Healing Basketball Chapter 494

Chapter 494 494. Finished! (6000 words)

"The light can be a little brighter. From this angle, yes, I look more handsome when I smile sideways..."

On May 8, the morning of the first game between the Blazers and the Mavericks, Liu Xiu came to the arena at 8 o'clock. Before the preparation meeting, he had an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency.

Xu Jicheng watched Liu Xiu communicate so smoothly with his usually unsmiling and cold cameraman, and he looked like he was very familiar with each other. He could understand why Liu Xiu was better than Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and others in foreign countries.

If you are not strong enough to practice, if you are not talented, you will not be able to enter the NBA.

If you can't get along with people in this environment, you just need to change the environment. If you don't leave a master here, you will have a place for your master.

The important thing is to dare to speak!

Wang Zhizhi, who only entered the NBA at the age of 23, although he missed the most critical 3-4 years of growth, it is unlikely that he will become a player like Yao Ming, but with his talent, he will become a main force. Looking at the current Wang Zhizhi, it is not obvious. what a big deal.

The important thing is to ask more and learn more, but Wang Zhizhi didn't have a clear development direction until he was 26 years old, got to know Liu Xiu, got Liu Xiu's advice, and focused on becoming a functional player. The team is just a boring gourd who doesn't say anything, even if he thinks it's not suitable for him, he will endure it...

After Liu Xiu and the cameraman communicated and adjusted the camera angle, the interview started.

Xu Jicheng: "Warden, Dayao failed to enter the playoffs, Dayao has been eliminated in the first round, and you are the only Chinese player left in the playoffs. How do you feel about the next playoffs with the Mavericks? Are you confident?"

Liu Xiu: "Of course, we are the second in the West, they are only the third in the West, and we won more matches in the regular season. This wave of advantages is mine."

This self-confidence that I don't have! The older generation of basketball players in China and the basketball people who have been in the basketball industry for many years highly respect Liu Xiu because of this.

Xu Jicheng calmed down and asked, "How do you feel about Dayao's first playoff performance?"

Liu Xiu thought for a while: "He is miserable."

"Misery? His performance was the best of all centers in the first round this year."

"That's right, that's why he's miserable, a center who averages 30 points per game, and is also very good at protecting the rim. He can't win a game, he's not miserable, and he still lost to Nash, as far as I know, last summer. Nash's first goal is to stay with the Mavericks, and his second goal is to join the Rockets and join forces with Dayao, but the owner of Texas has the same vision."

So direct and sharp!

Like Xu Jicheng and the others, it's not that they can't see the problems of the Rockets, but when the domestic official media reports the news, they always report good places. They report that Chinese people are respected in a certain country, but they hardly report pictures of being bullied abroad.

This is understandable, the official media may be thinking about enhancing national self-confidence - see if we can eat more outside.

But the actual effect is to endorse those well-known people.

Liu Xiu's answer, Xu Jicheng is ready to report!

They dare not say it themselves, but the number one basketball player in China must have his reasons for saying so, they are just porters of the warden's remarks...

After the interview, Liu Xiu followed the team to a pre-match meeting and training. At noon, Liu Xiu heard Payton say something - Artest, who won the 8th MVP vote, scolded James in the air.

All players with beast-level physical fitness, Artest and James are on the bar, and the Pacers and Cavaliers are scheduled to be popular next season.

This time, Liu Xiu felt that Lebang was really innocent, and it was not something he could control.

Change him to the warden. If it is the same situation, it is impossible for him to jump out and say that he is not worthy or not.

But, having said that, since you choose to accept all of this calmly and enjoy the benefits, you must bear the side effects yourself.

Payton has some good news, and Liu Xiu also heard about some things related to the labor-management agreement.

The maximum contract term of the new version of the labor-management agreement will be cut by another year, shortening it from 7 years to 6 years, giving players and teams more options. Add player options or team options.

This is closely related to the interests of the players, and Liu Xiu wrote it down.

And what he is most interested in about the new collective agreement is that the Knicks apply to the league to buy out Alan Houston's contract but the remainder of his contract will not count toward the salary cap.

Last year, Alan Houston was reimbursed in the middle of the season, and it was a devastating and serious injury. Although he came back this season, he played in 20 games and averaged only 12 points and 2 assists per game. The knee injury obviously did not heal. Later, the injury aggravated and was reimbursed again.

The first-generation amnesty clause Alan-Houston clause is coming out!

As a player, I feel this is a sad thing.

Sympathy for Houston for three seconds...Sympathy is over, have a happy lunch, settle down to take a nap, and recharge for tonight's game.

At 5:00 p.m. Western time, the two games in the East were played at the same time, and the Blazers and Mavericks also reunited, and the players began to warm up before the game one after another.

The warm-up preparations before the game were almost ready. While Liu Xiu and his teammates were chatting and waiting for entry, Randolph rushed over from the lounge.

"Something big! Something big!"

Randolph's voice immediately attracted everyone's attention, but he was always taken aback, and no one really took it seriously.

Randolph was not embarrassed, and said the answer directly: "Iverson won! He scored 54 points, black seven!"

This news is really shocking!

Liu Xiu asked, "Butcher, you actually like Iverson?"

"?" The butcher had a question mark face, shook his head and replied, "You like Iverson, I like O'Neal!"

Liu Xiu asked in confusion: "Why are you so happy that O'Neal was eliminated?"

Randolph really answered: "If O'Neal made it to the finals, and we also made it to the finals, I would play very hard, and now that he is eliminated, there is only one O'Neal in the playoffs, and that is Rose. Bay…”

"Jermaine O'Neal."

"Damn warden, don't run, stop for me..."

Iverson made 21 of 40 shots, plus 12 of 12 free throws, soaring 54 points and 6 assists, leading the 76ers to a 97-91 victory over the Heat, winning the tiebreaker and becoming the only team in the first round of the season. The team on the next gram!

O'Neal scored 27 points on 12 of 19 shots, and Wade scored 21 points on 7 of 20 shots. The Heat's dual-core performance was good, but apart from the two of them, no one scored in double figures!

This season, some people have been saying that the Pacers have a poor rotation and the Suns have an 8-player rotation. In fact, the Heat are the worst. In order to get O'Neal, they sent away the original three starters - Caron Butler, O'Neal Dom, Brian Grant.

Although Eddie Jones is left, Eddie Jones is 33 years old, his state is collapsing, and the team has fewer people taking shots from the outside. Eddie Jones' score plummeted. When Wade and O'Neal were around Not even a decent wing pitcher can.

Of course, the key to the Heat's upset is Iverson's violent performance!

Here in Portland, the game between the Blazers and the Mavericks is about to start, and the TV commentator is still talking about the 76ers advancing to the second round.

T.N.T Sports, Barkley really laughed out loud, teasing that Iverson was helping Carter and McGrady join forces in the Eastern Conference Finals.

On the Pistons side, if they meet the Heat in the second round, they are not very good, but they played against the 76ers, Billups, Hamilton, Carter, Ben Wallace, and Prince on the bench. , Darius-Myers and others... The collective encirclement and suppression of Iverson, the effect during the regular season was quite good!

Besides the game between the 76ers and the Heat, there was also a game that had received a lot of attention. The Nets, the strongest perimeter trio, played against the defending champion Pacers.

Relying on McGrady's 20 points, Richard Jefferson's 21 points, Kidd's 15 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, the Nets defeated the Pacers 96-81.

Lian Zhuang DPOY Artest scored 23 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and 1 block on 7 of 17 shots and 9 of 11 free throws. He performed well, but whether it is offense or defense, it can only be achieved by McGrady and Richard. - Jefferson was defeated in the round of bombing by the two of them.

The defending champion's back line is weak, and the frontcourt backup lineup is old and weak. Kidd is in the playoffs. With better teammates, his dominance is more prominent, and he has the demeanor of a magician... So many things to watch, not as good as Iverson One shines!

His eyes came to the court of the Rose Garden Arena. The Blazers players who had entered the court focused their attention on the upcoming game.

Liu Xiu enjoyed the fanatical cheers of the fans on the spot. The amazing Black Seven on Iverson's side was just another division for him.

If their Blazers can't make it to the finals, everything that happens in the Eastern Conference playoffs has nothing to do with him.

Once on the court, Liu Xiu is always so calm in this regard.

Under the leadership of the warden, the rest of the Blazers were also extremely focused in the frenetic atmosphere of the scene.

Compared to the calmness and focus of the Blazers, the Mavericks players are a little impetuous.

Confidence, worry, anger, hatred, fear... all kinds of emotions are mixed together.

After the admission ceremony, an award ceremony was held for the best sixth man of Momomoko.

The director accepted Liu Xiu's suggestion. When posting the best sixth man on the big screen, he marked two consecutive years, and posted the names of the two famous players, McHaledan and Schramf, who achieved this achievement. When he came out, Momonga smiled brightly when he took the trophy from the vice president.

Liu Xiu was curious about why the boss didn't come to present the award, and asked the coach, who was also puzzled. In the morning, he saw the boss dressed in fancy clothes being interviewed by Xinhua News Agency. In the afternoon, he suddenly said that he couldn't come to the scene to watch the game...

In the final preparation time before the game, Maurice Cheeks did not adjust his tactics and style of play, but he boosted his morale and emphasized the things to pay attention to.

The game is about to start, and Liu Xiu copied Momo's 'Flying Squirrel' and Terry's 'Jet' and put on four extra pairs of socks.

Putting on his socks, Liu Xiu came to the technical table, ignoring the murderous Terry, and looked at the other four starters of the Mavericks - Nowitzki, Josh Howard, Ratliff, and rookie Devin Harris!

Finley was put on the bench!

Liu Xiu analyzed that there are two purposes for the operation of the small general. One is to enhance the strength of the bench lineup. , but 36% hit rate, too bad too bad.

It was Del Harris, who averaged 9.3 points and 3.5 assists in the first round, with a 42% shooting percentage, and his performance was remarkable.

The Mavericks adjusted their starting lineup, while the Blazers continued their starting lineup in the first round. Liu Xiu brought Payton, Outlaws, Randolph, and Kwame Brown on the court!

At 8 p.m., the Blazers vs. the Mavericks kicked off as Kwame Brown beat Ratliff to win a jump ball!

Payton received the ball and advanced it to the frontcourt and passed it to Liu Xiu. The rookie Devin Harris was defending Liu Xiu. Kwame Brown ran out to pick and roll for Liu Xiu. He didn't shoot, but passed the ball to Randolph, who was pushing inward against Nowitzki. Ratliff expanded to the free throw line and did not continue to expand, and immediately retracted.

Randolph returned to the middle, Liu Xiu passed the ball and then cut in the middle. After the 'General (buff)' pick-and-roll, the effect of +3 speed within 1 second helped him start quickly. After receiving the ball, although the bonus ended, he started at full speed. , Relying on the speed of 93, he avoided Josh Howard's mid-range defense and entered the inside line. He was about to buckle, and Ratliff took his life to make it up!

The dunk route is locked! Liu Xiu threw the bar and the ball hit the basket's neck and bounced out.

Nowitzki withstood Randolph and protected the defensive rebound.

Liu Xiu and Randolph immediately turned around and retreated, Kwame Brown, the extrajudicial fanatic, and Payton had already retreated.

Ratliff was a really good defender, he gave too much interference.

But it doesn't matter, the Trail Blazers, who had retreated and defended in place, dragged the Mavericks into a positional battle to attack, Nowitzki was in charge of the first attack, and the retreating jumper was disturbed by Kwame Brown!

Payton emptied Harris, took it back to the basket and borrowed Randolph to block Ratliff to grab a defensive rebound, passed it to Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu fought back!

Josh Howard, who was chasing Liu Xiu, was thrown away by Liu Xiu within a few steps. Although Harris retreated in time, but when he returned to the basket, he saw Liu Xiu rushing in. There was nothing to do. Liu Xiu counterattacked and got the layup. The next two points.

The fans at the scene let out a "wow" and then cheered again.

They wanted to watch the warden dunk violently, but Harris was guarding the basket, an unknown player, so he was faster, but in the eyes of the Blazers fans, it was still far worse than the Momoko back then. Not worthy of being baptized by the warden.

The offense and defense changed, and the embarrassed Harris stepped forward unconsciously. When he got to the frontcourt and encountered Liu Xiu's defense, Harris chose to break through... Encountered a rough confrontation from Liu Xiu!

Although it failed to prevent Harris from breaking through, it affected Harris' starting speed. When Harris burst into close range, Kwame Brown's defense was in place! Kwame Brown was in front, and Liu Xiu was chasing after him. Harris chose a high throw to play the board, avoiding Kwame Brown's block, but the ball bounced from the rebound to the hoop, and then from the basket. The box pops out, it's iron!

Dallas Double Ugly!

Josh Howard Rao made a basket, jumped high and clicked the ball in the air, making a tip!

2 to 2 level!

The butcher patted his chest, indicating that the ball was Josh Howard, who he didn't notice, and the atmosphere was not affected.

It was the Blazers' turn to attack. Liu Xiu and Randolph continued to attack the inside line. Josh Howard defended the mid-range, Ratliff defended the close range, and protected the frame. Nowitzki squatted under the basket and supported Randolph by tonnage. .

It was Randolph who took the shot this time. He missed the hook and turned to the front of the basket. Nowitzki protected the rebound.

Looking back, Terry singled against the extrajudicial gangster, and the outside line swooped in without a chance. As a result, the flank encountered Liu Xiu's blocking defense, and was attacked by Liu Xiu and the extrajudicial gangster!

Under Liu Xiu's rude blocking, Terry jumped up on the spot, the speed of the bullet was quite fast, and he took a jump shot before the extrajudicial fanatics blocked in place...

is also iron!

Kwame Brown protected the defensive rebound and passed it to Liu Xiu.

The Mavericks retreated quickly this time, and Liu Xiu still chose to fight back. Ratliff directed his teammates to stand on the way to retreat. Liu Xiu didn't have a good chance to attack the frame. .

The Mavericks are all ready for the package service of preventing shots and cutting off the passing line. As a result, Liu Xiu did not attack, waiting for his teammates to run over slowly and take a position battle!

The Blazers are too obvious this time, everyone can see it, they are fighting a war of attrition!

Defense, confront, press rhythm, use counterattack to force the Mavericks to quickly retreat...

After fell into positional warfare, Liu Xiu continued to attack the inside! Challenge Ratliff's defense!

In the following time, as long as he falls into a positional battle, Liu Xiu will attack the basket. In the first quarter, there were a total of 5 shots to the basket in a positional battle, but he only scored once. Neither is bad, but the counterattack is excellent!

At the end of the first quarter, Liu Xiu made 3 of 8 shots in a single quarter, plus 1 of 2 free throws, and scored 7 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist.

The Trail Blazers did not score very high. The team scored only 9 goals in 25 shots in a single quarter, only 2 of 7 three-pointers, and only 3 of 5 free throws, with a total of only 23 points.

However, they limited the Mavericks to only 17 points in the first quarter!

Nowitzki made 1 of 5 shots in the first quarter, and his offensive performance in positional warfare was the same as Liu Xiu, but he did not have Liu Xiu's counterattack ability! Under Kwame Brown's defense, Nowitzki performed poorly in singles and only scored 2 points, although he had the feat of 5 defensive rebounds in a single quarter, and together with Ratliff, he built a stronger than the opponent. Three-second zone defense, but offensive performance is too bad.

Terry performed well, 2 of 4 shots, 1 of 2 three-pointers, 5 points and 2 assists, but Harris only made 1 of 4 shots in a single quarter! Daniels, who came off the bench, made 0 of 3 shots in a single quarter!

Throughout the first quarter, the Mavericks had only Terry, Josh Howard, and Stackhouse perform normally.

And they have few counterattacks, poor offensive rebounds, only 19 shots in a single quarter, 6 fewer than the Blazers!

Junior Johnson made a lot of preparations based on the last match in the regular season, but he didn't expect the opponent to be more aggressive than that game!

In the opinion of the general, the Blazers' defensive plan is too hard, that is, they are betting on whether they can guard Nowitzki and Terry.

If the Blazers can't guard these two, and then the tempo falls into the slow-paced positional battles that the Mavericks like, the Mavericks' infinite singles flow will definitely take off.

But this is just the opinion of the general. The Trail Blazers are confident to give Nowitzki a very large limit.

And the Blazers are not that big, the extrajudicial madman defends Terry, he can limit it if he can, but he can't be pulled down, and the focus of defense is only Nowitzki!

That's not really the core of the Blazers' tactical plan, their tactical core is to consume Ratliff!

The last time they played against each other, the Trail Blazers found that the coaching field of the little general was too narrow, and the ability returned to the ability, but the things he paid attention to in the game were very simple.

This time it was the same again. The general replaced Nowitzki with more than 3 minutes left in the first quarter. He used Dampier and Ratliff to protect the frame, and the defense was full. He continued to give Liu Xiu a limit on attacking the frame. Randolph and Raheem, who came off the bench, also played a great limiting role, but Ratliff played the whole quarter...

In the second quarter, Nowitzki came back from a rest, played 10 minutes, made 2 of 4 shots, scored 5 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, and his performance was not bad.

But Ratliff's defensive performance declined significantly, and the general noticed that Ratliff was playing for too long at this time, and quickly replaced him to rest and replaced Dampier and Nowitzki to protect the frame.

The little general was in a hurry to adjust, and he wasted a good performance of Nowitzki's active adjustment and trying to find a way to play. The Mavericks only scored 21 points in this quarter!

And the Blazers took advantage of Ratliff's decline in defensive performance, the King of Silver Horn + the second center in the West couldn't guard Randolph, and scored 25 points in a single quarter!

Randolph made 2 of 3 shots and 4 of 5 free throws in a single quarter to get 8 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist. Liu Xiu made 3 of 5 shots in a single quarter, mainly scoring on counterattacks, and scored 9 points and 2 assists!

After halftime, the Blazers led the Mavericks by 10 points 48-38!

In the third quarter, Terry went berserk, made 5 of 10 shots, including 2 of 2 three-pointers, and scored 12 points and 3 assists in a single quarter, helping the Mavericks score 28 points in a single quarter, with a score of 28-24.

Chased the score to 66-72 at the end of the single quarter, creating a chance for a comeback in the final quarter.

But at the end, after Terry C couldn't get up, the Mavericks collapsed!

Because Nowitzki only made 1 of 5 shots in the third quarter! Terry played so well in this section, and the extrajudicial fanatic and Kwame Brown took turns to play the wheel defense against Nowitzki.

The extrajudicial fanatic went to defend Nowitzki. Liu Xiu and Payton were hammered by Terry for a whole quarter... It can't be said that they were hammered. Liu Xiu also scored in double figures in the third quarter, with 10 points in a single quarter!

Nowitzki made 0 of 2 shots in the final quarter and scored no points. Terry scored 5 points on 2 of 5 shots. The Mavericks only scored 19 points in the final quarter.

The Blazers scored very steadily throughout the game, scoring 23 points in the first quarter, 25 points in the second quarter, 24 points in the third quarter, and 24 points in the final quarter.

Liu Xiu scored 7 points in the first quarter, 9 points in the second quarter, 10 points in the third quarter, and 7 points in the fourth quarter, making 12 of 28 shots, including 1 of 4 three-pointers, plus 8 of 9 free throws, soaring 33 points With 8 rebounds and 8 assists, he led the Blazers to beat the Mavericks 96-85 and won the first victory of the series!

(end of this chapter)

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