Healing Basketball

   Chapter 62 62. Germination of Ambition

   During the preseason, after lunch on game days, Liu Xiu would always say to Travis Outlaw, 'I'll sleep for an hour, call me at that time', and then take a nap in the lounge.

  Travis Outlaw has never refused since the first time. Every time he plays Zelda with Nintendo's first-generation handheld, he stays by the sofa, waiting for Liu Xiu to wake up after an hour.

   made it clear that Travis Outlaw was Liu Xiu's bodyguard when he fell asleep.

   But today Liu Xiu was hanging out in the arena after lunch.

   It can be seen that it is because I am going to play the first game of my career, and I am too excited!

   People who have bad relationships look really annoying.

Randolph found Liu Xiu when he was wandering back to the training ground and said: "Jess, don't walk around, don't you like to study the opponent's information? I have our game against the Pistons last season here. Video!"

   "I've seen them all, and I don't think it's helpful. They've all changed their coaches, and their players have also changed..."

  “…”

  It's cool, Randolph doesn't care, he's done what he needs to do anyway.

   Moreover, it's normal to be excited for the first show in your career, and it will be difficult to see Liu Xiu like this in the future.

   But there is still something that makes Liu Xiu stop pressing the road - an interview from a domestic TV station.

  Finally, the game will start in a few hours, and Liu Xiu has become the protagonist of the court platform.

  Liu Xiu learned from Bill Duffy that at 10 o'clock this morning, the shooting team of the Imperial Court was still in Houston. Now they are running from Houston to Portland in a series of rotations. There is no rest, and the camera will start shooting.

   During the interview, there was nothing wrong with the questions raised by the reporter, and Liu Xiu was naturally gentle and polite.

After the interview, Bill Duffy saw Liu Xiu's rare expression without a smile, and comforted: "Jess, don't affect your emotions because of this matter, there are only so many reporters sent to the United States by the TV station, and they are already in the first place. Time to come..."

Liu Xiu finally stopped sulking, and said with a smile: "I understand that each of them has worked hard, and I didn't vent my unhappy feelings to the reporters who came to interview, right? As long as the questions they asked were normal, My answer will also be normal.

  I know that the interview arrangement was decided by their leaders, no wonder they.

  I can understand that their leaders made such an arrangement, which is determined by attention and influence.

   But, even though I look at it so calmly, I still have negative emotions... Maybe I should thank the person who made this distinction.

   I didn’t think I would care about this before, but now I know, I do, and I’m more eager to succeed than ever! "

   In just a few seconds just now, Bill Duffy saw a Liu Xiu he had never seen before.

  Although he immediately changed back to his gentle smile and sloppy air, Bill Duffy was impressed by his vigor at that moment!

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  …

   After a few days of impetuousness, a few days of anticipation, and more than a year of preparation... Liu Xiu's first career battle is finally here!

   At 5:40 pm on October 31, 2003, at the Portland Rose Garden Arena, Liu Xiu stood in the tunnel of the home team and was so excited.

  Everything off the court, when it's on the court, doesn't matter.

  Looking at the familiar piston five tigers—

   After wandering for many years, he finally found a foothold in the 1997 No. 1 overall pick - Chauncey Billups last season.

  The second talented high school student in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, born in a sports family, became a first-class scorer in the second year of entering the NBA, and also played with Jordan as a teammate-Richard Hamilton.

  The most stable star in the history of the University of Kentucky, the university became the team MVP 3 times in 4 years, and led the team to the top 16 of the NCAA National Basketball Championship every year - Taishaun Prince.

   may be the strongest undrafted pick. He won a fully guaranteed contract for the first time in the fourth year of his career, and then got out of control. He has won the best defensive player for two consecutive years-Ben Wallace.

  The Fifth Tiger…

  Oh, the fifth tiger is in the deepest part of the home team's player tunnel. The strongest player of their pioneer team, Tianzun, has not yet gone to the opposite side.

   Looking at those familiar faces, his whole body seemed to be boiling with blood!

   His NBA career, right now, right now, right now, is about to begin!

   Every time he steps on the field, Liu Xiu's fighting spirit is very enthusiastic, but compared to now, it is far worse.

   At this time, he really understood how much he loves the sport, and how much he wants to succeed after it is possible!

   The only pity - in the Rose Garden Arena, the emotions of the fans were not so high.

   But it doesn't matter, Liu Xiu now has a goal - let the fans cheer for them! Crazy for them!

   Of course, it is not to do it right now, but to set such a goal.

Just like now... After the visiting team players finished playing, the DJ's deep voice became high-pitched, trying to guide the enthusiasm of the fans at the scene, and it did have some effect. When the DJ called the players to enter the stadium, the spotlight hit the home team's player tunnel. When the two rookies Liu Xiu and Travis Outlaw appeared in the spotlight, there were cheers...but more boos! Especially when Liu Xiu was featured on the big screen, the boos obviously overshadowed the cheers!

   Although he is in high spirits and has a strong desire, he can still judge the current situation calmly. Now, it is still very early for him to make the fans go crazy for them.

  This booing, he also expected, he can receive so many boos from home fans in the preseason, and in the regular season, all 20,630 seats in the Rose Garden Arena are full, and he will definitely receive more boos.

   Not to mention, after the preseason, those topics that were fired after the draft were fired again, which is bound to evoke fans' nostalgia for Bunch Wells.

  Although this talented star only has a contract year to work hard, he is really strong when he works hard.

   And Liu Xiu, in the eyes of Blazers fans, is nothing but a good-looking face.

   In the opening game, Liu Xiu's face value fans and the small group of fans of back fighting skills had no sense of existence at all.

   It's not that he doesn't care about this, but he has psychological construction. When the boos came, he was like, "Look, I guess right?" ' little pride.

  People, there are always so many things that you can't control, most of which you don't like, you can only have some fun.

  The two rookies Liu Xiu and Travis Outlaw ran out first, and the other 7 non-starters ran behind them and lined up in two rows.

   After entering the stadium, Liu Xiu felt that the stadium was a bit different from the previous preseason games.

   It's not because there are more fans at the scene, but in different places, Liu Xiu feels that it comes from himself...

   In the opening game, DJ introduced each substitute player one by one, instead of reciting their names during the regular season, but introducing them.

When    introduced Liu Xiu, there was another wave of boos.

   Again and again... Liu Xiu is really getting used to the boos now.

Xiu I don’t know, when there will be a lot of scenes with lights and big screens for the substitutes in the opening game, in the domestic side, in the live broadcast of the court station, the commentator is passionately introducing his college resume, summer league and preseason games. Moments of light.

   Indeed, Liu Xiu is not very popular in China, but domestic basketball players are full of expectations for him!

  Before Liu Xiu, there were three Chinese players who played in NBA games, Wang Zhizhi, Battelle, and Yao Ming. They were all insiders. Now there is finally an outsider!

Although the leaders do not pay much attention to Liu Xiu, who has a bad reputation, the commentators who walk around the United States all year round do not care about the 'reputation' that the domestic leadership does not know why they care so much. They know very well that if Liu Xiu does not have this Notoriety, in American basketball, I don't know how hard it is.

  The leadership team did not give Liu Xiu resources, so they would support it with limited resources!

   Liu Xiu didn't know about these things. At the scene, when the spotlight moved away from the non-starters and the big screen was aimed at the home team's player channel, Liu Xiu squatted down in the dark and touched the floor under his feet.

  'It turns out that as a player, it's the real emotion of loyalty...not the team, not the fans, not the jersey...but the stadium! ’

   After touching it, Liu Xiu stood up with a smile on his face, waiting for the end of the entrance ceremony for the top five starters.

Xiu didn't know, the scene of him squatting just now was taken by someone. Although the light diffused from the player tunnel was dim, his handsome face was clearly photographed by a female fan... Collection Album, Tags I've thought about how to write it - Jayce Liu, the 13th overall pick in the 2003 first round, touched the floor on the court.

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   After the players of the two teams entered the stadium, the lights were on, and the two teams were actively involved in the final preparations before the game, and there was no communication.

   Neither side looked like a good person. The ESPN sports broadcaster who broadcast the game teased that the opening game of the two teams was like a gangster fire and live.

   At 5:58, the two teams came to the field.

   Pistons starting: Billups, Hamilton, Prince, Ben Wallace, Okur.

   Blazers starting: Damon Stoudemire, Ruben Patterson, Travis Outlaw, Randolph, Rasheed Wallace.

  Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace came to the center circle.

   The players of the two teams had no goodwill towards each other. When they faced each other on the court, the tense atmosphere immediately appeared.

   In the face of Ben Wallace, who is much shorter than himself, Tianzun did not dare to be careless, and actively used the last time to adjust his body, trying his best to win the jump ball and get off to a good start.

  If you want to win, Tianzun is serious!

   At 6 o'clock in the evening, the unpopular regular season opener between the Trail Blazers and the Pistons, which was broadcast live by ESPN Sports in the United States and China's Imperial Sports Channel, started!

   The referee blew the whistle at the start of the game and threw the ball into the air. Rasheed Wallace took off hard and beat Ben Wallace to win the jump ball. The Trail Blazers took the lead!

  Liu Xiu sat on the sidelines, staring at the Pistons' retreat formation.

  Kevin Plitcha didn't look at the court for the first time after the game, but at Liu Xiu...

  Liu Xiu's face is still smiling + sloppy, but his eyes change with the change of the situation on the field, sometimes opening wider, sometimes squinting.

   Throwing in the observation game!

   Even if he is not a starter, even if he does not have a lot of playing time, this rookie will be ready for everything he can do... Excellent!

For Liu Xiu, Kevin Plitcha was very satisfied, but the situation on the field, Kevin Plitcha took his eyes away from Liu Xiu and put it back on the court. After a while, he met with coach Morris. - Like Cheeks, his head hurts.

  'The mouse can't fly anymore, but it doesn't listen to persuasion at all! ’

   In the past few days, at the behest of Maurice Cheeks, Kevin Pritchard gave Momo the last chance, and he has been communicating with Momo these days.

   But it doesn't look like this guy has changed his mind at all, yes, more alone than the last game of the preseason.

   It can even be seen that the mouse that can't fly has a desperate feeling.

  The brain is really a good thing! If you don't, it will give you a headache.

   It's okay to be sloppy when playing the weak chicken team, but the opener! The opponent is the Pistons!

   Momonga's sharp breakthrough was strangled by the defenses of Ben Wallace and Hamilton. In the opening 3 minutes and 51 seconds, the Trail Blazers scored zero in the sports battle! Relying only on Rasheed - Wallace received Randolph's offensive rebound and scored the ball to cause the opponent to foul and get two points.

   On the Pistons side, they only scored 6 points in nearly 4 minutes, which is a fairly low score. In 48 minutes, the rhythm of scoring less than 80 points in the whole game.

   But it was like this, but the Blazers were 2-6 behind by 4 points, and Maurice Cheeks called a timeout!

  Liu Xiu watched the game with piercing eyes. He chose to change the angle - admiring the Pistons' defense...just as ugly.

   He couldn't think of any adjectives to describe the nearly 4-minute game except ugly.

Liu Xiu recalled that the Pacers, the team that Jim Carrey really built successfully. Although it collapsed without results, it was built well, and the offense and defense were integrated. Perfect.

  But Jim Carrey's first time as a coach, a team that was almost completed and fell into the hands of Larry Brown. This style of painting...

  Don't say, Liu Xiu thinks the Pistons are really strong! Even if there is no Tianzun, this Pistons team is very strong!

  Liu Xiu closed his eyes, took advantage of the pause, reviewed the Pistons defense just now, and then continued to study and prepare for the game.

   At this time, a person sat next to him and asked, "Jess, do you want to play?"

"think."

   replied like this, but Liu Xiu didn't open her eyes.

   Maurice Cheeks did this a few times in the preseason, but he was always teasing him and would wait until the end of the first quarter or even the second half of the second quarter before letting him play…

   "I think you haven't stood up yet, do you want me to help you on the field?"

   With this unkind tone, Liu Xiu quickly stood up, as if he really wanted him to play!

   Give a player full of uncertainties a chance, and there is a high probability of encountering an accident. The Blazers encountered it this time - the flying squirrel is even more malignant than the preseason!

   Originally, he wasn't in such a hurry, but he was too jealous of Liu Xiu.

   From a certain point of view, Momonga's recognition of Liu Xiu's talent is no less than the two coaches of the team.

   This was also an unexpected situation for Liu Xiu, but after the initial loss, he calmed down immediately, stood next to the coach, and waited for the arrangement.

  Maurice Cheeks was very satisfied, to the extent of surprise, so he gave it a try on a whim. Originally, he planned to send Derek Anderson for stability... After all the words were said, let this rookie go!

   After listening to the tactical adjustments made by the coach Maurice Cheeks according to the rotation, Liu Xiu came to the sidelines, and the boos came again... His heart is clear now.

The moment    stepped onto the court, the system prompt came...

   "The Great Mage:

   Game Status:

  Copy objects:

   Teammate: Zach Randolph, Skill Transformation Talent: Low Post Singles…

   Opponent: To be chosen…”

   I originally planned to study it carefully, observe the strengths of the opponent's players with my own eyes, and guess what might be copied... This is also a kind of fun.

   Now, multiple choice questions are easy.

  ‘System boss, copy Hamilton! ’

  "...The host has successfully replicated Richard Hamilton's characteristic transformation talent: Pursuit.

   Pursuit: In a single-round attack, the negative impact of the host’s physical consumption on shooting has been greatly weakened…”

  …

  …

   is more than 8000 words again, let's order a monthly ticket recommendation ticket, thank you.

   (end of this chapter)