Basketball Legend: When Pride Still Matters Chapter 1129: 625: Don't Stop Talking About LeBron3

Chapter 1129: Chapter 625: Don’t Stop Talking About LeBron_3

Indeed, the Miami Heat adjusted their strategy in the second half, with Jas starting to lead the offense. However, the Clippers imdiately changed their formation, using Spider-Man-like agility to block the area inside the three-point line. Combined with Yao Ming, the rim protector whom Jas fears the most, Jas was left with no options for his breakthroughs.

Unable to penetrate, Jas could only opt for shooting. His shooting was decent tonight, but not enough to turn the tide of the ga.

On the contrary, the Clippers unpredictably accelerated the pace of the offense.

Yu Fei brought the ball up the court, facing Curry, lightly lifted his hand, and shot an ultra-long three-pointer from two ters beyond the three-point line.

Then, Yao Ming ca out after setting a screen, received the pass and also shot a three-pointer.

Curry tried to use his speed to counter Yao Ming, but in return, Antetokounmpo triumphed over Jas with his exaggerated footwork.

Yu Fei continued to mix up his play outside. He executed pick-and-roll plays with Yao, either passing the ball to Thompson on the periter, returning the ball to Yao, or directly driving towards the basket. The Heat were forced to switch defense, but Yu cleverly passed the ball back to Yao, resulting in a highly ironic mont:

The 1.9-ter-tall Curry was left defending the 2.23-ter-tall Yao Ming alone in the paint.

Even Yao himself found it amusing. He lightly tossed the ball over Curry’s head into the basket.

“Is not dunking your way of being gentle?” Yu Fei asked.

“I can’t dunk.” Yao shrugged and replied, “Don’t have the skill.”

The score widened, Jas grew anxious. This wasn’t the script he had envisioned; the Clippers, surprisingly, were not targeting Curry anymore in the second half.

To make the Clippers “co to their senses,” Jas turned into a true team player.

He started to concentrate on defense, continuously driving and passing the ball, hoping to restore Curry’s touch.

But touch in basketball is taphysical; sotis it’s there with a flick of the wrist, and sotis it evades no matter how much one tries. Tonight, Curry had been artificially forced into that state.

Though Jas was very team-oriented, tonight, Curry really needed him to step up.

By the fourth quarter, with the Clippers leading by 20 points and their defense lax, Jas realized that only by breaking free could he have a chance at winning.

So, he started scoring.

For a while, Yu Fei just sat on the bench watching Jas make strong plays on the court, as if the victory was still uncertain.

Yu Fei was resting.

On the court, the one exchanging data silently with Jas was Antetokounmpo.

Antetokounmpo was still young; he needed to pad his stats and needed so classic monts to boost his reputation. Thus, he was justifiably racking up numbers during the ga.

As for Jas, Yu Fei couldn’t tell if he wanted to make the team lose beautifully or rely wanted to pad his personal stats to look like he had put in all his effort.

Either way, the suspense of the ga had ended long ago.

In the end, the Clippers won over the Miami Heat by 17 points. Yu Fei finished with 30 points, 8 rebounds, and 5 assists, whereas Jas garnered 27 points, 11 rebounds, and 9 assists.

Unquestionably, the biggest “sinner” of the ga was Curry. With a 9-for-23 shooting performance, he failed ti and again to rise to the occasion when his team needed him the most, thoroughly “betraying” Jas’s efforts.

This kind of incident is exactly what Nike would heavily promote.

But in this professional basketball public opinion field dominated by Reebok’s marketing agency, Curry won’t be the one to be criticized.

After the ga, when reporters asked Yu Fei to comnt on Curry’s performance, he deliberately changed the subject, ntioning Curry’s “good teammate”: “Why don’t you ask about LeBron’s performance? I think Stephen tonight is not worth ntioning; the real topic should be LeBron.”

The reporters took the cue and asked, “So what do you think of LeBron’s performance?”

Yu Fei didn’t hesitate to speak: “When Stephen was being targeted by us, he kept passing the ball. When the team needed soone to stand out, he continued passing. After trying to score in the second_half but getting blocked, he went back to passing. But when the ga was clearly decided, he started attacking. As a result, his final stats look even better than mine.”

The dia quickly noticed that every ti GOAT ntioned LeBron, his words were unmistakably aggressive.

After all, most players who had grievances with GOAT had already retired.

But LeBron was still around, and relatively young.

After evaluating Jas’s performance, Yu Fei bluntly stated, “Now, do you see why he hasn’t won a championship? He has too many thoughts, too many desires, too many distractions, and sches. All these combined have created what you saw today. Simply put, he doesn’t deserve to win the championship. Whether it was back in the days alongside Kobe or now with Stephen, he just doesn’t deserve it.”

That day, many people realized sothing.

If you want GOAT to keep playing, don’t stop talking about LeBron.

Especially in his presence.