I am the Warden Chapter 36 One day I will be stronger than him
After the back-to-back games, the Trail Blazers had two days of rest. On the 9th, the whole team had a day off, the whole team would train tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow they would face the Kings at home.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, at the Rose Garden training ground, when Liu Xiu walked into the court, he was surprised to see someone there!
On rest days, generally speaking, even if you want to practice extra, it is usually in the afternoon. It will not be that early in the morning. Some people start training at 10 or 11 o'clock, which is about the same.
Liu Xiu doesn’t know about other teams, but this is the case with their Trail Blazers team.
But after seeing who it was, I wasn't surprised.
On the 6th, two players from their Trail Blazers did not travel to Seattle with the team. One was him, and the other was the man in front of him - Roaring God.
This was a back-to-back game, so the team didn't take them both with them, and flying is also very tiring.
Tianzun was surprised to see Liu Xiu coming, then joked: "Jace, you actually came to train, it's really rare."
"Just practice casually. I don't want to practice either. I'm afraid that my rapid progress will be a blow to you."
As soon as Liu Xiu finished speaking, the system prompt came.
"Healing value +80, from Rasheed Wallace."
The first one of the day is always effective!
There will be more later, but it will decrease rapidly and may affect the later stages. So when Liu Xiu tries to pull this out, he will choose the time. He will only make a move when the other party mentions the relevant points on his own initiative.
After being excited for a while, Tianzun fell silent.
Liu Xiu also fell silent.
2 wins and 4 losses. Although their team had two back-to-back games in the first 6 games, considering the intensity of the schedule and their strength, they should at least swap the wins and losses.
There is no point in saying that you don’t regret standing up for your teammates, or that you regret what has already happened… but there will always be negative emotions.
Liu Xiu sent Qing'er to school in the morning, chatting and laughing, but after Qing'er entered the school, he could no longer laugh. He didn't want to go home, so he went to the gym.
He couldn't play in 5 games, and could only watch his teammates fight for 5 games but still couldn't win... Although he was not the one who could decide the team's victory or defeat, he wanted to win so badly! He wanted to play and help the team win!
In addition to this, there are also external influences.
This time, Liu Xiu truly felt how much impact off-court factors have on a player!
In North America, the fight between the Trail Blazers and the Pistons has long since died down due to the league's mediation.
This has nothing to do with anyone. If there is a fight in a game, the league will always try its best to downplay the impact.
But there has never been a break in the news targeting fans of the Trail Blazers and Pistons.
The Pistons had only seven players available at one point, so they applied to the league to sign five players from the Development League to form a 12-man roster, making Liu Xiu even more hated by Pistons fans.
As for the Trail Blazers fans, Liu Xiu has actually been scolded even more times. Anyway, news like this will sell well in Portland.
Not only Liu Xiu, but every player who participated in the fight, even those who did not, were attacked.
The overall environment here made the impact of this fight even worse because they are the "Portland Prison Team."
Liu Xiu had been mentally prepared, but he was still inevitably affected.
Not to mention him, even a veteran like Tianzun was greatly affected.
At this moment, Liu Xiu felt the same emotion from Tianzun. This feeling made him feel much happier.
"Rashid."
"Um?"
"Don't worry, you're back, and everything will be fine in the game the day after tomorrow."
"Um???"
Tianzun looked at Liu Xiu in horror...it was hard to tell what emotion he had on his face, but he stared at Liu Xiu so hard that he wanted to take out his whistle and give him a T, but unfortunately he didn't have a whistle in his hand.
Seeing Liu Xiu rolling his eyes and preparing to leave, Tianzun quickly said: "Jace... No, Warden..."
“……” When Liu Xiu heard the word “warden”, his eyes almost rolled up to his forehead.
Are these Americans all so childish when expressing their emotions?
"We will be fine not only because of me, but also because of you. In my opinion, you are a very important part of our team in the new season!"
Liu Xiu was a little moved by these words!
Liu Xiu decisively responded: "Of course, I know, I'm just being polite."
“…”
Oh my god! Take this monster away!
Tianzun felt that he could no longer control himself and was about to get beaten!
"Healing value +55, from Rasheed Wallace."
Liu Xiu happily accepted another wave of healing points.
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On November 10th, at 7 o'clock in the morning, Liu Xiu woke up on time again.
Yesterday afternoon, head assistant coach Kevin Pritchard called every player and informed them that they must not be late by 9 a.m. today. Although it was a serious notice, his tone revealed excitement.
Because this is the second preparation training after the start of the new season with a complete lineup as the prerequisite.
The last time was during the preparation training for the opening match.
Liu Xiu was also very excited, and all the negative emotions from the past few days were swept away!
I am a really lazy person, and that is the good thing about it. My worries go away quickly, and when I am particularly troubled by something, I will think about how to solve it to avoid long-term worry.
However, looking at the system prompt in front of me...
"Damn! I was careless!"
The first one can be ignored. It is a reminder that last night’s simulation training is completed. The results of last night’s simulation training have been accumulated into the previously stored simulation training results.
After Liu Xiu learned two skills from Tianzun and Little Flying Mouse in the past two days, he stopped thinking about learning anything else.
Learning back-to-back attack from Tianzun was decided at the beginning.
Learning with the little flying mouse is just a try to see if it’s suitable.
With luck, both items are suitable!
Therefore, Liu Xiu did not learn anything else immediately. Instead, he put his physical energy into simulation training and continued to "show his talent" to the coaching staff.
He didn't learn anything behind anyone's back, the coaching staff must know that, just like Little Flying Mouse knows that he learned post-up play from Tianzun.
If there is a team training match or the next game, he can show some of this ability...
Of course, if he meets the right one, he still has to learn, so he hangs out in the gym every day, watching how his teammates train and watch the games, looking for the right one.
In order to prevent the healing value from being insufficient when he wanted to learn skills, Liu Xiu never extracted the results of the simulation training. Every morning when he woke up, he habitually refused to extract them and saved them.
There was a team training today, so Liu Xiu was ready to extract it. After a closer look...
"The host has accumulated 16 hours of simulation training on basic skills of assisting and helping defense, 8 hours of simulation training on basic skills of shooting, 8 hours of simulation training on basic skills of passing and controlling, 8 hours of simulation training on comprehensive basic skills and basic techniques, 8 hours of simulation training on low-post post-up singles (Rashid Wallace version), 8 hours of simulation training on Damon Stoudemire's breakthrough attacking the basket, 4 hours and 49 minutes of simulation training on low-post post-up singles (Zach Randolph version)... Extracting the results of the simulation training will consume 3433 healing points, and the available healing points are 44 79. Do you want to extract?"
Liu Xiu decisively cursed in the street.
After cursing, take out the disinfectant towel, bite it, lie down, and accept death...
Liu Xiu once again felt the same feeling as the day before the last preseason game, the feeling of the world collapsing... After more than ten minutes of feeling hopeless, Liu Xiu once again ended the extraction of the results of this simulated training in a twisted posture.
"Remaining healing value: 1046."
He spit out the towel and wiped the white foam from the corners of his mouth. Even when he was biting the towel, white foam still came out from the corners of his mouth.
"I swear, I will never save and withdraw the results of simulation training again!"
However, his healing value has increased a lot during this period. The main reason is that he didn't expect that the breakthrough attacking skills he learned from Xiao Feishu were very suitable for him, and it was so cheap...
"Hmm? There's another system prompt! The ability evaluation has been updated!"
Liu Xiu quickly opened the system panel again.
"Host's overall ability rating: 74. Athletic ability: speed 87, strength 90, jumping 74, flexibility 93, physical strength 87. Basic skills: three-pointer 63, mid-range shot 70, layup 90, ball control 92, passing accuracy 86, turn 79, stride 60. Techniques: low post-up 82, dribble-after-shooting 62, accelerated layup on the move 70."
The mid-range shot has finally reached a good level. Although it is on the edge of good, it is still not good.
More importantly, the layup that had been stuck for a long time finally improved from 89 to 90!
Layup is the most special one among the basic skills.
To describe the special feature in a simple way - as Liu Xiu saw, a center's layup rating of less than 90 was considered unqualified, and even for a guard, a layup rating of less than 85 was considered unqualified.
This is the most basic way to score points.
Liu Xiu noticed several points - the stride increased to 60, the turn increased to 79, and the acceleration layup while moving increased to 70. These are all related to layups.
"The direction I chose to improve was the right one! I will continue to strengthen what I am already good at! I will learn from the little flying squirrel and choose the right breakthrough point this time!"
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At 8:55 in the morning, Liu Xiu entered the training ground of the Rose Garden Arena 5 minutes early...
Liu Xiu has a deeper understanding of the Trail Blazers' internal environment.
I really don't take fighting seriously!
This fight had such a huge impact, but there has been no resolution yet.
Maybe there was, but the coaching staff withstood the pressure and the message was not passed on to the players... This was all Liu Xiu could guess.
With personal training in the morning and team training in the afternoon, Liu Xiu once again gave a small surprise to the coaching staff and trainers who paid special attention to him.
Liu Xiu has made progress again!
Although the improvement is not particularly big and can't be noticed without special attention, the coaching staff and trainers paid close attention to Liu Xiu. They saw the progress Liu Xiu made in training compared to before the opening game!
Liu Xiu happily accepted another wave of healing points.
It's like this every time. As long as there is a little visible progress, it can heal the coaching staff.
If possible, Liu Xiu really wants to heal the coaching staff every day.
After a day of preparation training, Tianzun's return boosted the confidence of his teammates.
He was already the strongest player of the team in the last century, and he still is now!
It can be seen from the past two games that Randolph's role on the court is still not as good as Tianzun.
The Trail Blazers will play against the Kings tomorrow. It is rare that the Trail Blazers have training filming from the Imperial TV station today.
The reporter keenly observed that after the training, Liu Xiu looked at Roaring Heavenly Master with envy for a few seconds.
The reporter immediately came up and asked, "Warden, are you envious of Roaring Lord's strength?"
This name... Liu Xiu is really used to it! Even if people call him in Chinese, he is used to it!
Liu Xiu responded casually: "Of course, he is an All-Star and the strongest player on our team, so of course I envy him."
Even though the reporter had been interviewing Liu Xiu for a whole day and had asked him many questions, he still wasn't used to such a direct answer.
Shouldn't it be more official and roundabout? But it does sound more comfortable and the interview is less strenuous.
Before the reporter could continue to ask questions, Liu Xiu said: "But there will be a day like that for me. One day, I will be stronger than him!"
The tone of voice seemed to be saying something that was bound to happen, which made the reporter a little confused.
He is also considered an expert in basketball. After watching the training, Liu Xiu's strength at the point guard position in the team is at the bottom, not to mention compared with the strongest player in the team.
But Liu Xiu's tone was so confident.
Liu Xiu added: "...I am so much younger than him. In three to five years, when he is old, I will definitely be better than him."
“……” The reporter didn’t know what to say.
Although Liu Xiu added this sentence, the reporter feels that Liu Xiu’s previous sentence is what he really thinks!
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November 11, 2003, was a very lonely day. At 7:40 p.m., players from both teams had already entered the Rose Garden Arena.
Today's Trail Blazers fans were particularly enthusiastic, with countless fans holding up signs to cheer for the team...
"Get out of Portland!"
"Warden, please let us go!"
"Arrest the Warden!"
“We can’t breathe anymore.”
"We don't need criminals!"
“…”
“…”
There were so many slogans, some of which were written for other people, but the largest number were for Liu Xiu.
The enthusiasm of the fans at the scene made the Kings players on the opposing team stunned.
Especially when Liu Xiu entered the stadium as a substitute, he was greeted with the loudest boos in the audience, louder than the boos when the visiting team players entered the stadium.
Bibby, Peja, Divac, Brad Miller... a bunch of famous stars turned their attention to Liu Xiu.
This rookie made quite a splash not long ago.
After the entrance ceremony, Liu Xiu returned to the bench and sat down. Qing'er poked her head out from behind the bench and said, "Brother, you are standing up for your teammates! Don't they want to see their teammates being bullied?"
"Part of my salary is for me to be scolded."
"Puff." Qing'er spat out the hair that was once again in her mouth.
She thought of many words to refute Liu Xiu, but she didn't expect Liu Xiu to answer like that. She really had no way to refute it!
"In fact, the fans' thoughts are very simple, they just want to win."
"oh……"
"Yes, Warden, you are right! They just want to win! Tonight, we will beat the Kings!" The little flying squirrel appeared out of nowhere.
