Liu Xiu successfully found something for Payton to do, so that the loudmouth had no time to bother him again.

As for whether his teammates would be annoyed to death, he couldn't control that. He would die as a fellow Taoist but not as a poor Taoist.

After the first two home games, the Trail Blazers took a 2-0 lead.

On the afternoon of the next day, the 26th, the Trail Blazers left Portland for Denver on the Rose Bay Prison.

If they play another team, if it is a city that is not as good as Portland, they may go the day before the game and stay at home to prepare for the game. But if they play the Nuggets, they have to go early. The Denver Plateau will have some impact on the athletes.

You have to adapt well.

In fact, I have played here twice during the regular season and I am quite used to it. The negative impact will not be particularly big, but naturally the lower the better, the negative impact will be.

After a night's rest, on the 27th, the Trail Blazers came to the basketball hall they had borrowed in advance to prepare for the game.

Occasionally there will be some special circumstances in the playoffs. For example, the Pepsi Center, the home arena of the Nuggets, will not be provided to the visiting team for training except on the day of the playoffs. Of course, the Nuggets will arrange a training venue for the visiting team, but the training

As for the environment, I can only say that it meets the alliance's regulations.

Some teams will choose to endure it, but the Trail Blazers owner cannot tolerate it.

Paul Allen's foundation has a stake in the University of Colorado's basketball gym. The NCAA season has long ended. Although there are other arrangements for its use, it doesn't hurt to rent it out for a few days. After the regular season is over and the first-round schedule is confirmed, it will be moved ahead of schedule.

I have booked to train here.

During training, Payton sternly urged his teammates to prepare well and warned them not to be careless. He repeatedly talked about Anthony's threat and repeatedly emphasized that the Nuggets also had an extremely deep lineup and had 50 wins with super talent.

A strong team...

No one was careless in the first place. Payton repeatedly emphasized this. Although it was annoying, no one thought there was a problem.

Because Payton was criticized and described the feeling vividly, everyone was on guard. Everyone was used to Payton's bad talk, and it was a little annoying, but everyone was more active and focused in training because of it.

Liu Xiu was shocked when he saw Payton's operation!

Let's put it this way, if he didn't know the big score, he would have thought they were trailing 0-2 and were about to be swept by the Nuggets!

He just wanted to help Payton find something to do. After entering the playoffs, Payton's conversations became more frequent, and he loved chatting with his warden the most, which was a bit annoying... I don't know how he hit Payton.

That moment of pause!

Seeing Payton being so serious and his teammates being driven by Payton, Liu Xiu felt that his Dongge was in danger!

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As the playoffs progress, individual awards for the regular season begin to be announced one after another.

On the morning of the 28th, the league announced the best coach award.

Trail Blazers coach Maurice Cheeks lost to Suns coach Mike D'Antoni and failed to become the first consecutive coach of the year in NBA history.

Although the Trail Blazers have a bad reputation, their performance is not bad. They had a crazy performance of 10 wins and 1 loss in April, and finally achieved a good record of 62 wins and 20 losses, making Maurice Cheeks' best coach call in the regular season.

The last moment of the game sounded. He and his team are really amazing this season.

But the performance of the Suns was even more shocking! From 29 wins to 65 wins, only Nash was added!

D'Antoni received 81 first-place votes, 17 second-place votes, and 3 third-place votes, and was elected best coach with a total score of 458 points.

Maurice Cheeks received only 17 first-place votes, 55 second-place votes, and 20 third-place votes, ranking second with a total score of 270 points.

Not even the best coach in the club, Maurice Cheeks is mentally prepared.

But the difference in votes is so big, even if you are mentally prepared, you will be angry!

I need to find something to vent my anger on!

It happened that there was a game today. In the evening, after the warm-up and before the game started, Maurice Cheeks strongly urged the players not to be careless tonight and to win the game... There are gloves in front and the coach behind, Liu Xiuyou.

This is an illusion - 'If we lose tonight's game, we will be blackmailed, and we are fighting against the odds'.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the Trail Blazers started the third game of the series against the Nuggets away from home.

In the first quarter, the Trail Blazers defeated the Nuggets 32-20. In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers defeated the Nuggets 33-24. At halftime, they led the Nuggets 65-44 by 21 points.

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The point difference was not as big as G2, but the Trail Blazers performed better on offense and defense than in G2. The point difference in the first half was not as big as G2 because the Nuggets really worked hard when they returned home.

It is true that Anthony actively urges his teammates, and he is also a very energetic player.

But having a boss temperament and no leadership skills is quite sad.

In the original time and space, the Nuggets were weak and weak in the playoffs and bullied by others. It was really not Anthony's problem alone, the whole team was like that.

Moreover, their efforts tonight were in the wrong direction. Facts have proved that they played positional warfare and the results were quite good against the stars.

But what George Karl is thinking about most is his high-speed rotation defense + track and field fast break, as if he wants to dream back to the era of fast offense in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Not to mention now, even seven or eight years later when the small ball era is approaching, his move is only very good in the regular season, very powerful, but in the playoffs, by 2013, he won 57 games

They can all be defeated by a team with 47 wins.

Some people joked that George Karl was stunned by God in the 1996 Finals. He felt that his star play was not strong enough, so he had to engage in playoff team play. As a result, he could only rely on Billups for more than ten years.

Breaking through the first round once, and being eliminated in the first round in all other seasons.

This sounds magical, but the reality of George Karl is just that magical.

In the second half, originally, the half-time lead was 21 points, which was a score that could be relaxed.

But the gloves and the coach have been saying "can't be careless, can't relax" in the past two days. In the third quarter, the Blazers continued to fight on both ends of the offense and defense. Although they were not as desperate as the first half, the Nuggets were completely thorough in the third quarter.

Collapse, the Trail Blazers' performance looked extremely wild...with a score of 27 to 12!

Liu Xiu made 8 of 14 shots, including 3 of 5 three-pointers, plus 12 of 12 free throws. Liu Xiu scored 31 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals in the three quarters. Kwame Brown made 4 of 5 shots in the three quarters and 4 of 6 free throws.

He scored 12 points, 14 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 5 blocks. He scored in double figures for the first time in his career in the playoffs. The two of them worked together to lead the Nuggets by 36 points, 92-56, in the third quarter!

In the fourth quarter, neither team sent their starters, and they were all substitutes. The Trail Blazers' pure substitutes were a bit wild, with Flying Squirrel and Raheem holding the line.

In the final quarter, the live TV camera showed the Nuggets bench from time to time. Anthony still smiled as before, but the sadness and despair in his smile had never been before, as if he had looked down on the warmth and coldness of the world...

In the first three quarters tonight, Anthony made only 10 of 26 shots. His shooting percentage was not very good, but his low shooting percentage was related to the fact that he missed all 5 three-pointers he threw in the third quarter. At that time, he only lasted until 8 minutes of the third quarter.

, the Nuggets have yet to score in double figures, and the point difference is widened by the Trail Blazers.

Putting aside 1 of 7 three-pointers, Anthony's performance of 9 of 19 shots in the first three quarters was not bad, and he got 5 offensive rebounds in the three quarters. Relying on his aggressive rushing and life-threatening play, Anthony scored 15 in the three quarters.

Free throws were made, 13 were scored, and the performance of 34 points in the three quarters could not be better. You must know that the Nuggets only scored 56 points in the three quarters.

In the final quarter, the Trail Blazers stopped racing and played very casually, but still managed a score of 24-20. The Nuggets' substitutes were not in a high mood to score points.

In the end, under the joint efforts of coach Glove, the Trail Blazers defeated the Nuggets 116-76 with 40 points, a big score of 3-0, and the series entered the match point!

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A super scorer enters the playoffs, is in the bottom half, and is eliminated in the first round. Generally speaking, his scoring performance is the best in the series.

Anthony proved this very well.

Liu Xiu is no longer bothered by the fact that he doesn't have more points and offensive rebounds than Anthony. He also saw Anthony's expression of being indifferent to the world. He wanted to comfort Brother Dong, but after the game, Anthony said to him, "

"Congratulations on entering the second round", Liu Xiu did not comfort him, but responded, "You really can't win without me taking you."

Men don't need comfort, they just need time to hide and lick their wounds.

Liu Xiu knew that Anthony here was very different from the original time and space, but his self-esteem, pride, and open-mindedness had never changed. These were also the reasons why he admired Anthony.

However, the shortcomings in his bones have not changed. Although Anthony is more competitive and more desperate in the game, so his talent can be realized earlier than in the original time and space, but he is willing to accept failure when he encounters a big setback.

I gave up at the last moment. This character flaw is still there...

On the second day, the preparation day between G3 and G4, this time, it was Liu Xiu who urged his teammates.

The situation of coming back from a 0-3 deficit has never happened in the entire history of the NBA, but catching up from 0-3 to 3-3 is still a situation that happened two years ago with the Trail Blazers.

If there was a loss ahead, Liu Xiu might not particularly care about the big score. It would be fine to advance, but it was already 3-0 and it was a close call. There could be no surprises.

Although the opponent's star players seem to have given up, what if? What if the opponent feels so good that they can score from outside? What if the Trail Blazers themselves are not in good condition?

But Liu Xiu's urging was not a casual conversation between the gloves and the coach, but something he said in the preparation meeting before the afternoon training - "The first round will end tomorrow, go home and rest."

Just a few words, the effect is no worse than the urging effect of the gloves and the coach's continuous bombardment, so the two of them provided a lot of healing value to the warden...

At 7:30 pm on April 30, the Trail Blazers' fourth game of the series against the Nuggets began.

After 2 hours and 19 minutes, the match was decided.

Anthony obviously lost his energy tonight. He made 9 of 19 shots, plus 7 of 8 free throws. He scored 25 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal. His score was still the highest in the game, but he was never willing to waste time when he was behind.

Give it a try and you'll know he's in 'acceptance' mode.

Liu Xiu made 8 of 17 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers, plus 4 of 5 free throws. He scored 21 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, and 2 steals, leading the Trail Blazers to a steady victory over the Nuggets 99-89.

Beat 0 to advance! Become the first team to advance to the second round this season!

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"Friends come from far away:

Goal 1: Host series total score: 97 points, total offensive rebounds: 9, Carmelo Anthony series total score: 130 points, total offensive rebounds 16, not completed, no reward sent.
To be continued...