Chapter 118 Height and Growth

Before the end of the Adidas ABCD camp, Kobe had his height measured.

At that time, it was measured that Kobe was already 195.8 centimeters tall.

"Haha, I remember Su was only about 190 centimeters, right?

Well, I have to keep a low profile when I get back this time.

I must let him discover on his own that I'm suddenly so much taller than him." Kobe had already made up his mind on the way back to Philadelphia.

......

"How tall are you now?"

Looking at Su Feng, who seemed, well... seemed a tiny bit taller than him, Kobe gritted his teeth and asked.

"197 centimeters," Su Feng replied calmly.

"Heh, I didn't expect... you've grown quite a bit this summer too." Kobe said, trembling slightly.

Often, the fun of boys is this boring.

Especially comparing heights.

If you're taller than your buddies, most guys will subconsciously stand a little straighter when walking.

"You seem... stronger than before?" Looking at Su Feng's big elbows, Kobe said in surprise.

"Yeah, I'm close to 85 kilograms now, and it's all muscle." Su Feng swung his arms twice and said.

"Well... very good! It seems you didn't waste your summer.

Come on, let me test if your current level is up to par."

Kobe put away his smile, his expression turned serious, and he stared at Su Feng.

Su Feng nodded and threw the basketball to Kobe.

Su Feng and Kobe's one-on-one rules were simple: 21 points, 2 points for 2 points, 3 points for 3 points.

If a foul occurred, the ball holder continued to attack, and after each failed attack, possession switched, with no rebounds.

On the court, after dribbling the ball twice, Kobe signaled with his eyes that the game had begun.

Boom, boom, boom!

Kobe dribbled and attacked Su Feng's left side first. Su Feng slid to keep up, while also stopping his center of gravity in time.

Sure enough, just as Su Feng had predicted.

Kobe's right hand suddenly pulled the ball back, wanting to go the other way, but Su Feng successfully defended it.

Seeing that the sudden attack failed, Kobe switched to backing down, using his shoulders and elbows to dig in from the 45-degree angle.

The young Kobe was already a walking *Encyclopedia of Small-Scale Offense*.

In Su Feng's previous life, the Lakers valued Kobe because during the tryout, the Logo Man was captivated by Kobe's comprehensive offensive skills.

Although Kobe's various aspects couldn't compare to the future at this time, the prototype had already begun to appear.

"Su, you've really gotten stronger, but, watch out, this is a trick I learned from Lamar!"

On the court, Kobe, who had dug into the three-second area, suddenly used his left hand to pull the ball, feigning a turn, but then nimbly turned in the opposite direction.

At the Adidas ABCD camp, Kobe had been tricked by Odom with this move many times.

Now, it was time to make Su Feng continue to kneel before him and sing *Conquest*!

And at the thought of Su Feng being abused by him, for some reason, Kobe felt a little happy.

However...

Accompanied by a sound—

*Pa*—!

Kobe's smile stopped abruptly!

"Oh, you learned this move too?" After swatting away Kobe's basketball dream, Su Feng smiled and said to Kobe.

"This..." Kobe was stunned.

"Hey, don't just stand there, it's my attack."

Su Feng didn't give Kobe a chance to think, because Su Feng knew that once Kobe got familiar with his routines, he would still be hard-pressed to defeat this young Kobe.

Win or lose, it all depended on this one!

On the court, Su Feng attacked.

Although he still didn't understand how he had just been blocked by Su Feng, Kobe felt relieved after seeing Su Feng's still-urgent dribbling skills.

"After a summer, is this all you've got?" Kobe taunted while defending.

Su Feng didn't answer, but instead dribbled with his back to the basket to the free throw line, preparing to turn around and shoot.

Kobe rushed up immediately.

Because in Kobe's view, Su Feng's shot was already a dead ball.

Since he couldn't dribble anymore, he could only choose to shoot.

Heh, still the old routine, still this familiar turnaround jumper!

"Die!"

Kobe, rushing toward Su Feng, certainly wouldn't shout such a chuuni line, but at this moment, Kobe's fierce expression had already betrayed his inner thoughts.

But...

Just as Kobe rushed toward Su Feng, Su Feng's big hand suddenly pulled the basketball back.

Su Feng held the ball in one hand, his pivot foot didn't move, and after a light half-turn, he switched the ball to his left hand, flicked his fingers, and tossed the ball into the basket!

"Sigh, getting past you now is like crossing a morning road, Kobe."

On the court, Su Feng stood with his hands on his hips, looked at the stunned Kobe, and used the trash talk he had prepared in advance to complain.

Kobe: "......"

Next, Kobe was destined to be stabbed in the heart.

Because he had underestimated Su Feng's strength.

For example, if the current Kobe had 80 points, then Su Feng would only have 75 points.

But the problem was that Su Feng was preparing for this one-on-one based on Kobe having 90 or even 100 points of ability, while in Kobe's view, Su Feng had at most 65 points.

Therefore, Kobe was first of all underestimating his opponent in terms of mentality.

Secondly, there was the asymmetry of information between the two sides.

Su Feng had watched the game videos of Kobe's McDonald's All-American game in his senior year, and knew Kobe's way of playing at this time.

But Kobe knew nothing about Su Feng after the summer.

Finally, well, still...

Su Feng knew Kobe too well.

If Su Feng's understanding of Kobe was limited to the keyboard before, then after more than a year of getting along, Su Feng's understanding of Kobe could be said to be all-round.

Su Feng knew that as long as he could find a way to get Kobe hyped up, his chances of winning would be much higher.

Because in fact, most of the games where Kobe got hyped up, the result was often—

Bang dang clang clang!

21 to 17!

When he made the three-pointer that won the game, Su Feng almost cried!

Remembering the past, being dunked on by Kobe.

Looking at today, shooting through the irritable Mamba snake in person.

"I, have become stronger!"

This was the first victory in Su Feng's one-on-one career with Kobe. From now on, it would no longer be Su Feng losing losing losing losing losing, but Su Feng one win and zero losses!

Well...

After all, it was the new season, so in Su Feng's view, the previous one-on-one wins and losses had to be reset.

Moreover, Kobe didn't record the previous games in a notebook, which was none of Su Feng's business.

"Alright, that's it for today, I'm going back to sleep."

After winning the one-on-one, Su Feng said to Kobe.

As a result, Kobe was anxious.

"No, we haven't decided the winner yet!"

Kobe grabbed Su Feng excitedly, refusing to let Su Feng leave.

"Didn't I already win?

Kobe, you're no match for me now.

Keep going, one day you'll catch up with me."

Su Feng felt great and patted Kobe on the shoulder.

"If you dare to leave, you won't have me as a friend in the future!"

Kobe was really anxious, his eyes were red.

Su Feng knew that if he really left, with Kobe's personality, he might really do something like breaking off their friendship.

"Play play play, but let's make it clear first, just one game." Su Feng said to Kobe.

"That won't work, two out of three games count." Kobe said.

"Okay okay okay, two out of three games then." Su Feng said helplessly.

What kind of person is this, we've already decided the winner and he still wants to continue playing, does he have no shame?

On the court, the game continued. As a result, in the second game, a fierce Kobe didn't give Su Feng a chance and won 21 to 13.

"Now it's one to one, continue!" Kobe said with fire in his eyes.

Then...

You might not believe it if I told you.

In the third game, Su Feng won again.

Because, thinking that he had already won a game and that was enough, Su Feng switched to 'McGrady's pull-up' to earn some brick-laying points. (brick-laying: slang for missed shots)

But.....

Who would have thought that Su Feng would actually pull out a whole set of Kobe's emoticons in the third game.

Looking at the sky!

Oh my god!

OMG!

Oh my god!

In short, in this game, Su Feng couldn't defend the fierce Kobe, but Kobe couldn't defend the crazy-shooting Su Feng either.

And Su Feng made more three-pointers, so Su Feng won.

"Two to one, it's over." Looking at Kobe, who was stunned by his shots, Su Feng felt that this matter was endless today.

"No! One last game!" Kobe looked at Su Feng unconvinced.

"Okay okay okay, one last game." Su Feng said with a wry smile.

……

"Su, you're not that good either, one more game!"

"No no, this one doesn't count, one more game!"

"Hahaha, I tricked you, Su? Your defense isn't very good either, well, one more game!"

In this way, Su Feng and Kobe's "last game" that day lasted from early morning until noon.

Su Feng felt that he had to take a break.

It wasn't that he had a problem with his stamina, nor was it that he didn't want brick-laying points, but...

If they continued to play like this, it would never end.

"Let's take a break first." Su Feng said, rubbing his chest, which had been bruised by Kobe's iron elbow.

"What? Are you already afraid of me?"

Although there were no records, Kobe must have won more after playing for seven or eight hours.

In Su Feng's previous life, Kobe had the reputation of being the king of one-on-one, not only because Kobe had comprehensive offensive skills...

But also because if Kobe kept winning, it would be fine, but if you won one or two games against him, then you would really have to play until the end of time.

Su Feng knew that his strengths and weaknesses were equally obvious at this time, so there was nothing to be ashamed of in not being able to beat Kobe in a one-on-one.

Su Feng was willing to play with Kobe for so long, on the one hand because Su Feng wanted to test his strength, and on the other hand because of the friendship between him and Kobe.

Brick-laying points could be earned later, so looking at Kobe, who was still not satisfied, Su Feng said: "Hey, I was originally going to make pizza and spaghetti for lunch today."

Huh?

Kobe's eyebrows suddenly twitched up and down.

At this moment, the Mamba snake seemed to have become a pet snake.

"Pizza and spaghetti?" For some reason, Kobe felt like he was a little hungry.

"Yeah, forget it, I think eating is more important than playing basketball? Let's play for a while longer!"

After saying that, Su Feng was about to pick up the ball.

"No no no, Su, I remembered!

At the Adidas ABCD camp, the coach once said that we are still developing, so we must eat on time." Kobe shook his head repeatedly.

"But in that case, wouldn't it be like I'm afraid of you?

Although I know you wouldn't think that way, but if others knew about it..." Su Feng said, pretending to be in a difficult situation.

"How is that possible? You won me many times today, didn't you?

And besides, one-on-one is between us, I won't tell anyone else."

After pausing, Kobe swallowed, "Let's go eat!"

Su Feng was happy. Look, how important is it to cook a good meal?

What bullshit, 'learn English and travel the world'?

In his previous life, Su Feng had seen a news report about a domestic team going to work in Saudi Arabia. As a result, because they didn't bring a cook, a planner volunteered to be the cook.

Then, before the team returned home, the Saudi side refused to let them go.

Because during this time, the staff on the Saudi side were also eating with the domestic team.

So, the Saudi side offered the planner three times his salary, anyway, you continue to do your previous work, but you have to be a cook every day.

Therefore, can a basketball player who can't cook still be called a basketball player?

If you can't cook, you don't even have the right to be sprayed for being bad at cooking.

"By the way, how did you improve so quickly?" On the way home with Kobe, Kobe looked at Su Feng curiously and asked.

"This summer, I've been training with Tracy in Orlando." Su Feng said.

"Tracy? 'Pumpkin Head'?" Kobe asked in surprise.

"Yeah, we play one-on-one every day in Orlando." Su Feng said.

"Then what? Did you win more or did he win more?" Kobe asked.

"Of course it was me, otherwise do you think I would have a chance to beat you?" Su Feng took the opportunity to repair his relationship with Kobe.

After all, with Kobe's personality, Su Feng felt that some of the trash talk he had spouted this morning was a bit of a death wish.

Kobe was amused by Su Feng, "That's right, how could Tracy be your opponent, with his shooting percentage, I dare to leave him three meters away."

"Hey, Su, do you want to know what I experienced at the Adidas ABCD camp?" Kobe suddenly put his arm around Su Feng and smiled.

Isn't it just that you beat the whole place and won the MVP?

Please, you've told these stories over and over again when you're on TV shows in the future, who doesn't know them.

"Lamar is much worse than I thought." Kobe sighed.

"Oh? Didn't you say he was stronger than me at first?" Su Feng asked curiously.

"How is that possible? Every time I play one-on-one with him, he runs away halfway through, it's not fun at all." Kobe said to Su Feng.

"Yeah, in Orlando, Tracy also can't play anymore halfway through every time." Su Feng sighed.

"So, Su, if you can play like you did today in the new season, I believe you will definitely be selected." Kobe said.

Su Feng: "......"

Alright, bro, please don't give me milk, okay? (milk: slang for jinx)

Su Feng originally felt that he was stable, but after being milked by Kobe...

"Why not find someone to milk me again, two negatives make a positive?" Su Feng thought.

……