Healing Basketball

  Chapter 681 Chapter 681. Comes earlier than before

  The Trail Blazers slaughtered the Spurs by 22 points and easily swept the Spurs in the regular season. The result surprised the onlookers.

Everyone thought that this matchup between the two teams would be as exciting as sparks hitting the earth. The difference in strength between the two teams last time was very small, and the Spurs lost to the Trail Blazers three times this season. Trying their best to win a victory, coupled with Liu Xiu's provocation before the game, the Spurs must be excited...

   As a result, Liu Xiu scored 17 points alone in the first quarter, and the Spurs team scored 12 points.

  After the game, the media hyped that 'the Spurs are in the past tense', and the fans started a heated discussion... Liu Xiu's topic once again overwhelmed the NCAA basketball championship.

  Finally, it came to that topic again—the Warden’s March Madness continues!

   And Liu Xiu, the central figure of public opinion, is very entangled now.

  He has an annoyance right now - he got up this morning, 3 cards of Flexibility +1 were synthesized into an Advanced Flexibility +1, after using it, his Flexibility increased to 95.

   After that, if you want to improve, you need 3 high-level flexibility + 1 to synthesize top-level flexibility + 1.

   But this is not what he is struggling with. What he is struggling with is whether to continue to gain weight?

   After the flexibility wants to be raised to 95, the system prompts him that as long as the weight does not exceed 104 kg, the speed, bounce, flexibility, etc. will not be affected.

   Of course, it is not without effect, and the physical exertion in a short period of time will increase.

For example, when he weighs 96 kilograms now, he may have to play five or six rounds at full strength in a row before his physical strength declines significantly. Need to take it easy.

  However, the tonnage is larger, the speed remains the same, and the impact force is obviously stronger.

  So, Liu Xiu struggled all day...

  Followed the team to Phoenix in the afternoon. He was still struggling. On the second day, he began to prepare for the game against the Suns at night. With more important things, he quickly made a decision.

  95-96 kg in the playoffs is just right, less may not be enough, and more will affect performance to a certain extent.

  The 'maximum achievable weight limit' has been raised to 104 kg, which is not for nothing. At the beginning of the new season, you don't have to worry about weight...

   The Trail Blazers attached great importance to the game against the Suns.

At present, the Suns are 44 wins and 15 losses, gradually securing the first place in the Pacific Division, 50 wins have been stabilized, and they are launching an impact towards 55 wins. If you haven't played a game, you have to win 11 of them.

  But many people think that the Suns are expected to win 55 wins, which proves how recognized the current strength of the Suns is.

  After a day of preparations, at 8:00 p.m., the Trail Blazers' away game against the Suns began.

  Although Liu Xiu had guessed that the Suns might not be considered a "concentrated ball" team, he still felt very sorry when the "prison kill" was not triggered.

  The kind of game insight I played against the Spurs the day before yesterday, I think it’s wonderful in retrospect...

  After the start of the game, the Suns showed their league's first offensive firepower, scoring 17 to 13 in the half quarter, leading the Trail Blazers by 4 points and entering the official timeout.

  But after the official timeout came back, the Trail Blazers returned the Suns with a score of 21 to 13 in the half quarter, overtaking the Suns by 4 points, leading 34 to 30 into the second quarter!

In the second quarter, the Suns showed their strength again. Marion scored 12 points and Tim Thomas scored 11 points... Led by Nash with 7 assists in a single quarter, the Suns scored 36 points in a single quarter, beating the Trail Blazers 36 points 29!

   After halftime, the Suns overtook the Trail Blazers by 3 points 66-63.

   But in the third quarter, the Suns' outside shooting performance declined. In the first half, they made 10 of 16 three-pointers.

  The Trail Blazers seized the opportunity and scored 30 to 24 in a single quarter. After three quarters, they overtook the Suns by 93 to 90 by 3 points!

  At the end of the quarter, the Trail Blazers opened up the situation by relying on Randolph's inside attack, and immediately blasted a wave of 14-8 climax, widening the point difference to 9 points, leading 107-98.

  Then the Suns launched a counterattack, with a ferocious attack against the Trail Blazers. They played a fierce offensive of 17 to 10, chasing the score to 115 to 117 with 58 seconds left in the game, narrowing the point difference to 2 points.

  At this critical moment, Ray Allen stepped up and made a three-pointer to help the Trail Blazers reopen the point difference to 5 points.

   Immediately after Nash and Marion pick-and-roll, Marion helped Nash block the outlaws, Nash opened it and threw a three-pointer... The ball was poked by Kwame Brown on the way up!

The ball fell and did not touch the basket, Liu Xiu drove Dior to grab a defensive rebound, immediately started a fast break, relying on the addition of 'Flying Squirrel' to rush to the opponent's basket like lightning, took three big strides from the free throw line, After two steps, the third step took off and smashed the ball into the basket heavily. 122 to 115, the Trail Blazers sealed the victory!

Nash scored 28 points, 3 rebounds and 14 assists, Marion scored 35 points and 5 rebounds, Raja Bell scored 13 points, Barbosa scored 17 points... but lost to Liu Xiu's 22 points, 5 rebounds and 12 assists, Lan Dorff's 32 points and 16 rebounds, Ray Allen's 20 points, Kwame Brown's 8 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.

  In the end, the Trail Blazers beat the Suns by 7 points!

  …

  As strong as the Suns, they failed to stop the Trail Blazers' winning streak at home.

Maurice Cheeks' strategy succeeded. He used Liu Xiu to enter the "crazy three state" in the middle of this month, reducing Randolph, Ray Allen, Kwame Brown, and outlaws. The playing time, in this intensive game month, the four starters can still maintain an excellent state in the second half of the year.

   Randolph's performance of 14 of 21 shots made Marion, Kurt Thomas, Tim Thomas and others cry quickly.

   After this wave of 5 consecutive victories, the Trail Blazers' record came to 59 wins and 11 losses.

   On the second day after playing the Suns, the Trail Blazers came to Seattle, rested for an afternoon and then went to the Key Stadium to challenge the Sonics.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the game started. The Trail Blazers trailed the Sonics by 3 points 26-29 in the first quarter, 1 point behind 22-23 in the second quarter, and 1 point behind 20-21 in the third quarter. , the Trail Blazers trailed the Sonics by 5 points, with a score of 68 to 73.

  The fans at the scene are all excited, are they going to beat the league's No. 1? To be the team that sniped the Trail Blazers for 70 wins?

  Then, the Sonics continued their trend of declining scores quarter by quarter, scoring only 15 points in the final quarter.

  The Trail Blazers exploded in the final quarter. Ray Allen made 5 of 7 shots, including 2 of 3 three-pointers. He scored 12 points and led the team to 33 points in a single quarter!

  In the end, Ray Allen beat his old club with 27 points in a single game! Lead the team to win the 60th game of the season!

  (end of this chapter)