288. The unwilling defensive assistant coach

"Maybe he's still growing..."

Maurice Cheeks came up with a hard explanation for the fact that Liu Xiu's athletic ability has improved significantly in the past year.

"..." After a moment of silence, Paul Allen asked: "Is Jace's comprehensive athletic ability comparable to Travis and Sharif?"

Maurice Cheeks analyzed it and said: "Just looking at practicality, Jayce's comprehensive athletic ability is about the same as Sharif's, and better than Travis's."

After hearing this, Paul Allen, who had dreamed of becoming a basketball superstar when he was a boy but had missed out on the school team in high school, began to provide healing value to the warden...it took him a while to recover.

Paul Allen waved his hand, and the secretary immediately played the video of Liu Xiu's technical test.

We are all players, so there is a huge difference in treatment. Liu Xiu's every test was filmed by the team's cameraman.

Comparing the physical test, which only happens once a year, to technical aspects, Paul Allen has an intuitive impression to compare with the team's old coaches.

They also watched Liu Xiu's games in the Olympics. Compared with when he played against the Lakers, there were improvements in many aspects.

Looking back now, Liu Xiu's skills have improved significantly compared to when he competed in the Olympics.

Something to be expected.

What they cared about was the test that they deliberately put to the end, after Liu Xiu's body was fully mobile - breakthrough!

Not long ago, the news that Liu Xiuhao said that one week is enough to learn about Kobe Bryant's breakthrough was once the focus of public opinion, and they were also very curious.

Different players have really big differences in trial treatment.

Liu Xiu's sparring partner for his breakthrough test—Lynch Hunter.

188 cm, 89 kg, a very strong player at the point guard position.

The ability to prevent breakthroughs is extremely good. Last season, rookie Wade faced the then 33-year-old Lynch Hunter and made 0 of 7 in a single game. He failed to score two free throws. He scored 0 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. He was not injured for the first time in his career.

I ate nothing if I wasn't sick.

The coaching staff had already thought about testing this way and discussed it with Lynch Hunter.

Lynch-Hunter carefully studied Liu Xiu's breakthrough and prepared for the stage when Liu Xiu's form exploded at the end of last season.

But Liu Xiu's breakthrough test performance far exceeded the expectations of Lynch Hunter and the coaching staff!

There is no center to protect the frame behind him, and no forward to help defend. Lynch Hunter, who is good at using his teammates on the defensive end, will have difficulty guarding Liu Xiu in a one-on-one situation. This is for sure.

Liu Xiu's body and excellent forward-changing skills make it difficult to defend against him one-on-one.

But Liu Xiu didn't rely on his body to crush him, but relied on his sense of rhythm and timing to get past Lynch Hunter many times in one-on-one situations!

Out of their trust in Liu Xiu's talent, Paul Allen and the coaching staff felt that Liu Xiu must have learned a lot from Kobe Bryant.

But no matter how much they believed in Liu Xiu's talent, they never imagined that he would be able to directly apply the breakthrough skills he learned from Kobe into actual combat!

Moreover, Liu Xiu is already quite proficient. From their professional perspective, they believe that there is no problem in using Liu Xiu in official competitions!

A group of people began to frantically provide healing value to the warden.

This is not a question of whether owners and coaches should be happy or not.

Everyone would be jealous of this talent!

Not to mention Paul Allen, who dreamed of becoming a star but lost hope in high school, and Kevin Plitchar, who couldn't even play in the NBA.

Even Maurice Cheeks, the retired jersey-level tycoon who left his name in NBA history, is envious!

He worked hard for more than ten years and achieved the achievement of having his jersey retired.

Leave it to the warden, and they can probably do it easily...

After watching Liu Xiu's test video, everyone was silent for a while, and just as they were about to start discussing, the boss suddenly spoke.

"As expected of the genius I was optimistic about from the beginning, I knew he had such talent."

Coaches: Meow meow meow???

Secretary:!!!...I understand!

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The fact that the warden and the butcher clocked in at work on the assembly day was spread by a source within the Trail Blazers team.

There were even secretly taken photos of eight players from the Rose Bay Seven entering the training ground.

The Trail Blazers are in hot news again...

For non-Trail Blazers fans, some are negative and some are making fun of them, but these are not important in the eyes of Trail Blazers fans.

The important thing is that the warden is finally back!

Prison Team is finally open for business!

At the same time, a strange piece of news came into people's view.

Trail Blazers fans don't believe it anyway.

This is a rumor - Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen is Liu Xiu's boss.

But I couldn’t stand the rush of publishing the press release!

The power of capital is terrible.

Just like before, no one took advantage of Liu Xiu's talent and performance on the court.

Because such a hard hack requires more capital investment, and investment at that stage cannot bring matching returns, so it is not as hacky as the capital side.

But now, Liu Xiu has won the Olympic bronze medal, and the American team has not won an Olympic medal for the first time since 1980. The American basketball world is also in the limelight, and the investment can get enough returns, so that kind of hard-hitting has begun.

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The channels for people to obtain information are always limited. If it is hard to believe, many people will believe it. People who have never seen Liu Xiu play will be preconceived when they see such news, and they may not watch Liu Xiu in the future.

competition, but when discussing it with others, I feel that I know everything and that I am different.

Of course, most people still have sharp eyes.

Regarding the statement that Paul Allen is Liu Xiubole, under the bombardment of massive press releases, a group of people really believe it! And the more people refute it, the more this group of people believe it!

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Liu Xiu naturally saw the news in this regard. During the interview, some reporters asked him, but he laughed and did not answer.

How could the warden not guess the boss's little thoughts?

I'm not going to blow someone else's skin, he is his boss after all.

The boss spends this money with no intention of getting anything in return, he just wants to spread the word.

After the registration day, Liu Xiu began to adjust his basic defensive skills under the guidance of new defensive coach Jeff Bzdelik.

Although they had talked on the phone many times before, Bzdelik actually still had a lot of worries - would Liu Xiu be willing to adjust his basic defensive skills if Liu Xiu is so lazy?

This is a very troublesome thing.

But after a few days, he was very surprised.

After five days of training on September 28, the players will have two days of rest, and the official training camp will begin on October 1.

The next morning, Bzdelik reported to his coach.

In fact, they have only recently begun to adjust their personal defense. There are only three players on the Trail Blazers. One is Randolph, who has been "out of contact" for several months. The other two are both returning from the Olympics, Liu Xiu and Delfino.

Delfino's adjustments were completed long before Liu Xiu returned to the team.

Therefore, in this report, Bzdelik mainly reported on things about Liu Xiu.

He lamented to the coach: "I thought Warden would be the one least willing to practice defense, but I was wrong. His learning attitude and concentration are better than anyone else on our team.

In terms of defensive details, he works harder than Ruben and Dell and is more willing to dig deeper!

I have seen many players who, when they encounter a problem, don't want to bother thinking about it when they see it is a small problem. At first, they can't see any impact, but it gets a little worse here, a little worse there, and as time goes by

, two players who initially have the same talent and the same starting point may end up with a big difference in defensive strength!"

Maurice Cheeks likes this new defensive assistant coach very much. He is so good that he can do almost all the defensive work by himself! And he is better than him and the chief assistant coach.

Seeing that Bzdelik was full of praise for Liu Xiu, Maurice Cheeks felt that he needed to give his defensive assistant a vaccination.

"Jeff, uh, how should I put it... You may have misunderstood the warden's hard work. He works very hard when learning something, but he doesn't work so hard all the time..."

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Soon, the two-day break passed and the official training camp for the 2004-2005 season began.

After another two days of training, Bzdelik knew what the coach meant by what he said before.

In the past two days, due to the new season makeup photos, media interviews and other aspects, the team has not arranged a large amount of training.

Both days included two groups of individual training in the morning and two groups of team running training in the afternoon.

The coaching staff didn't teach anything new, so after the arranged training, Liu Xiu got off work...
To be continued...