Healing Basketball

Chapter 436 436. The Mosaic Team Who Can Always Find Objective Reasons for Losing (6700 words)
Liu Xiu didn't want to buckle at all, and the 3000 healing value was delivered to her door!
Enjoying the cheers from the fans at the scene, Liu Xiu clapped back and stepped back—as expected of a man who is going to be a super center forward, he has more and more self-consciousness that a background board should have!

Yao Ming broke the defense...

If he was detained, tonight he would think: What is he doing, this is not the first time he has been detained.

Tonight he is already immune.

But this time he took the initiative to go up and was detained!

In the transition between offense and defense, Yao Ming actively went to the low post to ask for the ball again, but he was much calmer than before when he received the ball.

The Trail Blazers shrunk to guard against Yao Ming, Yao Ming relied on hitting fake moves, stood up and made a shot...hit!
62 to 67, Yao Ming helped the team cling to the score.

When the Trail Blazers were attacking, Liu Xiu also dropped low, but was farther outside than Yao Ming, and the position of receiving the ball was one step outside the three-second zone.

Mobley guarded against Liu Xiu's turn and attack, and Yao Ming also focused on defending against Liu Xiu's pass to the other side of the three-second zone.

Blocking Liu Xiu's passing and receiving is more difficult than blocking Randolph's passing and receiving, but Yao Ming has concentrated on studying the basket defense of O'Neal, Big Z, Sabonis and others this year, which is suitable for him to improve Speedy, the defense did a great job this time.

But Liu Xiu did not continue to turn around and break through, but took a step away from the basket, turned around and made a jump shot...in!
For a small half of the quarter, Liu Xiu didn't make a mid-range shot. To be precise, in the second half of the third quarter, Liu Xiu only made one mid-range shot and didn't make it.

This time, Liu Xiu admitted that he was gambling on how he would feel after the break between festivals.

Fortunately, he bet right!

With this mid-range shot, Liu Xiu's personal score increased to 25 points!
Offensive and defensive transition, and it's Yao Ming's offense again.

Yao Ming scored with one-on-two consecutive turns and hooks!

Kwame Brown and Raheem feel so outrageous, such a big player, can be so flexible, those small steps, those feints...

The Rockets players went up excitedly one by one and gave Yao Ming a high-five as he retreated back to celebrate.

"Moving the Great Wall, you are so powerful, kill the warden of XXXX!" Joe Smith was very excited.

But this is not what Yao Ming wants!
He didn't hold his breath for the first ball, and went to the low post to goug, but after scoring, he thought it was an opportunity, so he continued to go to the low post, and sure enough, the opponent directly pinched ahead of time.

However, he has one idea right now - I don't want you to say "you're awesome" next to me when I play low singles, I play one against two!4 of you running positions can be blocked by 3 people to catch the ball?

But his amazing teammates really watched him duel with the opposite warden!
When it came time for the Trail Blazers to attack, Ryan Bowen defended at the top arc.

The height disadvantage of more than ten centimeters and the weight advantage are gone, and Liu Xiu has no chance to play low backs.

But after Liu Xiu saw Ryan Bowen in the frontcourt, he immediately imitated Parker's early acceleration, trotting all the way to the three-point line, and rushed!
Ryan Bowen was caught too easily, and Joe Smith was too late to defend. Liu Xiu rushed to a 30-degree angle on the right side of the three-second zone, stopped suddenly, turned around and made a mid-range shot...and hit again!
Ryan Bowen is active defensively, has good awareness, and has a strong body. The flaw is that he is not athletic enough, but he is often used as a defensive surprise. When opponents see such an unfamiliar defensive player, they will always have some concerns and be more or less cautious.

But Liu Xiu's reaction was completely different from what the Rockets players thought...

He can see Ryan Bowen's 84 speed!

This is a player with excellent height and weight, but speed, jumping, strength, explosive power... can only be said to be excellent players.

Of course, he immediately chose to break through.

64 to 71, Yao Ming looked at the scoreboard, the point difference did not become bigger, but his pressure was getting bigger and bigger.

Liu Xiu scored 6 points in a row!

still have a chance!He scored 4 points in a row at close range, and the opponent's defensive position has been moved by his influence...but his teammates and his thinking are not on the same line at all!
Mike James waited for Yao Ming to drop the ball in the low post, which made Yao Ming very touched and satisfied. Thinking about the beginning of the season, Bob Sura dared to show off in front of his little giant.

But now at the critical moment, pointing at him as a big center and the opposite small guard soaring points, is it serious?

But he couldn't show his timidity, walked to the low post, and ran into Randolph's defense!
As far as strength is concerned, Yao Ming feels that Randolph is better than Kwame Brown, but who cares...

After receiving the ball, Yao Ming relied on one step. Even Randolph, who was more powerful, couldn't handle Yao Ming's first effort. He managed to get closer to the basket. He didn't continue to rely on hitting. He grabbed the ball and threw it high... Kwame Brown, who quickly contracted and rushed, leaped high and hit the ball that Yao Ming threw before it fell. Click!
The cap has arrived!
The ball was shot up by Kwame Brown, but did not go to the basket!
The ball fell towards the three people under the basket. Yao Ming tiptoed to touch the ball first, but he failed to catch the ball under the interference of Randolph and Kwame Brown. The ball was clicked into the air and touched the ball again. It was Yao Ming who played harder this time and pushed the ball out of bounds.

The referee whistled, Yao Ming touched the ball out of bounds, and the Trail Blazers had the ball.

Little Van Gundy called timeout again!

...

Although the offense was terrible on the spot, Van Gundy Jr. still had a vision, knowing that he had just missed an opportunity to start.

Liu Xiu is better at scoring, but he can't contain the range of defense, which is definitely not as good as Yao Ming, a super center who is closer to the basket.

If Yao Ming's containment force was used well, the Trail Blazers would not have the opportunity to try the strategy of using Randolph to carry and Kwame Brown to attack!

Yao Ming's deterrence can continue, and he can also take the opportunity to instigate a team attack.

But opportunities come quickly, and if you don't grasp them, they go quickly. Now you have missed this wave of opportunities.

Moreover, Jr. Van Gundy found that not many other players seemed to realize the opportunity just appeared... Even before the timeout, some people on the bench were complaining that if Yao Ming didn't mess up in the second quarter, it would not be so difficult now.

Little Van Gundy really loves Yao Ming this time, it's already the fourth quarter!Still struggling with the second quarter?How many times did these people waste the opportunities created by Yao Ming?

Yao Ming missed the opportunities created by his teammates, which is actually a very small probability.

It's not that Van Gundy Jr. thinks that Yao Ming's ability to seize opportunities is particularly strong. As a cornerstone center, Yao Ming's ability to seize opportunities is average, similar to Duncan and O'Neal, and his ability to create opportunities is stronger.

Inside players, and a few stars such as Nowitzki, can compete with those top shooting guards in their ability to seize opportunities.

It is a small probability event that Yao Ming misses the opportunity, because the ability of other Rockets players to create opportunities is poor!
Maybe it's because Yao Ming has little ability to create chances. As the star player, Yao Ming messed up the chances, and his teammates are so impressed?

Little Van Gundy felt that Yao Ming was really miserable, because the opportunities created by Yao Ming were missed by his teammates not once or twice.

He could feel that Yao Ming regretted, blamed himself, felt ashamed, and worked hard for missing the opportunity created by his teammates.

But the teammates messed up Yao Ming's missed opportunities and got used to it!Even in most cases, like now, when opportunities appear temporarily on the court, most people don't even notice the opportunities, and they don't even know that the opportunities have appeared if they miss the opportunities.

That kind of opportunity depends on the player's awareness of discovering opportunities and the ability to seize opportunities. The coach can't arrange tactics in just one round.

After feeling sorry for Yao Ming, little Van Gundy also felt sorry for himself.

He said he wanted Garnett, the team said his suggestion was great, and brought in Joe Smith.

This 'cheap substitute' strategy reminded him of his aunt in the country, who had a very good main ingredient that could make a big dish, but one of the side dishes was an expensive mushroom, which my aunt thought was too expensive. I think certain fungi should be the same and need a kind of spice, but there is another spice leftover from the previous use at home. I think they are all spices, and they should be the same. Save as much as you can... Just save a little here, save a little there, As a result, this good ingredient turned into a pot of stinky soup.

As for him wanting a more stable shooting guard, the management sent Jim Jackson to the Suns in exchange for Reece Gaines, the 03 first-round rookie. What advantages does Jim Jackson have?In the next two years, Reece Gaines' salary is only half of Jim Jackson's. In terms of strength, he joined the Rockets for two months and played a total of 100 minutes.

The coach, the most important one on the coaching staff, the head star, the most important one among the players, Van Gundy Jr. feels that he and Yao Ming are really brothers and sisters...

But at this time Van Gundy was also quite tricky. He really couldn't think of any way to strengthen his offense.

So, after a timeout, Liu Xiu saw a combination of David Wesley, Mobley, Witherspoon, Joe Smith, and Yao Ming on the field.

The current David Wesley has no other advantages besides stable ball control, good three-pointers, and old and solid defense. He dare not play singles against Little Flying Squirrel. Usually, Mike James is the best choice at the last moment. , Telfair has a higher probability of playing in the final quarter than David Wesley; Witherspoon, who has a lot of experience in iron-blooded defensive play, was a subordinate of the Van Gundy Knicks.

Little Van Gundy's adjustment is very simple: defend to the death, fight, what if the opportunity comes?
These players played defense around Yao Ming, and they really played very well.

After Yao Ming had Joe Smith, his defense when his stamina declined was not as serious as last season. The decline in stamina only reduced the range of close-range defense, and the efficiency of protecting the basket was still online.

But the opportunity that Van Gundy was waiting for will not appear again tonight.

The Trail Blazers really can't reverse the direction of the game. The opponents can't make up their minds to defend and can play iron-blooded defense, so they can only keep up.

But it can't change the direction of the game, and they don't force their lives, they play defense and don't mess around.

The score is leading, the initiative is in hand, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

At 11 minutes and 14 seconds into the final quarter of the game, Payton, who was on rotation, received a second pass from Raheem to the wing. Liu Xiu came to the 30-degree angle on the right side of the two-point area, caught the ball and made a shot...hit!
The Trail Blazers' lead came to 6 points again!
With 46 seconds left and a 6-point difference, the Rockets, which only scored 6 points after the official timeout in the last quarter, were completely desperate after Liu Xiu hit this mid-range shot!

No surprises, the Rockets played two offenses and failed to score in the end, and the Trail Blazers failed to score a single offense.

At 10:22 p.m., the final whistle blew.

84 to 78, the Trail Blazers beat the Rockets by 6 points and won their 45th victory of the season!
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25投11中，其中三分球4中1，外加10中8的罚球，刘秀解禁复出首战，拿到31分10板3助攻4抢断！

Liu Xiu scored 10 points in the final quarter to help the team hold on to the victory!
The fans chanted "Warden" crazily. In the two quarters of the second half, the Trail Blazers scored 16 and 19 points respectively, of which Liu Xiu scored 8 and 10 points respectively, more than half!
Kwame Brown's 5 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 4 blocks tonight was also very impressive. After being insulted by Yao Ming, he insisted on holding on, and finally restricted Yao Ming's scoring in the second half of the final quarter.

Little Flying Squirrel drives high and low, at least drives high...

In general, Randolph was miserable. He met Yao Ming and Dikembe Mutombo, who was in excellent form tonight, and it was bloody bad luck.

He did the limit of what he could do, with 7 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists, and 3 offensive rebounds played a big role.

After the game, Randolph's unreconciled mood rose again.

Originally, after throwing Liu Xiu away from the low back, he was quite complacent. He felt that only the mid-range shot in the sports game was a little worse than Liu Xiu, and he would soon overtake Liu Xiu.

Randolph won't be ashamed to compare with Liu Xiu for breakthroughs with the ball, counterattacks, and passing, just like he won't be ashamed to compare with Liu Xiu for offensive rebounds.

But when Liu Xiu didn't make any progress in the low post, he actually ran to fiddle with the high post!It also developed an advanced technique of linking back-ups in sports warfare, integrating back-ups from a separate technique into the overall attack!

The team knows this trick. Before that, only Payton and Raheem. Payton is old and it is difficult to display that kind of technique in the game. Raheem knows this trick but is not good at it. Not enough, Randolph has no pressure to develop technology.

But now there is!
Not reconciled to lagging behind, it gave Randolph motivation: the boss of Rose Bay must be Ben the Butcher!
On the other side, Yao Ming looked at Liu Xiu with 31 points, and then looked at himself with 28 points. Tonight, he was leading the scoring all the way. At the end of the quarter, he was overtaken.

The shooting percentage was better for him, he was 18 for 10 from the field.

But Liu Xiu is an outsider, with a shooting rate of about 45%, which is not bad.

Liu Xiu's shots this season have increased a lot compared to his rookie year, and his shooting percentage can still be maintained, which is already a huge improvement.

Moreover, no matter what the shooting percentage is, the most important thing is to be able to throw the ball in at the last moment to help the team win the victory.

Yao Ming was unwilling and also had a lot of dissatisfaction.

When fighting Liu Xiu, his sensitivity will soar, and he will be dissatisfied with some things at ordinary times, but if it is due to objective reasons, he will choose to be patient, but now he is also dissatisfied with objective reasons.

There are too many objective reasons for this broken team!

Just like tonight, there were multiple open [-]-point opportunities on the wing, but no one took them.

Like, not sending Jim Jackson to the Suns?
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Defeating the Rockets, the Trail Blazers improved to 45 wins and 16 losses.

After each team played 60 games, they entered the sprint stage at the end of the season, and the direction of the sprint was different.

The Trail Blazers made a good start in the sprint stage!

But everything is difficult at the beginning, and the players of the Trail Blazers also felt that the game against the Rockets was a double torture both physically and mentally, but fortunately they won in the end.

But if everything is difficult at the beginning, the difficulty has just begun.

Next, they will conduct a wave of 4 consecutive customers.

The game schedule is not bad. On the 13th, 15th, 18th, and 20th, there is no back-to-back, and there is even a two-day break in between. Compared with the 3 games from March 22 to April 4 , the time simply cannot be too plentiful, this is their best schedule for the rest of the regular season this season.

But the opponents in the four games-Grizzlies, Mavericks, Spurs, Rockets.

There are five teams in the Southwest Division, only the Hornets are missing.

How terrible is the Southwest Division?If the management of the Hornets hadn't looked down on Baron Davis and Magloire, the fringe all-star duo, and sold them off, the Hornets should have the strength to hit the playoffs.

With 8 playoff spots and 5 in the Southwest Division, it's not impossible!
The Trail Blazers gathered at Portland International Airport on the afternoon of the second day of their game against the Rockets.

While waiting for the plane, Payton began to point out his teammates again: "At this stage of the season, any playoff-level team will become very difficult to deal with. We can't be careless..."

The old seniors, and the old seniors who talk a lot and talk a lot, always like to brag about their past and show their experience.

What Payton said is not wrong. The teammates also respect the seniors who have such a successful career, but his words put a little more pressure on the teammates.

After the glove passed the output of "I know the ball very well", the warden took over the words: "Actually, others see us in the same way, and they also think we are difficult to deal with. We need to pay attention, but don't be too nervous."

Dismantle my desk, right?
Hearing the word nervous, Payton noticed it, as if he was only interested in showing off his veteran experience, forgetting that there are many young players in the team, and the team's sense of anxiety has increased.

But being dismantled face to face, how angry!At this moment, Glove really wanted to form a gang in the team, and for nothing else, he only wanted to do one thing: throw the warden at the airport and prevent him from getting on the plane!The boss's private jet is so goddamn unworthy to fly!

...

While the Trail Blazers were waiting for the plane, the Rockets came in.

Coincidentally, the flight times of the two teams are about the same.

Meeting players from other teams at the airport, there are always a few times in a season, and I am used to it.

Players from the two teams, if you have a good relationship, meet and have a chat. If you have a bad relationship, you should not see each other. There is no relationship between the two teams that is so bad that they regard each other as enemies...Because of violent actions, the warden counterattacked and was elbowed. A Rib Witherspoon?
When teammates mentioned this to Witherspoon, Witherspoon replied: I am a person who advocates peace, kindness is my nature, and I forgive him.

As for clamoring to take revenge on the warden, he did not admit that he had said that.

However, since the game was just played yesterday, it was still a narrow victory. Anyway, the Rockets players were not happy with the Trail Blazers, so the Trail Blazers thought the opponent was a passerby. At the airport, it is normal that there are more passers-by.

This did not affect Liu Xiu and Yao Ming's chatter.

The two chatted about the national team.

Because of the bronze medal in the Olympic Games last year, the Chinese men's basketball team qualified for the 2006 World Championships in Japan ahead of schedule.

Relying on this bronze medal, Yao Ming withdrew from competitions such as the China-US Star Game, the South American Challenge, the European Tournament, the Stankovic Cup, etc., on the grounds of 'enabling domestic players to play more in international competitions'. The Association did not find fault.

But this year's Asian Championships, Yao Ming still accepted the call-up.

This situation is already very good. Thinking about the 17-year-old Yao Ming excitedly going to participate in the "China-US Youth Talent Star Friendship Match", he thought that he would finally have the opportunity to compete with Odom, Dunleavy, and Hinrich, who are famous all over the United States. It's been tricked!

Then, what Yao Ming saw was a bunch of scumbags... I don't know where the Blue Association found a group of black and white kids, all of them could run, jump and dunk, their skills were rough, and their strength was weaker than him and his teammates.

That time, Yao Ming learned a word - formalism.

For the Asian Championships and the Asian Games, Yao Ming has also discussed with the Basketball Association and the Basketball Management Center. Without affecting the championship, he will reduce his playing time and give domestic teammates more opportunities to exercise.

When the vision shifted from the Asian competition to the World Championship, and when the goal of the World Championship changed from entering the top 8 to competing for medals, Yao Ming's suggestion was adopted.

As for whether Liu Xiu will play in the Asian game...

The group of the Blue Association didn't dare to provoke him at all, they were afraid that he would directly refuse to participate in the Olympics.

Now I don't dare to provoke him anymore, for fear that the owner of the Trail Blazers will cancel the sponsorship for the next four years.

Regarding the changes in the Chinese men's basketball team, Yao Ming mostly talked about it, and Liu Xiu listened to it. Occasionally, Liu Xiu said two words that made Yao Ming feel healed, and Yao Ming got used to it.

Yao Ming saw that Liu Xiu's eyes widened a little, and he was ready to bear it when he saw that this guy was about to turn on the healing mode again.

I only heard Liu Xiu say: "Dayao, don't abuse your opponents too hard in this year's Asian Championships."

"Huh?" A question mark appeared on Yao Ming's head.

Liu Xiu continued: "I think we are too strong in Asia, especially you, too strong. I am worried that if you are not careful, some countries will lose confidence in their basketball."

Yao Ming:? ? ?I'm ready for your cure, what do you mean by praising me all of a sudden?
Obviously Liu Xiu said nice words, but Yao Ming felt healed.

It's impossible to guard against!
Speaking of the Asian Basketball Championship in 05, Liu Xiu was deeply impressed by one of the games.

It was a game that will always be remembered just by looking at the score-the Chinese men's basketball team won Saudi Arabia by 88 points.

It's not that the Chinese men's basketball team scored so high, but that Saudi Arabia only scored 10 points in the game.

...

After talking about the Chinese men's basketball team, the two chatted enthusiastically about the game, much happier than when talking about topics related to the Blue Association.

Yao Ming didn't talk about anything related to the club's competition at all today. Seeing that the topic tended to go in that direction, he immediately changed the topic.

Last year, Yao Ming was young and ignorant, and he was healed to death every time.

It's even more impossible to say something like 'I want you to look good when I get to my home court'.

His team is 18-12 on the road this year... oh no, lost last night and now it's 18-13, and they're 32-29 now.

In other words, their home record is 14 wins and 16 losses.

They also played better away than at home last season...

Thinking of two more matches against the Trail Blazers this season, both at home, Yao Ming was desperate.

Every time he played the Trail Blazers away, he played back and forth with the Trail Blazers. The two losses this season were in single digits.

But at home...let's talk about the game!
After a while, the vice president of the Trail Blazers came to inform Liu Xiu: "The boss's plane inspection is over, let's go."

Why does Liu Xiu feel that the voice of the vice president has a trace of lovelessness?
What's wrong?Not happy about flying in a private jet?
Then, through the floor-to-ceiling windows, Liu Xiu saw the two large characters on the plane downstairs - Allen.

Not surprisingly, the other side must be the name of the boss.

Warden: Convex (艹盘艹) Convex.

Why do I want to sit on this thing?Or I designed it myself!

The teammates cheered when they saw the plane with words coming.

Peyton's cheers were especially loud!
He's such a show-off guy, he can go to a nightclub and tell Jordan 'I can afford a Ferrari, too' owner, the Standard Society Bull.

The Rockets players made envious voices.

Warden:? ? ?

Oh, by the way, these foreigners only think that Chinese characters are foreign, but they don't know that it is the name of a boss who is old and coquettish.

A vice president who knows how the boss's Chinese name is written is a normal reaction.

etc!My Brother Yao is by my side!
Seeing Yao Ming's stunned expression, the warden's mind exploded: Boss!Come out and talk!You have disgraced the warden!
Yao Ming stared at the plane for two seconds, and said in a tone of extreme envy: "I want to buy a plane in the future! I also want to write my name on the plane!"

Warden: Σ(⊙▽⊙"a
(End of this chapter)