Liu Xiu spent a day at the home of Derek Anderson and Dale Davis.

The direction of learning from Derek Anderson is to learn the basic skills and basic techniques of being a high-quality role player in the open position.

Limited by Derek Anderson's strength, the feedback Liu Xiu received from the system and the training methods he learned from Derek Anderson were unable to reach an excellent level. 79 was the limit.

But this is enough for him at the moment.

Otherwise, Derek Anderson’s ‘all-round talent’ cannot be learned with just 3,000 healing points.

For example, Randolph's excellent back attack at that time cost 1500 healing points.

Today, Liu Xiu started quick learning on the defensive end from Dale Davis. He spent 1,000 healing points. In fact, he only started one part of the 'meat grinder' - the defense against breakthrough or cutting players. In the morning, he still disliked Delhi.

K-Anderson was too expensive, and now I know the buyout price is really cheap.

I haven't started to learn about flanking, switching defenses, shrinking and expanding...etc.

The night of the 8th was uneventful. At 7 o'clock the next morning, Liu Xiu woke up on time and the system prompt came.

"I have completed 30 minutes of defensive footwork simulation training in the elbow area and 46 minutes of shooting simulation training after dribbling. It can consume 104 healing points to extract. Do you want to withdraw?"

Liu Xiu thought to himself no.

"The simulation training results have been stored and can be retrieved at any time.

Note: There is no upper limit for the storage of simulation training results, and the extraction needs to be done at one time."

After the system was upgraded and all functions were opened, Liu Xiu discovered that simulation training had a new function to store simulation training results.

He tried it once before and accumulated and stored the simulation training results for a week...it tasted so sour that he never wanted to try it again.

Now……

'Yesterday I got more than 500 healing points from Anderson and Davis, and the coach also increased his healing points by more than 100 points. It's strange, these two coaches usually give thirty or fifty healing points a day, which is pretty good. How can I pay off the resentment after taking a day off?

More?'

'Save these healing values ​​first, save enough healing values, and learn all the training methods of Davis' meat grinder defense!'

…

At 7:58 in the morning, Liu Xiu arrived at the parking lot of the Rose Garden Arena, left five 1-dollar tips, and put the keys in the car. When the security guard said thank you and ran over, Liu Xiu was already running as fast as he could.

He rushed into the staff passage at a very fast speed... At 7:58:55, Liu Xiu entered the training ground.

With the 5-second countdown, Derek Anderson looked dumbfounded at Liu Xiu, who rushed in with his hands on his knees and gasped for breath. He saluted with attention and didn't react until the hour clock rang.

'This rookie...it's really interesting...you have time to get dressed at home and drive out, don't you know how to go out a few minutes earlier?'

Derek Anderson firmly believes that Liu Xiu went out at the right time.

but……

Even if Liu Xiu was not punctual, Derek Anderson would not say anything.

The team arranged two training sessions today, one at 10 a.m. and one at 2 p.m., both 40 minutes.

Most of the teammates will arrive around 9:30. The training session is scheduled to start at 10:00, but in fact it often doesn’t start until 10:30. This is the norm during the season after the training camp. The old players all know that the new arrivals

You will understand even if you have several experiences.

So Derek Anderson said he would give one hour of teaching guidance every day at this time.

Because it is a teaching guide, the amount of training will not be very large, so you can teach whether there is a competition or not, as long as you are not particularly tired and can get up.

From Derek Anderson's point of view, it doesn't matter if the time is a few minutes earlier or later... Mainly, it doesn't matter to him a few minutes later, as long as it's not too different.

But being on time, Derek Anderson is naturally very happy.

Seeing Liu Xiu gradually regaining his breath, Derek Anderson asked: "Take a rest?"

"No, I can start learning after I move my body."

"no problem."

After a while, at 8:15, Derek Anderson's teaching began.

Today, we are still training on basic skills - turning around.

When Liu Xiu was learning to play post-up with Randolph, he learned the turning skills, but big players and small guards are always different, so when learning from Derek Anderson, Liu Xiu prioritized learning to shoot after dribbling.

The next step is to turn around.

Liu Xiu's self-positional awareness - organize the offense well, and when the special player completes singles at a specific moment.

The former is his talent, while the latter requires him to continuously improve his strongest offensive methods.

While Liu Xiu was studying with Derek Anderson, Maurice Cheeks and Kevin Plitcha were secretly observing.

Yesterday, when I heard that Liu Xiu went to study with Derek Anderson, the two of them immediately understood Liu Xiu's thoughts and were very happy. However, they immediately thought of Liu Xiu's previous 'efforts' and complained together for a while, and

Don't have high expectations.

Unexpectedly, Liu Xiu came to train early this morning!

Is there hope?

Facts have proved that it is right not to have high expectations for some things.

At 11:20 in the morning, after the Trail Blazers' team tactical training ended, many players stayed for additional training.

However, Liu Xiu, who seemed to be working hard, did not...

Kevin Plit saw Liu Xiu leaving after the team training and said to Maurice Cheeks: "He must be conserving his energy for tomorrow's preseason game!"

Maurice Cheeks didn't answer. He thought it was more important to watch the performance in the game.

On the afternoon of the 9th, when the Trail Blazers were having their afternoon training session, the Los Angeles Lakers came to Portland.

When Liu Xiu heard the news, he was excited for a while before he calmed down and completed the team's tactical movement training. After the team's training, he went to Dale Davis' house to learn the "meat grinder" defense.

Contraction and expansion training.

This one is cheaper, learns quickly, has 500 healing value...

…

…

On October 10, 2003, the Trail Blazers will usher in the first game of the new season at home...the preseason game.

Although it is only a preseason game, the attention on this game is staggering!

All day long, the Rose Garden Arena was extremely busy.

But all this excitement has little to do with the Trail Blazers.

These excitements belong to the Trail Blazers' opponents - the Los Angeles Lakers!

Yesterday, when the Lakers came to Portland, the media and fans were already going crazy.

A large number of fans from all over the United States gathered in Portland. The average price of preseason game tickets was 25 US dollars per game. Front-row tickets were sold for more than 3,000 US dollars each. Even the seats in the stands originally cost 5-10 US dollars.

Match tickets cost hundreds of dollars to buy from ticket sellers.

Spending so much money to watch a preseason game is just to see the debut of the super foursome of O'Neal, Kobe, Malone and Payton!

…

After the morning pre-game meeting, pre-game preparation training, interviews and other sessions, the Trail Blazers players got a few hours of rest and gathered at 5 o'clock in the evening to start training.

The Trail Blazers prepared nutritious meals for the players, but not many of them ate them... Liu Xiu and Randolph didn't eat them anyway.

Travis Outlaw is a good boy, and he can do whatever the team arranges, but when his two older brothers who protect him tell him, he dare not leave.

Matt Carroll and Ruben Bontje have always been with the trio.

"Ugh," Randolph complained while waiting for food at a restaurant near the arena, "everyone keeps asking about Bryant, Bryant, Bryant, why can't they ask O'Neal?"

"Bryant has just turned 25 and should be entering his prime. O'Neal is already in his 30s. O'Neal's popularity has long been surpassed, and his strength is almost unmatched... Ouch, Zach, don't kick your ass..." Special

Lavis Outlaw answered the question honestly, but was kicked by Randolph.

Travis Outlaw quickly changed positions, farther away from Randolph.

These two bosses, one loves to talk and the other loves to do things, it is too difficult to be their little brother!

Randolph glared at Travis Outlaw and asked Liu Xiu: "Jace, what do you think?"

What do you think? Liu Xiu thought Randolph couldn't stand Kobe, but he didn't expect it was because he wasn't asked about O'Neal.

Looking at Randolph's expectant eyes, Liu Xiu responded: "Because we are the Portland Trail Blazers."

"..."

Randolph choked.

He was expecting someone to ask him if he was an O'Neal fan, and then the 'unexpected' answer was no. Travis Outlaw was still young and had low emotional intelligence. Randolph could understand, but Liu Xiu actually pretended not to understand.

!

The popular Matt Carroll asked at this time: "Why are they asking us about Bryant just because we are the Trail Blazers?"

Travis Outlaw and Ruben Bontje were very interested in this matter and stared at Liu Xiu. Randolph also stared at Liu Xiu after he choked.
To be continued...