'In the first group of training, he, who is extremely talented, followed his own consciousness and felt that the basic defensive line was not good enough. He tried to change it, but he didn't do it well.'

'When it's time to attack, he is observing how the defensive side with more experience in the game defends, and compares and analyzes it.'

'During the third group of training, he tried again... and it was successful! What kind of world is this? It's so unfair!'

Kevin Plit checked the situation just now and came to this conclusion.

Just as he had guessed, when Liu Xiu's group attacked, he noticed that when Liu Xiu didn't have the ball in his hand, he was not focusing on his teammates with the ball, but on the opponent's defensive moves!

Moreover, after one round, Liu Xiu talked to Travis Outlaw, who was close to him, and in the next round, Travis Outlaw's defensive movement changed, and Kai

Vin-Plitcha thinks this change is good!

'This high school student has such a good life. He has such an honest character and came to a team like ours. He thought it was bad luck, but luck can't match fate! He met Jace... He probably didn't know why he just wanted to

Just move like that, just follow Jace's instructions and move to fill in...'

…

After the first 20 minutes of defensive training in the group, there was a 5-minute rest.

A trainer or assistant coach found a certain player who said that he was not doing well on the defensive end. On Liu Xiu's side, Kevin Pritchar asked his colleagues not to take care of it... They can take care of it in the future. Today, let's take a look at Liu Xiu first.

Show how strong your talent for independent learning is.

Soon, the second 20-minute group defensive training began.

This time, during the 5-minute training in the two defensive phases, Liu Xiu's performance was very "ordinary". He ran the defensive tactics honestly and executed one part of the defensive tactics for almost the entire process.

The teammates and trainers who were training together were all surprised. During the first 20 minutes of group training, everyone who was training together was shocked. Liu Xiu's progress rate could only be described as terrifying.

This time...are you tired from practicing and starting to be lazy?

It's not like that! He moves very aggressively and every move is spot on.

Since Liu Xiu's speed is not particularly good in the back line, Liu Xiu needs to move predictably, and he does it very well... obviously he is not being lazy.

From the coaching staff, Kevin Plett is convinced!

After announcing that the morning training was over and gathering at 2 p.m., Kevin Pritchar took Maurice Cheeks back to the office.

"This lazy guy is really a genius! He understood it all at once. As you can see, during his second set of defensive training, he was deeply understanding the tactics themselves, instead of just thinking about making different changes.

He is considering the changes that his teammates may make and trying to find ways to cooperate...

Oh! God! No! Maurice, we can't let him waste his talent anymore.

You must find a way to get him to work hard and develop all his talents!"

Kevin Plitchar was so excited that he was incoherent.

Maurice Cheeks was very calm. Liu Xiu's handsome face appeared in his mind. He was sure that Liu Xiu was serious about not wanting to practice more!

"What should I do if he just doesn't want to work hard? As you can see, he can make greater progress by practicing casually than others who train very hard."

"Then we're going to watch him waste his talent? This is our rookie! Ours!" Kevin Plitcha yelled.

Maurice Cheeks shook his head: "Of course not.

He is a genius, and geniuses always have quirks. I worry that the more I want him to work hard, the less he will work hard.

But he is still very weak. When the regular season begins, he will know how weak he is! Even if his style of play is not to stand on the front line and compete with his opponents, you can see it. When playing against the Lakers,

He rushed inside and collided with Malone, causing Malone to foul.

Although he is lazy, we can all see his competitive spirit when it comes to competition.

I think his competitive spirit will not allow him to remain so weak, and he will definitely want to become stronger."

If you want to become stronger, what can you do for a talented athlete? Of course, you need to train hard and turn your talent into strength.

After listening to Maurice Cheeks's words, Kevin Plitchar's mood calmed down a lot. He now feels speechless about his own thoughts - he didn't expect that one day he would actually expect his own genius to be abused by his opponent.

…

Liu Xiu didn't know that the old-fashioned coach was worried about him again.

He doesn't have the time to care about the coach now. He is very happy and excited now!

He had done defensive training before, but it was purely following the basic lines. It was the same after he started learning from Dale Davis.

Autonomous defense is different from simply being a 'functional link' in defense.

For basic lines, just remember the lines, and when encountering a given situation, move to the appropriate position and play a basic role.

But to defend yourself, you need to make sudden movements. This is different from the active movement on the offensive end. It follows the opponent's passive movement. The direction of the body's force is also completely different from that of the offense. The so-called basic defensive skills are to practice these movements and stances that are completely different from those of the offense.

Position, change direction...

In today's defensive training, he was not so adaptable at first. He practiced positioning, movement, trunk and limb control, what kind of reaction he should make if he encounters a hypothetical situation... and other basic defensive skills.

But just practicing basic skills and playing a defensive role in team training are two different things.

These basic skills are good, but they won’t work without defensive awareness.

He knew that he already had a certain foundation for his basic skills. At first, during the training camp, he hesitated for a while, and finally decided to start with defense on the basis of a steady flow on the offensive end!

He thought about it for a long time and felt that, for now, improving the defensive end would be a more direct help to him!

Moreover, defensive training has an advantage - the physical consumption is smaller than the complex basic consumption on the offensive end. Defensive training is the training of the most basic basic skills. Regardless of other considerations, this feature alone is equivalent to the same 'remaining physical strength'

,Compared with offensive training, defensive training can be ,trained in simulation training for a longer period of time.

In the past half month, even though there were games and training, he was still able to complete 28 hours of simulated training on basic skills of supplementary defense and assisting. It was because of this.

The three necessary basic skills of shooting, ball control, and passing should be kept to a minimum simulation training, and simulation training time should be spent on these aspects first.

His training is all effective training after determining a training direction, and this training direction was learned from a successful defensive expert.

After extracting the results of the simulated training of basic defensive skills in the past half month, he has made no less progress than those defensive geniuses who trained hard for a month when they first started, and it is completely worse!

On this basis, his talent in defensive awareness is quite good, and he can show the results of defensive simulation training in just 40 minutes of team training!

While eating lunch, Liu Xiu rarely felt so excited during the break. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

'In the afternoon training match, I have to continue to show my talents in this area. Not to mention how amazing my defensive performance is, but I have to make the coaching staff feel that it is worthwhile to increase my playing time and train me!'

Fight!

Liu Xiu has already begun to prepare the ground for fighting for playing time!

…

…

Training started at two o'clock in the afternoon. At 1 o'clock, everyone including Randolph had arrived, and Liu Xiu had already started warming up at 12:40.

At 1:55, 14 players arrived at the competition venue led by the trainer.

The business of the Rose Garden Arena is not as heavy as that of most NBA arenas in wealthy cities. Initially, this is because Paul Allen stipulates that the use of the arena will give priority to the Trail Blazers, such as the critical stage of preparation for the preseason.

Not on loan, in the middle of the season, during the playoffs... it happens a lot of the time.

As a result, this arena, which is currently ranked fifth in the league, has facilities updated very quickly, and is located in a wealthy city like Portland, has really become an arena with extremely poor rental business.

Except for revenue from games by teams in the four major leagues, the Rose Garden Arena does not rank among the top ten of all NBA arenas.

In this regard, Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen was angry but didn't care.

I was angry because I felt that this gymnasium, which was ranked among the top in the league in terms of luxury and advanced level, could actually lose money. It was so shameless.

He doesn't care, it's the matter itself that he really doesn't care about...

Playing on a real playing field always feels different.

When Liu Xiu stepped onto the real court, he felt extremely excited and his eyes narrowed.

The trainer read out two starting lists.

Team A's starting lineup is Damon Stoudemire, Wesley Person, Quentel Woods, Randolph, and Spandinha.

The starting lineup for Team B is Derrick Anderson, Reuben Patterson, Matt Carroll, Rasheed Wallace, and Dale Davis.

The other four players, Ruben Bontje and Jeff McGinnis, were placed in Group A, while two rookies, Liu Xiu and Travis Outlaw, were placed in Group B.

As usual, I talked about the rules. The game is 20 minutes, divided into two halves of 10 minutes, each with 1 timeout and a 5-minute intermission. The rest is the same as a formal game.

Everyone moved their bodies again, and at 2:06, the team training match began!

The two teams have very distinct characteristics. In the starting stage, team A has a strong offense and team B has a strong defense.

Rasheed Wallace always makes Liu Xiu so upset that he doesn't know where to start.

In Team B's lineup, Rasheed Wallace is often invisible on the offensive end, turning into a pure pitcher and pie-eating center, but together with Dale Davis, he plays extremely well defensively.

Liu Xiu heard that in the past, when Sabonis and Dale Davis were younger, Rasheed Wallace would not work so hard defensively even if he played with one of them.

This change started last season, and the coaching staff was a little caught off guard at first, but now they are used to it.

In the first five minutes or so, Damon Stoudemire was full of presence, breaking through, shooting, attacking the frame, free throws...

When the timeout was called for substitutions, Damon Stoudemire accounted for more than half of Team A's shots. Team A shot a total of 10 times, and he shot 6 times alone.

The performance was quite good. He scored 9 points and 2 assists on 4 of 6 shots. Only Randolph scored 3 points. They were all scored by offensive rebounds. He made 1 tip-in and once grabbed an offensive rebound and caused the B team to lose.
To be continued...