Healing Basketball

Chapter 601 601. Critical stage
Won!

When the final whistle sounded, Liu Xiu's hanging heart finally let go.

With the Trail Blazers doing their best, the Pistons can't do anything about them. After one quarter of the game, they only scored two more free throws to get two points.

But it also means that Liu Xiu and his teammates are not capable of doing more!
If Billups and Carter really break out at a critical moment, Liu Xiu really has nothing to do.

Their Trail Blazers are leading, he can't enter the explosive mode, and can only open the 'Maimang' after the opponent overtakes.

Fortunately, the other party did not perform like that.

The referee confirmed the score, the game officially ended, and Liu Xiu's system prompt came.

"Match Rating:
Game type: regular season.

数据：18投8中（含三分球6中2），外加罚球8投7中，合计25分7板13助攻2抢断3盖帽4失误……

Overall score: A.

Congratulations to the host for obtaining 800 healing value. "

The opponent was the Pistons, a team he had formed a mortal enemy in the first game of his warden career. After the whole game, he got more than 3000 healing points. Adding this 800, he broke 4000.

The healing value alone will be a bumper harvest tonight.

And there are task reward reminders!

"He's still a boy:

Goal 1: Sweep the Pistons in the regular season. (2 to 0 in the regular season, completed)

Objective 2: The host needs to complete a block or dunk against Yao Ming. (The number of times the host blocked Yao Ming: 1 time, the number of times he blocked Yao Ming: 1 time, completed.)
目标3：本场比赛助攻失误比需高于昌西-比卢普斯。（宿主13助攻4失误，昌西-比卢普斯9助攻4失误，已完成）

Congratulations to the host for getting the reward: Late Bloom (Talent Tendency). "

Liu Xiu excitedly opened the introduction of this talent tendency...

"Late Blooming (Talent Tendency): After activation, the host will have a longer growth period and have more time to reach the upper limit of talent for various skills."

"Uh……"

Liu Xiu's mood immediately became complicated.

This talent is a very good talent, very strong. If Billups is 29 years old and only reached his peak, it basically doubles the growth period of a player after entering the NBA.

But this is really tasteless to his warden!
What he is worried about is not that the growth period is not enough, but that the upper limit of talent comes too early.

But then he thought about it, no matter how powerful a talent is, there are some suitable and unsuitable points, and what if it is used in the future?

Think about the 28-nine-year-old still progressing at the current 23-year-old progress rate, how much encouragement will it give the opponents?What a strong incentive?
Thinking about it this way, Liu Xiu still wants to unlock this talent.

But here comes the problem, the upper limit of talent is still a problem...

Putting this matter aside, Liu Xiu looked at Ray Allen, who was being interviewed by the court station.

Tonight's post-match interview with the Imperial TV station is Ray Allen and Carter.

This is the highest scoring player on both teams tonight.

Liu Xiu looked up at the statistics on the big screen.

雷-阿伦21投10中，其中三分球13投7中，外加4中4的罚球，拿到31分3板3助攻1抢断。

After scoring 14 points in the first half, Ray Allen stepped up and scored 17 points in the second half when the team needed to score more.

Liu Xiu used one word to describe Ray Allen in his mind—reliable!
Randolph played 34 minutes and scored 14 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal. His performance in the second half was not good, but relying on his excellent performance in the first half, the overall statistics are still good.

活塞队那边，卡特拿到26分6板4助攻1抢断1盖帽，姚明21分14板3助攻3盖帽，比卢普斯21分9助攻1抢断，本-华莱士6分11板2抢断2盖帽……四大球星数据都不差。

Liu Xiu was fortunate that the butcher showed his strength in the second quarter, and was able to win this evenly matched duel.

That's right, with such an opponent, Liu Xiu really felt that it would be a pity if he didn't fight well in a series.

……

……

On January 2006, 1, the new year has arrived.

Early in the morning, Liu Xiu quickly left Detroit and flew back to Portland with the team as if fleeing from a refugee.

There is no other reason, the away fans are too enthusiastic.

For Liberty America, Liu Xiu is glad that their boss is capable, otherwise, with the enthusiasm of the Detroit fans, something might happen.

The Pistons' invincible journey began with their hard work after losing to the Trail Blazers. It was the Trail Blazers that ended their invincible streak. It's normal for Pistons fans to be a little excited.

It's just that if a gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall, those who are careless in this kind of thing will gamble on luck and run when they have to.

When he arrived at Portland Airport, Liu Xiu took a look at several sports newspapers.

Ending the Pistons' 15-game winning streak, the Trail Blazers changed from one of the focus points of the NBA to the only focus point, and their strength stole the limelight in the NFL playoffs.

The winning streak of the Pistons has been terminated, but the Trail Blazers are currently winning 9 consecutive victories. Liu Xiu saw that the major media are predicting whether they can win 10 consecutive victories again, whether they can break through 10 consecutive victories or even surpass the Pistons. The second longest winning streak in the new century...

However, looking at the newspaper, he found a problem.

The number of basketball news in sports newspapers is quite small, I was confused for a moment, and immediately realized that it was already time!

Because he is a popular star, their Trail Blazers are a popular team, and after the Christmas game, the imperial court and NBA officials have been promoting the Chinese Derby, so he didn't feel much.

Now when I was watching the news, I realized that it is already the middle of the season!
Liu Xiu doesn't care about the news, he doesn't lack for it, and now it's the NFL playoffs, he led the team to end the Pistons' 15-game winning streak, and it's just to steal the limelight. Even Nash beat Liu Xiu and Kobe to win. The best player of the month award in the Western Conference in December is not hot news.

For ordinary top teams and playoff contending teams, the key time period for winning games is March.

But for the top teams aiming to compete for the first place in the division and the league, the most important thing is now, in the middle of the season!
What he values ​​is this!
After defeating the Pistons, the Trail Blazers are still half a game behind the Pistons. The Pistons are 26 wins and 5 losses, and the Trail Blazers and Spurs are both 25 wins and 5 losses.

At the critical stage, don't fall behind!
...

At the beginning of the new year, the Trail Blazers got two days off, and the 1st day was off.

After Liu Xiu returned home, he did not do anything related to basketball. He watched Anne-Hathaway, Qinger, mother and aunt playing mahjong, played chess with his father, and played with his son, daughter and younger brother... a day passed like this up.

After a day of relaxation, on the 2nd, the preparation day, Liu Xiu re-entered the season-in-progress mode, got up at 7 o'clock, washed up, had breakfast, played with her daughter and raised high... At 7:[-], everything was ready and ready to go to the arena .

Today, the little cook, Qing'er, sent Liu Xiu out and asked, "Brother, didn't you say that the extra training would be over after Christmas? What are you doing so early?"

Liu Xiu responded, "Now I have someone to study."

Qing'er asked curiously, "Who is it?"

"Three-point king!" Liu Xiu tried hard to control, but couldn't stop being excited: "Yesterday when we came back from the Rose Bay Prison, he asked me to practice together this morning. Ball running and shooting skills, he is not my opponent in one-on-one, and there is nothing to practice."

Qing'er asked in surprise: "Ray Allen? That indifferent uncle is willing to teach you?"

"Even you know his cold personality..." Liu Xiu blushed, thought for a while and said, "Well...he taught me skills, and I will teach him how to win the championship."

Qing'er nodded: "I see, it's quite fair...but why didn't he teach you earlier?"

"There are many reasons. For example, when he just arrived, running off the ball is a test of his teammate's ability to cooperate, and his tactical requirements are also high. He needs to wait for the team's style of play to stabilize, and he needs to know more about me and other teammates. ...Also, didn't I train with Little Hand Man and the others? Training takes time..."

After chatting with his sister, Liu Xiu drove to the Rose Garden Arena. Fortunately, there was no traffic jam during the whole journey. After entering the parking lot, he found a strange thing. There are so many cars in the employee parking lot today!

If it wasn't for the fact that the players' parking spaces were not for other people to park, Liu Xiu guessed that the teammates who came later would not be able to find a place to park. When he parked, other vehicles would come in one after another.

The people who get out of the car...are players!

It's easy to see that they are players, because these big and tall people are accompanied by people in suits and ties. These people are all philistine... mainly because familiar trainers and staff are guiding these people to the designated place .

When someone greeted Liu Xiu, he would respond politely, but he didn't stop, and walked straight into the employee passageway.

You can't blame him for being indifferent, he is already very polite, who knows if he will be able to see these people a second time.

Liu Xiu came to the locker room, and the training uniform was ready. He changed into the training uniform and entered the training field. Sure enough, Stevenson was training with Ray Allen.

Stevenson greeted warmly: "Warden, you are here, you..."

Stevenson suddenly paused, thought for a while, looked at the time, and continued to enthusiastically say to Liu Xiu: "You are still so punctual, Warden!"

"..."

"..."

Not to mention Liu Xiu, Ray Allen was speechless.

Ignoring Stevenson, Ray Allen said, "Let's get to practice."

Liu Xiu also ignored Stevenson, and replied, "Okay, wait for a few minutes, I'll warm up."

"No," Ray Allen stopped: "This is one of our extra training content today, how to warm up quickly after the break, quickly find the shooting feeling, and quickly enter the game state."

Liu Xiu asked: "Quickly enter the game state after the break?"

Ray Allen responded: "Yes, that's right, we will inevitably encounter situations where we sit on the bench for a long time and suddenly play. In this case, if we want to make an immediate contribution, we must quickly enter the game state. That's what you practice."

Liu Xiu understood: "I understand, this is indeed very important, but it seems difficult for me to sit on the bench for a long time, and it is the same for you, Lei... Oh, by the way, you are already 30 years old, you should pay for your old age. Prepare for life."

(End of this chapter)