Chapter 146 Toronto, The House of Steel

Just when Kobe, bursting with rage, was about to wield his greatsword and slice Su Feng into pieces, one by one...

On the court, during his first offensive play, he was clumsy...

And accidentally dribbled the ball onto his instep, knocking it out of bounds.

It was an awkward moment.

Su Feng swore he wasn't laughing at that moment.

"Hey, Kobe! Are you perhaps unable to beat me on the basketball court, so you've decided to pursue your childhood dream and switch to soccer?"

Looking at Kobe, who was blushing slightly, Su Feng couldn't help but tease.

Kobe: "......"

Fueled further by Su Feng's provocation, Kobe quickly made Su Feng feel what "Serpent's Coil" was like when it was his turn to attack.

Truth be told, in the realm of one-on-one, even Su Feng at this stage wouldn't dare to underestimate Kobe.

Therefore, despite appearing relaxed, Su Feng was already adopting his usual attitude for clutch plays.

Unable to directly break through Kobe's defense, Su Feng switched to backing down near the three-point line, planning to use his weight to bully Kobe.

However, Kobe reacted quickly.

While maintaining a firm stance, he used the rules of the current era to his advantage, using his "small" iron elbows to block Su Feng's attack.

Although Kobe hadn't touched a ball much since the Finals ended, knowing Su Feng inside and out, how could he forget Su Feng's playing habits?

But just when Kobe felt he had shut down Su Feng...

Suddenly, Su Feng's right shoulder violently struck Kobe's chest.

At the same time, after feinting a backward turn with his eyes, Su Feng spun in the opposite direction, completing an extremely graceful fadeaway jumper from the high post.

Kobe, thinking Su Feng wanted to turn and drive, didn't have time to jump and contest.

Swish!

This was the brand-new version of Feng's Fadeaway!

After integrating "Jordan's Fadeaway," and with some time to train and digest it, Su Feng found that the fluidity of his feints during his turnaround fadeaway had improved significantly.

The so-called "Fraudster Genius" passive, in Su Feng's view, actually referred to his chances of making defensive players unable to grasp his intentions through such feints.

It was a feeling hard to describe in words.

Because, just like how many people can't learn the essence of Jordan's fadeaway even after watching Jordan's videos a million times...

In a sense, Su Feng, who directly integrated "Jordan's Fadeaway" through the system, did inherit the mantle from the "Old Rogue."

Although "Feng's Fadeaway" was still far from perfection, even Kobe, who knew Su Feng the best, found it difficult to predict when and where Su Feng would shoot.

However, on the court...

Just when Su Feng was preparing to beat Kobe to a pulp, Kobe, whose rage was at maximum...

Was simply amazing.

Nobody knew who taught this guy his press-breaking skills with both hands on the ball, but after playing against Kobe all morning, Su Feng realized that the 90/10 situation he had envisioned didn't materialize.

Moreover, because he was a bit cold today, Su Feng discovered during the small-score recap that he almost failed to maintain a 60/40 split.

Facts proved that feeling was indeed a mystical thing.

However, during lunch, Su Feng also found the source of his problems through the recap.

That was, during the one-on-one with Kobe this morning, he had been too intent on finding opportunities for turnaround fadeaways.

As a result, he missed many opportunities to attack directly.

In addition, Kobe indeed had his unique strengths in defense.

In his previous life, Kobe had been selected for the All-Defensive Team twelve times, and nine of those times he was selected for the All-Defensive First Team.

Therefore, Su Feng's thought of beating this Kobe to a pulp was clearly too taken for granted.

"Sure enough, it's more fun to play one-on-one with Kobe."

After lunch, looking at Kobe, who was still full of fighting spirit, Su Feng thought with satisfaction.

Worthy of being his number one cheat tool!

Ah, no!

Worthy of being his number one training partner!

Su Feng felt that Kobe's never-say-die personality was very much to his liking.

And so, in the House of Steel, a new round of iron-king competition began.

It was worth mentioning that in the afternoon, Vanessa, who couldn't stay idle, also ran to the basketball gym to watch Kobe train.

As a result...

Affected by his declining stamina, Kobe, whose anger was gradually subsiding, almost fainted when he noticed Vanessa applauding Su Feng after he scored.

Okay...

In Su Feng's eyes, this Kobe was simply made of lemons.

Because Vanessa was cheering and applauding after he scored, but he just couldn't see it.

And when it was his turn to score, Vanessa was clearly just applauding politely, but he just couldn't help but get carried away.

He had to say, this was indeed the Kobe he remembered.

Even if his playing style had changed slightly, Su Feng felt that Kobe's stubborn personality would never change in this lifetime.

"What? You're not playing tomorrow?"

On the court, after Su Feng ended today's round of iron-making PK with a total record of 17 wins and 11 losses, Kobe was dumbfounded.

Because, after today's PK, Su Feng actually told him that he wasn't playing tomorrow!

What kind of man wins and runs?

"I've been practicing my jumping lately. I can't just practice one-on-one with you, right?

Besides, don't you also need time to find your form?

And in your current state, you don't really think you can beat me, can you?" Looking at Kobe, who was already getting into it, Su Feng spread his hands and said.

What do you mean I can't beat you?

Kobe got anxious as soon as he heard Su Feng's words.

However, upon hearing that Su Feng had been practicing his jumping lately, Kobe suddenly thought of something.

"Okay, but even if you want to practice your jumping, you still have to make time to play one-on-one with me every day," Kobe said to Su Feng.

Su Feng nodded. "No problem, but...are you sure you'll still have time to spend with your girlfriend like this?"

After glancing back at Vanessa, Kobe shook his head. "She's not important."

Su Feng: "......"

Good heavens, Michael Jordan!

Kobe, how can someone like you even find a girlfriend?

Su Feng felt that only Vanessa could tolerate Kobe's straight-as-an-arrow personality.

However, looking at Kobe, who seemed to be plotting something, Su Feng felt that the process of convincing Kobe today seemed a bit too easy...

And the next day, when he noticed Kobe finding Mancias alone for a private chat, Su Feng felt that this guy was indeed hiding something from him.

"Kobe said he plans to gain weight this summer, and I told him it was fine, but he actually wants to gain weight to 105 kilograms in one go...

Don't you think that's wishful thinking?

I suggested that he gain weight to 98 to 99 kilograms first, otherwise, gaining weight too quickly could easily lead to him not being able to adapt to the new weight."

After Mancias finished talking with Kobe, Su Feng found Mancias as soon as possible and asked him about Kobe's "plot."

After listening to the summer training plan Mancias had made for Kobe, Su Feng felt that Kobe was indeed blameless in terms of diligence.

If Su Feng remembered correctly, Kobe did have a period of gaining weight after playing out his rookie contract, and in the future, in order to compete with O'Neal in the low post, he even trained a pair of iron elbows at all costs.

However, just like how Su Feng's own weight gain had also taken a long time, gaining weight too quickly could indeed cause players to experience discomfort.

Therefore, in Su Feng's opinion, there was nothing wrong with Mancias's advice to Kobe.

However, for Kobe, who had a strong personality, he did not intend to listen to Mancias's suggestion.

Because in his opinion, Su Feng could gain weight to 103 kilograms, so why couldn't he gain weight to 105 kilograms?

However, just when Kobe had other plans in private, Su Feng, who knew his personality very well, directly targeted his recent diet.

Su Feng was very clear about how strong Kobe's determination to catch up with him and surpass him was.

So the usually naive him would definitely screw up on weight gain.

Because a simple-minded kid like Kobe would definitely think that he could beat him because his current strength was far superior to him.

But no matter how much Kobe wanted to become stronger, he still had to follow the laws of basketball.

For Kobe, who did not have a waiver for injuries, even if he was very durable, blindly gaining weight would only cause him to lose the characteristics of his original style.

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"Su, are you especially afraid of me surpassing you?"

A week later, as Kobe noticed that the portions of food that someone had been making recently were getting smaller and smaller, his long-accumulated resentment erupted in an instant.

So this day, looking at Su Feng, Kobe asked with a serious face.

"Why would I be afraid of you surpassing me? Wouldn't it be a good thing if you surpassed me?" Su Feng said with a smile.

"Really? But I don't think that's what you think," Kobe continued seriously.

Looking at Kobe, who was full of resentment, Su Feng knew that this guy must have noticed that he had been controlling his diet recently.

"Please, you don't really think that you can beat me after you gain weight to 105 kilograms, do you?

Have you ever thought about whether you can still have your current speed and agility after you gain weight to 105 kilograms?

And have you ever thought about the load that high-intensity games will bring after you gain weight to 105 kilograms?

In addition, have you ever thought about whether, with your current low-post skills, gaining weight to 105 kilograms will not bring about the opposite effect?" Su Feng asked seriously.

Listening to Su Feng's words, although he knew in his heart that Su Feng was right, being reprimanded by Su Feng like this...

Made Kobe even more uncomfortable.

However, just when Kobe was planning to go all the way to the dark, Su Feng changed his tone and brought him back to the right path.

"I think no one can understand your current feelings better than I can.

Because back in Lower Merion, I couldn't win even once after playing one-on-one with you ten thousand times.

But just like you told me back then, as long as you don't give up, hope and opportunity will always be there.

Kobe, if creating history was so easy, why would people bother so much?"

Looking at Su Feng's solemn expression, at this moment, Kobe felt as if a surge of heat was rolling in his chest.

And then, Su Feng continued to say to Kobe: "You know, before the Finals this year, I told my teammates.

Maybe Shaq O'Neal is the leader of this Lakers team, but in my opinion, the most difficult guy to deal with on the Lakers is Kobe Bryant."

Um?

Subconsciously, Kobe, who was standing opposite Su Feng, probably didn't even notice that his chest had puffed out.

"Tracy, Vince, including Michael, plus me, do you know how much brainpower we spent to deal with you?

So, why do you have to be so obsessed with weight?

You have to know, you are Kobe, not Su Feng."

Got it...

Kobe, who had been completely trapped by Su Feng's verbal offensive, would have burst out laughing if Su Feng hadn't been standing in front of him at this moment.

However, the vengeful him had not forgotten the words Su Feng had said in the interview.

Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, Kobe pretended to be serious and said: "You didn't say that in the interview before."

"Hey...I was obviously joking, you believe that too?" Su Feng said.

"Oh, right, tonight I plan to make Italian sausage pizza, how about we end earlier today?"

In order to prevent Kobe from continuing to argue with him, Su Feng decisively used the great emotional intelligence technique of shifting the conversation.

And what was obvious was...

Su Feng's move directly broke the defense.

And so, that night, just when Vanessa noticed that Kobe seemed to be having a fight with Su Feng recently and was planning to persuade him, Vanessa never expected that a man's happiness could be so simple.

"Why are you so happy today?" Lying in Kobe's arms, Vanessa asked curiously.

"It's nothing, I just thought of some happy things from the past," Kobe replied with a smile.

And under Vanessa's questioning, Kobe recalled the years when he beat Su Feng to a pulp in Lower Merion, and at the same time, he silently sighed in his heart:

"Being able to meet Su Feng in the summer of 1994 was the best thing ever."

And just as Kobe and Su Feng continued their happy summer training...

China, Shenzhen, somewhere on a streetball court, a group of teenagers were surrounding a tall, handsome young man.

"Lao Yi, there's a streetball competition sponsored by Pepsi in August, do you want to team up with us to play?"

"Lao Yi, let's go together, I heard that if we make it to the finals, we can take a photo with Su Feng!"

"Take a photo with Su Feng? Really?"

"Of course, that's what his competition advertisement says."

Listening to the discussions of his little friends, who were a head shorter than him, the handsome young man who was surrounded in the middle was clearly moved.

Because for Yi Jianlian's generation, especially for the vast majority of basketball fans...

The name Su Feng was synonymous with faith!

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