Healing Basketball

Chapter 379 379. Savior or Conqueror?
There is a big difference between a player who enters the NBA after four years of college and a player who enters the NBA after one year of college.

Just look at the inside, don't talk about Duncan's special players, you can see the difference in the performance of Okafor and Bosh in their rookie seasons.

After Bosh was targeted, he played blindly, knowing how to fight, but this is actually okay, at least knowing how to fight, the psychological quality is fragile like Kwame Brown and Milicic, and his rookie season may really collapse if he is targeted.

Although Okafor was fooled in the first quarter, he started to fight back hard in the second quarter, but he is not an offensive player. It is really difficult to defend Randolph physically. He chose to make good use of the fact that he was targeted. Just teammates, really bad!
Okafor, who is still far from the first-class star and needs to be leveled up, is already the best player in the team. He averaged 13.7 points in 14.8 shots per game. He is already the player with the most shots and the highest scorer on the team.

The players recruited by the Bobcats from each team seem to have a qualitative leap in statistics, but those players are all players outside the 8-man protection list of each team. Even if they are buried, the first year of changing teams is still high. not going anywhere.

Even so, Okafor is still patiently learning how to use his threats, how to play better, and persevere... Players who are still studying for a master's degree after entering the NBA are so different.

It's just that no matter how mature Okafor is, he's just a rookie. In the end, his mentality collapsed. He threw two three-pointers in the middle of the third quarter and scored one!Bernie Bickerstaff quickly replaced him.

三节出战25分钟，12投3中，其中三分球2中1，加上4中2的罚球，拿到9分4板3助攻4犯规2失误。

Bickerstaff is not afraid of playing poorly. Okafor is a very mature player and has been working hard to adjust.

But Bickerstaff didn't expect that a mature genius like Okafor could be played by the opponent until his mentality exploded!
Extremely bad!

Liu Xiu made 24 crazy shots in three quarters, 18 of which were in the middle and long distances, and they flew up. He made 24 of 11 shots, including 8 of 3 three-pointers and 8 of 8 free throws. He scored 33 points and 10 points. Board 1 assist 2 steals!

At the end of the three quarters, the score had reached 80 to 55, and the point difference had widened to 25 points. Liu Xiu did not play in the final quarter.

Okafor was replaced for a rest with more than 2 minutes left in the third quarter. He worked hard to adjust his emotions. After the intermission, his emotions had calmed down.

What a big deal, isn't it just being targeted, the opposite is the prison team, it's understandable if it's a little bit worse... What a fart!

Okafor looked at the sluggish defense on the opposite side, and Little Flying Squirrel went up and took a few substitutes to play blindly. Their Bobcats scored 34 points in a single quarter and beat the Trail Blazers led by Little Flying Squirrel to a 34-21 single. Festival!
Seeing teammate Jason Kapono who came off the bench scoring 11 points in a single quarter, watching Gerald Wallace actively rushing to score 12 points in a single quarter... Okafor felt that this was what the opponent did for him!

The other party seems to be saying - if we don't give it, you can't take it away...

In the end, the Trail Blazers beat the Bobcats 101 to 89, raising their record to 23 wins and 9 losses!
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Another rookie was abused by the prison team!

Bullying rookies, this kind of thing is popular in the sports world. In competitive sports, the strong have the right to speak. As long as it is done in a normal way, it is normal for people to humiliate rookies, especially in commercial leagues like the NBA... ...But when it came to the Trail Blazers, it was a different story. The media started talking about 'work ethic'.

Liu Xiu has long been used to this, and has 6 more rebounds than Okafor, and has 6000 healing points!
In addition, Okafor rarely provided healing points in the early stage of the game, but after his mentality exploded, he contributed a total of more than 300 healing points, and Liu Xiu felt a sense of accomplishment.

Okafor seems to have concentrated all the grievances of being targeted on the warden alone. Regarding this situation, Liu Xiu said that the more the better.

The first 6 days of the new year were spent at home. The next morning after the Bobcats, Liu Xiu followed the team to leave Portland and started a three-game trip to the Eastern Conference.

First stop - New York.

Near noon, the Trail Blazers checked into a hotel on Manhattan Island.

Liu Xiu took a break and hadn't eaten lunch yet, when she received a call from Bill Duffy, who was invited by CNN Sports for an exclusive interview.

interview?CNN is owned by Knicks owner James Dolan, right?He just arrived in New York for an interview. Is this to increase the chances of winning for the Knicks, deliberately to toss him?But no!

Liu Xiu also watched American cable TV sports news this year. Regardless of the fact that the owner is the same person, this TV station mainly focuses on the news of the Knicks when it reports on the Knicks... Maybe it’s because he became an opponent of the Knicks , really want to give him a hug?
US cable sports really do this kind of thing.

But he didn't want to go, wanted to rest.

Bill Duffy's tone didn't sound like this was an important interview. Anyway, the warden and the media had never dealt with him. Liu Xiuzheng was about to refuse when the system prompt came!

"Madison Square Garden, the place where basketball players step into the world's most powerful basketball league, where dreams begin.

The host once again came to this arena to participate in the game. The basketball fans in this city were pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the host, and they longed for the host to be a part of the team in this arena.

Here is the most dazzling stage in the entire basketball world, with the most unrestrained fans, focusing the eyes of the entire basketball world... Mission: Savior or Conqueror Trigger.

Ask the host to choose to be the savior or the conqueror..."

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As the saying goes, time will dilute everything, such as past resentment.

This is New York, the Big Apple, and this team is the Knicks, one of the oldest teams in the NBA. It owns the mecca of basketball—Madison Square Garden. It was already in 9 that the first warden was selected, and now it is 2003, and the warden will definitely want to return to this team to play... This is a common view among New York basketball fans.

As a New York fan, that's how confident I am.

On the evening of January 2005, 1, the evening news program of the American cable TV sports channel broadcast an exclusive interview with Liu Xiu.

It doesn't matter what others are, what is important is that the reporter asked Liu Xiu if she had any plans to return to New York to play.

Liu Xiu replied: "The Knicks are one of my favorite teams. I have imagined myself wearing a Knicks jersey many times. I am definitely eager to play here..."

For a time, there were cheers and screams from all over New York.

Warden!
Synonymous with talent!

He was still thinking about New York!He forgave the Knicks who didn't pick him at No. 9!
However, Liu Xiu didn't finish his answer. He deliberately paused here for a while and then continued: "...I will come here to find a job when I am ready to retire. I think they will be willing to give me a A maximum salary for my retirement."

This panting, the cheers and screams in New York came to an abrupt end, and then, the people of New York showed their lack of cursing skills...

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In a manor in New York, Paul Allen, the owner of the Trail Blazers team, was free for the past two days. He saw the US cable television station's interview report and publicity, and deliberately stood in front of the TV. He was so angry that he jumped up and cursed.

White-eyed wolf!Proper white-eyed wolf!Isn't he good enough for this sophomore?
He yelled at his secretary: "Keir! I'm going to ban him! He wants to go to New York? Impossible! I want him to have no ball for three years, and he has no talent when he goes to New York..."

But as soon as he finished cursing, Liu Xiu gasped for half of his words on the TV screen.

For a moment, the atmosphere became awkward... But would a boss be afraid of embarrassment?
Paul Allen acted as if nothing happened just now, and said to the secretary: "Keele, call Dolan, I want tickets for tomorrow's game!"

The secretary was ordered to call for tickets, and a few minutes later...

"Boss, he refused to give the ticket and hung up."

"Shxt... Keel! Go and buy all the unsold tickets in the front row of tomorrow's game!"

"Okay boss...huh?"

The secretary never questioned the boss's decision, and did what the boss arranged, and was very good at getting things done, understood the boss's mind, and knew what to do more.

But this time I still didn't understand what the boss meant, so I couldn't help but make a voice of doubt.

Paul Allen said: "Tomorrow's game will be broadcast live. I want to let him have a lot of seats in the first few rows, so that others can see that his team's home game can't even sell the front row seats. Let him have a good time." Lose face!"

Secretary: Oh, I see!I have to buy a press release...

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The Knicks is the team that Liu Xiu least wants to go to.

At least for the past 30 years, the stars who have played in this team have not done well, being sold off, abandoned, and even in the future, there will be situations where retired stars go to the arena to watch the game and are kicked out by the boss.

He didn't want to be the one who changed the team, and the reason was simple—it was troublesome.

Changing prison teams is hard enough alright!
Moreover, it was only with the cooperation and assistance of the two "prison overlords" Randolph and Tianzun that they could get on the right track so smoothly.

Nursing homes...that pit is much more difficult than the prison team.

The comfort zone is so comfortable, what to do if you have nothing to jump out of.

Zhan has never regarded New York as his next home even though there is the biggest market here.

He doesn't care what New York fans think of what he said, if he's been playing in the West, he's only here once a year to play here...and, interestingly, the reaction of New York fans he's seen online To catch Dolan and scold him first...

The important thing is that these words will not only offend the Knicks owner and New York fans, but also offend the Knicks' former superstars... By the way, there is also Marbury who is at his peak...

"The Overlord has made your choice, a series of quests: Conqueror of Madison triggers.

The 2004-2005 Season Conquer Madison Mission: The beginning of the nightmare triggers..."

(End of this chapter)