LeBron James's childhood dream has come true.

But in front of him, there is a harsh reality: he must surpass Frye Yu.

It's not about personal relationships, whether it's him or the Nike he represents, he needs to do it.

James wanted to be the best player of all time, so his initial goal was to surpass Michael Jordan. But along the way, something else gradually appeared.

Frye Yu's name appears frequently.

They are both high school players, both are precocious, and both are considered to have the potential to win the title.

James believes that his 19-year-old self is better than 19-year-old Yu Fei, which can be proved by the various records of the youngest 19-year-old who dominate the list.

However, at the age of 20 and 21, there was a gap-like gap between him and Yu Fei.

The 20-year-old James could still rely on the 19-year-old's statistical advantage to snatch some of the youngest records of the 20-year-old again, but Yu Fei won the 20-year-old double MVP and led the team to the championship.

The 21-year-old Yu Fei led the team to defend the title and dominated the list of the youngest 21-year-olds, averaging 33 points per game this year, and James needs to play 32 points per game this season to keep most of the records.

And when Yu Fei was 22 years old, that is, last season, he averaged 36 points per game.

Yu Fei replaced the Chicago Ghost as another ghost hovering over James's head.

For James, if he wants to chase Jordan, he must first surpass Yu Fei.

For Nike, James is the player they have bet heavily on, and Yu Fei's fame already has a certain influence, and if James can't become the contemporary Michael Jordan, then Nike's dominance in basketball will also be shaken by Reebok.

So, James can't lose.

But now, he is standing leisurely outside the three-point line on the right side, and his willingness to catch the ball is not high.

This is what makes Yu Fei feel strange.

James on the court has a completely different face from in private, hardly any explicit desire, quiet, composed.

When James doesn't take the initiative to ask for the ball, the Cavaliers don't use him as the first point of attack.

In the face of the Bucks' joint defense, the Cavaliers chose to shoot from the outside, missed, but grabbed the offensive rebound again.

Drew Gu climbed to the top of Kwame Brown and made a violent dunk.

4 to 7

"Bronn, it looks like you're really out of possession."

Yu Fei can now be sure that the Cavaliers are trying to turn James into a pure small forward.

This is also in line with the perception of many contemporary coaches about flying.

Holding the ball with a big core is an evil way.

Even Jordan needs a triangle offense to share the ball.

So Mike Brown let James "loaf" outside the three-point line, and the Cavaliers' opening positional offense was mainly organized by Snow (1).

(1) In the first month of the 2005-06 season, James averaged 28+5+4 assists per game, and the ball possession was so small that the assist board statistics were not as good as in his rookie season.

James' tactical attempts at the team are largely supportive, as he doesn't know what the system is best for him right now.

For the words of flying, he did not say.

James doesn't have the ball, it doesn't mean that Yu Fei doesn't have the ball.

The Bucks' lineup is exactly the three outside and one inside with Yu Fei as the core.

Yu Fei dribbled to the frontcourt, did not play tactics, and did not let people pull away, ready to personally try how fragile the defense that was forbidden to play was.

The Cavaliers are responsible for defending Yu Fei with Larry Hughes, who was named to the All-Defensive Team last season.

Yu Fei subjectively believes that all the players who were selected for the defensive team in the upper playing era need to be re-judged in the illegal era.

Hughes made a defensive stance, but was whistled for a foul when he blocked Yu Fei's breakthrough.

Yu Fei felt that Hughes didn't touch him at all, just a little movement on his torso, but he was still blown away, this is the home of the Cavaliers.

How harsh it is?

The introduction of each new rule will be accompanied by the referee's excessively harsh initial punishment, and after the players and referees adapt to it for a while, the scale will gradually pull back, which Yu Fei also saw at the beginning of the 2022-23 season. At that time, in order to reduce the phenomenon of porcelain touching, the league proposed some new rules for defense and footwork, which led to some porcelain kings playing disastrous performances.

Now is the time for the ban to prevail, and the referee will have to deal with those who want to fish in troubled waters.

For flying, it doesn't hurt.

If it was this scale, he could be sure that no one would be able to stop him.

After being sanctioned by the referees, Hughes became honest and defended strictly according to the league's rules.

He is a defender of less than two meters who wants to block Yu Fei, who is 206 cm barefoot, and his height and weight are not at the same level, what if he can't make a little trick and prevent a hammer?

Yu Fei broke through Hughes and scored with a one-step throw from inside the free throw line.

4 to 9

On the Cavaliers' side, Hughes called for a pick-and-roll break through Martin and missed a layup, but James followed up and scored a layup.

6 to 9

Yu Fei singled again, strong burst, emergency stop, false shaking, and a dry pull retreat after holding the ball to get rid of the defense and three points to soar.

6 to 12

James missed a three-point shot from the outside, Yu Fei grabbed a defensive rebound, advanced in a dragon, and encountered James blocking again.

"If you don't get the ball, you won't have to play this game."

After Yu Fei finished speaking, there was a sudden tendency to collect the ball, which made James jump up subconsciously.

The moment he jumped, James knew he had taken a feint.

Yu Fei staggered James's body and burst into the basket to score.

6 to 14

Yu Fei scored nine points in a row to hit the Cavaliers' first timeout of the night.

"Compared to LeBron, Frye's use of skills is more reasonable, and in these few rounds, he is simply full of tricks, so exciting!"

"That's right, LeBron still has a long way to go."

The Cavaliers fans at the scene had mixed feelings about Fly.

To this day, no Cavaliers fan wants to look back at the 2001 draft.

The Cavaliers' move to draft Yu Fei with the eighth overall pick in 2001 and then send him directly in exchange for a future draft pick has surpassed the 1998 Bucks who sent away Dirk Nowitzki for Robert Trayler.

If Yu Fei is the return of the Milwaukees, then James is also the return of the Clevelands.

It's just that Cavaliers fans always like YY, and if they hadn't made that trade in the first place, they might have had a chance to get together with Yu Fei and James at the same time.

But now, everything can only stay in the most intriguing "if" in the sports world.

Yu Fei walked off the field, and there were not a few drops of sweat on his body.

Carl also saw that after the ban was introduced, the strengthening of players like Fei and James was unimaginable.

James' one-on-one breakthrough on the outside line has no solution, but what about Yu Fei? He can't be described as incomprehensible.

In the face of last season's first defense, Yu Fei simply regarded the other party as a star fury, and he could play as much as he wanted.

"Singles is good, but don't be obsessed with it." "They're definitely going to be more defensive about you, and the others will get more opportunities." ”

Yu Fei smiled and asked: "My hit rate is 100%, what's wrong with playing a few more?" ”

"You can't go all the way in, it's time to pass the ball." Carl was really worried about Yu Fei hitting his head.

But Yu Fei is not stupid, he knows when to attack and when to pass.

He thought that after this timeout, Xiao Zhan should be unable to control the ball, and at that time, the Cavaliers' offensive rhythm will change again.

Sure enough, at the end of the timeout, James received the ball from the sideline and dribbled all the way forward.

James stood on the left side and waited for the big Z position.

This is the Knight's strongest duo, one inside and one outside, both threatening.

Standing behind the two-meter-two big Z, Brown looked like a dwarf, but he resisted the former's bottom plate hard, making his attack difficult.

Big Z couldn't attack at a comfortable pace and passed the ball back to James after a few hits.

James bobbed and finally smashed Bell's defense with his body and burst into the paint, where the Bucks closed it. After James burst into it, he jumped with all his might, and his body didn't know where to go, but he just threw the ball to the basket with his left hand, and actually hit the board.

Talent is such a thing, how to put it, it is strong enough to casually insult a top defender like Bale.

It is said that James's skills are not good, and there is a hint of black him playing with physical talent, but whoever has this kind of once-in-a-decade monster body, doesn't he have to play like this?

Yu Fei is not envious, really, not at all.

What's so great about playing with your body, just wait, you won't be able to play when you're 50.

Then, as soon as Yu Fei passed half court, the Cavaliers' defensive strategy exploded.

He didn't even get close to the three-point line, and Snow teamed up with Hughes to wrap up, which is completely disdainful of Bell.

Yu Fei raised his hand to pass, and Bell, who was constantly ravaged by James, was determined to find some court on the outside, catch the ball, stabilize the center of gravity, and shoot three points.

8 to 17

The situation was not in the favor of the Cavaliers, as the rest of the Bucks started scoring.

James made the mistake that a young man would make, trying to shoot threes too much and trying to pull them out from the outside.

No.

Yu Fei grabbed the long rebound again, and this time, he was fouled by the Cavaliers tactically.

Yu Fei received the ball on the sideline and came to the front court slowly, and after Bale hit a three-pointer, the knights sobered up a lot.

Hughes looked at Yu Fei sensitively, not knowing what the other party wanted to do.

Suddenly, Yu Fei's body turned around, to the left? No, it was just a feint, and the moment Hughes's body moved, Yu Fei's left hand changed direction to the right, and he suddenly tore through the opening, and Hughes, who couldn't get started, was rushed through with one step.

The knight's defense line contracted, vowing to stop Yu Fei.

But Yu Fei stuffed the ball into Kwame Brown's arms in the crack.

Naturally, Brown didn't miss the piece of cake that was fed to his mouth, and he lifted the ball and put it away, and then scored two points and then went to his hand.

"I'm unstoppable!" Brown exclaimed excitedly.

Yu Fei glanced at him, "You should dunk a basket and say this." ”

"Are you like that animal?" Brown replied.

In the next round, James was blocked by the joint defense and chose to shoot in the middle and not score.

Brown took the defensive rebound and passed it to Yu Fei.

As if he wanted to prove that he was above Xiao Zhan except for his body, Yu Fei rushed to the front court, confronted James again, stopped dribbling, no extra movements, pulled the ball away, James jumped to the highest place, and felt that Yu Fei's sight had been sealed.

But Yu Fei's shooting was not affected, and he dialed it out smoothly, and the ball was in the air, and the pitcher already knew it.

“Bingo！”

The ball fell into the basket with Yu Fei's words.

"You still have to practice, Bron."

Just like Big Dream bloodied David Robinson in the 1995 Western Conference Finals, there is no longer a similarity in position, and the contrast between core players with similar playing styles is more intuitive.

James has a natural endowment, no one can compare, but at this stage, compared to Yu Fei, the intuitive gap between his technique and Yu Fei is far greater than his talent advantage.

This big brother and little brother game will continue.

And the big brother always wins the last one.

(End of chapter)