Healing Basketball

Chapter 21 21. Playing with your brain (Part [-]) (Happy New Year)
Liu Xiu closed her eyes and calmed down for a while.

He had actually been looking forward to the mission for a long time.

Now that it's finally here, I'm a little bit excited.

'The goal of the mission is to win this game, and there are no other conditions attached... In my current situation, any additional conditions are enough. '

'You don't need to worry so much now, just find a way to win...'

'but……'

'Reverse Conqueror...doesn't it feel like a good thing? '

Liu Xiu adjusted his mood, and quickly put himself into the game state.

Looking at the opponent's starting lineup, Liu Xiu complained to Travis Outlaw next to him: "Is the opponent sending the regular season starting lineup to play in the summer league?"

Although Travis Outlaw, a high school student, is innocent and innocent, he still feels that the handsome face in front of him is too much.

Too bad!
There is nothing wrong with that.

Wagner and Boozer, players in the 02 class, secured their starting positions in the middle of their rookie season.

James, the No. [-] pick, the Cavaliers are weak, James will definitely start, and this is the first three, only Ricky Davis and Big Z.

Big Z has been miserable in the past four years. He was seriously injured during the shortened season. He only played 5 games and was reimbursed for the 99-00 season. In the past two seasons, he played as a substitute most of the time. At the end of last season, he seemed to get rid of the shadow of injuries. Started in March and April and performed very well.

It gives the impression that the Cavaliers' starting lineup for the summer league is just short of Ricky Davis from the established starting lineup for the new season. Of course, this gap is huge. Last season, Ricky Davis averaged 20.6 points per game 4.9 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.6 steals, and other role players in the regular season lineup of the Cavaliers are not comparable to the current summer league team.

But the Cavaliers have been being teased.

At present, the Magic team, which has found a group of experienced old ball ruffians to support the scene, is one level higher. The next strongest team is the Trail Blazers and Cavaliers. Both teams are currently 2 wins and 1 loss, and they only lost to The Magic.

Although, no surprise, the Magic will win the championship with 5 wins and 0 losses, and the Trail Blazers and Cavaliers will compete for second place at most, but there is always a certain probability, isn't it?As long as the Magic lose one game tonight and tomorrow night, the Trail Blazers and Cavaliers have a chance to win the first place.

It's all here, of course we have to fight... The main reason is that there are more than 1 people watching the game. It's no wonder that we are not excited about this kind of game!
Randolph and Boozer really had a grievance in college, just as Liu Xiu guessed. They threw their arms at each other in front of the technical stage while applying chalk, and were warned by the technical stage officials.

Physical conflict is not a good game conflict, but the fans are very excited!

Randolph and Boozer, both of them are the strongest players in the current lineup of their respective teams... This is the evaluation of the Orlando Sentinel after the first game day. Randolph needless to say, for the Cavaliers, Boozer Really the best player on this Cavaliers team.

The talent of James is obvious to the naked eye. Randolph and Boozer are both rising stars. The two teams still have some young talents who may stay in the NBA for a few years... When Dorff and Boozer obviously dislike each other, the fans feel that they have made a lot of money!

At 2:58 p.m., the two teams started to come to the field.

The starting lineup sent by the Cavaliers is the same as the previous games, James, Dajuan Wagner, Kapono, Boozer, Diop's starting lineup.

The Trail Blazers sent Liu Xiu, Matt Carroll, Travis Outlaw, Zach Randolph and Ruben Buntje to the starting lineup.

Ruben Bontje and Diop came to the middle circle, and when they saw each other, they felt a sense of sympathy.

Unlike Randolph and Boozer who were arranged by the team to bring in new players, Ruben Buntje and Diop are players who really should come to the summer league to exercise.

Both are big centers with a height of 213 cm and are strong enough. The same advantage is that if the team does not have a suitable center, it is not a bad choice to send them.

Of course it wouldn't be a good choice either.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, amidst the booing of the fans, the referee blew the whistle to start the game and threw the ball into the air. Diop easily won the jump ball from the head of Ruben Buntje with his excellent bounce, and the Cavaliers took the lead !
James received the ball and pushed it across half court.

Yes, James' registered position is point guard.

But it is not Liu Xiu, the point guard, who is waiting for James, but the Trail Blazers' starting small forward Travis Outlaw.

As a rookie in high school, Travis Outlaw naturally wants to beat LeBron James, who was rated as the "best high school student in history" by ESPN Sports.

Liu Xiu followed Dajuan Wagner, who was about the same height.

Liu Xiu is very worried about the speed of Dajuan Wagner. This guy once scored 100 points in a single game with his speed in high school. Last season, he averaged 13.4 points and 2.8 assists per game in his rookie year. Shooting guard, but his off-the-ball ability is not bad. He slipped the baseline to catch the ball to attract the defense and has the ability to pass in the middle. He cooperated very well with Boozer last season.

However, Dajuan Wagner stood on the sideline after halftime and did not participate in the offense.

Looking back to the top arc, Travis Outlaw tried to defend James with a passionate fighting spirit... was directly knocked away by James!

Travis Outlaw, as a high school student, can be selected in the first round under the age of 19. His physical fitness is definitely the top in the NBA. The thing he has the most confidence in himself is his physical fitness, but James let him know, what This is the real physical fitness against the sky!

James drove all the way to the bottom line, passed back to the right of the free throw line, Boozer moved in place, and hit a jumper from the free throw line.

Very beautiful cooperation, Boozer's wide shooting range, top-level ability to find opportunities to catch the ball, coupled with James' breakthrough points, even if James can't play pick-and-rolls, the two are quite compatible.

In the original time and space, Boozer broke his promise and ran away for more money. There is a reason why Cavaliers fans hated Boozer for more than ten years until Boozer retired.

Offensive and defensive transition, the Blazers attack.

The offense revolves around Randolph's low post play, Liu Xiu dominates the distribution of the ball, Travis Outlaw cuts in and threatens, Matt Carroll looks for a gap to respond to the shot, Ruben Bunterjie's low post containment...

The Trail Blazers' lineup has been very skillful in the past three games.

Travis Outlaw made a circle in the middle and walked to the bottom line. He received a pass from Matt Carroll on the left side of the three-second zone. He jumped up against Diop, who moved a beat slower, and smashed the ball with one hand. into the basket!

Just got punched, and Travis Outlaw immediately returned one!
Travis Outlaw didn't think about responding from what James is good at. He is a 206 cm small forward, and he can play with the sieve like Caron Butler with the ball. Choose to respond in the way you are good at.

This spirit, this already quite calm mind, the teammates really feel comfortable looking at it.

As predicted by the local media in Orlando before the game, the strengths of the two teams on the court were not much different, and the game was played back and forth.

Randolph and Boozer are the main scorers of the two teams.

Boozer is better at mid-range and long-range shots. He has the best defensive rebounds in the game and also has offense at the basket. The mid-range shot is okay, the close-range and basket offense is strong, and the low-post face-up and back-to-basket singles have already reached a first-class level.

Randolph led the Trail Blazers and the Cavaliers against each other; as for the Cavaliers, James is currently attacking Boozer. The first goal is to send the ball to Boozer who has a shooting opportunity. superior.

After playing a few games, the two teams have been working together for a long time, and they have a certain tacit understanding. In the case of a close match, both teams are trying to adjust and find ways to do better.

Evenly matched opponents, if both sides are not bad chess baskets, then this kind of game is definitely the easiest game to improve.

After the game started, Liu Xiu did not become the focus.

He has a lot, he didn't steal the limelight, and he didn't even think about stealing the limelight, but did what he could and should do-distribute the ball well; when he didn't have the ball in his hand, he moved to the Threat point, shot point, transition point, just like in college with Anthony and Hakeem Varrick.

Compared with the previous three games, Liu Xiu was not outstanding at all today.

There are many reasons. Randolph was very active on offense tonight. In fact, Randolph didn't work too hard in the first few games, let alone try his best. But tonight, Randolph's performance made Liu Xiu really understand What is a superstar? A superstar in the summer league is also a superstar. Randolph, who is going all out on this stage, is a superstar.

In the previous few games, Randolph would take the initiative to create opportunities for Liu Xiu after threatening, and would give Liu Xiu more opportunities to practice with his back, but tonight, it is obviously not so suitable.

But Liu Xiu's performance is not bad!He distributed the ball very well. Although he didn't have an assist in half a quarter and only scored 2 points, he did sort out the team's offense clearly.

His ability to organize offense is mediocre, but he is good at organizing offense and distributing the ball well in tactics.

Six minutes into the first quarter, the second official timeout made the score 6-18, with the Trail Blazers leading by two points.

Liu Xiu was replaced, and Kevin Pritchar patted Liu Xiu on the shoulder when Liu Xiu returned to the bench, so Liu Xiu had no objection to being replaced, he knew that although he did not perform well, But in tonight's game, he should have done what the coaching staff wanted to see him do.

But, sitting down, mind is not the same as focusing on the game itself on the court...

His performance in the 6 minutes of the first quarter met the expectations of the coaching staff, but there must be no surprises in the hearts of the coaches.

Seeing Quintelle Woods, a big player in the summer league, go on the court to fight against the opponent, Liu Xiu was thinking about whether he should do something.

He looked at the ability evaluation of his stable point guard who reached an excellent level in the summer league, and suppressed the restlessness...'My style of play cannot be changed. I have to be the most stable one and do the basic work well, but I Can help teammates think of ideas! '

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Quintelle Woods was really a big killer in the summer league. He scored 4 points in 5 minutes, scored a counter-attack throw, and made a breakthrough rebound for 2+1.

Relying on Quintel Woods' 5 points, after the first quarter, the Trail Blazers withstood the counterattack of the Cavaliers led by James, and the two teams entered the intermission with a score of 28-28.

The break time between quarters is only 2 minutes. Entering the break, Kevin Pritchar will call Quentel Woods over. At the beginning of the second quarter, Kevin Pritchar is going to continue to call Quinter Woods Come on.

But this time Kevin Pritchar hadn't spoken yet, and a 188cm handsome guy came in front of them.

Kevin Pritchar is only 36 years old now. He was the 1990th pick in the second round in 7. His talent is at the bottom of the NBA. He played for 4 years, changed 5 teams, earned 50 pre-tax salary, 30 Became a teaching assistant.

Although the playing talent is not high, Kevin Pritchar's height is a fairly standard shooting guard height.

Liu Xiu regretted standing with the two of them a little bit, but he came and said, "Coach, we didn't do a good job of distributing the ball just now..."

As soon as these words came out, the teammates who had just returned from the field to the sidelines were immediately excited.

After a few days, even the teammates who didn't like Liu Xiu recognized Liu Xiu's stability, and recognized Liu Xiu's ability in these most basic things.

However, recognition is recognition. Liu Xiu's words like this, even the assistant coach Kevin Pritchar thinks it is too much.

Without waiting for Kevin Pritchar to say anything, and without waiting for Quintelle Woods to refute the teammates who played together just now, Liu Xiu continued: "If I play, I will distribute the ball better. In some situations that need to be adjusted In the round of the team's offensive strategy, I can make better adjustments and provide better help for the tactics developed around Quinter."

As soon as Liu Xiu said this, Quintel-Woods fell silent. Kevin Pritchar, the chief assistant coach who has always been thoughtful and thoughtful, felt that Liu Xiu was really a talent...but his mouth was too...really?
Quintel-Woods is still looking forward-to win the trust of the coaching staff, get the attention of the team, and show his talent in the new season.

Summer league, this stage, Quintelle-Woods wants to grasp, if only a little bit better, it is better...

As for Tita Carter who provided Liu Xiuxian with 41 healing value and then 79 healing value, although Quintel Woods expressed his gratitude to this teammate for his support, Tita Carter really lagged behind tonight.

Kevin Prittcha looked at the Moyu coach who didn't know when he came to the side, Morris Cheeks nodded, Kevin Prittcha also nodded, and hurriedly made adjustments.

Unlike the past three games, Liu Xiu and Kuntel-Woods were replaced together when the score was tight!

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