Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters

Chapter 892 892 545 Those Who Scold Me Are No Longer

?Chapter 892: Chapter 545 Those Who Scold Me Are No Longer My Brothers Chapter 892: Chapter 545 Those Who Scold Me Are No Longer My Brothers Yu Fei’s life hadn’t changed much.

Losing to the Spurs was just a failing of one night for him, a win next time would make it better.

Some changes out of sight were beyond his control.

However, after returning home, he still reviewed the game against the Spurs, which Elizabeth Olsen couldn’t understand.

“Why would you rewatch a game you lost?” Olsen didn’t know how Yu Fei could find joy in that. “You didn’t do anything wrong, did you?”

Yu Fei said, “I just want to figure out some things.”

“Frye, I’m going back to school tomorrow.” Elizabeth’s eyes carried a hint of coquetry, “This is the last night, do you want to spend it with me, or with that damn game?”

Yu Fei closed his laptop; he really didn’t need to make a choice.

Half an hour later, Yu Fei gently patted Elizabeth’s delicately blushed cheeks due to incredible physical contact and whispered, “Next week we are going to New York for an away game, so this isn’t the last night.”

“You still can’t let go of that damn video, can you?” Elizabeth wanted to savor the post-cuddling warmth with Yu Fei, but alas, the man just wouldn’t indulge. “I really can’t understand why you can’t leave basketball.”

“I’ll be back soon.”

Yu Fei rewatched the game at double speed.

He mainly observed how the Spurs’ interior line managed to disperse their advantage to the perimeter.

Then he discovered an issue; Roy had overindulged in personal offense tonight, reducing the ball rights for Durant and Chris Bosh. Thus, their interior line was perpetually on the defensive all night long.

Chris Bosh’s bad form went without saying, but Durant’s touch was actually very solid.

Yu Fei’s view was that Roy saw Bosh and Durant as a single entity, both being part of the interior line, and Bosh’s poor performance could lead Roy into believing that their interior line was utterly overwhelmed, thereby neglecting Durant.

Moreover, Roy was a player who needed the ball to get into the groove.

This was actually not a good thing.

If there was a rigid demand for ball rights, it became easy to fix one’s style, rendering them able to play only in one way.

However, if the status quo was maintained, with Durant playing Power Forward and Yu Fei occasionally stepping in, Roy would not notice this problem because Durant’s tactical status was under him.

Suddenly, Yu Fei had an idea, maybe he could switch positions with Durant.

He would play as the main Power Forward, with Durant occasionally stepping in.

This idea stemmed from several considerations, one being that space basketball was all the rage, but there weren’t many Power Forwards on the market to meet the demand, hence the trend of former Small Forwards oscillating to Power Forward.

Thus, on the Power Forward position, Yu Fei wouldn’t be crushed by those muscle-heads like in the early 2000s.

One was to push Roy out of his comfort zone. Yu Fei could indeed give privileges due to their relationship, but in the long term, a ball-handler core who can play off-ball would better adapt to system changes.

Then there was the most crucial point: Durant had already “grown up.”

Continuing to treat him like Michael Porter Jr. was a complete waste of his talent now that his hard power had reached the top ten in the League; forcing him into the Power Forward slot for physical combat was a shameful waste.

Tyronn Lue was unaware of Durant’s level, but Yu Fei was crystal clear.

It was time.

Yu Fei closed the laptop and texted Lue.

Soon, Lue replied.

“Are you serious, Frye?”

Yu Fei said, “You know me, I’m a fickle man.”

Then, he returned to the room, and Elizabeth was already asleep.

The next day, Tyronn Lue announced the latest adjustments to the whole team.

Durant shifted from the usual starting Power Forward to the Small Forward, and Yu Fei from the usual starting Small Forward to Power Forward.

With this, Coach Lu’s strategy for a balanced ambiguity revolution in ball rights fairly nauseated everyone, not sparing even Yu Fei.

Chris Bosh, who was initially somewhat resentful, now had no complaints.

Durant was puzzled about what the coaching staff was playing at.

Roy raised a question, “Do we need to redesign our tactics?”

“Of course, no matter what position Frye plays, Frye is always Frye.” Coach Lu said, “Brandon, you also need to adapt to this change. Honestly, you are my biggest concern.”

This change was not small.

The starting Power Forward went from a third option averaging 15-16 shots to the main option averaging 22 shots; this was enough to change the habits of any organizer.

“Do you really think this is a good idea?” Roy asked Yu Fei.

Yu Fei piercingly said, “Why not? I’m not like you, I like to try various styles. You can stick to your outdated style till you drop.”

“What do you mean?”

“Brandon, you’ve been playing this way since high school.” Yu Fei mocked, “You’re like those men who stick to the missionary position their whole life, although you and those who play bondage get the same thing, don’t you think it’s just too boring?”

Roy defensively yelled, “You’re the boring one, I just persist in doing the right thing. If change is right, then I will!”

“So, are you ready to adapt to me playing Power Forward?”

Roy’s main concern was, “Everyone can talk about change, but how do you do it?”

“We can figure it out slowly.”