Healing Basketball

Chapter 582. 582. Never Lost Against This Opponent (5800 words)
Very skilled triangle offense!
Liu Xiu suddenly thought of the three-person cooperation of Kobe, Wang Zhizhi, and Butler. Although the power is not as strong as Kobe, the three-person cooperation is much more skilled than the three brothers of the Lakers.

In fact, replacing Wang Zhizhi with Odom, Liu Xiu felt that the coordination might be better than the three of the Wizards, but Odom doesn't play the triangle offense most of the time.

When Liu Xiu received the serve, he glanced at Eddie Jordan on the sidelines.

This Zen master fan's triangle offense is used quite well!

Liu Xiu advanced to the frontcourt and launched a pick-and-roll attack with Kwame Brown.

Jarvis Hayes and Heywood pinched Liu Xiu who made the breakthrough together. Liu Xiu scored the ball to Kwame Brown. -Brown passed to Raheem on the right baseline. Raheem took a step forward to receive the ball and hit a short-range jumper!
After the Trail Blazers visited the White House as the defending champions, they played an away game against the Wizards, which is broadcast live across the United States as usual.

TNT Sports is one of the live TV stations in North America. Barkley crazily complained about the defense of the Wizards, which actually allowed Kwame Brown to complete the support in the low post. This ball Jamison is not afraid to confront Kwame Brown if he has the courage. Post it, there is a high probability that Kwame Brown will make mistakes.

During the live broadcast on the court sports channel, Zhang Weiping began to praise Zen Master’s time every day, saying that the Wizards’ offense already has the feeling of the triangle offense coached by Zen Master, but the defense is far from the team coached by Zen Master. By the way, he feels that others can’t notice He praised Kobe a few times, and finally claimed to be a Zen master fan.

The offense and defense switched, and it was the Wizards' turn to attack. Arenas went straight to the basket and hit the board with a high throw, fast and accurate!

"Triangle offense? I don't know, anyway, I know that in the triangle offense, as long as the ball is in my hands, I should be alone. If I attract the inside or the wing, I should pass the ball."

"But I didn't see you pass the ball."

"Oh... I just want to try to see if I can make a shot when the flank is coming. I find that I can, so I don't want to pass."

Liu Xiu remembered the time in Kobe’s training camp. At that time, the Lakers just announced the return of Zen Master. After training, Anthony ran to ask Kobe what the triangle offense was. Does scoring help.

Anyway, Arenas in front of him really executed the triangle offensive play well, not Kobe's "try version", but Kobe's "should version".

And Arenas is in very good shape tonight!

In terms of overall scoring ability, Arenas is not as good as Kobe. Even if he has an offensive rating of 96, in Liu Xiu's opinion, he is still a notch behind Kobe this year.

But Arenas is more willing to accept tactical arrangements than Kobe, and his teammates are better than Kobe!

After the first two rounds, Liu Xiu clearly judged that they couldn't defend against the Wizards, an offensive team that ranks second in the league in points per game.

Since he couldn't defend against it, Liu Xiu immediately made strategic adjustments and attacked against the bombardment!
Liu Xiu started the pick-and-roll strategy.

Playing Jarvis Hayes in singles is actually not difficult, but in the pick-and-roll offense, he can call out Haywood and have better opportunities for inside operations.

After playing the pick-and-roll offense by himself, Liu Xiu understood why James and Wade, the two strongest breakthrough players in the league, actually ran to play the pick-and-roll instead of taking turns to break through after getting together.

Payton rested tonight, and after Ray Allen was replaced by Flying Squirrel for 9 minutes in the first quarter, Liu Xiu started the auxiliary control style of play, running to meet shots or setters.

首节刘秀打满，6投3中，外加3中3的罚球，拿到9分2板4助攻1盖帽，表现非常出色。

雷-阿伦更是以4投3中外加罚球2中2的高效表现在9分钟时间拿到9分。

With the addition of 16 points from other teammates, the Trail Blazers scored 34 points in the first quarter.

不过，另一边，阿里纳斯5投3中，其中三分球1中1，外加6中5的罚球，单节狂飙12分1板3助攻，加上7分1助攻的佩贾、6分2助攻的贾米森，替补登场接应投篮6投4中拿到9分的安东尼奥-丹尼尔斯……奇才队首节单节爆砍41分！
41 to 34, in the first quarter of the battle, the Wizards took a 7-point lead!
After the intermission, Liu Xiu was replaced for a rest, and the combination of Little Flying Squirrel, Ray Allen, Stevenson, Raheem and McDyess was replaced by Maurice Cheeks.

Maurice Cheeks did not panic because the opponent scored 41 points in the first quarter. He rotated well and was calm and patient.

The Trail Blazers' steady and steady strategy has allowed their offensive stability to continue. Liu Xiu played for half a quarter and scored 3 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists and 1 block in the half quarter, helping the team to score in more than 5 minutes. With 14 points, plus the first half of the quarter led by Momonga and Raheem, Ray Allen led the team, scored 16 points in the half quarter, the Blazers scored 30 points in a single quarter, and continued to perform wildly.

But the second quarter of the Wizards was not so brilliant.

As the Trail Blazers coaching staff expected, the Wizards fought too hard in the first quarter, and their performance in the second quarter was weak. They only scored 25 points, which is not bad directly, but compared with 41 points in the first quarter, it can be called Fall off a cliff.

After halftime, the Trail Blazers chased the score to 64 to 66, and the point difference was reduced to two points!

In the third quarter, the strength gap came!

Liu Xiu ushered in the highlight moment of the game.

In this quarter, he mainly played off the ball, and Maurice Cheeks found that the opponent's defense was staring at Ray Allen alone without the ball, and he couldn't control others.

Therefore, in the third quarter, Liu Xiu's containment by Ray Allen, the passing of Little Mouse, Blake, Raheem, Stevenson, etc., the pick and roll of McDyess or Kwame Brown...etc help Next, he made 6 of 5 shots in a single quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws. He scored 14 points in a single quarter and had two setter assists!

靠着刘秀的14分1板2助攻1抢断的表现，开拓者队第三节狂飙32分！
The Trail Blazers soared in the third quarter. In addition to the good teamwork and Liu Xiu's efficient 14 points in a single quarter, there were many counterattacks!
Liu Xiu's exaggerated 6-of-5 shooting rate has a lot to do with the number of counterattacks.

More counterattacks means that the Wizards have an iron shot.

这一节阿里纳斯虽然单节打了9分钟就拿到8分2助攻，但投篮只有5投1中，是靠着6中6的罚球才拿到8分，在他的带领下，奇才队第三节只拿到21分！
After three quarters, the Trail Blazers overtook the Wizards 96-87 and entered the final quarter by 9 points!
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With 12 points in the first quarter, 10 points in the second quarter, and 8 points in the third quarter, Arenas's score in the first three quarters of this game showed an arithmetic decreasing trend, and his shooting percentage was the same, getting worse and worse.

虽然三节拿到30分3板7助攻，但命中率已经跌破四成了，前三节投篮表现是21投8中。

而对面的刘秀，三节26分4板9助攻1抢断2盖帽，13投9中，其中三分球4投3中，还有5中5，效率高得惊人！
Before the game, there was a topic. Although Liu Xiu didn't soar this year, but against the Wizards, a team with a terrible defense, can Liu Xiu soar?

Entering the intermission, seeing Liu Xiu who returned to the bench to celebrate with Randolph on the sidelines, Arenas went berserk at the end of the quarter!

However, what he went berserk was not defense. He accepted the fact that he couldn't defend against his opponent. He was angry and upset when the media and fans said that Liu Xiu could soar points against them, but he didn't want to change the fact that he couldn't defend. It is ready to return on the offensive end!Confront Liu Xiu!

Liu Xiu scored 14 points in a single quarter in the third quarter. Arenas made 9 of 7 shots in the final quarter, did not make a three-pointer, and did not make a free throw. The shooting performance in this game became 14 of 30 shots, and he scored 15 points in a single game.

但阿里纳斯末节9投7中，他的队友们加起来才14投3中，他一个人拿到14分，他的队友们加起来只拿到10分。

Yes, this is the final defensive strategy of the Trail Blazers led by Liu Xiu - Jordan's Law!
The ability of the Wizards to soar points against the Suns is not due to Arenas alone. It is true that his key shots are the key to the Wizards soaring points and defeating the Suns, but the powerful triangle offense is what the Wizards lack Larry Hughes, a breakthrough master + first defense master, is the key to being in the ranks of strong teams.

Arenas was cut off from his teammates. It seemed that his teammates took as many as 14 shots, but in fact most of them were players who took the pot or were not good at singles and were forced to shoot alone. They only scored 24 points in the final quarter.

而开拓者队靠着刘秀打了9分钟感到2分2板4助攻、雷-阿伦的7分、夸梅-布朗分6分4板、拉希姆的4分4板1助攻……稳扎稳打的单节拿到27分。

最终，靠着刘秀打了39分钟时间拿到28分6板13助攻1抢断2盖帽、雷-阿伦的26分、夸梅-布朗15分15板、拉希姆12分7板3助攻、小飞鼠8分1板6助攻……开拓者队以123比111逆转奇才队，避免了连败，将战绩提升至15胜3负！
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It was a great game!
When the final whistle sounded, Liu Xiu was crazily pumping her fist towards the sky in her heart. The last trace of unhappiness from the loss the day before yesterday was wiped away with this reversal.

Sure enough, when I was in a bad mood, I played a game with the NBA's top guns, and my mood immediately improved.

In the past two years, this is the 7th time I have played against Arenas, and I haven't lost yet!
No matter the team's recent situation is good or bad, no matter how hard Arenas struggles in the middle of the game, he can always win, even luck has always been on his side.

Just like in the third quarter, the two off-ball moves to respond to the three-pointer both triggered the "sharp shooter" and made both shots, laying the foundation for the crushing game in the third quarter.

There has never been a win-win situation in competitive sports.

Some people are happy, others are sad.

He made 30 of 15 shots, soared 44 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals. Arenas was about to kneel down.
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During the trip to Washington, he checked in at the White House, an Internet celebrity attraction, and won a hearty offensive battle. Liu Xiu adjusted his mood. On December 12, he took the "Rose Bay Prison" with his teammates Flew back west together and came to Phoenix.

I wanted to ask Nash some questions, but after looking at the Suns schedule, I found that Nash had just returned to Phoenix after a 3-game streak. Liu Xiu didn't bother Nash, and the older generation of players had to visit and make an appointment in advance. etiquette.

At around 11 o'clock in the evening, just after the sage's time, Nash, who was lying on the bed and was about to fall asleep, was awakened by the sound of the phone. When he learned that Liu Xiu had a question and wanted to ask for advice, he cursed directly.

He came home at noon today, and had nothing to do all afternoon, and nothing to do after dinner. Liu Xiu neither went to his house to ask for advice in person, nor made a phone call, but at this time he actually called!

However, Liu Xiu was scolded and didn't answer back. Instead, he told the reason why he called so late. He was worried that Nash was too tired during the day and would call after dinner. He was also worried that Nash would be with his family, so he waited until Nash was done. , Even the possible activities to explore the origin of life have been carried out before making this call.

Nash is crazy!
This guy is really polite when he is polite!

Is this chatting, or is it his fault that he was woken up at 11 o'clock in the middle of the night?

The point is that he found that he actually felt guilty!
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Crazy enough to be crazy, Nash still helped Liu Xiu answer some recently discovered basketball technical problems, because he found that Liu Xiu really found a lot of problems.

Men are good teachers.

Moreover, in Nash's view, it is a very honorable thing for a genius of Liu Xiu's level to ask him to study.

Liu Xiu asked for advice everywhere, as long as there was no particularly serious grievance, the other party would give advice on two tricks, and it was for this reason.

What Baron Davis hates about Liu Xiu the most is that Liu Xiu didn't ask him to learn how to change direction and break through. He only learned it after watching the fight twice.

Speaking of which, this matter has nothing to do with Baron Davis himself, but Liu Xiu's breakthrough in the subject competition is to ask for advice, and what he learned from him is "you can learn it by watching twice", which seems to be how easy his breakthrough is to learn. Yes, the fact is that his front-body breakthrough is no less difficult than Kobe's rhythm breakthrough.

He is polite, he is a genius, and he really accumulated a lot of questions about the pick-and-roll offense to ask for advice. Nash struggled with sleepiness and answered the questions until after one o'clock in the morning...

On the second day, December 12th, at 9:7 p.m., the Trail Blazers and the Suns entered the stadium one after another.

Looking at the relaxed and still warden, and looking at the radiant Feng Zi, Nash and Liu Xiu gave each other the middle finger tacitly in their hearts—"Staying up all night really can't deal with this guy."

"The Phoenix Suns, 12 wins and 7 losses, averaged 106.9 points per game (first in the league), conceded 104 points per game (27th in the league), averaged 25.1 assists per game, and restricted opponents to average 20.1 assists per game..."

Liu Xiu looked at the recent record and average data of the Suns on the system screen, and lamented that Nash is just Nash.

After a bleak start, the Suns' average points per game continued to rise, and their average points per game dropped. After November, they returned to the league's top offensive team, pulling the Wizards and Raptors down.

The winning percentage has also returned to the winning percentage that can hit 50 wins, which depends on Nash.

"Steve Nash, 31 years old, 191 cm, 87 kg, PG, ability rating 96, offense 95, defense 66, passing 100... averaged 19 points, 4 rebounds, 11.3 assists and 1 steal per game... shooting 52% , made 44.3% of three-pointers and 91.7% of free throws..."

Under the leadership of Nash, the man with unique looks also played the best performance of his career.

"Sean Marion, 27 years old, 201 cm, 103 kg, PF/SF, ability rating 90 (peak), offense 85, defense 92... averaged 22 points, 11.4 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 1.9 blocks per game... shot 53% shooting rate, 38.7% three-point shooting rate..."

No matter how you look at it, Liu Xiu feels that hackers shouldn't have typed out such data.

Averaging 20+ per game or 10+ per game is fine, and both are fine too, but 53% shooting rate looks like a statistical error in the league for such a player with a single offensive ability on the ball. In the 03-04 season, Before Nash came, and after Marbury left for most of the season, Marion's shooting percentage was only 41%, including the 40 or so games he played with Marbury, and his shooting percentage was only 44%.

It's not that Marion has improved much compared to last season. Marion has reached the ceiling of his talent, and he was really forced by Nash.

But thinking about it the other way around, it can also be seen how much Nash relied on Marion after losing the bully, and Marion did not live up to Nash's trust.

Liu Xiu took her attention away from the two and glanced at the other Suns players.

The combination of Zonda + Bully is terrible, Dior, Kurt Thomas, Tim Thomas, Raja Bell, James Jones, Jim Jackson, Eddie House, Barbosa, Brian Grant, And Marion, Colangelo spent all his contacts in the summer to get back such a lineup, with a strong core, enough depth, and a bad defense. Even Kurt Thomas spent money to get it back, but the bully was reimbursed !

This led to last season's best manager, Brian Colangelo, being forced to resign. His record at the beginning of the season was so bad that he couldn't sustain it. Not long after he resigned, his record improved.

But Colangelo, who has such a wide network of contacts, has no shortage of jobs. He just left the Suns when he received an invitation from the Raptors. He was shocked and went to the northern border to build a team around Bosh and Milicic.

After entering the arena, Liu Xiu and Nash chatted for a while. We had enough chats last night, and there was really nothing to talk about today. After a few mild words, they went back to the bench to prepare for the game.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Suns began.

Kwame Brown beat Marion to win the jump ball and the Blazers went first.

Trail Blazers starters: Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, Outlaws, Raheem, Kwame Brown.

Suns starters: Nash, Raja Bell, Boris Diaw, Marion, Kurt Thomas.

Liu Xiu received the ball and quickly advanced to find an opportunity for a fast break. In the end, the fast break failed. He suddenly changed his rhythm and slowly launched a positional attack.

Although I knew this earlier, scout reports and videos also proved this point, but Liu Xiu was still surprised to see it with his own eyes.

The basic defense of the Suns is not bad!
Raja Bell, Marion, and Kurt Thomas built a very good formation, taking advantage of Nash's speed and Diaw's ability to dare to confront the inside.

While waiting for his teammates to take their positions, Liu Xiu clearly saw the defense of the opponent's passing and receiving lines.

This must have nothing to do with D'Antoni. Liu Xiu thought of the coach who looked smarter when he was an assistant than when he was the head coach-Alvin Gentry.

Liu Xiu quickly analyzed the opponent's surprising defense, quickly concentrated her attention, fiddled with the ball deftly with her fingertips, avoided Raja Bell's suddenly extended hand, and was not intercepted.

The ball-handling feeling against the Suns was fantastic.

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Steve Nash, the overall matching degree is 85%, the characteristic conversion talent: technology flow (full blood), bonus effect: 1. The ball feel is greatly improved, 2. It is easier to find the rhythm when the host uses the outside player technology, 3 . Singles shooting has a certain probability of entering a hot state. "

The opponent Liu Xiu copied tonight was Nash, and his teammate chose Ray Allen this time.

Raja Bell tried a sneak attack to steal but failed, and then pressed towards Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu quickly switched the ball to his left hand, turned left and leaned on Raja Bell with his right shoulder, and then continued to turn left, this time with bigger steps, bypassing Kwame Brown who was blocking the left side of Raja Bell , Raja Bell tried to use the oppressive defense to limit Liu Xiu's pick-and-roll, but failed!
Liu Xiu bypassed Kwame Brown and rushed forward. Kurt Thomas, who defended against the pick-and-roll, was excellent at defending against the pick-and-roll, but he didn't expect Liu Xiu to come in like this. , Unable to create a flanking opportunity for Raja Bell.

Kurt Thomas did not give up the defense, and actively pressed towards Liu Xiu, but his expectations fell through. Liu Xiu steadily carried his oppressive defense and went straight to the basket!

Liu Xiu flew up against Kurt Thomas and made a layup!
This ball feel, this rhythm, comfortable!Just as Liu Xiu was about to slap his palms with arrogance, as soon as he raised his hands to the height of his chest, he quickly swung them down, turned around and ran wildly, retreating quickly.

He just scored a goal and didn't have time to celebrate. Marion, who was unsuccessful in defending, picked up the ball and served it directly. Nash advanced quickly!
Nash quickly advanced to the frontcourt, and the Blazers retreated in time, with no obvious retreat loopholes, but Nash still found the offensive line and sent a long pass.

Nash's pass tore through the Blazers' defense like a scalpel, and sent the ball to Diaw, who turned around the outsider and came to the middle of the three-second zone. Diao received the ball and made a second pass, and Marion left Reverse run cut in, catch the ball and hit the throw!
(End of this chapter)