Healing Basketball

Chapter 400 400. The Most Extravagant Rookie Coach

兰多夫没有让主动回归角色球员打法的拉希姆失望，首节单节拿到6分5板2助攻，5个篮板球里面有3个是进攻篮板球。

Under the leadership of Randolph, the Trail Blazers quickly took the initiative.

The Kings are also playing well, and the lineup is still very strong, but without the help of Divac, Brad Miller still lacks meaning in organizing the offense. The Princeton system is no longer worthy of its name. It depends on the strength and tacit understanding of the players.

Bibby wants to take off like Nash, and he is considered to be flying. He has the edge of the All-Star level, and his ability evaluation has reached 88. So far this season, he has averaged 19.2 points and 7 assists per game.

With the addition of Peja, who averaged 21 points per game, and Brad Miller, who averaged 15 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists per game, and the combination of pick-and-roll passes and cuts, the Kings are not just a soft persimmon.

After the Trail Blazers played an advantage under the leadership of Randolph in the first half, the Kings kept up with the rhythm. At the end of the half, the Trail Blazers only led the Kings by 53 points 49 to 4.

But when it came time to step up in the third quarter, the Kings were left with Bibby.

When Webber came back last season, the king's management said, "The best player on our team is back", which hit Peja seriously. Even if Webber is traded away now, Peja's heart cannot be restored. People don't want to be here. Peja, who averaged 26 points per game before Webber came back last season, now averages only 27 points per game at the age of 21 at his peak.

Before the All-Star Weekend last season, Peja ranked first in the league in scoring in the third quarter, averaging 11.9 points per game. I don’t know how many victories were won by Peja’s precise shooting in the third quarter. The Kings counted Webber's comeback game was still the strongest team in the third quarter of the league throughout the season.

This season has fallen by more than half, averaging 5.5 points per game, and Peja has no shadow of a third-quarter killer at all.

In terms of defense, the current Kings players are not to blame. After Divac left the Kings, the Kings management did not think about how to strengthen the center last summer, but how to sell Webber, wasting an offseason. Didn't do anything, and signing veteran Ostertag for $2 million in two years is definitely not a useful operation.

The score of the two teams in the third quarter was 30 to 23. After three quarters, the Trail Blazers led the Kings 83 to 72, widening the point difference to 11 points.

Although the Kings played hard in the final quarter, relying on Bibby's 13 points and 3 assists in a single quarter, they scored 32 points in a single quarter, but the Trail Blazers held their advantage under Liu Xiu's steady leadership style, scoring 29 points in a single quarter.

最终，靠着兰多夫19分16板6助攻1抢断1盖帽、刘秀31分7板4助攻1抢断、小飞鼠23分、拉希姆9分6板1助攻1盖帽、佩顿5分8助攻、夸梅-布朗6分9板2盖帽、法外狂徒11分5板2助攻……开拓者队以112比104击败国王队，将战绩提升至28胜10负！
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As the Trail Blazers defeated the Kings and the Spurs lost to the Lakers, the second battle in the Western Conference reignited!

石佛爆砍21分25板4助攻，但不敌大神的47分11板8助攻，湖人队以96比91险胜马刺队，科比送给了邓肯本赛季第10次失利。。

The Lakers scored in double figures, Kobe Bryant with 47 points and Caron Butler with 17 points. The remaining players scored the highest with 9 points from Wang Zhizhi and 8 points from Lamar Odom.

After the game, Kobe ignored Wang Zhizhi and Odom. Together, they had 6 open shots!
He is only two assists away, and he can have a 40+ triple-double like McGrady, Liu Xiu, and James!

Who wouldn't care about the data, if he had no chance to get it, he wouldn't deliberately think about it, but when it was so close, he was only shivering, how could he not be angry.

But Kobe and Duncan always seem to have the upper hand against each other, even if the Lakers are not good now.

The direction of the confrontation between the two is very interesting. When Duncan has an advantage, it is almost in the early and late stages of his career. Can show his evil dominance.

In the 15-16 season, both of them were plagued by injuries, but when the Lakers and the Spurs played against each other, they played all they could play. In the last season, they played against each other three times, and Duncan won all of them. In more than 3 matches over the past few years, Duncan won a single season for the first time, which also brought an end to the 80-year competition between the two, and both retired.

At present, the Suns have played 39 games, with 32 wins and 7 losses, still ranking first in the league.

The Spurs and Trail Blazers ranked second and third.

The Trail Blazers can't surpass the record of the Spurs for a while. The number of losses of the two teams is about the same, but the Spurs played two more games. They are currently 30 wins and 10 losses, leading the Trail Blazers by 1 win.

After the game against the Kings, the Trail Blazers flew to the icy Minneapolis.

Before the game against the Timberwolves, the Blazers added two players to the injured list -- Kwame Brown and Derek Anderson.

Both of them were injured in the game against the Kings. They could continue to play at that time, so they both supported it. Men, as long as they are not seriously injured, they will persevere if they bump into each other. Face is very important. .

But after the game, after the team doctor checked and diagnosed the injury, Thomas Carter, the head of the team doctor team, according to the usual practice, remotely asked to heal the injury before playing the game.

Like those back injuries, waist injuries, and neurological injuries that cannot be completely cured, there is no way.

But minor injuries and illnesses that can be cured in a short period of time will not be delayed. Of course, if it is a special situation like a key playoff game, Thomas Carter will also make an appearance to prove it.

As a professional athlete, injuries are inevitable. Derek Anderson has long been used to it. I think he was a physical man who could run and jump back then. He was almost selected for the 97th rookie team purely because of his body. He shot 20% from three-pointers.

As a result, a serious injury that destroyed his athletic ability, after a few years, he became the most comprehensive player on the Trail Blazers team.

Kwame Brown was very depressed, looking at the three starting teammates of Payton, Liu Xiu, and Raheem, all of whom were at the Ironman level.

Looking at him and his butcher teacher again, he felt that he might have worshiped the wrong teacher... He dared not say this, and his teammates kept their mouths shut. Being chased and beaten by Mr. Butcher...

After a night's rest, on January 1, the Trail Blazers came to the Target Center to challenge the Timberwolves away.

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At 7:10 p.m., the Trail Blazers entered the court at Target Center first.

The fans in Minneapolis are still enthusiastic, frantically booing the Trail Blazers players.

But Liu Xiu heard something that he didn't hear when he came here to play last year-irritability.

It wasn't caused by Garnett and Liu Xiu's 'losing a fight'. After the 'fight incident' last year, Liu Xiu also came here to play games. That incident only made Liu Xiu encounter more boos when he came here to play.

The reason for the irritability really has nothing to do with Liu Xiu. Recently, the atmosphere of the Timberwolves' home court has been like this.

Facing the pressure from the boss, Timberwolves vice president McHale made a genius operation-fire Philip Saunders and coach himself.

Philip - Sanders is also unlucky, he just got out of class, Cassell quickly got rid of the shadow of injury.

But McHale personally coached, and the strength plummeted when the three-headed monster lineup was complete!
When Cassell was able to play early in the season, the Timberwolves showed no less combat power than last season. They were able to fight against the Spurs, Pacers, and Suns. Garnett was still able to overcome the Suns' running and bombing. .

In the hands of McHale, the team's strength in the playoffs is usually 40+ wins.

The most outrageous thing is that McHale dealt with the issue of contract renewal. Every day, he praised the madman everywhere, trying to keep the madman's heart to go to the big city for a try, and made the madman feel elated.

Kassel, whose contract was about to expire, McHale was indifferent.

Because Kassel averaged 30 points and 18 assists per game in his 9-year-old peak, and only got a 5-year middle-class contract, McHale was confident...

At 7:[-] in the evening, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Timberwolves began.

Playing against the Timberwolves, the Trail Blazers naturally went all out. After all, they lacked a starting center. Tonight, Varejao, a rookie, will be the starter, and they lost last time. They all played very hard and focused.

At this time, one of the benefits of Thomas Carter's handling of minor injuries appeared-Randolph, who returned from a few days of injury rest, still played very hard tonight.

In the early stage of the season, resting for two more days will not be of much use, but in the middle of the season, it is completely different. Both physical and mental fatigue have been relieved, and they will always play extra hard when they return from injury.

Also, although it’s all business, people’s hearts are long. Just look at O’Neal’s attitude towards the Lakers and Heat, two teams he has won championships after retiring...

The strength shown by the Timberwolves is indeed far inferior to that of the last match, and the lineup is better than last season. Szczerbiak has been in full attendance so far this season, but his performance has dropped sharply.

The weirdest thing is that the individual performances of Garnett, Cassel, and Madman are not much different from the last match, but they are not connected together.

Thanks to McHale's coaching ability...

As the vice president of the team, you have such a luxurious treatment - use the four stars of Cassel, Madman, Szczerbiak, and Garnett to practice and learn how to be a coach!
靠着刘秀的18分8板7助攻2抢断、兰多夫的17分9板4助攻1盖帽、麦克戴斯的14分、拉希姆的16分、小飞鼠的12分、弗雷德-琼斯的14分、佩顿的6分7助攻……开拓者队6人得分上双，以103比94击败森林狼队！

Liu Xiu and Randolph made good use of the fact that the opponent's defense was concentrated on them, and jointly scored 11 assists in the team offense to lead the team to victory and avenge the Timberwolves.

But after the game, Liu Xiu still had some regrets.

(End of this chapter)