Healing Basketball

Chapter 789 789. Coaches

After a narrow victory over the Timberwolves, the Trail Blazers flew to Minneapolis at noon the next day, and after an afternoon of rest, they arrived at the Target Center. At 8 pm, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Timberwolves began.

After 2 hours and 22 minutes of the game, the two teams decided the winner.

Coincidentally, the Trail Blazers only scored 88 points tonight. Liu Xiu made 25 of 12 shots and 8 of 7 free throws. He scored 31 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists. The three-pointer is still not good tonight.

Ray Allen made 10 of 4 shots, but almost all of them were three-pointers. He made 9 of 4 shots, plus 11 of 9 free throws, and scored 21 points. Kwame Brown performed coquettishly tonight, with 9 points and 22 rebounds. The two dunks were too exciting to dunk, and Liu Xiufei, who lost two assists, just kicked Kwame Brown's ass...

The performance of the Timberwolves was very different from the previous game. Except for 21 points in the second quarter, the scores in the other three quarters were all below 20 points, and they only scored 63 points in the game.

Ricky Davis had the best performance tonight, and he scored 22 points on 9 of 21 shots.

罗伊拿到12分7板4助攻、罗尔-邓12分9板……63分居然有3人得分上双，也是比较难得的事情。

88 to 63, the Trail Blazers relied on team defense and beat the Timberwolves by 15 points, winning two consecutive victories back to back!

...

By the next morning, the Blazers were sleeping in collectively.

The SP trio composed of Little Flying Squirrel lsp, Tu Dingfeng sp, and Luwei XSP had a great time last night, and went to enjoy what is called ice and snow enthusiasm... Just returned to the hotel.

Others were extremely tired. They just played back to back and couldn't fall asleep in the middle of the night. Most of them didn't fall asleep until two or three o'clock, and they were still sleeping late.

Liu Xiu got up early, but after breakfast, she went back to her room to nest, and teamed up with Qinger, Anne Hathaway, and her uncle who were far away in Portland to scan the dungeon.

The players are resting, the coaches get up early, and the meeting starts at 8 o'clock.

In the rented conference room, the projection PPT lists the scores of the first 8 games.

The coach looked at the record and said dissatisfiedly: "I thought we could start with 8 consecutive victories, but the result is only 6 wins and 2 losses."

This is crazy, but looking at the opponents in 8 games, the Lakers, Hornets, Sonics, Warriors, Clippers, Mavericks, Timberwolves, Timberwolves.

With their record of 70 wins last season and the current strength of these opponents, no one really thinks the coach is wrong.

Everyone is not very satisfied with this start.

But now that the season has progressed, the situation at home has become very clear.

The vice president said: "It is already very good to be able to play such a performance. Without Jess and Ray, we might be like the Lakers, Pistons, and Rockets back then..."

Everyone heard the words and thought of the three teams closest to the dynasty in the past 20 years.

In the 86-87 season and 87-88 season, the Lakers won two consecutive championships. The 88-89 season was terminated. Te Riley started devil training, directly tossed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and retired, and tossed the Magician until the finals were not finished.

In the 88-89 season and 89-90 season, the Pistons won two consecutive championships. In the 90-91 season, the Pistons stopped in the Eastern Conference Finals due to pride and injuries.

In the 93-94 season and 94-95 season, the Rockets won two consecutive championships. In the 95-96 season, the complacent dream seemed to have lost its pursuit of honor. The regular season record was poor and the playoffs were hammered.

It is difficult to win consecutive championships, and it is even more difficult to win three consecutive championships!
The coach took up the conversation: "We have basically encountered the situation encountered by those three teams, but fortunately, although our young people have become proud, their desire for victory has not dissipated."

Huo Tu nodded and said: "Yes, that's right, this is something we are thankful for, especially the warden, he let go of the attack and supported our offense."

Bu Shuai said: "Our defensive continuity is also doing very well, but the most important thing is that the warden has given enough trust to his teammates, believing that his teammates can rely on defense to support our foundation, and he uses offense to drive victory. "

The vice president nodded, approved what his colleagues said, and said with some emotion: "Actually, many of our situations are unchangeable facts. We can only endure slowly. The only one we can rely on on the offensive end is Jess, but even if It's me, I didn't expect him to be so determined to change his style of play..."

The corner of the coach's mouth twitched: "I also didn't expect him to be so decisive."

From their point of view, if someone is in Liu Xiu's current situation, he will probably look forward and backward, want to do it but dare not do it...

It doesn't matter how brave you are, two consecutive championships is equal to half a dynasty, no matter how confident you are, you will be extra cautious.

Even knowing that something is the right choice, I dare not make up my mind.

What's more, some people care about other people's evaluations, and don't want to lose what they have always been praised for.

For example, Liu Xiu's 50% shooting rate last season, a fairly well-controlled assist-to-turnover ratio, and a well-received stability even in the worst period of reputation.

In many cases, it is not that the coach has no choice, but that the method cannot be implemented.

A player who has become famous and has played for so many years has always had the ball in his hands. It is very difficult for him to give up the ball when he can still get the data!
However, they asked Liu Xiu to give up the style of play that won the MVP last season, to give up the stability that was praised by people, and to carry the team forward with the easiest style of play... He actually agreed!
It was not implemented immediately at the beginning, but it took time to determine whether it was necessary. Once determined, change without hesitation!
After twitching his mouth for a while, the coach continued: "That's him, he can switch styles of play so easily."

The vice president nodded, but he was not happy for a while, and his brows were frowned again: "Our most relaxing schedule at the beginning stage is over, and the time for us to adjust is over, and the difficult season leading to the dynasty has really begun."

"Boss, there is one thing I don't understand." Bu Shuai said to the vice president.

The vice president asked, "What is it?"

Bu Shuai expressed his confusion: "The big boss has already said that he has no record requirements this year, no championship pressure, and nothing to care about. Let us enjoy a season... Let me be blunt, I think we will win the championship this year The odds are very slim."

After Bu Shuai finished speaking, he looked around at his colleagues. Only Huo Tu, who came to this team with him, nodded slightly, but this also gave him the motivation to continue: "I think, if we want a dynasty, go to We're supposed to go after Garnett after the season...it's not a good idea, I'm just saying we should do something like that..."

The vice president waited for Bu Shuai to finish his sentence, and did not refute, but replied: "Exchanging all our young people for Garnett, although it will have immediate effect, the big boss will not agree.

At the end of the finals of last season, like you, I felt that it was finally done, I could rest, and spend a season easily, but Jess said he wanted a dynasty... Since the big boss didn't ask for it, we didn't have any pressure, So why not give it your all? "

Colleagues found out that usually the coach prefers the warden the most, but at this time, the vice president is the one who is most used to the warden!

But let alone, even Bu Shuai, who has always adhered to the belief of "doing as much work as you get", rarely thinks about dreams, and has never been tempted by big cakes, feels emotional at this moment...

That being the case, let's work hard to create an extraordinary season!

(End of this chapter)