I am the Warden Chapter 5: All villains
"When I say work hard, I mean you should work hard. I can make faster progress in just two days than you can in two months. So why work hard..."
When Liu Xiu said this, everyone in the audience had question marks in their heads.
Travis Outlaw, a first-round pick out of high school!
His height, wingspan, athletic ability, and physical talent are off the charts.
This year's Rocky Mountain Summer League, Travis Outlaw and Mo Williams both received extremely high praise.
Even if he is not a potential superstar, he is a genius with the appearance of a star.
What is this guy who looks like an ordinary person talking about?
Just because you look good you can talk nonsense?
This offseason, Liu Xiu is indeed one of the three rookies with the most news attention. The other two are LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony.
But unlike those two, this rookie from the Trail Blazers made headlines through gossip.
Unexpectedly, Travis Outlaw did not refute! Instead, he covered his head helplessly.
What the two said seemed to be a joke, but it seemed that they were not joking...
"Healing value +19, from Quintel Woods."
"Healing value +5, from Rasheed Wallace."
"Healing value +18, from Jeff McGinnis."
"Healing value +8, from Derek Anderson."
"Healing value +25, from Damon Stoudemire."
"Healing value +13, from Dale Davis."
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The healing value has increased!
The blood is finally recovering!
Just now, when entering the training ground, a prompt passed by Liu Xiu's eyes.
"The Portland Trail Blazers training camp lineup is complete, and the host has joined the Trail Blazers training camp lineup."
This prompt means that you can save healing points!
Coincidentally, his good partner Travis Outlaw immediately gave an assist.
Just looking at Liu Xiu's "great, glorious and correct" remarks, at most it would make people unhappy because of "occupying the moral high ground". In fact, except for teammates who are directly in competition with him in basketball, most people would not connect this with basketball and would not get any healing value.
Of course, it doesn’t matter if you can’t get it. For things like this, you always have to lay the groundwork.
But Travis Outlaw's angry questioning later gave Liu Xiu the opportunity to directly get the healing value.
Although the healing value obtained is not very high, the highest is only 25, but it is not bad.
After all, this isn't something that can really bring about drastic emotional fluctuations.
It's better than nothing.
These increases in healing values also allowed Liu Xiu to understand the impact his words and actions had on different teammates.
Although he is not sure, he can get an idea of how much his teammates like or dislike him from the feedback he gets from the healing value.
"I was worried that I would miss out on getting healing points if I didn't come to the gym earlier, but now I'm wasting time... Fortunately, we're considered to have joined the team after all the members are present... Wait, there's no healing points to be gained during the offseason every year?"
"The host needs to be in a competitive team to gain healing value. When the host withdraws from the competitive team, the healing value is gained. The host withdrew from the competitive team twice after the summer league ended because the end of the summer league means that all participating members have withdrawn from the summer league. After the host joins a team, if the host does not withdraw from the team, the off-season will not be regarded as withdrawing from the competitive team."
"So that's how it is..."
As far as Liu Xiu himself knows, he has only experienced one team change - from the Syracuse University Orange Team to the Portland Trail Blazers.
This was the first time I encountered such a situation and I was not clear about it, but now I understand.
Randolph changed the subject and said to Matt Carroll: "Matt, I didn't expect you to get a contract. I thought you were going to play in Europe."
His tone was a little surprised, but Randolph was even more surprised that Liu Xiu actually had several friends on the team!
He really didn't think about it, he, Lan Pang, had become Liu Xiu's friend...
Matt Carroll responded: "My agent was originally talking to me about playing in Europe, but I didn't expect that the three of us would work so well together in Salt Lake City, and the team kept me here."
Liu Xiu popped up at the right time: "Reuben has renewed his contract, of course you can."
"..." Reuben Bontjie didn't expect that this would bring the topic to him!
But he was not angry. Yes, he only played two games last season, and got 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, but he got a one-year guaranteed contract of $660,000.
The reason is simple: he is 213 cm tall and weighs 117 kg.
Reuben Bontjie was teased by several of his teammates who had a good relationship with him for making more money than an ordinary person could earn in ten years.
The Trail Blazers' "Orlando Summer League Five" reunited and everyone was very happy.
As long as we don't discuss hard work, everyone will be happy.
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There was absolutely no friendly atmosphere among the team members introducing themselves to each other and getting to know each other, and Liu Xiu noticed this.
After the two of them came in, Travis Outlaw, Matt Carroll and Reuben Bontjie came over to say hello.
Liu Xiu even felt that without him and Randolph, the three brothers would not dare to speak loudly within the team.
Liu Xiu didn't think about bringing the whole team together...
The "Five Tigers of the Orlando Summer League" gathered together to chat. The others were also affected by Liu Xiu's words and felt that this hour of "demonstrating diligence time" would not be of any use. They gathered together to chat with those they had a good relationship with, and in their short conversation, they all talked about Liu Xiu, the rookie who made people uncomfortable as soon as he arrived.
It was the first time for most of the teammates to meet Liu Xiu, and their first impression was very deep.
Nearing 10 a.m., head coach Maurice Cheeks and chief assistant coach Kevin Pritchard arrived at the practice field.
"Hello, we have changed a lot of people this year. Let me introduce myself first. My name is Maurice Cheeks. You can call me Maurice or coach."
As soon as Maurice Cheeks introduced himself, the 'O'Tiger Squad' shouted in unison: "Yes, boss."
More than half an hour had passed since Liu Xiu made his debut in the team. His teammates had just stopped paying attention to this rookie, but were attracted to him again.
Is this... a joke on the head coach?
This title exists within the Trail Blazers team.
Assistant coaches and trainers all call Maurice Cheeks "BOSS", but it has never been called that by a player.
Randolph had never shouted like this before. Travis Outlaw and Matt Carroll were two rookies, the former was honest and the latter was timid.
Reuben Bontger, a very famous water dispenser manager.
Then it can only be Liu Xiu!
This rookie is really asking for trouble! He actually instigated his teammates to make fun of the coach!
Paul Allen, the Microsoft tycoon, gave Maurice Cheeks a lot of power!
Apart from not having the right to trade, Maurice Cheeks basically has the final say in player management.
Paul Allen would not interfere with Maurice Cheeks' coaching. He would either fire him or let Maurice Cheeks take full command.
Maurice Cheeks glanced at the "O-Tiger Squad" and ignored them.
This sent different signals to different people. Randolph was relieved. "Why did you believe this kid and tease the coach?"
But he just shouted the loudest.
He was a straightforward person, and in his opinion, as long as Maurice Cheeks didn't lose his temper on the spot, there was no problem.
When it comes to things like this, he won't think about what might have happened or what might have happened behind the scenes.
Other people are different. Some gloat over others' misfortune, some are speechless, some are contemptuous... There are so many kinds of people, it's impossible to list them all.
This little episode did not affect the assembly process. The coaching staff arranged for everyone to introduce themselves so that everyone could get to know each other or get to know each other again to promote relationships within the team.
Maurice Cheeks knows that it won't be of much use, but this matter is not his responsibility. He is the decision maker of the coaching staff. Kevin Pritchard can do these chores whenever he wants. What if it has any effect?
But it really didn't work. When Maurice Cheeks saw the players' positions, he knew that the new season would be more troublesome than last season.
On Liu Xiu's side, when he was introducing himself, Randolph was introducing the team's veteran players to him.
"Patterson, Woods and McGinnis are in the same group, a criminal gang. Wells and Pippen were also in their group, but they are gone. Stoudemire has a good relationship with Patterson, but Stoudemire is not in their . McGinnis and Stoudemire are both your competitors, and they will definitely target you."
"Pippen is also a member of a criminal gang?" Liu Xiu was surprised.
In order to come to the Trail Blazers, a lazy guy like Liu Xiu would naturally investigate everything he could.
Reuben Patterson has a criminal history of driving after taking and carrying an excessive amount of illegal drugs. He had a fight with his wife which led to a fight between gangs in the neighborhood. Both the husband and wife are gangsters, and they are also suspected of molesting a maid... He became famous because he was beaten by Randolph during training.
Quintel Woods, suspected of selling illegal drugs and loving to fight.
Jeff McGinnis had a habit of stealing, even stealing things from the locker room. One time, he was caught stealing a ring from a jewelry store, and got into a fight with the clerk. He stole more than $800 in things and ended up paying $150,000 to avoid going to jail.
Damon Stoudemire was addicted to drugs and was often arrested for taking too much. In 2000, during the two seasons when Kemp came here, he also became addicted to alcohol... A genius of his generation ruined himself in just two seasons.
Bonzi Wells is the first person known for fighting with fans, but he fought with fans outside the stadium. He was not punished for this, but was put in jail and sentenced to 50 hours of community service. However, he was suspended and fined by the league for his remarks in an interview that fans were not important to him at all and that anyone who provoked him should die.
But Pippen really didn't have any bad experiences. The news about Pippen all said that he was declining rapidly and his strength was not good enough.
"Pippen has never been arrested. In the two seasons that I have been in the NBA, Pippen is the only member of the criminal group who has not been sent to prison . When Sabonis was strong, he followed Sabonis. When Sabonis left, Wells and Patterson became fierce, and Pippen mixed with them."
Randolph said of Pippen with a hint of contempt in his tone.
Liu Xiu thought it was normal. He wanted to seek good fortune and avoid evil. He didn't want to do bad things, but being alone would always make him a target. Mixing himself in it, not doing bad things and not being targeted might be a better choice.
"Where is Wallace?" Liu Xiu was very curious about this person.
Just now, among all his teammates, regular players or players under training camp contracts, the one who provided him with the least healing value was not his friend from the "Aohu Squad", but Roaring God, who only gave 5 points!
The last player who was so stingy was LeBron James.
This is different from Liu Xiu's understanding. Rasheed Wallace, the Roaring God, is a super boss who has 41 technical fouls in a single season. This record will never be broken in the future.
According to the previous rules, although a player would be sent off for two technical fouls in a single game, there was no such thing as a suspension for cumulative technical fouls. Many players deliberately used technical fouls to provoke their opponents.
Now, because of Rasheed Wallace's 41 technical fouls in a single season, the league has added a new rule that a suspension mechanism will be triggered when a certain number of accumulated fouls are reached.
Another thing is that the fines have been increased. When the number of technical fouls reaches double digits, the punishment will be increased... and these punishments are constantly being adjusted and are becoming more and more severe.
When mentioning Tianzun, Randolph had a strange expression: "He... I don't know him well. I think he is very sinister."
"Insidious?" Liu Xiu was puzzled. What kind of evaluation was this?
“I feel like he’s playing the bad guy and trying to portray himself as a villain, but he doesn’t fit in with any of the team.”
"What other forces are there in the team?"
"I'm not familiar with the new guy. The people who stayed on the team last season, besides the criminal gang, are Wallace and Anderson. They hang out together every day, and the news media think they're bad guys. But in fact, as long as you don't do anything too extreme, you don't have to worry about retaliation even if you offend them."
Liu Xiu looked at Rasheed Wallace, who didn't look like a good guy, and Derek Anderson, the 13th overall pick in the 1997 draft, who looked like the thug next to Tianzun...
"Davis, he's an old player who has played for more than ten years. He doesn't play with us. He used to play with Sabonis, Dudley, Pippen and others. He is a person... If you provoke someone in the team and can't solve it, you can go to him and call him big brother, and he will help you."
"You called?"
Randolph talked for a long time, but got a question like this, and his mentality almost exploded!
Is this the point?
Randolph responded unhappily, "Yes, I yelled at him once. I beat Wells in my rookie season, and he got a group of hooligans to cause trouble for me. Davis helped me solve the problem... But don't expect him to help you all the time, unless you are shameless enough to call him boss when you encounter a problem..."
Randolph introduced the old players. Comparing them with the cold information he had found, Liu Xiu had a more three-dimensional understanding of his teammates.
Liu Xiu has only one evaluation for his teammates in the new team - Portland Trail Blazers, all of them are villains!
Suddenly, Liu Xiu thought of something and asked Randolph, "Which side do you belong to?"
"Me? I don't belong to any side. I'm a good person!"
"Really? I don't believe it."
