Healing Basketball

Chapter 1050 1050. Super Endorsement Contract
James left in embarrassment, returned to the hotel, had lunch, and was about to take a break. In the afternoon, he followed the team to the Willamedy Garden Training Center for training.

Before taking a nap, he turned on the TV and switched channels at random. When he saw the warden, he stopped switching channels... and then regretted it...

"Why did I refuse to participate in the slam dunk contest again? There is no opponent! If KING participates, I can consider participating again."

James: Convex

...

"LeBron James, 24 years old, 203 cm, 111 kg, SF/PG, ability rating 95, offense 95, defense 94... averaged 29.1 points, 7 rebounds, 7.2 assists, 1.8 steals and 1.1 blocks... shooting 48% from the field, 33.4% from 70.2-point range, [-]% from the free throw line…”

Before the lights were turned on, Liu Xiu could feel the resentment in the opposite player's tunnel.

There is no way, the team opened the interview the day before yesterday, and he was called in. The reporters surrounded him and asked him why he did not continue to participate in those games. He had to find a reason not to.

Finally, he thought of a once-and-for-all solution—to dump classmate KING.

Who made King KING say in an interview just now that he will definitely do it next time.

On the night of February 2009, 2, the game between the Trail Blazers and the Cavaliers was about to begin.

It started with the visiting team coming out amid manic boos.

Ben Wallace, Mo Williams, Delonte West, Jamison and James played successively.

Big Z stood among the substitutes.

Accompanying the Cavaliers to play a wave of Wizards, word of mouth collapsed, and now he is still giving up the starting lineup for Big Ben... Liu Xiu feels that Big Z has true love for James!
In addition to these people, the Cavaliers also have Szczerbiak, Pavlovich, Daniel Gibson, JJ Hickson, Lorenzen White.

Joe Smith, who was waived by the Lakers last month, also joined the Cavaliers with a basic salary at the beginning of this month.

The lineup of more than 9600 million US dollars looks quite luxurious.

After the Cavaliers completed those two big deals, Liu Xiu paid more attention to the Cavaliers' games.

At the beginning, he could see that Szczerbiak and Jamison were not used to the Cavaliers' one-star style of play.

Ben Wallace doesn't matter, but his playing time has dropped to 22 minutes. Although he is a starter, his playing time is not as much as that of Big Z.

数据，也从在活塞队那俩月的场均5分8板1抢断2盖帽，下滑至3分6.5板1抢断1.3盖帽。

Both Szczerbiak and Jamison seem to have sacrificed to play as substitutes because of the big Z, thinking that the money is not less than 1 point, sacrifice is sacrificed.

然后，贾米森的数据从奇才队那俩月的场均22分10.2板2.4助攻，跌到了场均15分7.7板1.3助攻。

斯泽比亚克从爵士队那俩月的场均13.1分2.7板2.6助攻，跌到了场均7分3.1板1.1助攻。

More than a month has passed, and the Cavaliers have completed the run-in.

The changes are huge, as can be seen from the data.

Replacing Larry Hughes and Gooden with Szczerbiak and Jamison, even with the introduction of big books as supplements, the Cavaliers' defensive performance has dropped a lot, and the defensive performance of the top three has been given up. He averaged 31 points per game, and in the last 91.9 games, he averaged 20 points per game.

But the scoring average soared from 96.1 points per game in the previous two months to 102.4 points per game!
The average of 95.8 points per game is not bad, very good defense, top ten level.

Averaged 102.4 points per game, also ranked eighth in the league.

Their Trail Blazers averaged 106.6 points per game and lost 95.5 points per game.

Through this deal, the Cavaliers have become a true offensive and defensive team!

...

The game is about to start, and the two teams started to come to the field.

James brought Ben Wallace, Jamison, Delonte West, Mobu Chuan on the field, very excited.

Looking at the combination of Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, Hill, Randolph, and Kwame Brown, KING really wanted to tell the warden one thing - I also have an offense that can compete with the Lakers and Spurs The team wrestled their wrists, and the defense could compete with the Bulls and Raptors!

However, with Daben, there is a troublesome problem. Daben hates the Trail Blazers extremely.

When he was in the Pistons, Big Ben would give the little giant a little face, but now he doesn't have to worry about it at all. In the atmosphere of Rose Bay, everyone can see his hatred for the prison team.

So today we didn't even greet each other before the game, which made the sociable KING students very uncomfortable.

There are a lot of stars on the opposite side...

And not only the Trail Blazers, Daben had conflicts with many teams, and KING felt that his social circle had narrowed down a lot.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Blazers played against the Cavaliers at home.

It has to be admitted that although the operation of the Cavaliers this time was embarrassing, Gilbert provoked public outrage, and was ridiculed by the prince Jim Buss who represented the Lakers to attend the boss meeting... But after the Cavaliers got used to it, their strength is indeed true. There has been a qualitative change.

In the past, when the Cavaliers played against the Trail Blazers, they could only rely on defense and James' breakthrough and inside rush.

Now, offense or defense, floor play or fast break...the Cavaliers have a lot of options on offense.

Although the defense is not as good as it was at the beginning of the season, the overall strength has improved significantly, and it is no longer the situation where the top team first expects the outside touch to explode.

Especially the pick-and-roll offense of James and Jamison, which made the Trail Blazers' rotation defense unnecessary at the beginning.

Unlike Boozer and West, Jamison has a more flexible and comprehensive skill, a longer shooting range, and his ability to cut into the attack box is not as good as Boozer and West, but his partner is the breakthrough-oriented James. , and James is tall, bigger and stronger than Jamison. When he encounters a switch defense, James can even push in against the opponent's inside line.

At 11 minutes and 49 seconds into the first quarter of the game, James and Jamison launched a pick-and-roll attack again, the ball came out, and Tangier Gibson, who came off the bench, caught the ball and made an open three-pointer...hit!
The Cavaliers scored 30 points in a single quarter!
In the final attack of the first quarter, Liu Xiu played very simply, changing direction in front of his body, passing James and going straight to the inside, and hit a backhand layup with a European step!

It has only been a year and a half since James' single-defense against Prince incident in 07. At the beginning of this season, he has become the top defensive player in the league. Liu Xiu is jealous of this talent.

But just defending against this one, James still can't prevent Liu Xiu.

Most of the time before this quarter, James didn't defend Liu Xiu. It was Delonte West or Trey Johnson who were defending, but they couldn't defend anyway.

In the last attack, James wanted to try, but was passed cleanly, and his defensive intentions were completely seen through by the opponent.

If Liu Xiu knew what James was thinking, he would tell him—your feeling is correct.

The effect of "prison killing" made his breakthrough tonight unstoppable, and he felt better about finding shooting opportunities.

In the last 1.5 seconds, after the Cavaliers sent the ball to James, the final whistle sounded quickly.

After the first quarter, the Cavaliers led the Trail Blazers by 30 point 29-1.

Entering the intermission, Liu Xiu looked at the data on the big screen. He made 5 of 3 shots and 4 of 4 free throws. He scored 10 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.

On the offensive end, he made the most contributions of the team, but he didn't have many assists, and their team had as many as 7 assists in a single quarter, which means that he is indeed playing as a team.

对面詹姆斯，4投2中，外加4中2的罚球，拿到6分2板5助攻。

According to the data, it seems that the other party is more teamwork... Liu Xiu suddenly found that he likes to compare with others now, and the comparison is in the strongest aspect.

This seems a bit bad, but he doesn't intend to change it.

If you can compare it, why not compare it.

If you can't compare, then strive to be able to compare in the future.

I can't compare in the future, so try to see if you can survive...

Putting aside his distracting thoughts, he returned his attention to the game. After returning to the bench, he discussed with the coaches, and there was already a way to deal with the Cavaliers.

...

In the second quarter, James played for more than 3 minutes before leaving the court.

Originally, James wanted to take advantage of Liu Xiu's replacement to rest, but he failed.

Hill top defense, Gasol Jr. protects the rim, Kwame Brown assists defense, when Jamison is resting, James really can't handle it.

好在他和德隆蒂-韦斯特、帕夫洛维奇、本-华莱士、大Z的防守也让对方吃不消，3分多钟时间两队打了个5比5，比分来到35比34。

After James was replaced, Liu Xiu came up and brought Korver, outlaws, Kwame Brown, and Birdman to beat the Cavaliers 11 to 3!

By the time the Cavaliers called a timeout and entered the official timeout, the Trail Blazers had overtaken the Cavaliers by 45 points 38 to 7!
As Liu Xiu and the coaches judged during the discussion, although the Cavaliers' offense has become better and they have more scorers, they are more dependent on James' breakthrough points. , are now actively or passively selected for functionalization.

When James is not on the court, the Cavaliers can only point to the pass.

If they can't restrain Mo Bu from being passed on to extrajudicial lunatics, they will admit it.

Fortunately, the outlaw fanatic has completed the task entrusted to him by the team.

The importance of James to the Cavaliers is not only the most important offensive core in the past few years.

The Cavaliers' defense is becoming more and more dependent on James!

Single defense on the outside, blocking defense in the middle, shrinking at the basket, everything is inseparable from James.

The Cavaliers should have discovered this problem, so they introduced Ben Wallace.

But Ben Wallace's current strength is not as good as the statistics in the Pistons period, and his physical strength is not good. The improvement he brings is not as great as the weakening of the Cavaliers by the departure of Larry Hughes and Gooden.

This instead makes the Cavaliers more reliant on James' defense...

That is to say, James' strength is really high, and he has soared crazily to almost surpassing the top level in more than a year. Mike Brown's defensive coaching skills are also online, and the Cavaliers can guarantee the defensive level.

When James is gone, the Cavaliers' offensive and defensive ends plummeted!
It might be okay in normal times. In the regular season, few teams spend so much time studying an opponent, and they may not notice this. They only start with the overall strength of the Cavaliers and consider the advantages and disadvantages.

But tonight is different, Liu Xiu just noticed, and there are a lot of coaching staff, after discussing it, he thought of a way to deal with it after a break, and executed it very well!

Tonight's former 'Fake Corpse' teammates played extraordinarily hard as coolies.

However, the 3 points in 11 minutes still depended on his warden who triggered the "prison kill".

On the other hand, James, who was replaced in advance, now has the feeling that Paul and Wade have been crazy-why does the warden I meet every time, he is in such a good state?
刚刚刘秀3分钟4投3中，其中三分球2中2，拿到8分……

After the official timeout came back, after James played, the strength of the Cavaliers soared instantly, becoming that powerful team with both offense and defense.

In the second half of the second quarter, the two teams scored 13 to 13. At the end of the half, the score of the two teams came to 58 to 51. The Trail Blazers maintained a 7-point lead and entered the intermission.

Although the Cavaliers failed to narrow the point difference, after being beaten 11 to 3, they supported the Trail Blazers who were playing well. The Trail Blazers players did not dare to underestimate this opponent.

Liu Xiu has never underestimated this opponent, but it is a bit regrettable. It seems that in the future, he can only bully the young people of the 07 and 08 classes.

Hey!By the way, the 09 class will soon enter the NBA, and there are a lot of talented point guards...

Thinking of this, Liu Xiu is not so regretful. There will always be a lot of fun in his future career.

...

After returning from the intermission, the two teams entered a tug-of-war.

Both teams are in good form tonight. Although the Cavaliers are not that strong, they still have the symptoms of "fake ex-deception" and are very passionate.

In the third quarter, neither of the two teams could do anything to the other, and both teams played excellent offensive and defensive performances. The score was tied at 25-25, and the score came to 83-76 at the end of the third quarter.

In such a situation, the leading party is naturally more than capable, while the lagging party is getting more and more anxious.

At the end of the quarter, the Cavaliers took the lead in launching a storm, and James started a storm.

With Jamison playing, and the big Z inside to open up space, James' three-step layup is always unfavorable.

However, the Cavaliers failed to narrow the point difference, because someone from the Trail Blazers also started the onslaught mode-the warden!

In an anxious situation, someone needs to stand up and solve the problem with his own ability. Among all the superstars, Liu Xiu is undoubtedly the best among them.

And he also triggered the 'prison kill' tonight!
James felt like he was in a cage at this time. No matter how hard he tried, Liu Xiu was smoothing out his efforts one by one... No, it was trampling!
In the middle of the fourth quarter, Liu Xiu, who had a sense of shooting, scored 4 goals in a row from mid-range, and played a wave of 8-2 alone, opening the 8-point gap to 14 points in one fell swoop.

Although the Cavaliers came back from a timeout and scored 14 to 10 in the half quarter, they failed to narrow the point difference to single digits.

26投14中，其中三分球7中2，外加7中6的罚球，刘秀末节单节18分，全场拿到37分10板6助攻2抢断1盖帽，率领开拓者队以112比102力克骑士队，用一场胜利迎来全明星周末假期！

After the final whistle sounded, Liu Xiu received a system notification that she scored an A+ grade and got 850 healing points.

There are also task reminders.

"I am a team type: Chaos superstar series missions.

Goal: The host needs to assist more than LeBron James while scoring less than LeBron James. (Host: 37 points and 6 assists, LeBron James 34 points and 14 assists, failed.)..."

Liu Xiu didn’t care about not getting the 2000 healing points. Tonight Daben contributed thousands of healing points alone. KING’s healing feedback is also increasing. Both of them can affect the emotions of teammates... ...Tonight's game, the healing value gain is higher than most of the usual games.

And this task is also very awkward.

Relying on personal offense to attract defensive points and assists, or integrating into the team to help teammates score, which one is better?

In his opinion, regardless of the so-called "sense of high class", he feels that there is no distinction between good and bad, and strength is the most important thing.

The 206 Legion of the Eagles are all selfless, but they are not as effective as James alone.

...

The first half of the season is over, entering the All-Star weekend holiday.

Liu Xiu continued to choose to reduce her workload, take more rest, and spend more time with her family, so she saved the last meeting for the new contract of sneaker endorsement.

Before the deadline for terminating the contract on December 12, he had sent a formal notice to the hook.

In the past month or so, he has received offers from many sneaker brands, and Bill Duffy has also discussed with Hook several times on his behalf, and it went well.

Now I have an appointment with Hook on the afternoon of the No. 13 Rookie Challenge. If there is no accident, the new contract signing will be completed on the same day, and I can still catch the heat of the All-Star Weekend.

On the 11th, the first day off, in the morning, after he woke up, he insisted on staying in bed all morning.

It's just that I couldn't sleep at first, but when it was noon, I felt sleepy, and I was groggy when I was eating lunch.

He regretted that he entered the simulated training mode last night. After playing for 41 minutes yesterday, the physical strength available for simulated training has been exhausted. Entering the simulated training mode is also the effect of deep sleep + functional recovery.

As a result, his great cause of sleeping late was delayed!
But there was no game for the next few days, and this time I went to Phoenix, and I couldn't see Nash.

Did not make the All-Star, Nash took his family directly to the South Coast for vacation this morning.

If there is no competition or training, then simulation training must be carried out. One less day of practice will lead to a loss of progress, and it is not worthwhile to sleep late.

But after lunch, he didn't have the heart to think about it. In the afternoon, Qing'er cooks with his mother and uncle, and starts to barbecue!

The five-spice and spicy Sichuan-style barbecue is the most suitable for the early spring in this wet and cold place in Portland.

On the second day, in the morning, Liu Xiu drove a tractor to weed and plow the land mechanically.

This way of weeding is more troublesome, but the land we are dealing with today is the nearest land that is mainly for our own food, so it will be a little troublesome if it is a little troublesome.

In the afternoon, Liu Xiu took his family, some of his teammates who were going to participate in the All-Star Weekend but had not yet gone to Phoenix City, their relatives and friends, and took the "Rose Bay Prison" to Phoenix City together.

After arriving at the Phoenix Airport, Liu Xiu and his family split up. He went to the hotel arranged by the alliance to report alone. The family first went to the rented vacation house to make troubles, and then reunited in the evening to watch the performance at the Symphony Orchestra Theater in the Hot Land. .

The ticket was given by Gasol, and his brother got the ticket. He enjoys life. He is similar to his brother, but he doesn't like this type of performance. He prefers single-instrument recitals, and the violin is his favorite.

Knowing that Liu Xiu's uncle liked it, Gasol bought a few more tickets for the boss.

It wasn't an expensive show ticket, it was a public price, and Liu Xiu didn't refuse it either.

Gasol's aesthetics in this aspect can be trusted, and the performance is really good.

In the evening, as soon as Liu Xiu's family returned to their vacation home, they saw a big news - the Mavericks changed their coach halfway through!

General Johnson was fired by the Mavericks, and Rick Carlisle became the new head coach of the Mavericks.

Liu Xiu did not expect that Carlisle would still become the head coach of the Mavericks... After reading the revelations of various media on the Internet, some reporters revealed that the goal of the Mavericks was still Old Nelson.

The old Nelson's son is still serving as the vice president of the Mavericks. Although Cuban did not deal with the old Nelson, he did not refuse the proposal.

Just like Paul Allen still can't understand Maurice Cheeks, but it doesn't prevent him from recognizing the other party's ability.

But the old Nelson refused to resign from the Warriors, saying that he had taken a fancy to a very interesting young player, and he didn't tell him who his son was, for fear of being cut off by a rich man in Texas.

That guy can do anything.

After knowing that his father was still brooding over the events of the year, Donnie Nelson finally gave up on getting his father back as the head coach and chose Rick Carlisle, who was unemployed at home.

On the second day, February 2, the All-Star Weekend officially kicked off.

Morning Post, the media conducted a telephone interview with Cuban last night. The other party denied that Carlisle was just a 'spare tire' and emphasized that the other party is a championship coach. This statement is a humiliation to Carlisle.

Liu Xiu reckoned that Old Nelson was going to be Zakuban's villain.

After breakfast, Liu Xiu Liu Xiu came to the American West Arena, took makeup photos with all-star teammates, and conducted public training.

Maurice Cheeks is the head coach of this year's Western Conference All-Stars. Two-thirds of the players have never cooperated with each other. They have to train publicly... He has no pressure at all. Based on the characteristics of these players, he thought of a few basic tactics and practiced That's it.

On the other side of the visiting team's training ground, Stan Van Gundy seriously added a few wrinkles to the suit.

半程战绩，西部，开拓者队45胜7负第一、湖人队43胜9负第二、马刺队40胜12负第三、35胜17负的小牛队第四……；东部，公牛队41胜11负第一、魔术队39胜13负第二、猛龙队38胜14负第三、活塞队38胜14负第四，骑士队36胜16负第五……

According to the record, the head coach of the Bulls should be the head coach of the Eastern team, but last year Scott Skiles has served as the head coach of the Eastern team, and this year it will be postponed to the No.2 Magic team head coach.

Maurice Cheeks was in the mood to do whatever he wanted, and everyone had a good time. After practicing a few basic tactical moves, O'Neal started to boo him and let Liu Xiu play dunks, and Kobe even robbed Anthony. It's my job, go give Liu Xiu a lob.

Liu Xiu didn't refuse either. After exercising her body, she took off from the free throw line and slammed her crotch for a dunk. Screaming along.

On the other side of the training ground, the atmosphere...is very serious.

Beast's face is broken, playing an All-Star, the result is like a team training.

And he also learned that the western team was having a great time.

The unhappy beast, because of an all-star weekend training, had a great dissatisfaction with the head coach of his club...

But James and Wade were very happy. Van Gundy was really serious, and specially created tactics for the combination of the two of them-the oppression in the high area, the defense and counter tactics.

Both of them are the team's nannies. They don't have the ability to create their own tactics, but they have a good eye for judging tactics, otherwise they wouldn't be able to be 'nanny'.

The two have known each other for many years, and have partnered together in the All-Star and national teams many times, but there has never been a coach who specially created tactics for the two of them.

In the All-Star Game, Maurice Cheeks' kind of operation is the norm.

And the national team, during Larry Brown's period, was defensive, not offensive at all. Obviously there are so many powerful university and NBA head coaches as assistant coaches, but Larry Brown just doesn't use it.

During the old K period, the statistics of the two were very good, but James was regarded as a cake-eating + defensive + counterattacker, and he was afraid that he would break through the dribble in positional battles.

Wade is used as a poor man's version of the demon knife.

But Van Gundy has always been more different, and he helped the two of them think of a tactic.

Originally, Anthony and Bosh were their favorite teammates. Now Van Gundy has come up with such a tactic for the two, which opened up their thinking-it is also possible for two nanny-type players to cooperate together.

Although the picture imagined by the two is not quite the same, the two see each other even more at this moment.

In the afternoon, the two of them didn't go to see the Masters, but went out to chat about basketball experience and life ideals.

Now, both of them are in a state of being unable to leave the team, and it is impossible for their team's management to trade them.

But James has a saying that Wade agrees with - we have to think about the future.

Just when the two were getting excited, a piece of news caused them to swear.

It's okay for the students who help the cheeks, but they cursed the street purely out of surprise.

Student KING is in a bad mood!
He immediately called his agent and yelled—"Why doesn't my endorsement contract have an option to terminate early!"

就在刚刚，2009年2月13号下午4点，钩子、AJ、刘秀在美西球馆附近的一处会场召开新闻发布会宣布，刘秀提前中止与AJ的7年9000万美刀合同的最后4年合同，重新签订了一份10年3.75亿美刀的长约。

(End of this chapter)