At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Trail Blazers held their last team training match before the regular season.

Different from the past two days of tactical adjustment training, tactical positioning and coordination strengthening training, this is a game. According to usual practice, this is a game that will definitely affect the chance of playing in tomorrow's opening game. Everyone plays very seriously.

It's hard to compare in the game, but compared with the training match on the 25th, Liu Xiu's defensive performance has improved significantly!

Dale Davis is not feeling well.

He estimated that Liu Xiu would become a qualified defensive and assisting player in the near future.

This is not a simple matter. It is not difficult for a rookie, a rookie who was not good at defense in college, and a defender, to quickly improve his individual defense ability to a qualified level after entering the NBA.

But what Liu Xiu improves is supplementary defense and assisting defense!

It can be said that there is nothing more boring than this in basketball, and it is also the thing that no one wants to learn.

It's outrageous that this game requires talent support.

But Liu Xiu got started just by learning casually, and during the preseason, he was about to touch the threshold of passing level!

The passing line is not particularly good, and it does not play a role in helping the team's defensive leader.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it's the same with basketball. If you can't get started or pass, it means you don't have talent.

This shows that Liu Xiu’s talent is explosive!

Forget it, Liu Xiu has improved in basic skills compared to a few days ago...

In the team training match on the 25th, Liu Xiu learned the importance of stepping skills when attacking the frame at close range. In the past few days, Liu Xiu has stopped all other simulation training except defensive end simulation training and basic shooting skills.

Next, I put a considerable part of my physical strength into the simulation training of stepping. This is one of Derek Anderson's basic skills.

Liu Xiu originally had the ability in this area, but it was not strong, and his training methods were not as good as Derek Anderson. As a defender, he was also talented in this area. He had the foundation and made rapid progress. He reached the passing level in a few days.

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Coincidentally, while Liu Xiu was waiting for revenge after smashing a flying squirrel on the 25th, he went to Derek Anderson to review the training details of the basic stepping skills...

Which veteran doesn't like to have his skills learned by talented juniors?

Regardless of strength, only considering versatility, Derek Anderson can be called a technical master. His planned job after retirement is to become a trainer or assistant coach and challenge the head coach.

Dale Davis is also a defensive hero with a name in NBA history.

Anyway, Derek Anderson and Dale Davis hope Liu Xiu can learn well.

Therefore, extra attention is paid to Liu Xiu during team training matches.

Then, he noticed Liu Xiu's progress.

During the training break, the two teachers got together and complained...

"Derek, I didn't believe there was such a genius who could perfect his technique just by practicing, but now I believe it."

"Actually, I've heard of such a person," Derek Anderson said with a wry smile, "but I didn't believe it at the time, and I believe it now."

Derek Anderson thought about the high school student in Toronto a few years ago who joked that he wanted to be Pippen's side to his brother...

Dale Davis originally only played with famous veterans, but recently he and Derek Anderson got together because they have a common student like Liu Xiu.

Now, the two of them have the same idea - they have spent so many years of their careers on dogs!

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The two teachers were discussing Liu Xiu, and the two coaches in charge of the team were also there.

"Maurice, have you ever seen a player improve faster than Jayce?"

"Yes, but that man entered the leap stage after laying the foundation. How can someone like Jess, starting from scratch, make progress so quickly? No."

"No! Maurice, he is progressing so fast, do you think anyone can really hit him? How can we make him work hard?"

Maurice Cheeks was speechless when he heard this - Why do you have to let your players be beaten to work hard? Isn't it enough if they make progress?

Or are you still thinking about that Porsche 365a?

People have built a garage next to the yard just to display this car, right?

The two of them chatted and walked to the door of the visiting team's training ground, just passing by... But they heard the angry old man inside shouting curses. The words and sentences used, and the harsh words used to describe them were all praise, and it was simply unbearable!

No soundproof door can stop it!

The two coaches couldn't help but stop and eavesdrop for a while.

After a while, the door was pushed open. The two coaches quickly walked a few steps without being noticed by the people inside. They turned around and when the door closed, a tall white child walked out quickly. The corners of the boy's eyes seemed to twinkle.

With crystal tears...

It's no secret among NBA coaching circles that Larry Bird has a bad mouth.

I don’t know what happened. It’s hard for the two coaches to comment on the fact that Milicic was scolded and cried.

But Kevin Plitchar had something to say: "Maurice, tell me, can we learn from Brown's toughness and sharp words to save our team environment?"

After hearing this, Maurice Cheeks looked up and down at Kevin Plitcha, who looked very hairy.

"What's wrong? Maurice, what's wrong with what I said?"

"No, no, no, no problem, it's a good idea," Maurice Cheeks said with a smile: "If you think about our team, we have Zach, Dell, Ruben... By the way, there's also Jayce,

I have been retired for ten years and I still exercise regularly. I won’t die if they take turns beating me. You..."

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Kevin Plitchar felt that the team environment was not that important, so he turned around and walked quickly to the parking lot: "I'm going to eat first, see you in the evening."

In order to prepare for the opening game, the Trail Blazers coaching staff had to work overtime to make more complete preparations for coaching.

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The Trail Blazers coaches are working hard, and so are the players.

After the afternoon training, Liu Xiu called four friends from the "Aohu Squad", called Tianzun, who created a self-created villain image, and the all-around thug teacher next to Tianzun, and the seven of them discussed tomorrow's game together.

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I originally wanted to call Dale Davis, but this man has more face than heaven. He plays with Liu Xiu and Derek Anderson in private, which is fine. There are many people and things, so he is not willing to come out and play casually.

, he will not come unless these seven people all call him "Big Brother".

But Liu Xiu never acted like a younger brother, and Randolph never acted like a younger brother until something happened...

However, even if Dale Davis doesn't come, this discussion group still accounts for half of the team!

Liu Xiu was not conscious about this. This was the case when he started playing basketball.

Randolph looked at Rasheed Wallace and Derek Anderson, astonished - before his rookie season even started, Liu Xiu had already become the leader of the most powerful force in the team!

Last year, those people were fighting within the team, fighting for a hammer!

Also, Randolph felt that this seemed to be a matter of course for Liu Xiu...

Even though they communicated, they didn’t accomplish much.

More importantly, through this discussion on the last day before the new season, we have confirmed one thing - we are on the same team!

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The opening game of the regular season is a big event, which means that the long-awaited new season is about to begin!

It's a good start. The United States also said something similar. Anyway, every team takes it seriously in the opening game.

The league, media, and fans naturally attach great importance to it, but they only attach great importance to teams with popular stars.

Anyway, the Trail Blazers are not taken seriously at all.

They and the Pistons have grievances. They played against each other in the Finals more than ten years ago.

But at that time, all the players from the two teams had retired, and there was no grudge at all. The Trail Blazers were beaten by the Pistons, so there was no grudge at all.

It seems that after they arranged the opening games of the popular teams, they just randomly put together a matchup combination for them.

It's already the day before the opening game, and there aren't many reporters here from the Trail Blazers.

Even the number of Chinese reporters was not very large, and all the manpower was concentrated on Yao Ming.

Originally, the domestic media was very enthusiastic about Liu Xiu. However, Liu Xiu's reputation in the United States has become worse and worse. There are also problems in the domestic environment these days, and his popularity in the country has faded.

Liu Xiu felt a little sore in his balls, but there was nothing he could do about it, so he ignored it for now, it was something that couldn't be rushed.

After getting together with some teammates, Liu Xiu went home in the evening and watched the live broadcast of the most popular opening game - the Lakers vs. the Mavericks at home!

When seeing the Mavericks starting Nash, Finley, Anthony Walker, Jamison, and Nowitzki, question marks popped up in Liu Xiuyi's head...

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Mavericks 106-95. Even if Kobe Bryant didn't play, the Mavericks didn't have much power to fight back against the Lakers.

The luxurious super frontcourt does not seem to bring any improvement to the Mavericks.

But the most important thing is the staggering strength displayed by the Lakers.

Even Charles Barkley, a rising commentator who enjoys criticizing O'Neal, lamented that if Kobe was here and Kobe and Malone were supporting him on the wings, the Mavericks would probably not be able to survive halftime given the strength they showed.

Just in the opening game, Liu Xiu remembered a statement that was laughed at in the future - if the Lakers in the 2003-04 season had not had internal strife and so many injuries, they might have been the strongest team, even if their

So old.
To be continued...