Healing Basketball

Chapter 494 494. Complete Ke! (6000 words)
"The light can be a little brighter. From this angle, yes, I look more handsome when I smile from the side..."

On May 5, the morning of the first game between the Trail Blazers and the Mavericks, Liu Xiu came to the arena at 8 o'clock. Before the preparation meeting, he had an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency.

Seeing that Liu Xiu communicated so smoothly with the usually serious and cold cameraman, and seemed to be very familiar with each other, Xu Jicheng could understand why Liu Xiu was better than Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and others abroad.

If you are not strong enough, you can practice. If you are not talented, you will not be able to enter the NBA.

If you can't get along with people in this environment, just change the environment. If you don't stay here, you have your own place.

The important thing is whether you dare to speak!
Wang Zhizhi, who only entered the NBA at the age of 23, missed the most critical 3-4 years of growth, and it is unlikely to become a player like Yao Ming, but with his talent, he can become a main player. Judging from the current Wang Zhizhi, it is not visually correct. What a big deal.

The important thing is to ask more questions and learn more, but Wang Zhizhi did not have a clear direction of development until he was 26 years old, met Liu Xiu, got Liu Xiu's advice, and focused on becoming a functional player. The team is a boring gourd, he doesn't say anything, even if he thinks it is not suitable for his arrangement, he will accept it patiently...

After Liu Xiu communicated with the cameraman and adjusted the camera angle, the interview began.

Xu Jicheng: "Warden, Da Zhi failed to enter the playoffs, Dayao has already been eliminated in the first round, and now you are the only Chinese player who is still fighting in the playoffs. What do you think about the next playoffs with the Mavericks?" Are you confident?"

Liu Xiu: "Of course, we are the second in the Western Conference, they are only the third in the Western Conference, and we also won more games in the regular season. I have the advantage in this wave."

This kind of self-confidence that is better than mine!The older generation of domestic basketball players and basketball people who have been in the basketball industry for many years admire Liu Xiu very much because of this.

Xu Jicheng calmed down and asked, "How do you feel about Dayao's performance in the playoffs for the first time?"

Liu Xiu thought for a while: "He is very miserable."

"Miserable? His performance is the best among all centers in the first round this year."

"That's right, that's why he was miserable. A center who averaged 30 points per game, he also performed well in protecting the frame. He couldn't win a game. He was either miserable, and he still lost to Nash. As far as I know, last summer Nash’s first goal is to stay with the Mavericks, and his second goal is to join the Rockets and join forces with Yao, but the owners of Texas have the same vision.”

So direct and sharp!
Like Xu Jicheng and the others, it’s not that they can’t see the problems of the Rockets, but when domestic official media report news, they always report good things, reporting that Chinese people are respected in a certain country, but they hardly report pictures of being bullied abroad.

This is understandable, the official media may want to enhance national self-confidence-you see we can eat more outside.

But the actual effect is to endorse those public intellectuals.

Xu Jicheng is going to report Liu Xiu's answer!
They dare not say it themselves, but the domestic basketball No.1 must have a reason for saying this. They are just porters of the warden's remarks...

...

After accepting the interview, Liu Xiu followed the team for pre-match meetings and training. At noon, Liu Xiu heard something from Payton with a big mouth-Artest, who won the 8th MVP vote, scolded James from the air. .

They are all players with beast-level physical fitness. Artest and James are on the bar, and the Pacers and Cavaliers are scheduled to be popular next season.

This time, Liu Xiu felt that Le Bang was really innocent, and this was beyond her control.

If it were the warden of him, if it was the same situation, he would not be able to jump out and say that he was not worthy.

But, having said that, since he chose to accept all of this calmly and enjoy the benefits, he must bear the side effects by himself.

Payton is well-informed about some of the news, and Liu Xiu has also heard about some things related to the labor agreement.

The maximum contract period of the new labor-management agreement will be cut by another year, shortened from 7 years to 6 years, giving players and teams more choices. Add player options or team options.

This is closely related to the interests of the players, Liu Xiu wrote it down.

And what he is most interested in in the new labor agreement is that the Knicks applied to the league to buy out Alan Houston's contract but the remaining contract will not be included in the salary cap.

Alan Houston was reimbursed midway through the season last year, and it was a devastating serious injury. Although he came back this season, he played 20 games and averaged only 12 points and 2 assists per game.

The first-generation amnesty clause Alan Houston clause is coming out!
As a player, it feels like a sad thing to do.

Three seconds of sympathy for Houston... The sympathy is over, have a happy lunch, settle down to take a nap, and recharge your energy for tonight's game.

At 5:[-] p.m. Western time, the two games in the Eastern Conference started at the same time. The Trail Blazers and Mavericks also regrouped, and the players began to warm up before the game one after another.

The pre-match warm-up was almost ready, and while Liu Xiu was chatting with his teammates and waiting to enter the arena, Randolph rushed over from the waiting room in a hurry.

"Something happened! Something happened!"

Randolph's voice immediately attracted everyone's attention, but he was always surprised, and no one really thought it was a big deal.

Randolph was not embarrassed, and said the answer directly: "Iverson won! He scored 54 points, black seven!"

This news is indeed shocking!

Liu Xiu asked: "Butcher, you actually like Iverson?"

"?" The black butcher with a question mark face shook his head and replied, "You only like Iverson, and I like O'Neal!"

Liu Xiu asked puzzledly, "Then why are you so happy that O'Neill was eliminated?"

Randolph really answered: "If O'Neal reached the finals and we also reached the finals, I would play very hard. Now that he is eliminated, there is only one O'Neal in the playoffs, and that is Rose bay..."

"Jermaine O'Neal."

"Damn warden, don't run, stop for me..."

...

Iverson made 40 of 21 shots, plus 12 of 12 free throws, soaring 54 points and 6 assists, leading the 76ers to a 97-91 victory over the Heat, winning the tiebreaker and becoming the only team in the first round of the season Next gram on the team!
O'Neal scored 19 points on 12-of-27 shooting, and Wade scored 20 points on 7-of-21 shooting. The Heat's dual-core performance was good, but apart from the two of them, no one scored in double figures!

This season, some people have been saying that the Pacers have a poor rotation and the Suns have an 8-man rotation. In fact, the Heat are the worst one. In order to get O'Neal, they sent away the original three starters-Caron Butler, Odom, Brian Grant.

Although Eddie Jones is left, Eddie Jones is 33 years old, his state has collapsed, and the team has fewer people who take shots from the outside. Eddie Jones' scoring has plummeted. When Wade and O'Neal are around No qualified wing pitcher can do it.

Of course, the key to the Heat's upset was Iverson's violent performance!
In Portland, the game between the Trail Blazers and the Mavericks is about to start, and the TV commentator is still talking about the 76ers' promotion to the second round.

TNT Sports, Barkley really-laughed like a pig, teasing Iverson that this is helping Carter and McGrady join forces in the Eastern Conference finals.

For the Pistons, if they meet the Heat in the second round, it will not be easy to play, but they will play against the 76ers, Billups, Hamilton, Carter, Ben Wallace, and Prince on the bench , Darius Miles and others... Collectively besieging Iverson, the effect during the regular season is quite good!

At the same time as the 76ers and the Heat were playing, there was also a game that had attracted a lot of attention, the game between the Nets, the strongest perimeter trio, and the defending champion Pacers.

靠着麦迪的20分、理查德-杰弗森的21分、基德的15分11板11助攻，篮网队以96比81大胜步行者队。

连庄DPOY阿泰斯特，17投7中外加11中9的罚球怒砍23分9板2助攻3抢断1盖帽，表现出色，但不管是进攻还是防守，都只能在麦迪和理查德-杰弗森两人的轮番轰炸中败下阵来。

The defending champion's back line is weak, and the frontcourt lineup is old and weak. Kidd is in the playoffs, and after having better teammates, his dominance is even more prominent. He looks like a magician... So many highlights, not as good as Ive Mori shines alone!

The line of sight came to the court of the Rose Garden Arena, and the Trail Blazers players who had already entered the court focused their attention on the upcoming game.

Liu Xiu enjoyed the fanatical cheers from the fans. Iverson's astonishing black seven was just a matter of another division for him.

If their Trail Blazers can't make it to the Finals, what happened in the Eastern Conference playoffs has nothing to do with him.

Once on the court, Liu Xiu is always so calm in this respect.

Under the leadership of the warden, in the frenzied atmosphere on the scene, the rest of the Trail Blazers were also extraordinarily focused.

Compared with the calmness and focus of the Trail Blazers, the Mavericks players are a little impetuous.

Confidence, worry, anger, hatred, fear... all kinds of emotions are mixed together.

After the admission ceremony, an awards ceremony was held for the Best Sixth Man of Little Flying Squirrel.

The director accepted Liu Xiu's suggestion. When posting the best sixth man on the big screen, he marked it for two consecutive years, and posted the names of the two famous people who achieved this achievement, McHaledan and Schramff. After coming out, the little flying mouse smiled brightly when he took the trophy from the vice president's hand.

Liu Xiu was very curious as to why the boss didn't come to present the award, and asked the coach, who was also puzzled. In the morning, he saw the boss being interviewed by Xinhua News Agency, and in the afternoon, he suddenly said that he couldn't go to the scene to watch the game...

During the final preparation time before the game, Maurice Cheeks did not adjust his tactics and style of play, but instead boosted morale and emphasized things to pay attention to.

The game was about to start, and Liu Xiu copied Little Flying Squirrel's 'Flying Squirrel' and Terry's 'Jet Jet', and put on an extra four pairs of socks.

Putting on the socks, Liu Xiu came to the technical stage, ignored the murderous Terry, and looked at the other four starters of the Mavericks - Dirk Nowitzki, Josh Howard, Ratliff, and rookie Devin Harris!
Finley was put on the bench!
According to Liu Xiu's analysis, the little general's operation has two purposes. One is to enhance the strength of the bench lineup. The second is to see if Finley will be better off the bench. Although Finley averaged 6 points per game in the first round of 12.5 games , but a 36% hit rate, too bad, too bad.

Del Harris, on the other hand, averaged 9.3 points and 3.5 assists in the first round, shooting 42% from the field, and his performance was remarkable.

The Mavericks adjusted their starting lineup, while the Trail Blazers continued the first-round starting lineup. Liu Xiu brought Payton, Outlaws, Randolph, and Kwame Brown to play!

At 8 p.m., the Trail Blazers vs. Mavericks kicks off with Kwame Brown beating Ratliff for a jump ball!

Payton catches the ball and advances to the frontcourt to pass to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu is defended by the rookie Devin Harris. Kwame Brown runs out to pick and roll for Liu Xiu. Ratliff follows and expands. Liu Xiu does not break through after using the screen. He didn't shoot either, but passed the ball to Randolph, who was pushing in against Nowitzki. Ratliff expanded to the free throw line and stopped expanding, shrinking back immediately.

Randolph made a pass back to the middle, Liu Xiu passed the ball and then cut in the middle, the effect of +1 speed within 3 second after the 'general (buff)' pick-and-roll helped him to start quickly, although the bonus was over after receiving the ball, he had already started at full speed , Relying on the speed of 93 to avoid Josh Howard's mid-range defense and enter the inside line, flying to the dunk, Ratliff made up for it with his life!

The dunk route is locked!Liu Xiu pulled the bar to throw, the ball bounced on the neck of the basket and bounced out.

Nowitzki withstood Randolph and protected the defensive rebound.

Liu Xiu and Randolph immediately turned and retreated, while Kwame Brown, the outlaws, and Payton had already retreated.

Ratliff's defense is really good, and the interference is too much.

But it doesn't matter, the Trail Blazers who retreated in place dragged the Mavericks into a positional attack. Nowitzki was responsible for the first attack, and the retreat jumper was interfered by Kwame Brown!
Payton emptied Harris, went back to the basket and used Randolph to block Ratliff, grabbed a defensive rebound, passed it to Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiuqi counterattacked!
Josh Howard, who was chasing Liu Xiu, was thrown away by Liu Xiu within a few steps. Although Harris retreated in time, when he retreated to the basket, he saw Liu Xiu rushing in. There was nothing he could do. Liu Xiu counterattacked and got a layup. Down two points.

The fans at the scene let out an "oh", and then cheered again.

They wanted to see the warden violently dunk, but Harris was guarding the basket, an unknown player, so the speed was faster, but in the eyes of the Trail Blazers fans, it was still far behind the little flying mouse back then. Unworthy of being baptized by the warden.

The offensive and defensive transition, the embarrassing Harris pushed forward and unconsciously accelerated. When he reached the frontcourt and encountered Liu Xiu's defense, Harris chose to break through...and met Liu Xiu's rough confrontation!
Although it failed to prevent Harris from breaking through, it affected Harris' starting speed. When Harris burst into close range, Kwame Brown's defense was in place!With Kwame Brown in front and Liu Xiu chasing after him, Harris chose to hit the board with a high throw to avoid Kwame Brown's block, but the ball bounced from the backboard to the basket and then from the basket. The box popped out, it's iron!

Dallas double ugly!
Josh Howard went into the basket, jumped high and clicked the ball in the air, and made a tip-up!
2 to 2 level!
The butcher patted his chest, saying that the ball was Josh Howard who hadn't noticed the cut, and the atmosphere was not affected.

It was the Blazers' turn to attack. Liu Xiu and Randolph continued to attack the inside. Josh Howard defended the middle distance, Ratliff defended the short distance, and pinched the frame. Nowitzki squatted under the basket and supported Randolph with tonnage .

This time it was Randolph who caught the ball and turned to the front of the basket and missed the hook. Nowitzki protected the rebound.

Looking back, Terry singled out the outlaw lunatics, and the outside line had no chance to rush inside. As a result, he encountered Liu Xiu's block on the flank and was flanked by Liu Xiu and the outlaw lunatics!
Under Liu Xiu's rough defense, Terry jumped up on the spot, and the bullet speed was quite fast.

Also iron!
Kwame Brown protected the defensive rebound and passed it to Liu Xiu.

The Mavericks retreated quickly this time, and Liu Xiu still chose to counterattack. Ratliff directed his teammates to stand during the retreat. Liu Xiu didn't have a good chance to attack the frame. He rushed to the opposite three-point line and pulled out. .

The Mavericks had all prepared the package service of preventing shots and cutting off the passing line. As a result, Liu Xiu didn't make a strong attack, and waited for his teammates to come slowly and land the battle!

The Trail Blazers were too obvious this time, and everyone could see that they were fighting a war of attrition!

Defending, confronting, pressing the rhythm, using counterattacks to force the Mavericks to retreat quickly...

After falling into the offensive of positional warfare, Liu Xiu continued to attack the inside line!Challenge Ratliff's defense!
In the following time, as long as Liu Xiu fell into the positional battle, Liu Xiu would attack the basket. In the first quarter, there were 5 shots under the positional battle and only scored 1 shot. In the entire first quarter, Liu Xiu's positional battle shooting performance Neither was good, but the counter attack was excellent!
首节打完时，刘秀单节8投3中，外加2中1的罚球，拿到7分4板1助攻。

The Trail Blazers did not score high as a team. The team only scored 25 goals in 9 shots in a single quarter, only 7 of 2 three-pointers, and only 5 of 3 free throws. They only scored 23 points in total.

However, they limited the Mavericks to only 17 points in the first quarter!
Nowitzki made 5 of 1 shots in the first quarter, and his offensive performance in positional warfare was the same as that of Liu Xiu, but he did not have Liu Xiu's counterattack ability!Under the defense of Kwame Brown, Nowitzki performed poorly in singles and only scored 2 points. Although he had a feat of 5 defensive rebounds in a single quarter, he and Ratliff built a stronger team than the opponent. Three-second zone defense, but the offensive performance is too poor.

特里表现倒是不错，4投2中，其中三分球2中1，拿到5分2助攻，但哈里斯单节只有4投1中！替补登场的丹尼尔斯单节3投0中！
Throughout the first quarter, only Terry, Josh - Howard and Stackhouse performed normally for the Mavericks.

And they have few counterattacks, poor offensive rebounds, and only 19 shots in a single quarter, which is 6 times less than the Trail Blazers!
Little General Johnson made quite sufficient preparations based on the last match in the regular season, but he didn't expect the opponent to be more aggressive than that match!
In the eyes of the little general, the Blazers' defensive plan is too hard, and they are betting on whether they can defend Nowitzki and Terry.

If the Trail Blazers can't guard against these two, and then the rhythm falls into the slow-paced positional battle that the Mavericks like, the Mavericks' infinite singles style of play will definitely take off.

But this is just the general's opinion. The Trail Blazers are confident in giving Nowitzki a very large limit.

And the Trail Blazers are not so big-minded. The outlaws defend Terry, and if they can be restrained, they will be restrained. If they can't be restrained, they will be pulled down.

This is not the real core of the Trail Blazers' tactical plan. The core of their tactics is to consume Ratliff!
The last time they played against each other, the Trail Blazers found out that the general's vision of coaching was too narrow, and his ability was his ability, but he paid attention to a single thing in the game.

This is the case again. With more than 3 minutes left in the first quarter, the little general replaced Nowitzki to rest. He used Dampier and Ratliff to protect the frame and fully defended. He continued to restrict Liu Xiu's attack frame. Randolph and Raheem who came off the bench also played a great limiting role, but Ratliff played the entire quarter...

In the second quarter, Nowitzki came back after a rest, played 10 minutes, made 4 of 2 shots, scored 5 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, and his performance was not bad.

But Ratliff's defensive performance declined significantly. At this time, the little general noticed that Ratliff had been playing for too long, so he quickly replaced him for a rest, and replaced him with Dampier and Nowitzki to protect the frame.

The little general's frantic adjustments wasted a good performance in which Nowitzki actively adjusted and worked hard to find a way to play. The Mavericks only scored 21 points in this quarter!
The Trail Blazers took advantage of the decline in Ratliff's defensive performance, and the silver horn king + the second center in the Western Conference couldn't defend Randolph, and scored 25 points in a single quarter!
兰多夫单节3投2中加上5中4的罚球拿到8分4板1助攻，刘秀单节5投3中，主要是反击得分，拿到9分2助攻！

After halftime, the Trail Blazers led the Mavericks by 48 points 38 to 10!
In the third quarter, Terry went berserk and made 10 of 5 shots, including 2 of 2 three-pointers. He scored 12 points and 3 assists in a single quarter, helping the Mavericks score 28 points in a single quarter and a score of 28 to 24.

At the end of the single quarter, the score was chased to 66 to 72, creating a chance for a comeback in the final quarter.

But at the end of the quarter, after Terry C couldn't get up, the Mavericks collapsed!

Because Nowitzki only made 5 of 1 shots in the third quarter!Terry played so well in this quarter, which is related to the fact that the outlaws and Kwame Brown took turns to defend Nowitzki.

The outlaws went to defend Nowitzki. Liu Xiu and Payton were hammered by Terry for a whole quarter... It can't be said that they were hammered. Liu Xiu also scored in double figures in the third quarter, with 10 points in a single quarter!
末节诺维斯基2投0中一分未得，特里中规中矩的5投2中拿到5分，小牛队末节只拿到了19分。

The Trail Blazers scored very steadily throughout the game, with 23 points in the first quarter, 25 points in the second quarter, 24 points in the third quarter, and 24 points in the final quarter.

刘秀首节7分、第二节9分、第三节10分、第四节7分，全场28投12中，其中三分球4中1，外加9中8的罚球，狂飙33分8板8助攻，率领开拓者队以96比85轻取小牛队，稳稳的拿下系列赛首胜！

(End of this chapter)