Healing Basketball Chapter 527

Chapter 527 527. Offseason situation

Time came to July 22, and Liu Xiu's two-week business activities had ended. She took her family back to her hometown to rest for a few days. In a few days, she would go to Los Angeles to meet her old college teammates. The appointments for the party and the training appointments with Anthony, Ray Allen, Kobe, Nash and others are all scheduled for the end of the month and the beginning of the next month.

After returning to his hometown, Liu Xiu enjoyed the treatment of a 'big star'. Unlike the last time he came back and stayed for two days, he left in a hurry to go to the training ground. This time, all the relatives and friends from his hometown came, and his parents also specially A 'Championship Celebration Banquet' was held, and all the neighbors were invited.

The guests who came to the banquet watched a live broadcast of his complete game. Liu Xiu probably couldn't find a few, which made him think of red and white things...

During the celebration banquet, the street director used the hotel's broken amplifier to say "Welcome our superstar Liu Xiu back to his hometown for vacation...", making Liu Xiuhao want to shout: Buy him!

However, Liu Xiu was very happy to find that everyone knew him.

The Olympic Games shined brilliantly and the NBA won the championship. He is not a household name in China, but most people have seen him through various information dissemination channels.

And the TV audience these days are not as crazy as they will be in the future. Some people recognize him on the road. Even NBA fans are at most excited to come up and ask for an autograph. The deformed products of the fan circle and fan economy have not appeared.

As a social cow, Liu Xiu also bought Polaroids on purpose. When he met real fans, he not only signed autographs, but also sent group photos.

This time, when I went back to my hometown for vacation, Liu Xiu was very happy overall. If there is anything that hurts, Anne Hathaway bought a bunch of 'traditional Chinese cultural souvenirs' that are too fake to be fake. No matter where she goes, This girl will buy whatever she likes, what can he do? Carry the bag.

After rest, Liu Xiu is also continuing to pay attention to the NBA.

The most interesting thing is Popovich's scolding.

After the Blazers signed Ray Allen naked, Popovich snorted in an interview: "The NBA should implement a hard salary cap. Those teams with money will always exploit teams without money. Butcher, is it fair to sign Ray Allen at no cost without affecting their extension of Kwame Brown?"

After Paul Allen showed off the low-cost extension of Raheem at the press conference, and he really successfully renewed the contract later, Popovich went wild: "They are robbing the players! They are playing against the players. Squeeze! Damn, Raheem should go to Sacramento and get that 44 million!”

The reason Popovich said this is that the Kings want Raheem in their hearts, and news broke that the Kings have used Peja as a bargaining chip to talk to the Blazers about signing and trading to get Raheem. When the Blazers acquired Ray Allen, the Blazers naturally had no interest in Peja. At this time, the Kings were ready to find a way to make room to sign Rahim naked, and gave a four-year, $44 million offer. Sim rejected the offer and stayed with the team for 2 years and 14 million.

What drives Popovich the most is what Raheem said in an interview after his contract renewal - "I may not continue to play after this contract ends. I will see it later, and I will make a decision based on my own situation. , if I find that my performance on the court starts to decline, then I'm not going to play again."

Liu Xiu saw an expert's analysis that the reason Popovich was mad was not that Rahim took a pay cut to renew his contract. Popovich doesn't care how much other teams spend to sign a player.

Rahim lowered his stance and willingly accepted the new team role, which is the real reason for Popovich's angry scolding.

In the playoffs last season, the extrajudicial fanatics have gradually replaced Raheem as the starting small forward. Raheem is likely to be a substitute in the new season.

As an old basketball player, Popovich knows that if he is willing to sign a contract, he will always feel unwilling to play a substitute for a player who is inferior to him after he is on the court.

What is certain is that in the next 3-4 years, the extrajudicial fanatic will still be inferior to Rahim. Moreover, although the extrajudicial fanatic has excellent defensive talents, in terms of offense, the extralegal fanatic has not surpassed Rahim. Sim's possibility, and defense is always less conspicuous than offense.

The role of the extrajudicial fanatic is a high-end functional player with a focus, and Rahim is an all-round striker who can be on his own on the offensive end.

When Rahim, a strong and grass-resistant player, is willing to play a backup role as a supporting role, coupled with the starting frontcourt of the extrajudicial fanatics, butchers, and parallel champions with their own characteristics and unique characteristics... As another championship contender in the West Popular team coach and vice president, Popovich doesn't blame the street.

Popovich scolded the street, Liu Xiu just watched the fun, and he has paid more attention to the changes of the players of each team recently.

Their Blazers blew up this year's free agency.

A few days ago, on July 17, Larry Hughes joined the Cavaliers with a 5-year non-bird rights max salary of $78.92 million!

Liu Xiu originally thought that Larry Hughes would not go to the Cavaliers, because Larry Hughes stated that he would give priority to staying in the Wizards, and after the free market opened, there were a lot of teams that publicly offered Larry Hughes , Larry Hughes has not chosen to leave the team after half a month, he must be waiting for the Wizards to match the contract.

As a result, the Wizards did not give a maximum salary in the end, and the sudden-pointing perimeter who had just been selected for the first defense and was in his prime eventually went to a team that was not suitable for him.

Then the Wizards sent Stephen Jackson, who averaged 16.9 points per game last season, and Juan Dixon, the 2002 backup shooting guard who averaged 8.2 points per game, and got Peja from the Kings.

This operation, Liu Xiu felt quite confused after seeing it.

does not match the Larry Hughes contract, Liu Xiu heard that the management of the Wizards is reluctant to pay.

But Peja's five-year, $63.28 million contract is not too low, and this contract will not be implemented until next season. By the 10-11 season, Peja's contract will only reach the last year when he is 33-34 years old.

Liu Xiu analyzed it. In short, the Wizards wanted to renew Larry Hughes at a low price. As a result, Larry Hughes left Washington with no nostalgia at all. Then the Wizards management panicked and became seriously ill. Going to the doctor indiscriminately, exchanged Peja with Wu Sheng...

However, the Wizards wanted to save money, and Liu Xiu also discovered the reason, which was related to their prison team.

Because of the pressure their prison team brings to other teams, role players insiders have gone up in value!

The first is that the Nets used a three-year, $9 million contract to grab former Cavaliers center Desagena Diop, the 8th overall blue-collar center in the 2001 class, who originally received a three-year offer from the Mavericks. For $6 million, the Mavericks gave this offer. The Cavaliers had already chosen to give up their parent team's matching rights, thinking it was not worth the price. Unexpectedly, the Nets raised their annual salary to $3 million.

Immediately afterwards, the Nets also used a 2-year contract totaling $6.34 million to poach veteran center Serke Rebracia from the Clippers.

The two signings have received good reviews. The Nets have McGrady who averages 25+ or even 30+ per game, Richard Jefferson who averages 20+ per game, and there are also 10 players in the power forward position. + Scored Juwan Howard, adding that the interior is dominated by higher-quality blue-collar workers, which is normal operation.

But the salary given has raised the worth of the blue-collar insiders!

The Wizards are one of the affected teams. Brandon Haywood, who averaged 9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game last season, could renew his contract at an average annual price of 4 million, but the Nets made these moves to let him. It took the Wizards 5 years and $27.5 million to keep Brandon Haywood, and the Wizards wanted to save a little when re-signing Larry Hughes, but ultimately failed to stay The swingman who has just been selected for the first defense.

In addition to the Wizards, there is another team in the East that has completed a big operation.

Through a series of operations, the Heat signed Anthony Walker, one of the Celtics' twin stars, for $32 million in 4 years, and Shenshouzi also obtained a championship team transformed by Hubie Brown from his former colleague Logo Man. Standard blue-collar point guards White Chocolate Williams and James Posey.

The operation of logo man made Memphis fans fry.

Barkley ran out and said - "Memphis basketball fans are the worst fans in the world."

The most lively team in the West is the Rockets.

Mobley was poached by the Pacers for 5 years and $44 million. The Rockets played emotional cards and hoped that Mobley would cut his salary to stay in the team, but the total salary was 10 million short of the total salary, and the 5-year, $34 million contract was rejected .

The Raptors poached Mike James for 1 year for $4 million, Bob Sulla retired due to injury, and Tyron Lue was poached by the Eagles for 3 years and $10.5 million... The most popular thing for the Rockets, Or Jeff - Van Gundy chose to resign.

When Jeff Van Gundy resigned, he said: "I hope they get Garnett. I believe Garnett, whose contract expired last year, has enough motivation to partner with Yao. They agreed, but they traded back Joe; Nash originally wanted To join us, I'm already drinking wine with his agent, and they ended up giving me Bob; I hope they try to sign Fisher, a great guy with great wing shooting and a lot of championship experience Point guard, but they traded back for Tyron... OK, they're all good players with some of the attributes I want from those guys..."

Jeff Van Gundy's remarks aroused heated discussions in the United States, but there were a lot of remarks in China about 'getting together and getting away'. This Liu Xiu has become accustomed to it. Knowing the various 'replacement' operations of the Rockets, he Don't know where to start ranting.

In addition to the Rockets, there are two other team coaches that are very eye-catching.

The Pistons did not continue to renew the contract with Larry Brown. After the contract expired, they quickly signed the former Timberwolves coach Philip Saunders. Liu Xiu's impression of this coach is exactly his coaching performance in the Pistons.

Larry Brown took over immediately after finishing his coaching career with the Pistons - the Knicks signed Larry Brown to a record 5-year, $50 million contract.

What is the concept of this salary? According to media statistics, Larry Brown has coached the NBA team for 22 years, and the total salary is 47.3387 million US dollars.

Normal people think that although Larry Brown is good, it is definitely not worth the price.

Another famous coach named Brown commented on this matter in a sour tone: "Dolan may have felt that the Blazers and Mavericks have taken away the limelight in recent years, and he was unconvinced that he expressed their talent in this way. It's the NBA's most willing to spend money team..."

Before signing Larry Brown, the Knicks had just poached Eddie Curry from the Bulls for $60.72 million over six years. The Bulls saw such an offer and did not hesitate to give up their parent team match. right.

The Knicks' operation this summer is extravagant!

During this period of time, Liu Xiu was working on her career and eating melons at the same time, which was very exciting.

He is very concerned about the changes in the strength of other teams, but he is mainly watching the excitement,

The Trail Blazers signings have been settled, 13 guaranteed contracts, most of which are 1-3 year contracts, with flexible operating space, plus Louis Williams' 3-year partial guaranteed contract, the 14-man main body list has been settled, and there is only one left. Position, reserve a reinforcement spot for potential injuries, or meet a player who really wants to get it and can smoothly sign.

So now Liu Xiu watched other teams lively and relaxed, without any pressure.

The time to go back to my hometown to rest is relaxed and comfortable. Such time always passes quickly. In a flash, the time came to July 29. Liu Xiu took Anne-Hathaway, the two cubs, and Qinger away from the motherland and flew to the ocean. Los Angeles on the other side.

My aunt and uncle were busy with work and left after returning to China for two days. Liu Xiu's real rest time has come to an end. In the next two months, we will start to prepare for the new season!

But during this time, he also 'not idle'.

arrived in Los Angeles on the 30th and stayed at Anne Hathaway's home in Beverly Hills. After a night of rest, Liu Xiu woke up at 7 am on the 31st.

"The host has performed a simulation training program: 1 hour of basic close-range shooting, 1 hour of basic mid-range shooting, 1 hour of basic three-point shooting, 1 hour of basic pick-and-roll skills, and 1 hour of post-pick-and-roll shooting... It takes 993 healing points to extract the simulation training results, Extract?"

Liu Xiu's mind moved, and the feeling of sourness struck...

The basic shooting skills, the current fast-paced and commonly used techniques, this is his offseason simulation training plan.

But there is a premise - the point guard style of play.

If Peja joins, Liu Xiu will continue to play shooting guard next season, then continue the strengthening direction of focusing on shooting guard last season.

But the new aid is Ray Allen. Liu Xiu naturally wants to change back to the point guard position and let Ray Allen play as a small forward. There is no problem with offense. Ray Allen is quite violent without the ball hitting the basket, but this The three-point king defends James, Artest... Liu Xiu thinks he should do it himself.

It's not a coincidence that he developed a pick-and-roll with the ball, and he also made an appointment to train with Nash during the offseason.

After enjoying the sourness of extracting the simulation training results, Liu Xiu opened the system screen.

The healing value in the upper right corner has 233916 points left.

After winning the championship, 38 days have passed, and the simulation training alone has spent more than 30,000 healing points. This is still not much practice on those advanced techniques.

There is a very important reason for his improvement in physical strength, 92 physical strength, simulation training time has improved a lot compared to the one who just entered the NBA, and naturally consumes a lot more.

Liu Xiu was fortunate to have won the championship and won the FMVP, and received a final score of 100,000 healing points. Otherwise, the consumption of simulation training this offseason is enough, not to mention the consumption of other techniques of learning Nash's pick-and-roll.

By the way, there is more Ray Allen this summer, and there is another object to learn from. Although next season is determined to focus on holding the ball, it is naturally better to improve without the ball.

Liu Xiu looked at his ability evaluation.

"Name: Liu Xiu, English name: Jess.

Age: 23 (February 17, 1982)

Net height: 188 cm, arms span 203 cm, weight: 102.5 kg.

Team: Portland Trail Blazers.

Ability Rating: 88.

Athletics: Speed 94 (burst acceleration 81), strength 93 (burst strength 79), bounce 90 (bullet speed 77), flexibility 94, stamina 92.

Basic skills: 79 three-pointers, 87 mid-range shots, 93 layups, 93 ball control, 89 pass accuracy, 84 turns, 76 steps, 79 turns, 82 emergency stops…

Skills: 89 low post, 84 shots off the dribble, 84 acceleration layups on the go, 71 European steps, 71 fallback jumpers, 84 rhythm breakthroughs, 84 forward changes, 74 pull-up jumpers, pull-up catches 65 shots, 70 post-up skills, 73 pick-and-roll basics…”

Over the past 30 days of uninterrupted simulation training, the effect is very good!

The three-pointers that focus on training have been raised to 79, and the basic pick-and-roll skills have increased to 73. Liu Xiu estimates that it is not a big problem to improve the basic three-point skills to an excellent level after breaking through 80 in the new season; Next and Nash's learning situation.

The shooting after dribbling and the acceleration shooting while traveling also reached 84, which is only a line away from the first-class level. The improvement in speed is gratifying, but it has also reached a bottleneck. Fortunately, there is no indication that the upper limit of talent has been reached. You can find a trainer to adjust or find a technical flow There are always more ways than difficulties to learn.

In the same situation, there are also breakthroughs in rhythm flow and breakthrough in front of the body, both of which stagnated after reaching 84, and Kobe can be found in both of them.

The mid-range shot increased to 87, but after reaching the first-class level, the improvement slowed down, and it has reached the point where it takes time to slowly polish, just like attacking the frame at close range, never stop practicing this, but after reaching 93, there is no progress... It's a good thing to say, at least it means that the mid-range shot and layup have reached a very good level.

This more than one month full-speed simulation training has yielded fruitful results!

That's the weight...it's all right, it's fine when you start learning techniques, even if you don't lose much weight when you learn techniques, there are training tasks for advanced strength attribute cards, you can start training after you start learning techniques, you only need to put It doesn't matter if your weight is under 100kg...

It really doesn't work, Liu Xiu looked at the item space, there are two general flexibility attribute cards, try to get a flexibility attribute point, plus a few kilograms of weight limit, there is always a way.

Not long after breakfast time, Liu Xiu received a piece of good news—the chief teaching assistant has renewed his contract!

After a month of ideological struggle, Huo Tu rejected the Nets' invitation and completed a four-year contract extension of $10.8 million.

The average annual salary is 2.7 million US dollars. Huo Tu's salary is higher than that of some team coaches. For example, the current coach of the Heat team, Stan Van Gundy, has a salary of 2.2 million US dollars.

When Maurice Cheeks became the head coach of the Blazers in 2001, the contract he signed was only $6 million for two years. In 2003, the contract was extended for three years. The new season is the last year of the contract, and the salary is also $3 million. Knife.

According to Liu Xiu's knowledge, the coach is discussing with the management about renewing the contract. He will definitely be able to increase his salary and stay in the team. He has won the championship and has become a meritorious coach.

Near noon, Anthony and Hakim Warrick came to find Liu Xiu.

Seeing Liu Xiu returning to the offseason body shape from the playoffs, Anthony feels extraordinarily familiar, this is the Liu Xiu he is familiar with!

The two received Liu Xiu and went out for lunch together, saying that it was Warrick's treat, and Anthony finally paid the bill.

In fact, Warrick is older. Warrick turned 23 last month, but he really treats Anthony as the boss.

This small gathering was not long. In the evening, Varick set off for Salt Lake City to participate in the next training camp of the Grizzlies and the next Salt Lake City Summer League.

After sending Varrick on the plane, Liu Xiu sent Anthony back to the hotel.

Anthony asked, "Jess, do you think Hakim can survive in the NBA?"

"I think so."

"How can I see it?"

"He has such good physical fitness and is an insider. Although his technical talent is not good, he has a good sense of communication, and he is very low-key and hard-working. Grizzlies coach Floyd is a standard old-school coach. I will like him like this. player of."

Anthony said unexpectedly: "I didn't expect you to care about Hakim."

Liu Xiu said with a smile: "The teammates who have won the championship together always have extra plots. We won the championship together anyway, the championship...the championship...Now it's just me who won the championship, it's really lonely..."

"You stop! Let me go down... You really stop! It's miles from the city!"

Today will be an update, Xiaofeng will first discuss how the plot will develop in the past two days. Thank you for your support, and give Xiaofeng a few recommended tickets! Thanks!

(end of this chapter)

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