Healing Basketball

Chapter 35 35. The future worth looking forward to! (5000 words for tickets)

At 8 pm on August 4th, the Trail Blazers took the lead in advancing to the finals of the Rocky Mountain Summer League.

At 7:36 p.m., after an overtime game, the Jazz and the Knicks were still tied.

The competition system of the summer league is obviously different from the official NBA game. The overtime rules are very different. The first overtime is no different from the NBA, but if there is no winner in the first overtime, then the second overtime Overtime is easy - whoever scores first wins!
Among them, free throws scored by fouls, technical fouls and physical fouls are scored.

In the end, the Jazz relied on college center Todd Biyombo's bounce and Mo Williams' lightning-fast layup. The Jazz defeated the Knicks 95-93 and met the Trail Blazers in the final!

Liu Xiu and some teammates returned to the scene to watch the game after dinner.

There is no need to ask for tickets, most of the seats are empty, not as many fans as the game between the Trail Blazers and the Spurs in the afternoon.

After finishing the game and returning to the hotel, Travis Outlaw said to Liu Xiu: "Jess, that guy, I remember from the University of Alabama, right? He ran so fast! You have to deal with him in the next game." Already, are you afraid!"

"Ha ha."

Looking at Liu Xiu's smile, what does "hehe" mean?
At this time, Liu Xiu showed a mocking smile, a disdainful smile, a warm smile...it's okay, it's a normal reaction.

But Travis Outlaw felt that Liu Xiu's smile seemed to be aimed at him!

But it doesn't seem to be all...

Travis Outlaw didn't know why he wanted to give Liu Xiu a smile.

Change the subject.

"Jess, Matt, can we win the day after tomorrow?"

Matt Carroll responded: "Except for the Bulls, there is no team that is our opponent in this game. In this game, it seems that the Jazz have finished against the Knicks, but although the Knicks are third in the preliminaries, Actually they are 2-2 like the Jazz, No.3 to No.8 is not that big of a gap... right Jess."

Although Travis Outlaw was asking, his tone was not worried, and Matt Carroll was full of confidence.

Liu Xiu was very satisfied with the confidence of the two strongest teammates at the moment, and encouraged him decisively: "If you two don't hold back, then there will be no problem."

Travis Outlaw couldn't help it again, and said angrily: "Can't you be the one who is holding you back?"

Liu Xiu heard the words and looked at Travis Outlaw.

Travis Outlaw felt that Liu Xiu's eyes looked like he was looking at a fool, and he was about to refute that he was not stupid... Suddenly remembered that he had worked together for many games, and he had never seen Liu Xiu perform abnormally when!
Thinking about it carefully, it really is!there has never been!Not since Game [-] of the Orlando Summer League!Has been stable!
Seeing Liu Xiu whistling and turning around to leave, Travis Outlaw hurried to catch up with grief and indignation in his heart——

'unfair!I worked so hard, but I didn't perform at my best a few times. This guy is so lazy, but he performs so well every time! '

……

Every draft year, there are quite a lot of summer leagues held. This year, there are a total of 6 summer leagues, and 25 teams participated in two summer leagues.

All other summer leagues have ended. On August 8th, the Rocky Mountain Summer League with the most participating teams has also come to an end, and the last game day has arrived.

After this day, the NBA will enter the long draft period, and there will be no official NBA-related games for two months. Fans' attention to this last summer league game has increased a lot.

The game time is 7 o'clock in the evening. In the afternoon, a matter that has little to do with the game itself... It can't be said that it has little to do with it. It became a little popular and raised the attention.

19772 tickets for sale were sold out between noon today!

Nearly a month ago, in the Orlando Summer League on July 7, 7 tickets were sold out for the match between the Magic and the Cavaliers, setting a record for the NBA Summer League in decades, and the first time a stadium with more than 15761 people Tickets were sold out, and more than 5000 people attended the game, which was also the record number of on-site spectators in the NBA Summer League.

This record, no matter how powerful it is, is not considered, but it is really difficult to break.

The number of spectators is not many, but this is the summer league, and the number of spectators in Grant Hill's summer league that year did not exceed [-].

Who knew that this record would be broken in less than a month!

On the one hand, it is because this is the final that the host Jazz team participated in. Although it is only a summer league, it still arouses the enthusiasm of fans in Salt Lake City and even Utah.

Winning the title... Jazz fans want it so badly.

With Stockton retiring and Malone leaving, the Jazz rebuilding is not known when it will be done well. For a team in a small market, it would be good to have a stage of championship competition in 30. Who knows when the next championship will be .

It's also good to enjoy the summer league.

But more are foreign fans.

Some of them are female fans who come for Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu's "technical fans", the number is not too many, but he has also become a "niche star" in the eyes of some people, but these are not coming to the scene to support his main force.

More are Chinese, Chinese, Asians and Asians from all over the United States.

The Chinese market and the Chinese market, today, have shown a little bit of splendor.

A lot of reporters also came. In terms of basketball strength, the reporters paid more attention to Travis Outlaw, a high school rookie, and Mo Williams, the scoring champion of the Rocky Mountain Summer League.

Since the start of the Rocky Mountain Summer League, Liu Xiu has been in the hot news the most times, even made headlines, and has also entered the entertainment circle from the basketball circle.

But the Trail Blazers' playing performance has attracted people's attention, and it is Travis Outlaw, a high school rookie with the 23rd pick in the first round.

Ranked second in scoring, averaging 24.5 points per game; ranked ninth in rebounding, averaging 9 rebounds per game, and performed quite well.

In the final of an event, even if the media don't like the Trail Blazers, there are still many media interviews today. After the pre-match training, the Trail Blazers are open for interviews.

On Liu Xiu's side, after being interviewed by a domestic reporter, she started skipping work.

He did an interview yesterday at practice, but no one asked him about basketball, not even the local reporters in Portland cared about how he was playing.

It's not that he really wants to be in the entertainment industry, he uses those reporters when he needs them, and doesn't need to talk to them at all when he doesn't.

……

Although it was only the summer league, Liu Xiu and his teammates attached great importance to it.

Except for the interview session, Liu Xiu skipped work. At other times, as long as the rest is not delayed, he is thinking about how to play today, discussing how to play with two NBA teammates, and guiding the college students in the team with the two NBA teammates.

When these college students first got the opportunity to participate in the summer league, they felt that this might be a time for them to come and go, because they were not taken seriously in their freshmen and sophomores, and they participated in the Rocky Mountain Summer League to show their strength in their 20s. Going back to university to become the core, and finally entered the precedent of the professional arena.

Knowing that the top college athletes won't be released to compete in this kind of competition, the participating college students still have hope.

Maybe it’s because I just had bad luck, and when I became a real professional player, I soared into the sky; maybe I just thought that my talent was buried, and the coaching staff and trainers of the NBA team can help him discover it; Fight to fame by defeating these drafted future NBA players...

Generally speaking, NBA rookies are quite friendly to college students here in the Rocky Mountain Summer League, even if it is a prick like Matt Barnes, they are not bad to college students.

But the reality is cruel. After participating in a summer league, college players know that the gap between geniuses and geniuses is no less than the gap between geniuses and ordinary people.

These basketball dreams and genius basketball values ​​that these college students who were regarded as basketball geniuses from childhood to adulthood still have... collapsed!
No one cares what their future holds unless they have accumulated a lot of money.

Maybe some people will give up on themselves, maybe some people will be unwilling to work harder, maybe some people will accept the reality, maybe some people will adjust their expectations on the basis of accepting the reality and find a more suitable path...

However, most college students are slowly accepting all of this. There is a special team-the Trail Blazers!

These players were hit from the start.

Unlike the rookies of other teams who always take care of the college students, Liu Xiu beat the most capable player in the college team at the beginning, and then directed Travis Outlaw and Matt Card Luo Er blasted these college students in the training game, making them feel the cruelty of society from the very beginning.

However, this makes these college students look extra tough when they encounter the devastation of NBA players from other teams. They always adjust faster and recover earlier than the college students of other teams.

At this time, the college students found that compared with other team college students, their psychological quality has improved a lot, and as the game progresses, Liu Xiu is more willing to teach them something... Although Liu Xiu doesn't like training and loves to talk, He kept saying things that were true but not irritating, but Liu Xiu's words did help them.

Liu Xiu didn't expect so much at the beginning, but after playing the game, she was surprised to find that the operation that was just to make the college students more obedient had such an effect.

But it seems that it is not very worthy of promotion. It is not easy for this kind of operation to succeed.

First of all, the person who needs to do this has noble character.

Wude is also virtue...

Soon, the time came to 6:40 in the evening. After making sufficient preparations before the game, Liu Xiu and his teammates stepped onto the stage of the finals of the Rocky Mountain Summer League.

When stepping onto the field, players from both teams felt their blood boil.

Liu Xiu completely ignored foreign objects and entered the state of competition.

At 7 p.m., the Rocky Mountain Summer League finals between the Trail Blazers and the Jazz begin!

The players of the two teams worked hard from the beginning.

Mo Williams and Travis Outlaw are the two most watched rookies in tonight's game.

Jazz fans expect their rookie to create another miracle and win the championship with the seventh place in the preliminaries!

However, the game was a bit different from what they expected.

The competition wasn't even that intense...the difference in strength was quite obvious!
Liu Xiu sorted out the offense steadily, Travis Outlaw is online tonight; Matt Carroll's shooting is only normal tonight; The mid-range shots and layups hit more than [-]%.

Mo Williams and Aleksandar Pavlovic can't compete with the Blazers when they're playing normally.

Aleksandar Pavlovic, a 20-year-old small forward from the former Yugoslavia, is very good at defending skilled players, but he is not good at defending players with excellent physical fitness.

Travis - Outlaw is still the state of anything and everything.

Mo Williams scored 17 points at halftime. As the Trail Blazers predicted, they couldn't defend Mo Williams. As long as Mo Williams feels online, there is not much possibility of defending.

But at halftime, the Trail Blazers led the Jazz by 53 points 37 to 16!
Mo Williams performed slightly better than Travis Outlaw, who had 14 points in the half, but the overall strength gap between the two teams was too great.

Even Mo Williams can feel that the other side is a team.

This feeling of college basketball made Mo Williams, who had just come out of college and thought he had nothing to do with college basketball, feel a strange sense of nostalgia!

Mo Williams did not give up and continued to lead the team in the second half!
For the Trail Blazers, it was quite surprising to see Mo Williams play harder after the second half started.

Surprisingly, Liu Xiu predicted this situation!

The Trail Blazers were prepared under Liu Xiu's reminder, and they were not careless. After being beaten 14 to 9 in the first half of the third quarter, they returned a wave of 4 to 13 in the next 7 minutes!

After three quarters, the Trail Blazers led the Jazz by 75 points 58 to 17, securing the victory!

There was no accident in the last quarter, Travis Outlaw's main attack, Matt Carroll's response, Liu Xiu crushed the opponent's defender's back when necessary...

晚上8点31分，经过1小时31分钟的比赛后，开拓者队以104比80大胜爵士队！
……

At the moment when the final whistle sounded, Liu Xiu's system alert came.

"The game between the Trail Blazers and the Jazz is over, and the relationship between the competing teams is terminated."

"The 2003 Rocky Mountain NBA Summer League ended, and the team relationship between the host and the Trail Blazers Summer League teammates was terminated."

"Match Rating:
Playing time: 33 minutes.

数据：11投5中，其中三分球1中1，外加罚球3中3，合计14分7板6助攻2抢断1失误4犯规。

Analysis: S.

Influence: A+
Comprehensive score: S-...

Basic reward +70%, congratulations to the host, healing value +136. "

"Rocky Mountain Summer League events reckoning:

Appearance record: 7 games, averaging 31 minutes per game.

数据：场均15.7分5.4板5.3助攻1.7抢断0.1盖帽……

Record: 4 wins and 0 losses in the preliminaries, 3 wins and 0 losses in the finals, champion.

Congratulations to the host for obtaining the highest reward: healing value +1000.

The host has obtained 2 S-level scores in this summer league, and an additional reward: healing value +200. "

"Available healing value: 10622..."

At the end of the game, Liu Xiu broke away from that state of full concentration, looked at the system prompts, and looked at the teammates huddled together to celebrate, Liu Xiu was a little dazed.

Immediately, he chose to ignore other things. When Travis Outlaw pulled him to celebrate together, he did not refuse and celebrated with his teammates.

At this moment, everyone was immersed in the joy of victory.

At first, everyone didn't feel that the results of a summer league were important. Everyone had their own thoughts, goals, and worries.

Even they didn't think they could win a few games at first, so they just came to do what they wanted to do.

But I don't know when they started, their goals were unified.

They started playing with confidence.

Fighting and fighting, their goal is simple-go to the end and win the championship!
Now, they can!

At this moment, Liu Xiu and his teammates are enjoying the purest joy of basketball, the purest joy of victory!

After celebrating for a while, the organizers held an awards ceremony.

Compared with the Orlando Summer League, this place is much more formal.

The championship trophy has a sense of design.

In terms of individual awards, Mo Williams of the Jazz won the MVP of the Rocky Mountain Summer League this year, and Travis Outlaw of the Trail Blazers relied on 26 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks in a single game in the final , won the Rocky Mountain Summer League Finals MVP.

Not to mention becoming famous, Travis Outlaw has made a small name in this summer league, letting some basketball fans know that having a high school rookie with a name is a crime.

Travis Outlaw, holding the championship trophy and the final trophy, is undoubtedly the most dazzling player in this game.

But the attention of the Trail Blazers coach and chief assistant coach was on Liu Xiu.

"Kevin, do you think this kid can bring something different to our team?"

"Jess is great, but it's hard, he plays great leadership, but he's just a rookie, and... unlike a leader, the NBA and summer league are totally different, there's nothing to compare to."

Maurice Cheeks rubbed his beard on his chin: "This kid, what are you doing so well? Why did you show such a good talent? It made me look forward to so much!"

Kevin Pritchar shook his head with a smile.

Indeed, both he and the head coach beside him have been raising their expectations of Liu Xiu unconsciously.

The reason is also simple-the players I choose and the talents I discover will always have extra favors and expectations.

Now, watching rookies who could draw the loudest cheers and screams just by their faces, Maurice Cheeks and Kevin Pritchar have rediscovered their coaching brilliance. Enthusiasm, that kind of worry and expectation for the unknown!

　5000 words for a monthly ticket recommendation ticket ~ there is another chapter in the evening.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)