Healing Basketball

Chapter 22 22. A sense of luxury

Kevin Pritchar quickly explained to Liu Xiu what he was going to do. After listening, Liu Xiu expressed understanding, and the party of tactical explanation was over.

As far as Kevin Pritchar has learned about Liu Xiu's tactical understanding in the past few days, he believes that there may be no need to tell Liu Xiu what to do.

No one was behind the tactics meeting, and the tactics built around the impact of Quintelle Woods were too simple, just to emphasize it out of professionalism.

Tita Carter is angry now, but there is nothing she can do.

He can't influence the decisions made by the coaching staff, and what Liu Xiu said is the truth.

This is the reason why many teammates are very powerless. Liu Xiu is so short-mouthed, but she often pierces her heart based on the truth... piercing the hearts of others.

Tita Carter, if you want him to attack with the ball and score in singles, he still has a certain ability. He can organize the offense, but he is not qualified for the most basic things such as simply sorting out the offense and distributing the ball. .

When walking on the court, Liu Xiu quickly recalled the characteristics of the playing style of teammates such as Quintelle Woods, Desmond Ferguson and Tom Shenov, who have basically never played with a partner in the past few days.

Desmond Ferguson is a 01 cm shooting guard who has been impacting the NBA since his loss in 201. His style of play is similar to that of Matt Carroll, mainly catching and shooting, but compared to Matt Carroll. The difference is obvious, and the shooting is about the same, but Desmond Ferguson has almost no passing ability and is a pure spot-up shooter.

Tom Shenov, after losing in 02, spent a year in various low-level leagues in the United States. He is a brisk insider with a height of 211 centimeters and 110 kilograms.

Quintelle Woods has excellent physical fitness, fierce cutting, ability to hold the ball and attack, and he does a good job of splitting the ball from both wings. The overall ability of the summer league is not rated high, but he is a special player and has performed extremely well.

Combining his understanding of his teammates and tactics, Liu Xiu quickly thought about it and reconfirmed what he should do on the field.

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At the beginning of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers took the lead.

Liu Xiu received the serve and pushed forward. Looking at the opposite side, the two high school players James and Diop continued to play. The power forward position was assigned to the development league player Luke Taiwei. Drafted JR-Bremer, 188 cm European came to impact the NBA's white small forward Camby Russell.

When Liu Xiu was close to the top arc, the Trail Blazers' offensive movement began. Quintel Woods was moving towards the offensive position. After Randolph was replaced, he did not immediately invest in personal offense. The inside and outside are different. Now The main point of attack is still Quintelle Woods.

The Cavaliers have already expected that the Trail Blazers will still be dominated by Quintelle Woods, and the coping strategy is very simple. The defense leans towards Quintelle Woods and is ready to pinch at any time. Judging from the 4 minutes after the first quarter, the ball Always go in the direction of Quintelle Woods.

But Liu Xiu ran at the beginning of the tactics and passed the ball directly before the opportunity to pass!
The players on the Cavaliers thought that Liu Xiu should press JR-Bremmer to make a strong breakthrough. The two are about the same height and weight by 10 kilograms, but Liu Xiu did not, and directly sent the ball to Randolph on the left side of the free throw line. hand.

When Randolph caught the ball, he saw the chance of Quintel Woods, sent the ball through, and Quintel Woods received the ball from the right sideline of the three-second zone, threw it high...and scored!
This ball can be seen as part of the tactics, but it has obviously become different.

Opponents need to have certain tactical literacy to feel the difference, but as a teammate, as the first end point in tactics, Quintel Woods feels it clearly.

When retreating, Quintelle-Woods thought about the attack just now, and then thought about the attack in the last quarter. He felt that now he was playing tactical coordination. In the last quarter, he was just following the tactics and scoring with his personal ability. ...

Offensive and defensive transition, the Cavaliers attack.

Without Boozer, James started the full attack mode.

Quintelle Woods couldn't stand it, James went straight to the basket and hit Tom Shenov for a layup.

Although James is still an 18-year-old quasi-rookie, he weighs more than the center Tom Shenov, and he can't stop him from rushing.

"Dead Top..."

After James scored a goal, Liu Xiu immediately stopped his teammates who were about to switch offense and defense, and said a few words.

Randolph had no objection, no one was stronger than him anyway, Quintelle Woods didn't have a bar this time, and the other two teammates chose to obey orders.

When it came time for the Trail Blazers to attack, Liu Xiu chose to press JR-Bremmer to the right of the free throw line, and then made a jump shot after taking a step... There was no problem with the choice of the ball. The Cavaliers' defense chose to press down the line. , Liu Xiu had a good chance of playing singles online, but unfortunately he didn't make it.

Maurice Cheeks chatted with Kevin Pritcha on the sidelines, and they were quite satisfied with Liu Xiu's ability in this area.

After the two chatted for a while, I felt a little depressed - this kid is really lazy.

On the court, James defended the defensive rebounds and advanced.

In the frontcourt, James continued to score singles.

Quintelle-Woods changed his defensive strategy, no longer went up, but blocked the line that James broke through directly to the right, and emptied the middle.

The left side is empty, and Randolph closed in the middle. James did not choose to break through from the left, but went straight into the middle!

James burst into close range and was double-teamed by Randolph and Quintel Woods. Randolph held off James!

Really don't go left!Although Randolph and Quintel-Woods chose to follow Liu Xiu's method of defense, they did not expect the effect to be so good.

James didn't make a strong shot against the defense. Randolph moved ahead of time and extended to the middle of the free throw line and the arc of the reasonable collision zone, which was beyond the distance of James' strong attack. He chose to split the ball...to the left side of the three-second zone Diop at the baseline!
James doesn't think there is anything wrong with being blocked from his good breakthrough line, being double-teamed, or being targeted tactically. As long as it is a flanking attack, there will definitely be opportunities to pass the ball.

But Liu Xiu followed JR-Bremer closely, Desmond Ferguson stuck to Camby Russell, Tom Shenov and Luke Taiwei fought hand-to-hand... Diop was alone.

When James chose to pass the ball, he wanted to vomit blood.

Diop stood like a wooden stake outside the three-second zone, completely unaware of moving his attacking position!
Receiving the ball outside the three-second zone, Diop was a little confused, holding the ball to pass, Randolph and Quintel Woods went around James in hand-to-hand combat.

Diop's eyes were only in front of him, seeing that James had no chance to catch the ball, he chose to take a dribble for a layup... The racket went down and didn't bounce back!
Diop looked down, and the handsome boy of the opponent slipped to his side at some point, and took the ball off him!

Fight back!
Liu Xiu passed the ball to Quintel-Woods, who was followed by James. Quintel-Woods rushed all the way inside and passed to the back. Randolph followed up to catch the ball, squeezed and turned around to try to defend James, the second, scored an easy layup.

This ball, Quintel - Woods and Randolph have a real feel of the NBA game!
The tactical execution is in place, the timing of the defensive counterattack is coordinated...

Maurice Cheeks and Kevin Pritchar on the sidelines were even more pleasantly surprised!

This handsome face is still underwhelming, the feeling of 'everything is under control' is really underwhelming.

But the two coaches felt that this should be done at this moment!The defensive counterattack just now was too pleasantly surprised!
The offensive organization ability is average but not bad, and the offensive ability is strong in tactics. Liu Xiu showed this advantage in this game, and the coaching staff is very satisfied. Liu Xiu just instigated defensive adjustments and counterattacks, a proper surprise!
Tita Carter may be better than Liu Xiu in terms of offensive ability with the ball and leading the team to organize the offense. Dajuan Wagner who played tonight is definitely better than Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu had been in this game for a long time, and it had nothing to do with Dazzling.

But at this moment, in the eyes of professionals, Liu Xiu's presence is too strong!

The feeling of playing with your brain is too advanced!
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Liu Xiu's adjustment on the defensive end took advantage of two points.

Tonight, James broke through 75% and went to the right, and Diop had zero offensive awareness.

Ruben Bontje is poor in strength and only relies on selling his height and weight to make a living. The reason is that Ruben Bontje has poor athletic ability, but he has a good brain and good positional movement, so he can become an offensive threat.

No, Diop has zero offensive awareness and zero offensive ability...Of course he has advantages, excellent athletic ability, top height, wingspan and weight, and good defensive awareness, but his offensive awareness is zero.

Not only does he not have the awareness of finding his own position, but he also has no awareness of off-ball pick-and-rolls.

Ben Wallace, who also has no offensive ability, is very good in off-ball pick-and-rolls on the baseline and weak side.

James is good at breakthroughs on the right, but not so good on the left, and the success rate of breakthroughs on the left is not as good as facing the defense in the middle.

Neither James nor Diop can avoid these two points at this stage.

The front Blazers did not make good use of the defensive end. Liu Xiu discovered this and made good use of it.

Liu Xiu's defensive strategy is effective, and it's all Kobe's fault... no, it's thanks to O'Neal. The OK team was invincible in the 2001 playoffs. In order to limit O'Neal, the NBA allows early flanking and regional flanking.

The game continued to deepen, and the players of the Trail Blazers played more and more happily.

Before, James had an unbelievably strong body + incredible athletic ability. Quintelle Woods and Travis Outlaw, two athletic geniuses, couldn't even guard against the outside line, let alone take a step. Give James a chance to fully charge...Anyway, one-on-one is unstoppable, and often because there are not enough obstacles, the insiders bear more suffering.

But now, relying on a little adjustment of the details of the defensive end, James has given quite clear restrictions!
Kuntel-Woods showed himself positively. When he had a way on the defensive end, he worked hard to cooperate with Randolph; I am more willing to cooperate with Liu Xiu on the defensive and tactical ends.

Quintelle Woods wants to make good use of the benefits brought by Liu Xiu, play a better performance, and prove himself to the coach...

It's a pity that Maurice Cheeks and Kevin Pritchar on the sidelines saw some handsome guy...

Six minutes into the second quarter, when the second timeout came, the Trail Blazers had already led the Cavaliers by 6 points 45 to 36.

At this time, Liu Xiu and Randolph were replaced, and Tita Carter, Matt Carroll, Quintel Woods, Travis Outlaw, Ruben Bontejie played, and the double strikers and the Cavaliers The team was stunned and scored 4 to 7 in the next 10 minutes. After halftime, the Trail Blazers led the Cavaliers 52 to 46 by 6 points and entered the intermission.

During the 8-minute intermission, Kevin Pritchar arranged the starting lineup for the second half early - Liu Xiu, Matt Carroll, Quintelle Woods, Randolph, Ruben Bont Jay.

Travis Outlaw and Desmond Ferguson and Tom Shenoff are ready to play.

After arranging the lineup list for the second half and explaining the tactical framework to be played, the coaching staff didn't care.

This is a chance for Liu Xiu!

Liu Xiu didn't miss it, called the teammates who were about to play together, and directed the teammates to make defensive adjustments based on the characteristics of the Cavaliers' play when James and Boozer were replaced together in the second half of the second quarter.

In the summer league, the tactical complexity is not high, the opponent's tacit understanding is not very high, and most of the players are not high in strength... These conditions gave Liu Xiu the opportunity to show her brains.

If your strength is not enough, just do a good job in the foundation, and more, come together with your brain!
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Liu Xiu made enough preparations here, but at the beginning of the second half, James, who played the full 20 minutes of the first half, did not play...

Dajuan Wagner played with Boozer.

This was beyond the expectations of the Trail Blazers. The defensive preparations seemed to be in vain, but Liu Xiu steadily distributed the ball on the offensive end. Randolph and Quintelle Woods took turns to attack, and soon stabilized... to open the score !

Without James, the Trail Blazers have a clear advantage!

After a wave of 4 to 13 in more than 8 minutes, the Trail Blazers opened the score to 65 to 44, and the point difference came to 11 points. The Cavaliers called a 30-second timeout and re-appointed James.

Liu Xiu and others want to win, so of course James wants to win too!
As an athlete, who doesn't want to win on the court?

However, Randolph is stronger than Boozer. James may be the best in the game in terms of overall strength, but at present, he just came out of high school and has not yet had the first summer training period after being selected. In terms of function, that is, in terms of scoring, on the stage of the summer league, he is not as good at catching scoring opportunities as Quintelle Woods and Travis Outlaw... After all, James’ style of play is a starting point style of play, and his ability to respond is poor , The possession rate is still high.

James and Boozer play together, Liu Xiu's strategy is very simple...to protect the low area of ​​​​the three-second zone, follow Boozer closely at the high post, and the wing shooter will go short if necessary!
This strategy has nothing to do with Zhouquan, but for the summer league, this is enough!

The purpose is simple-to make it difficult for James to break through and score.

Even if the wing pitcher makes a shot, it doesn't matter, anyway, there is no way to go all the way. If he can go all the way, can he still make it to the NBA?

One more point - Diop.

The coaches of the Cavaliers don't know whether to replace Diop. If he replaces him, the offensive end will be worse. If he does not replace him, there will be many problems on the defensive end...

The game is going on, and the Trail Blazers' advantage is becoming more and more obvious!

When the strength of the players is not much different, one side can make clear and effective adjustments according to the actual situation on the field. The advantage is too great!

At 3 minutes and 11 seconds of the fourth quarter, Liu Xiu received a pass from Matt Carroll on the right side of the three-second zone and hit a short-range jumper. The score was 93 to 69, and the point difference came to 24 points!
The referee blows the whistle and the game is forced into the penultimate official timeout of the game.

James looked at the goal, looked at the score, and then looked at Liu Xiu who stretched after the whistle... He, Lebron, was abused for the first time after entering the NBA!
That time against the Magic, James didn't think it counted. Although they lost by nearly 20 points, those people were veterans who had played in CBA, Development League and other American leagues for many years.

The 18- to 23-year-old peers of the Trail Blazers are the real contemporary opponents.

He Lebang wants to conquer Liu Xiu, but tonight, he felt what is called a 'ball quotient'.

James seldom had this kind of emotion. He wanted to turn around and walk out of the court, but he held back. He took the initiative to step forward, wanting to congratulate Liu Xiu for winning the game.

As a result, Liu Xiu raised her head and spoke first: "Little brother, brother played very happily in the game tonight...don't be discouraged, you are still young, and your brain doesn't seem to be very powerful, but listen more, learn more and experience more, and you will gradually get better." Can be as smart as my brother!"

James heard a heartbroken voice-'I XXX should just turn around and leave! '

After finally tidying up his emotions, he was immediately stabbed to pieces by Liu Xiu!
But every word of Liu Xiu can be said to be the truth!

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Playing cards with my family in the afternoon, ho ho ho ho ho ho, Xiaofeng must win him 80 yuan from grandma this time, losing every year, it's too embarrassing.

That's it for today, I wish you a happy Chinese New Year~
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