Healing Basketball Chapter 379

Chapter 379 379. Savior or Conqueror?

A player who enters the NBA after four years of college is quite different from a player who enters the NBA after one year of college.

Only looking at the inside line, not talking about the special players like Duncan, you can see the difference by looking at the performances of Okafor and Bosh in their rookie seasons.

After being targeted, Bosh played blindly, and he knew how to fight, but it was actually okay, at least he knew how to fight. The mental quality is fragile like Kwame Brown and Milicic. Being targeted in his rookie season may really collapse his confidence.

Although Okafor was confused in the first quarter, he began to fight back hard in the second quarter, but he is not an offensive player, and it is really difficult to defend Randolph with his body, so he chose to take advantage of his being targeted, Just teammates, really bad!

Okafor, who still has a certain gap from the first-class stars and needs to be leveled up, is already the best player in the team. He averaged 13.7 shots and scored 14.8 points per game. He is already the player with the most shots and the highest score in the team.

The numbers of players who were recruited by the Bobcats from each team seem to be a qualitative leap, but those players are all players outside the 8-man protection list of each team. Even if they are buried, the first year of changing teams is still high. not going anywhere.

Even so, Okafor patiently learned how to use his own threats, how to play better, and persevere... Players who are still studying for a master's degree after entering the NBA are so different.

However, no matter how mature Okafor is, he is just a rookie. In the end, his mentality still collapsed. He threw two three-pointers in the middle of the third quarter, and even scored one! Bernie Bickerstaff quickly replaced him.

Played 25 minutes in three quarters, made 3 of 12 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers, plus 2 of 4 free throws, scored 9 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 fouls and 2 turnovers.

Playing poorly, Bickerstaff is not afraid, Okafor is a very mature player, has been trying to adjust.

But Bickerstaff didn't expect that a mature genius like Okafor could be played by the opponent to the point of having a mental explosion!

Extremely bad!

On Liu Xiu's side, he made 24 crazy shots in the three quarters, of which 18 were from the mid-to-long distance, and he threw them flying. He made 11 of 24 shots, including 3 of 8 three-pointers, plus 8 of 8 free throws, scoring 33 points and 10. Board 1 assists 2 steals!

By the end of the three quarters, the score had reached 80-55, and the score difference had widened to 25 points. Liu Xiu did not play in the last quarter.

Okafor was taken off to rest with more than 2 minutes left in the third quarter. He worked hard to adjust his mood. After the inter-quarter break, his mood has calmed down.

What a big deal, isn't it just being targeted, the prison team is on the opposite side, I can understand a little bit worse... a fart!

Okafor looked at the sloppy defense on the opposite side. Momogo went up and took a few substitutes to make a few hits. The Bobcats scored 34 points in a single quarter and beat the Blazers led by Momomoko in a 34-21 single. Festival!

Watching teammate Jason Kapono, who came off the bench, score 11 points in a single quarter, and Gerald Wallace, who was actively rushing, scored 12 points in a single quarter... Okafor felt that this was what his opponent showed him!

The other party seems to be saying - if we don't give it, you can't grab it...

In the end, the Trail Blazers beat the Bobcats 101-89 to improve their record to 23-9!

Another rookie was abused by the prison team!

Bullying a rookie is a popular thing in the sports world. In competitive sports, only the strong have the right to speak. As long as it is done in a normal way, it is normal for people to humiliate a rookie, especially in a commercial league like the NBA... But when things fell on the Blazers, it was different, and the major media began to talk about 'professional ethics'.

Liu Xiu has long been accustomed to this. He has 6 more rebounds than Okafor, and has 6000 healing points!

Also, Okafor rarely provided healing points in the early stage of the game, but after his mentality exploded, he contributed a total of more than 300 healing points. Liu Xiu felt that he had a sense of accomplishment.

Okafor seems to focus all his resentment on his warden alone. For this situation, Liu Xiu said the more the better.

The first six days of the new year were spent at home. The morning after the Bobcats played, Liu Xiu left Portland with the team and started a three-game trip to the East.

First stop - New York.

Near noon, the Blazers checked into a hotel on Manhattan Island.

Liu Xiu had a rest for a while, and before she had eaten her lunch, she received a call from Bill Duffy, and the US cable sports had an exclusive interview invitation.

Interview? CNN is owned by Knicks owner James Dolan, right? He was going to interview him as soon as he arrived in New York. This is to increase the probability of winning for the Knicks and deliberately toss him? But not right!

Liu Xiu also watched the news of American cable TV sports this year. Don't look at the same owner. When this TV station reports the news of the Knicks, it is mainly stepping on... It may be because he has become the opponent of the Knicks. Do you really want to hug him?

American cable sports really can do this kind of thing.

But he didn't want to go, he wanted to rest.

Bill Duffy's tone sounds like this is not a very important interview. Anyway, his warden and the media have never dealt with it. Liu Xiuzheng was about to refuse, and the system prompt came!

"Madison Square Garden, where basketball players step into the world's strongest basketball league, where their dreams begin.

The host came to this arena to participate in the game again. The basketball fans in the city were pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the host, eager for the host to become a part of the team in this arena.

Here has the most dazzling stage in the entire basketball world, has the most unrestrained fans, and focuses on the eyes of the entire basketball world... Mission: The savior or the conqueror is triggered.

Please choose to be the savior or the conqueror of the host..."

As the saying goes, time will dilute everything, such as once resentment.

This is New York, the Big Apple. This team is the Knicks, one of the NBA's veteran teams. It has the Mecca of basketball—Madison Square Garden. The Knicks were not ranked 9th in the first round. The warden was chosen in 2003, and now it's 2005, and the warden will definitely want to return to play on this team... This is the general opinion of New York basketball fans.

As a New York fan, that's how confident he is.

On the evening of January 7, 2005, the evening news program of the US cable sports channel broadcast an exclusive interview with Liu Xiu.

It doesn't matter if there are others, but the important thing is that the reporter asked Liu Xiu if he planned to return to New York to play.

Liu Xiu replied: "The Knicks are one of my favorite teams. I have imagined myself wearing a Knicks jersey many times, and I am definitely eager to play here..."

For a time, cheers and screams were heard from all over New York.

Warden!

is synonymous with talent!

He still thinks of New York! He forgave the Knicks who didn't pick him with the 9th pick!

However, Liu Xiu's answer is not over yet, he deliberately paused here for a while and then continued: "...I will come here to find a job when I am ready to retire. I think they will be willing to give me a job. Maximum salary for my retirement."

This big gasp, the cheers and screams of New York came to an abrupt end, and then the people of New York showed their lack of street talk…

In a manor in New York, the Blazers owner Paul Allen was free these two days. He saw the promotion of the interview and report of the American cable TV station. He deliberately stayed in front of the TV. Angrily jumped up and scolded the street.

White-eyed wolf! A proper white-eyed wolf! Is he not good enough for this sophomore?

He yelled at the secretary: "Kiele! I'm going to block him! He wants to go to New York? Impossible! I want him to not play for three years, and when I let him go to New York, he has no talent..."

But just after he finished scolding, half a sentence from Liu Xiu's breath appeared on the TV screen.

For a while, the atmosphere became embarrassing... But people who are bosses are afraid of embarrassment?

Paul Allen said to his secretary as if nothing had happened just now, "Kiele, call Dolan, I want tickets for tomorrow!"

The secretary was instructed to call for tickets, a few minutes later…

"Boss, he refused to give tickets and hung up."

"shxt... Kiel! Go and buy all the tickets that are not sold out in the front row of tomorrow's game!"

"Good boss... eh?"

The secretary never questioned the boss's decision, he did whatever the boss arranged, and he was very knowledgeable about what happened. He understood the boss's thoughts and knew what to do more.

But this time, I still didn't understand what the boss meant, so I couldn't help but make a suspicious voice.

Paul Allen said: "Tomorrow's game will be broadcast live, and I will let him vacate a large seat in the first few rows, so that others can see that his team's home game can't even sell the front row seat, let him be good. Lose your face!"

Secretary: Oh, I see! Gotta buy a press release...

The Knicks are the team Liu Xiu doesn't want to go to.

At least for the past 30 years, the stars who played in this team did not end up badly. They were sold off, abandoned, and even retired stars who went to the arena to watch the game and were kicked out by the owner in the future.

He doesn't want to be the one who changes this team, and the reason is simple - it's too much trouble.

Changing the prison team is already difficult okay!

And it was only with the cooperation and help of the two "prison overlords" Randolph and Tianzun that they could get on the right track so smoothly.

Nursing home... That pit is much harder than the prison team.

The comfort zone is so comfortable, what do you do when you have nothing to do?

Zhan has never made New York his next home, even though it has the biggest market here.

He didn't care what the New York fans thought of what he said, if he had been playing in the West, he would come here once a year to play...and, interestingly, the reaction of the New York fans he saw online was First catch Dolan and scold...

The important thing is that these words will not only offend the Knicks owner and New York fans, but also offend the former superstars of the Knicks... By the way, there is also Marbury who is at his peak...

"The host has made your choice, the series mission: Madison Conqueror is triggered.

2004-2005 Season Conquer Madison Mission: The Nightmare Begins Triggered…”

(end of this chapter)

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