Healing Basketball

Chapter 504. 504. Tangled Talent Selection
"Oh, dear, George is not yet a year old, so there's no need to enroll him in interest classes?"

"Of course he must report, let him receive the influence of art from an early age."

"Influenced by art? It's like letting Qing'er learn the violin, and now she feels physically uncomfortable when she holds the instrument? Caroline, if this continues, little George will be afraid of you when he grows up."

"...It's all your fault! You get tired of being with the children every day and take away their love!"

"????? Caroline, other people's wives are complaining that their husbands spend less time with their children. Is it wrong for me to spend more time with my children? Do you know how tiring it is for me to take care of my children after I go out to work every day? ?”

"That's right... I don't care! It's all your fault!"

"..."

On June 6, the morning after the Western Conference finals, Liu Xiu's uncle and aunt's family came to Liu Xiu's place to make dumplings and celebrate Liu Xiu's entry into the finals.

Uncle and aunt, the old husband and wife, always have such little frictions, and Liu Xiu has long been used to it.

Anne Hathaway who came back from the supermarket to buy spices asked, "Jess, what are they arguing about?"

Liu Xiuying said: "There is a local musician's private classroom that is recruiting students, and there are very few places. Caroline's client happens to be a friend of the musician, and she got a place through her relationship."

Anne Hathaway nodded and replied: "If little George wants to develop in the direction of music when he grows up, this is indeed very important."

"Yeah, that's why the two of them quarreled. Ang Kou still has beautiful fantasies. He wants his children to receive a happy education. Caroline is more realistic in this regard."

"How do you think children should be raised?"

"As long as the direction is correct, I will listen to you."

Anne-Hathaway nodded in satisfaction when she heard the words, looked at the uncle and aunt who had entered the mode of ignoring each other, and asked, "Don't worry about them?"

Liu Xiu responded, "No need, Caroline will definitely win in the end."

Qing'er nodded quickly: "Yes, mom wins every time, I really hope dad can win once."

"Qing'er, why do you look like you're watching your father play?"

"Is there? Am I so obvious?"

"You can just gloat, you will go to middle school next year, and I heard that your mother wants you to go to a private prestigious school."

"No! Our family pays so much tax, I want to go to public school and earn back the money I gave to the government!"

"Your mother is rich, she is willing to spend those tuition fees."

"No, I'm sensible, I want to leave the money to my brother to study!"

"Don't worry, your mother has already started saving your brother's tuition."

"leak……"

Eating dumplings, listening to the noise of uncles and aunts, teasing my sister, spending time with my girlfriend after breakfast, and taking my son and daughter to the yard to play, Liu Xiu had a good time during the morning break.

After lunch, Liu Xiu came to the Rose Garden Arena. After changing into his training clothes, he went to the meeting room and looked at the clock on the wall. It was 1:25, and the meeting started at 1:[-]. He arrived so early, and he felt that he was really hardworking.

The teammates were all present, and Liu Xiu saw Randolph scratching his head.

Liu Xiu kindly reminded: "Zach, you can't grow your hair even if you scratch your head."

"???" Randolph froze for a moment, then roared after reacting: "I just have thin hair, and I'm not bald like Gary!"

Lively didn't see Payton, who was lying down and shot for a few seconds, and started a scolding battle with Randolph on the spot.

The two spat passionately on each other for 2 minutes, and when they got tired, Randolph complained: "In the past, we were promoted first, and we waited slowly for the next opponent. Now it's others' turn to wait for us to advance, and the time has become tight. I'm not used to it."

"Yes," Liu Xiu nodded in approval, "Butcher, you should apologize to your teammates."

"crooked?"

"You averaged 14 points against the Spurs."

"...You are very reasonable, just wait and see! Next time I meet Duncan, I will definitely blow him up!"

Teammates: "..."

When Liu Xiu said that Randolph was being abused by Duncan, the teammates were all in suspense. They didn't expect Randolph to react like this.

And Randolph's idea is very simple-Liu Xiu and Ginobili's overall performance on the offensive end is [-]-[-], and the defensive end can also guard Parker. He played really well in the last round. At other times, he was hanged and beaten by Duncan.

So the warden was right!
...

At 1:[-] in the afternoon, the Trail Blazers began to prepare for the finals in an orderly manner.

Preparation meeting, team tactical training, small-scale cooperative training, individual extra training... The preparation work is in place!
The coaching staff of the Trail Blazers felt that their preparations for the preparation stage were definitely more adequate than that of the Nets, because they had been collecting information on the two teams in the Eastern Conference finals since they led the Spurs 3-1. Research, when the Nets won the battle of Tianwangshan, they decisively chose the Nets to prepare for the imaginary opponent of the finals.

Looking at the players who were training, the coach thought to himself that luckily the tie-break was won, otherwise all the preparations would have been in vain.

The Nets also came to the Rose Garden Arena to prepare for the game at two o'clock in the afternoon. They had already arrived in Portland this morning.

Randolph is not used to having less preparation time than his opponents. In fact, it is just a little psychological effect. The Nets also reached G6, and the start of the Eastern Conference Finals was later. The Nets advanced one day ahead of schedule, and the Nets didn't even return to Rutherford Town yesterday. After waiting in Detroit for the opponents in the finals, they flew directly from Detroit this morning.

The Trail Blazers' preparations this afternoon mainly focused on 'forgetting' how to play against the Spurs, that is, switching the opponent from the Spurs to the Nets, because these two teams are completely different teams. After the series, the impression of the opponent in the last round was too deep, and such a process was needed.

There was no work in this area before the second round and the Western Conference finals, because they advanced very early in the first and second rounds, and the waiting time was long enough, just two more days of regular training, but this time the preparation time is just that long.

The coach is not worried. The vice president has been complaining. The coach teased the vice president: "In the first two rounds, you thought the promotion was too early, and you were worried that they had no rest. Now you think the promotion is too late, and there is not enough time for preparation. It is really difficult to serve."

The vice president decisively threatened the coach with no salary increase...

Liu Xiu has always been very involved in the preparation training, and the adjustment of switching preparation targets went very smoothly.

In fact, he is also making adjustments in this area. This morning, he didn't even let Qing'er or Anne Hathaway read the newspaper to him, completely blocking the outside voice, and for the time being, he didn't want to watch the news about the Western Conference finals. The Western Conference Finals has ended, and he will completely get out of the Western Conference Finals and enter the Finals time.

This is a difficult task, but this one is his strong point!

Now, he has made adjustments. When he returns home in the evening to watch the news related to last night's tiebreaker, he can watch the news from the perspective of "my previous game" instead of "the current tense".

His 'you're old' challenge to Duncan last night was mixed.

The Spurs have a bad reputation and low popularity, but Duncan has a good reputation and popularity. He started the All-Star for six consecutive years. After the 6-2002 season, Duncan, who played for only six years, has locked in the history of the first power forward, Liu Xiu Although he won, his words did not contain dirty words, but many media and experts still criticized him.

These include fans of some of the 'best of old time' groups.

When Jordan just retired, there was a group of people who didn't want to see Duncan and O'Neal win the championship. They didn't like Ewing, but they supported the Knicks to win the championship in 99. They didn't like Reggie Miller, but they supported the walker in 00. The team won the championship.

Now, the OK group is disbanded, and five or six years in the basketball world is already a very long time. The young fans at the stage when Duncan and O'Neal won the championship for five consecutive years have gradually become old fans.

They may not like Kidd, they may not even be fans of Duncan or O'Neal, they are just like the old fans back then, and they don't want to see the new generation of stars win the championship...

These guys just want to prove that the NBA they watched in their 'peak' was the best NBA.

Liu Xiu also saw what Kidd said in the telephone interview immediately after the game last night.

"It's a pity that my opponent in this finals is not the Spurs. I have always been eager for revenge, but I am very happy. Every year in the finals, O'Neal or Duncan are in the West. I am tired of watching them, and finally someone ends them."

Liu Xiu felt that it was a pity that the newspaper couldn't like it. He liked Kidd's words very much.

However, reading newspapers without comments or barrage, in Liu Xiu's view, is enough to make up for the shortcoming of not being able to like it.

Liu Xiu read the newspaper for a while, and as he expected, compared to when he was playing against the Spurs, the tendency of public opinion was much more obvious, and it was overwhelmingly inclined towards the Nets.

This is perfectly normal. Kidd, an 11-year veteran, has played in the finals twice. He is not very popular, but he has enough qualifications to enter the finals again. There is a feeling of "it's Kidd's turn to win the championship this time." ' Words spread.

Putting down the newspaper, Liu Xiu got ready and entered the state - ignoring external influences.

In the first three rounds, he only really entered this state after two home games, but now he feels impetuous when he reads the newspaper.

He opened the prop space of the system.

The goal of 'Giant Killer': Defeating Duncan in the Western Conference finals, has been completed, and got the third talent fragment.

The system judges that this goal is the ultimate goal of this mission, the mission is completed, and the talent tendency of 'Giant Killer' has also been obtained.

But he is very entangled now, and has three talent tendencies: Giant Slayer, Maimang, and Marksman.

But these three talents are not the most ideal talents.

'Giant Killer', you can tell from the name that it has a lot of limitations.

'Sharp shooter', off-ball talent, let alone this type of talent is not his ideal direction, at this stage, he is very confident, his off-ball ability is not worthy of such a talent.

'Mai Mang', this talent has been used 3 times, and it's so cool every time, but the first talent, can't be the talent that plays the key 35 seconds every night, right?
(End of this chapter)