Healing Basketball - Chapter 572

   Chapter 572 572. The position of the warden who was targeted (6000 words)

  Liu Xiu didn’t expect that the torture game became the last collective activity of the 11 people who stayed in the 2005 Trail Blazers champion team.

   The next day, on the morning of November 24th, the league officially approved the deal, and Delfino and Varejao left.

  After saying goodbye to their teammates, they left the hotel and headed to the airport together. The boss told them to use the ‘Rose Bay Prison’ to send them away.

   They often bicker over football matters. After all, they are from Brazil and Argentina, the king-level countries of football. This time they were traded away together, or they went to different teams. Both of them were quite reluctant.

Often because of football quarrels, they always need to find information about football players and teams that the other side likes to attack each other. Over time, they know more about the other side’s favorite stars and teams than the other side, and slowly become confidants. .

   was traded, they actually had a hunch that their playing time this season is more than their current strength should have.

Varejao was sent to the Rockets by the Blazers in exchange for Deshaun Stevenson of the Magic. He was more satisfied with the new owner. In order to get him, the other party sent Joe Smith away from Bill Darby. Fei learned from there that the new owner has the idea of ​​​​training him to become an inside defense gate next to Bynum, a talented high school student, and he actually got better opportunities for development.

   Of course, it was a bit difficult for him, who averaged 6.4 points, 4.9 rebounds and 0.9 blocks in 17 minutes per game, to replace the 24-year-old Stevenson, so he also took Delfino.

   Compared to Varejao, who has the potential to become a first-class player, Delfino is worse. He averaged 5 points, 2.2 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 0.9 steals in 18 minutes per game, and was left by the Magic.

   The Trail Blazers used these two players in exchange for Deshaun Stevenson and the Rockets’ 2006 second-round pick.

The Magic sent Deshaun Stevenson to the Trail Blazers’ Carlos Delfino, the Bucks’ 2006 first-round pick from the Rockets, Joe Smith, and David – Wesley is left with a junk contract worth more than $5 million this season.

  The Rockets sent two draft picks and two players in exchange for Varejao.

  After the details of the transaction were announced, the Rockets’ operation was blinding people’s eyes.

  Joe Smith, a high-quality mid-level contract, the Magic earned.

David Wesley is useless for the Rockets. They grabbed Alston, the streetball king who is suitable for selling tickets, from the free market for 8 million in two years. There is no place for David Wesley, but he is right. For the Magic, they have a solid point guard backup, albeit at a higher salary.

   And the Magic earned more than ten million dollars in annual salary by virtue of the salary space, and also got a first-round pick from the Rockets as compensation, and they made a lot of money.

   It is said that the Blazers owner Paul Allen also wants to take the contract, but unfortunately their salary space is long gone, so he can only watch a high-quality mid-level power forward like Joe Smith go to other teams.

Careful netizens found that the Rockets chose this transaction for only one purpose—the total salary has been reduced by 10.22 million US dollars, and now the total salary is only 37.92 million US dollars, ranking second to last in the league, with only more than 33 million US dollars in the Bobcats salary. lower than them.

   But the Rockets trade like this, although it is blinding, it is not surprising.

By sending off Francis and Yao Ming, the Rockets now have a lot of intermediate assets, most of which are positive assets, such as Desmond Mason, Darius Miles, Danny Granger…etc., the most important The thing is they have a lot of draft picks in the future!

  The new star Richard Hamilton is averaging 20+ per game, and the core Andrew Bynum to be cultivated is outstanding, but the age difference between the two is too far, so Richard Hamilton is also on the Rockets’ trading shelf.

   Now the Rockets are worried that there are too many high-quality assets. If they want to trade other teams, they have to lower the price. It is their top priority to get back some real, cheap long-term assets.

  There are rumors that the Rockets will send Joe Smith away because the talented high school student Bynum will be led astray by Joe Smith.

The Blazers have received a good evaluation of this trade. They all know they want to trade, and they all know the direction they want to strengthen. There are many teams like the 76ers who want to make a high price to make a prison team. Thinking that they actually took the big head Rockets in, they successfully completed the replenishment of defensive players on the front and back lines.

But then the media broke the news that Deshaun Stevenson was just the Trail Blazers’ backup choice, while Maurice Peterson of the Raptors and Ryan Gomez of the Celtics were the Trail Blazers. of choice.

  …

   Before the new aid arrived, the media began to sow discord. Liu Xiu paid tribute to these media, which is really dedicated.

  It doesn’t matter if you get used to this kind of thing. As for whether the legendary James Terminator with a perverse personality will get angry because of it, we will talk about it later.

Aside from favors and only talking about business, Delfino is like an all-around poor man’s version of the extrajudicial madman. The defense relies on skills, but he is not as good as the extrajudicial madman. .

   Whenever Delfino is on the court, the strength of the small forward position has plummeted, and there is no change at all, it is simply weakened.

   Now a brutalist defender who relies on his body for defense and is good at confrontation has greatly optimized the lineup structure.

Upgrading Delfino to Deshaun Stevenson comes at the cost of Varejao, who was already on the trade list, the bloated center position is solved, and Mourning can take off his suit and play !

   After this three-way deal, the characteristics of their prison team’s players have become more diverse!

The new aid is not available yet. Varejao and Delfino went to the airport to move back to Portland. Fortunately, although Fred Jones and Mourning were not on the activation list, they have been traveling with the team. Tonight’s 12 The list of people to activate is enough.

  The divisional battle in the Northwest Division is not very friendly to the Trail Blazers.

   Seattle, the best living environment, this time without them on the road.

   Minneapolis is cold, Salt Lake City is not only cold but also racist, Denver is even more extreme, not to mention the cold is still a plateau.

   But the Blazers had good luck in all three games.

The core of the Jazz is too young to be bullied; the Timberwolves McHale has to fold a good hand. They were still fighting for the championship last summer. After only one season, they are already fighting for the No. 1 pick, and they still have one of the best comprehensive strengths in the league. player’s case.

   The Nuggets are also in trouble right now.

  Tonight, the Nuggets can’t play except for the season-refunded Nene, and Marcus Camby can’t play either.

  The little melon is now a little bitter gourd, more because of Camby.

  Nene was an unexpected situation. Camby was so simple. Last season, he did it anyway. This year, it has become a pure data brush, because the contract has been obtained, and it is 40 million US dollars for 4 years.

   If nothing else, just starting with 45% shooting and averaging 13 points per game, Anthony wanted to cry.

   It’s okay to brush the data, anyway, it still has some effect, but in addition to brushing the data, Camby’s attributes of the glass man have also reappeared this year. He missed 6 games in the first 11 games, and his attendance rate was less than 50%.

  He started with 28 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists per game! The hit rate is 47.1%! C can’t lead the team even if he bleeds. After starting with 4 wins and 1 loss, he immediately suffered a 4-game losing streak.

   The Nuggets have won the past two games and are currently only 6 wins and 5 losses, but they are still not in the top eight in the Western Conference.

   Tonight, facing the Blazers with strong insiders, the Nuggets’ two centers couldn’t play, and only Kenyon Martin, who ‘did Kidd to prove himself’…

   At 8 p.m., the Blazers’ away game against the Nuggets started.

Randolph and Raheem exploded tonight. The two took turns to bully Kenyon Martin. The former played 20 minutes and scored 21 points, and the latter played 18 minutes and scored 16 points. To 37 points!

Liu Xiu led the team to attack on the inside advantage, leading 24 to 20 in the first quarter, 29 to 24 in the second quarter, and 34 to 25 in the third quarter with the biggest advantage. Play, but do not affect the victory already in hand.

Anthony made 14 of 29 shots tonight, including 0 of 2 3-pointers, plus 13 of 16 free throws, 41 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals. Taking advantage of the Trail Blazers front line, only the extrajudicial fanatic made a good return. Soaring, but it was difficult to make up for the huge gap in strength inside. Kenyon Martin played only 9 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block in 27 minutes.

The Blazers relied on Randolph’s 21 points and 6 rebounds, Raheem’s 16 points and 4 rebounds, Mourning’s 4 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block, Kwame Brown’s 8 points and 14 rebounds, and Ray Allen’s 22 points , Liu Xiu’s 14 points, 7 rebounds and 14 assists … 110 to 94 victory over the Nuggets, winning 6 consecutive victories!

  …

  10 wins and 2 losses, the Blazers became the first team to get 10 wins in the new season, surpassing the current 8 wins and 2 losses of the Pistons, and temporarily topped the league!

   That’s surprising. The Blazers had such an easy start to a 4-2 record, which seemed stumbling. At the time, people thought they were in the same slump as the other defending champions.

   It is not uncommon for the defending champions to lose their record.

Like the 2000 champion Lakers, with 67 wins in the 1999-00 season, a historic record, but in the 2000-01 season, they only had 56 wins. In the 2001-02 season, although they recovered a little, they only had 58 wins, except for the first championship. , are not the first in the West, after three consecutive championships in the 02-03 season, if Kobe Bryant led the team to reverse the Warriors with 14 points in the last quarter of the curtain call game, they would not have won 50 wins that season.

The 2003 champion Spurs were also surpassed by the Timberwolves and the Trail Blazers in the 2003-04 season; the 2004 champion Pacers were only fourth in the Eastern Conference last season.

  The Trail Blazers look the same. Although they introduced Ray Allen, the lineup structure and style of play have changed too much. It is estimated that even if their record is going to improve, they will have to wait until the lineup structure is adjusted.

   I didn’t expect their record to improve before the lineup structure was adjusted! A mighty 6-game winning streak, rushed to the first in the league!

   And the opponent with 6 consecutive victories is obviously slightly stronger than the 4 wins and 2 losses.

The Blazers only got 4 wins and 2 losses with such an easy start, which made some media very excited. They made a lot of remarks that looked down on the performance of the Blazers this season. They were not optimistic about the role of Ray Allen. Allen picked the wrong team.

  Although these media thought that they might be slapped in the face, they didn’t expect the slap to come so quickly!

   Blazers fans are naturally excited, and they feel like they’ve been the luckiest fans since the summer of 2003.

   With such a good start, the team’s lineup structure has been adjusted smoothly, and Delfino has been upgraded to Deshaun Stevenson!

Using Delfino + Varejao in exchange for Deshaun Stevenson, and also earning a second-round pick that is not expected to be too low, this transaction, even those media who have been blackening them, They can only talk about Varejao’s talent and future, but they have never pinned their future on a backup center like Varejao, completing reinforcements around the warden and creating better conditions for defending the title. They seem to be more important.

   Blazers fans seem to be able to see the bright future of this season… but surprises always come unexpectedly.

   On the morning of November 25th, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland after playing three consecutive games. In the afternoon, they announced a bad news – Randolph suffered a fatigue strain due to overtraining and needed to be out for one to two weeks.

  Randolph, a fat man who gained 11kg in the summer and started 129kg, got injured because of training too hard? The fans’ first reaction was fake news!

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   Watching Randolph eat the dishes for three by himself, Liu Xiu knew that this guy didn’t affect his mood because of the injury, and he was probably happy to be able to rest for a few games without playing.

When    learned that Randolph was injured during training, Liu Xiu felt too absurd.

   After contacting the team, I learned that this is true!

   When they returned to Portland this morning, as usual, team doctor Thomas Carter asked each player how he was doing, and if there was a problem, he would check it out, and if necessary, he would do a more detailed examination.

  Randolph felt occasional throbbing pains in his thigh muscles. A cautious Thomas Carter took him for a detailed examination and found the injury.

Liu Xiu asked the team doctor in detail, and it was really exhausting. In the past 40 days, the trainer’s statistics of Randolph’s additional training in weight loss, basic skills, techniques, etc. averaged more than 4 hours a day. This average includes the competition. day.

In the past 40 days, they have played 6 preseason games and 12 regular season games, and they also have time to fly around. That is to say, there are often breaks for everyone, and Randolph spends a whole day on the training ground by himself. Happening!

   During the season, if you practice like this, you won’t be injured.

   And being able to practice for so long before he gets hurt, he has an extraordinary talent.

   Knowing that Randolph was really injured, Liu Xiu prepared several food boxes and brought Anne Hathaway to Randolph’s house to visit the doctor.

   Seeing that Randolph was still eating, Liu Xiu complained, “I didn’t expect you to work hard behind our backs. Could it be that you want to secretly work hard for 40 days to amaze everyone?”

  Randolph rolled his eyes and looked at Liu Xiu: “You didn’t force it.”

   Liu Xiuyi asked with a question mark in his head: “When did I push myself?”

   Randolph angrily said: “You are progressing so fast, I can’t be left behind by you if I don’t work hard?”

   “Well…” Liu Xiu thought about it and asked, “Then I won’t make progress first, waiting for you?”

   “Don’t! I still want to win.”

   “Right, I can’t do anything about it. I haven’t practiced much. I just practiced casually. I’m so desperate!”

  Randolph clenched his fists, really wanting a wave of extreme challenges.

Liu Xiu looked at the +88 healing value prompt, very satisfied, and joked: “I asked the team doctor, your injury, if your luck is not too bad, you can treat it while playing the game, I think you are very lucky , why don’t you take the initiative to apply to play?”

   “I don’t want it!” Randolph was not at all excited: “Although I am lucky, I can’t help but have bad luck. Look at the jumping boy of the Suns. He suffered similar injuries and was reimbursed for the final season.”

   “Yes, but a famous person said, why sleep for a long time…”

   “Then let him sleep before he dies. Don’t sleep every day now!”

   “Then do you also need to adjust your high-intensity training plan?”

   “You want to take this opportunity to widen the gap with me? Humph! Don’t even think about it! But I don’t think I need to practice 10 hours a day to surpass you again…”

  …

I got the news from Liu Xiu that Randolph was very kind. After the injury, he did not insist on playing the game. He was obediently recuperating from the injury at home. The later training plan was also adjusted. The vice president who stayed to accompany the coaching staff to work overtime to adjust tactics was relieved. .

   The vice president sighed: “Fortunately, Sharif took a pay cut and stayed in the team, otherwise we would have to become an outside offensive team or risk Zach to play games with an injury.”

   The coach replied: “Even if Sharif doesn’t stay in the team, we can’t let him play with Zach injured.”

   The vice president nodded: “Yes, I think Thomas’s concept of paying attention to minor injuries and preventing major injuries is very good. More and more players have suffered major injuries in the past two years.”

   “I actually thought I could try to become an outside offensive team…”

   “You get me out!”

   “This is my office…”

   “Then I’ll go!”

   The vice president feels that the coach Xiuerhua has become more and more serious!

   Overnight, the news of Randolph’s injury spread and fermented. Yesterday, the Blazers fans who rejoiced because of their 10-2 record were struck by lightning. Those media who made money by attacking the Blazers’ blog traffic re-emerged!

It’s another game day, Liu Xiu got up at 7 in the morning, and after breakfast, she took her sister to surf the Internet for a while, and sure enough, the remarks that looked down on them came again, and those who didn’t know thought that Randolph was reimbursed for the season. The best description is that Randolph is a man of glass.

   This statement made Liu Xiu feel so frightened, so he hurriedly ate two more pancakes to suppress his shock.

   There was a game today, and there was no extra training arrangement with McDyess and other teammates. Liu Xiu went out at about the same time, and arrived at the arena at about the same time.

   When he went to the locker room to change his clothes, Liu Xiuzhen clearly understood that if he encouraged his teammates later, he should take the responsibility of the boss. After the transaction, he would need to do the work of stabilizing the army and the number one inside player after the injury.

   Changed into the training uniform and entered the training ground. Liu Xiu saw the time. It was 8:50, which was very good. He entered the training ground 8 minutes earlier than usual. Time was enough.

   As he expected, after he entered the court, all eyes were on him.

   He enjoys the feeling of being in the spotlight, he likes to be in the spotlight… At this moment someone stands in his way.

   Liu Xiu looked unhappy, who is it?

Oh! New here, here to meet the boss?

   When Liu Xiu was ready to show the old-fashioned style to receive the newcomer, DeShawn-Stevenson said: “You are the warden?”

  ”?” A question mark appeared on Liu Xiu’s head: “Have we ever had a matchup? With such a handsome opponent as me, you shouldn’t be able to find a second one, right?”

  ”…” Stevenson was speechless for a moment, this answer was different from what he expected!

   Don’t care, Stevenson followed the plan: “Hmph, you look a bit strong, do you dare to fight one-on-one?”

   What’s wrong with this new teammate? Forget it, new comers, bear with it.

  Liu Xiu replied: “There is no problem with heads-up, but you have no chance to win one-on-one. You can’t stand it when I break through, and I can stand it when you break through and shoot.”

  Stevenson realized that the warden didn’t understand what he meant, and everyone around laughed, he roared: “I’m not talking about playing basketball! It’s this! Fist!”

   Watching James Terminator waving his fists in exasperation, Liu Xiu suddenly realized.

   He rolled his eyes at the teammates who were already watching.

   No wonder his teammates all stared at him as soon as he came in, and they all knew that someone was looking for him to duel him?

   It’s no wonder he didn’t understand the meaning of this newcomer. He had already forgotten when was the last time someone asked him for a duel.

   Liu Xiu asked, “Why are you asking me for a duel?”

  Stevenson said seriously: “I want to challenge you, beat you, and become the leader of the team!”

   Liu Xiu kindly asked again: “Are you sure?”

  Stevenson replied without hesitation: “Of course!”

  Liu Xiu nodded, took off the schoolbag, held it with one hand and stretched it aside, the extrajudicial fanatic appeared in a flash to take the backpack.

  Liu Xiu moved his shoulders and said, “I’m ready, come on, I won’t hold back, hurry up if you want to ask for mercy.”

  Stevenson wanted to start spraying when he heard the words, but seeing Liu Xiu’s face, he didn’t know why he felt danger, as if it came from an animal instinctive sense of crisis.

   The guy in front of him obviously looks like the protagonist of an idol drama, and he doesn’t seem to have angular muscles… Just as Stevenson was a little cowardly, he heard the coaxing voice of his new teammates next to him.

   “Come on, newcomer, kill the warden!”

   “Deshaun, I support you, become the new warden!”

   “DeShawn, DeShawn…”

  Deshaun-Stevenson heard these voices, and the slightest thought of admitting counsel was cleared. He came here this morning and yelled that he was going to turn over the warden, and now he can’t do it!

   Moreover, he felt that the new teammates were really cheering for him, and the animal’s instinctive sense of crisis was now out of order.

   Looking at the prison that is shorter than himself, he feels that he has a good chance of winning, and the handsome guy will fight a fart!

  Stevenson swung a punch towards Liu Xiu. He used a lot of strength for this punch, but he missed it! He almost fell because of inertia, but luckily the warden opposite helped him.

   There were laughter around, and before Stevenson thought about why everyone was laughing, the warden’s voice came – “Give you one more chance, do you want to ask for mercy?”

  Stevenson threw his arm back when he heard the words, and was dodged by the other party. He almost fell to the ground because of too much strength, and was supported by the warden opposite.

   The voice that made him mad came again – “I’ll ask you one last time, ask for mercy?”

   Of course not, Stevenson never says die! Even if the opposing warden asked him a hundred times more, he would not beg for mercy!

But this time he didn’t make another move, he felt his whole body floating up, he couldn’t breathe in or spit out his breath for a moment, his vision seemed to slow a beat, and he flew up, only then did he see that the warden had already It stuck to him sideways… No, he was hit by the warden and flew up!

  The pain and vision returned at the same time, and Stevenson felt like his whole body was about to fall apart! Breathing is still difficult!

At this point he landed on his feet, he felt like he lost control of his body, he wanted to stand, but… but he didn’t need to be ashamed of being unsteady, the warden took one of his arms and put it on his shoulder, Drilled into his chest, and with all his strength, he flew up again!

   After a whirlwind, the last thing Stevenson heard was the frantic screaming and cheering of his teammates, and what he saw was Liu Xiu getting up and tidying up his training clothes, and then…

  Stevenson was beaten by Liu Xiu with two tricks!

   (end of this chapter)