Chapter 755: 503 Chapter 755: 503 ESPN specially arranged a pre-game interview for Durant titled “Kevin Durant on What Responsibility Means.”

Because of the interview, Durant didn’t join the team for warm-ups until 15 minutes before the game started.

However, it didn’t seem to have any effect.

Because Yu Fei had arrived.

When Yu Fei entered the court, the audience erupted in screams and cheers; even a casual shot from him made the spectators swoon.

Afterward, the core players from both teams met at midcourt.

On the SuperSonics’ side were Yu Fei and Chris Bosh, while the Spurs had Duncan and Iguodala.

“Wouldn’t it be better to bring KD along?”

Bosh thought Durant would be more suitable to come with Yu Fei to greet Duncan and the others.

“If it weren’t for courtesy, I wouldn’t bother with this at all,” said Yu Fei, “It’s not that important.”

Bosh asked, “It might be important to him.”

Hearing this, Yu Fei glanced at Bosh.

As a secondary star, perhaps Bosh had a keener sense of Durant’s mental state than others.

“If you feel sorry, you can give your shooting rights to KD tonight,” Yu Fei said, “He’ll certainly accept.”

Before the game, Coach Lu told the players, “Let’s beat them into a complete mess!”

Yu Fei joked, “I don’t hate the Spurs that much.”

The opening was normal; Yu Fei was guarding Ginobili, which posed no difficulty for him.

Yu Fei scored in two consecutive one-on-one plays, while the Spurs took advantage with cuts and combinations, scoring two points and then three.

The SuperSonics’ first disruption came when Anthony Morrow missed his first shot from the outside, followed by Durant’s one-on-one play.

The SuperSonics had a tactical plan for Durant to play one-on-one.

However, if the opponent let Durant face a strong defender like Iguodala, the team would usually arrange for him to make a feint; after all, with his current physique, he had enough skills but not enough power to resist pressure. He would falter easily under stress and struggled to maintain steady output in the playoffs.

Moreover, a defender like Iguodala, with strong upper limbs, powerful lower limbs, and a particular fondness for pressuring the ball, was precisely the kind of defender Durant least wanted to face at that time.

It was like a younger, but less dirty-playing Artest.

Durant’s first one-on-one attempt missed, leading to a Spurs counter-attack.

No one blamed him because it appeared to be an impromptu attempt.

The Spurs assigned Iguodala to guard Durant, clearly intending to limit him.

If Durant could break through Iguodala’s defense, the game would be much easier to play.

Although Durant failed, it was just one round’s failure.

But gradually, the SuperSonics realized that whenever the ball went through Durant’s hands, it wouldn’t come out.

The tactics would stop working once the ball reached Durant.

He would start playing one-on-one by formula.

The first shot didn’t go in, the second didn’t either, the third finally hit, but a one-for-three efficiency was not what the team needed.

Yu Fei noticed something was wrong.

But Durant, taking the ball and going one-on-one, seemed familiar.

Durant was touted as the ultimate offensive machine, with one-on-one being his most confident way of playing. Whenever he faced difficulties, like deciding to join a team that had won 73 games — not to mention that this team had just come back from a 1-3 deficit to beat him in the playoffs — and not being vindicated as he had hoped after winning the championship, people who despised him continued to do so, and trolls swarmed his social media. Meanwhile, his teammate, the very Curry who had led him there, had signed a massive contract while he was still on a slightly reduced max contract and not viewed as the Golden State Warriors’ top player.

So he would do something to prove himself.

Infinite one-on-one was his fundamental choice on the court.

This version of Durant had appeared countless times in Yu Fei’s previous life, and a few times in this life as well.

Yet it surfaced during the Western Conference Semifinals.

There was no prior build-up.

Yu Fei wanted to know if Durant was serious, so he stopped playing tactically and passed the ball to him soon after crossing half court.

Durant decisively went for one-on-one, having scored once in the previous three attempts. If he made this shot, it would be two for two, bringing his shooting percentage back to 50%.

However, just before his shot, Iguodala, as if reading his mind, made a quick steal. If it weren’t for Yu Fei right behind him to pick up the ball, the Spurs would have had another counter-attack.

There was no time left; Yu Fei casually shot the ball.

It was a buzzer-beating three-pointer, fortunately, it banked in.

Coach Lu, watching from the sidelines, breathed a sigh of relief. He thought, can’t pass the ball to KD anymore, the young man has issues.

He looked towards Alonzo Gee, who was ready to go, and said, “Get ready to sub in for KD.”

Soon after, Yu Fei blocked Duncan with a strong defensive play.

Duncan was frustrated by the block; Yu Fei was too fast. Although his teammates had warned him, even a player like Duncan, once committed to his shot, had an overloaded brain that made it tough to make the right decision.

Yu Fei wasn’t pleased with the block, as it marked him the king of rejections in history; his thoughts had already shifted to Durant.

Just when Coach Lu thought Yu Fei was going to shoot, he unexpectedly passed the ball back to Durant.

Durant received the ball repeatedly.

The others spaced out under Yu Fei’s direction.

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The ball possession, like life force from the universe, suddenly concentrated into Durant’s hands, and he found it hard to adapt.

A moment’s hesitation allowed Iguodala to press forward, forcing Durant to refrain from dribbling the ball.

At that moment, Durant realized all his teammates were watching him.

Faced with Iguodala’s tight defense, Durant passed the ball back to Yu Fei, but there wasn’t much time left for offense.

Such a pass, made out of desperation, was undoubtedly annoying.