Healing Basketball

  Chapter 637 637. Half of the battle

Mike James is not as good at organizing offense as Felton, but he has better scores and knows who to give the ball to, and his long-range shooting ability is much better than Felton. In the last 9 games, he averaged 45% shooting Scored 2.2 three-pointers.

  With his assistance, Bosh scored 8 points and 2 assists in a single quarter, Milicic scored 5 points and 3 rebounds, plus his 5 points and 1 assist... The Raptors scored 24 points in a single quarter.

  After the first quarter, the Raptors at home trailed the Trail Blazers by 3 points 24-27.

   Such a point difference is completely acceptable, and the progress of the game is better than the Raptors players expected. Such a first quarter has encouraged the Raptors players.

   In the second quarter, the mighty Raptors and Trail Blazers tied!

  The defense built around Milicic did quite well. Although Randolph scored 6 points in the second quarter, he only made 2 of 6 shots and 2 of 2 free throws to get 6 points.

In addition, he also defended well against wing players. Liu Xiu made 3 of 5 shots and 3 of 3 free throws to score 9 points. Kwame Brown was particularly motivated when he saw a talented center. Two deductions.

  Liu Xiu and Kwame Brown stood up and scored 13 points together, and the Trail Blazers barely scored 25 to 25 with the Raptors in a single quarter.

   In fact, the Raptors defended well, and the Trail Blazers did as well.

But the Raptors have players both inside and outside the line. The second-year big pitcher Matt Bonner scored 6 points on 2 of 2 three-pointers on the inside, and Jaylen Rose scored 5 points on 2 of 3 from the outside. A combined score of 11 points made the Trail Blazers dare not double-team easily, and the Raptors stabilized their scoring performance.

The score was 49 to 52 in the half, and the morale of the Raptors was even higher. In the third quarter, Bosh made 3 of 5 shots and 4 of 4 free throws to score 10 points. Although Milicic only made 1 of 3 shots, he only He scored 2 points and only had two rebounds, but he had 3 assists in a single quarter, which made the Raptors' offensive tactics run extremely smoothly! Coupled with Mike James' three-point runaway, 3 of 3 three-pointers in a single quarter, the Raptors scored 28 points in the third quarter!

The Trail Blazers' offense in the third quarter was not bad. Liu Xiu scored 6 points and 3 assists, Ray Allen and Randolph both scored 5 points, Little Flying Squirrel scored 6 points, and the outsider scored a corner three-pointer. Kwame Brown scored 2 points and 2 rebounds, and the team scored 27 points...but the Raptors narrowed the gap by 1 point.

   After three quarters, the Raptors trailed the Trail Blazers 77 to 79, and the point difference narrowed to two points!

  The Raptors saw the dawn of an upset! The whole team was very excited during the break, but when the final quarter started, they suffered a head-on blow...

Payton, Liu Xiu, Stevenson, Kwame Brown, and Mourning formed a hand-to-hand army. The Raptors made three consecutive turnovers at the end of the final quarter. Shi smashed the ball into the basket 2+1, played a wave of 7-0 alone, and stopped the Raptors.

  86 to 77, the Trail Blazers widened the point difference to 9 points!

  After returning from the timeout, the Raptors did not improve much. They played very hard in the first three quarters and consumed a lot of energy. They relied on morale and confidence to support themselves, so the problem was not too big. After all, a group of young players are motivated.

   But the momentum also depends on the situation. At this time, just thinking "I can do it" may not really work, especially when Sam Mitchell replaces Felton at this time to try...

  For rookies, people always have extra expectations, thinking that they have unlimited possibilities.

   Then, under the leadership of Felton, the Raptors scored 5 to 13 in the next 4 minutes.

   When entering the official timeout, the Trail Blazers led the Raptors 99 to 82, widening the point difference to 17 points!

   The Raptors made 3 consecutive turnovers more than a minute ago, and the Raptors made 3 more turnovers during Felton's playing time, and 6 turnovers in the half quarter!

  The Raptors made the first 3 turnovers, and Liu Xiu scored 7 points in a profit. During Felton's control, Liu Xiu scored another 7 points!

In the last half of the game, the Trail Blazers replaced Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, and Randolph, and played the remaining time with Little Flying Squirrel, Stevenson, Outlaws, Kwame Brown, and McDyess , there was no surprise, and the point difference became even bigger. Under the leadership of Little Flying Squirrel, the Trail Blazers scored 17 to 12.

  The Trail Blazers scored 37 to 17 in the final quarter! Beat the Raptors!

Liu Xiu made 11 of 19 shots, including 2 of 5 three-pointers and 9 of 11 free throws, scoring 33 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists; Randolph scored 22 points and 8 rebounds, and Ray Allen scored 18 points and 3 assists , Flying Squirrel 7 points and 8 assists, Kwame Brown made 5 of 9 shots and 5 of 5 free throws to get 15 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks...

   Relying on everyone's outstanding performance, the Trail Blazers slaughtered the Raptors 116 to 94, raising their record to 44 wins and 8 losses!

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  Opening her eyes, Liu Xiu saw the prompt indicating the simulated training results, and chose to extract.

  Last night, he only played 31 minutes. Although the score was tight in the first three quarters, he played very easily. He rested for 4 minutes in the first three quarters, and did not play in the last 5 minutes of the final quarter.

   After extracting the simulation training results of the basic shooting skills set last night, Liu Xiu got up and looked at his phone. It was 7 am on February 14th.

  I called the florist in Portland who had already paid for it. After confirming that the flowers before breakfast had been delivered to my girlfriend, daughter, mother, aunt, and sister, I got up to wash.

  During breakfast, when Liu Xiu talked about this with Ray Allen, the only teammate who got up for breakfast, Ray Allen said in surprise: "Does every girl in your family send flowers?"

   Liu Xiu responded: "That's right, this kind of thing needs a bowl of water, otherwise they will make a little awkwardness. My daughter knows she is jealous before she is two years old."

  Ray Allen suddenly realized: "No wonder my mother can't understand me at this time of year. I will order a bouquet of flowers for my mother later..."

After breakfast, Liu Xiu went back to her room to pack her luggage. Although most of her teammates stayed in bed and couldn’t get up for breakfast, most of them woke up after 8 o’clock to pack their luggage. They went to the airport with the team at 9 o’clock. Fly back to Portland.

  It’s a long holiday, most people want to go home early, and today is Valentine’s Day.

Of course there are exceptions, Randolph did not get up, this standard celibate does not have the concept of 'home', according to him, a few days before the All-Star weekend, as a wanderer, he needs to enjoy being homeless a feeling of.

   How could Valentine's Day hang from a tree for Randolph? Tonight, I have to enjoy the icy and snowy happiness that Little Momonga said in the northern border.

Regarding Randolph's private life, Liu Xiu has knowledge, but she will not say whether her opinion is good or bad. Teammates like Dove.

  (end of this chapter)