Healing Basketball

  Chapter 899 Chapter 899. Surpassing the top is only a short distance away

   Time came to October, and the official training camp began.

   This year's Trail Blazers training camp was extremely lively, and fans, the media, and experts all focused on them.

   Their attention and treatment are even worse than those of the Lakers in the 02-03 season.

  Political and business leaders, celebrities from all walks of life also came to Portland to brush their faces at this time.

   This has largely affected the preparations for the Trail Blazers, but this is something everyone is happy about.

  Who wouldn't want to be in the spotlight? Who doesn't want to be a big star?

  The coaching staff complained non-stop in private, but they pretended to be louder than anyone else in the interview.

  For Liu Xiu, the impact is not big, the starting lineup has not changed, the core tactical play has little impact, and the changes in tactical aspects are also built around him.

  With less training time during the day, he simply paddled around and saved his physical strength for the simulation training. Although the team training was affected, the individual training effect was even better.

  Some things are unavoidable.

  The big dog brings friends to show off his team, which cannot be blamed on others.

  Bought a team in the sports you love, and won three consecutive championships in the highest level league to build a dynasty, so you don't have to show off.

  Encountered this kind of 'force majeure', Liu Xiu has his own way to deal with it.

  …

   After a tumultuous week, after the team training on October 7th, the training camp phase of the 07-08 season has come to an end.

  Even a person as carefree as the coach has some headaches about the progress of the preparations, but there is no way to do it. I can only emphasize to my colleagues not to rush, take your time, and the rhythm should not be chaotic.

   The coach has been in control of the overall situation.

   After training camp, the Trail Blazers had a day off.

  Other teammates are sleeping late or haven't fallen asleep yet, Liu Xiu wakes up on time again at 7:00 in the morning.

  Looking at the fiancée next to her who was naked, the impulse came again, but watching Anne-Hathaway twist her brow slightly... Well, last night was too much.

   Hurry up and go take a shower to lower the fire.

  After extracting the results of the simulated training, he still hasn't upgraded... After feeling sad, he couldn't help smiling again.

  How long has it been since the comprehensive ability evaluation has been raised to 94, and I want to upgrade to super giant.

   But it’s already 94, he’s itchy!

  Up to 95, beyond the top level, you can open another talent!

  "Name: Liu Xiu, English name: Jess.

  Age: 25 years old (February 17, 1982)

  Net height: 188 cm, wingspan 203 cm, weight: 102 kg.

  Team: Portland Trail Blazers.

  Ability evaluation: 94.

  Athletic ability: speed 96 (explosive acceleration 87), strength 94 (explosive power 84), jumping 94 (bounce speed 88), flexibility 95, stamina 93.

  Basic skills: 88 three-pointers, 92 mid-range shots, 95 layups, 94 ball control, 89 passes, 89 turns, 84 strides, 85 turns, 86 emergency stops, 81 throws...

Skills: 92 low post shots, 81 high post shots, 91 shots off the dribble, 89 acceleration layups on the move, 84 European steps, 84 fadeaway jump shots, 90 rhythm flow breakthroughs, 84 front-of-body breakthroughs, and 85 emergency stop jump shots , 84 in emergency stop catch and shoot, 87 in post-up singles application skills, 86 in pick-and-roll with the ball, 82 in pick-and-roll techniques..."

  According to past experience, there should still be room for improvement in hard training. He decided that in the preseason, he would leave it to the substitutes to practice more.

  Continue to paddle, more than half a month, it should be enough practice, if not enough, we will talk about it later.

   One day of rest, Liu Xiu took a day off.

  Watching TV, reading the news, watching Anne-Hathaway reconciliation...

   While surfing the Internet, he discovered a new gadget—star ranking!

  Liu Xiu doesn't remember the year in which time and space began to have a detailed opening season rankings. Here, ESPN began to release star rankings and team rankings this year!

  The team ranking is one team per day, starting on September 30th, and is expected to be announced at the end of the preseason.

   Player rankings include not only active players, but also free agents who have not retired but have not yet found a job. Starting from 500, 20 rankings are currently announced every day.

  In the past few days, I have been too busy, socializing every day, so I didn't notice this thing.

  However, the current popularity is not particularly high, and ESPN is only testing the waters on the Internet, and it is not the kind of "big season opening event" that will be announced on the live broadcast of the TV station in the future.

   The bottom of the team rankings is the Grizzlies. It is predicted that the record this season will still be around 20 wins.

  The player ranked last from the bottom is also from the Grizzlies, and Liu Xiu is fairly familiar with him—Jeremy Richardson, the rich second generation who is still chasing his dream.

   It is said that he impresses the head coach of the Grizzlies with his hard work, and got a partially guaranteed basic salary of $510,000 for one year.

   Ranked 500th in the first player detailed ranking, looking back many years later, it is also a memorable thing...

  After scrolling through the posts on this aspect, Liu Xiu saw that ESPN was responsible for this ranking, and he looked forward to his ranking even more.

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   After a day off, on the 9th, the Trail Blazers began to do targeted training for the preseason, making arrangements for areas to be strengthened in the preseason.

  As Liu Xiu expected, what the coaching staff cared about was the plummeting strength of the substitute lineup.

  They regret not giving Eddie Jones and Mourning a contract.

   However, continuing to procrastinate like that will not be a good thing for Millsap, Louis Williams, Stevenson and others.

  If Eddie Jones and Mourning continue to stay, maybe Stevenson and McDyess will not be willing to stay.

   On October 10th, the preseason kicked off. The Trail Blazers' first preseason opponent was the highly anticipated youth Timberwolves.

Oden was reimbursed after being selected, and did not play in the summer league, but this does not prevent the Timberwolves from being expected. Roy and Luol Deng, a young dual-core pair with visible talents, might take off if given a powerful insider .

  Although he was directly reimbursed in his rookie year, Oden still made people full of expectations.

  If this season can't take off, let Roy and Luol Deng practice the first grade again.

  After the start of the game, Liu Xiu forced a pick-and-roll to the inside and dunked twice before starting to paddle.

  What is planned must be executed well.

  Liu Xiu was replaced after 3 minutes in the first quarter. It was useless for the fans to shout. They could only comfort themselves to see the warden's first game of the new season, although it was only a preseason game.

   Originally, the fans were still worried when they saw that the warden had become a passer-by again after such a long time, but after seeing Liu Xiu use such a speed pick-and-roll to break into the inside and fly dunks, the fans were relieved.

  The warden will always lose weight!

  The outside substitutes were very happy. Liu Xiu didn't play for a long time, but Lei and the others played more!

   Then, Blake, Louis Williams, and Ray Allen played on the outside for most of the quarter, and entered the intersection. Blake and Louis Williams were both on the bench.

  (end of this chapter)