spurs next season have never been broken.

Yu Fei's question was like a knife in Byron Scott's heart.

For the Nets, with Kidd, with hope. Lose Kidd, lose everything.

Subsequently, the field of Game 3 shifted to the Nets' home court, which was a game they had to win.

Kidd, who has played two games in a row, finally stopped playing the blacksmith and played an extraordinary game, shooting 11-of-24 from the field at home, scoring a team-high 30 points and 12 assists, and entangled with the Bucks until the last 30 seconds.

The Nets' plan was to fly the ball into the three-point line and get forward to attack, but as a result, Yu Fei suddenly shot a cold arrow from the outside.

"Huh!"

The Bucks, who originally led by only one point, led by four points after this goal.

Kidd missed a gambling three-pointer, Yu Fei grabbed a defensive rebound, and the Nets committed a tactical foul with less than 10 seconds left.

New Jersey is over.

"It's an MVP-level performance! It's MVP-level play! Bill Wharton said excitedly, "If Frye doesn't make the MVP tomorrow, there must be something wrong with the voting system!" ”

Yu Fei scored a game-high 35 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists to lead the team to win the third game, thus forcing the Nets into a dead end of falling behind 0-3.

After the game, the reporter asked Yu Fei: "According to the information we have gotten, you have a 70% chance of being elected MVP, do you think this has any special significance for you?" ”

"Yes," Yu Fei said live, "I have to thank the management of the Washington Wizards, if they hadn't traded me to Milwaukee, I would never have been so close to MVP in my second season." ”

Yu Fei habitually satirizes the Wizards.

His words would be written in the next day's paper, but he didn't care what impact it would have on the Wizards.

The next morning

After voting, the league announced the winners of the 2002-03 regular-season Most Valuable Award.

With 30% of the votes, Yu Fei defeated Duncan, who had 28% of the votes, and Kidd, who had 25% of the votes, and was elected MVP.

This allowed Yu Fei to surpass the previous MVPs and become the youngest regular season MVP player in NBA history at the age of 20 years and 5 months.

A day later, the Bucks held a grand press conference in New York for Yu Fei as the award ceremony.

In addition to Yu Fei's relatives and friends and the staff up and down the Bucks team, Reebok's senior management also came to the scene.

Yu Fei routinely thanked everyone, but he saved the most "deserving" thanks to the end.

"I want to thank Michael Jordan for his incompetence, and if it wasn't for his incompetence in trading me, I wouldn't have gotten such a great team, and I wouldn't be qualified to make these comments today."

"I also want to thank the Washington Wizards, thank them for their stupidity, thank you for their indulgence with Michael, if they hadn't done that, we wouldn't have known that there was management like this in the NBA, and I'm glad I didn't have to stay there and waste time with them, and thank them for their mercy, this deal saved my career."

"Time will tell how valuable this deal is, and I didn't expect it to take me just one year to turn them into historic stupid pigs. I'm going to keep working hard and give everything to be the best player and let the instigators of this deal be nailed to the pillar of shame forever, and that's how I thank them." Thank you, thank you all. ”

On this happy day, at the end of this grand and grand MVP acceptance speech, Yu Fei did not thank everyone affectionately, but concentrated his artillery fire on his enemies.

This is a good opportunity to meet and understand Yu Fei.

He may have completed his revenge on the Wizards, but he will never let go.

It's like the words he often puts on his lips.

Never forgive.

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"We could have traded Rashad Lewis and Gary Payton back to Fry, and now we're going to have to watch Gary go to free agency and start a rebuilding with no end in sight. Rick Sund (General Manager of SuperSonic) is unforgivable! —The Seattle Times

"Karl Malone is ready to go into free agency, John Stockton is considering retirement, Shaquille O'Neal is tired of Kobe, and Frye Yu is very likely to keep Michael Jordan out of the game, is this the NBA in 2003?" —The New York Times

The Spurs expressed their anger at the MVP vote, and Popovich believed that it was purely out of hype and publicity, and that Frye Yu might deserve the MVP, but no matter how you look at it, there is nothing to lose from missing out on the MVP, it is the MVP itself that suffers. The legitimacy and sanctity of this award are gone! —The San Antonio Express

"The uncertain future has made MJ's team uneasy, and they have refused all interviews and blacklisted anyone who dares to ask 'Frye Yu Questions.'" —The Washington Times

PS: I forgot to write about the best team, but here is an addition: Da Fei entered one formation, and Lei Allen entered three formations.

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