Healing Basketball

Chapter 458

No, after the Sonics tried to suppress the Trail Blazers with offense at the beginning of the first quarter and failed, the Sonics felt obvious frustration.

At this time, if there is a leading star with strong offensive ability to stand up and open up the situation, this problem will be solved, but unfortunately the Sonics do not have it.

Then it's not a problem to have a leader who has strong language appeal or can rely on a positive style of play to drive his teammates, but neither does the Sonics.

Ray Allen is steady and steady. Although he is strong, he does not have the appearance of a leader no matter whether it is subjective or objective actions.

It is Nick Collison who takes on the responsibility of leadership! He was reimbursed after being selected in 2003, and he is still just a rookie. He did not expect that he had been a leader at the University of Kansas for several years, and after entering the NBA, he would become a leader again.

In the first quarter, the Trail Blazers and Sonics scored 27 to 24 in a single quarter. Liu Xiu had 6 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist in a single quarter, and his performance continued to be stable.

In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers were first beaten by the Sonics 14-9 and overtaken by 2 points, but then the Trail Blazers returned the Sonics 16-10 to regain the lead, and Also expanded the point difference by 1 point.

上半场打完，靠着刘秀半场拿到15分4板2助攻2抢断，开拓者队以52比48领先超音速队4分进入中场休息。

During the intermission, Maurice Cheeks boldly speculated that the opponent might collapse, and in the third quarter sent a combination of Little Mouse, Liu Xiu, Outlaws, Raheem, and McDyess to launch a fierce attack !
The bold coach's bold operation this time was successful. In the first half of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers played a fierce 20-12 attack, which made the Sonics panic. When the official timeout of the third quarter opened the point difference to double digits in one fell swoop, leading the Sonics by 72 points 60 to 12!
In the second half of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers carefully guarded against the Sonics' counterattack. Although Maurice Cheeks was bold, he was not lacking in delicacy and caution. Leading by 12 points, he decisively entered the steady and steady mode. He speculated that the Sonics might not have the momentum to counterattack, but he was still on guard against this.

This time the worries were superfluous. The two teams scored 13-13 in the second half. After three quarters, the Blazers continued to lead the Sonics by 85 points 73-12. Too many substantive counterattacks, the Blazers scored 27 points steadily, the Sonics scored 29 points in the final quarter, and the Blazers kept their double-digit lead to the end.

At 9:58 p.m., the final battle of the Northwest Division and No.2 in the regular season of this season came to an end.

靠着刘秀35分7板5助攻3抢断、兰多夫21分22板、小飞鼠12分6助攻、拉希姆18分、佩顿7分7助攻……开拓者队以112比102稳稳击败超音速队，在常规赛对超音速队完成横扫！

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Liu Xiu performed well on the last day of "March Madness". Tonight's game was broadcast live on TNT Sports, and fans watching the live broadcast could hear Barkley laughing like a villain from time to time.

As he said, the Trail Blazers played against the Jazz the night before yesterday to break back the rhythm of the game that was deviated by the Suns.

This is an unbelievable thing. Generally speaking, even if it is a top team, after the rhythm is messed up, it is normal to spend two or three games or even three or five games to adjust. The Trail Blazers only adjusted in one game. Well, this really has to do with the leadership of the head star.

It can be expected that the group of media who criticized the Trail Blazers after the Trail Blazers lost to the Jazz the day before yesterday will start shouting "the warden's evil rule" again tonight.

After the game, Randolph, who scored double 20 for the third time in his career, was elected the MVP of the game and accepted the post-match interview.

Liu Xiu originally wanted to chat with Ray Allen, but in all likelihood, there will be no chance to hand in a phone call this season. Although the Supersonics have driven high and low, it is not particularly difficult to keep the fifth place in the Western Conference. The current strength of the Sonics is about 50 wins, but they still have the advantage of accumulating some wins in the middle of the season. It is not a big problem to win 52-54 in the end. It is difficult for the Kings and Nuggets to win 52 wins.

But Ray Allen left silently after the game. Liu Xiu wanted to take the initiative, but she couldn't find any good topics to start with like him.

At this time, Liu Xiucai discovered that Ray Allen is really a difficult person, and he, a social cow, had such an idea before he had any in-depth contact with him... Fortunately, he was not on the same team, otherwise he would be imprisoned People with this personality will go crazy!
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With a three-game streak of 2 wins and 1 loss, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland with 52 wins and 19 losses. They were greeted with enthusiastic cheers from the fans.

Whenever seeing this scene, Little Flying Squirrel would focus on Liu Xiu.

Envy, jealousy, when they reached the Western Conference Finals, Portland fans were not so crazy.

How long has this kid been here?

But Little Flying Squirrel changed his mind: I am still a player of my hometown team!

All my teammates from the Western Conference finals have left, but I'm still here!
Thinking of this, Momonga immediately became happy.

After returning home, Liu Xiu first got bored with Anne-Hathaway for a while, and then opened the presents he bought with her two sons and sister... Mainly Qing Er opened the presents. The two sons said that there were presents, but Liu Xiu bought most of them. It is something my sister likes, and she, as a little aunt, keeps it on her behalf.

After going to her uncle and aunt's house to pick up the suit she was going to wear to participate in community activities on weekends, Liu Xiu went home and finished all the things she should be busy with, so she took the time to check the news on the Internet.

Now he has entered the final sprint stage at the end of the season, and the time is very tight.

The first thing Liu Xiu looked at was the best of the month awards in March.

He knows that this award has nothing to do with him. Although he was called "March Madness" in March, he was suspended for several games in March, and his overall performance was actually not to the point of "crazy", just those few key games The topic is high, and it's not his turn to win the award this month... The main reason is that the alliance didn't send anyone to give him the award. If he won the award, he would have been notified to receive the trophy.

Rookie of the Month, Eastern, Emeka Okafor of the Bobcats; Western, JR-Smith of the Hornets.

Coach of the Month, Scott Skiles of the Bulls in the East; Kevin McHale of the Timberwolves in the West.

Player of the Month, Shaq O'Neal of the Heat in the East; Kevin Garnett of the Timberwolves in the West.

围观哥哥刷新闻的卿儿看到月最佳教练获奖人的时候吐槽道：“我有一个场均26分15板6助攻2抢断2盖帽的球员，我也能拿月最佳教练。”

Liu Xiu gave a thumbs up in affirmation.

3月份，森林狼队15场比赛，加内特暴走式打出了场均26.2分15板6助攻2抢断2.4盖帽的表现，投篮命中率高达55.2%，单月三分球3投2中，有66.7%的三分命中率和86%的罚球命中率，带队打出了10胜5负的战绩。

That is, the average playing time of 46 minutes per game. I really don't see the playing time that a head star of a team that can play 10 wins and 5 losses should have.

Not only was Liu Xiu surprised and speechless, after the alliance announced the March awards, everyone who paid attention to this matter was surprised. In March, Liu Xiu was highly praised by the alliance and took away all the attention. The end of March Later, it was discovered that Garnett was the best performer in the West this month.

However, Garnett won the player of the month award, but it gave people a sense of tragedy.

When looking at Garnett's stats and the record of the Timberwolves, it seemed as if he could hear the wailing of a lone wolf on a full moon night, sad and unwilling.

Even if the Timberwolves have a record of 10 wins and 5 losses this month, it is unlikely that they will make the playoffs.

单月场均打46分钟，现役球员，只有3个球员做过这样的事儿，02-03赛季的科比有过1次、00-01赛季和01-02赛季艾弗森各有1次、以及今年的2月份詹姆斯。

Lakers star Magic Johnson publicly stated: Garnett used his life to help the Timberwolves fight for the best coach award for a month, making McHale not so bad.

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The rest day this time is very tight, so tight that even the April Fool's Day event that I had made an appointment with Qing'er before was cancelled. Qing'er is always very sensible at this time, just like she gets up every morning to make breakfast, and is also responsible for translation, Responsible for teaching sister-in-law Chinese and cooking, responsible for...

On the second day, April 4, Liu Xiu entered the competition state again.

After a simple preparation training at the Rose Garden Arena in the morning, Liu Xiu watched the game schedule in the lounge.

From today, 19 battles in 11 days!
There are as many as 3 back-to-backs. From this point, it can be seen that although the league praises him as the warden, it is not friendly to their prison team.

The only good thing about this wave of schedule is that 10 opponents are Western teams, and only 1 opponent is an Eastern team.

Coming up is a back-to-back at home!

First of all, the Trail Blazers ushered in the challenge of the Hornets.

The Trail Blazers sent a starting lineup of Payton, Liu Xiu, Delfino, Raheem, and Varejao.

Kwame-Brown, Randolph, and the outlaws have been fighting hand-to-hand with their opponents all day long. They will not play tonight, because tomorrow's back-to-back opponents are the Kings.

The Hornets sent Van Exel, JR-Smith, Rodney Rogers, Lee Neyron, and PJ Brown to the starting lineup.

The two nerve knives, one old and one young, made Liu Xiu stunned.

It has to be Byron Scott, it has to be him!

This ability to control the court, this bad creativity, has never been seen before and will never come again. It is really worthy of being able to help the Cavaliers play badly and lure a group of geniuses to seduce the little emperor back, and then help the Lakers do badly to seduce the little emperor again. The king of field control.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the game started, Varejao won the jump ball, Payton received the serve and advanced to the frontcourt, passing it to Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu's first attack at the start was actually Crazy Fan defending him. He didn't rush to attack. He protected the ball and said to Crazy Fan, who seemed to be working hard on defense, "I'm partnering with Kobe again. Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you guys. My high school student is number 1, not number 8..."

(End of this chapter)