When pride still matters

Chapter 22 He’s here for a reason

Sonny Vaccaro has a proven eye for real money on the field.

In fact, this cannot be regarded as an ability, because real geniuses are easy to distinguish.

Vaccaro is confident in his vision, even if he is not always on target.

About ten years ago, he fell in love with a high school student at the ABCD training camp and persuaded Nike to offer him a US$50 endorsement contract. As a result, the kid died at the speed of light after making a lot of money.

This incident taught Vaccaro a great lesson. Since then, when he observes high school students, he not only pays attention to talent and skills, but also pays attention to character and character.

People with bad character do not know how to be grateful and do not deserve help.

Those with bad character are unlikely to be successful, and they are not worthy of angel investment.

Vaccaro's favorite example of "this kid is not in the pool" is Kobe Bryant in 1995.Kobe, who was still in his junior year at the time, had difficulty becoming the best player in the ABCD training camp, but he told Vaccaro on the closing day: "I'm not the best player in the training camp now, but I will be next year."

Vaccaro still remembers Kobe's demeanor at that time. At that moment, he had predicted the future of a basketball superstar.

After so many years, Vaccaro knew countless people, but he couldn't understand Yu Fei.

It can be seen from his courage to ask Kobe Bryant an out-of-bounds question that he is not timid, but he does not seem to be very smart, because there are several underclassmen in his team, which is detrimental to the competitiveness of his team.

Just when Vaccaro thought Yu Fei was going to suffer a big loss, he sent an alley-oop pass to the underclassman at the beginning of the game.

Then, he went to face off against the opponent's shortest player.

As far as Vaccaro knows, Yu Fei is an insider.

"Chris, what position does that kid named Frye play?" Vaccaro asked confused.

Chris Dennis, who originally recommended Yu Fei to enter the training camp, also fainted.

"Fry has always played center in the school team. He is an inside man with guard skills."

"But he is now facing off against the opponent's defender, and judging from his defense, his lateral movement is very fast and he can completely follow."

Then, Yu Fei hit a big shot on Will Bynum.

"If the scouts see his current performance, maybe his national ranking can rise." Vaccaro began to suspect that Yu Fei was forced to play inside.

Because his school is very weak, as the tallest person on the team, it is normal for him to be a guest center.

To be honest, it is nothing unusual whether he is a guest center or a center who can dribble like a guard.

Youth basketball has always been a circle where many stars appear.

However, there are many demon stars who have lost their spirituality after entering the adult-level college competition.

However, Yu Fei's agility enough to switch defenders cannot be summarized by Yaoxing.

This is real talent.

A big man who can switch defenders has endless possibilities on the defensive end.

Vaccaro looked at it and began to feel something was wrong.

Yu Fei is more than just a defender?He was totally playing guard.

Since there was Will Wilkins in the team, Yu Fei did not need to play center. Then, he asked Iguodala to play the fourth position, and he took control of the ball with great fanfare.

This time, he wasn't passing the ball.

Facing Bynum's big attack, he chose to run over him with his body, rushed inside and hit the board with his signature throw.

Half a minute later, Yu Fei intercepted the opponent's pass, counterattacked and scored with a dunk.

Help defend the inside line, make opponents miss opportunities through interference, grab rebounds for fast breaks, and make emergency jump shots at the free throw line in the frontcourt.

In addition to low post offense and three-pointers, Yu Fei has used all his offensive skills.

"He doesn't look like Lamar Odom now," Vaccaro said with a smile. "He reminds me of another guy."

Dennis asked: "Who?"

Vaccaro laughed: "The kid who was overly enthusiastic about Mr. President at the draft."

This is probably the most popular draft joke since last year.

Darius Myers, the No. 2000 pick in [-], became emotional after his name was read by David Stern. He walked onto the stage and gave the stunned Stern a very intimate full-body hug. .

That led Stern to give detailed instructions immediately after the draft on how players and commissioners would embrace the draft.

Poor Darius Miles' career has been filled with haze before it even started.

At the beginning, Vaccaro also believed that Miles would become a new generation of superstars and that he would be even better than Garnett.As a result, a year has passed, and there is no sign that Miles' talent has been realized.

However, Miles still has time. The so-called rookie waits for three years. If the first three years of his career do not show the possibility of growing into a star, then you can conclude with 95% certainty that it will not be possible in his lifetime.

Now, Vaccaro says Yu Fei reminds him of Miles, is this a positive sign?
Chris Dennis was at a loss.

When Vaccaro saw Yu Fei's team ending the half with a 19-point advantage, he decided to walk away and watch games at other venues.

"Look again, this child is extraordinary."

Regardless, Yu Fei entered Vaccaro's daily watch list.

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Yu Fei didn't know how many people around him were paying attention to him. In the game against the Oscar team, in addition to playing his own level as much as possible, he just recalled who Bynum was.

Finally, as he was taking a break in the second half, he remembered.

Will Bynum is a CBA foreign aid, but Yu Fei is not very impressed with him because his active season may be between 2012-2014.At that time, Yu Fei was less than 10 years old in his previous life. The reason why he remembered Bynum was because he was watching the Guangdong team's game with his father.Although none of them are from Guangdong, since there is no CBA team in their province, if they had to watch CBA games, the Guangdong team was an ideal choice at that time because they had the first star Kong Yiyi.

And Bynum is the foreign aid of the Guangdong team.

It's just that Yu Fei was too young at the time and didn't remember clearly. He "picked the lock" with Bynum's face again and again, and finally pieced together the memory fragments in his mind into a complete picture.

This made him sad. After time travel, he had been avoiding recalling the events of his previous life, and kept his head down and practiced hard, just to live up to his talent. But now, Bynum forced him to think of many things.

Minutes later, the game was over, with the Emeralds' first game ending in victory.

Yu Fei wiped the water droplets from the corners of his eyes and strengthened his belief again.In the past, he only dreamed of playing professional basketball in China, but now, he can even see that the NBA has opened the door to him.

If there really is a God out there, then God put him here for a reason.

He will go on this road and go further than anyone else.

"You're awesome, Fry."

After the game, Bynum said to Fei.

Yu Fei did not appreciate the compliment, but said: "You should apologize to Andre. You misjudged him. He is very powerful and can help."

"I will." Bynum said, walking towards Iguodala.

Suddenly, there was a loud noise not far away.

Everyone looked towards the court and saw D'Angelo Collins grabbing the basket hard, with two people sitting under him, who were obviously knocked down by him.

Even though he had already scored a dunk, he did not forget to humiliate his opponent by pulling the basket, "How dare you stop me?!"

After Collins finished talking trash, the losers on the sidelines loudly echoed. He was definitely the only player on the scene who felt like he was at home.

"That big brother is also very powerful, but I don't like him." Bynum shook his head. "It's not that I don't like him as a person, I just don't like his poor imitation of the 'Five Tigers'. It's not the same person at all." Something happened."

Yu Fei spread his hands and didn't answer.

He didn't like the Fab Five, especially after getting to know them, and he felt the Fab Five's legacy was largely negative.

They brought their street-style hooligan style into college basketball. From then on, everyone was keen to humiliate their opponents when they were leading, spouting unfriendly trash talk, and pulling the rim to provoke every time they dunked;
The five people selected for the McDonald's All-American High School Invitational Tournament formed a team, let's not talk about it.

The problem is that the Five Tigers have done a great job but have no real achievements.

After playing against the Oscar team, Yu Fei and the others rested for 20 minutes before engaging in the second game.

This time they met a mixed team headed by 11th graders. Yu Fei's long-range shooting was not good, so Roy took over the offense and directly used his strength to help the Emerald team win consecutive games.

In the last game of the day, the Emerald team met the Inglewood team that also rejected Iguodala's joining.

Complaints and revenge, combined with flying shots, while feeding Iguodala, he once again found his shooting touch, and the results were naturally unrivaled.

On the first day of ABCD training camp, the Emerald team won all three games.

Yu Fei was selected into the first-day All-NBA team with averages of 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists per game.

Moreover, compared with the school team days, the biggest difference between Yu Fei in the training camp is the registration position.

His first position is point guard, his second position is small forward, and his third position is power forward.

This caused scouts' evaluation of him to shift from one extreme to the other.

The NBA scout Yu Fei at the scene wrote in his observation log: "It is difficult to have an accurate evaluation of Frye Yu. He can protect the basket like a center, attack the position like a small forward, and advance with the ball like a guard. . He can also hit three-pointers from the top of the arc and is very confident in mid-range jumpers. Although his shooting percentage is not high, his shooting movement is very good. He seems to be omnipotent. Compared with Lamar Odom, he is the ABCD training camp version of Frye. More like a cross between Darius Miles and Scottie Pippen. The question is, can these skills he possesses work in college? Or even, if he goes directly to the NBA, can he do what he does today? Is it something he has accomplished? If the answer is yes, then he should be elected as the No. 2001 pick in [-]. If the answer is no, then his future will largely depend on the team's training and personal efforts."

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