Chapter 1 The Kobe Bryant Fadeaway

“Hidden Talent: Kobe’s Fadeaway.”

After finishing his extra practice with Kobe, Su Feng excitedly opened the system interface back in his apartment.

“Hidden Talent: Unlike regular talents, hidden talents require the host to trigger them through specific events, and can be upgraded through daily training and matches.”

“Kobe’s Fadeaway (Golden Epic), current level: High School Elite, current equipped effects:

Host's wrist stability +10 when fading away, host's hang time +10% when fading away, host's fan attraction rate +20% after scoring.”

Gold, golden sh*t…

Ugh, golden epic?

Although the last buff of this talent seemed to be mocking Kobe, even the always calm Su Feng gasped after reading the system's introduction to this hidden talent!

If it were just an ordinary offensive talent, it wouldn't have excited Su Feng, who had seen a lot.

But it was clear that Kobe's fadeaway was a great one, even among hidden talents...

After all, it was the ultimate move of a generation's Iron God… Ahem, after all, it was a superb skill of a generation's super scorer, naturally different from those gaudy, cheap tricks on the market.

And the most important thing was that this hidden talent could be upgraded!

To put it simply, whether this hidden talent would be A-grade or SSR-grade in the future would be determined by Su Feng himself.

The stronger he became, the stronger this skill would become.

In fact, as early as when the system was upgraded to 6.0, Su Feng had become very interested in the talent and badge columns on the system interface.

Unlike shooting actions, which only had one equipment slot, talents and badges both had five equipment slots.

In other words, Su Feng could currently equip up to five talents.

And Kobe's fadeaway, in the system's talent classification, belonged to the major category of offense.

For talents of the same major category, the introduction stated that a maximum of three could be equipped.

“Before, when practicing the fadeaway, my wrist was not stable enough due to excessive force.

However, how much of a buff will this +10 actually give me?

Also, this hang time buff, obviously, this kind of percentage buff requires me to have a certain foundation to be reflected.”

After reviewing his gains, Su Feng quickly calmed down.

Because in Su Feng's view, this hidden talent he accidentally obtained would not transform him in the short term.

This talent was more like a long-term, reliable investment.

So, Su Feng silently equipped Kobe's fadeaway.

“I wonder if there are any other hidden talents, and if so, how to obtain them?” Su Feng wondered.

…

The next day, during team training, Su Feng made a special effort to try out the buffs that "Kobe's Fadeaway" gave him.

“Headache, how come my fadeaway accuracy is so high after equipping this talent?

It seems that the reason why I often missed fadeaways before was because my wrist wasn't stable enough when shooting.

However… why does upgrading this skill also require me to clang shots!”

As one of Su Feng's few current offensive means with the ball, during training, Su Feng found that it seemed that this talent gave him far more buffs than he had imagined.

Okay, the paradox that had been bothering Su Feng before had returned.

After equipping "Kobe's Fadeaway," Su Feng's fadeaway shooting percentage was higher than before.

But in this way, his clang value acquisition became slower.

But if he unequipped this talent, then this skill could not be upgraded.

Obviously, the system prevented all kinds of malicious clang behaviors that Su Feng could think of.

However, soon, Su Feng realized that his fadeaway had become more accurate, but only because…

Clang, clang, clang…

“Hahaha, Su, is this the ultimate move you said you had mastered?”

Looking at Su Feng, who was producing four clangs from three attempts under his defense, Kobe laughed loudly.

Su Feng: “……”

Sure enough, the qualitative change in his fadeaway was just an illusion!

It was entirely because the defense of the Nefaria team was too weak!

Su Feng: orz.

…

Time flew by, and it was soon the 11th.

This day was the day of the friendly match between Nefaria High School and Lower Merion High School.

The match was held at Lower Merion.

Although it was just an ordinary friendly match, for Su Feng, it was his first time participating in American high school basketball.

And after arriving at Lower Merion High School with the team, Su Feng immediately felt the overwhelming…

Enthusiasm of American high school students for basketball.

It could be described as: a sea of people, deafening drums, fluttering flags, and the sound of firecrackers…

Ahem, ahem.

From the school gate to the basketball gym, Su Feng could see students holding support items, ready to cheer for the basketball team.

The whole school seemed to be celebrating a festival.

“Welcome to Lower Merion!”

After arriving at the basketball gym according to the guidance of the staff, what first caught Su Feng and others' eyes was Greg Downer, the head coach of the Lower Merion High School basketball team, who was waiting here.

And just as Tony Jones, the head coach of the Nefaria High School basketball team, was about to go up and reminisce with Greg Downer, Greg Downer smiled and made way…

Immediately, an explosive music sounded.

On the court, the cheerleaders of Lower Merion High School shouted slogans and began a passionate dance.

The entire basketball gym instantly erupted.

Only by being here can you feel the excitement brought to you by the ever-increasing adrenaline.

“Welcome to Lower Merion.” After the cheerleaders' dance ended, Greg Downer went forward and shook hands with Tony Jones.

At this time, Su Feng also heard a lot of Lower Merion high school students who came to cheer for the school team complaining:

“Is this the team that lost to us by 58 points last year?”

“Go, Kobe, you can definitely get 100 points tonight!”

“Hey, I really hope Nefaria can last a little longer today, otherwise I'll have to go on a date with my girlfriend.”

“Go, Nefaria, I believe you will only lose by 60 points!”

Because the audience seats in the Lower Merion High School basketball gym were very close to the court, Su Feng heard these complaints clearly.

However, what made Su Feng feel strange was that he didn't feel anything about these complaints.

However, these Nefaria's chuunibyou patients have been playing for the school team for so many years, they should have feelings for the school team...

Could it be that they can endure hearing such contemptuous words?

When did American high school students become so rational?

Fortunately, assistant coach Anthony told Su Feng the truth.

It turned out that all the first-team players except him had prepared earplugs in advance.

"The strong prey on the weak, this is the law of survival, and also the law of basketball, competitive sports, if you can't beat the opponent, you deserve to be mocked, we are used to this kind of contempt." Anthony patted Su Feng on the shoulder and smiled.

Su Feng: “……”

How come there is a feeling of... full of the breath of the weak.

And just as Su Feng went to the locker room with his teammates to change their jerseys, he didn't notice that on the court, a gaze had been watching him.

"He is the Chinese exchange student that Kobe said is stronger than Downer and Swartz?" Greg Downer said, squinting his eyes.

"Dad... uh, Mr. Greg, in my opinion, you don't have to take Kobe's previous rebuttal to heart." Greg Downer's assistant, Drew Downer, said, holding a tactical board.

Greg smiled, and after patting Drew on the shoulder, he asked curiously: "Tell me your opinion."

"Since Kobe recommended this Chinese player named Su to you last time, I went to Nefaria High School to investigate as soon as possible.

The information shows that in his freshman and sophomore years, he was just an ordinary member of the Nefaria High School basketball reserve team.

So, I don't believe that he has stronger strength than Downer and Swartz.

Nefaria is not a strong basketball school, if there are such excellent players, I don't think they would throw him into the reserve team.

And in the process of investigating his information, I found that Su is quite famous in Nefaria, because he had the courage to do what is right when he went to school last semester, and even this matter was published in the local Philadelphia newspaper." Drew opened his notebook and said seriously to Greg.

After listening to Drew's explanation, Greg said with relief: "Drew, you have grown up, but just with these..."

"Of course, I won't just rely on these to make a judgment, but Mr. Greg, please think carefully, if Su really has the strength Kobe said, plus his popularity in Nefaria, then he may have been hidden until today?

In my opinion, he and Kobe should have a good relationship, and it is precisely because they are good friends that Kobe wanted to take care of his good friend before the start of this friendly match.

And the reason why Nefaria let him come with the team to play this friendly match may be because of his brave deeds last semester, and the school team wanted to reward him.

Give him a chance to compete on the same field with his good friend." Drew analyzed.

To be honest, it is a pity that Drew is not a private detective...

"It's just, Drew, you also know Kobe's temper..." Thinking of Kobe's previous recommendation of this Chinese player to himself, he even rebutted himself, Greg felt a headache.

If it were someone else, Greg might have lost his temper at the time.

But there was no way, it was Kobe who rebutted him this time.

Who made him Kobe Bryant?

So, Greg endured it, but in his heart, Greg also became curious about Su Feng, of course, Greg did not completely believe everything Kobe said.

After all, a Chinese guard who can play one-on-one with Kobe is difficult to separate, in Greg's opinion, it is like Chinese people hearing that Deng Yaping and an American amateur table tennis enthusiast are playing back and forth.

As someone who has been there, Greg is very clear that Kobe may just want to help his friend.

"Coach, Su is really strong, I hope the school can give him a full scholarship, I will persuade him to transfer, if you want to win the state championship, we need him!"

Whenever Greg recalled Kobe's stubborn eyes at the time, Greg felt that it was too ridiculous.

Especially after secretly observing Su Feng for a while today, in Greg's opinion, this slender Chinese guard is simply impossible to be as good as Kobe said.

…

After changing into his team uniform, Su Feng, wearing the No. 11 jersey, returned to the court with his teammates for pre-match warm-ups.

It is worth mentioning that during the warm-up, Su Feng and Kobe both noticed each other, but the two did not greet each other, because this was what they had agreed before.

Off the court are friends, on the court are enemies.

But speaking of which, it is worthy of being a game with Kobe...

Even in a friendly match, Su Feng also found a lot of people dressed as scouts in the audience.

Tsk tsk, it is really enviable, jealous and hateful.

On the court, after the players from both sides finished warming up, Anthony, the assistant coach of Nefaria High School, immediately submitted the team's starting list to the technical table.

Campa, Wright, John, Thomas, Downs...

Well, no Su Feng!

In fact, the reason why Su Feng is not in Nefaria's starting lineup is very simple, although Su Feng's strength has been recognized, but after all, Su Feng has not fully integrated into the team.

Tony Jones is a head coach who likes to be steady and steady, he hopes to gradually increase Su Feng's playing time, so as to help Su Feng adapt to the intensity of the high school league.

Although…

In Su Feng's view, there is no need for that at all...

However, Su Feng also understood Tony's thoughts.

So, just start from the sixth man.

However, what Su Feng never expected was that after seeing Nefaria's starting five players stepping onto the court one after another, Lower Merion's side...

Kobe exploded.

Bang——!

"What's going on? Why didn't you send Su to start?"

Kobe, who was gradually losing control of his emotions, actually rushed to the bench of Nefaria and questioned Tony Jones, the head coach of Nefaria.

This time... it was Nefaria's turn to be stunned.

Ah ha?

Fortunately, after being impulsive, Kobe became sober...

So, after taking a deep look at Su Feng, Kobe returned to the court in frustration.

"Why? It's impossible, that John played against me last year, he can't be stronger than Su..." Kobe, who wanted to beat Su Feng in an official match, felt that his mood was terrible at once.

And beside the bench of Lower Merion High School, the Downer father and son immediately put on a "as expected" expression.

Of course, neither Greg nor Drew exposed Kobe's good deed of wanting to help his good friend.

Because in Greg's opinion, people who know how to help their friends will definitely not be low in their future achievements.

…

On the court, after the starting five chuunibyou players of Nefaria stepped onto the court, the starting five players of Lower Merion also appeared in the cheers of the audience.

David Lassman, Guy Stewart, Kobe, Downer, Robbie Swartz...

As a die-hard Kobe fan, Su Feng was no stranger to the starting lineup of Lower Merion High School.

After all, in his previous life, in order to blacken Kobe... ahem, in order to praise Kobe, Su Feng had checked a lot of information.

Su Feng knew Kobe's life story like the back of his hand.

Although these high school teammates of Kobe were not able to enter the nBA in the future, for the United States, which is full of basketball talents, this does not mean that Kobe's teammates are weak.

In fact, most people only see the success achieved by nBA players, but ignore the geniuses who were trampled under their feet on their growth path.

One general succeeds and ten thousand bones wither.

This is competitive sports, this is basketball.

Cruel, ruthless, and indifferent.

Ahem, let's get down to business.

On the court, although he was a little stunned by Kobe's previous "show operation", after seeing that Kobe's emotions were a little low, John, the small forward of Nefaria who played against Kobe today, felt a lot easier...

You know, John was really beaten to tears last year.

Originally, John had a pretty girlfriend, but it was because he watched last year's game between Nefaria and Lower Merion that his girlfriend directly became his ex-girlfriend.

"I don't like softies like you!"

John was sad for a long time because of this.

But speaking of reason, I am not the only one who was beaten to tears by Kobe in Pennsylvania!

Unfortunately, Su Feng, who was sitting on the court at this time, did not know John's inner drama.

Otherwise, Su Feng would definitely tell him: Boy, you are doomed.

Because Su Feng knew Kobe too well.

Kobe had been secretly preparing for this game for a long time.

In Su Feng's previous life, Kobe's condition was often surprisingly good when he encountered an opponent he liked.

Su Feng knew that John, this unlucky child, was going to take the blame for himself today.

Friend, farewell!

…

On the court, as the referee tossed the ball to start the game, Su Feng was already a little unbearable to watch.

Oh, poor John!

Kobe jumped for the ball for Lower Merion, and Lower Merion High School took the lead in attacking.

The rules of the American high school basketball league are different from those of the nCAA, because it is a competition held at the state level, so there will be some small differences in the rules between the states.

Take Pennsylvania as an example, in 1994, the Pennsylvania High School Basketball League implemented four quarters of 8 minutes each.

This kind of game time is to protect young players, after all, young players at this stage are still in the stage of physical development.

In addition, the same as the nCAA, after the reform in 1993, the American high school basketball league currently implements a 35-second offensive round system.

This rule is to allow young guards to have more time to organize and cultivate their ability to observe on the court.

In Su Feng's previous life, some people had the whimsical idea that American high school students could beat the CBA...

But in fact, these people do not understand professional basketball at all.

Also do not understand American high school basketball.

Because the individual differences in American high school basketball are very huge, take Kobe as an example, in American high school, Kobe can even play from one to five, all kinds of omnipotent, but like Su Feng's captain Downs, his height is only 176 cm, and his weight is only 68 kg...

Garnett, the founder and CEO of the Retreating and Fighting Sect who will participate in the nBA draft next year, is an example. In high school, do you know what kind of opponents Garnett faced?

In addition to occasionally encountering opponents over two meters tall, most of them are players around 190 cm tall, and American coaches do not encourage players to do a lot of strength training during the development stage, so everyone's body is also similar...

So in Su Feng's view, the American high school basketball league is higher than the CBA level is purely nonsense...

Of course, the scene is indeed better than the CBA...

Because in the United States, the least thing is the spring man who can fly.

Speaking of which, in this life, Su Feng has not tried to dunk...

Su - completely addicted to clanging shots - Feng.

Returning to the court, Robbie Swartz, the point guard of Lower Merion High School, was holding the ball. Although Swartz did not make a name for himself in the future, Su Feng was very impressed with him.

It should be said that every devout Kobe hater... ahem, Kobe fan will be very impressed with him.

Huh?

Do not know him?

If you don't know him, how dare you say you are a Kobe fan?

The reason why Swartz is remembered by the world is precisely because he is the first unlucky guy in Kobe's basketball career to suffer the "death stare".

In Su Feng's previous life, this kid was once assigned to a group with Kobe when he was doing three-on-three training, and as a result, there was a chance to kill the game on the court at that time, and then Swartz did not pass the ball to Kobe, but chose to attack himself.

In the end, the ball did not go in, and Kobe's team also lost.

As a result... according to the authoritative statistics of Jeremy Treatman, the assistant coach of Lower Merion High School, Kobe stared at Swartz for a full 1 hour and 27 minutes next!

Oh my god, what kind of perseverance is this?

So, from then on, Swartz became a soulless ball-handling and passing machine.

In Lower Merion, he is mainly responsible for the similar work of future Lakers point guards.

Dribbling across the half court, passing the ball to Kobe, and then rolling aside.

It seems to be getting off topic again.

Back to the point.

Lower Merion's first offense, Swartz dribbled the ball across the half court and handed the ball to Kobe.

At this time, Kobe had changed to number 33 in memory of his father.

Well... in memory of his father, Su Feng always felt that something was wrong.

On the court, Kobe dribbled the ball with his right hand, and after quickly moving the basketball in the opposite direction, he stepped past John, who was defending him.

John is only 186 cm tall, his wingspan is also average, and he is afraid of Kobe, so he does not even dare to reach out when defending.

Su Feng felt that his ex-girlfriend was right to break up with him, because this guy was indeed a softie.

In Su Feng's view, even if you can't defend, you have to try your best to defend is the correct attitude towards the game.

Kobe, who broke into the inside, showed his amazing talent, he jumped high, held the ball with one hand, and slammed the ball into the basket.

At this moment, Campa, the center of Nefaria who was ridden under him, was very much like Su Feng three months ago.

Fortunately, because his relationship with Kobe has gradually warmed up, Kobe will not treat Su Feng so violently now.

Su Feng, who was sitting on the court, was filled with emotion.

Because Kobe's talent...

It's really too terrifying.

In Su Feng's previous life, Zhang Weiping's becoming a Kobe fan had a reason.

Although Kobe in this period still lacks in skills and strength, his style is handsome and particularly attractive.

0 to 2, according to the usual practice, the visiting team is in front, and the home team is behind.

Kobe's dunk ignited the entire basketball gym. John, who was shaken by Kobe, was very helpless. In the next offense, he was so embarrassed that he could not even hold the ball steady when he encountered Kobe's death entanglement.

Kobe stole the ball and launched a counterattack with a one-stop dribble. When he was about to reach the basket, Kobe jumped up and turned 180 degrees in the air and slammed the ball into the basket again!

Terrible!

To be honest, although black is black, in the high school basketball game in Pennsylvania, Kobe is indeed invincible.

It is a pity that Su Feng did not buy incense before the game, otherwise he would definitely light a stick for John.

Child, go, believe in yourself!

Clang——!

It was Kobe's steal again. Downs, the guard of Nefaria, had just dribbled the ball across the half court when he saw Kobe rushing towards him.

In a panic, Downs could not even hold the dribble that he was usually best at.

Kobe directly stole the basketball and made a single fast break.

A powerful tomahawk-style dunk.

Three consecutive dunks at the start.

Listening to the trembling sound of the basket, Su Feng knew that Kobe was very angry, and the consequences would be very serious.

"Are you really willing to see him lose the courage to play basketball for the rest of his life?"

"Put Su on the court, in my eyes, only he can fight with me!"

After completing the three consecutive dunks at the start and igniting the audience, before Su Feng could sigh, Kobe once again walked to the bench of Nefaria, pointing at John, who was responsible for defending him, and said to Tony Jones, the head coach of Nefaria.

Su Feng, can fight with Kobe?

Tony Jones and Anthony felt a little stunned.

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