NBA Building Cardinals

Chapter 24

Looking at Chen Xiaoxiao who was sitting opposite him, eating a plate of fried chicken, Liu Rui felt that women were scary for the first time.

This girl who doesn't look very big is actually so edible? ?Is your appetite comparable to yours? !

And seeing how delicious she ate, Liu Rui, who had just finished eating, felt hungry again. Looking at the remaining sour plum juice in his hand, he suddenly felt that it was not fragrant...

"Unexpectedly, we are all foodies, haha, why don't we go to San Francisco!!"

"Huh? Why are you going to San Francisco? I'm very busy, okay?" Liu Rui forced himself not to look at the chicken leg in Chen Xiaoxiao's hand, it looked too delicious.

"Chinatown is now free of charge for wearing clothes with your prints on them. If I take you there, why don't you want to eat anything!?" Chen Xiaoxiao said, his eyes seemed to light up, and putting down the chicken leg in his hand, Liu Rui felt that she was looking at him in the wrong way...

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On October 10, after two consecutive away trips, the Bobcats finally returned to their home court to meet the penultimate preseason game under the leadership of Bickerstaff.

The Bobcats will take on the Portland Mafia at home... No, no, it's the Portland Trail Blazers.

Although Liu Rui will not appear in this game because of the suspension, the attendance rate of the Bobcats at home is still frighteningly high.

In the past two days, no one answered Liu Rui's phone calls, and even Piccolo failed to contact Liu Rui, which made everyone who had returned to the home court feel unfriendly.

Wallace is even more annoyed. Whether it is because of himself or the league, it is undeniable that the current coach's state is definitely not good.

Liu Rui, who was eating fried chicken, said that there is still such a thing? ?

And he was really unable to contact the coach for a long time, which made Wallace, who was usually taken care of by Liu Rui, extremely blame himself, and he seemed absent-minded during the two days of training.

Piccolo can only sigh about this. Although the Asian coach has only been with the team for half a month, the half-month relationship has also made Piccolo have a good impression of him.

I have been in the league for nearly 30 years. He is definitely the most unassuming head coach I have ever seen. He is easy-going and treats players like old friends.

But he really has this kind of magical power. On the contrary, the players are extremely convinced by him. Piccolo knows very well that it is the conviction from the bottom of his heart...

So far in the preseason, the Portland Trail Blazers have a record of 1 win and 2 losses.

In the new season, the Trail Blazers not only renewed the contract of the team's swingman Miles, but also traded from the Warriors for the league's first nerve knife Van Exel, the famous Fan Madman.

Also poached the Eagles free agent Pulzbila.

But at the same time, the team also lost the inside pillar Dale Davis.

However, as the so-called skinny camel is bigger than a horse, the Trail Blazers still have the capital to rise again in the new season.

In the summer transfer market, the Trail Blazers made frequent moves. Not only was the team's main lineup consolidated, but the depth of the bench was further strengthened.

The Blazers' starting lineups in previous preseason games have been:

Center Ratliff, power forward Randolph (yes, one of the all-powerful black and white bears in later generations, black bear: Lan Fatty), small forward Raheem, shooting guard Anderson, point guard Stoudemire

Although this lineup still has a certain degree of competitiveness in the West.

But the problem is that Raheem, who was forced to switch to small forward, has not found the feeling he had with the Atlanta Hawks.

And it is obviously not advisable to put a full-name star player on the bench.

Coach Cheeks needs to find a more accurate positioning for Raheem in the new season.

Facing the pincers from the Timberwolves, Jazz and Nuggets who are also in the Northwest Division, the Trail Blazers need to play motivated team basketball to break through and successfully return to the playoffs.

Don't say anything, if your veterinary medical team doesn't get fired, I'll count on the old cat, it's a bit embarrassing.

And this season, the team rookie Randolph is definitely a big surprise for the Trail Blazers.

In the second season, Randolph averaged only 8.4 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.5 assists per game.

By the end of last season, the data had jumped to an average of 20.1 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game, and the indicators more than doubled.

It's no wonder that Randolph won the Most Improved Player award last season with an absolute overwhelming advantage.

This also makes him undoubtedly a core player in the team's reconstruction.

But Randolph's weakness is that his offense is strong enough, but his defense has never reached the level of a star player.

At the same time, Randolph also needs to learn to pass the ball to his teammates when the opponent is focusing on defense and double-teaming, instead of forcing a shot.

Randolph is undoubtedly a talented player on the court, but he has been troubled off the court, which has also caused headaches for the Blazers management eager to reshape the team's image.

First he was found to be carrying drugs, and then there was a shooting in a bar. Randolph's misdeeds off the court cannot be tolerated by any team, no matter how wonderful his performance on the court is.

Randolph and Trail Blazers teammate Ruben Patterson fought even more in practice.

Patterson was quickly defeated by Randolph's three-punch punch to the face.

Randolph established his hot-tempered image in that fight. Of course, Randolph was suspended for one game like Liu Rui afterwards, but he was suspended within the team...

How to achieve "both internal and external" in the new season is a lesson that the young Randolph must face.

But in the 10-11 season in the previous life, in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, in the sixth game between the Grizzlies and the Spurs.

灰熊在主场以99-91力克马刺，以大比分4-2淘汰对手，成为联盟历史上第4支上演黑八奇迹的球队。

In that game, Randolph scored 31 points and 11 rebounds, and scored 8 points in a row at the critical moment of the fourth quarter. He killed the game in one fell swoop and became the biggest contributor to the game.

But even if the black fat man has been selected to the NBA All-Star team twice in his career.

He also achieved the feat of getting 20+10 (scoring and rebounding) data for three consecutive seasons, but Liu Rui never wanted to coach him in his life.

Because it was the tie-break tragedy that happened in the 13-14 season, Zach Randolph was suspended for one game by the league for boxing Thunder center Steven Adams' jaw, and missed the tiebreaker between the Grizzlies and the Thunder.

In the absence of "Black Bear" Randolph, the Thunder easily defeated the Grizzlies 120-109 at home in the tiebreaker and advanced to the Western Conference semifinals.

This also made the team's efforts throughout the season in vain. This kind of player Liu Rui usually asks him to go as far as he can.

Resurrecting the whole life, Liu Rui does have the ability to turn waste into gold, but I really don't understand you gangster! !
Anthony: Gangsters? ?Who is speaking? !
(End of this chapter)