326. Revenge Part 1 (Update 213, please vote for me)

Although Tracy McGrady was strong last season, the Magic were weak. Tracy McGrady could only show off his power in front of James. He almost overturned when he beat Anthony. When he met the Trail Blazers, he had nothing to do except rack up statistics.

But this season, McGrady has been able to show off his personal abilities as a superstar when playing against the Trail Blazers.

Behind him are Kidd, Kobe, and Iverson. Now they call McGrady "brother" when they meet him. Warden, who just switched to shooting guard, was beaten.

However, the Trail Blazers' adjustments to their playing style, tactical changes, and personnel rotations are completely different from last season when Liu Xiuqian couldn't match his opponents.

At that time, the Blazers' management and coaching staff did not expect that Liu Xiu's athletic ability could actually improve. Even if they knew how terrible Liu Xiu's learning ability was, they did not expect that this lazy guy would make a leap in his skills and basic skills after returning from playing in the Olympics.

Sexual progress, I never thought that Liu Xiu could switch to the second position like Iverson.

In Liu Xiu's rookie year, the Trail Blazers trained and used him as a player who organizes offense based on the strength of the team. He has explosive ability and focuses on stability in play. If Liu Xiu can't beat him, let Liu Xiu play a supporting role.

, others focus on attack.

Now, the team is willing to sacrifice something to let Liu Xiu face the cruelty!

Tracy McGrady beat Liu Xiu in a fancy way. As long as Liu Xiu's mentality didn't break, Maurice Cheeks would let Liu Xiu continue to attack.

This is the only way to become a superstar!

The sad thing about Liu Xiu is that his mentality is very difficult to break...

What's even worse is that this is a situation the Trail Blazers coaching staff is happy with.

The core of their training is that no matter how difficult the personal situation is, they are always trying to adjust and make good use of the strengths of their teammates. They are never discouraged. They have been working hard to find opportunities and seize them, and they have indeed seized some opportunities.

But Kidd and McGrady played a very long time tonight. Both of them only rested in the second and third quarters. Their combined rest time was only 4 minutes. If they played against the Trail Blazers, they would be able to face OK.

The Warden team, which scored 62 points, played against each other twice in a year. They did not want to be as miserable as the OK team. Moreover, Tracy McGrady, who was expected to win the division championship or even the division championship for the first time in his career, played very focused!

This narrow-eyed warden kept his eyes open tonight! He crushed the narrow-eyed warden who also had his eyes open tonight!

The score was 22-17 in the first quarter, 24-25 in the second quarter, and 25-20 in the third quarter. After the first three quarters, the Nets led the Trail Blazers 71-62 by 9 points.

At the end of the quarter, the Trail Blazers and the Nets battled for half a quarter. In the fierce defensive confrontation, the two teams scored 12 to 12 in the half quarter. The Trail Blazers stubbornly did not let the Nets widen the point difference, 74 to 12.

83, the Trail Blazers kept the point difference within single digits.

During this period, Payton really relied on his rich game experience and excellent ability to beat Kidd, and he scored 6 points and 2 assists in the first half of the quarter.

At the official timeout in the second quarter, Payton was visibly tired. When he was replaced, he patted Liu Xiu on the shoulder, which meant - I have shown how to beat Kidd, and I will leave the rest to you.

Liu Xiu also learned how to beat Kidd, and he was able to sit firmly in the right position one-on-one, and he also had confidence.

but……

but!

The one guarding him is Tracy McGrady! Or it could be Richard Jefferson!

After the official timeout, the Trail Blazers sent in a combination of Flying Squirrel, Liu Xiu, Raheem, Randolph, and Kwame Brown. At this time, their offensive strength reached its limit.

The Nets returned to their starting lineup of Kidd, McGrady, Richard Jefferson, Clifford Robinson, and Mourning.

The opponent's perimeter trio put tremendous pressure on the Trail Blazers.

For a stronger outside trio than this, the first thing the Trail Blazers players thought of was the Bulls dynasty outside trio of Ron Harper, Jordan, and Pippen.

Moreover, these three people are at their peak. They have just entered the prime period of their careers. All three of them can average 40+ minutes per game. How shameless!

There are also more exciting ones, the little flying squirrel is one and the warden is another!

Facing Kidd's defense, the little flying squirrel had no chance to step back and shoot in isolation. He chose to rush all the way to the depths. Without a chance, he passed back to Liu Xiu, who was always at the receiving point.

Liu Xiu caught the ball from a high position and broke through! McGrady followed closely, but he was quite proud of his good performance tonight and didn't notice someone extending out. He followed Liu Xiu's move and was blocked!

Liu Xiu used Kwame Brown's cover to break through!

McGrady did not delay Liu Xiu when defending the pick-and-roll. Clifford Robinson, who was switching defenses, could only press forward to defend. Liu Xiu got faster and faster after starting. After accelerating in the first three steps, Clifford Robinson reached the fastest speed.

He was passed over completely without even touching Liu Xiu, who went straight to the basket!

Mourning and Randolph, who were confronting each other under the basket, both reacted. Randolph chose to exit the baseline and leave the extended area of ​​the three-second zone, but Mourning chose to turn around and press towards Liu Xiu.

Liu Xiu became even more excited when he saw this and jumped towards Moning!

The two were fighting each other in the air. After all, Mourning was old and reacted in time. He immediately turned around and pressed forward, but the distance was not enough! Although Liu Xiu was knocked back after the confrontation, he landed on his butt and slid back.

It stopped after more than one meter away, but!

When Liu Xiu and Mourning were fighting against each other, they smashed the ball into the basket!

Liu Xiu dunks on Mourning!

This ignited the boos of the fans at the scene and also ignited the fighting spirit of the Trail Blazers players!

When the Nets were on offense, Richard Jefferson cut in to catch the ball and attracted the second pass from the defender. He was intercepted by the aggressive Little Flying Squirrel. The Little Flying Squirrel counterattacked, was blocked and passed to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu caused two fouls and two free throws.

All hits, a 4-0 run, chasing the score to 78-83, narrowing the point difference to 5 points!

This time, McGrady, who was already a little drifting and started to narrow his eyes again, successfully opened his eyes.

When the Nets attacked, McGrady singled out Rahim from the outside and hit a pull-up three-pointer.

Immediately afterwards, McGrady went around to chase Liu Xiu when he broke through the pick-and-roll and blocked Liu Xiu's shot from behind. Kidd grabbed the ball and counterattacked. McGrady quickly came down to receive the ball. Liu Xiu and the flying squirrel blocked it, and McGrady received it.

The ball came to an emergency stop outside the three-point line, and he shot a three-pointer... and hit it again!

The Trail Blazers had just caught up to a score of 78-83. After two rounds, they were beaten 89-78 by McGrady, and the point difference widened to 11 points.

McGrady scored two winning goals in a row, and the Nets sealed the victory!

Making 9 of 24 shots, including 2 of 8 three-pointers, and 7 of 8 free throws, Liu Xiu scored 27 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal.

But the Trail Blazers eventually lost to the Nets 90-97 in an away game, suffering their second loss of the season!

In the same 24 shots, McGrady made 12 of 24 shots, including 6 of 8 three-pointers, and 7 of 8 free throws. He scored 37 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks.

Kidd's 8 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists. Although the single defense cannot withstand Payton's high post play, nor Liu Xiu's low post play, he has Tracy McGrady!

As a strong team that has reached the Finals for two consecutive years in recent years, the Nets are undoubtedly a very mature team. When they introduce a player who has just entered the prime period of his career and has won the scoring title for two consecutive years,

And after a successful superstar who is willing to give up a lot of things next to him, the shotgun is replaced by a cannon, and with the introduction of high-quality role players relying on the attraction of Kidd and Tracy McGrady, the strength is still better than before.

The Trail Blazers suffered their first real defeat of the new season!

With 10 wins and 2 losses, the Trail Blazers were overtaken by the Suns with 11 wins and 2 losses, falling to second place in the Western Conference.

Kidd has always admired Liu Xiu, and he praised him as always when he was interviewed after the game. Even Tracy McGrady expressed his recognition of Liu Xiu's performance this time. Although the shooting rate is not high, Liu Xiu has the vision to judge opportunities.

McGrady was amazed by his ability to seize the opportunity.

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The next day, the hot news about last night's game was all over.

With a hit rate of 37.5%, Liu Xiu was sprayed again without any suspense.

When he was asked in an interview in the locker room last night who should be blamed for losing his No. 1 spot in the league, he only answered one word - rice!

A big pot, take the initiative to carry it.

As for the Nets, they have gained more recognition after this game and are calling for their third trip to the Finals in four years.

Liu Xiu didn't have time to reflect on the feeling of being beaten by Tracy McGrady. He followed the team to Boston at noon without stopping. At 6 o'clock in the evening, the back-to-back away games against the Celtics began.

The blame for this game does not lie with Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu played 42 minutes against Ricky Davis or rookie Tony Allen and made 16 of 31 shots, including 1 of 4 three-pointers, plus 7 of 8 free throws.

40 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists.

Randolph's performance was actually pretty good. Although he only scored 11 goals in 24 shots, he still had a shooting percentage of 45.8%. In addition, he made 6 of 9 free throws and scored 28 points and 12 rebounds. Kwame Brown also scored 7 points and 9 rebounds.

It's remarkable, but the 6 points of the Flying Squirrel and the 10 points of Raheem are too overwhelming. Apart from these few players, the other players of the Trail Blazers, including Payton, only scored 13 points in total.

Playing back-to-back away games in the cold winter in the Northeastern United States seriously affected the performance of the Trail Blazers' role players.

With Pierce scoring 28 points, Ricky Davis 22 points, Arroyo 16 points and 7 assists, Reeve LaFrentz 14 points and 7 rebounds... the Celtics narrowly defeated the Trail Blazers 111-104!

After defeating the Trail Blazers, the Celtics' record improved to 9 wins and 5 losses, rushing to fourth place in the Eastern Conference, widening the gap with the 76ers and firmly ranking second in the Atlantic Division!

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After three consecutive away games with 1 win and 2 losses, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland in despair.

The record dropped to 10 wins and 3 losses. The Spurs, who were first in the Southwest Division with 11 wins and 3 losses, took the opportunity to overtake the Trail Blazers. The Trail Blazers dropped to third in the Western Conference rankings.

Liu Xiu was speechless when he saw in the news that the Spurs ranked second in the Western Conference and continued to compete for the top spot in the Western Conference regular season.

It's the Spurs again! It's Duncan again!

Didn't the news say that Duncan had the worst start of his career due to injuries? Liu Xiu checked Duncan's data and found that he averaged 20.6 points, 11.4 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.8 blocks per game. By the way, he averaged 33 minutes per game, a career low.

Liu Xiu chose to tear up the newspaper.

"Phoenix: Night of Revenge..."

Liu Xiu opened the system and looked at the tasks. This was a task triggered after losing to the Celtics last night.

He only plays against Eastern Conference teams twice a year. Liu Xiu naturally wants to win next time he plays against the Nets and Celtics.

It's even better if you have a mission.

Coincidentally, I have a day off today, and the Trail Blazers will face the Celtics at home tomorrow night.

But there is another task.

"Rose in Bloom: The Wind Rises in the City of Roses..."

The last game of the month is against the Suns!

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Update 2/13, finally started to update, please give me monthly votes and recommendations!
Chapter completed!