Healing Basketball - Chapter 584

   Chapter 584 584. The Butcher’s Reintegration

   The 16-4 Pistons overtook the 15-4 Trail Blazers to the top of the league!

   4 consecutive games, 2 wins and 2 losses, the Trail Blazers played their worst stage record since the beginning of the season. On December 10, Liu Xiu and his teammates flew back to Portland with a little frustration.

But after returning to Portland on the ‘Rose Bay Prison’, thousands of fans still came to pick up the plane, with cheers, cheers, and consoling slogans… At this moment, Liu Xiu felt that they had this session. The Blazers players have really built a solid local fan base.

  As a basketball player, only the expectations of the fans can not live up to!

  Liu Xiu entered the intermittent striving mode.

   I went home and had a good night’s rest. On December 11th, the home court came back to back!

   At 6:40 p.m., the Blazers played back-to-back first games and ushered in the challenge of the Timberwolves.

   Tomorrow’s back-to-back second game opponent Pacers, some players also came to the scene to watch the game.

   Before the game, Liu Xiu and Tianzun had a small chat, but they didn’t chat much.

The relationship will always fade. The main reason is that Tianzun won his first career championship in the Pacers, and his teammates with the Pacers players in that session are better than the ‘Rose Bay Seven’ in just half a season. The relationship is much deeper, and Liu Xiu won the championship in the second year, and the teammate relationship with the 14 teammates last season is also deeper than Tianzun.

   Plus the grievances between Liu Xiu and Artest…

  Although it is an uncontrollable flow of players, the friendship between the warden and Tianzun is still on the road of two-way distance.

  Although the two would still greet each other warmly when they meet, but they can’t go back to the beginning.

   At 7 p.m., the Blazers vs. Timberwolves game starts!

  The fans were very excited tonight – the butcher is back!

In order to help Randolph get back to his state, Liu Xiu gave Randolph 8 singles chances in 9 minutes in the first quarter. Randolph really did not give face, and only scored 6 points on 2 of 8 shots, which made the Trail Blazers first The Timberwolves trailed by two points 22-24 in the quarter.

   The Blazers’ crazy fast-paced offense in the past two games was directly wiped out by Randolph.

   But not only Liu Xiu, everyone in the team is accommodating Randolph, giving Randolph the most opportunities, teamwork, and singles opportunities.

   In the second quarter, Randolph was not dispatched at first, and Momonga, Liu Xiu and Garnett dealt with each other for half of the quarter.

  Randolph continued to sit on the sidelines to digest the 9 minutes of the game in the first quarter, watching the game and thinking about how to play next.

   After the official suspension, Randolph returned to the court and performed much better, scoring 7 points on 2 of 4 shots and 3 of 4 free throws.

  The Blazers team worked together, and the score was 26-25 in the second quarter, and the Timberwolves, with only Garnett and Szczerbiak left, easily reversed the situation.

After halftime, the Trail Blazers trailed the Timberwolves 48-49 by only 1 point.

   In the second half, seeing that Randolph was almost getting used to it, Liu Xiu and Ray Allen started the main attack. Randolph played 14 minutes in this half, scored 8 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist on 3 of 7 shots, and his performance recovered.

  Ray Allen scored 13 points in 14 minutes at halftime, and Liu Xiu scored 12 points and 6 assists in 16 minutes.

The offense was actually not as good as when he was focused on helping Randolph regain his offensive feeling in the first half. At that time, he only focused on the offense, and the offense was not that good. He also messed up the offense when he played against the Wizards and Suns. Lost, but also good!

   Halftime The Blazers’ adjustment focus is on strengthening defense!

   The Timberwolves got only 13 points in the third quarter, the Timberwolves only got 21 points in the final quarter, and only 34 points in the second half.

   And the Trail Blazers scored 43 points in the second half!

  Ray Allen had 18 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, Randolph had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Liu Xiu had 23 points, 6 rebounds and 9 assists.

In this game, the Trail Blazers relied on defense and rebounding to complete the reversal. Garnett was scolding the streets throughout the game. He played 42 minutes and scored 16 points, 22 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 5 blocks, scoring, assisting, and stealing. , Not to mention the performance of blocked shots, he got 22 rebounds alone, but the team only got 32 rebounds, and his teammates grabbed less than half of his rebounds!

  91 to 83, the Trail Blazers easily completed the reversal, improving their record to 16 wins and 4 losses, and relied on the advantage of the game to regain the top spot in the league from the Pistons!

  …

   After playing the Timberwolves, I took a night off. On the second day, on December 12, the game day of the second back-to-back game arrived.

   Back to back, there is no preparation training.

   I can’t say no. The preparation training yesterday morning was to prepare for today’s game. In fact, I didn’t prepare for the Timberwolves and went straight to the court.

   Today’s pre-match meeting mainly analyzes the return of Randolph’s style of play, emphasizing which cooperation is good and which is not good.

  Last night, Randolph played 29 minutes and scored 21 points on 7 of 19 shots. The efficiency was not great, but his state gradually improved as the game went deeper. Even Liu Xiu was speechless at this adjustment speed.

  This reminds Payton of another fat guy he once played with, Shaq O’Neal.

After analyzing yesterday’s game, Maurice Cheeks said very clearly: “Butcher, we need you to reintegrate into the team, immediately, right now! If not, the bishop will take your place as the starter, you Be prepared.”

   So serious, Randolph of course agreed.

  Every player felt a lot of pressure when they heard the coach say this, but no one felt that there was anything wrong with this requirement.

Everyone knows that the coach is serious. If Randolph’s next performance is the same as yesterday, he will really be put on the bench. Raheem played for real in the few games Randolph was injured. Well, Raheem will not refuse to return from the bench to the starting position.

   We have already played 20 games in the regular season, and we have played a quarter of the time. We will enter the mid-season in less than half a month. It will definitely not give a certain player too much time to re-run after an injury.

   Unless the player is nicknamed the Warden.

After putting the pressure on Randolph, the coach went to the side and became idle. Huo Tu and Bu Shuai began to make tactical arrangements for tonight’s game. It was limited to the meeting level. After the meeting, they continued to rest and gathered for dinner at 5 o’clock in the evening. , 6:00 to start warm-up preparations…

  …

   In the evening, the Blazers faced back-to-back challenges from the Pacers at home.

   The Pacers’ current record is 14 wins and 6 losses, surpassing the 13 wins and 7 losses of the Heat to come second in the Eastern Conference.

   It wasn’t a game against the Pacers yesterday. Liu Xiu and the others had a chat with Tian Zun before the game. Today, there is no scene of chatting, just do it!

   At 7:58, the pre-match preparations ended and players from both teams came on the field.

   Liu Xiu quickly glanced at the detection reports of the five starting players on the opposite side.

  Jamal Tinsley, with an ability rating of 79, averaged 7.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, 6 assists and 1.3 steals per game.

  Cardino Mobley, with an ability rating of 83, averaged 14.4 points, 2.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.4 steals per game.

  Ron Artest, with an ability rating of 93, averaged 25.5 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.8 steals per game.

  Jermaine O’Neal, with an ability rating of 91, averaged 17.5 points, 9.3 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 2.6 blocks per game.

  Rashid Wallace, with an ability rating of 87, averaged 12.6 points, 6.7 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.8 blocks per game.

  The team has excellent offense, core scorers, veterans, inside pillars, and the twin towers averaged 4.4 blocks per game, the best in the league…

  Also on the bench are Austin Crowhill, Anthony Johnson, Salunas Jascovisius, Jeff Foster, David Harrison and other substitutes.

   After a year of labor pains after winning the championship, the veterans were cleared, and some mid-level players signed around 2000 expired. The Pacers completed the reconstruction and launched a restart towards the championship!

  Although the strength of the lineup is not enough, and the bench lineup is not strong, the defense of the three cores is quite amazing. This season, there are three teams that have allowed less than 90 points per game, and the Pacers are one of them!

   Liu Xiu’s four starting teammates, Ray Allen, Outlaws, Randolph, and Kwame Brown.

   At 8pm, the game starts!

  The game has entered a defensive battle from the very beginning.

   The best performance of the Trail Blazers in the first quarter was Kwame Brown… After 8 minutes, he scored 6 points, 5 rebounds, 1 steal and 1 block on 3 of 4 shots!

  6 points were all won by offensive rebounds!

Led by Kwame Brown, the Trail Blazers led the Pacers by 4 points 22-18 in the first quarter.

   But in the second quarter, relying on Tianzun’s open three-pointer to score 9 points, the Pacers also gave the Blazers a 22-16 single-quarter score.

After halftime, the Pacers led the Trail Blazers by two points 40-38.

In the third quarter, the Blazers played a difficult quarter and only scored 14 points, while the Pacers relied on Tianzun’s accurate three-pointers, Artest’s sharp breakthrough and Jermaine- O’Neal’s singles, Tinsley’s increasingly steady pass control… 27 points in a single quarter!

Although Liu Xiu led the team with 7 points and 3 assists in a single quarter and scored 26 points in a single quarter and counterattacked a single quarter score of 26 to 19, the Blazers still lost to the Pacers 78 to 86 and ate the season In the fifth loss, the record fell to 16 wins and 5 losses, and was overtaken by the Spurs, who were 17 wins and 5 losses, and fell to the second in the Western Conference and the third in the league!

  …

Liu Xiu scored 20 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists on 8 of 18 shots, and Ray Allen scored 15 points on 6 of 13 shots. This performance against the Pacers was pretty good. Kwame Brown played in 28 minutes and scored 15 points and 14 rebounds can be called an explosion.

   But Randolph only scored 12 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists on 5-of-14 shooting…

In fact, during the game, no one thought that Randolph was not playing well. He maintained his restraint throughout the whole process, and attracted the attention of Tianzun and Jermaine O’Neal, the two towers that defended the first in the league. May Brown had a 15-point chance on 6-of-8 shooting.

   However, Randolph failed to play the role of the inside passing hub in the early season in the offense. The offense was mostly singles, the running position was not good enough, and the position movement was blurred… These are indeed Randolph’s problems.

In the afternoon of the second day of the game against the Pacers, the Blazers left Portland for Minneapolis. In the pregame meeting the next morning, Maurice Cheeks, as promised, put Randolph was put on the bench.

   After the pre-match meeting, Raheem ran to Randolph to show off that he grabbed the starting position. Randolph said a few harsh words, and then held his fat face in his fat hands, taking pity on himself…

   The extrajudicial fanatic of the onlookers asked the warden of the onlookers: “Will the bishop say that won’t make the butcher hold grudges? The butcher’s heart is like a nut.”

   The warden shook his head: “It is precisely because the bishop said so that the butcher will not hold grudges. The butcher is not afraid of competition, but hates being comforted and sympathetic.”

  The extrajudicial fanatic suddenly realized: “So that’s the case, I said how can this bishop be so proud all of a sudden…”

  In the evening, the Blazers came to the Target Center Arena to challenge the Timberwolves away.

  Randolph was really put on the bench, and Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, Outlaws, Rahim, and Kwame Brown made their debut.

This really stimulated Randolph. Randolph, who came off the bench, played 26 minutes, made 9 of 15 shots, plus 7 of 9 free throws, and scored 25 points and 12 rebounds, of which 7 were offensive rebounds. Garnett was beaten badly by the angry fat man.

Under the leadership of Randolph who scored 25 points in 26 minutes, Liu Xiu scored a triple-double of 17 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists, and Ray Allen scored 6 of 8 shots and scored 15 points. 83 easily defeated the Timberwolves and improved their record to 17 wins and 5 losses, tied with the Spurs and tied for the first place in the West with the Spurs!

Randolph returned to the first game. Liu Xiu felt that Randolph was fast enough to find his form. He lost against the Pacers. Liu Xiu didn’t think he could blame Randolph, but the coach felt that it was not enough. To push Randolph.

   It turned out!

   This operation has to be their bold and scribbled coach.

   Previously, Randolph was quick to find his state, purely relying on talent. Now, Randolph is also more active on the psychological level!

   The cooperation between Randolph and his teammates in this game has the feeling before the injury!

   But on Liu Xiu’s side, after this game, he received a system prompt that made him both happy and a bit painful…

   (end of this chapter)