The semifinals between the SuperSonics and the Hornets may be the least talked about of several series.

The feud between the Lakers and the Spurs dates back to 1999, and the Bucks, who lost Yu Fei, are still going strong, going 2-0 with the Cavaliers in the first two games of the series, which raises a problem.

If James can't even beat the Bucks who lost Yu Fei, then how should he evaluate Yu Fei's resume in the Bucks?

This may be an "angle" that Yu Fei's camp can't even imagine.

Because Yu Fei did not leave a single piece of chicken feathers, he also cultivated several outstanding young people for the Bucks, so that they could quickly take over after Yu Fei left, so that the Bucks are still competitive in the East. Then, someone would actually question Yu Fei's strength with this.

Maybe the four championships in five years are not Yu Feiqiang, but the Bucks are strong?

However, Yu Fei's achievements in supersonic speed are well known, and this is not something that can be erased by a superficial permutation.

Rather, the James camp, which is keen to push this narrative, will have to face a problem sooner or later.

If they lose to the Bucks, they will have to face the result: LeBron can't beat either the Flying Bucks or the Flying Bucks, and no matter how many excuses there are, when a team loses the best in the league, it can't be the same again.

Since Yu Fei has opened up the gap with James, now, the marketing direction of James and the marketing machine behind him is "the first person after Fry".

And, they don't forget to remind people that James doesn't have a good team. In fact, he and Yu Fei are similar, as long as the strength of the two teams is equal, it may show a surprising result.

Now Yu Fei is not in the bucks. James is undoubtedly the most individual player in this series.

If a star can't use his or her individual abilities to change the course of a series — like the 2005 Flying semifinals slaughtering the Pistons — then the star's ability will have to be re-judged.

To put it bluntly, this matter will eventually come back to James.

If he loses to the Bucks, there's no excuse for that.

And now, he's 2-0 down.

In addition to the challenges faced by James, the most jaw-dropping thing is the Celtics, who swallowed all the rage in the regular season.

They had the most solid starting lineup in the league, the deepest bench depth, and then fought the Hawks in the first round for seven games before making the cut.

In the semifinals, they met the upstart Magic in the East, and they also inherited the style of the home dragons.

Celtic won their first two home games, but when they came to the road, they wouldn't play.

Celtic glory seems to only work at home.

On the road, they lost the blessing of home advantage, their defence was limited, their attack was on thin ice, and the whole team looked full of energy, but they couldn't play it.

When this happens, it will naturally cause doubts from the outside world.

Celtics won't play the playoffs?

Will Celtic only play at home?

Is a team that won't win away from home a favourite?

Just when the outside world was enthusiastically watching the East, the SuperSonics quietly broke the playoff streak in New Orleans.

In the third game of the semifinals, the Hornets were all on the line and full of firepower, and Paul showed the demeanor of the god of point guards, with 30 points and 10 assists in a single game, which made New Orleans crazy.

"Aside from Frye, Kwame and Shaun, the rest of our team doesn't have deep playoff experience." George Carr said of the defeat, "So, I'm perfectly okay with a dumb fire like tonight." They are young people, and when they have no distractions, they can break through all obstacles, but when they have problems, they will also get into trouble. ”

Tonight, Yu Fei's performance was even worse than Paul's, with 38 points, 14 rebounds and 9 assists, but Roy was not in good shape, Durant became the "player who deserves to be thrown into the trash", and the performance of other young people was also lackluster.

Even though Marion had 18 points and 8 rebounds, Brown had 16 points and 7 rebounds, and the SuperSonics still lost a game in front of the Hornets.

In the locker room, most of the people were silent.

Of the young people, only Josh Childis had a whining word.

"NBA games are really stupid!" Childis exclaimed, "Why can they have such a big advantage at home? I can't touch Chris Paul at all! ”

Childis offers an acceptable perspective for young people.

We lost not because I played well, but because the dog referee was not a good person.

Aside from the fact that the average hit rate of everyone is below 40%, it's really.

"Is that why you went 1-of-7 from the field?" Yu Fei asked.

Childis was asked.

Yu Fei immediately turned to Durant: "Kevin, you shot 3 of 11 tonight, can you tell me that your shooting percentage is so low because of the referee?" ”

Durant was tempted to blame the referee because he was really tightly guarded and couldn't find his touch.

Would the Hornets dare to target him like that at home?

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But he couldn't say such a thing in the face of Yu Fei, who shot 12 out of 20 in the game.

"Listen, when we're playing badly, it's better not to make excuses like that!" Yu Fei said loudly, "Don't forget that we were also taken care of when we were at home. ”

Then, Roy took the initiative to say, "Blame me tonight, it's me who didn't play well." ”

"I really blame you." Yu Fei said meaningfully, "It's because you played so badly that other people's hit rates couldn't even reach 40%." ”

Roy was very responsible, but when he heard this, he felt debatable: "You can't blame me entirely, right?" ”

"Since you want to take responsibility, then take all the responsibility, you see that I am obviously playing well, don't you have to say to the media that the responsibility for failure lies with my bullshit?"

"It makes sense, with great power comes great responsibility."

"So what's the problem?"

"It's gone." Roy pointed at Durant and used it to refer to all the young players, "It's all my fault that these dog mongrels have such a low shooting percentage tonight!" ”

Yu Fei looked at the others calmly, "Since Brandon has taken responsibility, I won't say anything, it's all his fault for fighting like this tonight." However, if this is still the case in the next game, it will certainly not be a problem for Brandon alone. ”

Yu Fei skillfully completed the post-game mobilization work.

When Carl gets back to the dressing room, he just needs to bring up the problem he had tonight and then fix it in tomorrow's practice.

Unconsciously, Yu Fei has adapted to the role of leader.

He's no longer the maverick of the Bucks days who focused on the court, occasionally caring about his teammates, but mostly focused only on himself.

In Seattle, he had to be a leader.

Otherwise, this team will be leaderless, and even if it can make it to the playoffs, it will not be able to win the championship.

Two days later

The SuperSonics are once again on the home turf of the Hornets.

Tonight, Karl deliberately targeted Paul.

The first is on the offensive end, Carl let Roy take the initiative to attack, and Paul was consumed to the greatest extent.

The second is Yu Fei, although the Hornets have always avoided letting Paul follow Yu Fei.

But Yu Fei has quite a lot of off-ball tactics in the supersonic speed, he is not only the beneficiary of the pick-and-roll screen, but also the initiation of the block-and-roll screen, a large number of pick-and-roll screens are destined to create dislocation and change of defense.

Whenever Yu Fei meets Paul, he will be stuck in place and start asking for the ball.

Later in the game, even Durant began to ask for the ball to play Paul.

Paul's defensive pressure has never been greater, and he was too tired to play as well tonight as he did in Game 3.

Once Paul doesn't play his core values, the Hornets' offense is reduced to mediocrity.

David West's singles, Peja's outside threes, Morris Peterson's scramble and Bunch Wells and other bench singles.

Confusing, sometimes useful, mostly unhelpful.

While Paul lost his color, Yu Fei became the core of supersonic in the low position.

He constantly relied on his low post threat to provide assists to his teammates.

He looks like a collection of Sabonis, Webb, Wharton and other great interior lines known for their offense, but after all, these people belong to the traditional interior line, and their instigated offense is inseparable from the echo of the whole team, while Yu Fei really uses personal threat as gravity, forcing the Hornets to defend inward, and then break through one by one with passes.

Tonight, Yu Fei scored only 16 points, but also grabbed 15 rebounds and 17 assists. 、

The 16+15+17 triple-double left ABC's Doug Collins in amazement: "USC's OJ Mayo was known as a cross between Kobe, Frye and LeBron in high school, and in the '90s, Billy Owens was hailed as the embodiment of Magic and Larry Bird, and we always had the wildest fantasies about the future of geniuses. But, let me tell you, Frye is the fantasy itself. He attacks like Michael, passes like a magician, is more well-rounded than Larry Bird, and he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to! ”

124 to 101

The SuperSonics defeated the Hornets on the road and took a 3-1 lead.

"A lot of people say Seattle's Frye isn't as great as Milwaukee's Frye, and all I can say is that these guys don't understand basketball or Frye, and look at tonight's game, Frye is still that Frye, and he's going to be that guy when we need him." Carl told the media.

The time has come for the youngsters within the SuperSonics to start voicing their thoughts on the road.

"We basically lost the last game because we weren't used to New Orleans away." "Now we're used to it, so you can see that we're all acting at ease." ”

The reporter asked again: "Is it really because of your adaptation, not because of Frye's play?" ”

Childis pondered for a moment, and while he was sure that Da Fei wouldn't mind him talking, he didn't want to take any risks.

Since the reporter asked so, then for the players of the SuperSonics, they have a set of politically correct formulas to answer.

"Half and half." Math genius Childris said, "Frye probably gets 99 percent of the credit, but don't underestimate my 1 percent. You know Edison, and I'm sure you know his famous quote that Frye's talent has a 99% impact on the game, but if I don't contribute 1%, his talent wouldn't be there, you say? ”