When pride still matters

Chapter 65 God with Split Personality
After learning about Yu Fei's condition, Arne Trem immediately called to inquire.

Yu Fei explained in detail what happened in the arena.

For Trem, Yu Fei's fight with Laettner was not worth mentioning, but his confrontation with Jordan was a headache.

"Fry, you know MJ's status in DC, right?" Traim said with a wry smile, "You won't gain anything by competing with him."

"I'll say it again, he's the one who started it, I'm just responding."

Yu Fei doesn't understand, why does everyone assume that Jordan is innocent?

Even his agent had to "put aside the facts" to get him to be friends with Jordan.

Make good friends?Of course, but today he has experienced Jordan's character face to face. Is he an easy person to get along with?It is really difficult to be friends with him without betraying your dignity.

Afterwards, Trem gave a few more instructions, which were basically the same clichés.

Several people have already said this about Fei today.

It's not that Yu Fei doesn't want to be grateful, but Jordan is pressing harder and harder. If he doesn't resist, he will have no choice but to be ravaged, which is unacceptable to him.

The next day, Yu Fei was ready to be severely "tested" by Jordan.

However, Jordan will not participate in group training today.

He came to the scene, but only stayed with Tim Grover.

The conflict between Yu Fei and Laettner has been brewing, and the national media came to hear the news. This is the biggest news during the training camp, and no one wants to miss the headlines.

Yu Fei and Leitner had already learned a set of media skills in advance before accepting interviews.

Yesterday's fight was described as a minor incident.

"We're all adults and we don't take it seriously," Lightner said.

Are his words true?All I can say is that the swollen right side of his face, the dark circles under his eyes, and the bluish bridge of his nose cannot fool anyone.

Today's Jordan seems to be easier to get along with than yesterday's Jordan. He smiles more. Perhaps it is because there are many media present and he pays great attention to his own image.

When Yu Fei completed a fast-break dunk in an open intra-team competition, Jordan, who was watching the game, happily walked to the sidelines to give him a high-five.

Yu Fei reached out and completed the action.

How hypocritical!
Yu Fei said in his heart that if there were no media at the scene, Jordan would never do these superficial things.If Yu Fei is anti-Mike, then what Jordan is doing now is an "anti-Jordan" thing.

Many people overestimated the negative impact of what Yu Fei did yesterday and underestimated the positive impact.

Whether Yu Fei stood up for Brown, confronted Jordan head-on, or used force against Laettner, it fundamentally changed the Wizards' power structure.

The Wizards’ player class is what it is.

Jordan, Hamilton and other veterans.

Their status is strict and hierarchical.

Yu Fei's personal status has taken off through yesterday's performance. He is no longer a rookie who can be bullied personally, but a thorn in the side. Veterans such as Leitner cannot control him. Hamilton's influence on Fei depends on how the latter acts. Looking at him, it is now obvious that he does not dare to confront Jordan, so Yu Fei will not treat him as a senior who can be entrusted to him.

Suddenly, Yu Fei's power position surpassed that of the veterans, hovering between Jordan and Hamilton.

It's not like Jordan didn't try to bond with high school students.

On the fourth day of training camp, Jordan organized a card game between training and invited Yu Fei and Brown to join.

Yu Fei has no interest in playing cards, but Brown intends to use this to repair his relationship with Jordan.

He was wrong again.

Brown didn't realize that the breakdown in his relationship with Jordan was that the halo around him was dissipating. If a No. [-] pick couldn't perform as expected, the person who selected him would be questioned.Jordan is God, and he cannot be questioned. Once there are irrefutable doubts, God will only transfer his anger to those who make him doubted.

This is the source of Brown's tragedy.

His relationship with Jordan stemmed from his draft position, and when the legitimate status of the No. [-] pick was not in question, Jordan was his dearest uncle.Once he is questioned and unable to answer the question, Jordan's anger will boil over.

Brown joined Jordan's card games several times. Although he had fun, the relationship at the card table was like the friendship at the wine table. When he sobered up, the relationship faded. It cannot replace a real relationship.

When Brown's performance and motivation fell behind the others, Jordan and Collins began to lose patience.

The most frightening thing is that there is no "red face, black face" arrangement between them, both of them are black faces.

Yu Fei is the only person willing to support and help Brown.

However, if Brown himself cannot stand up from the PUA between Jordan and the head coach, it will be useless no matter who supports him.

As the training camp enters the middle and late stages, Jordan no longer misses collective training due to tenosynovitis. The more times he participates in training, the meaner he comes across.

The arrogant Jordan is not just targeting Yu Fei and Brown.He is determined to implement the "championship crash course" model to the entire team.

Tyronn Lue received a hairdryer insult from Jordan for refusing to take an open three-pointer.

Coach Lu obeyed and took action, but failed to score. Jordan opened his brown eyes as incredulously as an American who saw a plane crash into the Twin Towers.

When Hamilton and Yu Fei didn't appear in the right position, Jordan mocked them in a mean tone.

The scariest thing is that Jordan sometimes behaves like a gentle mentor.

He smiled kindly, as if no one knew what he was.

Kwame Brown is the biggest victim of Jordan's split-personality PUA.

Sometimes, Jordan felt that he had pushed Brown too much, so he said a few clearly kind words to Brown, some were reminders, some were teachings, and some were jokes.However, this was just Jordan for a moment.In the next round, if Brown makes the same mistake, Jordan will reveal his true nature again and humiliate Brown with the most unpleasant words in the world.Brown is not mentally strong and he cannot withstand this kind of inhuman bullying.

Personal dignity was trampled on, psychological defenses were destroyed, and Brown became dull and sluggish.

Brown became like a child who had not grown up. He could not understand Collins' tactical system at all, and he was slow to give Jordan's instructions.

He would listen silently as Jordan insulted him, then move into individual workouts at the end of group practices.

He kept dunking in personal training as a way of comforting himself.

Yu Fei is the only person who can communicate effectively with him.

Yu Fei didn't know how to help Brown, because the blows dealt to him by Jordan and Collins far exceeded the threshold.

On this day, they returned to the locker room, and Jordan patted Brown on the shoulder like an elder and whispered to him, as if this could offset the personal insults he had hurled at Brown throughout the day.

After Jordan left, Brown laughed at himself: "He said I worked hard today and keep it up."

"I thought you worked hard, and then I took the trouble to scold you in the competition?" Yu Fei rolled his eyes.

"Yeah," Brown muttered, "How on earth am I going to end this life?"

Yu Fei did not answer, and there may not be anyone who can give Brown a clear answer.

Yu Fei should thank Brown. Because of Brown's existence, Jordan's main focus in training rookies is Brown.

Although Yu Fei is a thorn, he is a thorn who plays hard and ignores the rules of the world.

For this kind of person, Jordan hopes to convince Yu Fei through his long-term dominance, while for a bastard like Brown who has begun to seriously affect his sanctity, he needs to vigorously train him.

The problem is, Jordan doesn't understand that too much is too little.

Moreover, his leadership is questionable.

In 1998 or even earlier, Jordan had decisive strength. In that case, even if someone was dissatisfied with Jordan, they did not dare to show it. The current Jordan does not have that kind of strength.

At the same time, tenosynovitis remains Jordan's Achilles' heel, and as long as he insists on participating in group training, the injury will not get better.

Yu Fei noticed that Jordan often staggered to the side and sat down at the end of training. Whenever he had a chance, he would take an ice pack to cold compress his knee joint.

Yu Fei could tell that he was suffering from injuries, but even Jordan, who had been away from the game for three years and was still injured, quickly regained his feeling for the game after group training.

Jordan's technical use, game experience and on-the-spot feeling are not possessed by others on the team.

If Jordan is willing to carefully guide the young people on the team, many people will benefit from this.

Unfortunately, Jordan didn't want to be a respected mentor. He may have tried, but quickly found that a tyrant suited him better.

Yu Fei could only observe Jordan as much as possible and remember every mistake he made, especially those pointed out by Jordan.

He is still the first to arrive at training and the last to leave.

Practicing three times a day is a habit he developed in the offseason, something he brought to training camp and has stuck to.

Laettner thought Yu Fei was putting on a show, but almost everyone on the Wizards staff had the experience of bumping into Yu Fei in the arena at night.

Yu Fei's competitive state and training attitude are the best in the team, which has won him the recognition of the coaching staff.

By the end of the training camp, Yu Fei was already one of the top five players on the team.

If Collins had the autonomy, he would let Yu Fei start the new season, but in the Wizards, the decision on this matter rests with Jordan.

What's Jordan's attitude?
In an exclusive interview with Steve Wyche of the Washington Post on the closing day of training camp, Jordan said: "These young guys need to work hard to prove that they deserve more opportunities on a team that is trying to compete at the top. So far, They haven’t proven that yet.”

Like a dog whistle, Doug Collins said something similar to the media: "Fry has been great, he's in great shape, he's training hard enough, well, he's really good, but he's We still need to wait for the opportunity to come.”

Can't Fry?What about Kwame?
"Kwame is good," Collins said sarcastically. "Good for the high school game."

(End of this chapter)