Volume 1: A rookie who breaks into the basketball world Chapter 14 You are a good person
Grass is a plant.
Anyone with hands can learn it. This wave of map artillery made the teammates watching feel terrible.
Being talented is actually something that makes people envious and jealous. Being talented and also loving to show off will really make people envious, jealous and hate you.
But there was no other way. They saw with their own eyes that when Randolph demonstrated a move, Liu Xiu would learn it immediately. Liu Xiu practiced it twice more by himself. Without considering the speed, the fluency and standardization of his movements were not inferior to Randolph's who had just demonstrated it!
"Jace, come on, let's go one-on-one. Show me the back-to-the-basket technique you've learned."
Maurice Cheeks still couldn't believe it and wanted to verify it himself.
Liu Xiu was just wondering what excuse he could use to show off the post-up game he had just learned. It seemed a bit silly to force himself to show off, but Maurice Cheeks threw a pillow at him, and Liu Xiu decisively started to show off.
Maurice Cheeks is 47 years old and 185 cm tall. He has retired for 10 years and has maintained a good figure.
1 championship, 5 All-Defensive Team selections including 4 first-team selections, 4 All-Star selections including 1 All-Star starter, and his jersey has been retired by the 76ers.
What Maurice Cheeks was best at when he was a player was defense and passing. Before Payton, the best defensive point guard in NBA history was Maurice Cheeks. He was very good at pressure-style steals defense. He had a total of 2,310 steals in the regular season of his career, ranking third in NBA history after Stockton and Jordan.
Maurice Cheeks did not use pressure defense on Liu Xiu. He just wanted to test Liu Xiu's back-to-the-basket skills. He just predicted in advance and moved to the position where Liu Xiu should move when using the back-to-the-basket technique to see Liu Xiu's reaction.
Neither of them moved quickly, and Morris Cheeks did not offer any resistance. Liu Xiu could do the unfamiliar and less commonly used moves slowly, just like in training...
Without letting Liu Xiu demonstrate all the moves, after Liu Xiu demonstrated a few post-up moves, Maurice Cheeks believed that Liu Xiu could learn the post-up move after just one viewing.
It is obvious that Liu Xiu's technical movements are still unfamiliar, and some of them are performed very slowly. He needs to practice to become proficient in them before he can speed up and avoid mistakes.
But this is what Maurice Cheeks feels most horrible about, because this is really what it's like when you just learned it.
Moreover, Liu Xiu’s level of accomplishment was too high!
Compared to the temporary players who were watching, Maurice Cheeks, who had played in the NBA for 15 years and was a top NBA player for many years, had a much sharper vision. He even felt that Liu Xiu did not need to do anything extra. He only needed to practice according to the current technical movements. He did not need to consider anything else. Just practice slowly, and practice makes perfect. Then he could practice the back-to-the-basket technique to a very outstanding level!
Maurice Cheeks also wanted to squat in the corner with Randolph, questioning his life... Who wasn't a star back then? But Liu Xiu's talent is too outrageous!
Suddenly, Maurice Cheeks was happy again.
"Hey! This is my player!"
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"Healing value +99, from Morris Cheeks."
Liu Xiu stared at the prompt for a long time.
Unexpectedly, the first full healing value increase after joining the Trail Blazers was given by their coach!
Even Randolph, after Liu Xiu's successful guidance, the highest healing value he gave was only 91.
"This coach is quite interesting..."
Randolph alone provided more than 400 healing points, Maurice Cheeks provided 99 points, and the others added up to more than 200 points.
The healing values given by others were not much, because Liu Xiu really showed his talent this time, and even the various "actions" of Liu Xiu before seemed reasonable.
They are just talented, what can you do?
If you can also learn to post up after watching it once, you can do the same... There are also people who are more jealous and unhappy, but they are only a minority.
Seeing that there were more than 4,300 healing points left, Liu Xiu didn't feel so distressed anymore.
I could have asked for advice in private and learned from it, but the reason I chose to learn in public is that I wanted to get some of my money back.
Otherwise, if Randolph had to recover more than 800 points by himself, it would be too difficult for him.
Seeing that Randolph seemed to have come to his senses, Liu Xiu said, "Let's go, Zach, to Digital City. It's a bit far. What if we go there too late and it's closed?"
"Oh...oh...ok..."
Although Randolph came to his senses, he still couldn't believe it and was currently in an idle state. After Liu Xiu said this, he followed him.
Maurice Cheeks was confused and asked, "Jace, why don't you stay and train for a while?"
"Coach, there is no training scheduled for this afternoon, right?"
"No, but you just learned a new technique. Why don't you practice more to consolidate the basics?"
"Maybe next time. I'm a little tired from learning new technology today. I want to take a break. There is a saying in our country that we should combine work with rest."
Combine your sister! I heard you say you want to go to Digital City, okay!
Watching Liu Xiu and Randolph walking towards the locker room, Maurice Cheeks felt terrible.
For the first time in his career as a coach, he felt that emotion - regret for a young player's wasted talent.
Liu Xiu, this rookie, is so lazy that it's shocking!
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On July 7, the first game day of the Orlando Summer League arrived.
As a new league that was just launched in 2001, the Orlando Summer League has only 6 participating teams, including the host Magic.
Because there are few participating teams, all games are held at the TD Waterhouse Center Arena.
The Trail Blazers' first game will be against the Miami Heat, starting at 3 p.m.
There is a game at 10 am, the Timberwolves play the Bucks, and there is a C-position game in the evening, the Cavaliers play the host Magic.
At 8:30 in the morning, the Trail Blazers gathered at the training ground to prepare for the game.
This time, the preparations are being made according to the preparation rhythm of NBA games.
The original reason for holding the Summer League this season was to allow rookies to experience NBA-level games earlier. Even if the opponents are weak, it allows the rookies to feel adult basketball and have a clearer understanding of themselves, so that they can conduct more targeted training in the next two months of offseason.
Pre-match meetings, tactical arrangements, pre-match training... In the morning, Liu Xiu followed the team to fully experience what to do on an NBA game day.
During this process, Liu Xiu made Randolph and Maurice Cheeks feel very annoyed, and also made the chief assistant coach Kevin Pritchard, who heard that he learned the back-to-the-basket technique after watching it once yesterday afternoon, open his mouth wide and didn't know what to say.
Last night, Liu Xiu chose to practice Zach Randolph-style back-to-the-basket in his simulation training.
High degree of fit, effective training throughout the simulation training, plus 80% training effect bonus... Since there were only a few 10-minute team training games yesterday, Liu Xiu's physical exertion yesterday was far less than the physical exertion of the training the day before. The back-to-the-basket training is more difficult than ball control and shooting, but there are still 2 and a half hours of simulation training.
Although the two and a half hours of simulated training could not bring about any qualitative changes, it made Liu Xiu's technical movements more fluent.
During the break in the pre-match training, Liu Xiu deliberately demonstrated his progress, which made Randolph, who had been paying attention to him, very upset!
He had always thought he was a genius, but after seeing Liu Xiu, he finally knew what a true genius was...
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After lunch, the Trail Blazers summer league team returned to the TD Waterhouse Center and the game started at 3 pm.
Liu Xiu and a five-man group consisting of Randolph, Travis Outlaw , Reuben Bontjie and Matt Carroll wandered around the stadium.
When he reached the main entrance of the stadium, Randolph started cursing...
The eyes of the four companions were all focused on Randolph.
Randolph pointed to an LED sign at the TD Waterhouse Center that said the Magic-Cavs game was sold out.
Randolph has played in the summer league for two years. He has never seen a stadium with more than 10,000 people sell out!
"Is that high school student so popular?" Randolph said in a sour tone.
Liu Xiu replied: "Yes, I am always asked questions about him in interviews these days. His popularity is about the same as Duncan back then."
Currently, Garnett is more famous than Duncan worldwide, but in the United States, Duncan's popularity is no less than Garnett. From the 1997-98 season to the 2002-03 season, five All-Star Games were held, and Duncan's total votes were almost the same as Garnett's.
All in all, in the United States, Duncan's popularity is slightly higher than Garnett's, and his popularity was extremely high before he entered the NBA.
Hearing Liu Xiu's answer, Randolph became even more jealous and asked, "You are in the same class, Jace, is his talent really that high? How does he compare to you?"
Liu Xiu took out a small fan from somewhere and fanned himself quickly, laughing: "I am just an ordinary first-round pick, 13th overall. How can I compare my talent with the first-round genius?"
When other people laugh, the eight upper teeth are exposed. The four teammates looked at Liu Xiu, who was laughing so hard that four teeth on the upper and lower teeth were exposed, a total of eight teeth, and they really wanted to slap him.
Randolph took a deep breath and said, "Jace, give me Carmelo Anthony's phone number."
"What's wrong? Do you want to challenge him to a fight? No, they are not the kind of people you want to mess with."
"Who the hell wants to fight him? Am I crazy?"
"Then why do you want his phone number?"
"I think he's had a very hard time in the past year, and I want to comfort him."
"Oh...Zach, you're such a good man!"
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Randolph is so crazy - do I really need you to play the nice guy card?
This was the first time in his life that someone said he was a good person, and he was actually a man!
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At 2:40 p.m., the two summer league teams, the Trail Blazers and the Heat, entered the court at the TD Waterhouse Center.
Players from both teams heard about the 7 p.m. summer league game between the Magic and the Cavaliers, which will be watched by a record 15,772 people.
This number of people is because the Magic have only arranged this many seats.
I heard that the ticket prices for the Magic and Cavaliers games increased to $15 when there were only 5,000 tickets left.
Tickets for the game between the Trail Blazers and the Heat are $10, and come with a free hamburger and Coke.
Even so, there were only more than 5,000 people sitting at the scene.
The Trail Blazers players' focus on the Heat players is on Caron Butler.
As the 10th pick in the first round of the 2002 draft, Caron Butler averaged 15.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game in his rookie season, performing very well. His performance in the rookie season ranked third in the 2002 draft after Stoudemire and Yao Ming.
The Heat players' attention was focused on Zach Randolph.
Although Randolph only averaged 8 points and 4 rebounds per game in the regular season last season, in the playoffs, Randolph started with Rasheed Wallace starting from Game 4 of the first round, scoring 20+ points in three consecutive games, helping the Trail Blazers win three games in a row. In Game 7, the Mavericks relied on Nowitzki's 5-of-7 shots in the final quarter and his face-to-face mid-range shot to score 12 points to win the seventh game.
Randolph became famous in the playoffs last season. The players on the Heat were just like Liu Xiu. They didn't expect to see Randolph in the summer league.
There are traces of general focus, but not everyone focuses on the same thing.
The coaching staff of the Trail Blazers is now discussing Liu Xiu's pre-match warm-up.
Liu Xiu spent a full 1 hour and 40 minutes warming up from 12:50 to 2:30! And it was not a random exercise. The trainer could explain each warm-up item, and they all seemed to be effective, moving the body instead of wasting effort...
It's not surprising that he has such patience to warm up and such professional ability. It can only be said that he works hard.
But this person is Liu Xiu...
No matter how I think about it, something seems wrong!
In addition to this, when the Trail Blazers summer league team walked into the court, the whole team discovered one thing - Liu Xiu's fighting spirit was getting higher and higher!
It is difficult to reconcile this with their impression of Liu Xiu.
Looking at the guy sitting on the bench, his posture was lazy but his eyes were narrowed into a slit and seemed to be glowing...
Coaches and teammates feel that this teammate is too contradictory!
So lazy, but his passion for the game seems to be no less than anyone else!
In fact, Liu Xiu was really getting angry.
The teammates' attention was on the opposing second-year player Caron Butler.
Liu Xiu's attention was focused on the man.
Jordan who is five centimeters shorter - Dwyane Wade!
