Healing Basketball

Chapter 538 538. Next time

"If you lose, you will be criticized, and if you win a little more, it will be said that we are so serious in the preseason. Is there something wrong with these reporters?"

"Aren't all journalists like this? They are afraid of being slapped in the face, so they write news like this. What we have to do is continue to slap them in the face!"

"You're right... I'm going to the gym, together?"

"I have something to do, next time, next time..."

After two consecutive main games, the Trail Blazers started a wave of three consecutive away. On the afternoon of the 15th, the Trail Blazers came to Sacramento.

They slaughtered the Timberwolves by 50 points last night and attracted the attention of the fans, but the evaluation...

Think about the fact that after the Pacers won the championship last year, the new season began to be highly praised; at the beginning of the 02-03 season, the Lakers were hyped to the sky. At that time, Liu Xiu saw the news related to the Lakers. OK, only Xiaoyu can play. He really thought the Lakers were going to win four consecutive championships.

And their Trail Blazers, as the defending champions, have not yet started the new season, and the trend of 'doing anything is wrong' has already begun. This environment reminds Liu Xiu of the Spurs at the beginning of last season.

But Liu Xiu is used to this kind of situation. He sees that most of his old teammates don’t care about it. The newcomer Ray Allen is cold-tempered, Mourning is bold and doesn’t care about these things, Blake is calm, and Lu Wei has no sense of presence. ...and Randolph was irritated.

Liu Xiu sent Randolph out of the room, watched Randolph walk towards the elevator, and couldn't help but sigh, the butchers are so easy to fool, and it will be difficult to do so after a few years when they become old fritters, now they can fool and squeeze Just fool around a bit more.

After a night's rest, on October 10, Liu Xiu followed the team to Arco Arena to challenge the Kings away.

Bibby, Kevin Martin, Stephen Jackson, Bunch Wells, Brad Miller, Juan Dixon, Kenny Thomas on the bench, plus one more, enough Adelman, who likes 8-man rotation, tossed.

When the Blazers prepared for the game, they regarded the Kings as their imaginary opponents in the first or second round.

In fact, the Kings originally had a 'powerful substitute', one of the additions that Webber exchanged for last season, Collis Williams of the 95 class, who averaged 10 points and 5 rebounds after joining the Kings last season. With two years of 1250 million US dollars to complete the contract extension, but back in the offseason... Anyway, after the players of the two teams entered the field, the eyes of the fans unconsciously lingered on Randolph and Collis Williams , want to know who is fatter.

What Liu Xiu saw was that Collis Williams was fatter.

"Collis Williams, 32 years old, 201 cm, 135 kg, SF/PF, ability evaluation-..."

Fat into a ball!
Role players, after the peak age of 28 and nine years old, may collapse at any time. There are various reasons. Collis Williams collapsed because of his appetite.

However, what was lost was what was lost, Collis Williams collapsed, and the older rookie Francisco Garcia, who was selected by the Kings at the end of the first round, played very well in the summer league and the first two preseason games.

Garcia, an older rookie who will turn 12 in December, has solid skills and strong leadership skills. When Liu Xiu watched the tapes of Garcia's first two preseason games obtained by the team, he thought of Nick Cooper of the Sonics. Leeson is too good. If he is on a championship team, he will definitely be an important help. In a strong playoff team like the Kings, his role is also very prominent.

At 7:30 in the evening, the Trail Blazers challenged the Kings away game.

Randolph still played very hard tonight, and Bunch - Wells, a former teammate, launched a contest that was not friendly at all, and the two continued to swear.

Performance, Bunch Wells is better, Randolph's excess weight has had a great impact on his strength, but the more important thing is that Bunch Wells is in the contract year, playing so well Calling a role model player is even harder than Randolph.

Randolph and Bunche Wells galvanized their teammates and made it a real game to win or lose.

1小时55分钟的比赛过后，靠着兰多夫15分9板、刘秀17分6助攻、小飞鼠13分3助攻、雷-阿伦12分、夸梅-布朗9分9板4盖帽……开拓者队以94比89险胜国王队，季前赛两连胜！

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The two games between the Timberwolves and the Kings are very different from the preparations that the coaching staff of the Trail Blazers want. They played too easily against the Timberwolves and played too nervously against the Kings. They prefer to play the calm game of the Warriors. A game of lineup adjustment and tactical polishing.

Finally, it's time to play against the Warriors again! On October 10, the Trail Blazers came to the Oakland Arena in Oakland to challenge the Warriors away.

The Trail Blazers coaching staff thought they could finally polish their tactics, but the players played so hard that they wanted revenge in the preseason!
In the first three games, Liu Xiu played very well. In the opening stage, he tried a few rushes, and then he started to run well. Now Liu Xiu was driven by Randolph to play even harder.

The game was intense and intense, and the fans at the scene were also involved in the game, playing and fighting. The players of the two teams and the fans at the scene forgot that this was just a preseason game.

Morris Cheeks was a little helpless, the warden's leadership ability is too good, and occasionally there will be such troubles.

But he didn't get too entangled. Now that he has entered the stage of playing hard, let's play hard!

到了晚上8点55分，经过了1小时55分钟比赛后，开拓者队以103比104落后勇士队1分，时间还剩7秒钟。

The Warriors players were ready for the victory, but Liu Xiu showed his strength at the critical moment, ran back without the ball and cut in, received Rahim's high position to support the ball, and made a short-range throw. When the ball was flying in the air, the game ended with a long whistle The sound has already sounded, and the fans on the scene screamed, booed, and cheered. The whistle blew, but the ball didn't stop, and it plunged into the basket!
The Chinese fans, Chinese and Asian fans who came to watch the game were jumping with excitement!

Lore!Buzzer lore!

The preseason actually saw a lore!Still this kind of standard buzzer lore, not even giving the opponent a chance of 0.1 seconds!

刘秀全场15投8中，其中三分球5投2中，加上4中3的罚球，拿到21分7板6助攻1抢断1盖帽，并且投中了压哨球，帮助开拓者队以105比104绝杀勇士队，将季前赛战绩提升到3胜1负。

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On the afternoon after beating the Warriors, the Trail Blazers left Oakland for Phoenix, the final leg of a three-way trip against the Suns.

When Liu Xiu left the hotel and went to the airport, he noticed that the three training camp contract teammates, Serge Monia, Brian Skinner, and Rick Bronson, did not start together. Obviously, these three were cut.

When Liu Xiu chatted with the coach on the plane, I found out that it was because of the actual situation of their past three games. The coaching staff chose to give up slowly polishing the tactics and adjusted the goals of the preseason.

The plan can't keep up with the changes. The goal of the coaching staff at the beginning is to improve the running-in of the team's new system and the accumulation of tacit understanding of the new players to a certain extent during the training camp + preseason. As the defending champion, it is inevitable that the confidence will swell.

But during the training camp stage, the coaching staff discovered that this seemed impossible.

It is not difficult to make good use of a top pitcher, but it is difficult to make good use of Ray Allen's level of three-pointers.

Based on the principle of giving priority to tactics and tacit understanding takes time to grind, before the start of the preseason, the coaching staff decided to experiment with tactics first and talk about the cultivation of tacit understanding later.

Now the latest plan is not to conduct tactical experiments, the main attack is to clarify the tactics that can be played, strengthen actual defensive training, and strengthen defensive counterattacks.

Who knew Randolph suddenly made such a big determination to lose weight?
From September 9th to October 24th, Randolph only lost 10 pounds in two weeks. This was because he was banned from eating high-fat and high-salt foods such as barbecue, and he did not work hard at weight loss training.

But now weight loss training is called a positive!
At the beginning of the regular season, the coaching staff felt that it would be difficult for Randolph to reduce to the playoff weight of 115 to 118 kg, which combines strength and speed, but a weight of just over 120 kg can guarantee stable efficiency. not big.

Tactics are gradually added, and it is important to come up with a stable basic style of play to enter the regular season.

Therefore, there is no need for training camp contract players. These people are not suitable for the Trail Blazers. To keep them, it is better to let the trainer spend more time training Lou Williams.

Liu Xiu lamented how cruel the NBA is. Bronson and Skinner have played in the NBA for several years, and Monia was the last rookie in the first round last season. Good defensive potential, but after playing more than 20 games, he was seriously injured and his athletic ability was seriously affected. During the offseason, the Cavaliers chose to amnesty him in order to make room for signing Larry Hughes.

After arriving in Phoenix, Liu Xiu didn't make an appointment with Nash. The Suns played a preseason game against the Clippers in Los Angeles last night, and they only returned to Phoenix this afternoon. They will play against each other tomorrow, so it's good to see this side.

After a night's rest, the Trail Blazers came to the American West Arena to prepare for the game early the next morning. Liu Xiu and his teammates were very excited to play against the most gorgeous running and bombing team in the new era.

However, there was a bad news during training in the morning, the bully may be reimbursed for the season!

In the Suns' away game against the Clippers the night before yesterday, the bully defended Maggette's breakthrough. The two confronted each other in the air. The bully twisted his knee when he landed. It didn't look that serious at the time, and he still played in the fourth quarter. After a few minutes, I did not expect that the cruciate ligament of the left leg was damaged and the soft tissue was torn!

After a day of follow-up visits and discussions, the Suns and the Bully unanimously decided that minimally invasive surgery will be performed and they will be absent for at least 4 months.

(End of this chapter)