Volume 1: Those Years in Philadelphia Chapter 14: Elbow, Elbow, Elbow
On the court, Su Feng felt a little pain in his chest.
Hiss, Kobe is really not polite at all.
He turned around and greeted Su Feng with an iron elbow.
In the 1990s, in order to deal with the HC rule, outside players liked to protect themselves by raising their elbows when breaking through or dribbling.
Take the 1998 finals known as the "Elbow Banquet" for example. The defending team used the HC rule to support the elbow, and the offensive team also used the blocked elbow to fight back, with both sides trash-talking each other. That scene was truly a "talking elbow."
Of course, in normal one-on-one situations, the scale of Su Feng and Kobe's actions was much larger than in today's game. In addition, Su Feng had rich experience in "stacking armor and taking beatings", so Kobe's elbow was nothing.
7 to 10, Nefaria has the ball.
"These two little guys are quite interesting." In the stands, Duke University scout Wesley became more and more excited as he watched.
In Wesley's opinion, Kobe is a rare genius, and Su Feng is an outstanding defensive expert.
Especially one-on-one defense!
On the court, after being reminded by his teammate Swartz, Donell finally defended Su Feng once.
Just now when they were retreating, Swartz, who had been taken care of by the "Death Stare", ran to Donnell and reminded him: "Hey man, let me warn you first, if you keep playing like this, be careful after the game..."
Thinking of Kobe's persistent look, Donnell shuddered subconsciously...
no!
We must do our best to defend against this Chinese player named Su Feng!
Donnell fought hard.
And it is impossible for Su Feng to guarantee that every ball can be scored.
In this ball, Su Feng's face-to-face pull-up shot was greatly disturbed. The ball was shot, but in order to avoid being blocked, Su Feng used too much force and the basketball hit the rim hard.
Clang——!
Kobe turned around, leaped, and grabbed the rebound with one arm .
He is worthy of being the Peter Pan who fought from one to five in high school!
Awesome!
After grabbing the rebound, Kobe dribbled quickly to launch a counterattack, but Su Feng's defense was also very fast. When Kobe dribbled to the vicinity of Nefaria's three-point line, Su Feng's body was almost overlapping with Kobe's...
boom--!
“Ouch!”
Predict in advance, stand in the right position, fall down, and scream...
It has to be said that even Scola in the future would applaud Su Feng’s defense if he saw it.
Beep——!
The referee seemed very satisfied with Su Feng's performance. While awarding Su Feng the Oscar, he also called a foul on Kobe Bryant for dribbling the ball...
Kobe was not angry when he was called for a foul, he was just a little surprised.
"You also know this trick?" Kobe asked curiously as he pulled Su Feng up from the ground.
Su Feng nodded. In fact, it is not difficult to create an offensive foul. The difficult part is that the defensive player needs to have a lot of courage.
Because once a professional player sprints at full speed, the impact can be quite considerable.
In Su Feng's previous life, although Scola was performing all day long, you should know that the eyebrows and ribs that Scola had been cut open could be added up to make a small model.
Su Feng was able to successfully cause Kobe to commit an offensive foul, largely due to Su Feng's understanding of Kobe.
Of course, in fact, Kobe also knows Su Feng very well.
It was just because he had promised not to deliberately compete with Su Feng, so Su Feng took advantage of him a little.
After all, after more than three months of in-depth communication, the two of us already know each other’s strengths and weaknesses. (I’m talking about strength here, don’t think about it the wrong way.)
On the court, Nefaria was attacking, and on the bench, Tony Jones and Anthony were completely confused about this game...
Because they were fighting so hard with Raul Meilien?
On the bench of Raul Meilien, Donald and his son were a little panicked.
Because of Su Feng's almost "face-slapping" performance on the court, Donald and his son could already foresee Kobe's next look.
At this moment, the two Donals looked at each other. If we had to use four words to describe their feelings, it would probably be: What should we do?
Su Feng almost laughed out loud when he noticed this scene.
But he had no sympathy for Donald and his son.
When Greg Donner first coached Lower Merion, he wanted to suppress Kobe because of his paranoid personality.
As a result, Greg had a one-on-one match with Kobe.
Of course, in Greg's opinion, Kobe is just a kid after all, so when the duel started, Greg was going to let Kobe have some time...
But unexpectedly, in this one-on-one fight, Greg was beaten to tears.
So, the somewhat frustrated Greg said to Kobe at the time: "Although you beat me, in my opinion, you are not as good as Carter!"
Greg's angry words had a great impact on Kobe.
In Su Feng's previous life, Kobe Bryant embarked on a path of no return because of this sentence...
Well, it’s a road of no return where you are cruel to yourself and others.
Although Kobe once said that without this sentence, he would not work so hard, but in fact, as Kobe's high school coach, Donald was not a good life mentor in Su Feng's opinion.
Swish——!
After Su Feng scored a handsome turnaround fadeaway shot, the first quarter of the game between the two teams ended.
13 to 18, this score is not low for a high school game with a quarter lasting only 8 minutes.
On Nefaria's side, Su Feng scored 11 points, and another 2 points came from captain Towns. On Lower Merion's side, Kobe scored 18 points in the first quarter, all of which were contributed by Kobe.
Donell, who was in charge of defending Su Feng, was extremely depressed.
Because after becoming familiar with Su Feng's offensive routine, Donell discovered that this guy only had two moves.
Pull-up and fade-away.
However, there is almost no way to crack these two moves.
To put it bluntly, Donnell is about the same height as Su Feng, but his jumping ability is a little worse than Su Feng's. Su Feng's pull-up jumper is full of uncertainties, while his fadeaway is so standard that it makes people despair...
As Lower Merion's defensive expert, even when he was one-on-one with Kobe, Donnell was...
Well, it would be more comfortable to play against Su Feng.
So frustrating!
It’s so frustrating!
Listening to the discussions of his classmates in the stands not far away, Donnell felt like a clown today.
Fortunately, Kobe saved Donnell at the critical moment.
"Robbie, in the second quarter, you go defend Su!" Kobe said to his teammate Robbie Swartz.
Schwartz, who was humming a little tune, was suddenly confused.
"ha?"
"Huh?" Kobe glared at Swartz.
"Understood, Boss!" Swartz didn't dare to refuse anymore, otherwise...
When Swartz recalled those 1 hour and 27 minutes, he couldn't stop shaking.
Do you know how Swartz got through that time?
It felt like being stared at by a poisonous snake and unable to move!
It's almost suffocating!
In fact, the reason why Kobe wanted Swartz to defend Su Feng was not because he was still holding a grudge against him.
It was just because Kobe had told Donald and his son that Su Feng was stronger than Donnell and Swartz.
In Kobe's opinion, since Su Feng has proved that he is stronger than Donnell, the next step should be to prove that he is stronger than Swartz.
All right……
What a simple idea!
However, this made things difficult for Swartz.
Because Swartz is only 180 cm tall.
Moreover, this guy's wingspan is not long, only 181 cm...