Healing Basketball

Chapter 584. Chapter 584.
The Pistons with 16 wins and 4 losses surpassed the Trail Blazers with 15 wins and 4 losses to top the league!

With 4 consecutive aways, 2 wins and 2 losses, the Trail Blazers had their worst record since the beginning of the season. On December 12, Liu Xiu and his teammates flew back to Portland with a little frustration.

But after returning to Portland on the "Rose Bay Prison", thousands of fans still came to pick up the plane, with cheers, cheers, and comforting slogans... At this moment, Liu Xiu felt that their The first Trail Blazers players really built a solid local fan base.

As a basketball player, only the fans can live up to their expectations!
Liu Xiu entered the intermittent hard work mode.

After returning home and having a good night's rest, on December 12th, the home games are coming back to back!
At 6:40 in the evening, the Trail Blazers played back-to-back first games and ushered in the challenge of the Timberwolves.

Tomorrow's back-to-back second game against the Pacers, some players also came to the scene to watch the game.

Before the game, Liu Xiu and Tianzun exchanged pleasantries, but they didn't talk much.

Feelings will always fade away. The main reason is that Tianzun won the first championship of his career in the Pacers, and his friendship with the teammates of that Pacers team is better than that of the "Rose Bay Seven" in just half a season. The relationship is much deeper, and Liu Xiu won the championship in the second year, and the relationship with the 14 teammates of last season is also deeper than Tianzun.

Coupled with the grievances between Liu Xiu and Artest...

Although it is an uncontrollable flow of players, the friendship between the warden and Tianzun is still on the road of two-way distance.

Although the two would still greet each other warmly when they met, they couldn't go back to the beginning.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the Trail Blazers vs. Timberwolves game started!

The fans at the scene tonight are extremely excited-the butcher is back!

In order to help Randolph get back to form, Liu Xiu gave Randolph 9 singles opportunities in 8 minutes of the first quarter. Randolph really didn't give face, and only scored 8 points on 2 of 6 shots. Quarter 22 to 24 behind the Timberwolves by two points.

The Blazers' crazy fast-paced offensive state in the past two games was directly lost by Randolph.

But not only Liu Xiu, everyone in the team is accommodating Randolph, giving Randolph the most opportunities, teamwork, singles opportunities, and giving Randolph everything he can.

In the second quarter, Randolph was not deployed at the beginning, and Little Flying Squirrel and Liu Xiu fought with Garnett for half a quarter.

Randolph continued to sit on the sidelines to digest the feeling of the 9-minute game he played in the first quarter, watching the game and thinking about how to play next.

官方暂停后兰多夫重新上场，表现好了许多，4投2中外加4中3的罚球拿到7分。

The Trail Blazers team worked together and scored 26 to 25 in the second quarter. They beat the Timberwolves with only Garnett and Szczerbiak left, and easily reversed the situation.

After halftime, the Trail Blazers were only 48 point behind the Timberwolves 49 to 1.

In the second half, seeing that Randolph had almost adapted, Liu Xiu and Ray Allen started the main attack. Randolph played 14 minutes in this half, and scored 7 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assist on 6 of 1 shots, and his performance recovered.

雷-阿伦半场打了14分钟拿到13分、刘秀打了16分钟拿到12分6助攻。

The offense was actually not as good as it was in the first half when he focused on helping Randolph regain his sense of offense. At that time, he only focused on offense. Not to mention that the offense was not good. He also messed up the offensive state he played against the Wizards and Suns Lost, but also good!
The focus of the Trail Blazers' adjustment at halftime is to strengthen the defense!

The Timberwolves were defended to only score 13 points in the third quarter, only 21 points in the final quarter, and 34 points in the second half.

The Trail Blazers scored 43 points in the second half!
雷-阿伦全场18分3板2助攻、兰多夫21分10板、刘秀23分6板9助攻。

In this game, the Trail Blazers completed the reversal relying on defense and rebounds. Garnett scolded the street throughout the game. He played 42 minutes and scored 16 points, 22 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 5 blocks. , Cap performance aside, he got 22 rebounds alone, but the team only got 32 rebounds, and his teammates grabbed less than half of his rebounds!
91 to 83, the Trail Blazers easily completed the reversal and improved their record to 16 wins and 4 losses. Relying on the advantage of the match, they regained the league's top spot from the Pistons!

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After playing the Timberwolves, I rested for one night. On the second day, December 12, the game day of the second back-to-back game arrived.

Back to back, there is no preparation training.

It can't be said that there is no such thing. Yesterday morning's preparation training was to prepare for today's game. In fact, I didn't prepare for the Timberwolves, and I played directly on the field.

Today's pre-match meeting mainly analyzed the play style of the comeback Randolph, emphasizing which ones worked well and which ones did not.

Randolph played 29 minutes last night and scored 19 points on 7 of 21 shots. His efficiency was not good, but his state gradually improved as the game progressed. This adjustment speed surprised even Liu Xiu.

This reminded Payton of another fat guy he had partnered with - Shaq O'Neal.

After Maurice Cheeks analyzed yesterday's game, he said very clearly: "Butcher, we need you to reintegrate into the team, immediately, right now! If not, the bishop will replace you as the starter, you Be prepared."

So solemn, of course Randolph should come down.

Every team member felt a lot of pressure when the coach said this, but no one felt that there was anything wrong with this request.

Everyone knows that the coach is serious. If Randolph continues to perform like yesterday, he will really be put on the bench. Rahim played for real in the few games Randolph was injured Well, and Raheem will not refuse to return to the starting position from the bench.

The regular season has already played 20 games, a quarter of which has been played, and it will enter the middle of the season in less than half a month. It will certainly not give a certain player too long time to re-run after an injury.

Unless this player is nicknamed the Warden.

After putting the pressure on Randolph, the coach went to the side to relax. Huo Tu and Bu Shuai began to make tactical arrangements for tonight's game, which was limited to the meeting level. After the meeting, they continued to rest and gathered for dinner at 5 o'clock in the evening. , Start warming up at 6 o'clock...

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In the evening, the Trail Blazers ushered in back-to-back challenges from the Pacers at home.

The Pacers currently have a record of 14 wins and 6 losses, surpassing the Heat with 13 wins and 7 losses to come to second place in the Eastern Conference.

It wasn't the game against the Pacers yesterday, Liu Xiu and the others exchanged pleasantries with Tianzun before the game, but today there is no scene of greetings at all, just do it!
At 7:58, the pre-match preparations were over, and the players of the two teams entered the field.

Liu Xiu quickly glanced at the player detection reports of the five starters on the opposite side.

贾马尔-汀斯利，能力评价79，场均7.3分3.2板6助攻1.3抢断。

卡蒂诺-莫布里，能力评价83，场均14.4分2.6板2.8助攻1.4抢断。

罗恩-阿泰斯特，能力评价93，场均25.5分6.4板3.4助攻1.8抢断。

杰梅因-奥尼尔，能力评价91，场均17.5分9.3板1.6助攻2.6盖帽。

拉希德-华莱士，能力评价87，场均12.6分6.7板2.8助攻1.2抢断1.8盖帽。

The team has excellent offense, has core scorers, has veterans, has inside pillars, and the two towers have a combined average of 4.4 blocks per game, which is the strongest in the league...

Also on the bench are Austin Crohill, Anthony Johnson, Sarunas Jaskovicius, Jeff Foster, David Harrison and other substitutes.

After a year of pains after winning the championship, the veterans were cleaned up, and some middle-class players signed around 2000 expired. The Pacers completed the rebuild and started to restart towards the championship!
Although the strength of the lineup is not enough and the bench lineup has no strong points, the defense of the three cores is quite amazing. This season, there are three teams with an average conceded score of less than 90 points per game, and the Pacers are one of them!

Liu Xiu's four starting teammates, Ray Allen, Outlaws, Randolph, Kwame Brown.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the game begins!

The game has entered a defensive battle from the beginning.

首节开拓者队表现最好的，是夸梅布朗……打了8分钟，4投3中拿到6分5板1抢断1盖帽！

All 6 points were scored by offensive rebounds!

Under the leadership of Kwame Brown, the Trail Blazers led the Pacers by 22 points 18 to 4 in the first quarter.

不过到了第二节，靠着天尊空位三分3中3拿到9分，步行者队还了开拓者队一个22比16的单节比分。

After halftime, the Pacers led the Trail Blazers by two points 40 to 38.

In the third quarter, the Trail Blazers played a difficult quarter and only scored 14 points. In this quarter, the Pacers relied on Tianzun's precise three-pointer, Artest's sharp breakthrough score, Jermaine- O'Neal's singles, Tinsley's increasingly steady pass control... scored 27 points in a single quarter!
尽管末节刘秀单节7分3助攻率队单节拿到26分，反攻了一个26比19的单节比分，最终开拓者队依旧以78比86不敌步行者队，吃下了本赛季第5场失利，战绩下跌至16胜5负，被17胜5负的马刺队反超，掉到了西部第二、联盟第三！
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刘秀18投8中拿到20分9板8助攻、雷-阿伦13投6中拿到15分，打步行者队打出这表现，都挺不错了，夸梅-布朗出场28分钟拿到15分14板更是可以称得上爆发。

但兰多夫全场14投5中只拿到12分12板2助攻……

In fact, during the game, no one felt that Randolph played badly. He maintained a restraining force throughout the game, attracting the attention of Tianzun and Jermaine O'Neal, the two defensive towers in the league. May Brown had a chance to score 8 points on 6-of-15 shooting.

However, Randolph failed to play the role of the inside passing hub in the early season of the season. The offense was mostly singles, the running position was not good enough, and the position movement was blurred... These are indeed Randolph's problems.

On the second afternoon of the game against the Pacers, the Trail Blazers left Portland for Minneapolis. In the pregame meeting the next morning, Maurice Cheeks, as promised, put the Randolph was placed on the bench.

After the pre-match meeting, Raheem ran to Randolph to show off and grabbed the starting position. Randolph said a few harsh words, then held his fat face in his fat hands, and looked at himself...

The outlaw fanatics of the onlookers asked the warden of the onlookers: "Will the bishop not anger the butcher by saying this? Butchers have the same eyes as nuts."

The warden shook his head: "It is precisely because the bishop said so that the butcher will not hold grudges. The butcher is not afraid of competition, but hates being comforted and sympathized."

The extrajudicial lunatic suddenly realized: "So that's the case, I said how could the bishop be so proud suddenly..."

In the evening, the Trail Blazers came to the Target Center to challenge the Timberwolves away.

Randolph was really put on the bench, and Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, Outlaws, Raheem, and Kwame Brown made their debut.

This really stimulated Randolph. Randolph, who came off the bench, played 26 minutes, 15 of 9 shots, 9 of 7 free throws, 25 points and 12 rebounds, 7 of which were offensive rebounds. Garnett was beaten badly by the angry fat man.

在兰多夫26分钟拿到25分的带领下，刘秀拿到17分11板12助攻的三双数据、雷-阿伦拿到8投6中拿到15分……开拓者队以95比83轻松击败森林狼队，战绩提升到17胜5负，追平马刺队，和马刺队并列西部第一！

Randolph returned to the first game, Liu Xiu felt that Randolph found his form quickly enough, and Liu Xiu didn't think he could blame Randolph for losing to the Pacers, but the coach felt that it was not enough. Give Randolph a push.

It worked out!
This operation has to be their scribbled and bold coach.

In the past, Randolph found his status quickly, purely relying on talent, now, Randolph is also more active on the psychological level!

The cooperation between Randolph and his teammates in this game has the feeling before the injury!
But on Liu Xiu's side, after this match, he received a system prompt that made him both happy and a bit pained...

(End of this chapter)