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Chapter 837 837 527 When The Chosen One Judges_4
Chapter 837 837 527 When The Chosen One Judges_4
?Chapter 837: Chapter 527: When The Chosen One Judges_4 Chapter 837: Chapter 527: When The Chosen One Judges_4 Durant picked up the ball without much concern. As he was about to inbound, Yu Fei said, “It seems Kobe has realized that in this game, he can’t depend on anyone else.”
Can’t rely on anyone else? So what?
Durant inbounded the ball.
“From now on, it can only be one-on-one,” Yu Fei mused to himself, dribbling the ball. “You know, Kobe is considered the best one-on-one player in the world.”
Durant said seriously, “Not better than you.”
“He has LeBron by his side.”
“You have me.”
“And Brandon, DJ, Zo… all of us are your backup!”
Yu Fei reached the frontcourt, and now, he was not the so-called emperor, not The Chosen One who stood on the shoulders of gods.
He had only one identity.
He was the face of the Seattle SuperSonics, his mission to extend the dynasty.
Those teammates who had once been overshadowed by him, like wisps of clouds, were now steadfast in their support for him.
Durant signaled for everyone to spread out as Yu Fei faced James, asking before the executioner’s blade dropped, “Do you know why I am the greatest player of all time?”
You’re not.
James wanted to say that, but in the next second, Yu Fei shook off his defense and made a bank shot from outside the paint, extending the lead to seven points.
“That’s Frye’s 38th point.”
The score at this moment took on an infinite value, leaving Yu Fei’s eternal question behind, to which James would never respond.
No matter what, Yu Fei would never be the best, because the one to be the best was James himself.
Just think, he endured so much humiliation, wasn’t it all for today, for this moment to take revenge on Yu Fei? The opportunity had come, right now!
James, eyes red, broke through Yu Fei’s defense and made a sudden stop at the right side of the free-throw line. With an ugly shooting posture, he took the shot but ultimately scored.
The difference was brought back down to five points.
Yu Fei’s response didn’t keep James waiting for long.
A dozen seconds later, at the top of the arc, Yu Fei shook James with a dribble between his legs and cut to the free-throw line for the catch. James hadn’t lost his position, and Jamison’s help defense was timely, but Yu Fei went up high and scooped the ball to an unreachable height in the air.
The ball spun rapidly as if it were a missile locked on its target, dropping precisely into the basket, twisting the net into a braid before finally falling to the floor.
That was Yu Fei’s 40th point.
The Lakers’ counterattack was initiated by Kobe, but his offense was obstructed by Alonzo Gee.
Gee tried everything he could, ultimately paying the price with his fifth personal foul, sending Kobe to the free-throw line.
Kobe made both free throws, closing the gap to five points.
By this time, sports commentators from various TV networks had realized that the star players from both teams were determining the outcome of game five through one-on-one plays.
This was rare. Even though basketball games often feature stars taking control of the game more frequently than in other sports, the higher the stakes of the match, the stronger the teammates surrounding the star.
Normally, such a scenario is unlikely to occur.
“The Lakers’ outside shooting tonight is below 30%, the shooters have lost their accuracy, and interior players like Marc Gasol can’t get on the floor. Under such circumstances, they can only trust Kobe and LeBron. As for Seattle, I think giving the ball to Frye is their most efficient offensive tactic right now,” someone commented.
The hot-handed Kobe wanted to continue the attack, but as soon as he caught the ball, Alonzo Gee committed the most aggressive foul on him since the start of the game.
In the instant he caught the ball, Gee slapped Kobe’s hand down hard.
“SMACK!!!”
The slapping noise was so loud, Kobe nearly exploded, turning around to punch the rookie who had dared to offend him.
Gee was protected by his teammates behind him, graduating with honors after fouling out.
“This is the only way I could stop him!” Gee said to Roy, who was about to take the floor in his place.
“Then you’re better than me,” Roy said self-deprecatingly. “Even fouling him doesn’t stop him.”
Roy returned to the game with less than four minutes left to play.
“Since you’ve decided to kill the Lakers the Michael Jordan way, let me be your Scottie Pippen,” Roy said as he took to the court, attempting to make his presence felt with what he thought was a rather cool line.
Little did he know that this statement might offend Yu Fei, Jordan, and Pippen simultaneously.
Yu Fei and Jordan were mutually antipathetic, and as for Pippen, he would be the most offended, for with Yu Fei in his current state, the Lakers would definitely target him on defense, and his chances of covering Kobe and LeBron under normal circumstances were next to none.
Pippen himself, even at forty, wouldn’t have a sliver of chance being considered a defensive liability.
Yu Fei was unfazed by Roy’s boastfulness, only considering that after Roy took the court, he would likely be able to help with ball-handling duties.
But Tyronn Lue didn’t just bring Roy on; he also brought on Chris Bosh.
In fact, it was Larry Hughes that Roy replaced, while Bosh came on for the fouled-out Alonzo Gee.
With that, Durant went back to playing the small forward position, and the five SuperSonics on the court were Yu Fei, Roy, Durant, Bosh, and DeAndre Jordan.
Of the five, four were Spider-Men, one was a liability, but the other four had the ability to defend multiple areas, elastic in defense, overflowing with talent, which was a crushing defensive advantage over the Lakers’ existing lineup.
As for the offensive end…
As Charles Barkley in the TNT studio said, “I can already imagine the SuperSonics dominating the Lakers on the boards.”