Healing Basketball

Chapter 688 688. Lock the first!

After defeating the Warriors, the Trail Blazers improved to 65 wins and 11 losses.

Back to Portland for a night of rest, on April 4, the Trail Blazers ushered in a challenge from the Sonics.

It was another soaring point battle. Ridnour, Lewis, and Damir Wilkins felt very good tonight, and they didn't have any flank shots.

The Sonics led the Blazers by one point 32 to 31 in the first quarter, but in the second quarter, the Blazers maintained their offensive level and the Sonics began to decline.

In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers and the Sonics scored 32 to 29, and entered the intermission with 63 to 61 overtaking the Sonics by two points.

In the second half, the Sonics only scored 25 points in two quarters and 50 points in the half, but the Trail Blazers continued their offensive firepower, scoring 28 points in the third quarter and 29 points in the fourth quarter, steadily Open the score and win the game.

Liu Xiu scored 18 points, 4 rebounds and 14 assists, scoring a double-double again.

Ray Allen had 16 points and Payton had 15 points and 4 assists. Both of them performed very well when they met their old clubs.

加上兰多夫的20分9板、小飞鼠的12分、法外狂徒的9分4板、夸梅-布朗的9分7板2助攻2盖帽……

最终开拓者队以120比111稳稳击败超音速队，拿下12连胜，将战绩提升至66胜11负！
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On the second day after playing the Sonics, April 4, at 10 pm, the Trail Blazers ushered in their second game within 8 hours, playing back-to-back against the Warriors.

After the start of the game, some fatigue of the Trail Blazers players could be clearly seen. They only scored 24 points in the first quarter and only 20 points in the second quarter.

这还是靠着刘秀半场15投8中、其中三分球7中3、加上6中5的罚球拿到24分2板2助攻，开拓者队半场才拿到44分。

勇士队抓住机会，首节拿到24分、第二节拿到25分，半场打完时以49比44领先开拓者队5分！
Liu Xiu supported the score with a large number of shots and gave his teammates time to adjust.

His teammates lived up to his expectations. In the third quarter, the Blazers broke out on both offense and defense. The offensive end scored 33 points in a single quarter, and the defensive end limited the Warriors to only 20 points in the third quarter!
77 to 69, the Trail Blazers overtook the Warriors by 8 points at the end of the third quarter!
Liu Xiu, who made more than a dozen shots in the first half, only threw 3 times in the third quarter. He made 3 of 1 shots and only scored 3 points. He also had 2 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals!

At the end of the quarter, the Warriors' offense picked up, scoring 26 points in a single quarter, but the Trail Blazers' offense had already opened up, scoring 29 points in the final quarter.

刘秀21投11中、其中三分球8中4、加上10中9的罚球，单场拿到35分5板13助攻3抢断，率领开拓者队以106比95逆转勇士队，拿下13连胜，将战绩提升至67胜11负！
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Just minutes before the Trail Blazers beat the Warriors back-to-back, the Pistons lost to the Pacers on the road, and their record became 63 wins and 15 losses.

In theory, the Pistons have lost all hope of surpassing the Trail Blazers. Even if the Trail Blazers lose all the last 4 games and the Pistons win all, the Trail Blazers can still rank ahead of the Pistons by virtue of the advantage of the match.

The Trail Blazers secured the first place in the league 4 games ahead of schedule!

Paul Allen excitedly wanted to hold a celebration party for winning the league's No. Wronged Baba changed the time to after the end of the regular season.

Indeed, there was no time. After playing the Warriors, the Trail Blazers flew to Salt Lake City the next afternoon.

The 41st away game of the season, the last away game, played against the Jazz.

After a night of rest, at 4 pm on April 12th, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Jazz started.

The Trail Blazers were showing signs of fatigue when they played the Warriors. That was the 4rd game in 3 days. Today, it is the 6th game in 4 days. Even if Maurice Cheeks worked hard to adjust the rotation , The deep lineup built to maximize the ability to play money is still playing badly.

The scoring is not bad, the Trail Blazers scored 27 points in the first quarter, but they couldn't control the initiative at all, and were scored 29 points by the Jazz!
因为开拓者队能拿到27分，靠的是刘秀首节14投8中、外加2中2的罚球，单节拿到18分2助攻！

For Liu Xiu's two assists, his teammates scored a total of 5 points, that is, 27 of the 23 points were scored by Liu Xiu.

The loss is due to the state continuity and insight improvement of the "Prisoner Killing".

Hitting the small cannon classmate, the 'prison killing' was triggered without any accident.

Moreover, facing the Jazz, which is based on iron and blood defense and has the strongest pick-and-roll offense in the league, the two effects of "Prison Kill"'s "good lower limit of state" and "significantly improved insight on both offensive and defensive ends" have been brought into play to the fullest!

In the second quarter, Liu Xiu made 7 of 3 shots, including 2 of 1 three-pointers and 2 of 1 free throws. He scored 8 points and 3 assists. As soon as his score dropped, the Blazers team's score dropped. Down, only scored 21 points.

Fortunately, the Blazers' defensive performance picked up in the second quarter, and the Jazz only scored 22 points.

靠着刘秀半场26分5助攻，开拓者队艰难咬住比分，48比51落后爵士队3分进入下半场。

In the third quarter, the Trail Blazers began to take the initiative-defense!
刘秀单节5分3板3助攻1盖帽，率领开拓者队单节拿到19分的同时，将爵士队得分也限制在19分。

Although the Trail Blazers were still 3 points behind the Jazz at the end of the three quarters, 67 to 70 behind.

However, the situation on the court is no longer under Paul's control.

At the end of the quarter, the Jazz collapsed!There were only 15 successful shots in a single quarter, 15 of 5 shots, all 4 three-point shots were ironed, and 10 of 9 free throws were added to score 19 points, scoring less than 20 points in two consecutive quarters.

On the other side, Liu Xiu relied on defense to counterattack, scoring 10 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists in a single quarter, leading the Blazers to score 25 points in a single quarter!
With a score of 25 to 19 in the final quarter, the Trail Blazers reversed the Jazz 92 to 89!
With 14 consecutive victories, the Trail Blazers' record has improved to 68 wins and 11 losses!
Tonight, it was Paul's first star performance in the game against the Trail Blazers. He made 15 of 7 shots, including 6 of 3 three-pointers, and 9 of 7 free throws. He scored 24 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 steals. The shooting rate is high and the efficiency is high. By the end of the third quarter, they still led the team to lead the Trail Blazers by 3 points.

But in the end I still lost!
After the game, he looked at Liu Xiu's data and almost knelt down.

29投15中，其中三分球6投3中，加上10中8的罚球，刘秀拿到41分。

Such fierce hand-to-hand combat, and Liu Xiu is the toughest player on the defensive end of the Trail Blazers, but his shooting performance has always been online, and his condition has always been very good!

这就算了，除了41分，刘秀还有11板12助攻4抢断1盖帽！

40+ triple doubles!Paul didn't expect that he could witness a 40+ triple-double!

It's just such an honor, he would rather not have it!

(End of this chapter)