Healing Basketball

   Chapter 585 585. The Devil in the Heart of Agent Zero

   On December 15, 2005, at 7:00 am, Liu Xiu thought it was a memorable time.

   When he woke up in the morning, he received such a series of prompts.

   "Congratulations to the host, the three-point shooting rating has been increased from 80 to 81."

   "Congratulations to the host, the shot after the dribble has increased from 84 to 85, reaching a first-class level."

   "Congratulations to the host, the application of post-up singles skills has been increased from 74 to 75."

   "Congratulations to the host for accumulating through the actual combat, and the comprehensive ability evaluation has been improved from 89 to 90."

   "Because the host's comprehensive ability evaluation has reached the top level, congratulations to the host for obtaining 1 quota to unlock talent."

   "Name: Liu Xiu, English name: Jess.

   Age: 23 (February 17, 1982)

  Net height: 188 cm, arm span 203 cm, weight: 100 kg.

   Team: Portland Trail Blazers.

   Ability Rating: 90.

   Athletics: Speed ​​94 (burst acceleration 82), strength 94 (burst strength 79), bounce 90 (bullet speed 79), flexibility 94, stamina 92.

  Basic skills: 81 three-pointers, 88 mid-range shots, 94 layups, 93 ball control, 89 passing, 84 turning, 80 stepping, 79 turning over, 84 emergency stop…

Skills: 90 in the low post, 64 in the high post, 85 shots off the dribble, 85 layups on the go, 72 European steps, 74 fallback jumpers, 87 rhythm breakthroughs, 84 forwards, 79 pull-ups , 70 for emergency stop catch and shoot, 75 for post-up skills, 69 for pick-and-roll with the ball, 69 for pick-and-roll skills…”

   Last night, I arranged a simulation training of shooting basic skills for less than two hours. When I woke up, my comprehensive ability evaluation broke through, which was an absolute surprise!

   But after the surprise, I looked at the vacated talent quota, and looked at the empty talent fragment.

   Egg pain is no less than a surprise!

   Asking how much you can worry about is like a group of eunuchs going to the brothel.

  The progress so far this season can be felt by himself, and he can also 'see' it.

   The ball-holding pick-and-roll and pick-and-roll application technology has been infinitely close to a good level. Counting the preseason, it has been improving in the past 30 games.

   The application skills of post-up singles have also come to a good upstream. There is a slight improvement in the pull-up jump shot, the shooting after dribbling has improved significantly, and the rhythm flow breakthrough has also improved greatly.

  Although I haven't officially learned off-ball movement from Ray Allen, but with such a master of off-ball movement, as long as you have the heart, you can make some progress when training and playing together.

   has finally reached the top level, and it is still the top level calculated by the system purely based on three indicators. The performance of the golf course is more than that!

  …

  At noon, the 'Rose Bay Prison' flew back to Portland.

  The teammates could obviously feel that the warden was in a good mood today. They all thought it was because of the butcher's excellent performance last night. Randolph himself was very happy.

  The leading stars inside and outside the team are happy, and the atmosphere of the teammates is much better than the previous one-win-one-loss stage.

   Liu Xiu looked at the next match schedule in the team manual. This away trip is only one game, followed by 5 consecutive home games. There will be away games after the Christmas battle.

  Randolph leaned next to Liu Xiu: "This schedule is awesome. It has been adjusted for 5 consecutive home games to welcome the mid-season."

   Liu Xiu replied: "Yes, with such a good schedule, don't hold back any longer."

  Randolph was furious: "Who is holding back?"

   The corners of Liu Xiu's mouth were upturned, with three points of contempt, three points of ridicule, and four points of indifference, so angry that Randolph didn't want it.

   did not continue to tease the butcher's little heart, and now his warden is a top-level player.

  Look at the butcher, he is not in the best condition yet. The comprehensive ability evaluation of only 88 is quite different from the ability evaluation of 91 last season.

   As a mature warden, a small wave of healing is enough.

   After returning to Portland and resting for a night, the Trail Blazers ushered in a back-to-back again, and the Wizards and SuperSonics attacked one after another!

  At 7 p.m. on the 17th, the game between the Blazers and the Wizards started.

  Arenas is aggressive, and with the help of Jamison and Peja, he once again launched a triangular offensive!

   In 37 minutes of playing time, Arenas made 11 of 21 shots, including 3 of 8 three-pointers, plus 4 of 5 free throws, hurricane 29 points and 16 assists.

   In addition to Jamison's 17 points and Peja's 24 points, the Wizards three Musketeers scored 70 points and led the team to 112 points in a single game!

For the Blazers, Randolph continued to come off the bench tonight, scoring 14 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists on 5 of 9 shots.

  Ray Allen made 5 of 8 shots with 12 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists.

  Rahim 9 points, Momoko 7 points and 6 assists, Kwame Brown 11 points and 7 assists, Outlaws 10 points, McDyess 9 points, Mourning 5 points...

   In addition, Liu Xiu made 16 of 26 shots, including 1 of 4 three-pointers, and 7 of 7 free throws with 40 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 3 steals. The Blazers scored 117 points in a single game!

  117 to 112, the Trail Blazers narrowly beat the Wizards by 5 points, improving the record to 18 wins and 5 losses, continuing to bite the Spurs and tied for the first place in the Western Conference!

  After the game, in a bathroom near the locker room of the visiting team in the Rose Garden Arena, a staff member who passed by heard crying and thought it was haunted in the middle of the night.

   Arenas almost knelt on the court and cried when Ray Allen responded to Liu Xiu's pass and scored a key three-pointer.

   Tonight, he changed his style of play, playing more team and more difficult to defend. At the same time, he participated more actively in the team's defense, and conducted a more targeted defense against Liu Xiu's organization offense.

   He set a new personal record for assists in a single game tonight, with 16 assists, which can be said to be the best game he played this season.

   But Liu Xiu seized the breakthrough gap revealed by their Wizards defense team when they were attacking, and broke through again and again to the inside line to score points, like the inside line as a back garden, and scored 40 points!

   This is Liu Xiu's first single-game 40+ of the new season, and he got it on his No. 0 agent!

   Arenas thinks the game is not like this!

Isn't the    warden a traditional organizational point guard? Isn't the level of selflessness comparable to Nash and Kidd? How can you cast like that?

  The image of the devil in Arenas' mind has already taken shape, and looking at the outline, I think it's a bit handsome...

  …

   Liu Xiu doesn't know why, but when he played against the Wizards, he was in good shape. That feeling was as comfortable as when he played against Nash when he was replicated to a full blood 'technical flow'.

   He felt that he might have obtained the title of Great General. When he met the original Great General, he should be in good shape.

  Although he has experienced some pains, the negative impact of Randolph's injury and comeback has almost gotten over.

   On the second day, in the morning of the second back-to-back game, Liu Xiu asked the coaching staff to chat about Randolph's return to the starting position.

  Although Randolph didn't take the initiative to say it, he could see that he was a little restless.

   Mainly when Randolph quickly found the feeling of the game and reintegrated into the team's offense and defense positively, Raheem really couldn't compete with Randolph.

  Randolph is not in his best form now, he is already stronger than Raheem in his best form.

   The vice president and Huo Tu were also worried that Randolph would lose his temper, and suggested that Randolph could be brought back to the starting position.

   But the coach said to wait first, to grind Randolph's restlessness, and Randolph was angry and asked Randolph to find him.

  At the team meeting stage in the afternoon, after the coach announced that the starting power forward was still Raheem tonight, Randolph was very angry, but he didn't really lose his temper.

After the meeting, Liu Xiu found Randolph and asked, "It's strange, you didn't make a fuss about asking the coach to give you the starting position?"

Randolph responded with a lifeless expression: "Didn't I tell you? Our head coach has nothing else but a tough personality. Paul Allen yelled to fire him and let him freeze Wells. He doesn't agree, let alone me?"

   Liu Xiu remembered that this time the year before last, he also asked similar questions, that is, everyone in the Randolph team dared to fight, only when talking to the coach was the most polite.

   Thinking about the scribbled appearance of the coach and the style of salted fish, he is completely out of tune!

   If you don't understand Liu Xiu, you don't want to, anyway, knowing that the coach can control the butcher, that's fine, he doesn't need to work hard.

  …

  At 8 p.m., the Blazers faced back-to-back challenges from the Sonics at home.

  Ray Allen is gone, and Lewis and Howard Schultz are very unhappy because of the issue of extension, and threatened to let the Sonics trade him.

Radmanovic had long been in trouble with the SuperSonics management and signed a one-year, $3.17 million qualifying contract with the Sonics. He even refused the Sonics to trade him to the Bobcats and waited. After this season, he became a free agent.

   All three of last season's top scorers were like that, and the Sonics are in a mess right now.

The three teams of   Sonics, Hornets and Timberwolves are fighting for the last place in the Western Conference.

   The Wizards are really the experience treasure of the Trail Blazers. The Trail Blazers’ offensive rhythm was chaotic in the first few games, and they were adjusted back after playing against the Wizards.

   Tonight Liu Xiu made 9 of 14 shots, including 3 of 4 three-pointers, plus 4 of 4 free throws to get 25 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists.

  Ray Allen didn't change because of playing his old team. Randolph came back, and he returned to the third scoring position, scoring 16 points on 5-of-12 shooting tonight.

   Randolph, who came off the bench, scored 18 points and 8 rebounds on 7 of 15 shots.

   In addition to the game-high 27 points of Momoko and Raheem's 11 points, the Trail Blazers scored in double figures and beat the Sonics 111-99, improving their record to 19-5!

  …

Just when Liu Xiu was happy that he had tightened his grip on the Spurs and did not lose the No. 1 spot in the Western Conference, he learned in an interview after the game that the Pistons had won 9 consecutive victories, and their record had improved to 20 wins and 4 losses, becoming the best player in the game. First team to win 20 games of the season.

   That is to say, since the last loss to the Trail Blazers last month, the Pistons are now undefeated!

   The record of 20 wins and 4 losses also broke the record of the Pistons' fastest 20 wins in team history. The Pistons started the 1988-1989 season with 20 wins and 5 losses. That year, the Pistons finally won the regular season championship with 63 wins.

   The record of the Pistons is 65+ wins!

   Thinking about it, if they and the Pistons really came to the end, it would really be a tingling thing.

  Who wants to play a series with a team like the Pistons!

   But, if I can play against Yao Ming on the highest stage...

   On the second day, on December 18, the Pistons, who had won their 9-game winning streak, announced two things.

   One is to sign, Lynch Hunter, who was injured for two months, returned, and finally chose to return to his old club.

   As soon as this news came out, many people ridiculed that Lynch Hunter was going to cross the team for two consecutive championships.

   Another news is the trade. The Pistons ate the remaining two years of Dale Davis’s $7 million contract and received a future second-round pick from the Pacers as compensation.

The Pacers spent two years and 7 million in the offseason to keep Dale Davis, but without Reggie Miller's reconciliation, Dale Davis had conflicts with his teammates every three days, and was dissatisfied with Carlisle's lack of reconciliation. Give a decision on playing time.

For such a thorny player, still a 36-year-old veteran, the salary is not low, and no team is willing to take over. In the end, the Pistons used Derek Coleman and Alex Allen to guarantee the contract to Dell. - Davis ate, reinforced the inside bench, and got draft rights.

Liu Xiu complained to the point guard teammates next to him when he learned about the Pistons' reinforcements: "Is there something wrong with the Pacers? Can't they just buy it out or let Dell go home to rest? Have to send it to the Pistons? They Didn't know the Pistons were their biggest championship contender in the East?"

   Momonga nodded in agreement, and followed suit.

   There were not many training arrangements this afternoon. Liu Xiu, Momo, Payton, and Blake got together after training to discuss tactical issues. Randolph ran to talk about the Pistons' trade and signing.

   Peyton and Blake felt inexplicably mad when they heard Liu Xiu and Momoko.

  Buyout without money? The Pacers' operation looks like an obvious attempt to pay a little less luxury tax!

   And buying out Dale Davis won't go to the Pistons?

However, in Payton's view, they also think that the Pistons are a good fit for Dale Davis. Dale Davis' biggest flaw, which is character problems, is not a problem when it comes to the Bad Boys, just like when they were in prison. The same as the team.

  …

   After a day off, on December 19th, the Blazers ushered in the Grizzlies, the third opponent of the 5th consecutive home team.

   The Grizzlies are currently 12 wins and 13 losses, and they can't go up, not bad.

  Head coach Mike Floyd's long-cherished point guard reinforcement candidate is here, Chucky Atkins, who averaged 14 points and 4 assists per game in the Lakers' peak performance last year!

Relying on last season's performance, Atkins got a four-year, $14 million long-term contract in the offseason. He scored 6.6 points and 2.5 assists in the Hornets' first 18 games, shooting 37% from the field. Everything went back to the way it was before going to the Lakers.

Although Atkins' performance was much better than before after coming to the Grizzlies. In a stable system, he averaged 10 points and 4 assists per game, but he was only a backup point guard. Grizzlies starter...Gasol felt what Kobe felt.

   At 8 p.m., the Blazers vs. the Grizzlies kicked off.

   Relying on Ray Allen's 10 points and 1 assist and Liu Xiu's 6 points and 4 assists in the first quarter, the Blazers led the Grizzlies by 8 points 31-23.

   In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers dominated the defense and scored 20-15 in a single quarter, leading the Grizzlies 51-38 at halftime by 13 points.

In the third quarter, Battier made 3 of 5 three-pointers, driving Gasol's performance. Gasol scored 10 points and 3 assists in a single quarter. The two led the team to score 35 points in a single quarter and beat the Blazers. The team was caught off guard.

   Fortunately, the Blazers had confidence in themselves and played steadily. They scored 28 points in a single quarter and were not overwhelmed by the Grizzlies. After three quarters, the Blazers still led the Grizzlies by 6 points 79-73.

At the end of the quarter, the Blazers regained the initiative. Although the Grizzlies continued part of the third quarter's state in the end, and the shooting feel was good, the Blazers defense did a better job, the offensive end was solid, and they scored 26 games. 24 score.

  Ray Allen scored 22 points, Liu Xiu scored 20 points, 4 rebounds and 13 assists, and Randolph scored 20 points and 13 rebounds off the bench.

Kwame Brown was miserable tonight. He was abused by Gasol on both ends of the offense and defense. Gasol scored 28 points, 7 assists and 4 blocks. He also scored 1 of 7 shots and scored only 2 points. The second offense was still blocked, but he had 10 rebounds, and together with Randolph, Gasol had only 6 rebounds! 2 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, and the overall performance in 27 minutes of playing time is OK.

   With the whole team working together, the Blazers held on to the Grizzlies' counterattack and beat the Grizzlies 105-97, becoming the third team to win 20 after the Pistons and Spurs!

   Everyone can see the problem of the Grizzlies' point guard position. After the game, a reporter from Time Warner Cable Sports' state broadcast asked Liu Xiu about this matter.

  Unexpectedly, the broad-minded warden replied: "If they hadn't replaced Wells with me, they would have become the favorite to win the championship.

Eh? What about Wells? Why didn't I see him tonight? Oh! I remembered.

   The Grizzlies gave Wells to the Kings for free in order to save money, which is a shame, I remember that after I came to Portland, our team’s revenue growth was higher than the Grizzlies’ total salary this year…”

   (end of this chapter)