When pride still matters

Chapter 26 Are you fucking kidding me?

Lenny Cook suffered consecutive setbacks, making it difficult for the Aces to obtain a second stable offensive point.

Fortunately, Anthony is always Anthony. Apart from his poor defensive performance, his offensive performance is also dazzling.

Compared with Anthony, Iguodala, who is also a player in the 2002 class and has a similar size, feels much worse.

Iguodala neither has Anthony's versatile offensive skills nor reliable scoring methods. He seems to be able to do everything, but when faced with stronger opponents, it is easy to be unable to do anything.

Anthony is most famous for his physical talent.

His body allows people to see the future.

Then, Brandon Roy hit the ground running.

Roy can see how big the gap between a grade is.

The Roy at this time is not the Roy of the future, just as the Anthony of the future is not the offensive kaleidoscope who will score 30000 points in the NBA.

In terms of rankings, Roy is currently not in the top 2001 in the United States in the 100 class, and Anthony will definitely be ranked in the top five in the 2002 class after the training camp. However, Roy still relies on his mature playing style to score points continuously, and Anthony is the most aggressive offensive player. The time helped the Emerald team withstand the pressure.

Roy's outburst is also inseparable from Yu Fei.

Every time Roy holds the ball to launch an offense and catch a shot, it all comes from Fei's pass.

This is another technical feature of Yu Fei's previous life.Since he was short of height at the time, he often fed the talented men and shooters on the team during games. Over time, he naturally knew how to send comfortable passes to his teammates.

Yu Fei, who has played center for KM for one year this year, is more about showing his physical talents to the scouts. After coming to the ABCD training camp, he played more freely.

Today, he first let the experts see his defense, then his leadership, and then his organization and passing.

These displays of talent are different from the pure offensive talent of Anthony.

Versatile teenagers tend to have more possibilities.

Like Anthony, everyone can very skillfully find a template for him-Pierce or Mashburn.

Where is Yu Fei?Before entering training camp, everyone thought he was Lamar Odom, but now he looks a bit like a taller Scottie Pippen.

Can he still surprise people?

Anthony's pull-up after the test step was still smooth, but he missed the shot.

Yu Fei smelled the landing spot of the backboard, got there in advance, jumped up and grabbed the ball. The moment it landed, he yelled "fast break", and the Emerald team made a quick break with three players.

During the march, Yu Fei passed from left to right and assisted Iguodala for a fast-break dunk.

"AI!" Yu Fei shouted to Iguodala, "I won't watch the dunk contest the day after tomorrow without you!"

Iguodala replied excitedly: "I will definitely participate!"

This scene was seen by 63-year-old Jerry West. He usually doesn't like to watch young people play because he likes perfect things.

If you want to see perfection in a high school game, you're crazy.

If he hadn't been idle at home, he wouldn't have come here, and if he hadn't received Sonny's invitation while he was idle, he wouldn't have come here.But now that he is here, out of professional habit, he will carefully observe the performance of the teenagers.

LeBron James has potential, D’Angelo Collins is a rip-off, a 6-foot-9 Shaq?Huh, the shark was called seven-foot Barkley when he first debuted, so any pocket shark who is named a shark should have Barkley as his game template.But does Collins look like Barkley at all?
A high school big man with a precocious body usually means that he will lose himself in the next level of the game.West sincerely hopes Collins isn't next, but he 99% is.

And then, what about Carmelo Anthony?Scouts say he possesses skills that many NBA players have never possessed throughout their careers, but isn't this another form of precocity?West has been involved in basketball for almost 50 years, and he has seen many similar people.Anthony's performance is no different from the group of offensive small forwards who emerged in the early 80s who were sworn in with defense. Considering his attitude towards defense, West can even make a bold prediction-his The future will be no different from those people.

It's pretty good to be in the All-NBA team a few times and be a regular All-Star for ten years, right?It's really good, but West won't be excited about the prospect of a youngster with this kind of prospect emerging from ABCD training camp.

It can be said that no one in this training camp shook West's heart like Kobe did back then. LeBron can take another look, but no one else, not one.

There was one person who gave West as many questions as he did to Kobe.

West looked at the boy named Fry Yu seriously.

His face is a rare visitor to the American basketball world. Who was the last Asian to make a splash in high school basketball?West didn't know, maybe there was no such person.What's more, he has never liked Asians. This has nothing to do with racial discrimination. It is a scar left by the war in his heart⑴, but it will not affect his view of performance on the field, just like he does not like Chamberlain, but they Still won a championship together.By perfectionist standards, Yu Fei was a complete mess.

A poor offensive skill set, an uncoordinated jump shot, a lack of detail in his fakes, and an aggressive defensive style.

Yu Fei doesn't seem to understand Russell's game philosophy. Just like other high school students who are addicted to blocking shots, he wants to block every ball of the opponent instead of letting the opponent have the fear of "every ball of mine may be blocked." .

But having said that, he also has many highlights.

His height and arm length fully meet the requirements of a modern forward, and he has extremely skilled movement control for his height, which is completely comparable to Lamar Odom. The details of his shooting still need to be improved, but his shooting near the free throw line is stable. The nature is very good and every shot selection is reasonable, which is in sharp contrast to his defensive style.

His leadership of the team, positional battle control and experienced organization are all his highlights.

If that was all Yu Fei had, West would quickly classify him as an Odom-esque big ballhandler and ignore him.

The problem is that Yu Fei has more than that.

His game language is more worthy of savoring.

Yu Fei has the mentality of retribution. If Anthony scores in front of him, he must fight back in the next round.

He will put pressure on his teammates, and even express dissatisfaction if a teammate's finishing method is not good enough.

When the cocky Lenny Cooke challenged him, he broke it down with brutal matchups and trash talk.

When his teammates finish in a way that satisfies him, he is also generous with his praise.

Some of these performances belong to playing temperament, some to leadership, and some to personal character.

And where a player with talent ends up depends largely on them.

With Yu Fei's talent and playing temperament, how far can he go?
West is unlikely to have the answer, but if he holds this year's lottery pick (and assuming Yu Fei enters this year's draft), he might take a gamble on Yu Fei.

However, he was not sure that this was a safe choice unless Yu Fei showed a more reliable performance.

At the end of the first half, the Emeralds and Aces were tied, and Vaccaro came over to check on West; "How's it going, Jerry, are there any players you're interested in?"

"Cameron is good." West gave Vaccaro an unmistakable answer.

"I'm very optimistic about that kid too." Vaccaro nodded in agreement, and then asked, "What do you think of Frye?"

West doesn't want to show his love for Fei, because Vaccaro is from Adidas. Once he expresses that he appreciates Yu Fei more, it will have many unexpected effects.

Moreover, he really didn't want to openly show affection towards Fei. Then again, he had never liked Asians.

"His talent is good," West said cautiously, "but all aspects are relatively rough. Of course, his dribbling ability is impressive."

Vaccaro seemed to have known West would say that.

Everyone who doesn't know Yu Fei will make such an evaluation, which is a very rational evaluation.

There is nothing wrong with being rational, but if it is rationality without understanding the details, it is another form of bias.

"If I told you that he was still playing volleyball at the beginning of last year, and he only had one year of systematic basketball training, do you still think so?"

Vaccaro looked at the LOGO man with a smile, looking forward to his answer.

West's cheeks twitched, "F***, are you fucking kidding me?"

Vaccaro's smile proved what he said was true.

When West looked at Yu Fei again, he felt completely different.

⑴Jerry West’s brother died in the Korean War.For this reason, if there are other NBA novels that write that West has a natural dislike for Chinese Americans, I will find it very reasonable.But considering that the LOGO has a good image among domestic fans, I won’t do that.

(End of this chapter)