Chapter 369: Prophecy
How arrogant Artest is when facing Durant, and how restrained he is when facing Yu Fei.
Against Durant, he can defend close to him desperately, because Durant can't help him, and the referee is on his side.
But for Fei, if he defends like Durant, Yu Fei can quickly break through with his feet.
As for those who Durant.
It is possible to make it, but Artest has already seen with his own eyes how Yu Fei treats his enemies.
He felt that it was enough for the Cavaliers to have LeBron to bear all the cause and effect, and he didn't need to provoke Yu Fei.
As a result, Artest has sent a preseason-level defensive intensity to fly.
Yu Fei almost suspected that this person had some conspiracy.
But he soon felt the same joy as Roy, and his opponent had obvious flaws, and there were no traps attached, so he naturally had to seize his chances and score decisively.
By the time James returned to the game, the SuperSonics' lead had reached 17 points.
Seeing James, Yu Fei was in high spirits and wanted to continue to break off with the other party.
But the referee's penalty scale suddenly disrupted Yu Fei's plan.
When Yu Fei made an infractional move towards James, the referee directly blew the whistle.
If Yu Fei wants to spray garbage, the referee will warn T first.
The referee who prescribed the right medicine successfully stopped Yu Fei's desire to attack, and in the end, the knight's targeted counterpoint made Yu Fei decide to stop fighting.
Mike Brown doesn't want James to continue to be pestered by Yu Fei.
Moreover, he didn't want James to be stigmatized as a deserter.
What to do? First of all, it is clear that Artest and Yu Fei are in the opposite position, and secondly, no matter how Yu Fei calls it blocking and dismantling, the purpose of the Cavaliers is to squeeze the cover and not change the defense.
In this way, the name of avoiding war can be regarded as existing.
Yu Fei was under pressure from the referee and could only turn his attention to the game.
As it turned out, their lead was big enough, and unless the Cavaliers were on fire from the outside, a defeat was inevitable.
can win steadily, but can't match James happily, Yu Fei has some regrets.
However, anyway, the days ahead are still long, and he can count slowly.
Instead, James still needs to find an excuse to avoid the war.
Although it makes sense tactically, it definitely doesn't make sense from a human point of view.
In the face of a person who humiliates you repeatedly, you don't let go of your hands and feet to fight with him and start tactics, what is this not cowardice?
There were many people on the scene who were disappointed with James.
Especially the rich people who sit in the front row.
They saw Yu Zhan's fire with their own eyes, and they also heard Yu Fei claim that he was going to cut off James's career.
But any normal man can't stand it when he hears this.
But James just held back.
He knew that there was still a gap between him and Yu Fei, and he would definitely not take advantage of it if he was really in the end.
This is a man who has the courage of a puppet but does not have the wrath of a puppet.
He's too sane.
It is this kind of statesman-like sanity that leads to the belief that he will definitely decide his future from a rational point of view.
Among these people is Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cavaliers.
Before tonight, he, like other James supporters, decided that the absence from Game 4 of last season's Eastern Conference Finals was just a coincidence, and that James would follow Yu Fei to the end if given the opportunity.
Now, they've seen the answer with their own eyes.
Unless there is a certainty of victory, James will avoid all head-to-head matchups.
Doing so will deal a heavy blow to James's already declining popularity, and also give Yu Fei's camp a chance to ride the face.
That's why Gilbert is disappointed and angry with James, why is LeBron so cautious, is this the mentality of a big man?
Look at Fry!
His eagerness to tell the world about his victory made Gilbert angry.
Until then, he can console himself by saying that LeBron just needs time.
But now, he doesn't have such confidence.
Because even LeBron himself doesn't think he can succeed in Cleveland, otherwise why would he force the team to sign him on a 2+1 contract?
Even if Gilbert pulls all the stops, the Cavaliers can't turn waste into treasure, and they lack the bargaining chips to make it exciting, so it's impossible to assemble a roster that will satisfy James anytime soon.
Gilbert once consoled himself with this that LeBron, unlike Frye, signed short contracts only to give management a sense of urgency.
But this self-soothing never really succeeded.
Because there are growing signs that James will leave in the summer of 2009.
Tonight's signs are the most obvious.
Gilbert saw James' scheming that was different from basketball players, and he thought too much.
Sadly, the more he thought about it, the more he understood that Cleveland was not a land of kings.
Staying here would only slow him down in pursuit of Fry.
Frye can give up three straight championships for his hometown team, will LeBron give up his hometown team for the championship?
Emotionally, of course, Gilbert would like to believe that James has a love for his hometown, but intellectually?
The reason James made Gilbert lose confidence was that he was too sane.
There is no way he can make the emotional decision to leave the Bucks and move to the SuperSonics like Yu Fei.
Two people who are both commercially committed to branding themselves as "not just a basketball player" end up with only one person who is not a pure basketball player.
Without saying a word, Gilbert sat in the presidential suite and watched the game run out.
109 to 94
The SuperSonics defeated the Cavaliers to make it three wins in a row of five straight road trips. As one of the teams with the loosest schedule at the start of the season, they currently sit top of the West and don't look at all like a team that finished bottom last season.
That's the magic of Frye Yu.
He can really change a whole team by himself.
ABC interviewed Frye live — of course, they were going to interview the man of the match who had beaten LeBron again.
Gilbert wanted to know how many consecutive wins Yu Fei had against James.
"Fry, this is your twenty-fifth straight win against LeBron." The words of the ABC frontline reporter made Gilbert almost break the defense. "What do you think?"
Yu Fei responded jokingly: "Are there so many? Well, if that's true, that's cool. ”
Gilbert had already dropped everything in the room.
How stupid does that James have to be to think that LeBron has more potential than Frye? Twenty-five consecutive defeats! Losing one or two games you can say that there is a team gap, and losing twenty-five games in a row is not a team gap that can be explained.
"You and LeBron had a heated confrontation on the field, how much personal emotion was there?"
"Intense?" Yu Fei's most dissatisfaction tonight was that after the conflict, the referee chose to cool down, and the Cavaliers' coaching staff decisively staggered their alignment. "It's far worse than it was in Las Vegas."
Gilbert still doesn't know how much Frye has hurt LeBron in Las Vegas.
Although he had heard a lot of rumors, they had become more and more outrageous and had no credibility.
"When you first arrived in Cleveland, you predicted that LeBron would leave when his contract expired, was that a joke or was it true?"
Gilbert could only watch live interviews in the presidential suite in two ways, one on the big screen and the other on the TV in the suite.
At this moment, Gilbert suddenly turned up the volume of the TV to the maximum.
He wondered why Frye had come to this conclusion.
He was LeBron's big brother and now LeBron's enemy, and he may be the person who knows LeBron best in the league.
"A lot of people don't understand my decision to leave Milwaukee because there's a team out there that's perfect for me. If I stay, we have a good chance of fighting for a triple crown. Yu Fei made a simple and easy-to-understand analogy with himself. As many reasons I have to stay in Milwaukee, LeBron has as many reasons to leave Cleveland. This is not a prophecy, this is a fact. ”
“FUCK YOU!!!!!”
Gilbert was furious and threw the remote control at the TV: "Even people like Ling understand the weight of hometown, how can LeBron not understand?" Even people like you."
Gilbert's voice grew weaker and weaker, and Yu Fei just said what everyone knew.
What made Gilbert panic was that LeBron had a choice, and they didn't.
They must make keeping LeBron their number one priority, even if it is to take the full future of the team.
Gilbert fears that even if he hollows out his family and gives the team all of his future, he won't be able to turn the Cavaliers into a strong championship contender.
In this case, if LeBron still chooses to leave, the Cavaliers will be doomed.
Gilbert was anxious, but he didn't know what to do after that, and neither did his management.
(End of chapter)