Healing Basketball

   Chapter 52 52. Coaches bet

After the game against the Warriors, the Blazers returned to Portland and got a two-day break.

   Liu Xiu looked forward to it for two days. On October 24, the Blazers played against the Warriors again, this time at home.

   Little General Avery Johnson and Mad Van Exel saw Liu Xiu's expectant expression and wanted to hit someone!

   However, this guy in front of him, even O'Neal dares to hug and throw and can really hug and throw!

   Not to mention anything else, the two of them thought of the feeling of being beaten by Liu Xiu in the back, the feeling that they couldn't hold back...

And this rookie is a thief. When he hits others, he just doesn't back. The Warriors make a substitution to guard the rookie. Well...they always go back to defend Liu Xiu, and then they're just sitting and beating!

   Tonight Liu Xiu played 26 minutes and scored 16 points, and another 10 points were scored on Avery Johnson and Van Exel.

   At other times, he shot most of the time just to see if there was a chance and if he had to throw it, but when playing these two, if it was not restricted by the rules, he really wanted to hit the basket from beyond the three-point line...

With 16 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, Liu Xiu's personal performance was good, and the assists were also good, helping the Blazers beat the Warriors 104-90 again, improving the preseason record to 5 wins and 1 loss, with one game left. Played, the day after tomorrow, on October 26, against the Nuggets at home.

  …

On the night of   's victory over the Warriors again at home, the Rose Garden Arena was brightly lit, and the coaches were still working overtime in the early morning. Because of the security environment in Portland after the Internet bubble, the coaches had already made plans to stay overnight.

  There is also a lounge for them to sleep in. The air conditioner is on, so they are not afraid of the cold.

  Morris-Cheeks was working very seriously at this time, and it was impossible to connect him with his usual appearance without looking at his unshaven face.

  Maurice-Cheeks flipped through the information in front of him and asked, "Kevin, don't you have any training camp contract players who can stay?"

  Kevin Pritchard shook his head.

   The players who are really fancy, people are willing to come to the training camp, the Blazers directly gave some guaranteed contracts, and they can get the basic salary level salary for a few or a dozen games even if the opponent is laid off.

  Real training camp contract players are really just scratching the lottery.

   And it was the lottery after two waves of scratches after going through the draft and the summer league.

  It’s normal that you can’t pick out those who want to stay.

   In this way, it means that they currently only have 14 players with contracts, of which 12 are guaranteed contracts and 2 are partially guaranteed contracts.

   There is no shortage of people. There are only 12 people on the active list, that is, only 12 players can play in a game.

   This topic was skipped, and Kevin Plitcha began to report on behalf of the assistant coaches the preseason performance of the 14 players they summarized, and others filled the gaps.

Like last season, most of their players worked hard in the summer, and the young people made some progress. The improvement seen in the training camp stage was actually greater. In the preseason stage, some people's progress failed to show. Out, or because of personality reasons, or the tactics are not suitable, or the relationship with teammates...etc.

  The players on their Blazers team are absolutely excellent, otherwise they would not have been able to get 49 wins and 50 wins respectively under the situation that the contradictions within the team have been intensifying in the past two years.

  Randolph is too lazy to die in the summer. He has a certain amount of training, but it is definitely not called hard work, he is just harder than Liu Xiu...

  Randolph has improved, as expected, but not a surprise.

  Rashid Wallace, the veteran star, is still the same, very good, but there is no surprise.

   Dale Davis, as a 30-something veteran, can slow down the decline, which is not bad...

   Every old player is the same, very good, but no one shines.

   There are only three rookies left.

   "Travis, he is a very gentle person. He is in good physical condition, works hard, and is willing to learn, but his learning ability is mediocre.

  Kevin Plitcha said a little helplessly.

  The preseason gave Travis Outlaw an average of 20 minutes per game, but his performance did not meet expectations, but his physical talent and willingness to work hard are what a coach likes.

  These conditions are combined, and Kevin Plitter feels helpless.

   Matt Carroll, an undrafted rookie, was rated quite high.

Not in the draft, part of the guaranteed contract, it’s not easy to use, just cut it directly, I can’t say that I don’t have too high expectations, he can go up and score two goals when no one is using it, thank God, under normal circumstances, no coach wants to need it Appears when some guaranteed contract players are used.

   There is the last rookie left, and Kevin Plitcha put it at the end. As soon as he took out his information, his face was full of helplessness.

  Morris-Cheeks was delighted to see this and smiled: "Go on, Kevin."

   Kevin Plitcha rolled his eyes and said, "This preseason, our players, the one who impressed me the most, was Jayce."

  Maurice Cheeks nodded. Even if he had high expectations for Liu Xiu, he never thought that the player who impressed them the most in the preseason was actually this rookie.

   They did pay some attention to Liu Xiu, but it was not Liu Xiu that paid the most attention.

   In the summer league, they must attach the most importance to Liu Xiu, the 13th overall pick in the first round, but in the training camp and preseason, Liu Xiu is only one of them, and the pick is also in the middle.

   "He is very smart and won't do things he is not good at. He will respond calmly to his opponent's provocation, and is very good at provoking others..."

   As soon as Kevin Plitcha said this, all the coaches present nodded.

   Forget about his opponents, everyone in his own team, including the coach, felt that this rookie was too bad.

"He's got great court choices, great leadership, he's a good fit for our team, and if his teammates aren't good enough, he's probably just a normal functional player, but on our team, he can get into the heat of the game. Time to be that cool leader on the pitch."

   "The best thing about Jess is not his talent, not his leadership, not his coolness, but the super adaptability of his strong body.

   He is absolutely true to any point guard, he can have an excellent confrontation at the shooting guard position, and he can even compete with many small forwards…”

  The height of most NBA point guards is between 183 and 191 cm, and most of them weigh between 80 and 88 kg.

   Most of the shooting guards are between 191 cm and 200 cm in height, and most of them weigh between 90 and 95 kg.

   Small forwards are mostly between 196 and 203 cm tall and weigh between 95 and 105 kg.

   Through Liu Xiu's height and weight ratio, plus the actual situation in the game, Kevin Plitcha came to this conclusion.

  Morris-Cheeks listened to it for a long time, good guy, it turns out that the rookie he chose has so many advantages!

Although Liu Xiu is the player who impressed him the most in this preseason... This impression is not about how good his performance is or how good the data is. The best data is Damon Stoudemire. The average per game 20 points, but from the coach's perspective, Liu Xiu left the deepest impression on him, but he did not expect to have so many advantages.

After continuing to talk about some advantages, Kevin Plitcha changed his conversation: "Compared to these advantages, Jayce has many fatal shortcomings, the first is his level of effort, he is not the same as the word effort. It's too lazy!"

   Saying that, Kevin Pritt slapped the table with a 'bang', which startled his colleagues!

  Maurice Cheeks knows why Kevin Pritchard is out of control - they have seen Liu Xiu's learning speed with their own eyes, such a brutal learning ability, they don't train!

Seeing Kevin Plitter's fluff, Maurice Cheeks said quickly: "Recently Jayce has been very actively involved in basic skills and defense training, you should know that? He will find Derry almost every morning. Ke learns basic skills, and learns defense from Dell every afternoon..."

   "He's going to learn defense? He's going to a bar with Dale! I haven't seen him learn what he has learned this month!"

  Liu Xiu, whose learning talent exploded but was too lazy to die, has made his team's chief assistant emotionally devastated in the past month of getting along day and night...

Seeing that his friend and best partner was furious, Maurice Chiksford said with a heart: "I think he will surprise us next, I saw him in the preseason games. Before the summer league, he did not. Although he did a poor job of making up defenses and assisting defenses, but he started doing it, I thought he could do it... why don't we make a bet?"

"Just bet, I think he went to Dell to drink and didn't do the right thing, or he didn't have the talent to learn defense, yes, that was an accident! He didn't have talent!" Kevin Pritt Chayue said The more angry, he said something he didn't believe.

  But man, this one can't stop: "Give him a month, no, two months, if he can develop a passable point guard defense before Christmas, I'll...I'll..."

   Seeing his friend, Maurice Cheeks instigated decisively: "What do you do? Everyone listens, if you say you are going to die, you have to be a cow and a horse and become an animal..."

  Kevin Pritchard said decisively: "Then I'll give him my antique Porsche!"

   That vintage Porsche! Maurice-Cheeks was instantly refreshed... Wait, Maurice-Cheeks asked, "Send him?"

   "What? Is it possible to send you? Why?"

   "Uh...it's nothing, but you're really willing, everyone is listening."

   "Hey, two months, let alone that he doesn't necessarily have talent in this area. Even if he does, he can learn to defend in two months? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

  …

  …

   At 7 am, Liu Xiu woke up on time.

"Have performed 30 minutes of simulation training for comprehensive defense, supplementary defense and defense, 30 minutes of simulation training of basic shooting skills, 30 minutes of simulation training of basic skills of ball control, and 22 minutes of simulation training of basic skills of passing balls... 3633 healing points are needed to extract the simulation training results. Do you want to extract them? The remaining healing value is 3931."

   Of course I have to withdraw, I will play against Anthony tomorrow, I have to surprise the other party...

   But the other party may not be surprised, Anthony has always rated him very high.

   On the 23rd, it took half a month for Liu Xiu to finally learn all the training methods that Derek Anderson and Dale Davis needed to learn!

   At first, he felt that Derek Anderson spent 3,000 healing values ​​too expensive.

   As a result, I learned the training methods of supplementary defense and defense and some defensive concepts that can be understood by the professor from Davis, who can be selected as an All-Star by pure defense alone... A total of 8,000 healing points were spent.

   This is just a supplementary defense and a defense, not all of Dale Davis' defensive knowledge.

   Fortunately, he only needs this at this stage, and he has finally finished it!

   During this period of time, all the healing points he could loot... 'Fortunately, after two consecutive games against the Warriors, the healing value increased, otherwise it would not be enough! Yesterday was not enough until the Warriors... I offended the little general and Fan Lun to death... but it doesn't matter...'

   Liu Xiu first chose not to extract it, so he had to be prepared. Anyway, if the healing value is enough, he can extract it at any time.

   This system prompt disappeared, and another system prompt came.

"The preseason of the 2003-2004 season has come to an end, and the system will recalculate and determine the player detection report based on the actual performance of NBA players in the preseason combined with the ability to demonstrate in the training camp, which will be updated at 0:00 on October 26, 2003. …”

   Seeing this prompt, Liu Xiu was not surprised.

  ‘As I thought, the abilities displayed in the training camp are definitely different from those in the real competition…’

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   (end of this chapter)