When pride still matters

Chapter 75 The need to make everyone unhappy

When Stackhouse saw the Wizards letting Yu Fei guard him, he immediately thought there was a problem with the opponent's defensive communication.

Yu Fei is too tall and doesn't look like a small forward, but if you take a closer look at the Wizards' other players, center White, power forward Brown, shooting guard Hamilton, and point guard Whitney are not wrong. Yu Fei is in this lineup. Small forward.

“Has anyone ever told you that people who don’t know how to act within their means are clowns?”

Stackhouse holds the ball and prepares to use speed to pass Yu Fei.

While sitting off the court, Yu Fei kept benchmarking Stackhouse according to the standards of young Jordan, but there were always some inexplicable weirdness.

In terms of playing style, Stackhouse's ability to eat cake, C&S (catch & shoot/catch and shoot), and rushing to the basket are all at a very high level. A series of singles against Hamilton also demonstrated his excellent ability to take over. However, Yu Fei Still feel weird.

However, by observing the duel between Stackhouse and Hamilton, Yu Fei could not find the source of the strangeness, because the latter's confrontation ability was so poor that it almost broke at the touch of a touch.

It wasn't until he and Stackhouse fought that Yu Fei found the key to the problem - dribbling!Although Stackhouse is proficient in all offensive skills, if he needs to use dribbling, the effectiveness of each of his skills will be significantly reduced.

This is the biggest difference between Stackhouse and Jordan, and it is also the reason why he was regarded as a cancer even though he averaged almost 30 points per game last season.

How can a person who lacks the ability to solve defenses through singles with the ball and averages nearly 40 points per game with a 30% shooting rate almost relying on shooting to support the whole team?
Stackhouse's strong thrust was blocked by Yu Fei's sideways movement.

This not only disrupted the plan, but also caused Stackhouse to lose his offensive rhythm. Although Yu Fei is 206 centimeters tall, he is agile enough to play against small forwards. The summer weight gain plan made him face Star Star players like Kerhouse are not left behind either.

The breakthrough route was blocked and there were more than ten seconds left in the attack time. According to Yu Fei's understanding, he should pass the ball to reorganize the attack.

But this was 2001, an era when star players were obligated to put on a show of poor shot selection.

Stackhouse rose up against Yu Fei's defense.

"boom!"

However, Stackhouse missed, but Ben grabbed the offensive rebound in front of Brown and threw it to Dana Barros on the outside.

Barros raised the knife and hit a three-pointer.

23 is better than 11
"Kwame, can you be tougher?" Collins flew into a rage and finally blocked Stackhouse's goal, but he didn't even get the defensive rebound.

After all, Brown is a decent young man who wants to get back on his feet after being fucked.

Coming to the offensive end, Brown blocked Ben like a mad cow.

Not so good. Yu Fei frowned, because it seemed that Brown was asking Brown to get into position. In fact, he just gave Brown a chance to catch the ball. His defensive position was not loose at all, and his legs were stuck like nails. body.

This is a historical defender who has not been turned into a toy when he defended O'Neal alone in the Finals. How can Brown succeed in isolation?
Whitney passed the ball, and after Brown got the ball, he pushed backwards, then turned around, trying to use his height to finish on the big head.

As a result, Brown's hat did not achieve the effect he wanted.

Instead, the moment he took action, Ben jumped up and scored his fourth big shot in the first quarter.

Pistons strike back!
Stackhouse galloped like a stallion.

"Jerry, watch your back!"

If he had heard the reminder from his teammates, what happened next would not have happened.

Stackhouse, who wanted to put on a great show, suddenly noticed someone approaching behind him when he took off. By the time he reacted, it was already too late.

Before he knew it, Yu Fei had caught up with him. The moment Stackhouse swung the ball, he jumped from the side and put one hand on the ball, blocking the fast break in the most brutal way.

Stackhouse fell from the air, Yu Fei picked up the ball on the ground, and the referee had no reaction.

That's a legal defense!
Yu Fei immediately moved forward, recalling the way Chris Whitney taught him before the game to control the rhythm of his shooting.

The rhythm must be consistent with the breathing rate.

be consistent.
Yu Fei slowed down the pace, and in the frontcourt, only Daben realized what he was going to do.

This was Ben Wallace in his prime, and his defense could cover from the paint to beyond the three-point line because his size was both a disadvantage and an advantage.The disadvantage is that there are indeed some tall insiders who will take shots at a height that he cannot reach, but the advantage is that he has the most terrifying defensive coverage and the quality and speed of cover/help defense in history.

Ben's shot-blocking hand appeared like a ghost.

However, this shot was just a fake move by Yu Fei to lure the fish to the bait. Ben, who was speeding towards the fish, had already lost control.Yu Fei bowed slightly, then straightened up to shoot, directly allowing his body to collide with Big Ben in the most intimate collision in the world. Even the referee who was biased against rookies could not allow this collision to happen.

"Beep!"

That was a shot from beyond the arc, and it was a three-point foul.

No, it's not over yet!
Even though he was knocked shaky by Big Ben, Yu Fei still found a glimmer of opportunity in that limited space. Although his hands only had muscle memory, on the court, this is everything.

Just pushing the ball towards the basket is purely the inertia of the body.Then--

“BANG!!!!!”

"Four points from Frye!!!"

"This young man has become DC's biggest surprise this year. As long as he is on the court, the Wizards will look brand new!"

Brown excitedly ran over to pull Yu Fei, "Good shot, good shot, Da Fei, you are so awesome!"

"Hmph, this kind of ball is not worth mentioning," Yu Fei stood up and turned to Ben and said, "I told you, you can't cover me."

Ben, who regarded defense as his lifeline, looked at Yu Fei coldly, "No one can say that to me."

"Before you cover me, I'm going to say this, what can you do?"

Brown was horrified to see it. He now found that it was completely normal for Yu Fei and Jordan to have trouble.

Although Jordan has problems, Yu Fei himself is the kind of person who has the need to make everyone unhappy.

Either be his friend or his enemy, his trash talk doesn't discriminate.

When Yu Fei was about to add a penalty, the Pistons suddenly called a timeout.

Rick Carlisle had seen enough of Yu Feixiu, and he wanted to use a timeout to interrupt the rhythm of the game.

"Big Ben, how is that boy?" Carlisle asked with a smile.

Ben said calmly, "A arrogant little brat, it's no big deal."

"Yes, you shouldn't be distracted by this kid too much." Carlisle made personnel adjustments, replacing Michael Curry, letting Stackhouse play the second position, and then sent substitute forward Ko Corliss Williamson (SF/PF), “Big Nasty, you’re the newbie.”

On the Wizards' side, Collins, who was pleasantly surprised by Fei's performance, decided to replace Whitney and Hamilton and replace them with Tyronn Lue and Hubert Davis.

Neither the eldest nor the second oldest player is present, and Yu Fei is the de facto core player of the lineup.

Yu Fei's feelings about Collins are complicated.

He could feel that Collins was doing something to give himself a chance to perform. If it hadn't been for Jordan, he might have been in the starting lineup.But at the same time, he was also annoyed that Collins was obedient to Jordan.

This is not what a coach should be like.

After the timeout ended, Yu Fei came on the court and found that the Pistons had sent a forward who looked particularly strong - or rather fat.

Obviously, this is for myself.

The coaches on both sides had countermeasures. One side let Yu Fei play the core, and the other side sent a strong man to squeeze on him.

Since one of the coaches on both sides looks like Biden and the other looks like Jim Carrey, Yu Fei can’t say who is reliable.

Yu Fei scored an extra penalty.

15 is better than 23
From the moment Yu Fei and Williams had a physical confrontation on the off-ball end, he knew the Pistons' intentions in letting this man play.

Nothing more than messing with him.

Although Williams is only 201 centimeters tall, he weighs 245 pounds (111KG), and his playing style is also very brutal, relying entirely on pushing and hitting. It can be said that not a pound of meat on his body is in vain, which makes him even more " Big Nasty” is such a fitting nickname.

Relying on his physical advantage, Williams squeezed Yu Fei outside the paint area and completed the hook after receiving the ball.

25 is better than 15
However, Williams' power is limited to the offensive end.

When it comes to the defensive end, his weight becomes a burden for him.

He couldn't prevent Yu Fei's breakthrough and had to wipe his ass every time.

Once Ben gives up his original defensive position to defend Yu Fei, Yu Fei's pass can make him ignore the head and tail.

Carlisle's strategy did have an effect, but this effect was two-sided. The positive effect was that Yu Fei was indeed pushed back by Williams, and the negative effect was that Yu Fei flew past Williams like crossing the road in the early morning.

The two sides went back and forth, and their advantages were offset. Until the end of the first quarter, the point difference could neither be narrowed nor widened.

30 is better than 22
The first quarter ends.

⑴A repeat of the same old tune: It is said that the 04 finals were dominated by the Roaring Gods, and most of them have never watched the finals of that year.

(End of this chapter)