Healing Basketball

Chapter 663 663. I think there are still

On March 3, the game day for the Trail Blazers vs. the Suns arrived.

At noon, the Suns came to Portland, because the Suns just played the Jazz last night, and today is the second back-to-back game.

In the game between the Suns and the Jazz last night, Paul scored 14 points and 11 assists. Facing the MVP, Xiao Cannon performed brilliantly, but Nash scored 11 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists, and his performance looked better. The Suns also Defeated the Jazz 101-95.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the game between the Suns and the Trail Blazers who had been resting for an afternoon started at the Rose Garden Arena.

After 2 hours and 17 minutes of the game, the two teams decided the winner.

纳什打了42分钟，9投5中，拿到13分7板16助攻，表现暴躁。

迪奥20分3板4助攻、马里昂20分10板1助攻2抢断2盖帽、拉加-贝尔19分、蒂姆-托马斯和巴博萨都拿到11分、詹姆斯-琼斯拿到7分。

The Tianyang team played a total of 8 times. Only Eddie House did not score. The others scored very well. The team's shooting rate was as high as 50%! 84 of 42 shots!Among them, 30 of 13 three-pointers were made, and the shooting percentage was as high as 43.3%, which was also 13 of 6 free throws.

For the Trail Blazers, Randolph only played 26 minutes tonight, made 12 of 8 shots, and made 5 of 4 free throws. He scored 20 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists, which was extremely efficient.

雷-阿伦打了27分钟，9投5中，其中三分球1中1，拿到11分3板3助攻1抢断。

拉希姆7投4中拿到11分6板3助攻；布雷克三分7中5拿到18分；小飞鼠拿到6分4助攻；夸梅-布朗11分14板……

刘秀今晚打了44分钟，24投11中，其中三分球3中2，外加10中8的罚球，豪取32分6板15助攻4抢断。

The Suns have a high shooting percentage, and the Trail Blazers have even higher!Under the leadership of Liu Xiu, the Trail Blazers made 86 of 46 shots, and the shooting percentage was as high as 53.5%!

Both teams played very beautiful offensive performances tonight, but the Suns drove high and low. They scored 27 points, 26 points, and 29 points in the first three quarters, but only scored 19 points in the final quarter.

The Trail Blazers lost to the Suns by 22 points in the first quarter. This time the Trail Blazers went too far and wanted to emphasize the opening defense too much. As a result, the offense and defense were not good, and they lost 5 points in the first quarter.

But Morris Cheeks made a mistake and corrected it. He was not stubborn and scored 28 points, 30 points, and 31 points in the next three quarters.

However, the Suns also rotated 8 players in the back-to-back second game, which made the Trail Blazers very puzzled.

Kurt Thomas, Brian Grant, and Jim Jackson have not reported any injury problems. They all played in the last game of the Suns against the Nuggets, and Kurt Thomas also won It's a double-double, but this time it's back-to-back, the three of them guard the drinking fountain all the way.

Obviously at the end of the final quarter, the Suns team's physical strength declined, and the 8-man rotation could no longer hold up, but D'Antoni still insisted on the 8-man rotation. The Trail Blazers used this to score 31 to 19 in the final quarter.

In the end, the Trail Blazers relied on Liu Xiu's large double-double to reverse the Suns 111 to 101!
...

Liu Xiu was very happy after defeating the Suns.

Nash is really fierce this year!After the absence of the Bully, the Suns have been in decline for a few months. Since December, the performance of the Suns has risen to the first-class level. By the middle of the season, the Suns have already performed at the top. The best performance in the league with 12 win and 2 loss, and now the strength has already ranked among the first echelons of the league.

So being able to beat Nash in a direct match is very important for him to compete for the MVP.

However, the competition may continue until the last game. This is unfortunate. Last season, the Suns were first in the Western Conference and their Trail Blazers were second in the Western Conference. This season, the two teams were arranged to play the curtain call.

In addition to Nash, there is another competitor that needs attention. Last night, that man scored 24+ for the 40th time this season, far ahead of the single-season record of 40+ times for all scorers in the league.

The only thing that came close was Liu Xiu's 21 times of 40+ in a single game last season...

On the morning of March 3, Liu Xiu left Portland with the team and started a 12-game streak in the Eastern Conference.

On the plane, Mourning said to Payton with emotion: "After these 4 games, we will not have any games against Eastern teams this year."

Payton sneered: "I think there are four games."

Instead of making Mourning angry, Peyton's usual eccentricity made Mourning laugh out loud and apologize repeatedly.

In the afternoon, the Trail Blazers arrived in Jersey City, and then took the bus for more than an hour to live in the villa area near Rutherford Town.

In the evening, the vice president took Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, Payton, Mourning and others to a nearby golf course to participate in a non-public and informal golf game.

Unsurprisingly, Liu Xiu won in a crushing manner, allowing Ray Allen, Payton, Mourning and others to call out 'I'm 豮艸芔茻', earning enough face for the vice president.

In this private game, Liu Xiu knew at a glance that the vice president wanted to show off, so he must help. The team can heal the vice president without problems, but to the outside world, he has to save face.

...

After a night of rest, the next day, March 3, the Trail Blazers arrived at another game day, and came to the Army Aviation Center at 13 am to prepare for the game.

At 5:10 in the evening, after the warm-up, Liu Xiu led his teammates into the stadium first, and was greeted with crazy boos from the fans.

After entering the arena, Liu Xiu said to Payton next to him: "I remembered the picture of winning the O'Brien Cup here last year."

Payton nodded: "I think of the picture of me beating Kidd here all these years."

At this moment, the two looked at each other, feeling sorry for each other...

Immediately afterwards, the lights on their side went out, and the spotlight hit the opposite player's tunnel.

The eyes of more than a dozen players of the Trail Blazers were focused on the past. When the players of the Nets came out, they felt a strong hostility. After their starting game was over and the lights came on, they also responded to the unfriendly eyes on the other side. .

The Trail Blazers players want to avenge the last time they played against each other at home, and the Nets players are even more hostile, revenge for the finals!
However, even though the two teams had a tendency to be rivals, Kidd still exchanged warm greetings with Payton and Liu Xiu before the game.

Payton grew up watching Kidd, and Liu Xiu is Kidd's most admired star of the new generation. At first, Kidd thought Liu Xiu was his type of player. Although Liu Xiu became the scoring leader later, Kidd also That appreciation was not taken back.

After exchanging pleasantries, it was natural to talk trash. Peyton and Kidd were skillful at each other, and Liu Xiu was left alone.

Liu Xiu is not happy about this, but he is not familiar with Kidd, and the number of times he has played against Kidd is only 10 times including the playoffs, and he really likes Kidd... Hey, there is it!
(End of this chapter)