Healing Basketball

   Chapter 510

   "The New Jersey Nets are experiencing a huge internal crisis. In the chaos, the host must not miss the opportunity to defend their home court advantage. Mission: Trigger while you are sick."

   "While you're sick and dying:

   Goal: The host needs to lead the team to win the upcoming second game of the finals.

   Reward: 3000 healing points. "

   At 7:46 p.m., after the entrance ceremony, Liu Xiu received a task reminder, adding another point of motivation.

  Tonight's Rose Garden Arena, the atmosphere is even higher than the day before yesterday!

The victory of   G1 brought infinite confidence to the fans of the Blazers, and the performance of the warden gave the fans of the Blazers blind trust in him.

   Now, the thing that Blazers fans worry about but also wants to see most - after winning tonight's game, the Blazers will not return to this stadium this season.

   Blazers fans have reached this level of confidence.

   This time, the players of the two teams did not exchange greetings after their appearances. Before, it was just Butcher and Momoko and McGrady who were at odds with each other. After the finals, the real grievance about the championship has been established.

   At 8 pm, the second game of the finals started.

   The two teams are still starting, Kwame Brown beat Mourning steadily to win the jump ball, and the Trail Blazers took the lead!

  Kwame Brown brought Mourning out to pick and roll with Liu Xiu, Liu Xiu passed the bottom line in the pick and roll, and Randolph hit a small hook from Jason Collins and scored two points.

After winning G1, the Trail Blazers did not carelessly underestimate the enemy, but learned from the experience of playing well in G1 and reflected on the things that G1 did not do well, such as using Randolph's inside advantage to do a better job. .

   Now they are confident that as long as their players are in normal condition, even if the Nets can play the first half of G1 tonight, they will not be beaten 61-52 by the opponent in 22 minutes.

   When the Blazers were preparing for the game, they were preparing for the Nets to perform in the first half of G1. The finals are over. Since they are confident, they will prepare for the worst.

However, the performance of the Nets tonight was far worse than the first half of the last game. It was different from the two situations that the Blazers expected. The Nets did not continue to use McGrady's singles as the tactical basis, nor did Kidd Strongly switch back to the original style of play, but chaos!

   A mess!

   Playing singles tactics for a while, and wanting to play a team for a while, playing with the whole team in a mess, without any rules... It is impossible to see that it is a regular season Eastern Conference champion team, let alone a finals team in the Eastern Conference.

  When the Nets finally found a feeling from the chaos and started to play teamwork in an orderly manner, the point difference has been widened by the Blazers to more than 20 points!

At 11 minutes and 46 seconds of the second quarter, Kidd received a return pass from McGrady, and the setter passed to Richard Jefferson, who cut into the left baseline. The latter made a layup and caused a foul on McDyess. Jin, in the last 14 seconds of the next half, the Trail Blazers did not score in the offense, Liu Xiu turned over and became a two-point iron, but after halftime, the Trail Blazers still led the Nets by 18 points 57-39. Enter halftime!

With the help of Liu Xiu, Payton, extrajudicial fanatics and others, Randolph showed his inside advantage to the fullest. He played 18 minutes at halftime, made 8 of 13 shots, and made 2 of 4 free throws. 18 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist!

  Randolph can score 18 points in the half, which has a lot to do with Liu Xiu's threat after G1's performance.

Not long after the game started tonight, the Nets replaced Jason Collins with Clifford Robinson. Jason Collins couldn't guard Randolph one-on-one, let alone a thin and old man. Clifford Robinson? But in order to improve the speed inside and avoid being counterattacked by Liu Xiu, the Nets can only do this.

They were a mess on offense, but from the defense, it could be seen that McGrady wanted to cooperate with the team and has been actively cooperating with his teammates on defense, but on the offensive end, he couldn't let himself down, and his ambitions were not that high. He wants to prove that he is capable of leading the team, but he is worried that he is not good enough, arrogant, hesitant, contradictory...

   McGrady's willingness to cooperate is the reason for Kidd's hope. After losing Kenyon Martin's experience, Kidd doesn't want to lose McGrady again...

   The Nets’ defensive goal tonight has always been clear—to limit Liu Xiu’s counterattack.

   But it also gave Randolph a better singles chance.

At the same time, the Nets did not expect that the Blazers would give up Liu Xiu as the main attack point tonight, and use Liu Xiu as a threat point to create better opportunities for Randolph, and Liu Xiu is doing this with all his strength. Things, did not show any dissatisfaction on the field!

   In the first half, Liu Xiu made only 7 shots, made 3 of 7 shots, plus 5 of 6 free throws, and scored 11 points, 2 rebounds and 7 assists.

The Nets guarded Liu Xiu's fast break and attached great importance to Liu Xiu's defensive rebounding. In the first half, McGrady made 3 of 10 shots in the first half. If there is one good performance, it is the restriction on Liu Xiu's counterattack. He also didn't grab a few offensive rebounds, but he kept pestering Liu Xiu.

   With the help of Liu Xiu, Randolph played a very dominant half-court performance, playing to the Nets' need, with a score difference of up to 21 points.

   But he saw Liu Xiu's performance. In the second half of the second quarter, McGrady gradually began to accept his fate...

   McGrady began to accept his fate, which is why the Nets gradually emerged from the chaos and returned to normal.

   As the saying goes, it's not too late to make up for it, but the sheep that was carried away by the wolf deserves to die.

In the third quarter, the Nets' offensive performance recovered a bit, scoring 23 points, and they did a good job on the defensive end. In the third quarter, their emotions were high, and the defensive effect was greatly improved. The Trail Blazers only scored in the third quarter. To 22 points, the difference has been reduced by 1 point.

   But the Blazers still led the Nets by 17 points, 79-62.

In the final quarter, after adapting to the more aggressive Nets' defensive intensity, the Trail Blazers scored 25 points in the final quarter and limited the Nets to 20 points. The reason for the limitation is quite simple - McGrady tired.

   In the fourth quarter of the last game, McGrady performed astonishingly. In addition to the good defense of the Trail Blazers, McGrady's physical strength could not support him to play like that. It is also a very important reason.

   At 10:22 p.m., the final whistle sounded.

  104 to 82, the Trail Blazers slaughtered the Nets by 22 points, making the big score 2-0!

   Randolph made 12 of 20 shots, plus 10 of 14 free throws, and scored 34 points! With 14 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, he became tonight's MVP.

   However, Liu Xiu made 8 of 17 shots, plus 9 of 11 free throws, and scored 25 points, 6 rebounds, 12 assists, 1 steal and 1 block. The performance is not bad!

In the second half, after the Nets did a better defense of three-pointers and empty cuts, they relied on Liu Xiu and Randolph to score. Liu Xiu scored 14 points and Randolph scored 16 points. A tacit understanding, 4 of Liu Xiu's 5 assists in the second half were passed to Randolph, while Randolph's 3 assists in the second half were 2 times to Liu Xiu.

  …

In the    competition, Liu Xiumei received more than 1,600 healing points.

   Liu Xiu took advantage of the Nets' defense and gave Randolph the shot to help the team play better. This incident touched McGrady.

   But the more Maddie learns, the more upset Liu Xiu becomes!

   He can't accept that he needs to learn how to play the finals from Liu Xiu!

   At the end of the game, Liu Xiu received a system prompt, a reward for A-level rating, and a 3,000-healing value prompt "while your illness is killing you". He got more than 5,000 healing points in one night, and Liu Xiu was in a better mood!

   In the post-match press conference, the reporters also spoke very nicely.

Before the start of the finals, the media overwhelmingly supported the Nets to win the championship. Compared with the poor image of the Trail Blazers, the Nets have a much better image, and there is a saying that Kidd should also win the championship, that's not it. The truth is that the saying 'the champion should be won' can be said. When Liu Xiu saw this report, she felt that Shuangsha wanted to hit someone.

   But after G2 was over, the media were unified in their argument - the Nets were going to be swept by the Trail Blazers.

  Touting Liu Xiu's teammates, touting the Blazers' sweeping the Nets, and attacking McGrady are the three key points of reports on tonight's major basketball forums, related portals, and TV sports channels.

   Last night, Payton just put Maddie on the cusp.

   Now the Nets are 0-2, and McGrady has been repeatedly grilled by the media.

   That night, Maddie stayed up all night, but it was not because of public opinion.

  After the game, McGrady said nothing from leaving the court to returning to the hotel. At just after one o'clock in the morning, he knocked on Kidd's door and apologized to Kidd.

Kiddben also planned to talk to McGrady, otherwise he wouldn't be so accommodating to McGrady in these two games. What he planned to do was to return to Jersey City and then talk about how much McGrady can change through these two games. game and helping the best teammates of his career learn something, he thinks it's worth it.

The 32-year-old Kidd is at his peak, and he is confident that he can continue his form for 3-5 years. If he can handle McGrady, help the team renew his contract with McGrady, and help McGrady grow... He believes that he can work with McGrady and Richard Jeff. Sen formed the league's strongest perimeter trio, which will always be the favorites for the championship in the next few years.

   If you really can't deal with McGrady, Kidd also recognizes it. He has played in the NBA for more than ten years, and he has experienced too many things, so this blow is not bad.

  I didn't expect Maddie to knock on the door!

  Fortunately, I didn’t order takeout or something because I was in a bad mood, otherwise it would be embarrassing.

   Kidd gladly accepted Maddie's apology, the two opened their hearts, sat down and chatted all night, opened up everything, communicated how to fight next, and finally reached an agreement.

   After dawn, Kidd looked at the back of McGrady, who was yawning and left, and now he really felt that it was not a loss if he lost the first two games!

   He really felt Maddie's growth!

   Kidd is very curious about one thing - have the Raptors and the Magic never cultivated McGrady as the core?

McGrady was 25 years old when he joined the Nets last summer, very young, but he has played in the NBA for 7 years, but he has played 7 years, won two scoring titles, was selected to the All-NBA team four times and had two first team... Tracy McGrady has no basketball thinking as a core player! Mental quality is even more hip...

   But growth is not afraid of coming late, but afraid of not having it!

  Although two sheep have died, it is not too late to make up for it!

   (end of this chapter)