At the beginning of the pre-season training camp, Yu Fei had only one feeling for Udonis Haslem.

Did he bring some butterfly effect to Haslem, why is he so fat?

Haslem is a bit overweight.

But it's not a big problem, as long as he loses weight, he is still the person in Yu Fei's memory.

Mason began to become a mentor to Haslem, and they ate together and trained together every day. Over the course of a season, Haslem has lost dozens of pounds, and his body has developed Mason-like muscle lines.

This is the person in Yu Fei's memory.

It's just that with the Bucks, he gets very few opportunities because he can't shoot and can't compare to Mason as a blue-collar worker.

Tonight is a special opportunity.

Karl has only one requirement for Haslem, and that is to be obedient.

Whatever Yu Fei asked him to do, he would do.

In the first offensive round after Haslem came on the court, Yu Fei called him out to block and dismantle.

The Pistons didn't know much about Haslem, so they chose to go all out to encircle Yu Fei.

That gave Haslem a chance to raid the basket.

Yu Fei deftly hung the pass and assisted Haslem to dunk and score.

"Well done, UD (nickname)." Yu Fei said loudly, "As long as you can score this kind of goal steadily, your next contract will be settled." ”

Haslem suspects the gang of people in PUA themselves.

When he first joined the team, head coach Karl asked him to learn from Leitner, and if he could learn to shoot threes, his next contract would be closed.

Mason then scoffs at the suggestion to practice threes, thinking that it was the work of a soft egg (which he deeply believes), and offers to lose weight. If he can lose weight, the next contract will be settled.

Now Yu Fei said that if he can eat cakes steadily, the next contract will be settled.

Although he has only just entered the first year of his rookie contract and is far from worrying about the next contract, others talk about the contract all day long, which brings him a lot of insecurity.

Hearing Yu Fei say this, Haslem didn't dare to ignore it, but he soon discovered that eating bread was not a technical job.

The only difficulty is his downward route, as long as he successfully descends, Yu Fei's ball can be passed.

Yu Fei's passing is very comfortable, not fast or slow, every time he catches the ball, it feels the same.

There's only a basket in front of you, so put the ball in and you're done.

It's the feeling of feeding food to your mouth.

After a few minutes, Haslem had a hint of evil thought: if this is what it feels like to play with Da Fei, then he can also play as a starter.

It's just that instead of Mason, you don't just have to do a good job of blocking and dismantling and eating cakes.

The Pistons' offense was sluggish for a few minutes, and when they realized that there was a lucrative spot on Haslem, they focused their firepower on the rookie to find a breakthrough.

Haslem was tough and inexperienced, sent fouls first, then gave misplaced shots, and then, as the Pistons thought, made a lot of holes on the defensive end.

The Bucks weren't expecting him to replace Mason entirely.

The points that Haslem conceded on the defensive end were recovered by Yu Fei on the offensive end.

In the second half of the second quarter, Yu Fei's control of the game became more and more obvious.

The Pistons scored on the offensive end, but Yu Fei controlled the tempo and looked for the right opportunity to attack.

No matter how much the Pistons made a bargain on Haslem, they eventually paid it back on the defensive end.

The last attack of the first half, Yu Fei controlled the ball to press the time.

At this time, the Bucks had replaced Mutombo, allowing Leitner to open up space for Yu Fei.

The Pistons didn't dare to bet on Leitner's shot, so they let Prince defend to the end.

Yu Fei also does not call for blocking, he has the confidence to break through the defense alone.

In the last five seconds of the first half, Yu Fei dribbled, dangled to the left, started a breakthrough to the right, stopped urgently, and after a feint that tried to jump on the spot shook Prince, he stepped back, closed the ball, and made a jumper outside the three-point line.

The buzzer sounded, and Yu Fei didn't leave the piston for even a second.

"Huh!"

"56 to 49! Frye Yu's buzzer-beating three-pointer allowed the Bucks to go into the second half with a seven-point advantage! ”

"With 25 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists, Frye almost got a triple-double in the first half!"

The exclamation of the commentator, the cheers of the fans, and the fear of the opponent, the trinity focused on Yu Fei.

His outstanding performance reflected the collapse of the Pistons' defensive system, which forced Larry Brown to make a decision that went against his ancestors.

Joint defense, this is the only thing they haven't tried yet, and it is also a suggestion that will be put forward as soon as the topic of "how to limit Dafei" is mentioned.

Even the fans knew that the joint defense might work against Da Fei, but Brown had been fighting for four and a half games.

Now he can't help it, if he doesn't change his thinking, the piston will be completely crushed.

"Is change a good thing, Huerter?"

Before the second half, Brown asked his brother.

"I don't know, Larry, I just know that if we don't change, Frye will kill us," Huerter said. ”

Brown is on the edge of a change to the team, and he has to take a gamble despite the stakes.

If successful, he may become the first professional basketball coach in history to hold both an NCAA championship and an NBA championship resume.

What if it fails?

That would just be a failure, like the 21 NBA seasons he'd coached before.

As Yu Fei walked through the players' tunnel, fans reached out through the fence to give him a high-five.

Yu Fei responded, and glanced at James's VIP area by the way, only to find that the person was missing.

Just when Yu Fei thought that his wonderful performance had stimulated Xiao Zhan, he met him and the group of relatives and friends who had been following him all day long in the corridor.

"Brother, impeccable performance!" James came up and shook hands with Yu Fei, "I'm so proud of you!" ”

Yu Fei said sincerely: "It's nothing, in a few years, you can do it." ”

Hearing Brother Yu's lift, James smiled humbly: "I still have a lot to learn. ”

"Bron, that's what I like about you, you're already very good, but you're still so humble." Yu Fei had to go back to the locker room, and before leaving, he gently patted his little brother's shoulder, "See you later." ”

After Yu Fei left, the people around him began to express their opinions.

Assistant Miems said: "Bron, I don't think you need a few years, you can do what he did now. ”

What James desires is not to do what Yu Fei did, but to be in the center of the stage and be in the spotlight like him.

As for what he can do there, that's another matter.

He believes that he is no worse than Yu Fei, but he still needs to wait for the opportunity to come.

Rich Paul doesn't like Yu Fei, because whenever Yu Fei comes to James, he always pretends to be a big brother.

Yu Fei is indeed two years older than James, and he has taken good care of James before, but Paul does not think that the relationship between him and James is that of a big brother and a younger brother.

However, through Yu Fei's efforts, he successfully made people form the perception that LeBron James is his little brother.

In the short term, it doesn't seem like a problem.

Yu Fei is the hottest young superstar in the NBA, he led the team to win the championship in the second year, and has the potential to win the presidential mountain, who doesn't want to have such a big brother?

But the "big brother's bond" will change everything, and the expectation of "surpassing Jordan" that James carried at the beginning of entering the league will gradually become "surpassing big brother Frye Yu".

These are two different expectations.

For those in James' camp, their goal was never Yu Fei.

It's just that James' perspective is completely different from theirs. Paul and the others had never heard James speak from the bottom of his heart about flying, but they all knew that James' inner voice was by no means as harmonious and friendly as it sounded on the surface.

Yu Fei hummed a little song and walked to the locker room.

He actually had no ill will towards James.

If there is any negative opinion, it is also the reason why the basketball circle that crossed the former domestic Internet is setting off an anti-stall movement.

But he himself is a person who pays more attention to reality than the Internet, and he doesn't care so much about the opinions on the Internet, but he is more or less touched. But after the crossing, it is another thing to come into contact with each other face-to-face.

It is easy to understand the bias of others through the Internet, but in reality, even if you only see the appearance, you can have a more three-dimensional cognition.

James gives people excellent senses, high emotional intelligence, and good speech, he enjoys the feeling of being the other party's big brother, and he believes that Xiao Zhan also enjoys the feeling of being a little brother.

Well.

Back in the locker room, George Carr gave an impassioned speech on the topic "The Detroiters Are Dead."

The central idea is that the team still needs to stick together.

Finally, the prospect of defending champions is used to arouse the fighting spirit of the players.

Karl wants to reach the Finals because the Lakers F4 is likely to sweep the West.

The Bucks have already proven in the regular season that they can beat the Lakers, and once they reach the Finals, the odds are stacked.

Last year, Yu Fei liquidated Jordan, and this year it is his turn to liquidate Phil Jackson.

Five minutes before the start of the second half, the Bucks returned to the scene to shoot and warm up.

With a 7-point lead, as well as Yu Fei, a sharp weapon to crack the iron bucket array, the whole team is full of confidence.

Then, starting in the second half, the Pistons started the same five, and as expected by the Bucks, they were already unchangeable.

In the first place, in exchange for Rasheed Wallace, the depth of the roster was emptied, and the main force had to be killed in the playoffs.

In positional battles, the Pistons created outside shots for Richard Hamilton.

Hamilton hit a three-pointer and hit it.

56 to 52

In the second half, he started to shoot from the outside, which is an uncommon side of the Pistons.

Subsequently, the Bucks attacked the round.

Yu Fei controls the ball, and Prince attacks in frontcourt.

It took six or seven seconds for both sides to get to the front.

Yu Fei looked at it and thought that there was something wrong with his eyes.

He looked at it again and made sure it was correct.

The Pistons are defending the joint defense, this is a 1-3-1 zone defense, Larry Brown has turned around, isn't he the one who hates the joint defense the most?

The Pistons' use of a 1-3-1 zone defense is clearly well thought out.

The main constraints of this joint defense are the defense at the top of the arc, the free throw line and both sides. This is exactly the area where Yu Fei launched high-frequency attacks in the first half.

The disadvantage of this set of joint defense is that it is easy to miss the corners of the paint area and the bottom corners of the left and right sides.

But the Bucks couldn't make an accurate three-point shot from the bottom corner tonight.

After Yu Fei burst forward, he found a pass from Sprewell in the bottom corner.

Sprewell misses a three-point shot from the bottom corner.

As the Pistons expected, the Bucks missed a three-pointer from the bottom corner tonight.

The rhythm and confrontation form of this game has entered a new field, although the Pistons' joint defense is rusty, but they themselves have the defensive resources to do a good job in joint defense, the Wallace brothers can force in the high post, the top of the arc can sweep, and the basket can be protected under the basket The all-round defensive pillar, so that they are a bit overkill as the axis of the iron bucket formation, and the joint defense is a wonderful plan to release the defensive potential in an all-round way.

Now that the Pistons have played all the cards, the Bucks need to face the test of three points in the bottom corner.

Yu Fei fed Ray Allen and Sprewell a three-pointer each in two of the next three rounds, but one hit the iron and the other was interfered with by Prince's long arm, but neither scored, and the only one that scored was Gazuric's catch-and-hook in the corner of the left paint area.

That didn't quench the thirst, as the Pistons put the game to death and then used the joint defense to revive the situation, and they once again put the Bucks in a difficult situation, and the game was climbing to the top of the pressure.

(End of chapter)