Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 94 Minnesota Journey

In the locker room, Ye Feng and Love were putting on their equipment while listening to Duffy chattering beside him.For Duffy, since he entered the agent industry, he has accompanied the rookies to participate in the team's tryouts at least a hundred times, but every time he will dutifully confess to these rookies who have not yet participated in the draft. things. "In the head-to-head test, the only thing you have to do is to give each other a hard time. It doesn't matter whether they put on the field as a trainer, a substitute player or a team starter. Your task is the same. Don't feel embarrassed or otherwise. What, you just take this as a display of your own skills, and you must always keep in mind that this is closely related to your future path, just don't hold back."

Duffy looked at Ye Feng with unsatisfied interest, and continued: "Ye, I am more worried about you than Kevin, because you are Chinese. You know, Yao is also my client. He was too gentle when he first arrived in the United States. Yes, I know this is the virtue of you Chinese, but you don’t need to be modest in this situation, do you understand?” Ye Feng shrugged and said with a relaxed face: “Mr. Duffy, I think you may have forgotten something. One thing, I am different from Yao Ming, he has been growing up in the Chinese basketball environment, and I have an American basketball background, I played in Los Angeles from high school to college, so there is no need to worry about this.”

After speaking, he stood up, patted Love on the shoulder, and the two walked out of the locker room together. Duffy smiled relieved behind them: It seems that this confrontation test is basically all right.In fact, except for some players with high self-esteem and strong strength, it is difficult for many people to show their true level in the confrontation test. There is pressure, which is why rookies will have an adaptation period of varying lengths depending on individual circumstances after joining the NBA.

Coming to the court, Ye Feng instantly understood why Duffy said not to keep his hands. Of course, what he thought was completely different from Duffy's original intention.From Ye Feng's point of view, it would be very difficult to get out of such a formation without going all out. Standing in the center of the court, he looked at them with a smile. One was Timberwolves' starting small forward Gomez, and the other was even more terrifying, McHale himself. Jumping in the throwback Celtics jersey from the past.Ye Feng looked at Lu Fu sympathetically, unexpectedly, Lu Fu also looked at him sympathetically.Both of them have reasonable ideas. Ye Feng believes that McHale is one of the top power forwards in history, while Love believes that Gomez, who is in his prime, is more difficult to deal with, but the actual effect depends on the court. Compete.

Obviously, the Timberwolves are going to look at the matchup. When McHale called Love to the other side of the court, Gomez, who was still serious just now, showed an unscrupulous smile.He didn't pay much attention to the NCAA this year, so he only vaguely heard from other people that UCLA has a very good Asian kid, but he thinks this is just a rumor. How strong can an Asian player be?Coupled with the fact that the head coach is standing on the sidelines, Gomez has only one thought in his mind, which is to make the opposite rookie cry and let him know that the NBA is not so easy to mess with.

How could Ye Feng not guess what Gomez was thinking?This is already commonplace in the NBA. Not to mention that they have not participated in the draft, even if they officially join an NBA team, the old players will always arrange some trivial things for the newcomers, such as carrying bags and buying snacks. This is also the potential of the NBA. ruled out.Thinking about it, only a super genius who meets once in a few decades, or the team itself is a big belly, can a rookie be exempted from this "treatment".But Ye Feng is not afraid of this black brother who is slightly shorter than himself, even if the other party is only 26 years old this year and is in the rising stage of his career.

As an executive of the Timberwolves and a former NBA star, McHale knew what he had to use to see what he wanted to see from Love, but Gomez was different. He said to Ye Feng without hesitation: "Hey , Rookie, I don’t know what is the difference between confrontation training and non-confrontation training, how about we just fight one-on-one, ten rounds, you attack in the first five rounds, and I attack in the last five rounds, how about it?” Gomez said. Thinking that Ye Feng would directly agree, but Ye Feng didn't follow the routine at all. He smiled and said, "How dare you do this? Let's switch. You attack for the first five rounds, and then switch to me for the next five rounds."

Gomez's eyes narrowed. There was a reason for his request.Although as an old player, he really wanted to dampen the spirit of the rookie in front of him, but the general manager and the head coach are here, so he can't go too far.Generally speaking, the defensive side consumes more energy than the offensive side. He said that he defended first and then attacked, which is already a little bit of water for Ye Feng. Put it in a relatively unfavorable position, at least Gomez himself thinks so.In an instant, his arrogance was provoked, and Gomez sneered: "Okay, as you said, I will attack first."

He made up his mind to give this rookie a little color, and grabbed the ball directly at the top of the arc.Ye Feng stuck it up, and Gomez immediately felt something was wrong. The opponent didn't have any obvious muscle lines, but his strength was not bad at all, so the speed of lifting had to be slowed down.Ye Feng's defense is very clean, but being clean doesn't mean lack of aggressiveness. He constantly reaches out to try to steal the basketball from Gomez's hands, and at the same time firmly blocks the opponent's breakthrough route.Whitman's eyes lit up standing on the sidelines. This kid is a good outside gate, but he has to continue to observe.

Whitman nodded secretly at the side, but Gomez wanted to cry inside. He rarely encountered such a difficult defense, which even reminded him of the Spurs' Bruce Bowen.He was taken aback by his own thoughts: When did NCAA rookies have such abnormal defensive abilities?When he was distracted, the basketball was almost taken away by Ye Feng, Gomez quickly blocked Ye Feng with his back, planning to run into the inside line with a back-to-back single.Ye Feng thought it was very interesting, didn't this brother see the situation clearly just now?Still playing back?But Ye Feng thought he was a kind person, so he withdrew some of his strength a little, making Gomez think that he had the hope of being crushed to the basket.

After a few dribbles, Gomez was so determined that he thought it was all an illusion before, so he planned to turn around and face the basket in a relaxed and happy manner.But when he was halfway through the turn, he suddenly felt a light on his back, and the basketball was cut off directly. Ye Feng stood in front of him and said with a smile: "Senior, it seems that I won the first round." Gome Si was stunned for a while, then nodded reluctantly.However, he had already guessed what Ye Feng did, that was to show the enemy his weakness when he was defending against him, and when he turned around, he went directly to the side to break the ball.

Gomez adjusted his mentality, picked up the ball and walked beyond the three-point line, snorting coldly: "Again!" Ye Feng nodded with a smile.As a result, Gomez lost more easily this round. He wanted to give it a try with his 37.2% three-point shooting this season, but he didn't expect that Ye Feng's movement speed and reaction speed were also abnormal.Just as he used the front of his body to change direction to flash out of the shooting space, Ye Feng rushed forward in an instant, a big hand directly blocked Gomez's line of sight, and the basketball could only smash out of the frame.In the remaining three rounds, no matter what method Gomez used, Ye Feng responded leisurely, only allowing Gomez to score a goal with difficulty in the fifth round.Everyone present knew that it was Ye Feng who let the water go on purpose.

Looking at Gomez's darkened face, Ye Feng smiled slightly and said, "Next is my offensive round, please give me your advice, senior." Seeing Ye Feng's movements, Gomez's eyes straightened, what's going on? ?Teach to be a man series?It turned out that Ye Feng imitated Gomez's appearance in the first round, after breaking through to the inside, he began to play singles with his back.Gomez became angry, and no one would be at peace. He lowered his center of gravity, put his elbow behind Ye Feng's back, and tried to interrupt Ye Feng's attack with a stronger defense.But he failed, because Ye Feng didn't intend to score with a turnaround layup or a jump shot like him at all. He leaned sideways and lightly threw the ball out, drawing a huge arc and falling into the basket.

Gomez asked blankly: "Isn't this a hook that is often used by inside players?" Ye Feng smiled and said: "That's right, but who stipulates that outside players can't use it?" Gomez nodded numbly, Signal Ye Feng to start the next round.The same routine, the same moves, if the offense and defense hadn't been switched, it would have been exactly the same as the second round, but Gomez's defensive ability was not enough compared to Ye Feng's.The third round...the fourth round...Ye Feng won all of them with one blow. He unreservedly used the quick shot he learned from Hornacek. They didn't hit Ye Feng's arm one time, instead, it was a 2+1 in the official match.

However, in the last round, Ye Feng was sympathetic. He deliberately adjusted the power and arc of the shot, and the basketball hit the front of the basket as expected. However, for Gomez, the last goal was still not scored. It didn't matter much, the duel undoubtedly ended in his complete defeat.Although he recognized Ye Feng's strength, the only thing he felt uncomfortable was that Ye Feng deliberately imitated his own attacking style in the first two rounds, he thought it was a kind of humiliation.God is sorry, Ye Feng just wanted him to see what areas could be improved.

As for Whitman, he stood silently on the sidelines watching the matchup between the two halves, not knowing what he was thinking.

(End of this chapter)