Healing Basketball

Chapter 511. 511. Hidden hidden dangers
"The owner of the Nets has always thought that they are a New York team, and now their new owner is still the same. They want to settle in New York at the earliest. Without sponsors, they can only come to an abandoned factory here to play games. You Do you know how many people watched the Nets' first game?"

"how many people?"

"3000 people, the Knicks also had a game that day, and there were 2 people watching. Even if they went to the country, no one liked the Nets. They didn't like it here, and the people here wouldn't like them. Then they really moved. New York is gone, but New Yorkers also don't like them from the countryside. After staying in the big city for a few years, they can only go back to the countryside, but now the mayor of the countrymen doesn't beg them to stay. Dispatched to Rutherford Township, that's where we're going next."

"Is Rutherford town bad? I've been there twice and it feels like the people there are rich."

"Of course the people in Rutherford Town are very rich. Don't look at the poor hotels there, but it is a commercial hub connecting New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. There are many people who go to the Luhang Arena to watch the ball, but Not many are Nets fans, many are passing businessmen, and people in the three states don’t like the Nets. What Kidd has been doing is to let local fans accept the Nets and conquer the fans in this place. Be the leader of your time."

"Oh, I didn't expect Kidd to be such a dreamy player."

"Of course Kidd is the best player in the world."

"No, I am."

"Oh, Sori, I know you are very powerful, Warden, but in my opinion, you will be the strongest in the future, and now, Kidd is the strongest."

"I will prove to you that your cognition is wrong..."

"..."

The teammates are convinced by the warden's familiar character, and they can chat so happily with the bus driver in the away city.

The day after G2 of the Finals, on the afternoon of June 6, the Trail Blazers flew across the United States to Jersey City. After getting off the plane, they took a bus arranged by the team to Rutherford Town.

The long-distance flight, even if there are seats customized by Paul Allen for each player on the special plane, after arriving in Jersey City, most of the Trail Blazers players don’t have much energy to do other things. After all, they played two games in the past three days. After a game, they wanted to go to the hotel and have a good night's rest.

But the warden's spirit is so good, he came out of the airport, sat in the passenger seat and chatted with the bus driver all the way!
And obviously the bus driver is a fan of Kidd. Now they are playing with Kidd in the finals. The tone of the bus driver was not very good at the beginning, but the warden was able to chat!The two can complain about how unpopular the Nets are!

While walking, Liu Xiu found that the road was wrong, and asked, "Carl, isn't this the way to Rutherford Town?"

The driver named Carl Callect replied: "Of course not, the route you agreed is to go to Greenton Hill."

Hearing this, Randolph exclaimed, "Is it that luxury villa area in Jersey City?"

The driver didn't have time to answer, and the vice president sitting in the first row took over: "Yes, this is a gift from the boss after we reached the finals. Didn't Jess complain when we played against the Nets last time? Is the hotel too bad? It is actually the best hotel in Rutherford Town, and after the owner found out about it, he booked a villa hotel in Greenton Hills."

As soon as the vice president said this, everyone on the bus cheered, including the coaching staff and staff.

Liu Xiu also sighed: "The boss is really generous, the prices here in New Jersey are not cheap..."

The boss is generous!The vice president's eyes lit up when he heard this, the boss's secretary came up with the idea of ​​spending so much money in the villa hotel, just to let the team members feel that the boss is a generous person, and the most important thing is to let Liu Xiu feel it!
At this moment, Liu Xiu asked puzzledly: "Kevin, the boss didn't seem to come to watch the game these two days. What's wrong with him? Isn't he a super basketball fan?"

The vice president replied with regret: "He also wants to come, and I hope he can come to cheer for us, but he is a shareholder of Microsoft. Although he has resigned from the board of directors, he is still Bill Gates' consultant and often needs to help attend various events. Activities, he seems to be developing a market in South America recently, so he can't come..."

...

When playing away games, it is always inevitable to be influenced by the opponent's fans.

The regular season is fine, but in the playoffs, fans will harass their opponents in an organized and premeditated manner, let alone the finals. I heard that the Providence Park Hotel where the Nets stayed in Portland is haunted Yes, and a priest was invited to exorcise the evil spirits.

Perhaps inspired by the Portland fans, after the Trail Blazers came to the Hudson Riverside Villa Hotel in Greenton Hills, the outlaws who love surfing the Internet saw the Rutherford town on the forum. Legend has it that a hotel called Caesars Palace is haunted.

The extrajudicial lunatic found Liu Xiu and told him about it, and he sighed happily: "Fortunately, our boss is generous. He didn't go to live in that rundown hotel. He already felt that it was not clean."

Liu Xiu asked strangely, "Aren't you afraid of nothing?"

The outlaw lunatic replied: "I'm not afraid of anything, but I'm afraid of ghosts!"

Liu Xiu's eyes flickered for a moment, and then he asked, "Don't you dare to eat anything?"

"Does this have anything to do with my fear of ghosts?"

"Can't you just eat the ghost when you see it?"

"?????"

Although I don't know why, but after the warden made such a fuss, the outlaw fanatic was not so afraid when he thought of ghosts, and the idea of ​​how to become a boy who eats ghosts came to his mind...

After the long journey, Liu Xiu and his teammates had a good night's rest, and they were not in a hurry to train the next morning. They only trained in a private indoor arena in Greenton Hills in the afternoon.

They don't think resting is a waste of time, and they don't worry that the progress of preparations will be surpassed by the Nets. It's not that they believe that the Nets will continue to be chaotic. It doesn’t matter if you adjust the preparations based on the premise. It doesn’t matter if the preparations are in vain. The coaching staff and management of the Trail Blazers are willing to spend so much time resting because such rest is necessary, and the Nets have the same tight schedule. Because the planes of the two teams flew from Portland to Jersey City.

If there is any unfavorable factor for their Trail Blazers, they don't know how the Nets will play next.

McGrady's greed for FMVP, although it broke the Nets in the first two games, it also made it impossible for the Trail Blazers to judge what adjustments the Nets would make.

...

After an afternoon of preparations, the two rest days just passed.

On June 6, the game day of the third game between the Trail Blazers and the Nets arrived.

Win another game, and the Trail Blazers will lock in the championship. They are now in full swing!

The commentators of the major TV stations, based on the unstable factor of McGrady in the Nets and the performance of the two teams in the first two games, all believed that the Nets would repeat the tragedy three years ago-the finals were swept away.

Today, the home atmosphere of the Nets' home stadium, Luhang Arena, is not strong, and it is incomparable with the atmosphere of the Rose Garden Arena on the previous two game days!

At 6:10 in the evening, when the Trail Blazers entered the stadium first, there were even cheers on the scene!

In the finals, thousands of Trail Blazers fans bought tickets to the away game!

Yesterday, someone broke the news on the Internet. Outside the Luhang Arena, many fans who bought tickets for the finals G3 are reselling the tickets. Most of them are not scalpers, because some scalpers are collecting tickets and selling them to Trail Blazers fans who come to travel. .

In the past few years since Kidd joined the Nets, he has actually laid a certain fan base for the Nets. This year he reached the finals again, and the enthusiasm of the fans was very high. If he can win the championship, Kidd’s dream in the Nets is said Maybe it can really be realized, and it can really help the Nets lay a foundation in this city and this state, and become the founder of the Nets' fan base in this city.

But the Nets lost the first two games, and they lost so badly. The fans who had hope for this team because of Kidd were shattered. Shadow strikes again...

So there was a wonderful scene where the Trail Blazers in the finals could still hear cheers on the road.

When the Nets played at home, the cheers of the fans were not so high.

At 6:30 in the evening, the Trail Blazers challenged the Nets in an away game.

The imposing Trail Blazers started very unrestrainedly. After Kwame Brown won the jump ball, the Blazers launched a fast break. The Nets blocked very well. , Kwame Brown's impact was blocked, but Liu Xiu caught the ball on the left side of the free throw line and made an emergency stop jump shot...

Miss!

Kwame Brown rushed into the inside and leaped high, smashing the ball into the basket through Mourning's dunk!

Kwame Brown's second-handed dunk pushed the already high morale of the Trail Blazers to the limit!In the first half of the first quarter, with this momentum, the Trail Blazers showed the dominance of the previous game on both ends of the offense and defense. At 6 minutes and 22 seconds into the first quarter, Liu Xiu cut to catch the ball and made a low-handed layup. , The score was 17 to 10, the Trail Blazers led to 7 points, and the Nets were stopped!

Unrestrained and reckless, the Trail Blazers had the advantage in this half of the quarter, and the Nets were unable to resist.

However, in the first half of the game, the coach gave Maurice Cheeks a warning that the players played too hard.

It’s okay to play hard, but you have to learn how to hold back your energy, and you can’t just rush forward, just like many rookies who are not bad in physical strength, but they don’t have enough continuity, because rookies don’t understand how to distribute physical strength in adult basketball, even if they are Kobe is a stamina monster, if you ask him to throw 50 games in a game...it's not impossible to throw it, but he can't always maintain his best state for these 50 throws, even if he is in a very good state that night.

And if you work too hard on the offensive end, it will have an impact on the defense, and vice versa.

(End of this chapter)