Healing Basketball

   Chapter 35 35. A future worth looking forward to! (5000 words for a ticket)

  At 4 pm on August 4th, the Blazers took the lead in advancing to the Rocky Mountain Summer League finals.

   At 7:36 p.m., after an overtime game, the Jazz and the Knicks were still undefeated.

The competition system of the summer league is obviously different from the official NBA game. The rules of overtime are very different. The first overtime is no different from the NBA, but if there is no winner in the first overtime, then the second Overtime is easy - whoever scores first wins!

   These include free throws for field goals, technical fouls, and free throws for physical fouls.

  In the end, the Jazz relied on the bounce of college center Todd Biyombo and the lightning-fast layup by Mo Williams. The Jazz defeated the Knicks 95-93 and joined the Trail Blazers in the final!

  Liu Xiu and some teammates returned to the scene to watch the game after dinner.

   There is no need to ask for tickets or anything, most of the seats are empty, and there are not as many fans as their Blazers and Spurs game in the afternoon.

After watching the game and returning to the hotel, Travis Outlaw said to Liu Xiu: "Jess, that guy, I remember he was from the University of Alabama, right? He ran so fast! You have to deal with him in the next game. Now, don't be afraid!"

"Ha ha."

  Looking at Liu Xiu's smile, what does 'hehe' mean?

   At this time, Liu Xiu showed a mocking smile, a disdainful smile, a warm smile... all of them are OK, they are all normal reactions.

   But Travis Outlaw feels that Liu Xiu's smile seems to be for him!

   But it doesn’t seem to be all…

  Travis Outlaw didn't know why he wanted to give Liu Xiu a smile.

   Change the subject.

   "Jace, Matt, can we win the day after tomorrow?"

Matt Carroll responded: "Except for the Bulls, no team is our opponent in this game. In this game, it seems that the Jazz are the Knicks. Although the Knicks are third in the preliminaries, They're actually 2-2 like the Jazz, and there's not a huge gap between third and eighth... right Jayce."

   Travis Outlaw was asking, but his tone was not worried, and Matt Carroll was even more confident.

  Liu Xiu was very satisfied with the confidence of the two current strongest teammates, and resolutely encouraged: "If you two don't hold back, there will be no problem."

   Travis Outlaw couldn't help it again, and said angrily: "Can't you be the one holding back?"

   Liu Xiu heard the words and looked at Travis Outlaw.

Travis Outlaw felt that Liu Xiu was looking at an idiot. He was about to refute that he was not stupid... He suddenly remembered that he had worked together for many games, and he had never seen Liu Xiu play abnormally. when!

   Think about it carefully, it really is! there has never been! Not since Game 1 of Orlando Summer League! Always stable!

   Watching Liu Xiu whistle and turn around and leave, Travis Outlaw hurriedly chased after him, feeling a grief in his heart—

'unfair! I worked so hard, and there were times when my performance was not the best. This guy is so lazy, but he played so well every time! ’

  …

   In each draft year, there are quite a lot of summer leagues held. This year, there are a total of 6 summer leagues, and 25 teams have participated in two summer leagues.

   All other summer leagues have ended. On August 6th, the Rocky Mountain Summer League with the most participating teams also came to an end, and the last game day arrived.

   After this day, the NBA will enter the long grass period, and there will be no official NBA-related games for two months. The fans' attention to this last summer league game has increased a lot.

  The game time is 7:00 pm. In the afternoon, one thing has little to do with the game itself...I can't say anything that has little to do with it. It was a little popular, and the attention was raised a little bit.

   19772 tickets for sale were sold out between noon today!

Nearly a month ago, in the Orlando Summer League on July 7, 15,761 tickets were sold out for the match between the Magic and the Cavaliers, setting a record for the NBA Summer League in decades. The tickets sold out, with more than 15,000 people, which is also the record for the number of people watching the NBA Summer League.

   This record, no matter how powerful it is, is really hard to break.

   This number of spectators is not large, but this is the summer league, and the number of spectators in Grant Hill's summer league game did not exceed 10,000.

  Who knows, this record will be broken in less than a month!

   On the one hand, it is because this is the final played by the host Jazz. Although it is only a summer league, it has inspired the enthusiasm of fans in Salt Lake City and even Utah.

   Championship...Jazz fans desperately want to win.

Stockton retired and Malone left. I don’t know when the Jazz will be able to rebuild. It’s not bad for a small market team to have a stage of championship competition in 20 or 30 years. Who knows what the next championship will be? when.

   It’s good to have fun in the summer league.

   But more, is the foreign fans.

Part of it is for Liu Xiulai's female fans, and Liu Xiu's 'technical fans' are not many, but he has also become a 'niche star' in the eyes of some people, but these are not to come to the scene to support his main force.

  More, are Chinese, Chinese, and Asians and Asians from all over the United States.

  The Chinese market, the Chinese market, today, a little show of its strength.

  A lot of reporters also came. In terms of basketball strength, the reporters paid more attention to high school rookie Travis Outlaw and the Rocky Mountain Summer League scoring champion Mo Williams.

  Liu Xiu has been the one who has been on the most popular news since the Rocky Mountain Summer League started this time. He even made headlines and even entered the entertainment circle from the basketball circle.

   But the Blazers’ playing performance was noticed by Travis Outlaw, a high school rookie with the 23rd overall pick in the first round.

   Second in scoring, averaging 24.5 points per game; ninth in rebounding, averaging 8.3 rebounds per game, a very good performance.

   In the final of a competition, even if the media did not like the Trail Blazers, there were still many media interviews today. After the pre-match preparation and training, the Trail Blazers opened up for interviews.

   On Liu Xiu's side, after being interviewed by domestic reporters, he started the skip-work mode.

   He was training for an interview yesterday, but no one asked him about basketball, not even the local Portland reporters cared about how well he played.

   He doesn't really want to be in the entertainment industry, he uses those reporters when he needs them, and he doesn't need to take care of them when he doesn't.

  …

   Although it is only a summer league, Liu Xiu and his teammates take it seriously.

  Liu Xiu skipped work in addition to the interview session. During the rest of the time, as long as she did not delay her rest, she was thinking about how to play today, discussing how to play with her two NBA teammates, and guiding the college students in the team together with her two NBA teammates.

When these college students first got the opportunity to participate in the summer league, they felt that this might be the time for them to turn around, because they were not taken seriously in their freshman and sophomore years, and they participated in a Rocky Mountain summer league in their 20s to show their strength. Going back to college became the core, and finally entered the precedent of the professional arena.

  Although we know that the top college athletes will not be released to participate in such competitions, the participating college students still have hope.

Maybe it’s because I think I’m just out of luck, and I’m a real professional player soaring into the sky; maybe it’s just that my talent has been buried, and the coaching staff and trainer team of NBA teams can help him discover his talent; more direct thinking Fight to become famous by beating these drafted future NBA players...

   Generally speaking, NBA rookies are quite friendly to college students here in the Rocky Mountain Summer League, even if it is a thorn like Matt Barnes, it is not bad for college students.

   But the reality is cruel. After participating in a summer league, college players know that the gap between genius and genius is no smaller than the gap between genius and ordinary people.

   These basketball dreams and talented basketball values ​​that these college students who were regarded as basketball geniuses from childhood to adulthood are still cherished... collapsed!

  No one cares what their future holds unless they make a fortune.

   Maybe some people will give up on themselves, maybe some people will be unwilling to become more hardworking, maybe some people will accept the reality, maybe some people will adjust their expectations on the basis of accepting the reality and find a more suitable path...

   However, most college students accept all of this slowly. There is a special team - the Blazers!

   These players were hit from the start.

Unlike the rookies of other teams who always take care of the college students, Liu Xiu beat the best player in the college team at the beginning, and then directed Travis Outlaw and Matt Ka. Rolle beat these college students in the training game, making them feel the cruelty of society from the very beginning.

   However, this makes these college students appear extra tough when they encounter the ravages of NBA players from other teams, and they always adjust and cheer up earlier than college students from other teams.

At this time, the college students found that their psychological quality has improved a lot compared with the college students of other teams, and the more the game progresses, the more Liu Xiu is willing to teach them something... Although Liu Xiu doesn't like training, he likes to talk about it, and he still likes to talk about it. They always say some things that are true but not irritating to hear, but Liu Xiu's words did help them.

   Liu Xiu didn't expect so much at first, but as the game was on, it was a surprise to find that the operation, which was just to make the college students more obedient, actually had such an effect.

   But it doesn’t seem to be worth promoting, and it’s not easy for this kind of operation to be successful.

   First of all, the people who need to do this have high morals.

   Wude is also virtue…

   Soon, the time came to 6:40 in the evening. After making full preparations before the game, Liu Xiu and his teammates set foot on the stage of this Rocky Mountain Summer League final.

When    stepped onto the court, the players of both teams felt their blood boil.

  Liu Xiu completely ignored the foreign objects and entered the game state.

   At 7pm, the Rocky Mountain Summer League Finals between the Blazers and the Jazz begins!

  The players of the two teams have been fighting hard from the beginning.

  Mo Williams and Travis Outlaw are the two most watched rookies in tonight's game.

  Jazz fans are looking forward to another miracle from their rookie, finishing seventh in the preliminaries!

   However, the game was a little different from what they expected.

  The competition is not even that intense... The difference in strength is quite obvious!

Liu Xiu steadily sorted out the offense, and Travis Outlaw was online tonight; Matt Carroll, although his shooting tonight was only in normal state; but at least he didn't hold back his three-pointers. Over 40% of the shots and layups were made.

   Mo Williams and Alexander Pavlovich are really hard to compete with the Blazers when the Blazers are playing normally.

   Alexander Pavlovic, a 20-year-old small forward from the former Yugoslavia, is very good at defending technical players, but he is not good at defending players with excellent physical fitness.

   Travis-Outlaw is still in a state of asking for anything.

  Mo Williams scored 17 points at halftime. As predicted by the Blazers, they couldn't guard Mo Williams. As long as Mo Williams felt online, there was not much possibility of guarding.

   But at halftime, the Blazers led the Jazz 53-37 by 16 points!

  Mo Williams performed slightly better than Travis Outlaw who scored 14 points at halftime, but the overall strength of the two teams is too far behind.

   Even Mo Williams can feel that the opponent is a team.

   This feeling of college basketball makes Mo Williams, who just came out of college and thinks that he has nothing to do with college basketball, and has a strange sense of nostalgia.

  Mo Williams did not give up, and continued to lead the team in the second half!

   On the Blazers side, it was quite unexpected to watch Mo Williams play harder after the start of the second half.

   Surprisingly, Liu Xiu actually predicted this situation!

  The Blazers were prepared under Liu Xiu's reminder, and they were not careless. After being beaten 14-9 in the first half of the third quarter, they returned a wave of 13-7 in the next 4 minutes!

   After three quarters, the Blazers led the Jazz by 17 points 75-58 to seal the victory!

   There was no accident at the end. Travis Outlaw's main attack, Matt Carroll's response, Liu Xiu crushed the opponent's defender's back when necessary...

  At 8:31 pm, after 1 hour and 31 minutes, the Blazers beat the Jazz 104-80!

  …

   When the final whistle sounded, Liu Xiu's system alerted him.

   "The Blazers-Jazz game is over, and the relationship between the competing teams is terminated."

   "The 2003 Rocky Mountain NBA Summer League ended, and the team relationship between the host and the Blazers Summer League teammates was terminated."

  “Competition Rating:

   Playing time: 33 minutes.

   Statistics: 5 of 11 shots, 1 of 1 from three-pointers, 3 of 3 free throws, a total of 14 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals, 1 turnover and 4 fouls.

  Analysis: S.

   Influence: A+

  Comprehensive Score: S-…

  Basic reward +70%, congratulations to the host, healing value +136. "

   "Rocky Mountain Summer League Match Reckoning:

   Appearance record: 7 games, 31 minutes per game.

  Stats: 15.7 points, 5.4 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 1.7 steals, 0.1 blocks per game…

   Record: 4 wins and 0 losses in the preliminaries, 3 wins and 0 losses in the finals, the champion.

  Congratulations to the host for getting the highest reward: healing value +1000.

   The host has received S-rank 2 times in this summer league, and additional reward: healing value +200. "

   "Available healing value: 10622..."

   After the game ended, he got out of that state of concentration. Looking at the system prompts and his teammates celebrating together, Liu Xiu was a little dazed.

   Immediately, he chose to ignore everything else. When Travis Outlo took him to celebrate, he did not refuse and celebrated with his teammates.

   At this moment, everyone is immersed in the joy of victory.

  In the beginning, everyone didn’t think that the results of a summer league were important. Everyone had their own thoughts, goals, and troubles.

   They don't even think they can win a few games at first, they just do what they want to do.

   But don't know from which day their goals were unified.

   They started to play with confidence.

   Fighting, their goal is very simple - to the end, to win the championship!

  Now, they did it!

   At this moment, Liu Xiu and his teammates are enjoying the purest joy of basketball and the purest joy of victory!

  After celebrating for a while, the organizer held an award ceremony.

   Compared to the Orlando Summer League, it is much more formal.

  The championship trophy is quite a design.

In terms of individual awards, Mo Williams of the Jazz won the MVP of the Rocky Mountain Summer League, and Travis Outlaw of the Trail Blazers relied on 26 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 blocks in a single game in the final. , won the Rocky Mountain Summer League Finals MVP.

   Not to mention fame, Travis Outlaw is also a little famous in this summer league, letting some basketball fans know that it is a crime to have a high school rookie name.

   Travis Outlaw, holding the championship trophy and the final trophy, is undoubtedly the most dazzling player in this game.

   But the attention of the Blazers coach and chief assistant was on Liu Xiu.

   "Kevin, do you think this kid can bring something different to our team?"

   "Jess is great, but it's hard, his style of leadership is great, but he's just a rookie, and...unlike a leader, the NBA is so different from summer league, there's nothing to compare it to."

  Maurice-Cheeks rubbed his chin beard: "This kid, what are you doing so well? Why show such good talent? It gave me so much expectation!"

  Kevin Pritchard smiled and shook his head.

   Indeed, he and the head coach beside him have been raising their expectations for Liu Xiu unconsciously.

  The reason is simple - the players you choose and the talents you discover will always have extra goodwill and extra expectations.

Now, looking at the rookies who can draw the loudest cheers and screams just by looking at their faces, Maurice Cheeks and Kevin Pritchard are back to the way they were when they first became coaches Enthusiasm, that kind of worry and anticipation for the unknown!

   5000 words for a recommended monthly ticket~ There is a chapter in the evening.

   (end of this chapter)