Healing Basketball

  Chapter 673 673. Defeat the Knights!

   Damon Jones lost his balance and fell to the floor. James hadn't realized what happened.

  Although Kwame Brown was shocked by the scene in front of him, he was not the one who was hammered. He reacted first, rushed towards the ball, and grabbed the ball before Larry Hughes rushed over.

   Larry Hughes tried to rush, Kwame Brown imitated the boss and pushed his **** sideways to separate Larry Hughes, stretched the ball to the other side, and was snatched as soon as he stretched out the ball!

   Kwame Brown was taken aback, thinking it was James or Damon Jones... only to see the warden flying the dribble and rushing towards the opposite side.

  The fans booed violently again, Liu Xiu rushed across the center line, and the Trail Blazers formed a 4-on-2 halftime!

   Gooden panicked, but Big Z had rich experience, calling for Gooden to guard the backboard.

  Liu Xiu passed the ball to Ray Allen, Ray Allen moved to the left corner, received a long pass from Liu Xiu and made a three-point shot...

  Big Z's expectations fell through, Ray Allen hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner, 11 to 5, and the Trail Blazers' lead expanded to 6 points! The Cavaliers call a timeout!

  Liu Xiu led the Trail Blazers to a 7-0 climax with 4 points and 2 assists. James was stunned!

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   ESPN has always praised Liu Xiu in the dark... It is not accurate to say that, anyway, when it has nothing to do with James, they praise Liu Xiu to the sky.

   But when the two were tied together, ESPN always wanted Liu Xiu to be a stepping stone for James.

   Just the facts, always like this tonight...

   Ming Ping Warden still has to continue, so when entering the suspension period, ESPN "created" a new record-the record for the shortest height in consecutive blocks.

   On the court, after entering a timeout, Mike Brown first replaced Damon Jones with Eric Snow, and first buckled the 0-7 pot on Damon Jones.

   This operation is as silky and smooth as chocolate. Damon Jones should have been blamed. In Mike Brown's view, there is nothing wrong with it.

   In terms of adjustments, Mike Brown emphasized defense.

  Although the well-prepared strategy to prevent Liu Xiu's breakthrough was broken by Liu Xiu's mid-range shot and defensive counterattack, it doesn't matter, Liu Xiu will always be tired, and they still have targeted defenses against the Trail Blazers' other offensive starting points.

  However, when the timeout was over, Larry Hughes cursed when he saw the opposite player on the court.

   The Trail Blazers also changed, the other four starters remained unchanged, and the position of power forward changed from Randolph to Raheem!

  The game continues, the Cavaliers attack and serve in the frontcourt.

  James received the ball and continued to break through, without a meat shield under the basket. His positional battle broke into close-range actual combat with gorgeous steps, avoiding the pincer attack of Kwame Brown and Liu Xiu, and made a quick layup.

   1 of 2 shots and 2 points and 2 assists, at least the efficiency is extremely high.

   It was the Blazers' turn to attack, and James, who retreated, was in a very serious mood at the moment. There was one thing he didn't want to believe.

   But this happened again, Liu Xiu passed James, took a step to the free throw line, and made a jumper with an emergency stop in front of the basket!

   Larry Hughes saw this picture and thought: It's over, our defense is over.

   Even if the warden gets tired, so what if we have a backup? The targets of our last move have all been replaced!

  Yes, the defensive tactics prepared by the Cavaliers for the opening stage, one is to defend against Liu Xiu's sudden points, and the other is to defend against Randolph's low post attack.

   Not to mention how effective their strategy is, Liu Xiu's strategy against Liu Xiu was cracked with a CIC after one round of implementation, and the strategy against Randolph had no chance to practice at all!

   James' mentality is also broken now.

  But the reason why his mentality collapsed was not because the team's defense collapsed, but because of Liu Xiu's mid-range shot...

He heard that because Liu Xiu was stimulated by the CIC level of Kobe, Nash, Nowitzki and others at the All-Star Weekend, he felt inferior and decided to work hard. After a few days of hard work, he had a skill in training A perfect CIC.

  However, this urban legend, even if James saw the video uploaded by the Trail Blazers on the Internet when he went to Miami to play an away game last time, he didn’t believe it!

  Although he doesn’t have the mid-range shooting ability, he has teammates who are good at mid-range shooting. He has also seen Big Z and Damon Jones in training. Although the probability is very low, there are also times.

  The last time they played against each other, he felt that although Liu Xiu was better than Big Z in shooting, he was not much better.

   But now, seeing Liu Xiu's adjustment of shooting rhythm and world-class shooting accuracy...he has to believe it!

  The gap between the top pitchers is only a few millimeters away, and there are slight differences in some extremely detailed places. James still can't see that difference now.

   Just these few rounds, Liu Xiu's CIC in his eyes is really the same as Kobe, Nash, Nowitzki and others!

   Liu Xiu didn't shoot much during the All-Star Weekend, so it's hard to compare, but even if you compare Liu Xiu two months ago, this improvement is too exaggerated in James' eyes!

  Scored by Liu Xiu, blocked by Liu Xiu, the score was overtaken, and the point difference was quickly widened... These are acceptable for James, who has not played in the playoffs, and it is not the first time.

   But seeing with my own eyes that Liu Xiu has made a leap forward in mid-range shooting, which he is not good at at all, and his shooting ability is what he dreams of. This blow cannot be greater!

  If the mentality is affected, the performance of the game will inevitably be affected, and he is also the core of the Cavaliers holding the ball.

The Cavaliers had a bad start to the offense, and the subsequent offense has been unfavorable. In the remaining 7 minutes of the first quarter, James made 2 of 4 shots and 2 of 3 free throws to get 6 points and 1 assist. His performance and efficiency were not bad. But the Cavaliers only scored 14 points in more than 7 minutes.

  In the first quarter, James made 3 of 6 shots and scored 8 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists. The Cavaliers scored 21 points.

On the other side, Liu Xiu made 6 of 9 shots and 5 of 7 free throws. He scored 17 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks in a single quarter. He led the team to 13 points in the first 4 minutes and 7 minutes later. To 24 minutes!

  37 to 21, the Trail Blazers led the Cavaliers by 16 points and entered the second quarter!

  Liu Xiu's counterattack was flying in this quarter.

Originally, he saw James' style of play where teammates must shoot if they can pass the ball, coupled with the Cavaliers' defensive strategy that focuses on cutting off passes, he reckoned that it would be difficult for him to compare assists with James tonight, So in terms of getting things done, he's pinning his hopes on the defensive rebound.

   As a result, the opponent's defensive changes that surprised him at the beginning did not follow up. He was quite surprised, but immediately seized the opponent's undefended mid-range defensive loopholes and beat him to death.

  In the combined quarter, he counterattacked continuously, and defeated the Cavaliers in the first quarter!

   Leading by 16 points in a single quarter, Maurice Cheeks was not careless. At the beginning of the second quarter, the five-man team of Payton, Stevenson, Outlaws, Kwame Brown, and Mourning played!

  (end of this chapter)