Healing Basketball

   Chapter 511 511. Hidden hidden dangers

"The owners of the Nets have always thought they were a team in New York, and their new owners are still like that. They first wanted to settle in New York. They had no sponsors and had to come to an abandoned factory here to play games. You Do you know how many people only watched the Nets' first game?"

"how many people?"

"3,000 people, the Knicks also had a game that day, and 20,000 people watched. Even if they went to the country, the Nets didn't like it. They didn't like it here, and the people here wouldn't like them. Later, they really moved. New York, but New Yorkers also don’t like them from the countryside. After staying in the big city for a few years, they can only go back to the countryside, but now the mayor of the countryside doesn’t ask them to stay, and they Distributed to Rutherford Township, which is where we're going next."

   "Is Rutherford bad? I've been there twice, and the people there are rich."

"Of course, the people in Rutherford are very rich. Don't look at the poor hotels there, but it is the hub of commerce and trade between New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. There are many people who go to Luhang Arena to watch the game, but Not many are Nets fans, many are passing businessmen, and people in the three states don't like the Nets. What Kidd has been doing is to get local fans to accept the Nets and conquer the fans of this place. Be the leader of the era.”

   "Oh, I didn't expect Kidd to be such a dream player."

   "Of course, Kidd is the best player in the world."

   "No, I am."

   "Oh, Sorry, I know you're very powerful, Warden, but in my opinion, you'll be later, and now, Kidd is the strongest."

   "I will prove to you that your perception is wrong..."

  “…”

   The warden is a familiar character, and his teammates are also convinced, and he can chat so well with the bus driver in the away city.

  The day after G2 of the finals, on the afternoon of June 16, the Trail Blazers flew across the United States to Jersey City. After getting off the plane, they took the bus arranged by the team to Rutherford Town.

The long-distance flight, even if the special plane has Paul Allen's custom-made seats for each player, after arriving in Jersey City, most of the Blazers players don't have much energy to do other things, after all, they have played twice in the past three days. After the game, they wanted to go to the hotel and have a good night's rest.

   But the head of the warden is so good. He came out of the airport and sat in the co-pilot seat and chatted with the bus driver all the way!

   And it is obvious that the bus driver is a Kidd fan. Now they and Kidd are in the finals. The bus driver's tone was not very good at first, but the warden was able to chat! The two can actually complain about how unpopular the Nets are!

   Walking, Liu Xiu found the way was wrong and asked, "Karl, isn't this the way to Rutherford Town?"

  The driver named Carl Calect responded: "Of course not, the route you agreed is to Greenton Hills."

   Hearing this, Randolph exclaimed: "Is that the luxury villa complex in Jersey City?"

The driver didn't have time to answer, the vice president sitting in the first row took over the words: "Yes, this is a gift from the boss after we reached the finals, Jess didn't complain when we played against the Nets last time. Is the hotel too bad? In fact, it is already the best hotel in Rutherford Town. After the owner knew about this, he contracted a villa hotel in Greenton Hills."

  As soon as the vice president said this, everyone on the bus cheered, including the coaching staff and staff.

   Liu Xiu also sighed: "The boss is really generous, the prices here in New Jersey are not cheap..."

  The boss is generous! The vice president's eyes lit up when he heard this. The boss's secretary came up with the idea to spend so many wallets in the villa hotel, just to make the team members feel that the boss is a generous person, and the most important thing is to let Liu Xiu feel it!

   At this time, Liu Xiu asked in confusion: "Kevin, the boss doesn't seem to be here to watch the game for the past two days. What's wrong with him? Isn't he a super basketball fan?"

The vice president replied regretfully: "He also wants to come, and I hope he can come to cheer us, but he is a shareholder of Microsoft. Although he has resigned from the board of directors, he is still an adviser to Bill Gates and often needs to help attend various events. Activities, he seems to be developing markets in South America recently, but he can't come..."

  …

   When you play away games, you can't avoid being influenced by the opponent's fans.

The regular season is okay, but in the playoffs, fans will harass their opponents in an organized and premeditated way, not to mention in the finals. I heard that the Providence Park Hotel where the Nets stayed in Portland was haunted. Yes, and invited the priest to exorcise the evil spirits.

Perhaps inspired by Portland fans, after the Trail Blazers came to the Hudson River House Hotel in Greenton Hills, the surfer-loving outlaw saw the Rutherford town on the forum. Legend has it that the hotel called Caesars Palace is haunted.

   The extrajudicial fanatic approached Liu Xiu to tell about this, and exclaimed happily: "Fortunately, our boss is generous, and we didn't go to that shabby hotel to live in, and I thought it was unclean."

   Liu Xiu asked strangely, "Aren't you afraid of anything?"

   The extrajudicial fanatic replied: "I am not afraid of anything, but I am afraid of ghosts!"

   Liu Xiu's eyes flickered, and then she asked, "Don't you dare to eat anything?"

   "Does this have anything to do with my fear of ghosts?"

   "You can see that the ghost eats the ghost?"

   "??????"

  Although I don’t know why, but being so troubled by the warden, the extrajudicial fanatics are not so afraid when they think of ghosts, and the idea of ​​how to become a boy who eats ghosts pops up in their minds...

   After the long journey, Liu Xiu and his teammates had a good night’s rest, and they didn’t rush to train the next morning. They only trained in a private indoor arena in Greenton Hills in the afternoon.

They don't think the rest is a waste of time, and they don't worry about the preparation progress being overtaken by the Nets. It's not that they believe that the Nets will continue to be chaotic. On the contrary, the Blazers coach is based on the Nets' ability Adjusting the preparations for the premise, it doesn’t matter even if you prepare for nothing. The Blazers coaching staff and management are willing to spend so much time resting because such rest is necessary, and the Nets have the same tight time. Because the two teams' planes flew from Portland to Jersey City.

   The downside for the Blazers is that they don't know what the Nets are going to do next.

   McGrady's greed for the FMVP, although the Nets collapsed in the first two games, also made it impossible for the Blazers to judge what adjustments the Nets would make.

  …

   After an afternoon of preparations for the battle, the two rest days passed just like that.

   On June 18th, the game day of the third game of the finals between the Blazers and the Nets arrived.

   One more win, and the Blazers will be locked in the championship, and they are now full of momentum!

  The commentators of major TV stations, based on the unstable factor of McGrady in the Nets and the performance of the two teams in the first two games, all believed that the Nets would repeat the tragedy three years ago-the finals were swept away.

   Today’s home atmosphere at the Nets’ home court at Luhang Arena is not strong, and it can’t compare to the atmosphere at the Rose Garden Arena on the first two game days!

   At 6:10 in the evening, when the Blazers entered the court first, there were even cheers!

   In the finals, thousands of Blazers fans actually bought tickets for away games!

Yesterday, someone broke the news on the Internet that outside the Luhang Arena, many fans who bought G3 tickets for the finals were reselling tickets, most of which were not scalpers, because scalpers were collecting tickets and selling them to Trail Blazers fans who came to travel. .

In the years since Kidd joined the Nets, he has actually built a certain fan base for the Nets. This year, he reached the finals again. The enthusiasm of the fans was particularly high. If he can win the championship, Kidd's dream in the Nets said. Maybe it really does, really helps the Nets lay a foundation in this city, this state, and become the founder of the Nets' fan base in this city.

But the Nets lost the first two games, and they lost so badly. The fans who had hope for this team because of Kidd were shattered. They were slaughtered by O'Neal three years ago and smashed by Duncan two years ago. Shadow strikes again...

   So there is a strange scene where the Trail Blazers can still hear cheers on the road in the finals.

   When the Nets playing at home came out, the cheers of the fans on the scene were not so high.

  At 6:30 in the evening, the Blazers' away game against the Nets started.

The imposing Trail Blazers started off very unrestrainedly. After Kwame Brown won the jump ball, the Trail Blazers launched the opening fast break. The Nets did a very good job in blocking and defense. , Kwame Brown's impact was blocked, but Liu Xiu caught the ball on the left side of the free throw line and made a pull-up jumper...

   Missed!

  Kwame Brown rushed inside and jumped high, smashing the ball into the basket through Mourning's dunk!

   Kwame Brown, who made up for the dunk, pushed the Blazers' already high morale to the limit! In the first half of the first quarter, with this momentum, the Trail Blazers showed the dominance of the previous game on both ends of the offense and defense, hitting 6 minutes and 22 seconds in the first quarter, with Liu Xiu cutting in to catch the ball and hit a low-hand layup. , the score was 17 to 10, and the Trail Blazers had a 7-point lead, stopping the Nets!

   Unrestrained and wanton, the Blazers had the advantage in this half-quarter, and the Nets were powerless to resist.

   However, in the first half of the game, the coach had issued a warning to Maurice Cheeks, and the players worked too hard.

There is nothing wrong with playing hard, but you have to learn how to hold back your energy and not be able to rush. Just like many rookies have good physical strength, but the continuity is not enough, because rookies do not understand how to distribute physical strength in adult basketball, even if it is Kobe's kind of physical monster, you let him throw 50 times a game... It's not impossible to throw, but he can't always maintain the best shape for these 50 throws, even if he was in very good shape that night.

   And being too **** offense will have an impact on defense, and vice versa.

   (end of this chapter)