When pride still matters

Chapter 11 A day like this will never happen again

Quint DeMeo returned to his hometown with the purpose of educating his juniors and consolidating his legendary status at KM. When he saw Yu Fei, he simply couldn't believe that a bad school like KM could recruit a good teacher. A student with extremely outstanding static talents.

However, basketball cannot be played well just by height and arm length.

Dimeo still believes that his skills are enough to educate Yu Fei.

Yu Fei did not give face to the senior, and the duel ended with an 11-0 result.

Dimeo was suffocated by Yu Fei's defense throughout the game and could not find an opportunity to attack.

It was during the one-on-one duel with Yu Fei that Dimeo discovered a terrifying talent of Yu Fei. His lateral movement speed could actually keep up with him.

You know, Dimeo is only 1.8 meters tall. Although his absolute speed is not fast, it is not something that ordinary big men can keep up with.

If Yu Fei can keep up with him, he can keep up with others.

Dimeo's mind went blank and he couldn't believe that KM actually recruited a player with top static and dynamic talents.

"What grade are you in this year?" Dimeo thought Yu Fei was a junior student.

This is normal. East Asians who are still childish are like children in the eyes of white people.

"It's almost 12th grade." Yu Fei said.

Demeo turned to Selvan in shock. He wanted to know why the other party didn't tell him that KM had such a leading figure until now.

Unexpectedly, Selvan also had a helpless expression, because this matter has been going on for a long time.

Dimeo has seen the world, and he knows that Yu Fei's talent is enough to knock on the door of the NBA.

So when Selvan asked him to be Yu Fei's shooting coach, he agreed.

This is not out of good intentions. DiMeo, like Selvan, does not want to continue to waste his life on a sinking platform in the basketball field.

If Yu Fei enters the NBA in the future, then serving as Yu Fei's shooting coach will be an item on Dimeo's resume that cannot be ignored.

The addition of Dimeo has brought Yu Fei's plan to overhaul his shooting moves into a new stage.

DiMeo coined the term "shooting mechanism."

The so-called shooting mechanism can be understood as a complete set of movements of the ball from the chest to the top of the head. The basis for the mechanism, that is, the basic principle of shooting force, is whether the sole of the foot corresponding to the dominant hand exerts force when shooting, and then Create shooting opportunities.

Yu Fei's dominant hand is naturally his right hand, so the key is to master the timing of shooting (jumping) from the sole of his right foot.

Yu Fei began to constantly adjust his shooting movements.

Moreover, he had a special request.

The new shooting action should not just serve to catch and shoot. When he decides to improve his offensive threat in the future - for example, when he wants to dribble and stop to shoot, the existing shooting action mechanism should be consistent with the movement. The mechanism required for the ball to stop and shoot is adapted.

Since the rhythms of catching and shooting and shooting with the ball are completely different, it is not easy to find a shooting action that suits these two rhythms.

It took Yu Fei and Dimeo three days to adjust to the most suitable posture.

Since then, Yu Fei's summer special training has officially begun.

Shooting training has become the top priority, followed by inside training, and then physical training.

In order to let Sakuragi quickly master the mid-range shot, coach Anzai formulated a plan of 7 goals in seven days. This works out to an average of more than 20000 goals a day.

Yu Fei is not that crazy, but he still has enough strength.

Starting from July 7, Yu Fei trained 20 mid- and long-range shots every day (regardless of whether he scored or not), plus basic inside training and physical training. He spent the most tiring summer vacation in his life.

In early September, the new semester began, and Yu Fei officially became a senior in high school.

During the summer vacation, Yu Fei tanned a lot, but his improvement was significant.

"Afei, have you bought the last issue of Sports Illustrated?" Lin Kaiwen said as he took out the latest issue of Sports Illustrated.

Yu Fei smiled lightly and said, "I've been quite busy recently."

"You have to see, the pictorial ranks you among the top 50 in the United States!" Lin Kaiwen said, "Besides, it also said that if you hadn't played too few games in the past few months, some people even wanted to rank you among the top 30 in the United States!"

Yu Fei only cares about one thing: "Who is number one in the United States?"

"Eddie Curry!"

Eddy Curry?Yu Fei has heard this name more than once.

Forgive his ignorance, among the people he knows, the only NBA players named Curry are the Golden State Slam Dunk Champion and his younger brother.

This Eddy Curry was a complete stranger to him.

This is not surprising. There are too many top players in the United States.

Yu Fei attended class as before.

But after class, more and more people took the initiative to chat with him and wanted to get close to him.Moreover, half of them are girls.

Judging from the overall appearance of girls in KM, it will be difficult for Yu Fei to be single before he graduates.In order to avoid annoying chats, he ran to the basketball court whenever he had time.

This year, like every year, the Royals have some new blood, but the talent is mediocre.

Even if a character like Yu Fei appeared, no one would come to this "mountain prison" to study.

However, Selvan originally did not expect the freshmen to strengthen the team.

It can be said that all their hopes lie in Fei.

In addition to the freshmen, the Royals also have a new face on their coaching staff.

That was Quint Dimeo, who had been helping Yu Fei train during the summer vacation.

Dimeo quit his job at the university and came to his high school alma mater to be a small teaching assistant not just to succeed Selvan.

To a certain extent, Dimeo is already Yu Fei's personal trainer.

It's just that he needs an identity that can reasonably participate in the Royals' daily training.

At the same time, Dimeo also became an important advisor to Yu Fei’s mother.

When it comes to choosing a school, Dimeo gave Yu Fei's mother a bolder hypothesis: "Madam, don't rush to choose a college. If Fulai is good enough, maybe he can skip college and enter the NBA directly."

This prospect was so dreamy that Yu Fenglin had already imagined how much her life would change when that day comes.

Will that day really come?
The ancients said that a mother is more valuable than her son. Will this happen to her?

She didn't know, she could only wait.

The first practice of the new season for the Kent Meridian High School Royals started in a cheerful atmosphere.

Selvan asked everyone to talk about their goals for the new season. When it came to Anthony Lawson, he hesitated and said: "Enter the knockout round of the state championship?"

"Big Tony, we have Da Fei. He is one of the top 40 high school students in the country. Can he only enter the knockout round of the state championship?" An old student at the same level as Lawson joked.

Lawson's big nostrils shrank sharply, which was caused by the intake of air-conditioning. "Then tell me, what grades will be enough?"

"No, you are the captain, you say."

Lawson was put on the stage, and finally stamped his feet fiercely, shouting an ambition that no Royal captain of all generations dared to dream of: "We want the Washington State Championship!"

"Yeah." Yu Fei nodded, "If you twitch less when you speak, I will be more confident."

Half a month later, the Royal team ushered in the preliminaries of the Kent School District.

Since the Kent School District is a weak district with a poor basketball atmosphere, it is not eligible to directly participate in the city championship. Only two of the four 4A high schools can qualify for the city championship in the new season.

Last year, the Royals suffered two consecutive defeats and failed to qualify for the city championship. Then they lost to fellow rookies Bolton High School in the third and fourth place rankings. They were ranked No. 4 and ended in disgrace.

The Royals' first preliminary match is against Kentwood High School. In the past five years, they have been the overlord of the Fishpond Bureau in the Kent School District. There is no other reason. Compared with prisons built on mountains like KM, their geographical location is better and their students are more abundant. Excellent, with good immediate combat ability entering the team every year.

Moreover, even if KM has Yu Fei, who is ranked among the top 40 players in the country, Kentwood High School will not let it go.

"As long as the Chinese gets the ball, the two people closest to him will double-team him! As long as he is taken care of, the others will not matter!" The coach of Kentwood High School made this arrangement.

It's a pity that Yu Fei is not the kind of insider who only plays inward as he thought.

Kentwood High School's double-team attempt was completely broken by Yu Fei's pass.

From the moment Kentwood High School's core tactics failed, all the methods they used against Fei lost their effectiveness.

No matter what size players are used to match up, Yu Fei has a solution.

Even if he risked setting up a pseudo-zone defense, it would be useless. Yu Fei just used them to test the results of 600 goals a day during the summer vacation.

In this game, Yu Fei did not take the initiative to enter the paint. All the points in the penalty area came from counterattacks. Instead, he shot 14 goals from the outside. Due to his hot touch, he hit 8 goals. In the end, he scored 45 points, 20 rebounds, 13 assists and 9 blocks.

Kent Meridian High School defeated Kentwood High School by 46 points, opening a new chapter in the history of high school basketball competition in the Kent School District.

At the end of the game, the Kentwood High coach was gnashing his teeth at the fact that the Royals had a player like Yu Fei.

Why?This garbage team that ranked last last year has become so strong just because of the addition of top high school students.

Hank Selvan trotted up to him with a playful smile. Seeing the disgusted expression on his old enemy's face, he felt endless satisfaction.

This is the best day of the year.
"You know, if Frye was on our team, he would go further." Kentwood High School head coach said reluctantly.

Hearing this, Selvan had an orgasm in his head for a few seconds and said ecstatically: "No, even in our team, he is enough to win the Washington state championship. Our Kent Meridian High School will become the first school in the Kent school district to win the championship." Lower state championship team!”

The jealousy and unconcealable envy on the other side's face gave Selvan the greatest satisfaction in his life. This was not the best day of the year, because it was the best day of his life.

A day like this will never happen again.

(End of this chapter)