Before the time, Yu Fei's few knowledge of the 2007 NBA playoffs was that the Spurs reached the Finals, and Duncan completed the "Duncan Formula" in which "the 30-year-old Duncan is shaving James' head", and left a classic trash talk.

Obviously, shaving James' head is no longer an indicator of Duncan's honor.

Because Yu Fei, who has never lost to James in his career, now maintains a 24-game winning streak against the former (regular season + playoffs).

In the face of such an overwhelming winning rate, anyone who tries to talk about the duo will shut up.

After the lotto draw was over, Yu Fei waited for the finals to arrive with peace of mind.

Although Duncan is strong, it is certainly not as good as Duncan, who dominated offense and defense in 2003.

The current Spurs are not as good as the Spurs in the previous life, although they still broke through the Suns' encirclement, but they ran into trouble with the Jazz, and the two teams fought hard for six games to determine the winner.

Jason Kidd has aged significantly, and his conflict with Popovich has become out of control.

The Spurs tried to trade Kidd before this year's trade deadline, but the trade didn't happen because they didn't get a suitable offer.

The internally shaky Spurs stumbled in the playoffs, and few were optimistic that they could beat the Mavericks. As a result, the Mavericks may have studied the Bucks' game in advance and felt that they might not be able to play, so they sent the Warriors a head and did not go to the finals.

From the first round to the Finals, the Spurs played at least six games in each round.

Supporting them are Duncan and Ginobili, who play nearly 40 minutes per game, and Jordan Luol Deng, who averages 19 points per game.

Kidd, who is at odds with the coaching staff, has not fallen behind in statistics per game, leading the playoff assist list with a quasi-triple-double of 11 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists per game.

However, Kidd's weakness in individual offense makes his playmaking ability heavily dependent on his teammates' finishing ability.

While his all-around ability can help the team in many ways, a player who can make them more reasonable doesn't make a substantial difference to a Spurs team that is already playing well.

Therefore, before the finals began, the outside world actively publicized the news that the Bucks were about to win the championship.

Some basketball experts have begun to debate whether a team that has won four championships in five years can be called a dynasty.

Then, the Bucks, who have won 12 consecutive games so far in the playoffs, met Kidd at home.

When Kidd shot 6-of-9 three-pointers, the Spurs struggled to find an opponent.

109 to 102

The Spurs broke the Bucks' undefeated golden body in an upset.

"I made the decision to let Jason Kidd beat us with a shot." George Carr said, "I take full responsibility for this. ”

Yu Fei believes that the reason for the loss is not that Kidd is 6 of 9 from the outside, but that the Bucks' three-point shooting rate is less than 30%.

In the second game that followed, Yu Fei went all out, no longer obsessed with outside shooting, and smashed the Spurs' wing by naming Lore Deng.

At the same time, Kevin Martin's tried-and-true touch-and-go offense caused the Spurs' interior to suffer a foul crisis.

In the second half, as soon as the Bucks' outside line fired, the suspense of the game disappeared in an instant.

It was an instant meltdown and what made the Bucks look unique in the playoffs.

They had the firepower of the small ball in the big ball era, which was a terrible change.

What is so scary about this change?

Because it is imitable.

Since the NBA's epoch-making introduction of 24-second offensive time, basketball has not fundamentally changed. The old adage that the giants win the world has been passed down for half a century, and only Jordan's bulls can continue to succeed without a great center. Because of the conservatives' rejection of the three-point shot, the size of the court is naturally suitable for the play of the long-term man.

So, whether you're playing the UCLA offense, the triangle offense, or the Princeton offense, you're going to need certain superstars with specific skills.

You don't need that, as long as you have a point guard above the level and have a lot of shooters and versatile wings that can play as a guest forward and inside, you can play small ball.

That's why the Warriors are completely changing the game of basketball.

Other teams both target it, learn from it, end up being it, and try to surpass it.

The Bucks moved that point forward by nearly 10 years.

Now, whether the buck's ball can succeed has been divided into two factions, one is still the view of the heroic epic, that the buck's ball can be played because of Yu Fei's existence, and if there is no Yu Fei, it will collapse. Another group of people believe that the core of the ball can only determine the upper limit of the ball, but it cannot affect its extremely high lower limit.

However, in any case, this will not affect the Spurs' rout.

Even if they do their best in what they do best, once the Bucks fire, the situation will be difficult to turn around.

Even if they use a combination of Bowen and Duncan to block Yu Fei's offense, the Bucks can still have Martin and Granger to beat them.

That night, Yu Fei saw a lot of signs holding "Fry, another year" at Bradley Center.

The news that Yu Fei may be leaving has been spreading for a season, and Bucks fans are panicked but helpless.

Yu Fei saw those signs, and it was impossible to say that there were no fluctuations in his heart, but when he walked out of the court, he began to think about whether this could be the last game he played at Bradley Center.

Although they lost home advantage at home with a 1-1 win at home, he believes the defeat in the first game was an accident and they have a chance to make it three wins in a row on the road and lift the trophy directly in San Antonio.

Media Access Room

Journalists are asking the same old questions.

"You're going to play three games in a row in San Antonio, is that going to make you nervous?"

"No, it won't." Yu Fei said, "We will win three games in a row on the road and then go home with the championship trophy." ”

Facts have proved that what Yu Fei said was not empty words.

Don't have home field advantage? As soon as they start winning at San Antonio, home advantage is back.

In the third game of the finals, Yu Fei really made the San Antonio people feel powerless.

Bowen, who can defend anyone in the west, has the advantage of the home court, but Yu Fei is difficult to parry with blocking and dismantling, forcing the defense to change by name, dribbling breakthrough and low-post back play.

Yu Fei scored 22 points in the half, scored 36 points in the third quarter, and at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Bowen could only use fouls to stop Yu Fei's breakthrough.

But if you let Duncan come to defense, the self-styled No. 1 center in the East on the Bucks is about to start performing a classic show, and after eating the cake and scoring, he muttered that he blew up the all-time No. 1 forward.

If the outside line is pinched in advance, Yu Fei's pass can mobilize Martin and Granger.

The only foul Bowen can control, how many times can he make it?

Yu Fei, who scored 36 points in the first three quarters, only scored 6 points in the fourth quarter, but scored 42 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists in the whole game.

The Spurs, who were able to hold on for a little in the first three quarters, collapsed in the fourth quarter.

Duncan had 32 points and 18 rebounds, and Ginobili and Luol Deng's 20 points were also in vain.

Popovich looked at the score weakly, obviously they didn't make obvious mistakes, but they just couldn't beat it.

Bowen's outside alignment, Duncan's defensive arrangement of protecting the basket under the basket, for people like Yu Fei, seems to be a backward defensive arrangement.

To limit Yu Fei, they need not only Bowen and Duncan, but also more than two wings that can be changed indefinitely, but they don't have that configuration, Deng is too tall, and Ginobili is a little clever on the defensive end but not very useful.

And this is only the basic configuration that is limited to Yu Fei, even if they try their best to choke Yu Fei's offensive, they still have to face the test of Martin and Granger and others.

Popovich is not a man of antiquity.

When he played the Bucks in the Finals in 2003, he could feel that his setup was too sloppy compared to the opponent's offense.

Unexpectedly, four years later, the Bucks are completely like another team, they are like the Suns, like the Warriors, like the Mavericks of the Nielsen era, but the Spurs have played these teams, but they can't beat the Bucks.

Popovich had dismissed claims that the Bucks were the next evolution of basketball, but the facts were in front of him.

The Bucks' system is ahead of its time, and if other teams don't want to continue to be beaten by the opposition in this way, they can either study their flaws or learn their style of play.

But the bucks' dominance has lasted for several years, where are the flaws? The well-known interior hole seems to have been solved by them with a fierce defense.

Eventually, Popovich's eyes fell on the Bucks' No. 44.

That controversial figure, that villain, that bastard, that demon who lacks conscience and sportsmanship, why did such people trigger the revolution of basketball?

A few years ago, when the Spurs lost to the Bucks in the Finals, Popovich could confidently say that even if they lost, Duncan was the best player in the series. But now, he won't say the same thing again.

Whether he wants to admit it or not, it's a well-established fact – Frye Yu is already the world's number one.

PS: I wanted to finish the finals in one chapter, but last night I was halfway through writing back pain, and when I went to bed and looked at my phone, I saw a prickly honey in the group chat record and said, "I can't end a chapter, right?" Is there no card like that?" You know, I'm eleven days old, so I decided to sleep so Spurs wouldn't get killed in a single chapter.

(End of chapter)