When pride still matters

Chapter 12 Fry·So Next

Yu Fei’s dominant performance against Kentwood High School was like the wind blowing towards Kent City.

45分20篮板13助攻9封盖的数据是荒谬的，但于飞相信，任何一位全美前40的高中生来打这种比赛都能打出相应的表现。

Moreover, Kentwood High School is still their strongest competitor in the Kent School District.

In the remaining two games, if he is willing, he can perform better.

Yu Fei was not immersed in the joy of torturing food.

After playing at Kentwood High School, he felt he still had a lot of energy left in him, so he returned to school and practiced for two hours.

After nearly half a year of training, Yu Fei's physical fitness is no longer a problem.

He can now handle a full game with ease.

When he returned to school for extra practice, Quint DeMeo told Yu Fei something unusual: "Fu Lai, have you noticed those people holding cameras on the sidelines today?"

While Yu Fei was dribbling and making a pull-up jump shot, he asked, "Is he a scout from the university?"

The interest in college basketball is nothing new.

Although Yu Fei has not officially visited any university, there are always some universities in Puxin who have some illusions and take the initiative to give him a full scholarship.

"If your game highlights today can be seen by those college coaches, I believe you will receive 50 offers tomorrow." DiMeo said.

"It's not that exaggerated."

Yu Fei responded nonchalantly.

Demeo was probably the first person to see through Yu Fei's thoughts.

"That's right. For a talent like you, going to college is a waste of time. Entering the NBA as soon as possible is the most practical thing."

Dimeo's words made Yu Fei stop his movements.

He looked at Demeo and asked with a smile: "Is that what you think?"

Demeo asked, "Don't you think so?"

Yu Fei just smiled and didn't answer.

Demeo felt confident.

He was convinced that Yu Fei had the same idea as him, which made him very excited.

Although Yu Fei has no idea of ​​forming his own team, the T1 high school students at the top of the pyramid have a large group of people around them to advise them.

Dimeo wanted to be Yu Fei's helper, but he also knew that he had to prove that he could help Yu Fei.

Yu Fei didn't have time to predict Dimeo's thoughts. After school started, since the team had training every day and there were games, his training intensity dropped a bit.

In his usual spare time, if he is not playing ball, Yu Fei will read some books.

Unlike James, who started coloring the book as he read it, he carefully read some biographies of sports figures.

This helps him understand this era.

The book he is currently reading is called "Born to Believe," which is the autobiography of former Raptors coach Butch Carter.

For many fans, Butch Carter is an absolute stranger. He performed mediocrely as a player and left the first line as a coach after only leading the Raptors for three years.

There are many people like him in history.

But it just so happened that the period when Carter acted most viciously happened to be the period when Yu Fei had just traveled through.

He witnessed Carter's final madness in Toronto.

Carter's ability to make monsters is quite explosive among the coaches Yu Fei has seen in his previous life.He filed a $500 million defamation lawsuit against Marcus Kemp, who had played for him when the team was on the upswing.Then when the team suffered a losing streak, they attacked the veterans on the team, accusing them of a lack of leadership and reducing their playing time.When he found that the team had gradually lost control and no one under him was willing to listen to his leadership, he felt that his authority was not enough, so he shamelessly applied to the team boss for higher authority - "Hey, BOSS, our boss The manager position is vacant, right? Well, don’t send me the general manager, I’ll be the general manager coach myself.”

That last move left the Raptors' de facto general manager (vice president and deputy general manager) Glen Grunwald furious, the Raptors' season fell apart, and Carter was promptly fired after the season. , and then within half a month it was reported that his personal autobiography would be released on Amazon.

Carter is certainly a fool, but that doesn't stop him from buying his autobiography.

Because Yu Fei feels that he will definitely play in the NBA in the future, and his luck cannot be so good that he will meet all wise coaches and management throughout his career.

He had to read the negative teaching materials of these coaches and GMs to know what kind of brain circuits triggered their stupidity.

Unfortunately, this is a boring autobiography. Carter perfectly avoided his real-life faults, talked at length about the hardships and difficulties of black athletes achieving the American dream, and blatantly betrayed his college coach Bob Knight, accusing him of Knight openly called Isiah Thomas "Nego" during practice.

At this time, Knight's personal reputation was at an all-time low. After the video released last spring of Knight putting a chokehold on former player Neil Reed triggered a university investigation, Indiana University President Michael Myles Brand said the school will enact a new "zero tolerance policy" and will fire Knight immediately if he makes another mistake.

Yu Fei didn't want to connect the two things because it seemed like Carter was insulting Knight and using the race card to promote his autobiography.But combined with Carter's character in the Raptors and Thomas's categorical denial of Knight calling him a nigger, it only proves that Carter is indeed as bad as Yu Fei thought.

However, Yu Fei did not expect, and Carter did not expect that this small disturbance was just an unattended warning before Knight fell into the abyss.

Yu Fei continues his journey to the preliminaries.

The next day, Kent Meridian High School faced back-to-back games against Kent Lake Burton High School.

After the rise of KM, the school that won No. 3 in the Kent School District preliminaries last year after a bloody battle with them became rotten meat on the chopping board.

There is no suspense about the result of the game.

The only thing that has changed is the sidelines.

Yu Fenglin came to watch Yu Fei's game for the first time.

Royals assistant coach Quint DiMeo spent his own money to buy a portable camera to capture Yu Fei's highlight moments.

Because his opponent was too weak, Yu Fei only played 20 minutes, but he still scored 22 points, 11 rebounds and 6 blocks.The Royals won two consecutive games, locking in the No. 1 spot in the Kent School District in advance and qualifying for the city championship.

DeMeo's camera caught the attention of many.

90% of the scenes he took were footage of Yu Fei. He made 10% of the footage belonging to other people into a videotape and played it in Selvain's office, which made the Royals players very happy. Yu Fei's highlight footage , he decided to slowly accumulate it, and when he could cut out a 5-minute highlight collection in the future, he would send it to influential organizations.

The entire process, whether it was the cost of the camera or all subsequent work, was completed independently by Dimeo at his own expense.

Yu Fei saw his execution ability.

Yu Fei knew that if he wanted to skip the college stage and directly participate in the NBA draft, he would need helpers around him. Since Dimeo has this heart and is a good person, why not let him become a member of his team?
Yu Fei didn't take the initiative to say anything heart-to-heart to Demeo.

Dimeo continued to work for him, and Yu Fei still asked him to help him train, but in normal times, he would spend more time with Dimeo.

They would chat, talk about current events, and treat each other to dinner.

When Yu Fei took the initiative to invite Dimeo to his house for dinner, Dimeo knew that he had joined the gang.

Two days later, on the last day of the Kent School District preliminaries, Dimeo told Yu Fei before the game that there were many coaches from the first-level league who came specially for him at the game.

"Have a good show, it's time to perform!"

Before the game, DiMeo said while holding the camera.

Therefore, Yu Fei asked Selvan for 28 minutes of playing time, and he wanted to take over half of the team's firing rights.

A formal high school game only lasts 8 minutes. Playing for 28 minutes means that Yu Fei can only rest for 1 minute at most.

Selwan saw the formation at the scene and knew the reason for Yu Fei's excitement.

He just shrugged: "Be careful, don't get hurt."

Yu Fei opened the situation with a pull-up, then stole the opponent's pass, counterattacked and dunked, and then blocked the opponent's shot and followed up with a fast-break dunk.

He began to dominate the court, from the frontcourt to the backcourt, he was everywhere.

The most frightening thing is that he felt particularly good today, and he hit all of his first 10 shots.This boosted his confidence, and each three-point shot was farther away than the last shot.

He scored 6 three-pointers in a row, and then returned to the standard three-point line position to shoot three-pointers, but missed the shot.

So what?Yu Fei felt that it would not go in before taking the shot, so he rushed in after the shot. The long rebound that popped up from the three-pointer was caught by Yu Fei almost instantly. He was like Victor Vunbanyama who was the most shocking before the draft. The scene is the same - he takes a three-pointer, misses, grabs the rebound, and then completes the putback dunk.

For the scouts and coaches on the scene, today's opponents have no reference value.

But most of them had seen Too Fei perform at the Nike Regional Invitational a few months ago.

What they were sure of was that Yu Fei did not have such a rich skill set at that time.

This shot in particular is much better than it was then.

The low intensity of the game and the poor level of the opponent can explain some problems, but they cannot explain this shot.

This shows that Yu Fei has been making progress.

At the end of the first half, many college coaches wanted to chat with Yu Fei.

But Yu Fei just nodded at them and walked away.

Then, someone noticed something horrifying: "Frye scored 34 points in the first half?"

"Will he score 100 points?"

Yu Fei did not score 100 points because his opponents were defeated and the second half quickly entered garbage time.

Yu Fei, who had wanted to play for 28 minutes before the game, could no longer take advantage of the 50-point lead.

Just like that, he took a break.

He scored 24 points, 48 rebounds and 18 blocks in 5 minutes. Everyone saw his progress, especially Gary Smith, a columnist from "Sports Illustrated".

Yu Fei's performance made his heart beat faster.

When Yu Fei came off the court, his dominant aura still permeated the court, which reminded him of Tiger Woods in 1996 and Mike Tyson in 1988.

Smith never met Michael Jordan in 1984 or other legends who dominated their respective fields, but he believes these kings of kings have one thing in common: the ability to fill a room.

"Fry, is that next?"

Smith wrote this sentence quickly in his notebook.

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"In other NBA cities, hiring 62-year-old Lenny Wilkens as coach might be seen as a step backwards. But not in Toronto, where Wilkens is seen as a savior. The league's history-maker The most successful coach in the NBA brings instant stability to an emerging team that has gone through three coaching changes in five years." - "Toronto Star"

"David Falk's threat to the Clippers failed, and after months of back and forth, Donald Sterling got his wish to add Darius Miles to his estate." - Los Angeles Times

"With Jerry West out, a new era begins for the Los Angeles Lakers." - Los Angeles Daily News

“Bob Knight’s controversial 29-year reign at Indiana University came to a dramatic end after he gave a student an impolite etiquette lesson.” —Sports Illustrated

"Good morning Kent City. Fry Yu, a 12th grader at Kent Meridian High School, scored 48 points in a Kent School District basketball game yesterday afternoon." - Kent City Radio

⑴The situation is like this. An impolite student called Bob Knight by his first name, and then Knight dragged him to the corner and turned on the hair dryer mode. Knight called it an "etiquette lesson" and then he was fired. Apart from.

PS: TVB seems to have released a movie "Tokyo Love Story" recently. TVB, which can film any career, will not really make Ivy the actor?If the male protagonist is really a leading actor, then I have to watch it. Anyone who has seen it can tell me.

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