Healing Basketball

   Chapter 557

  What a cheap hand! I couldn't resist the urge to copy the beast. Fortunately, I can cancel the copy. Although I can't choose another opponent, it doesn't have such an outrageous negative bonus.

  Forget it, playing the Magic team, it doesn’t matter if you have one less talent, isn’t it Ray Allen’s ‘marksman’.

After    walked onto the court, Liu Xiu felt that someone was staring at him, and swept around, it was a beast! It's just, how come the beast's eyes are so hungry?

On the other side, Howard is so sad and angry. Just now, Liu Xiu came to their bench and Hill was injured. He believed that he was the new boss of the Magic team and reached out to say hello to Liu Xiu, but Liu Xiu ignored his hand and went straight to Hill. Chatting and laughing with Hill.

   Now he is not unhappy, but angry and unhappy!

   However, when Howard took his eyes away from Liu Xiu and concentrated on walking to the middle circle, it was his turn to feel the hostile eyes.

   Parallel import champion Kwame Brown!

   The image of being targeted by the Blazers' insider group last season emerged. Howard flashed a hint of timidity, but then turned into anger.

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  The strongest high school center in history!

   actually feel scared when facing a parallel importer!

   At 5 o'clock in the evening, the referee blew the whistle to start the game, Howard beat Kwame Brown to win the jump ball, and the Magic took the lead.

   Nelson received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, Liu Xiu guarded the top arc.

   "Jamil Nelson, 23 years old, 183 cm, 91 kg, PG, ability rating 78, offense 84, defense 69, three-pointer 79, mid-range shot 81, layup 91, speed 88, strength 87..."

  Nelson in the second year, Liu Xiu seems to see himself in his rookie year, strong, but not fast, but his explosive acceleration is stronger than him, mainly because his skills are more comprehensive than he was at that time.

   In the first few games of the new season, Nelson and Barty played well in pick-and-roll offense, and Liu Xiu was careful.

   But Barty didn't pull out, Nelson passed the ball!

  Liu Xiu turned his head and saw that Barty opened to the middle distance on the right bottom line, and Howard caught the ball low on the left side of the basket and played Kwame Brown on the back!

  Howard slammed into Kwame Brown fiercely. Kwame Brown’s heels were on the floor, but Howard, who hit him, slid half a step out.

  "..." Liu Xiu was speechless for a moment, seeing Howard's expression a little confused, he quickly shouted "Kwame, I'll help you", and then double-teamed up to Howard.

Hearing this, Howard suddenly forgot about the fact that he just couldn't hit it. When he saw Liu Xiu attacking him, he was inexplicably excited about 'I was double-teamed in singles', and continued to attack, struggling to move towards Kwame- Brown collided, and this time Kwame Brown stepped back a little, but this little distance could not achieve the effect of getting close to the basket at all.

Seeing that Liu Xiu had already attacked, Howard's heart slammed, and he jumped up on the spot, and he was about to dunk across Kwame Brown... "Crack"... Kwame Brown slapped the ball cleanly without touching it at all. Hands to Howard dunk!

   Liu Xiu grabbed the rebound. He trusted Kwame Brown very much in this ball. He decided that it was either blocking the rebound or hitting the iron one.

After    won the rebound, Liu Xiu immediately counterattacked.

  Howard immediately chased after Liu Xiu, but he stopped as soon as he crossed the three-point line.

   Seeing that Liu Xiu was one circle bigger than Nelson, he kept increasing the distance between him and Nelson. Howard scolded the street. This is so unreasonable!

   Watching Liu Xiu go straight to the opposite basket and hit a layup, and turning his head to look at Kwame Brown, who was beating his chest and roaring with saliva, Howard was extremely annoyed.

   It was still the Magic attacking. Nelson advanced to the frontcourt and saw Howard going low for the ball again. This time he hesitated.

   Didn't notice it last round, and now he finds that Howard can't squeeze Kwame Brown at all!

  The Magic started with 2 wins and 2 losses, a very good performance. In the past 4 games, Howard had many very domineering inside attacks, which made his teammates have the illusion that he was very powerful.

   But now playing against Kwame Brown, only to find that the interior defense encountered in the first 4 games was too poor.

   Magloire of the Bucks, Pachulia of the Hawks, Murphy of the Warriors, and Bynum, a 17-year-old rookie of the Rockets, when Howard played these centers, he didn't want to play opposite.

   Now against Kwame Brown... Nelson took a closer look. Howard's arms, shoulders and back seem to be stronger than Kwame Brown, but his lower limbs are much weaker!

   And Kwame Brown's upper body is not weak. He has a very balanced upper and lower body. When he was drafted, he was evaluated as a talented insider with no shortcomings in physical fitness. He is competent for both positions in the inside.

  To say what is wrong with this evaluation, then only the NBA does not want to measure the size of the palm...

   But Howard had already sat down to ask for the ball, Nelson hesitated and passed the ball.

  Howard still couldn't hit him this time, but he didn't get blocked directly when he made a strong shot. Needless to say, the lever is still pretty good, but the hard shot is strong...it's iron again!

  Randolph retracted from the bottom line on the right, grabbed a defensive rebound and passed it to Liu Xiu, who counterattacked...

   Good guy, Nelson and Turkoglu have retreated to the middle circle!

   Liu Xiu didn't press the speed, but pushed forward quickly.

  The adjustment of the team system, change the bad ones, and naturally keep the good ones.

   They control the rhythm transition very well, mainly because Liu Xiu, the person who controls the rhythm, can control the rhythm and lead his teammates, and this is retained.

   fell into positional warfare.

   "Zach, teach him what a low post is!" After Liu Xiu finished speaking, he hoisted the ball to Randolph, who was leaning against Howard in the low post on the right side of the three-second zone.

  Randolph was shocked immediately, hammering high school students!

  Randolph played very hard. After turning his back and entering the basket, he slammed away Howard with his explosive force and made a jumping layup!

   "This is a low post attack!" Randolph spit and threw a trash talk to retreat.

   Actually Randolph was thinking - 'Mom, these high school students are so perverted, this guy will turn 20 next month? If you don't bully them well in the past two years, they won't stop bullying! ’

   Although Randolph was puzzled by Howard's offensive run and the league's top low-post defensive insider singled out, Randolph was surprised by Howard's defensive progress.

   Playing Howard last year, he didn't need to move one step, how easy it was to score, this year, he has to be very serious.

   Offense and defense transition, the Magic attack.

   Nelson advanced over the half and passed to Turkoglu who wanted the ball from the top.

   Nelson borrowed Barty to cover the flank, received Turkoglu's top arc to respond to the ball, and hit a high throw shot!

   This card is beautifully dealt! Very simple style of play, purely relying on the timing of the supporting players!

   Turkoglu finally got a chance to show his talent this year.

   Liu Xiu noticed a detail. Howard wanted to play singles just now, but Turkoglu wanted the ball. Howard did not continue to ask for the ball, but moved to the right side of the three-second zone and maintained a rushing attitude.

   From this detail, Liu Xiu thinks it makes sense for Howard to succeed. This high school student has many flaws in his character, but he is not lacking in basketball talent and hard work.

However, Liu Xiu's focus is not on Howard. Howard is similar to Kenyon Martin. When he encounters a thinner opponent than him, he looks extremely fierce in singles, but when he encounters a bumper than him, he becomes pure. Blue-collar, and Howard has no pick-and-roll ability, the offensive end is not as good as Kenyon Martin.

  Howard is quite good at rushing and grabbing offensive rebounds, but the Trail Blazers are a strong team in the interior, and they are among the best in the league in defensive rebounding protection.

When the freshness of animal cruelty passed, Howard was just a young top sports center to the Blazers. Now he can't defend Randolph and Rahim alone, and assist Liu in defense. Xiu and Momonga can also deal with it more easily...

What really threatened the Blazers was the pick-and-roll combination of Tegklu and Nelson and Barty. The three of them, with a wing shooter, plus Howard's rushing and pie-eating threats, the team's offense played quite well. good.

  The Magic team on the defensive end is also remarkable. It can be seen from the awareness and enthusiasm of Nelson and Turkoglu when Howard missed the second storm just now. Their defensive discipline is really good.

  Compared to last season, the Magic has indeed undergone qualitative changes, which comes from their new head coach, Brian Hill.

   The most successful stage of this coach's career was when he cultivated O'Neal more than ten years ago. Now that the Magic team has a good center seedling, they have brought him back to coach. The ability to build a team around the center is really good.

   The Trail Blazers scored 27 points in the first quarter, and the Magic team at home was not far behind, scoring 23 points. After Howard no longer played singles, the Magic team and the Trail Blazers were tied!

   Turkoglu had 5 points and 2 assists, and Nelson had 8 points and 2 assists, and performed quite well.

In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers took the lead. Liu Xiu first ran off the ball to receive a pass from Blake and scored two long points on the right side of the three-second zone, and then cut and received the ball for two consecutive rounds, resulting in fouls and 4 free throws. , played a wave of 6-0, and relied on personal threats in the back to help Rahim, who came off the bench, score 8 points and Momoko with 6 points. After the whole quarter, the Blazers soared 29 points.

   However, the Magic started low and walked high. They only scored 10 points in the first half of the second quarter, but soared to 18 points in the second half, losing only 1 point to the Trail Blazers in a single quarter.

After halftime, the Blazers led the Magic 56-51 by 4 points and entered halftime.

Liu Xiu scored 4 points and 1 assist in the first quarter, and 10 points and 3 assists in the second quarter. After 19 minutes in the half, he scored 14 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal. He performed quite well. Turkoglu on the Magic team played well. It's also very good, with 7 points and 6 assists in the half.

   Turkoglu had 4 assists in a single quarter in the second quarter, and organized the Magic's offense in an orderly manner, which attracted the attention of the Blazers coaching staff!

   It can be seen that this playmaking frontline swingman relies a lot on the pitcher to organize the offense and on the individual movement of the players, but the Magic have all these!

   (end of this chapter)