This...

In the Raptors' arena, after the start of this exhibition game, Michael Jordan's facial expressions underwent some subtle changes.

The "Old Rogue," who had been in a good mood, no longer had a trace of a smile on his face.

With the collar of his training suit in his mouth, Jordan was trembling all over, and he was about to tear his training pants with his big hands.

Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?

You must know that under Nash's feeding, after more than half a year of running-in, the Suka-Mai trio had already mastered the divine skill of eating cake.

And the air supremacy of this game, the red team where Su Feng was, won it without any effort.

Although Big Ben, selected by Jordan, was strong, even he couldn't do a one-on-three.

Thus, after the Suka-Mai trio imposed air control over Toronto, Jordan's white team showed a tendency to collapse from the very beginning.

Jordan, who had selected a bunch of veterans plus Big Ben, became more and more anxious and angry as he played.

However...

Under Su Feng's demonic defense, the more Jordan ordered his teammates to play steadily, the lower the white team's success rate became.

Because, under the red team's infinite switching defense, the white team players, who were always forced to attack in the last few seconds, had no choice but to pass the ball to Jordan and let him go one-on-one against Su Feng.

As the saying goes, times have changed. The soon-to-be 36-year-old Jordan didn't even mention his age. With a long period of no training, even if he could use his experience to trick Su Feng, it wouldn't work now.

Because basketball is such a fair sport.

As long as you don't practice, you won't be able to make shots, no matter how talented you are.

Don't look at Su Feng's current overall rating in 2k, which is probably in the 84 to 86 range.

But because of the lockout, plus the physical fitness and hard training in the summer, Su Feng's condition this lockout season can definitely rank in the top five in the current league.

Let's take O'Neal as an example.

If O'Neal in the 98/99 season was always catching his breath, then O'Neal in the 99/00 season would be a different O'Neal.

Reality is not playing 2k, let alone comparing who has higher stats. Condition and stamina, these invisible and intangible things, also affect a player's performance.

If Jordan had continued to be an ascetic monk during this long lockout period, then after the start of the new season, although his strength would decline with the passage of time, no one would still be able to shake him.

But now it's different.

The current Jordan...

Please call him the human experience and confidence bonus essence.

Carter was having a blast.

In this exhibition game, this UFO completed many dunks in an unbelievable manner.

And one of the dunks, after attracting Jordan's double-team, Carter used his strength to interpret what is called:

Youth is invincible.

At that time, Carter, soaring in the sky, looked down at his senior and slammed the ball into the basket, shaking the mountains of the North to tremble.

And when he landed, Carter also raised the corners of his mouth at Jordan triumphantly.

"North Carolina men, either dunk over their opponents or retire to be truck drivers!"

Jordan: "..."

To be honest, Jordan was really annoyed by Carter at the time.

Because Su Feng was joking with him, but at least that guy knew what was appropriate.

But...

If Carter knew what was appropriate, then he wouldn't be Carter.

It's just that, just when the meticulous Jordan turned around to educate the young man, he almost twisted his waist when he threw himself into the sky...

Fortunately, Su Feng, who was responsible for guarding him, hugged him from the side when he lost his balance.

"You're too old, don't do such dangerous moves, Michael."

Looking at Jordan in his arms, Su Feng educated Jordan with a "parental" tone.

Jordan: "..."

For Jordan, at that moment, he only hated that he wasn't an ostrich.

His dynasty ambition was repeatedly stabbed by these young people that day.

Nonstop.

And as the game progressed, McGrady also got carried away.

He was like Toronto's "Little Pippen" on both offense and defense. In this exhibition game, he almost broke Jordan's leg.

At that time, McGrady also attracted Jordan's help defense on the court.

Then, after shaking Jordan's center of gravity with an unparalleled crossover, McGrady, thinking that this wasn't exciting enough, thought that since it was an exhibition game anyway, he improvised a self-pass and self-dunk.

Of course, McGrady, who completed the performance, didn't taunt Jordan like his senseless cousin.

However...

Looking at McGrady's retreat defense that ignored him, Jordan became even more angry.

Am I, the dignified basketball flying man, not even worthy of a look from you?

However, it would have been fine if he had been punished by Carter and McGrady with their talent.

On the court, after Nash, who was called "Canadian sweetheart" by Jordan, also became frivolous, Jordan...

How could the basketball god's values be simply ruined?

In Su Feng's previous life, Nash, who was thin, was actually the most annoying existence.

Because, apart from some people who directly confronted others with dirty tricks, most of the strong men who wanted to attack Nash were played around by Nash.

You must know that with Nash's career-high 60% finishing rate under the basket, if you covered up his name, you would definitely believe that this guy was a center.

And today, in addition to organizing the offense, Nash also successfully completed the "daily humiliation of Jordan" task.

At that time, Nash also attracted Jordan's help defense after breaking through.

Then, just as Jordan was about to reward Nash with a big block, although Nash was knocked off balance by Jordan, his weird, girlish underhand layup managed to avoid the "Old Rogue's" blocking point and went into the net off the high backboard.

Don't look at how distorted and excessive the fantasy comics are, but if you strip away the fantasy shell of those colorful non-mainstream people, in fact, Nash's underhand layup is the NBA version of the "disappearing layup."

It looks like the release point of this kind of layup is extremely low, and even an ordinary person can block it.

But through the rhythm changes in the confrontation, as well as the mastery of the timing of the shot, Nash can avoid your block when shooting.

And Nash, who successfully scored in front of Jordan and also obtained an extra free throw decision from assistant coach Rick, became the last straw that broke Jordan's inner defense line.

"It's not working, Michael, I haven't even shot yet, how am I already leading by 20 points?"

And Su Feng's吐槽 on the side made Jordan feel speechless.

Because you say he should be angry.

It seems that he is indeed quite angry.

But if you think about it the other way around, after witnessing the talents of these people, you might not believe it if you say it, if it weren't for his narcissism about the Bulls dynasty, Jordan really thought that this Raptors team might be stronger than that Bulls team.

Be confident.

Take away the word "might," Michael.

Before, when communicating with Jordan in a friendly manner, the reason why Su Feng didn't persuade Jordan to change was because Su Feng knew that it was not easy to persuade the arrogant and emotionally unstable Jordan to make changes.

To put it bluntly, the main purpose of Su Feng in today's exhibition game was to make Jordan see himself clearly.

Anyway, it doesn't matter whether Jordan is stubborn or not.

Because Su Feng knows that Jordan is the kind of person who looks stubborn, but his body is unusually honest.

And this is also a major reason why Jordan was able to become an "Old Rogue" in Su Feng's previous life, while his successors could only be labeled with the label of high EQ at most.

Therefore, Su Feng did not exert his strength in this exhibition game, just to save face for Jordan.

Otherwise, if he abused Jordan by 58 points in an exhibition game, how would Jordan play in the team in the future?

Well...

How could he, Su Feng, not have the opportunity to perform because he was watched too closely by Jordan?

This is called "EQ"!

Do you understand "EQ"?

……

In the end, after the half-time exhibition game, Su Feng's team led Jordan's team 67 to 40.

The fans watching in the arena were extremely surprised.

Because in the fans' opinion, although this was just an exhibition game, both Carter and McGrady, or their fellow villager Nash, showed excellent competitive form.

As for Jordan and Su Feng...

In the fans' opinion, these two people, as the team's bosses, must have been trying to give other players more opportunities to perform, so they didn't perform much.

Jordan didn't play in the second half.

After all, if he continued to play, Jordan would really become autistic.

And Su Feng, who was also substituted, took the opportunity to sit next to Jordan, put his arm around Jordan's neck, and said, "Do you believe what I said now?

Michael, as long as you are willing to work hard with me, then believe me, we will definitely win the championship this year."

Jordan, who didn't know what the bottom line was, nodded and said, "Let's have dinner together after the game."

Su Feng smiled and said, "Okay."

And it is worth mentioning that after this exhibition game, in order to prevent Carter from talking nonsense during the interview, Su Feng also asked McGrady to take Carter back to the locker room to take a shower.

Wake up...

Su Feng's intended purpose has been achieved. If he really loses face for Jordan, then in terms of Jordan's character, it is not impossible for him to announce his retirement tomorrow.

"You have also seen that we are a very talented team.

Michael's performance?

Haha, he was deliberately letting us.

You wouldn't think that he really played with 100% of his strength tonight, would you?"

And after the game, Su Feng, who used a wave of "EQ" to regain Jordan's face, seemed to be a little better-looking in Jordan's eyes.

After this battle, the Raptors' boss and general manager began to gradually believe in the pie that Su Feng and Davis had drawn for everyone before.

"Green, I mean if...

If we really have a chance to get good results in the new season, then I can accept a little bit over the salary, you understand what I mean, right?" Boss Chad patted Gruwald's shoulder and said.

"I understand, boss." Gruwald nodded.

In addition, after this game, Nash, Carter, McGrady and others also began to regard Jordan as a teammate, not a god high above.

To put it bluntly, it is right to be in awe of Jordan, but if they are afraid of him because of awe, then this Raptors team will not be able to complete the great plan in Su Feng's heart.

……

On the night of the open day, in a high-end restaurant in Toronto.

Taking advantage of the space between serving dishes, Su Feng looked at Jordan, who was still thinking about life, and asked, "Michael, can you tell me how much change you are willing to make for the championship?"

After Jordan pondered for a while, he said, "To be honest, Su, I really need time to get back in shape.

But anyway, I can tell you frankly that for me, the championship is above everything else."

Compared with the first time the two communicated, Jordan was a lot more candid tonight.

Because after his values were washed by the young people of the Raptors, Jordan also knew how naive his idea of ​​exchanging Carter and McGrady for championship puzzles was before.

Jordan's vision is poor, but if he still can't see the potential of this Raptors team after playing such a humiliating exhibition game, then he should go to a mental hospital, not sit here and talk to Su Feng.

"To tell you the truth, you have also seen that this Raptors team is very suitable for playing bombing, so in the new season, we will definitely focus on fast-paced games." Su Feng said to Jordan.

"But..."

Hearing this, Jordan touched his stomach and was a little tangled.

"I know, you are worried that your physical fitness and your current state can't keep up with this fast offense and defense, right?" Su Feng smiled.

"Um..." After blushing, Jordan secretly turned his head to the other side.

"Don't worry, as long as you are willing to accept the change, then you will definitely be able to keep up with the Raptors' tactics in the new season." Su Feng said.

With the HC rule, Su Feng is very clear that blindly playing Xia Ji Ba and sending the ball is no different.

Therefore, the Raptors' fast break in the new season is mainly based on defensive counterattacks.

In the new season, under the premise that other teams can't run much, as long as the Raptors can play a high-quality rotation defense, then relatively speaking, this kind of fast break will be more energy-saving.

"If possible, Michael, I hope you can play the forward position in the new season, not the shooting guard." Looking at Jordan, Su Feng continued.

"Forward?" Jordan was stunned.

"Yes, although you are known for being diligent and self-disciplined, it is unrealistic for you to lose weight in the short term.

But as your game state recovers, with your strength that can easily knock me away, how many power forwards in this league can play against you?" Su Feng spread his hands.

"That's right, when I defended Charles in the game back then, you were probably still in elementary school." Jordan, who was praised by Su Feng, laughed.

Su Feng: "..."

No...

Boss Jordan, are you going to take the opportunity to pretend to be a cup?

But well, because Su Feng knew that what Jordan said was true.

You know, Su Feng's desire to persuade Jordan to play power forward is not out of his whim.

It's because when Jordan made a comeback with the Wizards in the future, he really played the fourth position for a while.

In the new season, in the case of serious lack of training, coupled with being overweight, the current Jordan, in Su Feng's opinion, if you let him go to the guard line to face those agile players that he has trained, wouldn't that be letting him stand and be exploded?

Just take today's exhibition game as an example, if it were Jordan last season...

How could Carter, McGrady and Nash have the opportunity to use Jordan as an experience baby?

Although he has started to lose weight, Su Feng estimates that Jordan's limit is to control his weight back to around 107 kg before the playoffs start.

Therefore, instead of letting Jordan stand on the outside and be blown up, why not let him stand on the inside and use his defensive experience and help defense ability?

In the current era when the fourth position is full of labels that are fighting and retreating, in fact, they are just messing around, Jordan's height will suffer some losses, but with his defensive experience and strength, there are not many people who can easily play against him.

Moreover, when returning to the offensive end, with the Raptors' set of all-swingman lineups, who can Jordan play against who is not a mismatch?

Su Feng believes that as long as Jordan can find his form, then with his terrifying technology that even he can't defend alone, his efficiency in the new season will inevitably increase greatly on the offensive end.

In this way, the Raptors' number of shots and ball distribution in the new season will be more reasonable.

Su Feng is very clear that the current Raptors team cannot give Jordan the number of shots he had during the Bulls era.

Because first of all, the Raptors have many offensive points in the new season.

Secondly, this Jordan is no longer at his peak.

Finally, this Raptors team is his Su Feng's team.

In Su Feng and Davis's discussion, it is most appropriate for him and Jordan to have 15 to 18 shots per game on average.

Otherwise, no matter how fast the Raptors play, they will not have enough shots to share.

And changing positions, reducing shots, and putting the main effort into defense and positional warfare can also save Jordan's stamina.

You know, Jordan is resistant to abuse, but in the case of prolonged lack of training, overdrawing is also very likely to cause him to suffer injuries.

Therefore, if the Raptors want to go far, then Jordan must accept playing health basketball.

Su Feng knew that if he had told Jordan these things before Jordan joined the Raptors, Jordan would definitely not agree.

But after being stabbed in the heart today, to put it bluntly, just like Jordan could only choose the Raptors before...

Now, he also has no choice.

Because he himself knows that his physical fitness and condition cannot be compared with before.

And if Jordan is the kind of person who insists on doing things his own way and is unwilling to change, then Su Feng would not say these words to him and set so many traps for him.

In his previous life, when Phil Jackson analyzed Jordan and Kobe in his book, he pointed out the biggest difference between Jordan and Kobe.

Although these two people are obsessed with saving face, unlike Kobe, Jordan is willing to give up his integrity for the championship.

Many people who have not watched Jordan play always think that Jordan is arrogant and does not listen to anyone.

But in reality, this guy just doesn't listen on the surface.

You can simply understand it as Jordan is the kind of person who knows he is wrong but refuses to admit it but will correct it.

"Su, your suggestions are very pertinent, but I still have one question.

That is, are you sure that Steve's defense will not become our burden?" Jordan asked.

Hearing this, Su Feng smiled.

"Don't worry, Michael, we still have Tracy.

Steve is just our regular weapon, and when it comes to critical moments, Tracy is our secret weapon."

After a pause, Su Feng added: "In regular time, let the young people charge, and when it comes to critical moments, you and I will kill the game again."

Jordan: "..."

To be honest, although Su Feng said it made sense, Jordan always felt that something was wrong.

"By the way, I have another suggestion, Michael." After the steak was served, looking at Jordan who wanted to cut the steak, Su Feng suddenly said to him.

"What suggestion?" Temporarily putting down the knife for cutting the steak, and swallowing the saliva back into his stomach, Jordan said seriously.

"That is, during this time, I hope that in addition to training, you can not care about winning or losing and one-on-one with me more, so that you can accelerate your state recovery." Su Feng said.

At this time, looking at Su Feng who was willing to be his sparring partner, Jordan was a little moved.

Su Feng knew that positional warfare was still indispensable in the Raptors' tactics in the new season.

And in positional warfare, the performance of him and Jordan can basically determine the direction of this game.

Before Jordan joined, the reason why Su Feng only thought that the Raptors could only reach the Eastern Conference Finals was largely because these people were not at their peak, and they could only rely on themselves to attack at critical moments.

But after Jordan joined, the situation was different.

What Su Feng really wanted was Jordan's ability to attack at critical moments, which could form a double insurance with him.

Su Feng thought, there wouldn't be a situation where his state was bad and Jordan's state was also bad, right?

If that's the case, Su Feng would accept the loss of the game.

Therefore, in Su Feng's view, he is naturally obliged to help Jordan recover his state quickly.

After all, in the face of an uncertain future, only by grasping the present can Su Feng control his own destiny.

"In addition, Michael, I think we should record all of our one-on-one games.

Because in this way, you can find your own problems through the video." Looking at Jordan nodding and agreeing to his proposal, Su Feng continued.

And listening to Su Feng thinking about him everywhere, Jordan also solemnly said: "We will definitely create a piece of history together."

"Of course." Su Feng replied solemnly.

Heh...

Is it just history?

"Old Rogue," "Old Rogue," no matter how invincible you are in your life, you will have to fall into my hands in your later years?

With your black history, what else can you do besides lying down and praising me obediently in the future?

And just when Su Feng had figured out Jordan clearly, in a trance...

"Ding————!

[God's Inheritance] mission has been activated.

'Basketball God' Michael Jordan is about to usher in the end of his career, and as an ambitious young man, in your opinion, it is time to grab the throne.

Mission requirement: Defeat Jordan 400 times in one-on-one duels.

Mission completion reward: Hidden special skill 'Jordan's fadeaway'.

Mission failure reward: None.

Mission deadline: Before the end of the 98/99 season."

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