This news was revealed by Trail Blazers team doctor and Suns team doctor Thomas Carter. It did not violate the principle of medical confidentiality. The Suns had no intention of keeping this kind of thing a secret. Not long after the Trail Blazers learned about it, the Suns held a meeting

A press conference announced the matter.

The 4-month recovery period, plus necessary rehabilitation and basketball training, is basically equivalent to being reimbursed for the season.

ESPN immediately adjusted the 'Team Ranking' they posted on the home page. The Suns, originally ranked 4th on the strength list, were lowered to 13th. The originally expected record of 58 to 62 wins was lowered to 42 to 42.

48 wins.

The reason is simple. If any team loses an inside player who averages 26 points per game, its strength will plummet by two levels.

Not only ESPN, but also major media and experts all looked down on the Suns. Suns fans were even more devastated.

Liu Xiu remembered that the Bully had such an injury, which seemed to be a stress tear of the cruciate ligament caused by violent play. It was finally cured by Thomas Carter. Impairment of athletic ability was inevitable, but the Bully took advantage of this.

He developed an accurate mid-range shot in 2006, and later developed top-notch face-up steps through the mid-range shot. Finally, he separated from Nash and went it alone... Let’s not mention this for now.

Liu Xiu saw the current direction of public opinion, and he understood why in the original time and space, the Suns only won 54 games in the 2005-06 season, but Nash was able to win consecutive MVP awards.

This public opinion gives people the feeling that the Suns have become a weak team without their little bully!

At the moment, people's impression of the Suns is still affected by their second-to-last finish in the Western Conference in the 2003-04 season.

And indeed, without a scorer like Little Bully who averages 25 points per game, it is really incredible that Nash can lead this offensive team to 54 wins.

However, at the moment when the little bully was just retired, not only the fans of the Suns were in mourning, but the fighting spirit of the Suns players also fell to a low point. In the evening match between the Suns and the Trail Blazers at home, the Suns' collective performance was sluggish.

The battle that the Trail Blazers were looking forward to turned into a one-sided charge. 107 to 88, the Trail Blazers easily defeated the Suns who had no fighting spirit and won 4 consecutive preseason games.

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After the game, Liu Xiutuo Nash helped bring a blessing to the little bully and put the matter aside.

The injury to the Bully has sounded the alarm for the Trail Blazers. They also have outlaws, high school students like Kwame Brown who rely heavily on their running and jumping abilities.

In comparison, Outlaw is more mature in this regard. On the defensive end, he referred to Garnett's defense and combined it with the defensive teachings of Payton, McDyess and others to develop an interference flow defense, which is already very good.

It reduces the physical exertion to a great extent; on the offensive end, he lacks the talent to attack the frame and prefers to rely on bounce, bounce speed, height and wingspan to shoot in the mid-range, and the physical exertion caused by the confrontation at the basket is also less.

The same cannot be said for Kwame Brown. He is older and is still learning from the veterans on the team how to make good use of his physical fitness.

It’s pure God’s reward. Kwame Brown, who originally met Jordan and Kobe in time and space, had his psychological quality and future destroyed by their poisonous words, but he could still play for 12 years and earn 60 to 70 million US dollars.

knife.

When Kwame Brown retired, some famous players analyzed that Kwame Brown's talent was so wasted that he didn't even make good use of his physical fitness.

Liu Xiu now agrees with this statement.

At this stage, Kwame Brown has just found his confidence and a goal to work hard for. His physical fitness has not been fully utilized, and his salary has already exceeded the middle class.

You must know that as a purely defensive player, after Ben Wallace won the Defensive Player of the Year for two consecutive years in 2003, he renewed his contract for two years in advance, with a salary similar to the contract that Kwame Brown just signed.

In other words, as a purely defensive player, Kwame Brown was able to get his current contract only because of his talent.

The Blazers relied on physical play, and now they are seriously injured. The Trail Blazers have learned lessons, but they will still choose to continue to let Kwame Brown develop his physical fitness, but they will pay more attention to his health issues.

Athletes can never be 100% healthy.

The day after playing the Suns, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland. There are two more preseason games ahead. First there is a three-day break, with one game on the 24th, and then another two days of rest on the 27th.

There is one more game, and the last 4 days of rest. On November 1st, the Blazers' regular season will begin.

The schedule of the first five preseason games is relatively tight, and the remaining two games have so long free time. This schedule is actually very reasonable. The last two preseason games have reached the stage of summarizing the previous games and making targeted adjustments. Naturally, more is needed.

rest time to prepare.

On the day they returned to Portland, the Trail Blazers had a holiday. The next day, on the 22nd, they gathered for a meeting at 9 a.m., and the coach and players discussed tactics throughout the morning.

It was said that the players were participating in tactical discussions together, but some players fell asleep on the table and no one paid attention.

There were only a few people who actively spoke, and all the players participated in the discussion, which was more of a formality.

From the tactical meeting, Liu Xiu learned about their running-in progress in the previous few preseason games. In the eyes of the coaching staff, it was only unsatisfactory, not that bad, but it did not reach a level that satisfied the coaching staff.

During lunch time, the three major players Liu Xiu, Randolph, and Ray Allen sat together, and Liu Xiu expressed his views on the progress of the preseason.

Although he is as calm as he is, he is also a little nervous and anxious now. There are only 10 days until the start of the regular season.

According to common sense, new players will be more anxious because the team needs to re-adjust, which is caused by the arrival of new players.

But Ray Allen responded calmly: "Our running-in progress is fast or slow, it is already an established fact and cannot be changed. Then we can only accept it and find ways to do better in the future.

If it really doesn’t work, then you need to change it.”

So calm!

Liu Xiu immediately understood why Ray Allen could make such a decisive decision to leave the Sonics. Although the Sonics' three Musketeers formation is very suitable for Ray Allen, the upper limit is not particularly high.

The team also did not have the salary conditions to bring in strong insiders. Under such circumstances, due to his warden's attraction and the fact that the Trail Blazers unexpectedly won the championship, Ray Allen decisively chose to join.

Calm judgment, decisive decision-making ability, and outstanding execution ability.

Liu Xiu learned more about Ray Allen.

However, he felt that with Ray Allen's character and his style of doing things, he might eventually become a 'lonely man' in the eyes of everyone.

He recalled that in the original time and space, when Ray Allen retired, Bucks fans did not regard him as a team legend, Celtics fans thought he was just here to do odd jobs, and Heat fans only thought he was here to hug him.

, Sonics fans...The Sonics are disbanded.

People's impression of him is that he was the three-point king in the transitional period after the iron-blooded era and before the small ball era.

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There were two hours of training in the afternoon, including 30 minutes of team offensive training, 30 minutes of defensive coordination training, and 30 minutes of counterattack formation training, with 15 minutes of rest and discussion in between.

At 4:30, the coaching staff announced that they were off work, but no one left. Now is the critical moment to compete for the 12-man roster. Even Lou Williams stayed for extra practice.

Although the chance is slim, Louis Williams still has hope. Aren't all the protagonists in movies like this? He firmly believes that he is performing the protagonist's script.

Liu Xiu also stayed for additional training. During this training camp and preseason, he practiced quite a lot, but mostly he led a few teammates for small-scale cooperative training or played 3-on-3 or 2-on-1.

2. Today is different. He found Payton to learn high post shooting.

If nothing else, Ray Allen's words made Liu Xiu calm down and put aside his anxiety. Now that the matter is over, he should find ways to improve himself.

Originally, he planned to slowly find time to learn this after the regular season begins, but based on the current situation, he is under greater pressure and has more motivation.

Glove looked at the warden who was extremely hungry for technology, and the day had finally come!

Gauntlet's mood is very complicated now. He must be taught. He has been prepared for a long time. He has done a lot of homework to teach Liu Xiu the high back fight. He recalled that when he learned the back fight by himself, he did not learn this.

This technique was analyzed so thoroughly, and it was slowly figured out while learning, practicing, and playing games. As a result, it actually took so much time to prepare when teaching others.

But being so prepared is not the reason why he is struggling now.

The annoying thing about him is that he has prepared so much, and the other person may just learn it after watching it and listening to it once!

But, hey, championship, just thinking about wearing a championship ring makes Payton feel so happy.

And the wonderful feeling when we won the championship last season...must be taught!

With complicated emotions, Payton began to teach in detail.

Compared with the previous teaching of defense and the application of back-up skills, I need to be much more patient and meticulous. At that time, Payton taught a detail, which may have to be taught three or five times. Liu Xiu's rapid learning mode can incorporate it into the training method. Now he teaches it once or twice.

It’s all OK.

Two hours in the afternoon, one hour before the training started the next morning, and two hours after the team training ended the next afternoon. It took 5 hours. Liu Xiu only learned a big difference in playing high post.

Not bad, I still need to spend some time learning and polishing the details with Payton.

When Liu Xiu was watching the video and messing around, he felt that high post shots were more difficult and complicated than low post shots. Now he confirmed this.

At the beginning, he learned three low post kicks from Randolph, and upgraded the low post post kick training method to the theoretical top level (90). He spent a total of 12,000 healing points, which was also the theoretical top level, and learned from Payton.

The high post shot cost 15,000.
Chapter completed!