On the day of the press day, Yu Fei was interviewed one after another, answering many questions related to Seattle.

But reporters found that although Yu Fei was keen to answer questions from Seattle, his answers to the most important question of "whether he would return to his hometown" were very vague.

He didn't convey to the outside world that "I have to go back there and save my hometown team".

This has somewhat reassured Bucks management.

However, if you really want to reassure them, Yu Fei should re-sign a contract with them.

Even another 2+1 short-term contract would be better than the current situation.

Mark Stein, who was close to Yu Fei, wanted to get exclusive information, and he asked Yu Fei in private: "Fry, will you go back?" Whatever your answer is, I won't put it into the article. ”

Yu Fei believed in Stein, but he didn't want to make a decision now.

Because the season hasn't started yet, his first goal now is to lead the Bucks to their fourth championship in five seasons.

As long as he wins this championship, then whatever decision he makes, he can be worthy of it.

"Give me some more time."

Yu Fei said to Stein.

At the end of the media day, the Bucks were dressed in a new jersey for the new season, a black-green city jersey that is different from the traditional Bucks green, and the biggest feature of this jersey is the four stars on the chest, which represents the four championships in the history of the Bucks.

"How sure are you that you will defend the championship?"

On the same day, a journalist from New York asked George Carr.

Carl confidently said: "100% sure." ”

It's impossible to understand Carl's confidence in the team, but anyone who knows what's going on in the NBA knows that there were no big trades that changed the league in the offseason.

The Bucks traded Pachulia and Ariza for the No. 2 pick.

Although Ariza and Pachulia were both the main rotations of the Bucks last season, it will not affect the team, because the person who replaces Pachulia is Aldridge, and Ariza's missing part of the vacancy will be filled by Sprewell. Even if the old madman can't fill this gap, someone else on the Bucks, who are already overflowing with talent, will take the job.

Crucially, young players such as Kevin Martin and Danny Granger have improved significantly.

The Bucks in the new season are only stronger than last season.

On the contrary, Yu Fei needs to adjust his playing style according to the changes in the strength of his teammates.

After the first game of the preseason, the Bucks defeated the Hornets 133-108.

With just this game, Yu Fei knew that the average triple-double performance was no longer sustainable.

Last season, Martin was the only one who could help him digest players, and now, Aldridge needs the ball to grow, Granger also needs the ball to hone his attack, and Martin's demand for the ball is also strong.

Yu Fei can continue to possess the ball in order to maintain the myth of averaging a triple-double per game, but in this way, young teammates who are in a period of rapid rise will be functionalized.

After a few preseason games, Yu Fei felt that he had changed.

In the past, he only cared about his own well-being, but now he still cares about the growth of young people?

Obviously, he hasn't decided to leave yet, why has he already begun to think of "doing whatever I can for you before I leave"?

I'm not a good man or a woman!

No, this data has to be brushed!

In the season opener against the Pistons, as soon as he received the ring, Yu Fei turned on the killing mode and scored a quasi-triple-double of 21+7+7 in the half, but in the second half, the hairy Aldridge made him blew up.

"What are you hesitating about?"

"If you get the ball, you will play, if you can't play, you will pass, what are you going to do?"

"Can you fight? Rookie? Can you still fight? ”

Aldridge had a dismal debut, and strictly speaking, he can't be blamed for that, who made his opponent Rasheed Wallace?

But Yu Fei's requirements for him are ridiculously high.

Aldridge made his debut, picking up just three rebounds, committing two turnovers and committing three fouls.

Yu Fei, who devoured statistics in the first half, seemed to have lost his appetite in the second half, and only scored 32 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists in the whole game.

The slump is just Aldridge's business, and the rest of the Bucks are not in the slump, with Martin scoring 25 points and Granger scoring 20 points as the sixth man scoring monster.

Except for letting Roaring Tianzun bully the rookie, the Pistons didn't have any advantages.

"Detroit is too weak without a big book." Yu Fei said, "I miss Daben, he can at least bring a little suspense to this game." ”

Yu Fei's words seem to be giving face to his opponent, but he is actually just helping Aldridge get back on the field.

Because Rashid Wallace taunted him while blowing him up in the game: "You also deserve to be the No. 2 show? ”

It's just that fans who don't know the inside story are destined to put this account on Yu Fei.

But Detroit is one of the cities in the United States with the worst perception of flying, and there is one more black powder here and one less, which has no effect on him.

Back in the locker room, seeing Aldridge being beaten a little autistic, Yu Fei said: "Relax, this is just the first game of your career, everyone has come over like this." ”

Aldridge asked: "Didn't you score on your debut?" ”

"Almost." Yu Fei thought for a while, "My first game that year was in New York, and I didn't play well, but in the end, I was lucky and accidentally scored a lore." Well. ”

Hearing this, one of the victims of the year, Sprewell, said: "Alas, I should have strangled him at that time, so that he could have harmed many less." ”

Many things are really afraid of comparison, look at others, and then look at yourself.

Aldridge became more and more autistic.

"Okay, I didn't let you compare with me." Yu Fei continued to explain, "You know Yao from Houston, right? ”

Who doesn't know? Aldridge nodded.

"He was just as hung up on his debut as you did." Yu Fei said, "What is the result? In his rookie season, he rode on the head of the big fat pig in Miami to make an All-Star start, so he didn't perform well at first. ”

Aldridge was even more disappointed: "I don't have 1.3 billion people voting for me. ”

"And what the are you pretending to be a depressed person here?" Yu Fei threatened, "If you continue to fight so stinky."

Kwame Brown replied: "Just trade him to the Clippers!" ”

"No," Yu Fei said, "if you can't adapt to the intensity of the NBA, go and stay in the development league for a while." ”

After that, Yu Fei glared at Brown, "You have to trade people to the Clippers at every turn, what are you doing as the Clippers?" A garbage shelter? Can you be a little patient with the rookie and don't be a jerk like Charlotte's bald ass! ”

Brown pondered, it doesn't seem to be himself who has been pressuring Aldridge on the field, right?

Heading into November, the Bucks struggled for a while.

Because Yu Fei wanted to put some ball to his teammates, and then he found that the Bucks were already in his shape.

Young people do need the ball to grow, but it's up to him to feed the ball.

Just giving them the ball to play freely, only Martin and Granger can take it, and Lowe has also shown some potential to resist the ball, and the others have not played as well as they should.

This leads to a classic situation where when Yu Fei is on the floor, the Bucks are arguably the best team in the league.

As soon as he was out of the game, the team began to shoot birds indiscriminately, not to mention weak, but in all respects it did not look like a championship team.

Macronuclear dependence has flare-up significantly.

There is only one way to cure such a stubborn disease, and that is to let the big nucleus leave completely, and then they can start anew and set up their own system.

This made Yu Fei have some other ideas about his style of play.

Four-star shooting and 5 OUT, in itself, are a way of playing that uses projection to widen the court, thereby simplifying offensive tactics and attacking options, and making the game simpler.

This style of play is extremely demanding at the core, and for the shooters, all they need to do is run and shoot.

This has been the Bucks' signature for the past few years.

They're used to playing like this, which is why it's hard for them to make changes in the Fei era.

Even if Yu Fei wanted to change, the reality did not allow it, so he had to "reluctantly" recover his true colors, continue to be his big core and ball bully, and suck the blood of his teammates fiercely.

However, this blood is not sucked in vain, Yu Fei won comprehensive data, but the weight of personal attack decreased significantly.

Last season, he averaged 36 points per game, last season, he averaged 33 points per game, and so far this season, he has averaged just 27 points per game.

In contrast, Kevin Martin went from averaging 18 points per game to averaging 22 points per game, and Sixth Man Danny Granger went from averaging 9 points per game to averaging 15 points per game.

There is a rise in stars, and there is a decline in the stats of role players.

The likes of Bale, Sprewell and others have seen their scoring numbers drop slightly, but it's not an unacceptable situation.

At the end of November, the Bucks won 13 in a row and have not lost a game so far this season, and Yu Fei returned to the ranks of triple-doubles per game and led the league assists list with an astonishing performance of 13 assists per game.

In the final game of November, the Suns gave the Bucks their first loss of the season.

The two sides went head-to-head, and the Suns had a better hand, narrowly beating the Bucks 131-127 in the game, ending the defending champions' winning streak.

Yu Fei played his worst game so far this season, shooting 8-of-21 from the field and scoring 25 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists from the free throw line.

To Yu Fei's surprise, there were many human rights fighters at the Suns' home court, surrounding many political issues that he was not interested in, which even affected the press conference that night.

"Frye, will you join the 'Darfur Dream'?"

"What's that?"

"A non-profit organization that aims to put pressure on the elderly and China on human rights."

"You know, I go to China every year, and the people there are very nice and nice to talk to, and you want me to put pressure on them?"

"No, I mean, the old and the middle."

"Well, I'm not interested in that."

"Fry, genocide is taking place in Darfur"

Yu Fei said with a smile: "You know, Chinese also buy shoes. ”

"Don't you have a conscience at all?!!!

"I really don't have it."

The human rights journalist's blood pressure is rising rapidly, but there is nothing he can do, Yu Fei is the most controversial sports superstar in the country, he doesn't seem to care about his fame, he doesn't care about universal values based on the American spirit, he only cares about himself.

It's just that the same thing will plague Kobe Bryant, and James will plague all the famous NBA players, unless they think they have no conscience like Yu Fei, or the media in their region is underdeveloped, otherwise, this is what they have to face.

The next day, many human rights journalists began to question Yu Fei's character, which was ironic.

Do you still need to question Da Fei's character? I hate him and don't treat him as a human being for a long time, and you question his character? You don't think this person has any character, do you?

A bad reputation has the advantage of a bad reputation, and after feeding human rights reporters to their faces, no one asks Yu Fei for advice on the issue of Darfur.

PS: Those of you who have read old books should know this history. I won't make a fuss about this passage in this book, it's just a subplot within a subplot at best. When I mentioned this, I just had to mention it when I wrote about this time period, just like it is impossible to turn a blind eye to Mogou's tweets in 2020. Because they were all big events at the time.

(End of chapter)