At around 4 p.m. on August 4, the Trail Blazers took the lead in advancing to the finals of this Rocky Mountain Summer League.

At 7:36 pm, after an overtime game, the Jazz and the Knicks still had no winner.

The format of the Summer League is significantly different from that of the official NBA games. The overtime rules are very different. The first overtime is no different from the NBA. However, if there is no winner in the first overtime, then the second overtime will be the same.

Overtime is simple - whoever scores first wins!

This includes free throws for foul shots, technical fouls and physical fouls.

In the end, relying on the bounce of college center Todd Biyombo and the lightning-fast layup of Mo Williams, the Jazz defeated the Knicks 95-93 and met the Trail Blazers in the finals!

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

There is no need to ask for tickets or anything, the seats are mostly empty, and there are not as many fans as the game between the Trail Blazers and the Spurs 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, are you afraid?"

"hehe."

Looking at Liu Xiu’s smile, what does this ‘haha’ mean?

At this time, Liu Xiu showed a sarcastic smile, a disdainful smile, a warm smile... it's all okay, they are all normal reactions.

But Travis Outlaw felt that Liu Xiu’s smile seemed to be for him!

But it doesn’t seem like it’s all…

Travis Outlaw didn't know why he wanted to return Liu Xiu's smile.

Change the topic.

"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 defeated the Knicks, but although the Knicks were third in the preliminaries,

In fact, they have the same 2 wins and 2 losses as the Jazz, and there is not a particularly big gap between third and eighth place...right Jayce."

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

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

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

Hearing this, Liu Xiu looked at Travis Outlaw.

Travis Outlaw felt that Liu Xiu's eyes looked like he was looking at a fool. He was about to refute that he was not stupid... Suddenly he remembered that in the many games they had played together, he had never seen Liu Xiu perform abnormally.

time!

Thinking back carefully, this is really the case! Never! Not since the first game of the Orlando Summer League! Has been stable!

Seeing Liu Xiu whistling and turning around to leave, Travis Outlaw hurriedly chased after him, feeling filled with sadness and anger in his heart——

'It's not fair! I work so hard, but my performance is not the best a few times. This guy is so lazy, but he performs so well every time!'

…

Every draft year, there are quite a few summer leagues held. This year there are a total of 6 summer leagues, with 25 teams participating in two summer leagues.

All other summer leagues have ended. On August 6th, the Rocky Mountain Summer League, which has the largest number of participating teams, has also come to an end, and the last game day has arrived.

After this day, the NBA will enter the rough period, and there will be no official NBA-related games for two months. Fans are paying much more attention to this last summer league game.

The game time is 7pm, and in the afternoon, something that has little to do with the game itself...or can't say it has little to do with it, has become a little popular, and the attention has increased a little bit.

The 19,772 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 game between the Magic and the Cavaliers, setting a historical record for the NBA Summer League in decades. It was the first time that the stadium was filled with over 10,000 people.

The game tickets were sold out, with more than 15,000 people, which was also a record for the number of people watching an NBA Summer League game.

This record cannot be said to be very impressive, but it is really difficult to break.

The number of spectators was not large, but this was the summer league. When Grant Hill played in the summer league, the number of spectators did not exceed 10,000.

Who knew that within a month, this record would be broken!

On the one hand, it was because this was the finals in which the host Jazz team participated. Although it was only a summer league, it still aroused the enthusiasm of fans in Salt Lake City and even Utah.

To win a championship...Jazz fans want to win a championship very much.

Stockton retires, Malone leaves, and I don’t know when the Jazz’s reconstruction will be completed. For a small-market team, it would be good to have a championship period in 20 or 30 years. Who knows what the next championship will be?

when.

It’s nice to have some fun in the summer league.

But more of them are fans from outside.

Some of them are female fans who are directed at Liu Xiulai, and there are also Liu Xiu's "technical fans". The number is not large, but he has also become a "niche star" in the eyes of some people, but these are not those who come to the scene to support

His main force.

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

The Chinese market, the Chinese market, has shown its splendor in a small way today.

Many reporters also came. Regarding basketball prowess, the reporters paid more attention to high school rookie Travis Outlaw and the scoring champion of the Rocky Mountain Summer League, Mo Williams.

Since the beginning of the Rocky Mountain Summer League, Liu Xiu has been the one who has been in the most popular news. He has even made headlines and entered the entertainment industry from the basketball circle.

But it was the high school rookie Travis Outlaw, the 23rd overall pick in the first round, who attracted people's attention for the Trail Blazers' playing performance.

Second in the scoring list, averaging 24.5 points per game; ninth in the rebounding list, averaging 8.3 rebounds per game, his performance is quite outstanding.

In the finals of a tournament, even if the media doesn't like the Trail Blazers, there are still many media interviews today. After pre-game preparation training, the Trail Blazers are open to interviews.

On Liu Xiu's side, after accepting interviews with domestic reporters, he started skipping work mode.

He gave an interview during training yesterday, but no one asked him about basketball. Even the local reporters in Portland didn't care about how he was playing.

He doesn't really want to be in the entertainment industry. He can use those reporters when he needs them, but he doesn't need to talk to them when he doesn't.

…

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

Except for the interview session, Liu Xiu skipped work. At other times, as long as he did not miss his rest, he was thinking about how to play today, discussing with his two NBA teammates how to play, and also coaching the college students on the team with his two NBA teammates.

When these college students first got the opportunity to participate in the summer league, they felt that this might be their turn. Because they were not taken seriously in their freshman and sophomore years, they participated in a Rocky Mountain Summer League in their 20s and showed their strength.

He returned to college and became a core player, and finally entered the professional arena.

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

Maybe he was thinking that he was just unlucky, and when he became a real professional player, he soared; maybe he was thinking that his talent was buried, and the coaching staff and trainers of the NBA team could help him discover his talent; more directly, he thought

Become famous by defeating these drafted future NBA players...

Generally speaking, NBA rookies are quite friendly to college students in the Rocky Mountain Summer League, even if they are as harsh as Matt Barnes, they are not bad at treating college students.

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

The basketball dreams and genius basketball values ​​​​that these college students who have been regarded as basketball geniuses since they were young still have... collapsed!

No one cares about what their future will be like unless they work hard to achieve it.

Maybe some people will give up on themselves, maybe some people will be unwilling to work harder, maybe some people will accept the reality, maybe some people will adjust their expectations and find a more suitable path based on accepting the reality...

However, most college students slowly accept all this. There is one team that is very special - the Trail Blazers!

These players were hit hard 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

Rohr beat up these college students in the training match, making them feel the cruelty of society from the beginning.

However, this makes these college students appear particularly tough when they encounter the abuse of NBA players from other teams. They always adjust faster and pick themselves up earlier than college students from other teams.

At this time, the college students discovered that their psychological quality had improved a lot compared to the college students from other teams, and as the game progressed, Liu Xiu became more willing to teach them something... Although Liu Xiu himself did not like training and liked to talk,

They always said things that were true but unpleasant and irritating, but Liu Xiu's words did help them.

Liu Xiu didn't expect so much at first, but as the competition progressed, he found that the operation that was just to make the college students more obedient actually had such an effect, which was quite surprising.

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

First of all, the person doing this needs to have high moral character.

Martial ethics is also virtue...

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

When they stepped onto the field, the players from both teams felt excited.

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

At 7 p.m., the Rocky Mountain Summer League finals between the Trail Blazers and Jazz begins!

Players from both teams worked hard from the start.

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