Healing Basketball

  Chapter 1072 Chapter 1072. The king of the mid-term

   Enhanced sense of ball! Liu Xiu naturally had to win this reward. This task was triggered before the game, so he played extraordinarily hard tonight.

  After the game, Liu Xiu analyzed it, and he felt that the Grizzlies played poorly this year to a higher level.

  In this era when the outside line is becoming more and more important, the Grizzlies are actively reducing the playing time of Conley and Battier, avoiding too good defense and accidentally leaving the bad zone.

Although Conley and Mayo are the starters, by the middle of the season, Curry has played more minutes than the two. Just looking at the average playing time, Curry is still much less than the two, which is the gap in the opening stage. .

  Sam Young's playing time is also increasing, and Oden's playing time is maintained at about 30 minutes, which is not much improved from his rookie year.

   But the tactics have not changed, they are all based on defense.

   Such an operation can maintain the basis of their emphasis on defensive discipline, trying to attract other stars to join.

  Oden's conservative treatment will not be affected by too much playing time and too much pressure on his knees.

   There are also more training opportunities for rookie elementary school students and Sam Young.

  But Conley and Mayo are obviously going to become stepping stones on the road to the growth of elementary school students. The starting lineup attracts the opponent's defensive attention, and the elementary school students come off the bench to develop wretchedly.

Tonight, Curry came off the bench and scored 18 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists. Liu Xiu went back to the hotel to check the information, and was surprised to find that Curry's performance had surpassed most of the same class. At that time, there was only one player in the same class who performed better than him in every game-Tyreke Evans.

  At this stage, the only ones who can score 15+ points in each game are the two of them in the same class.

  Jennings averaged 20+ points per game in the first month, but now it has dropped to only 17 points per game, and it is still declining.

  As for the adjustment of the Grizzlies, if you don't pay special attention to it, you really can't find it, and you will ignore this potential team in the accumulation stage.

  On the second day, the Trail Blazers ushered in back-to-back challenges from the Bucks at home.

   Liu Xiu played 19 minutes and made 7 of 10 shots, including 3 of 3 three-pointers and 5 of 5 free throws. He scored 22 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, and clocked out at halftime.

Ray Allen scored 21 points, Kwame Brown 19 points, Hill 15 points, Gasol Jr. 9 points and 7 rebounds, Diaw 9 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, Outlaws 12 points, Korver 10 points …

  The Trail Blazers played with 12 players, and all 12 scored. The team scored 120 points.

   But the defensive end was loose tonight, with Caron Butler scoring 36 points and Judy Meeks scoring 21 points.

Compared with Cunningham, Liu Xiu wanted Meeks who was called 'Little Butler' more at first, but they already have Ray Allen, Korver, and Novak in the pitcher rotation, and there must be another one If he had to sit on the bench for a long time, he might not be able to play for a year, so he didn't force it.

  Cunningham is also pretty good, playing hard when he has playing time, averaging 3.9 points, 2.5 rebounds, 0.7 steals and 0.6 blocks per game so far this season, sharing the defensive pressure of the front line for Hill and the outlaws.

   I just said that looking at Meeks, a talented pitcher who can score 10 points every game given enough opportunities, really feels greedy.

   After back-to-back games, the Trail Blazers got 1 day off.

  The coaching staff did not arrange any work. In the morning, Liu Xiu teamed up with Dayao, who was far away in Detroit, to brush up dungeons, and left his physical strength for the simulation training of the basic skills of three-point shooting, basic skills of step-back, and basic skills of throwing.

  In the afternoon, I watched the video clips of the next two opponents' most recent games.

   After watching the video clips prepared by the team, Liu Xiu went to the study to take out the team manual and read the schedule.

  After 40 games, the Trail Blazers' record came to 28 wins and 12 losses.

   Next, they will usher in two strong enemies - the Cavaliers and the Lakers.

  He thought of the news he saw tonight, and joked that the vice president had come up with a new trick, dividing the regular season into 40-2-40, saying it was the first half, the transition period, and the second half.

   During the transition period, the popular teams recognized by the alliance will have a strong duel.

   Joke Cai said in the league's regular press conference that this matter has been started since the schedule was drawn up in September last year, and he wanted to stimulate fans' interest in watching the game in the middle of the season.

   Liu Xiu checked, and in the next few days, there will be four or five strong duels every day... He really wants to know what is growing in the head of the boiled egg that joked about.

  With so many games, can the major TV stations broadcast them?

  He saw that the game between the Hornets and the Thunder was not broadcast live, so he knew how speechless the major TV stations were at this stage.

   There is no schedule for the match between Little Rose VS Little Warden.

  But aside from the matter of live broadcast or not, it doesn't have much impact on the players, it's just two strong duels in the middle of the season when energy and physical strength are tested.

   On January 19, the Trail Blazers ushered in a game against the Cavaliers at home.

  Before the game against the Cavaliers was lost. At the beginning of this game, Liu Xiu triggered the Superstar in Troubled Times series mission 'Rebel Army'. The goal of the mission is simple - revenge!

  When we played against the Bucks, the Trail Blazers were so sloppy that they couldn't defend well. It seemed that the "noble disease" that had been gone for several years had returned.

   But when they encountered the Cavaliers who had lost once and would be swept away if they lost again, the Trail Blazers were all excited!

  James performed well tonight, making 14 of 27 shots, including 2 of 8 three-pointers, and 2 of 4 free throws. He scored 32 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal and 1 block. Standard KING-style data.

Under his organizational offense, Jamison scored 12 points, Mo Buchuan scored 12 points, Delonte West scored 13 points, Big Z scored 13 points, and O'Neal scored 12 points. It can be described as a bowl of water. Ping slightly.

  Although the balance is good, but the Cavaliers did not perform well tonight when they encountered the Blazers who scored violently from outside!

Liu Xiu felt hot tonight. He made 9 of 12 shots, including 3 of 4 three-pointers and 12 of 12 free throws. He scored 33 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals. The three scored 85 points and led the team to beat the Cavaliers 107-98!

  After the game, Liu Xiu who completed her revenge got the task reward—1 random attribute point.

   After starting to accumulate healing points without lottery and breaking through the upper limit of talent, I haven't gotten much attribute points for half a year.

   I don’t know if it’s luck or bad luck, but I randomly got speed +1, and accumulated 6 speed attribute cards.

   With 3 more cards, the speed can be increased to 97, but it is really difficult to get 3 more cards...

   On the 21st, the Trail Blazers ushered in their last opponent, the Lakers, for 5 consecutive games.

  The Lakers successfully renewed Ariza's contract with $28 million in four years last summer.

  Ariza was still the same as in the original time and space. After his strength improved, he was uneasy about the status quo and ran to test the waters of the free market.

   But no Mosaic foolishly wants to build a team around him, and no team is willing to give him a big contract, at most to the middle class.

  Liu Xiu has always wondered why Mosaic in time and space thought that Ariza, who averaged 8 points per game in the 2008-09 season, could become a core player and a star?

   Just because Ariza has a McGrady body?

   Although McGrady's statistics were not outstanding during the Raptors period, he just didn't have many opportunities to perform. His skills, game awareness, and ability displayed on the court are much better than Ariza.

   But Ariza is very important to the Lakers. The Lakers can rise in the 2007-08 season. Ariza helped Kobe Bryant share the defensive pressure of the front line, serve as a counterattack arrow, and attack rebounds, which played a huge role.

  So the free market only gave Ariza a middle-class offer, but the Lakers still "buy horse bones with a thousand dollars" and gave an average annual contract of 7 million dollars.

  The current record of the Lakers is 33 wins and 8 losses, second only to the Spurs in the Western Conference.

  At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Trail Blazers and the Lakers started a duel.

  After 2 hours and 18 minutes of the game, the Trail Blazers lost 94 to 103 at home.

The Lakers played 10 players, and 7 scored in double figures. The lowest scorer had 5 points, but the highest scorer was Kobe, who only scored 18 points. No one scored 20 points. Surprised.

  In the slow-paced positional battle, the Lakers team successfully took 71 shots, hit 37 goals, and the team's shooting percentage was 52.1%!

  Liu Xiu 34 points, Ray Allen 18 points, Gasol Jr. 12 points, outlaw lunatics 11 points... After the Trail Blazers played hard against the Cavaliers, they returned to the tepid situation in the middle of the season.

  'Conjunction stage' two battles with one win and one loss, the Trail Blazers got two days to rest.

But they left Portland for Washington, D.C. at noon on the second day of the game against the Lakers. This time, the coaches and players of the Trail Blazers brought their families, and Liu Xiu brought his parents, uncles and aunts with him. Come on, anyway, the team arranged a detached house for their family's villa hotel on the outskirts of the city, where the whole family can live in a crowded place.

In the evening, Liu Xiu and Anne Hathaway were talking about buying bitcoins. Last year, Liu Xiu and Anne Hathaway mentioned this matter. The two decided to invest millions of dollars and stop buying it after buying it. Continue to invest deeply, hold on to the bitcoins you bought, start early, and don't use the capital that raised the price in the middle, they can't afford it.

  Wait for ten or eight years and then sell it. You don’t have to wait until the growth rate stops before selling. At that time, the game of drumming and passing flowers has already collapsed.

  He doesn't like to speculate in coins, but there is such a way to make money there, which is equivalent to putting money that no one wants in front of him, and he won't take it for nothing.

  After resting overnight, they visited the White House in front of them on the morning of the 23rd and met with the first black leader in the history of American imperialism.

   During the interview, Liu Xiu, who has long been used to this kind of thing, talked and laughed happily with the black leader.

  Finally, Liu Xiu’s family took a photo with the black leader, and Dad was able to show off to the neighbors again when he returned to China during the offseason.

On the 24th, the Trail Blazers took advantage of the excitement of visiting the White House and beat the Wizards 122 to 105 in an away game. Liu Xiu made 18 of 34 shots, including 2 of 7 three-pointers and 7 of 7 free throws, scoring 45 points 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 steals and 1 block.

   On the 25th, the Trail Blazers came to Philadelphia to challenge the 76ers back to back.

  Liu Xiu scored 28 points, Ray Allen scored 33 points, and the two scored 61 points together, leading the Trail Blazers to beat the 76ers 98-90 in back-to-back games, avenging their last home defeat.

   After defeating the 76ers, the Trail Blazers came to Boston in the Northeast of the United States.

   This is the coldest time here, but every year the Trail Blazers play the Celtics away, basically this is the time.

  But every time the Celtics play away games, it is the time when the Trail Blazers coaching staff is most at ease, and there is no need to worry about the players running out and fooling around.

  Boston is free and peaceful, without discrimination. On Christmas Eve, an NFL running back wanted to go to a nightclub for consumption, but was turned away for the same reason that Bill Russell was not allowed to enter the nightclub for consumption decades ago.

   This caused a great stir during that time... After a few days, there was no movement again, and Liu Xiu has not seen what the result is so far.

  This kind of thing happened in Boston, everyone seemed to be familiar with it, and the air was still sweet.

   On the 27th, the Trail Blazers came to the North Shore Garden Arena to challenge the Celtics.

   "Boston Celtics, 33 wins and 12 losses, averaging 101.2 points per game, conceding 96.5 points per game..."

  The Celtics have risen successfully!

  The talent accumulated over the years, coupled with the decisive signing of Hedo Turkoglu with a five-year $65 million contract last summer, the Celtics have become a strong force in the East.

   Rondo is in charge, Turkoglu supports, plus Ben Gordon, Al Jefferson, Perkins, offense and defense are integrated!

  Plus Jeff Green, Celestial, Glenn Davis, Tony Allen, Eddie House, Marquis Daniels, Nate Robinson on the bench...

  The Celtics' idea of ​​building a team without getting a super giant reminded Liu Xiu of them more than ten years later.

  Although Danny Ainge loves to kill donkeys and affect the team's reputation, his ability is leveraged.

   The eyes are so sharp! With the signing of Turkoglu and Tianzun, the whole team has been revitalized.

   Turkoglu averaged 14.2 points, 7 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game this season; Tianzun played as a substitute, averaging 9 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal and 1 block per game.

   It is rumored that the Magic have repeatedly applied to the Celtics for a deal, trying to trade Turkoglu back, but was ruthlessly rejected.

   Moreover, the management of the Magic team has a clear mind. The bargaining chip they use is Lewis...

  The negative equity of the 6-year 110 million US dollar sky-high contract, I want to trade to get the core of other people's tactics.

   Some experts analyzed the thoughts of the Magic management team—they may think that Turkoglu was originally their player, and they just asked other teams to return it to them. It is already a great gift for them to be willing to give Lewis.

  When Liu Xiu saw the news, he felt that it was outrageous, but he thought that they would force Beast away in the future, and that they had given O'Neal to the Lakers for nothing... He felt that the expert's analysis was correct!

  Tonight, the Trail Blazers were deflated, 85 to 91, and lost to the Celtics away!

  The continuity of the Celtics team is terrible. There seems to be no difference between the starters and the substitutes, and the continuity of offense and defense is maintained throughout the process!

Liu Xiu made 11 of 26 shots tonight, including 0 of 2 three-pointers and 6 of 6 free throws. He scored 28 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. Ray Allen scored 19 points on 7 of 18 shots and only 3 three-pointers. Medium 0.

  The coach combination of Rivers + Thibodeau is really amazing.

  Liu Xiu feels that, compared with their Trail Blazers and Spurs, the Celtics are the real 'team basketball'.

  Al Jefferson, who averaged the most points per game, only had 18 points, and Ben Gordon, who had the highest outside line, averaged 16 points per game.

  East, there is another strong team that interests him!

  After playing the Celtics, the Trail Blazers came to Detroit in Auburn Hills.

   Taking advantage of the financial crisis in the United States and Yao Ming as a bridge, domestic car companies bought a lot of advanced technologies and patents from the run-down car manufacturers in the Motor City, bringing a lot of money to the car companies.

Washington wanted to stop it, but it was all money. Now the United States is not as unrestrained as it will be in the future. It is true that there is no money. Municipal drug delivery has been suspended. The black leader is also a conservative. Although he suppressed it for a period of time, he finally let go of the inflow of funds and the outflow of technology.

  From 2006 to the present, the capital market here is thriving, and the bosses of countless car companies have escaped the bankruptcy crisis and become rich again.

but! For Detroit's economic situation, instead of improving, it accelerated the speed of Detroit's bankruptcy.

  Because the funds obtained from selling technology were divided up by shareholders of various car companies almost immediately, and withdrew from the Detroit market.

   Those technologies are separate from the factory that builds locomotives, and belong to a certain car brand, not to a factory that has owed countless wages.

  Technology transactions, taxation is not low, but municipal revenue is not used for civilians, but used to keep those 'pillar industries'...

   Both Yao Ming and the Pistons have benefited. After winning the championship in 2008, the Detroit City Hall spent 80 million dollars to redecorate the Palace of Auburn Hills Arena and equip it with the latest training facilities.

  Auburn Hills is also a thriving scene here, and it seems to be in two worlds from downtown Detroit.

  And this is pretty good for an athlete like Liu Xiu. The living environment is good when playing away games, and the environment for playing games is also good.

   On the 29th, the Trail Blazers came to the Palace of Auburn Hills to challenge the Pistons away.

   At 9:27 p.m., after 2 hours and 27 minutes of the game, the two teams decided the winner.

  Liu Xiu scored 25 points, Ray Allen scored 20 points, and Bibby scored 17 points. The others scored very few points. Of the 11 players on the field, 4 scored zero eggs.

For the Pistons, Yao Ming had 21 points, Carter had 18 points, Billups had 19 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists, Stuckey had 11 points, 1 rebound and 10 assists, Prince had 10 points, Gooden had 8 points and 8 rebounds. -Wallace has 0 points and 14 rebounds…

  The Trail Blazers lost 89 to 95 away to the Pistons!

  …

  The 4-game streak ended, the Trail Blazers achieved a record of 2 wins and 2 losses, and the record became 31 wins and 15 losses.

   The winning rate has returned to a little over 67%, that is, the performance of winning 2 games every 3 games.

   Liu Xiu is used to this situation this season.

   But this season, he was double-killed by the Pistons... being swept away, he has little experience.

  However, the two games against the Pistons revealed a problem with them—the Pistons, a team with an extremely traditional style of play, really restrained them now.

  His warden has the ability to raise the upper limit, but when they played against the Pistons, their upper limit could not be raised, and their lower limit was also pushed down very low.

  Even if it is Liu Xiu, he can't change the fact that the lower limit for outside stars to lead the team is not high enough. The lower limit for strikers and insiders to lead the team will be relatively higher.

  After playing the Pistons, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland. On January 31, they ushered in a challenge from the Jazz.

  The Jazz are currently ranked fifth from the bottom in the Western Conference. They have played 47 games and have a record of 20 wins and 27 losses. It looks miserable, but it is actually even worse.

  The bottom-to-last Kings, 8 wins and 39 losses, and the bottom-to-last Grizzlies, 15 wins and 32 losses.

  The Jazz are not in the bad zone, they are not bad enough.

  Paul played 23 games this season, with a record of 15 wins and 8 losses. As long as he can play, his performance is usually good, but the key is that he misses more than half of the games.

  But the Thunder, the tenth place in the Western Conference, currently has 25 wins and 21 losses, and has already steadily led the Jazz by a level.

  The Jazz are also 5 games behind the teams competing for the playoffs.

   Commonly known as the only file!

  Tonight, Paul continued to be absent, and the Trail Blazers beat the Jazz 106 to 95.

  Liu Xiu scored 36 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists and 2 steals, Kwame Brown made 5 of 5 shots and 10 of 10 free throws scored 20 points and 21 rebounds, Ray Allen 16 points, Dior 17 points...

  After the game in January, the Trail Blazers have a record of 32 wins and 15 losses!

   On the second day, February 1st, the league announced the new Best of the Month awards.

  Most rookie of the month, East: Taj Gibson of the Bulls, averaging 9 points and 7 rebounds per game; West: Tyreke Evans of the Timberwolves, averaging 16 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists per game.

   Best Coach of the Month, East: Doug Rivers of the Celtics; West: George Karl of the Nuggets.

Player of the Month, East: LeBron James of the Cavaliers, 12 wins and 3 losses, averaging 30.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, 8.2 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.2 blocks per game; West: Liu Xiu of the Trail Blazers, 10 wins and 6 losses, averaging 38.5 Points, 9 rebounds, 6.5 assists, 3.3 steals and 1.3 blocks.

  Since his rookie season, Liu Xiu won the best of the month for the first time in the third game month.

   This month's best competition, he has no advantage in record at all. Now they are still ranked fifth in the West, but the data is suddenly amazing!

  6 times 40+ in a single month this month, increasing the number of 40+ times in the season to 13 times, and also raised the scoring average by a large margin, from 31.8 points per game to 34.1 points per game.

  Kobe, Durant, and James basically don't expect anything from the scoring champion.

  As in previous years, at this time, when he needs to support the team, his data will skyrocket.

  Last year, he overtook Wade in one fell swoop at this time and rushed to the top of the scoring list. It was also at this time the year before last that he really laid the foundation for averaging a triple-double.

   And this is the fifth time in his 7-year career that he won the Player of the Month Award in January.

  The title of "King of the Mid-term" is getting louder and louder!

  Besides being happy, Liu Xiu is still very proud of the current situation. He checked the schedule and found that there are 5 games left before the All-Star Weekend, so he can rest for a while.

   Moreover, there must be something to be happy about next!

   At noon, the league announced the starting list for this year's Dallas All-Star Weekend.

  The day before yesterday, at 12:00 noon on the 30th, the voting for the All-Star starters has ended.

  In the first two votes announcements, Liu Xiu was far ahead. When the votes were announced for the first time, he led the second place by more than 700,000 votes.

   The result was no surprise.

   Liu Xiu led the second place by more than 400,000 votes with 2.86 million votes, and was elected as the All-Star vote leader for the sixth time in 7 years!

  Eastern starters:

   Center: Yao Ming 1.86 million votes, forward: James 2.39 million votes, Garnett 1.97 million votes, guard: Wade 2.02 million votes, Iverson 1.27 million votes.

  West starters:

   Center: Kwame Brown 2.11 million votes, forward: Anthony 2.13 million votes, Duncan 1.78 million votes, guard: Liu Xiu 2.86 million votes, Kobe Bryant 2.3 million votes.

  The alliance praises this and that, the media hypes this and that, all kinds of duels, all kinds of highlights, and in the end, the number of votes is real!

  Even if the NBA officially conducted a "strict screening" of the votes in China this year, it is rumored that two-thirds of the votes in China were not counted, which is an increase of more than 50% from the almost 40% of "non-compliant votes" in previous years.

   But the result is that everyone's votes have dropped by a bit. Who should be the top voter and who is still the top voter.

  Yao Ming defeated Beast with 1.55 million votes and Shaq O'Neal with 1.14 million votes with 1.86 million votes.

   Milicic was moved to the forward, but still failed to surpass Garnett, but also diverted Artest's votes.

   Iverson defeated Carter and McGrady to be selected as the starter, but Iverson has not played for a while. Liu Xiu played against the 76ers twice.

   It is said that it was because the child was sick and had no intention of playing.

   Iverson is still in good form, averaging 16 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists per game. With the help of Iguodala, his shooting percentage is 44%, which is not bad.

  Liu Xiu was still worried that Iverson would retire suddenly. Some opponents made an appointment to fight the next time after the last match, but in the end they had no chance to fight again.

  Here in the West, it is not Wang Zhizhi and Bynum who are competing with Kwame Brown for the All-Star starting, but Oden!

  Oden got 1.82 million votes!

  Oden played 35 games this season, averaging 29 minutes per game, scoring 14.2 points, 9 rebounds, 0.8 assists, 0.8 steals and 3.2 blocks.

   Once again dominated the block list, far ahead of the second-ranked Beast with an average of 2.8 per game, and the third-ranked parallel champion with an average of 2.5 per game.

   It is worth mentioning that Liu Xiu ranked 24th in the blocked shots list with an average of 1.3 blocks per game!

   In the top 30, he is the only guard. Wade ranks 31st with 1.2 blocks per game.

   In terms of guards, Liu Xiu and Kobe are basically locked in these two positions as long as they don't retire or be moved by the league.

  Forward, Yi Jianlian almost succeeded in stealing the tower!

  He got 1.7 million votes, which is higher than Silver Horn King, Little Overlord, Gasol, David West... and others!

  In the Timberwolves, Yi Jianlian, who served as the main substitute for the third insider, power forward and center, averaged 26 minutes per game this season, scoring 14 points, 5.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 0.8 steals and 1.4 blocks.

   Liu Xiu found a blind spot when looking at Yi Jianlian's data. The little apprentice is actually the three-point leader in the Timberwolves team!

   It's not how many three-pointers Yi Jianlian shoots, but the Timberwolves' average three-pointers per game is second to last in the league, averaging only 5.5 three-pointers per game.

  As for the bottom one...Thunder, Durant, the three-point leader in the Thunder team, averaged 1.6 three-pointers per game, as many as Yi Jianlian.

  Durant's shooting percentage is 36%, and Yi Jianlian is even higher, 37.1%.

Timberwolves' three-pointer list, Yi Jianlian averaged 1.6 points per game, Roy averaged 1.1 points per game, Jonny Flynn averaged 1 point per game, Luol Deng averaged 1 point per game, Tyreke Evans averaged 0.6 points per game .

  Others basically have no three-point ability.

  Old Duncan's popularity is still stable, and Yi Jianlian lost tens of thousands of votes in the end.

   Winning the ticket winner, Liu Xiu was in a happy mood, and looked at this year's All-Star Weekend arrangement... There are so many jokes!

   Hardly extended the 3-day All-Star Weekend to 5 days!

  Added 'Fan Carnival' and 'World Wheelchair Basketball All-Star Game' on Thursday.

   Among other things, Liu Xiu wants to ask Joke if he knows what 'weekend' means.

   Is it really a joke and a lot of fun, turning Thursday into a weekend?

  Not only that, there are also activities in the morning of Monday of the second week. From Thursday to Monday, there will be a "Fans Carnival" every morning for 5 days.

  Comprehensive event day, NBDL All-Star Game has also been added.

  On the day of the All-Star Game, the training of the Eastern and Western All-Star teams was made public, and the training time was also separated so that fans could watch.

   Fortunately for Liu Xiu, except for Thursday and Monday, in the other three days of activities, only the players who participated on that day need to show their faces.

  Therefore, Liu Xiu decisively rejected all invitations to other competitions.

  He discovered a weird part of the joke—every time he found something that was a "rare thing" that fans valued, the joke would turn this "rare thing" into a trivial matter that no one cared about.

  …

   After a day off, on the 2nd, the Blazers defeated the Bobcats 85-79 at home. On the second day, on the 3rd, the Blazers defeated the visiting Spurs 96-93 back-to-back at home.

   After the Bobcats replaced Chandler with Dampier, the defense did not decline but rose. In Larry Brown's turtle-speed style of play, Dampier performed much better than Chandler.

   This annoyed both Dampier and Larry Brown. For more than ten years, they never thought of partnering. They didn't expect that they would be so suitable for each other!

   But Dampier's career seems to have come to an end, and Larry Brown's coaching style is becoming less and less popular in this era.

   No, the Trail Blazers played a poor offense against the Bobcats this time, but in the case of a deadly defense, Liu Xiu only needs to score 28 points to lead the team to defeat the Bobcats.

The Trail Blazers took advantage of the narrow victory over the Spurs. The opponent's physical condition was similar to theirs. Can't run anymore, Lede and the Spurs defended, and finally won by 3 points.

  After this defeat, the Spurs failed to win 40, and their record came to 39 wins and 10 losses. They were overtaken by the Lakers, who also had 39 wins and 10 losses, and fell to second place in the Western Conference.

   On the afternoon of the 4th, the Trail Blazers came to Dallas. After a night's rest, they played against the Mavericks.

  Different from the Spurs, the current physical condition of the Mavericks also makes Carlisle very worried, but Carlisle's choice at this time is - soaring offense!

  The Trail Blazers want to press the tempo more at this time. They have just played two offensive and defensive battles of positional warfare, and they are now in a state of slow tempo.

  The two sides have pulled rhythm, and the way the Trail Blazers suppress the rhythm is post-up singles in high and low positions.

  Let’s be direct—the warden has his back!

   This style of play has not been used by the Trail Blazers as the main offensive method for two years. In the past two years, even Randolph seldom used it consistently.

  Thus, Kidd, Stevenson, Barea, Terry, and Beaubois ushered in a nightmare in their careers...

  Liu Xiu played 46 post-up singles, with an average of more than 10 times per quarter!

   Of these 46 post-ups, 28 shots were made, and 18 of them were team attacks in positional warfare.

   After the whole game, Liu Xiu made 18 of 35 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers and 7 of 8 free throws. He scored 44 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists!

  Among the 18 goals, 14 were back-related scores!

Led by Liu Xiu with a 40+ triple-double, Ray Allen scored 21 points, Korver scored 17 points, Kwame Brown scored 10 points, and Kwame Brown scored 10 points... 11 of the Trail Blazers played and 10 scored !

Although Nowitzki scored 28 points, Terry 18 points, Chandler 12 points and 9 rebounds, Kidd 10 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists, Peja 17 points, and Stevenson 10 points, the Mavericks also scored 6 people. Double, but the Trail Blazers narrowly beat the Mavericks 116 to 112!

   With 4 consecutive victories, the Trail Blazers' record has improved to 35 wins and 15 losses!

  With the deterrence of 40+ triple-doubles, on the 7th, the Trail Blazers came to Salt Lake City, and defeated the Jazz 118-105 in another soaring battle, winning 5 consecutive victories!

  The comeback Paul scored 28 points, 6 rebounds and 12 assists, and performed very well.

  But helplessly, the opponent was so fierce, Liu Xiu meant to score 13 points, but still had 15 rebounds and 15 assists!

  Ray Allen scored 28 points, Korver scored 22 points, Bibby scored 12 points, Kwame Brown scored 16 points, and the outlaws scored 13 points.

  After the game, Paul thought it would be better not to come back. He finally won Liu Xiu once before, but now he lost back.

   After two away games, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland and had a rest for the night. On February 9th, the last game before the All-Star Weekend was played at home. The opponent was the Thunder.

  Pushing newcomers is a good thing, but the frequency of the league's promotion of newcomers this year is too high, but there are geniuses in recent years, but they are fundamentally different from the group of geniuses who entered the NBA around 2000.

  The year 2003 can barely be regarded as the draft year of the 'turn of the century' stage. Liu Xiu, James, Anthony, Wade... and others have the ability to compete with famous stars in their first year in the NBA.

  But today's geniuses basically enter the NBA after a year of college, but their talent and immediate combat ability are not as good as Liu Xiu, James, and Anthony.

   Thunderbolt Five, this time was hammered again!

   It's so hard to die, they are the opponents of the Trail Blazers in the half-time finale.

   It’s going to be a holiday soon, and the Trail Blazers’ Friday Syndrome broke out!

Liu Xiu scored 5 three-pointers in a single game. He scored 42 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks in 35 minutes. Ray Allen scored 35 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. 22 points, 15 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 4 blocks.

  Plus Gasol Jr.'s 6 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, Hill's 3 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist, and the extrajudicial 14 points...

  The Trail Blazers team scored 127 points!

  At the same time, the Trail Blazers had 16 steals and 10 blocks, which made the Thunder feel what despair is!

  Durant scored 23 points, but his shooting percentage was only 40%. Rose had 17 points and 7 assists. Bargnani scored 18 points. No one else scored in double figures.

  127 to 89, the Trail Blazers slaughtered the Thunder, with a record of 37 wins and 15 losses, entering the All-Star Weekend holiday!

  (end of this chapter)