I am the Warden Chapter 4 New Season Collection!
"Brother, why haven't you gotten up yet? Is this okay? Qing'er has prepared the meal and packed up the things, but you are still lying in bed. Who is the older brother, me or you?"
"I'm awake, I'm awake... I just want to take a nap. If you ask the nanny to make breakfast, then you don't have to get up so early, right?"
"The nanny is very nice, but is the breakfast she makes as delicious as mine?"
"No."
"Hehe, then why don't I get up early..."
Liu Xiu got up, washed, and went to the dining room. There was porridge, fried eggs, milk, pancakes, stir-fried vegetables... it was quite a rich meal.
Classes start at 9 o'clock. If you have another family's child, they might also get up early at 6 o'clock. The private elementary school that Qing'er attends has every student having an exam paper.
American education, happy education for the poor, the degree of involution among children from wealthy families is no less than that of future Chinese families.
But the reason Qing Er got up early was to make breakfast... Liu Xiu joked, "I wonder who will marry my precious sister in the future. She is beautiful, gentle , and a great cook."
"Brother just knows how to flatter..." There seemed to be an invisible tail behind Qing'er, reaching up to the sky.
Feeling proud for a moment, Qing'er thought of something and said, "Brother, you worked hard for a few days, but why are you lazy again and going to practice boxing? You are a basketball player!"
"Did you receive the money?"
"No!"
"So what did you collect?"
"I didn't receive anything...your coach gave me a limited edition children's excavator!"
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After Liu Xiu started training boxing, the chief assistant coach Kevin Pritcha came to visit their home and learned about his recent situation. As for urging him to train, he ignored it...but the coach seemed unwilling to give up and went to bribe the little girl.
Qing'er was also puzzled: "Brother, I feel like you seem to like boxing more?"
"Not really. I prefer playing on the court and don't like fighting. I'm a pacifist."
"Then why do you practice boxing every day, brother?"
Well, the topic is back again!
Liu Xiu narrowed his eyes and said, "This is to find a way to earn a dowry for Qing'er!"
"dowry?"
"Yes! The NBA is so dangerous, and the Trail Blazers have so many criminals. If I can't fight and get beaten by them, I won't be able to make it in the NBA, and Qing'er won't have a lot of excavators as a dowry in the future!"
Lots of excavators!
Qing'er's mind suddenly emerged with the grand sight of a row of excavators behind her - those really huge excavators!
Qing'er's mouth swelled up, and after fantasizing for a while, she clapped her hands and said, "Brother, keep practicing! Anyone who bullies you, beat them to death!"
"You can't beat him to death. My brother is a law-abiding foreigner."
"Oh... yes, mom said that my brother never hits anyone, he always fights back in self-defense..."
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“Name: Liu Xiu, English name: Jess.
Age: 21 (February 17, 1982)
Height: 188 cm, Weight: 95 kg.
Team: Portland Trail Blazers.
Achievements: No NBA achievements yet.
Data: NBA data not available.
Former team...
NBA comprehensive ability rating: 70 (to be updated).
The detailed ability evaluation will be updated on October 8th. It is known that the strength evaluation is calculated based on the 2002-2003 NBA season standard: 90...
Available healing value: 1003..."
Portland Carter College... is actually the gate of a private primary school. After Liu Xiu sent Qing'er into the school, he looked at the main interface of the system.
"Training camp is finally about to start! In another three or four days, the healing points won't be enough."
September 26th, today is the day for the Trail Blazers to report.
It has been more than a month since I came to Portland, and the offseason is coming to an end.
In fact, Qing'er has a nanny who can take her to school, but if he is free, Liu Xiu prefers to take her there himself. Qing'er has been in school for almost a month, and Liu Xiu will take her there himself unless he has to get up early in the morning to practice strength or Sanda.
The league's official training camp date is October 1, but each team will start a few days in advance.
Some teams, like the Pistons, start gathering their players in the middle of the month, while others, like the Trail Blazers, set a reporting date of the 26th.
Almost 50 days have passed since August 7, and Liu Xiu has done a lot of things.
I worked hard to increase my strength to the level of 89 as determined by the system, and then used the "Strength +1 (Training)" item to increase my strength to 90.
Liu Xiu no longer wanted to feel the "wonderful" feeling engraved in his muscle memory...but if he had the chance to feel it, he felt that he could endure the abuse.
I thought the strength aspect was taken care of, with a strength rating of 90, a height of 188 cm and a weight of around 95 kg, plus the fact that he is stronger than the average person... it should be enough for a short period of time.
Moreover, he clearly felt that to improve his strength to this level, it would be difficult to achieve significant improvement through training alone unless he gained weight recklessly.
Therefore, his plan was to ignore this for the time being after his strength increased to 90.
But after using "Strength +1 (Training)" to successfully increase the strength rating to 90 and feeling the brutality engraved into my muscle memory, the content of the previous training prompts did not disappear, but changed!
It became a flexibility training!
His original strength rating was 88, which was considered upper first-class among first-class strengths, which is 85-89. There was obviously a qualitative gap between him and the top-level strength of 90.
This has less impact on speed than on flexibility.
The props given by the system to increase physical attributes have the function of maximizing the avoidance of affecting other physical conditions, and the training tasks must also be completed...
Coincidentally, one of the most effective exercises for basketball players to maintain their flexibility is boxing.
Therefore, Liu Xiu spent another two weeks in the past ten days to practice boxing.
When strength increases from 88 to 89, flexibility is affected very little, but the increase from 89 to 90 is already a leap, and for a defender, the impact is still relatively large.
At this time, Liu Xiu was glad that he had chosen this one which he used in 1989.
I worked so hard to train my strength, improve my physical fitness, and reduce the impact on flexibility brought about by increased strength...but my coach misunderstood me despite my efforts. He came to my house a few days ago to blame me.
Liu Xiu did not make any excuses and could only swallow his tears of grievance and bitterness.
A man must be able to bear it!
"None of this matters. As long as I can complete the tasks assigned by the coaching staff well during the game, it doesn't matter what happens off the court... On the contrary, if I care too much about these trivial things, fail to complete the scheduled training and do what I should do, what's the point of satisfying the coach off the court?"
Thinking back on what had happened over the past period of time, Liu Xiu's thoughts remained firm.
During this period, in addition to improving strength and avoiding the impact of flexibility by completing systematic training tasks, other necessary training was also carried out.
One of the training items for post-up singles is to improve strength. Although Randolph "only" had excellent post-up skills during the summer league, his strength is definitely top-notch.
Liu Xiu's power dominance at the point guard position is definitely not as great as Randolph's power dominance at the power forward position.
But Liu Xiu's strength was already very good, so in the training plan, strength training was at a relatively late stage. In other words, his own strength was already very good, and of course it would be better if it could be improved.
Ball control and passing accuracy also benefited from the increase in strength.
During this period of time, in addition to physical fitness, Liu Xiu has made significant progress in back-to-the-basket play, ball control, and passing accuracy.
Training often follows the experience of predecessors.
It is important to have someone to teach you.
Long before the draft, Liu Xiu felt that his progress in ball control and passing was becoming increasingly slow. Initially, he made progress after every simulated training, but now it is becoming increasingly difficult to feel that progress.
Recently, Liu Xiu also had this feeling during the simulated back-to-the-basket training.
In the past two months, I could feel progress almost every day.
He estimated that this was not a matter of talent. He could not be sure during the passing and controlling training, but in the post-up training, the system determined that he had a high talent for post-up play, and was certain that he could follow Randolph's post-up training to reach a good level... Now that it has slowed down, it means that this training has almost been practiced to the extreme. The next step is either to improve his training methods, or to learn better training methods... No matter which one it is, it is something to be happy about.
The system determined that he could reach the post-up level that Randolph taught him through training. When the training effect stagnated and the progress of his post-up play slowed down, it meant one thing - his post-up play had reached an excellent level!
It’s hard to say about actual combat, but the skills should be enough!
Thanks to the slowdown in his progress in back-to-the-basket play, Liu Xiu has spent more time practicing boxing and shooting basics in recent days, with an emphasis on training shooting basics.
Unknowingly, an offseason passed by. On the way to the Rose Garden Arena from Qing'er's elementary school, Liu Xiu's most frequent thought was that there was not enough time and the healing value was not enough.
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At 9 o'clock in the morning on September 26, 2003, Liu Xiu arrived at the Rose Garden Arena.
Under the guidance of the security guard, Liu Xiu came to his parking space. While he was parking, another car drove into the parking lot and parked it with ease.
After parking the car, Liu Xiu got out, thanked the security guard and gave him three $1 bills as a tip.
Liu Xiu looked at the fat man who got out of the car that just arrived...
"Oh, Jace, what a coincidence, the first teammate I met when I came back is you!"
"Zach, I didn't expect you to report here. Didn't someone say yesterday that you didn't return to Portland?"
"I just got off the plane at 9 o'clock last night. I couldn't afford to miss the meeting arranged by Maurice Cheeks."
"You're actually afraid of the coach?"
"Who would I be afraid of?... Ahem, that's not the reason, Jace. In our team, you can offend anyone and you can even refuse the boss's respect. The worst that can happen is that you will be traded. But as for what the head coach has arranged, it's best to do it as planned."
The rough painting style of Morris Cheeks emerged in Liu Xiu's mind.
He doesn't care about his appearance, he likes to be lazy, he looks a bit vulgar when he laughs too exaggeratedly, and he speaks carelessly... He really doesn't look like a good person, but...
"Zach, does our head coach have any special background?"
"Special background? No, not really. At most, he knows some gang members like me, but he is not really involved in the gang."
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Seeing Liu Xiu's confusion, Randolph explained, "Jace, even though the coach seems unreliable, he is very tough when he is coaching. If he and the boss have different opinions on a player, he will not listen to how the boss arranges him. He will use him if he wants to, and not use him if he doesn't want to. And when he uses players, he only looks at their performance and the role they play in the game..."
Liu Xiu originally thought that everything about Maurice Cheeks as a head coach was rough and sloppy, but after listening to Randolph's words, he had a new understanding...
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"I knew it……"
Liu Xiu and Randolph were chatting as they walked slowly from the staff passage to the training ground.
Liu Xiu was no longer in a hurry when he saw Randolph. Sure enough, when they walked slowly towards the training ground, no teammates overtook them from behind. When they arrived at the training ground, there was still more than half an hour before the assembly time of 10 o'clock set by the coaching staff, but the training ground was already in full swing.
Assistant coaches and trainers are helping the players with training, and the players are actively showing themselves.
Not surprisingly, it has something to do with what Randolph said about the coaching style of Maurice Cheeks, the head coach who only looks at performance.
This summer, the Trail Blazers had a lot of player changes. Pippen's contract expired and he returned to the Bulls. Sabonis and Chris Dudley, two nearly 40-year-old veterans, retired. Bonzi Wells was traded away, and Charles Smith was cut...
There are now 20 players in the training ground, including official players and training camp contract players, which is the standard number of players for the training camp.
The Trail Blazers have a lot of new players this year, but Liu Xiu, who is like a lone ranger during the offseason... is unique.
The two rookies, Travis Outlaw and Matt Carroll, started training early at the Rose Garden. The other newcomers, whether they are regular contract players or training camp contract players, are not rookies. They have certain social experience and are very active in learning about the various affairs of the new team.
Things that even a villain player like Randolph takes very seriously must be easy to understand.
As soon as Liu Xiu and Randolph entered the training ground, they attracted the attention of their teammates, and most people looked at them at the first moment.
Travis Outlaw, Matt Carroll, and Reuben Bontjie put down their training and walked towards the two men.
"Jace, you're too late. We've been training for more than an hour." Travis Outlaw was really complaining this time, but it was a caring one.
However, Travis Outlaw regretted his words as soon as he said them... He saw Liu Xiu's mouth corners curled up!
"What's the point of coming early? Can you get the team's attention if you come early? Can you become stronger? Can you become a main player? Everything depends on daily accumulation."
Travis Outlaw was upset when he heard that. He yelled, "You make it sound like you work hard all the time! Have you practiced basketball this summer? Is there any day that you can be considered hardworking?"
