Chapter 378: Christmas Eve

The Christmas battle between the SuperSonics and the Cavaliers, the first half was fairly balanced and the match was broken in the second half, in the third quarter, the Cavaliers have shown fatigue, and in the fourth quarter, Yu Fei scored 10 points in a row at the beginning, of which 8 points were scored on James's head, which directly put the game into garbage time.

The fans in the key arena all stood up and cheered.

They knew how bad the relationship between Yu Fei and James was, so they took out the help tools they had prepared in advance when the team sealed the win.

They held up countless signs that read: 26 to 0. LeBron, maybe next time?

In terms of data alone, in fact, James is only slightly inferior to Fly.

He had 34 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, while Yu Fei had 42 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists. The problem is, he lost again.

As long as he loses, the data doesn't mean anything.

James' losing streak against fly has become a cultural phenomenon,

LeBron is a generational talent who can be on par with Frye, but he has never beaten Frye.

When will he win? Does he have a chance to win? What if he never wins?

'I thought I was doing well and the gap tonight was whole.'

James euphemistically expressed that the team lost and he didn't.

But the media didn't like his rhetoric: "Don't you think that the fact that you never defeated Frye has affected your reputation?" ”

"Nope." James denied, "It was the Bucks and the Supersonics who beat me, not him." ”

"You're saying that even if Frye scores 70 points in front of you, it's still a team victory, not an individual victory?"

"Yes, because the game is for five people."

James has a lot to say about his personal failures, and he even quotes Jordan's most famous ad.

"Do you think MJ is successful as a basketball player?"

The reporter couldn't help but nod his head, even a Seattle reporter couldn't deny Jordan's success.

MJ is the most successful basketball player of all time, but even MJ has won only six of those games in his nearly 20-year career, and he has missed 12,345 shots. So, I don't think that failure at this stage will affect my future. ”

The reporter blinked and thought, you're right, but MJ's career didn't have 20 years, he actually only played 15 seasons because he retired twice, but it seems a little difficult to ask a guy who didn't go to college to figure this out.

There have been many changes to the narrative surrounding James in recent times.

Yu Fei's continued strength made the James camp stick to public opinion.

Moreover, because Yu Fei voluntarily left Milwaukee to come to his hometown, it set up a moral barrier for James to stay in the summer of 2009.

Someone like Frye Yu who thinks he has no morals can give up a chance to win three consecutive championships and return to his hometown, so how can you abandon your hometown for a bigger chance of winning the championship?

This is the main PR direction of James himself and his team lately.

They need to hint over and over again that James is a hidden dragon, but is trapped in a small pool in Cleveland.

Give him a bigger stage and a better team, and he won't be worse than Yu Fei.

Yu Fei will not let the position of public opinion be occupied by his opponent.

"I think the point of the 26-0 loss is that he's never used his on-court influence as a star to change the outcome of one of those games. He can say that his team is not good enough, or that basketball is a team sport, but there are countless cases that show that star players can directly influence the victory of the game, I have given him 26 chances, he has not stepped up once, and now he is going to blame his team for not being good enough? Well, that's the LeBron I'm familiar with, he always has one excuse or another, the only constant is that he refuses to admit that he sucks. Yu Fei said mockingly, "In fact, he really sucks." ”

Then, a Cleveland reporter said with an angry face that the Cavaliers had played well tonight, but they didn't hold it up in the second half, and that it wasn't LeBron's problem.

"What was LeBron doing when I scored 10 straight points in the fourth quarter? You want to say the balance of power in the first half? Yu Fei continued to fire, "I can only say that when the cat doesn't want to play with the mouse, the mouse doesn't have a chance at all. ”

As always, Yu Fei style.

He's not the kind of guy who will whitewash the scene, and he won't leave his opponent with decency.

Once he has a grudge against him, he just wants to finish off the court and then continue to expand his results off the court.

After participating in the post-match activities, Yu Fei returned to the Key Arena.

He was joined by Lawson, Brown and Jack Hickma.

Yu Fei wanted to spend an extra half an hour practicing the low post, so he needed Brown to spar.

The reason why they will be on par with the Cavaliers in the first half tonight is also because Yu Fei focused on the low post, but the effect was not good.

"Da Fei, if I were half as diligent as you, I would be better than Chris Webb." Brown slapped the pegasus ass while not forgetting to brag about himself.

Yu Fei wanted to echo him, but looking at Brown's sexy little hands that made people feel sad, he really couldn't speak with his conscience.

"Da Fei, there is no problem with your footsteps." Hickma gave his evaluation after watching Yu Fei and Brown practice for more than ten minutes. "But the sense of space in the low post and the pace of the attack is a process that accumulates over time. You can't master it in a year and a half. ”

Yu Fei fully understands that, just like his shooting, it took him four or five years to fully get started.

So he's been more lean in training and always has Brown defend with all his might.

Tonight's 30 minutes of training can be divided into two sections, in the first half, Brown relied on the league's first-class interior single defense to make Yu Fei play no way.

But from the second half, Yu Fei's turnaround jumper began to find a feeling, and Brown's defense became more difficult.

Once there is a shooting threat, the combination of skills is more comprehensive, and with Hickma's "no problems" footwork, Brown misses again and again.

Yu Fei scored 7 goals in a row, which made Brown depressed.

"No fighting," Brown complained, "It feels like I'm guarding against KG one size smaller!" ”

Yu Fei grabbed the ball and asked with a smile: "Aren't you the No. 1 center in the league?" Are you still afraid of a small KG? ”

"As long as you get into the rhythm, you're tougher than KG." Brown said from the bottom of his heart, "Even though you're completely inside in the low post, your pace of action is at the level of a small forward, and I haven't guarded an opponent like you." ”

"If you haven't defended, you should practice, get up, if we meet Celtic in the Finals, do you want to let Rassad defend KG?"

Brown complained bitterly, but he still obeyed Yu Fei.

Hikma doesn't know if there were such players in the past.

A man who has been sitting at the top of the league at the age of 25 is willing to spend a lot of time on boring low-post offense at the height of his athleticism.

His outside skills are already impeccable, but the scary thing is that his inside skills are also rapidly improving.

At this pace, perhaps the world will have a chance to see the ultimate basketball player before he is 30 years old.

But will Seattle's professional basketball be brought back to life by him on the verde?

Yu Fei was going to practice for half an hour at first, and then he got energetic and practiced for 50 minutes.

When it was over, Brown fell to the ground like a dead dog as if he had played two games in a row.

"Tell George I'm not going to practice tomorrow afternoon," Brown wailed.

"I'm going to refuse your leave of absence instead of George, you have to come and train." Yu Fei said, "Can you bear to watch me practice low-post offense with someone like Rashad who doesn't know what a low-post defense is?" ”

"You know Da Fei, I've always been hard-hearted."

"Less nonsense, if you don't come tomorrow, I'll ask Sam to send you to Indiana for Jermaine!"

"You have to think clearly, Da Fei, that guy has suffered injuries for three consecutive years, and he is not as strong and durable as me at all, and besides, I am the first center in the league, and that guy is only the first center in the East at most, have you ever seen the first in the league to be the first in the division?"

Seeing Yu Fei and his group sitting on the sidelines chatting, Joe Gibbs, a veteran employee in charge of stadium maintenance, brought a mop to clean up the sweat stains that Yu Fei and Brown had left on the court.

"Joe, do you work the night shift every day?"

Brown asked casually.

"Well, I can say the night watchman here." Gibbs joked, "Of course, it's not every day that there are arena rats like yours." ”

"Don't talk about rats, Joe, Da Fei just compared LeBron to a rat today."

Gibbs doesn't understand the humor of young people, and as a gym employee, his status is a far cry from that of the multimillionaires who have free access to the Key Arena.

"It's been a different place lately, though." Gibbs couldn't help but say a few more words, "The SuperSonics are attracting the attention of the whole city just like they did more than a decade ago." ”

More than a decade ago? Wasn't that the Peytoncamp era?

Lawson couldn't help but say, "The SuperSonics at the time were definitely the biggest totems in Seattle." ”

"No, it's not." Gibbs smiled, and the old man was always more eager to talk, "But it used to be." ”

Speaking of which, Gibbs couldn't help but glance at Jack Hickma, the bloated old white man who was once the core of the supersonic team that was the totem of the city.

It was the 1978-79 season, and the SuperSonics had just reached the Finals in a fairytale season, and although they lost to the Washington Bullets, it gave them confidence in the future, so management kept the original team and continued to challenge for the championship. It was a special time, and Seattle was hungry for sports titles, but in 1978, every rational Seattle knew that their only championship hope was the SuperSonics. Because of the lack of competitiveness of the Seahawks at the time, the two-year-old Mariners lost 107 games that season.

The SuperSonics took revenge on the Bullets in the Finals to win the first championship in team history, and they fulfilled Seattle's dream of becoming a sports champion. On that day, SuperSonics fans could be seen everywhere in Seattle, from First Avenue to Fifth Avenue, from Pioneer Square to Belltown and Cherry Hill, and it was the pinnacle of the SuperSonics and the first and only time in their history that they felt like they owned the Emerald City.

"I still remember that day, and I still miss it." Gibbs said, "Now that I think about it, it's been almost 30 years since that day, and the team of my dreams has become a nightmare in reality, and it could leave me at any time, and you say, am I crazy?" ”

Brown didn't know how to respond.

Yu Fei stood up and said, "Merry Christmas, Joe." ”

With that, Yu Fei left.

That night, Yu Fei returned home and received a variety of Christmas wishes, among which Warren Buffett's blessing was the most unique.

He congratulated Yu Fei on his achievements in the past few years, and then said that after many investigations, he believes that if SuperSonics stays in Seattle, under the leadership of the Chosen One, it is expected to bring more than 5 times the profit to investors, so he is willing to invest 20% of the financing plan for SuperSonic's new arena.

"Merry Christmas, Fry, and in return, I hope you're being shackled like Shaq O'Neal in the next basketball tape you shoot with me. I don't think that's too much to ask. ”

"Not too much, you can even step over me like Aaron Iverson."

Yu Fei replied.

(End of chapter)