Healing Basketball

   Chapter 504 504. Tangled talent choice

   "Oh, dear, George is under a year old, so there's no need to enroll him in an interest class, right?"

   "Of course I must report it, let him be influenced by art since he was a child."

   "The influence of art? It's like letting Qinger learn the violin, and now letting her play the instrument will cause physical discomfort? Caroline, if this goes on, little George will be afraid of you when he grows up."

   "...It's all your fault! You're tired of spending time with your children every day and taking their love away!"

"??? Caroline, other people's wives are complaining that my husband spends less time with the children. Is it wrong for me to spend more time with the children? Do you know how tired I am to bring the children after I go out to work every day? ?"

   "Yes... I don't care! It's all your fault!"

  “…”

  On June 11th, the morning after the Western Conference finals, Liu Xiu's aunt and uncle came to Liu Xiu's house to make dumplings to celebrate Liu Xiu entering the finals.

  Uncle, aunt, and old couple always have such little frictions, and Liu Xiu has long been used to it.

   Anne-Hathaway, who came back from the supermarket to buy spices, asked, "Jess, what are they arguing about?"

  Liu Xiu Ying said: "There is a private classroom of a local musician recruiting students, and there are very few places. Caroline's client happens to be a friend of that musician, and she managed to get a place."

  Anne-Hathaway nodded and replied: "If George Jr. grows up to develop in the direction of music, this is really important."

   "Yeah, so the two of them quarreled. Ang Kou still has a beautiful fantasy. He wants his children to receive a happy education. Caroline is more realistic in this regard."

   "How do you think children should be raised?"

   "As long as the direction is correct, I will listen to you."

  Anne-Hathaway nodded with satisfaction, looked at the aunt and uncle who had entered the mode of ignoring each other, and asked, "Don't you mind them?"

   Liu Xiu replied: "No, Caroline will definitely win in the end."

  Qing'er nodded quickly: "Yes, every time my mother wins, I really hope my father can win once."

   "Qinger, why are you watching your dad's show?"

   "Yes? Am I so obvious?"

   "Just gloat over the misfortune. You are going to middle school next year. I heard that your mother wants you to go to a prestigious private school."

   "No! Our family has paid so much tax, I want to go to public school and earn back the money I handed over to the government!"

   "Your mother is rich, she is willing to spend those tuition fees."

   "No, I'm sensible, I'll leave the money to my brother to study!"

   "Don't worry, your mother has already started saving your brother's tuition."

   "leak..."

   Eating dumplings, listening to aunts and uncles making noises, teasing my sister, accompany his girlfriend after breakfast, and take his son and daughter to play in the yard, Liu Xiu had a very pleasant rest in the morning.

  After lunch, Liu Xiu came to the Rose Garden Arena, changed into his training uniform, and then went to the conference room. He looked at the clock on the wall. At 1:25, the meeting started at 1:30. After arriving so early, he felt that he was really diligent.

  The teammates were all there, and Liu Xiu saw Randolph scratching his head.

   Liu Xiu kindly reminded: "Zach, you can't grow your hair even if you scratch your head."

  "???" Randolph was stunned for a moment, then roared after reacting, "I just have thin hair, and I'm not as bald as Gary!"

   The lively didn't see Payton lying down and being shot for a few seconds, and started a scolding battle with Randolph on the spot.

The two exchanged passion for two minutes, and after they were tired, Randolph complained: "In the past, we were the first to advance, and we waited for the next opponent. Now it's someone else's turn to wait for us to advance. I'm not used to it."

   "Yes," Liu Xiu nodded in approval: "Butcher, you should apologize to your teammates."

   "Crooked?"

   "You only averaged 14 points per game against the Spurs."

   "...you're right, just wait and see! Next time I meet Duncan, I'll blow him up!"

   Teammates: "…"

   When Liu Xiu said that Randolph was abused by Duncan, the hearts of the teammates were all overwhelmed. I didn't expect Randolph to react in this way.

And Randolph's idea is very simple - Liu Xiu and Manu Ginobili have a good overall performance on the offensive end, and they can defend Parker on the defensive end. Time was hanged by Duncan.

   So the warden is right!

  …

   At 1:30 p.m., the Blazers began methodically to prepare for the finals.

  Preparation meeting, team tactical training, small-scale cooperation training, individual additional training... The preparation work is in place!

The Blazers coaching staff felt that they were better prepared for the preparation stage than the Nets, because they had been collecting information on the two Eastern Conference finals teams since they led the Spurs 3-1. Research, when the Nets won the battle of Tianwang Mountain, they decisively chose the Nets to prepare for the imaginary enemy in the finals.

   Looking at the players who were training, the coach thought to himself that he was fortunate to have won the tiebreaker, otherwise all the preparations would have been wasted.

  The Nets also came to the Rose Garden Arena at 2 pm to prepare for the game, and they had already arrived in Portland this morning.

Randolph is not accustomed to having less preparation time than his opponents. In fact, it is just a psychological effect. The Nets also reached G6, and the Eastern Conference finals start later. That is to say, the Nets are only better than the Trail Blazers. The team advanced a day early, and the Nets didn't even return to Rutherford Town yesterday, and flew directly from Detroit this morning after waiting for the finals opponent to be released in Detroit.

The Blazers' preparations this afternoon focused on 'forgetting' how to play the Spurs, that is, switching the opponent from the Spurs to the Nets, because the two teams are completely different teams and played a round. After the series, I was so impressed with the opponents in the previous round that I needed such a process.

There was no work in this area before the second round and the Western Conference finals, because they advanced very early in the first and second rounds, the waiting time was long enough, and two more days of regular training would be enough, but this time the preparation time is just that. long.

   This coach is not worried, the vice president has been complaining, the coach ridiculed the vice president: "In the first two rounds, you thought the promotion was too early, and you were worried that they would not be able to rest. Now you think that the promotion is too late, and the preparation time is not enough, it is really difficult to serve."

   The vice president decisively threatened the coach with no salary increase...

  Liu Xiu has always been very devoted to the training of preparations for battle, and the adjustment of the target of preparation for battle went very smoothly.

In fact, he is also making adjustments in this area. This morning, he didn't even let Qinger or Anne Hathaway read the newspaper to him, completely blocking the outside world. The Western Finals, which has already ended, are already over, and he has to completely break out of the Western Finals state and enter the finals time.

   This is a difficult thing, but this one is his forte!

  Now, he has done the adjustment work. When he comes home in the evening to watch the news related to the tiebreaker last night, he can already watch the news from the perspective of 'my previous game' instead of 'now in progress'.

   He made a 'you're old' challenge to Duncan last night, to mixed reviews.

The Spurs have a bad reputation and low popularity, but Duncan's reputation is not bad and his popularity is not low. He started the All-Star team for 6 consecutive years. After the 2002-2003 season, Duncan, who has only played for 6 years, has already locked the first power forward in history. Liu Xiu Although he won, his remarks were not dirty, but many media and experts still criticized him.

   This includes some fans of the 'best of old' group.

When Jordan just retired, there was a group of people who didn't want to see Duncan and O'Neal win the championship. They didn't like Ewing, but in 1999 they supported the Knicks to win the championship, and they didn't like Reggie Miller, but they supported walking in 2000. The team won the championship.

   Now, the OK group is disbanded. Five or six years in the basketball world has been a long time. The young fans at the stage where Duncan and O'Neal won the championship for five consecutive years have gradually become old fans.

   They may not like Kidd, they may not even be Duncan or O'Neal fans, they are just like the old fans of the year, they don't want to see the new generation of stars win the championship...

   These people just want to prove that the NBA of their 'peak' era is the best NBA.

   Liu Xiu also saw what Kidd said in a telephone interview after the game last night.

   "It's a pity that my opponent in the finals is not the Spurs. I've always been eager for revenge, but I'm very happy. Every year in the finals, it's O'Neal or Duncan in the Western Conference. I'm tired of watching, and someone finally ends them."

  The newspaper can't like it, Liu Xiu feels a pity, he likes Kidd's words very much.

   However, reading the newspaper without comments or barrage is enough to make up for the lack of likes in Liu Xiu's opinion.

  Liu Xiu read the newspaper for a while, and as he expected, the tendency of public opinion was much more obvious than when he was playing against the Spurs, and he was leaning towards the Nets.

This is normal, Kidd, an 11-year veteran, has played in two finals, and his popularity is not high, but he has enough qualifications to make it to the finals again. ' rumors spread.

   Putting down the newspaper, Liu Xiu got ready and entered the state - ignoring external influences.

   In the first three rounds, he only really entered this state after two home games, but now when he reads the newspaper, he feels impetuous.

   He opened the system's prop space.

The goal of   'Giant Killer': Defeat Duncan in the Western Finals, it has been completed, and the third talent fragment has been obtained.

The    system determines that this goal is the final goal of this quest. After the quest is completed, the talent tendency of ‘Giant Killer’ has already been obtained.

   But he is very entangled now, with three innate tendencies: Giant Killer, Maimang, and Marksman.

   But these three talents are not the most ideal talents.

  'Giant Killer', as you can see from the name, it is very limited.

  'Marksman', talent without the ball, not to mention that this type of talent is not his ideal direction. At this stage, he is very confident, and his ability without the ball is not worthy of such a talent.

  'Maimang', this talent has been used 3 times, and every time it is amazing, but the first talent can't be the talent of playing the key 35 seconds every night, right?

   (end of this chapter)