When pride still matters

Chapter 383 No Countermeasures
Chapter 383: No Countermeasures

Unlike the SuperSonics, the Celtics did not let their core players rest at the beginning of the second quarter because they were behind and determined to win this game.

In addition to Reid, Garnett and Pierce were on the court. Garnett's rotation time was broken and he came on early, while Pierce rested long enough. He should have come up to support the second quarter.

The Celtic coaching staff hopes that he can get out of the shadow of being beaten by Yu Fei and show his strength.

With superstars present, the confidence of the second team will be different.

The Sonics' second team did not expect that the good boy Adu, who has always been gentle and respectful, would suddenly become independent.

In the second quarter, Garnett first beat Collison to score, and then took the initiative to defend Durant from the outside.

Garnett took the initiative to defend himself and Durant was excited. What is this? This is recognition, and it shows that Garnett doesn't just treat him as a rookie.

Durant suddenly dribbled the ball. His coordination and ball-handling ability surprised Garnett, but Garnett's defense was not in vain. His quick lateral steps prevented Durant from going anywhere.

Under normal circumstances, it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate to reorganize, but Durant collected the ball and shot.

But it was also a bad ball that made Durant suddenly lose sight of his own strength.

The Sonics' second team is more tactically sophisticated than the starting lineup, because the starting lineup has two core ball-handling players, Roy and Yu Fei. Many times, the two of them can play simple tactics relying on the gravity of the stars.

This good guy who always knows the rules doesn't run tactics and lacks team spirit. He attacks when he gets the ball and shoots when he catches the ball.

Not only does this look look nothing like Da Fei II, it even looks a bit like Kobe Bryant in the 2002-03 season.

Soon, he was shaken away by Pierce.

When Durant completed a single without touching, Posey looked at him in astonishment.

However, Durant suddenly stopped moving.

Buck means "deer" because Posey thinks Durant runs like a deer, which can be regarded as his pet name for this polite schoolbag boy.

Maybe he can comfort himself, even Frye will eat Pierce's shaking, let alone him?
But Durant has not yet learned to defeat Pierce like Yu Fei did. He was beaten to death by Pierce, and he directly lost his defensive position, and then watched his opponent score the first goal of the second quarter for the Green Army.

"Are you the only one who still calls yourself Da Fei II?" Piers yelled, "If I were Da Fei so angry that he couldn't sleep, all the cats and dogs would get involved."

"Shh!"

"Buck?"

The second team, which lacks this kind of deterrence, needs teamwork.

But now he felt like they loved the boy so much that he was a little spoiled.

As soon as Yu Fei finished speaking, Pierce straightened his hips and went to find Durant.

This was a good shot that boosted Durant's confidence.

"Don't you have any muscles on your body?" Pierce's whole body was full of fake moves. With Durant's defensive experience, it was impossible to maintain a stable defensive center of gravity.

Even Garnett didn't expect him to be so confident.

Durant is often just responsible for running and finishing here.

"If Kevin feels that the shot he just made was not due to his luck but to his strength, then we are in trouble."

Then, Durant's teammates noticed something was wrong with him.

In less than four minutes, Durant made 6 of 1 shots and led his opponent in reverse to erase the advantage that Yu Fei had worked so hard to build.

George Karl called a timeout with a dark face, and then looked at Yu Fei: "Are you coming, or am I coming?"

"You know, George." Yu Fei's smile was a little cold, "I like to be a bad guy."

Then, Yu Fei stood up, walked to the sidelines and asked Durant a question: "Kevin, did you forget to bring your schoolbag?"

Durant looked at Yu Fei timidly.

"You should take your schoolbag and go back to school. Really, you are not suitable for the NBA. No matter how you look at it, you are not suitable!" Yu Fei said sternly, "JP (Posey) they pass the ball to you again and again. , not because you're in a higher position, but because they believe in you, but what the fuck did you do? Damn it, why didn't we draft Greg Oden with the No. 1 pick? The guy who wanted to be a dentist more than play basketball. The idiot will at least lie in the hospital and not pretend to be a caddy in front of me all day long, let alone play stupid games on the court like a primary school student!"

Durant wanted to tell Yu Fei, I'm just learning your way of playing.

But it failed.

This is the reason.

When the current Durant was defeated by James' brother Basketball in his high spirits, a seed must have been planted in his heart. He's the Durant who tweeted "Why did LBJ do that, I would never do that" after James' decision. He's the Durant who joined the Warriors in the summer of 2016 and claimed it was "the hardest road." Durant. He always makes the wrong move, because James will beautify the fact of teaming up into brotherly basketball, while Durant's teaming up has the indefensible attribute of surrendering to the enemy.

When he gave up all his lower limits, the basketball world naturally made a deal with him: even if you succeed, fans still have reason to look down on you. You don't win a championship like James and wash your hands of everything. In the end, it was Green's formula that made Durant understand that "his group is higher than mine" is not the fans' eccentricity, but a fact. He must unite and succeed in a way that is within the fans' threshold in order to clear his name.

So there was everything he had in Brooklyn, but unlike James, he lost. No matter what the process was, he just lost. Losers are not qualified to defend themselves.

Tonight was a good day, when Durant was Durant for the first time, and he failed.

Yu Fei scolded him bloody, but the fear in his heart gradually disappeared.

Because he knew from the bottom of his heart that he was just imitating Yu Fei.

The only difference between him and Yu Fei is that Yu Fei succeeded, so he can naturally enjoy the privilege of unlimited singles.

And he failed, so he was guilty of even breathing.

"I will take responsibility," Durant said. "Take responsibility? You mean keep shooting more shots that don't even touch the rim? Don't even fucking think about it!"

"Okay, Da Fei." The kind-hearted Karl, who only felt sorry for young people, showed up untimely. "Kevin is still young, and you don't want to think about what you will be like when you are 19."

Kwame Brown on the side flashed in his mind the big fly who had been fighting with Jordan all season.

Yes, that's 19-year-old Da Fei.

But Brown didn't think about it further, because the more he thought about it, the more the faces of Da Fei and Jordan overlapped. That's kind of scary.

Karl persuaded the furious Yu Fei, asked Adu to sit aside, and then explained the specific adjustments in one sentence.

"Let the ball fly!"

The timeout ended and Durant sat on the sidelines in frustration.

"KD, you know Frye doesn't care about the situation, right?" Roy asked.

Durant is of course willing to believe that Yu Fei is right about the situation and not the person, but from the preseason training camp to the present, Yu Fei's attitude towards him and others is obviously different.

Moreover, this difference is obviously malicious? hostility? Or does it mean something else?
Durant didn't know whether Da Fei wanted to provoke his own rebound, force out his potential, or something else.

He didn't know, but how long could a person bear such pressure? Can he really not be mentally unbalanced?
"It's my fault." The schoolbag boy is still the schoolbag boy. "This is what I deserve." At least that's what it seems on the surface.

Durant's performance in these three minutes was 5-for-1 in terms of personal statistics, but the negative impact it caused cannot be explained so simply.

Not only was the lead erased, but Pierce, who was knocked unconscious by Yu Fei in the first quarter, became active again.

"Da Fei, are you back?" Pierce continued to "bark", "Are you disappointed with KD? If you need it, we are willing to use the first-round pick protected by the top 30 picks to replace him."

Yu Fei asked sarcastically: "Does the confidence you built in a 19-year-old kid remind you that you are a useless dog that needs to bark to have a sense of existence?"

The confidence Pierce gained from Durant didn't make him fully confident in facing the Flying Tigers.

In this round, Pierce gave up singles and passed the ball to Garnett in the low post.

Garnett immediately followed up with a textbook post-up play. After shaking, he hit the defender hard, then followed up with his signature shoulder shake, and finally turned over and shot a jumper.

Nick Collison's defense was as light as a feather in front of him, without any weight.

Celtic took the lead for the first time tonight.

Before the North Shore Garden audience had time to get excited, Yu Fei took over the Sonics' offense just like he did in the first quarter.

Coming to the outside, Yu Fei's pull-up three-pointer allowed the SuperSonics to take the lead again.

However, Pierce used the pick-and-roll to find the mismatch, and Childress's poor single defense seemed to have a hundred holes in front of him.

Pierce used three slow steps to hit 2+1 on Childress.

This is something the Sonics coaching staff doesn't want to see.

The Celtics' other two giants began to exert their strength, especially Pierce.

When Yu Fei knocked him out in the first quarter, they thought they wouldn't have to worry about this guy tonight. However, Pierce adjusted quickly, and through Durant, he quickly found his rhythm.

However, the two giants of the Celtics took turns but could not maintain the lead.

Because Yu Fei was not moved at all.

Garnett hits the inside? Pierce finding offensive form? None of this could shake his touch.

Yu Fei scored like water, scoring 10 points in three minutes, and already scored 30 points in one and a half quarters, successfully forcing out his opponent's mindless double-team.

He started passing the ball.

Others in the Sonics immediately jumped into the game and scored consecutively through the opportunities created by gravity.

"Double team Frye?"

Carl laughed at how long it had taken Da Fei to go without playing Da Core. People are so forgetful.

When the Celtics were penetrated by Yu Fei's pass and the SuperSonics' lead expanded to 8 points again, Rivers remembered what Thibodeau said to him before the game.

Frye is a player who can't find a solution on the defensive end.

Because of his height, his field of vision is full of blind spots in half the field. As long as he wants to pass the ball, there is no situation where he cannot see his teammates or cannot pass the ball. Therefore, double-teaming him is a dead end. But his offensive status was so hot tonight, scoring 30 points in one and a half quarters. If he continues like this, won't he score 70-80 points in the game? Rivers couldn't tolerate this kind of thing happening, so he asked players to double-team in advance frequently.

Then, Yu Fei's pass reminded Rivers of Thibodeau's advice.

However, by the time Rivers reacted, the Sonics were already leading by 8 points again.

Moreover, the SuperSonics continued this advantage until the end of the first half.

62 is better than 54
TNT played Yu Fei's half-time data.

33 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists.

"When Frye scored 30 points in one and a half quarters, the Celtics adopted an extreme double-team strategy in order to prevent his personal offensive." Doug Collins' tone was filled with excitement, "But when the opponent Using double teams, Frye's passing will create a threat far more terrifying than himself. This is Frye, the ultimate player who cannot be countered!"

(End of this chapter)