Chapter 285: The Seeker's Mindset (2-in-1)
What Yu Fei showed Kobe Bryant was a comprehensive arsenal of ball-wielding large cores.
The previous single step step jumper, then the continuous switch of the rhythm of the movement and control tore Kobe's defense into the basket to score a basket, and then Baifo shook Kobe Bryant, and then entered the basket for a dunk.
Yu Fei's height, arm span, combined with dribbling and jumpers, make him a one-on-one monster that cannot be defended.
Bryant, on the other hand, showed low-post offensive stability at the interior level.
This is also the biggest difference between the No. 24 version of Kobe Bryant and the No. 8 version of Kobe.
No. 8 Kobe Bryant is more like a well-rounded outside scorer, with a style of play like Jordan, but the offensive options are more like Irving next to James, while No. 24 Kobe Bryant is moving closer to Jordan after 1996 in terms of playing style and offensive tendency.
The Bulls had no one on the inside, so Jordan supported the team's low-post offense as a guard. The Lakers' current situation is much different from that of the Bulls at the time, and after O'Neal's departure, their interior line has no one to pose an effective threat. The return of the Zen master allowed them to play a triangle attack, and the basic principle of the triangle attack is to form a triangle line of offensive formation, in which the players in the low position are strong corners.
The strong horn of the Bulls is Jordan, the strong horn of OK is O'Neal, and now, Kobe Bryant is going to act as this strong horn.
Compared with Yu Fei, Kobe Bryant is a core player who is imprisoned, although the Lakers can give him unlimited shots, but he can't do what he wants.
But in the first quarter and Yu Fei's several rounds, Kobe did not live up to the name of Mamba, his shooting accuracy is 100%, low turn and step lick basket, low post turn and lean, low shoulder shake step back jumper, the low post he shows is Yu Fei near the dream of himself.
Halfway through the first quarter, Yu Fei took the initiative to ask for the ball in the low post.
Since it was the Lakers' biggest hole on the court that defended Yu Fei, Sasha Vujacic, the ball quickly passed to Yu Fei's hands.
According to the Bucks' intelligence, this year is the first year that Kobe Bryant has played a large number of low-post singles, and Phil Jackson's second entry into the Lakers is at the end of June, that is to say, Kobe Bryant began to know that the Lakers were going to play a triangle offense in the new season, and he had to go to the low post a lot.
At full capacity, he had less than five months to prepare.
Can you train in the low position to this extent in five months?
I don't know.
Yu Fei threw away distracting thoughts, obviously he could use his body to eat Vujasic, but he deliberately made a retreat, forcing the opponent to defend closely, and then like Kobe Bryant's first shot, he stepped down the opponent's side to the basket and scored with his hands.
In the same move, Kobe Bryant faced Raga Bell, and Yu Fei beat Vujasic, although the difficulty was not the same, Yu Fei still found a rhythm in the process of abusing vegetables.
"You're imitating me?"
After Kobe Bryant came to the frontcourt, he took the initiative to ask.
"What do you mean by imitation?" Yu Fei resolutely refused to admit it, "Do you have a patent for that action?" ”
Bryant playfully said, "You really should have watched more of Michael's footage." ”
"I'm missing No. 8 more and more." Yu Fei said, "No. 24 is too annoying. ”
The Lakers quickly exposed their problems.
Kobe Bryant is strong, but he can only be strong enough to hit five when he is out of shape.
A lot of times, he also needs his teammates to share the pressure.
But today, the Lakers, who advocate controlling the rhythm, were forced to limit Smash Parker, who likes to shoot and bird, and Lamar Odom switched back and forth between normal and abnormal mode, and finally chose the abnormal one.
These two are the biggest variables on the Lakers team other than Kobe.
When Odom is in good shape, the Lakers can usually play beautiful inside and outside connections, and once Odom is out of condition, the Lakers can only count on the outside line to break the game roughly.
It will take not only Kobe's effort, but also the play of Smash Parker.
But once Parker plays, he will only make the Bucks, who are used to a fast pace, handy, so the Lakers forcibly control the rhythm, so that Kobe Bryant can only cooperate with others.
That's the Lakers' biggest problem right now.
Kobe Bryant didn't have a helper who could play consistently.
Yu Fei quickly relieved the pressure of the game, because although Kobe Bryant was online tonight, he was not the kind of state that could score 40-50 points.
While the Bucks used the bucket array to encircle Kobe, they asked Bell and Ariza to take turns to serve.
At all times, the Bucks can make sure that Kobe Bryant has a defensive gate in front of him.
In this case, even Kobe Bryant can't change his life.
At halftime, the Bucks led the Lakers by 11 points, 59-48.
Kobe Bryant did his best, scoring 20 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists in the half, but the situation was extremely unfavorable for the Lakers.
is also a high school superstar, Kobe Bryant is a little envious of Yu Fei's situation.
As soon as he debuted, he dared to turn his face with Jordan, and then he was stabbed with Milwaukee, and it seemed that the future was bright, but he found that the Bucks were a team that matched his personal style very well. Yu Fei won two consecutive championships, and then experienced the Auburn Hills Palace Brawl, Ray Allen was traded, he began to lead the team on his own, and then took the understaffed team to the Eastern Conference Finals with a stunning scoring performance, and won his second MVP trophy.
Yu Fei completed Kobe's eleven-year career in four years.
Now, Yu Fei is about to enter the fifth year of his career, he is averaging a triple-double per game, and the Bucks have built another strong army around him.
How lucky is this man?
Whenever Kobe Bryant felt that he should be satisfied with his current situation, Yu Fei would bring him more desire.
In his opinion, Yu Fei's situation is perfect.
He wants to be the MVP, he wants to lead the team to a championship, he wants to win more rings than O'Neal, and those are things that this Lakers team can't give him.
But can he complain?
Of course not, because the Lakers have come to this point exactly what drives him. Making a mess of a championship team and then patting the ass and walking away is not something he would do.
Now that the Lakers dynasty has been reduced to ruins by him, then rebuild from the ruins, and he is confident that he will lead the Lakers back to the top.
With that in mind, Bryant walked into the locker room and listened to Odom complain that no woman would knock on his door at Milwaukee's away hotel, while Smash Parker complained loudly that the team's pace was too slow tonight.
"Shut up, Smash, just shut up for me!" Kobe yelled at Parker in annoyance, then looked at Odom, "Lama, if you focus more on tonight's game than on fucking women, maybe we won't be so far behind!" ”
Kobe, who takes Michael Jordan as his learning object, has never been on par with his idol in terms of how he behaves in the world.
He's not the kind of tyrant who uses verbal violence and mental bullying to push his teammates forward, but when he can't bear it, he's not much worse than Jordan.
Yu Fei didn't know what was going on in the away team's locker room, he decided to study Kobe's game to improve his low post, his reason is clear, because Jordan never played in the era of joint defense, and his low post footsteps may have a little bit worth learning, but the game in the 90s is different from today, instead of learning from the ancients, it is better to keep up with today's people, not to mention the old game tapes can be watched? The resolution is even more illegible than the mosaic that appeared in Matsushima Kaede that Kevin Lin usually secretly looks, and he really can't see it at all.
You know, if you want to make excuses, any little thing can be an excuse, and Da Fei is already very restrained not to use "Danzi's bald head will blind his eyes" as an excuse.
The Bucks were too relaxed in the second half, while the Lakers were better in offensive and defensive intensity after Kobe Bryant's roar.
While the Lakers caught up with one quarter of game time, the Bucks were still grinding their rookies.
Danny Granger had a bad night, sitting off the pitch most of the time in the first half when the team was going well.
Now the team wanted him to experience a tailwind as well, so he turned the game into a headwind.
On the defensive end, he was taken by Odom as the No. 4 position, and he was very good in college as a small-ball power forward, but in the NBA, it was a bit worse to meet a talented forward like Odom who was first-class in height and ball sense.
Granger's defense was completely blown out, and he didn't dare to shoot on the offensive end.
A teammate gave him a pass, and he hesitated and missed a shot.
Yu Fei noticed this and continued to pass the ball to him.
"Shoot!"
Granger didn't dare to vote.
In the next round, in the same position, it was Yu Fei's pass.
"Shoot!"
Granger took a deep breath and snapped.
A pitcher who is not confident in himself cannot hit any shots.
Granger lost it, but he felt relieved, because even if he struck iron, it was not the end of the world.
Yu Fei grabbed the long rebound and passed the ball to Granger: "Be decisive, throw me that damn ball!" ”
Granger scored the first goal of the second half.
At that time, the scores were close, but the situation began to reverse.
Yu Fei changed the situation with 0 shots, starting with Granger's awakening, and the Bucks' outside line suddenly rained, making it difficult for the Lakers to react.
Within minutes, the Bucks hit five three-pointers in a row, and the score was extended to double digits.
Phil Jackson called a timeout, but it was a little too late.
After the pause, Smash Parker made up for his team with a backhand, and the simple breakthrough ball actually passed to Yu Fei's hand.
Yu Fei suddenly braked and stopped when he dribbled to the front court, and Odom, who was flying to make up for the defense, lit up the opponent's defense, causing a three-point foul and throwing the ball.
"Whoa!!!
That was Yu Fei's first goal of the second half, and it was also the goal that killed the game.
This scene made Phil Jackson slightly change his opinion on flying.
He always thought that Yu Fei was a Wilt Chamberlain-style fame and fortune star, and he valued data above all else, so he would coerce the team to play around him, concentrate the ball in his own hands, control the data of the whole team at will, and keep the most fertile data for himself, so as to form the appearance of gorgeous data, excellent records, and mediocre teammates.
But tonight, Yu Fei behaved like a superstar in Phil Jackson's mind.
He's in control of the ball, that's true, but it's also true that the Bucks are the only ones who have the ability to control the ball.
Just when Danny Granger's self-confidence was about to collapse, it was he who stabilized the rookie's mentality and let him continue to play until he regained his confidence.
In this case, Yu Fei still has the leisure to imitate Kobe's low-post pace.
Phil Jackson can no longer see through the essence of Yu Fei on the surface.
Before today, Yu Fei was an arrogant Generation Y in Jackson's eyes.
He has no one in his eyes, has no respect for his predecessors, has no respect for his peers, ignores the rules, and even tramples on the rules. But today, he is a mature leader and aware of his own flaws, and the seeker mentality of wanting to make himself perfect is awe-inspiring.
Four minutes before the end of the fourth quarter, the Bucks led the Lakers by 16 points, and the two sides replaced their main forces, announcing garbage time.
Yu Fei "only" scored 31 points, 12 rebounds and 9 assists tonight, which made the Bucks fans at the scene wail.
A deafening "Please, Fry!" rang out from the scene. ”。
This is a special phenomenon for the Bucks this season.
Because Yu Fei averaged a triple-double per game, many people came to watch the game to see him get a triple-double, and sometimes, even if the Bucks lost, as long as Yu Fei got a triple-double, fans would feel satisfied.
But tonight's game against the Lakers is actually short of an assist triple-double?
This kind of thing, don't want it!!
"Don't you really want to fight a little longer?" Carl couldn't stand it anymore.
"Kobe Bryant is gone." Yu Fei said, "I can't stay on the field to brush data, this is respect for him." ”
Yu Fei respected Kobe Bryant so much, which Carl didn't expect.
"You're not really a Kobe fan, are you?" Carl asked in surprise.
Yu Fei looked at him curiously, wasn't his identity as an eleven-day old Komi public?
"Okay, if you don't fight, you won't fight." Carl sighed, "It's a pity that the fans are sincere." ”
"it!" Yu Fei shouted, "I won't brush data in garbage time to please them!" ”
Karl rolled his eyes, as we all know, Da Fei is a player with no sportsmanship, will he really not play garbage time for the sake of the opponent's face?
There is no such possibility.
What Ikal knows about flying, the only reason he doesn't play garbage time is that he's a little tired tonight, after all, he played nearly 39 minutes, which is a lot of consumption for the regular season, and it's also to blame the Lakers, what to do in the second half of the resistance, and play the regular season as a playoffs, it's crazy.
However, the thought that his win over Phil Jackson was about to be +1 made Carl happy.
Well, how can I put on my face after the game to show that I am smart and decent?
Carl pondered, and the garbage time of the game was coming to an end.
In the end, 111-98, the Bucks defeated the Lakers by 13 points and successfully defended the home court.
Yu Fei was in a good mood tonight because he found a way to attack in the low post.
When the reporter put the microphone in front of him and asked him to talk about how to beat the Lakers, Yu Fei smiled lightly: "It's very simple, because we are better than the Lakers as a team." ”
"Why would you choose to rest when you're just one assist away from a triple-double?"
"I was a Bryant fan and he was replaced at the time, and out of respect for Kobe, I wasn't going to stay on the court, and that's why."
Unless he meets the opponent, Yu Fei will no longer say unsparing words in interviews.
For journalists, this is a pity.
Another stunned young man who dares to love and hate and speaks outright was thrown into the big dye vat of professional basketball and began to talk nonsense systematically like a mature person.
On the contrary, it is Yu Fei's coach, who seems to have never matured.
Every time he won against Phil Jackson's team, George Carr was as excited and excited as if he had reached great harmony with his lover for the first time in his youth.
"I told you we're going to win, that's our Milwaukee Bucks, you'd better give us more respect!"
"Danny Granger was unstoppable tonight, did you see his shot? This kid really knows how to play! ”
"Fry?" As long as the problem involves Dafei, Karl loses his mind, "In my mind, he has booked the best player of all time. I'm telling you, Frye is the best 19-year-old, 20-year-old, 21-year-old, 22-year-old, and 23-year-old player of all time, and if you don't agree, you don't know basketball! As long as he can maintain this trend until the age of 30, he is a well-deserved GOAT! ”
Yu Fei thought he was a thick-skinned person, but when he heard Carl brag about himself like this, he couldn't help but cover his eyes with his hands, and lowered his head slightly, looking like he didn't know how to face it.
Next door, Phil Jackson, heard Carl speak.
Of course, he knew that Karl was secretly saying that "I coach the best in history, and Phil Jackson coaches are not."
Jackson wasn't angry, he wasn't angry about such a thing.
However, it did remind him of an old thing.
In the 2004 All-Star Game, Yu Fei stole the limelight from O'Neal and was elected as the AMVP that year, and, in order to sarcastically say that O'Neal was "the most dominant in history", he told reporters that he was "the most attractive in history".
Yu Fei may deny it in every possible way, but Jackson can responsibly say that this is a Michael Jordan-esque moment and speech.
Looking at Yu Fei's growth curve in the past few years, Jackson agrees that this person has the potential to become a GOAT.
However, he is more concerned about the difference between Yu Fei and Kobe, who is also a high school superstar.
Yu Fei did Jordan's thing in the name of anti-Mike, and Kobe Bryant has been named Jordan's successor since his debut.
This cursed title is destined for Kobe Bryant to compare with Jordan for the rest of his career.
Tonight, Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 42 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, and he has done it to the extreme in his own field.
But Yu Fei didn't even have the interest to confront head-on, he just called the rookie players to shoot, and then really woke up the rookie and used it to drive the Bucks' shooter group, and knocked down the Lakers in a few minutes.
Jackson had to admit Carr's point.
The Bucks may be playing future basketball.
No matter how powerful Kobe Bryant is as an individual, he is powerless in the face of Yu Fei, who can drive the power of five people.
At the post-game press conference, Kobe Bryant was familiar with the scene happening in front of him.
"Kobe, what do you think of this game, where do you think you lost?"
"Are you going to play as well-rounded as Frye did?"
"How do you think the match with Frye helped you?"
"Is there anything you would like to say about Frye's refusal to play in garbage time to pay tribute to you?"
When a person becomes better and better, those who carry the same traits as him are affected.
In ordinary people's homes, the direct manifestation of this kind of case is "someone else's child".
For the high school players in professional basketball at the end of 2005, all the problems were related to Frye Yu.
"No, I'm not going to be like Fry." Bryant smiled and said, "I never will." ”
Kobe Bryant isn't a young man in his early twenties anymore, he's past that stage, and the upheaval of the summer of 2003 has made him more concerned about his image than ever.
"Even if it will make you lose?"
"Yes, I am who I am." Bryant deluded himself by saying, "I have my own standards, and that won't be shaken by anyone." ”
But Kobe Bryant was never himself, he grew up in the prime of No. 23, he dreamed of becoming No. 23 since he was a child, and his perfectionist nature allowed him to excel, but the imitation of No. 23 would eventually make him blur his style and eventually be swallowed up by the shadow of No. 23.
You can see Kobe Bryant's honesty about this in "The Last Dance", but it's not shameful, because No. 23 is the benchmark for greatness, and all the successors have fallen. Penny, Hill and Maddy, none of them can reach that height, only Kobe Bryant, the only Kobe, the ultimate Kobe, he is the back of that rushing era, the last light left on the basketball court on the 23rd.
That night, Yu Fei asked Kobe out for supper.
Bryant agreed.
This meal is their last meal today, as athletes, eating less and more meals is a basic operation, especially on the night of the game, you have to replenish it after the game, otherwise you will definitely fall off the scale when you wake up the next day.
Yu Fei and Kobe Bryant discussed more about the low-post offense.
Unlike during the game, Kobe Bryant joked about Jordan, and when he met in private, Kobe Bryant was more rigorous and serious.
"I think there are only three people whose footsteps deserve a closer look." Bryant said, "MJ, Kevin McHale and Hakeem from the Wizards. ”
Kevin McHale is a bit old for flying.
Olajuwon can learn, but he will have to wait until the offseason.
Moreover, these two are both inside, and the rhythm of the low-post offense on the inside and the outside is different, which can only be used for reference, not imitated.
So, going around and around, Teacher Da Dan is a name that can't be avoided.
That night, when Yu Fei returned home, he asked Kevin Lin to find him a video of the Wizard Jordan's game.
It just so happened that Kevin Lin was looking for the Wizards' 2001-02 season game, and Yu Fei was also present in that game.
After watching it for a while, Yu Fei took out the video, put it in the trash, and then asked someone to clean it up.
Although Yu Fei has completed his revenge on Jordan, he still can't watch this video at all, because the more he watches, the memories of the Wizards period will come to mind, and his bad feelings for Jordan will increase, but the other party is no longer playing, thinking about what an old bald donkey who doesn't play do?
still has to be compared with disciplines, and Kobe Bryant is the most hanging.
PS: This chapter was written in one breath.,I originally wanted to split it into two chapters.,But after the review, I feel that it's only coherent to read together.,It's a unified chapter.。
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