Healing Basketball

Chapter 373. 373. The most amazing bad team

"Haha, you don't have to be sad, just don't envy me too much, I'm going to win the championship!"

"It's hard to say, maybe after you leave we will reach the finals and win the championship."

"Oh, that would be great, Warden, I really want to beat you in the finals..."

At 2004 pm on December 12, 29, the Trail Blazers players were coming to the Staples Center to prepare for the game one after another, and received news of the transaction.

The Trail Blazers sent Dale Davis and Joan Barry in exchange for Fred Jones of the Pacers and George Lynch, an expiring contract veteran of the Hornets.

In order to make room, the Pacers gave the Hornets two second-round picks and a conditional future first-round pick swap right, so that the Hornets with salary space are willing to eat the injured Austin Crowe Hill's contract.

Dale Davis was visibly delighted to learn he was traded.

The Pacers have had a lot of injuries at both positions in the interior this season. They can return to the place where their dreams started and get more opportunities to play games. Of course he is willing to go back.

Also, the Pacers are the defending champions and favorites for the championship!
Dale Davis quarreled with Liu Xiu, greeted his teammates and said he was leaving, and left gracefully.

The words and deeds after being traded away can well see the different personalities of the players.

Another player who was traded, Joan Barry, has long been used to the life of ups and downs. As always, he looks like a big brother. After being traded away, he still tells the young players in the team to pay attention to things, but when he left, he still felt quite sad.

The two teammates were traded away, Liu Xiu was very reluctant, especially Joan Barry, he admired the style of this teammate very much, and he could bring a very good influence to the young players in the team.

However, as long as the Pacers free up salary space for this deal, they will definitely choose to trade. Even if the Hornets are leaving Joan Barry to lead the locker room and throwing George Lynch to them, They still choose to agree.

Liu Xiu opened the team interface of the system and saw the data of his new teammate Fred Jones - played 25 games, averaged 22 minutes per game, averaged 10.4 points, 2.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 1 steal and 0.4 blocks per game, and his field goal percentage was 42.5 %, 40.4% three-point shooting, 1.1 three-point shooting per game, 25-year-old career golden period!It is worth mentioning that in the 2004 Los Angeles All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, he beat Jason Richardson to win the dunk title!

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The three-way trade of the Trail Blazers, Hornets, and Pacers, the evaluation of the Trail Blazers-robbery trade.

The price paid for replacing the veteran Joan Barry with Fred Jones, who has just entered the golden period of his career, is to send the expiring contract of the veteran insider Dale Davis who has a certain transaction value but has been marginalized in the team. go out.

Although the contract of George Lynch was finally eaten, this does not affect the Trail Blazers being the biggest winner in this transaction.

A good deal doesn't just refer to those deals that involve changes in superstars. A team doesn't only have one or two superstar players. It's a good deal to strengthen any part of the team.

Moreover, the Hornets want to take this opportunity to reduce George Lynch's salary of $300 million. The Trail Blazers don't care about this at all. Even the Trail Blazers management is worried about spending less money every season. I don't think so much money will be used to reduce the team's salary budget...

The heat of discussion brought about by the Trail Blazers' deal quickly dissipated. It's not that the topic of this matter is not high enough, but that there is a real big deal!

The protagonist of the transaction is the team that just completed the transaction with the Trail Blazers and Pacers-the Hornets.

The Hornets traded Jamal Magloire for Kevin Cato and the Bucks' 2006 first-round pick from the Bucks.

In 2004 Los Angeles All-Star Weekend, the Eastern All-Star backup center was sent away hastily!
But that's not even the most shocking deal.

At the same time as sending Magloire away, the Hornets reached a deal with the Warriors.

The Warriors sent Nick Van Exel, Speedy Claxton, and got Baron Davis from the Hornets!
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The Hornets sent away two All-Star players last season in one fell swoop in order to get rid of Australia's Bai Duncan. Such a feat is really rare!In the face of this wave of operations, the limelight of the 4 games played tonight was taken away.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Blazers' away game against the Lakers started.

Did the Trail Blazers make up the 12-man roster tonight, Dale Davis and Joan Barry were traded away, Varejao was not recovered from his injury, even if the coaching staff had prepared to bring Delfino out for this back-to-back , Only 11 people will play tonight.

However, even so, the Trail Blazers still have an advantage in tonight's game against the Lakers-Kobe is out due to injury tonight.

Kobe Bryant played 46 minutes in the Christmas game and scored 42 points. After two days of rest, he played 41 minutes against the Suns with injuries. Back-to-back games will be absent, and Kobe will not be able to play in the next 2-4 weeks.

Increased weight to 102 kg, although it increased Kobe's frankness, impact, and defensive pressure... the game was very fierce, but injuries should also come.

With Kobe, the Lakers have the strength of the playoffs, without Kobe, the Lakers are a big team.

But even if Kobe can't play, the court sports station will also broadcast the game live.

Wang Zhizhi has made remarkable progress this season. Although he has passed the theoretical growth period, his skills can be improved, experience can be accumulated, and his style of play can be adjusted... So far this season, he has played 26 games, averaging 24 minutes per game. The performance of 9.5 points, 6 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 0.9 blocks is quite good, but the most critical improvement is that after he established the shooting style of play, he averaged 39.4 three-pointers per game with a shooting rate of 1.8%.

This kind of performance has a great relationship with Kobe as his outside teammate. The high position support requires Kobe to work inside, and most of the three-pointers on the sidelines on both sides are also passed by Kobe.

But Wang Zhizhi's NBA career has been on the right track by changing his style of play and relying on Kobe's addition to the center.

只是今晚这场比赛……三节还没打完，比分已经达到了82比60，开拓者队第三节后半段将领先优势扩大到了22分，刘秀三节13投8中，其中三分球2中2，外加6中6的罚球，轻松拿到24分8板3助攻1抢断2盖帽，打卡下班！
奥多姆7投4中拿到14分11板3助攻，这么好的状态居然只出手7次，组织进攻也不和阿特金斯争球权，作为对手刘秀都觉得不可思议。

Atkins doesn't seem to have to shoot, but he just shot 22 times in three quarters. He played 44 minutes and made 29 shots. However, he only scored 29 points and 9 assists on 30 of 5 shots, refreshing his personal scoring this season. new highs.

最终，开拓者队靠着夸梅-布朗14分20板2抢断4盖帽的表现，以110比86狂徒湖人队，拿下三连胜，将战绩提升到21胜8负！
After the game, Liu Xiu went to Kobe immediately, wanting to heal the heart of the teacher who watched the team lose at four o'clock in the morning...but Kobe had already run away after halftime...

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In fact, Liu Xiu really wanted to try against Malone's version of Kobe. This version of Kobe is still very special after only one year.

But the coming day is long, and there are 3 more opportunities in the future, and they can always be met.

This time I didn’t have time to get together with Wang Zhizhi when I came to Los Angeles, but we are all professional players, so we are used to this kind of situation.

On December 12th, after playing back to back in Los Angeles, the Trail Blazers left Los Angeles to continue their road trip. The last game in 30 was against the Suns.

This away game, Liu Xiu's parents, girlfriend and sister did not go with him. After the Blazers' 4 days and 3 games at the end of the year, there will be a 3-day rest period. His family is planning to go back to Portland directly. It is not suitable to travel with two children.

After arriving in Phoenix for a night of rest, at 12:31 pm on December 8st, the Trail Blazers challenged the Suns in the West Arena.

The two teams have started a confrontation mode from the very beginning. The last time they played against the Trail Blazers, they tried to play defense, but they collapsed. This time, they fought against the Suns on offense.

The Trail Blazers shot 87 of 43 shots tonight, and their shooting percentage was as high as 49.4%.

刘秀今晚20投11中，其中三分球8中5，加上6中5的罚球，拿到32分9板3助攻；兰多夫16投9中拿到22分14板；加上拉希姆14分10板、小飞鼠13分6助攻、佩顿8分12助攻、法外狂徒7分、夸梅-布朗8分、新来的弗雷德-琼斯也拿到了6分……全队拿到了108分，表现很好了。

The Trail Blazers' 47 rebounds in a single game were 36 more than the Suns' 11 rebounds.

However, the Suns made 91 shots and scored 46 goals, with a shooting percentage of over 50.00%!

小霸王33分10板、纳什15分15助攻、大Q拿到20分、马里昂14分9板6助攻、乔-约翰逊15分5助攻、斯蒂文-亨特拿到10分5板、凯西-雅克布森拿到10分1板，太阳队7人上场7人得分上双7人合砍117分!
117比108，太阳队终结了开拓者队3连胜，将战绩提升至25胜5负，追平了1999-2000赛季湖人队的开局前30场战绩表现！
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On January 2005, 1, the first day of the new year came.

After playing 4 days and 3 games, the time for the Trail Blazers to return to Portland today is scheduled for the afternoon, so that the players can take more rest.

Liu Xiu got up early as usual, and watched today's Best of the Month awards announcement.

没有悬念的，15场比赛取得13胜2负战绩、场均17.4分12.2助攻的纳什，拿下了第二个比赛月的西部月最佳球员奖。

Watching the performance highlights of the Son of the Wind Riding the Wind on the TV screen, Liu Xiu turned on the system and checked the tasks that were triggered after taking the 250 healing value loss reward last night.

"Advancing against the wind: the series of tasks of the rose in full bloom... Reward: talent fragment*1..."

(End of this chapter)