494. Complete defeat! (6000 words)

"The lights can be a little brighter. From this angle, yes, my side face smile looks more handsome..."

On May 8, the morning of the first game of the series between the Trail Blazers and the Mavericks, Liu Xiu came to the arena at 8 o'clock. Before the preparation meeting, he had an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency.

When Xu Jicheng saw how smoothly Liu Xiu communicated with his cameraman, who was usually serious and cold, and seemed to be very familiar with them, he could understand why Liu Xiu was doing better abroad than Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and others.

If you are not strong enough, you can practice. If you are not talented, you will not be able to enter the NBA.

If you can't get along with people in this environment, just change the environment. If you don't stay here, you will have your own place.

What matters is whether you dare to speak!

Wang Zhizhi, who only entered the NBA at the age of 23, has missed the most critical 3-4 years of growth and is unlikely to become a player like Yao Ming, but with his talent, he has become a main force. Judging from the current Wang Zhizhi, visual inspection is not

What a big problem.

The important thing is to ask more and learn more, but Wang Zhizhi didn't have a clear development direction until he was 26 years old, met Liu Xiu, got Liu Xiu's advice, and focused on becoming a functional player. The previous Wang Zhizhi was in the NBA

He is just a dull guy in the team and doesn't say anything. Even if he thinks the arrangement is not suitable for him, he still accepts it patiently...

After Liu Xiu communicated with the cameraman and adjusted the camera angle, the interview began.

Xu Jicheng: "Warden, Dayao failed to enter the playoffs. Dayao has been eliminated in the first round. You are the only Chinese player still competing in the playoffs. What do you think about the next playoffs with the Mavericks?

Are you confident?"

Liu Xiu: "Of course, we are second in the Western Conference, and they are only third in the Western Conference. We also won more games in the regular season. This wave of advantage lies with me."

This kind of self-confidence is better than mine! The older generation of basketball players in China, those who have been in the basketball industry for many years, highly respect Liu Xiu, just because of this.

Xu Jicheng calmed down and asked: "What do you think of Dayao's performance in his first playoff game?"

Liu Xiu thought for a while: "He is miserable."

"Tragic? His performance was the best among all the centers in the first round this year."

"Yes, that's why he is miserable. He is a center who averages 30 points per game and protects the rim very well. He can't win a game. Who else is miserable if he is not miserable? And he still lost to Nash. As far as I know, last summer

Nash’s first goal is to stay with the Mavericks, and his second goal is to join the Rockets and join forces with Dayao, but the owners of Texas have equally good vision.”

So direct and sharp!

Like Xu Jicheng and others, it's not that they can't see the problems of the Rockets, but when the domestic official media reports news, they always report on the good things, and report on the respect of Chinese people in a certain country, but rarely report on the scenes of being bullied abroad.

This is understandable. What the official media may want to do is to enhance national self-confidence - to see if we can eat more outside.

But the actual effect is to endorse those public intellectuals.

Xu Jicheng is ready to report Liu Xiu's answer!

They dare not say it themselves, but the number one basketball player in the country must have a reason for saying this. They are just the carriers of the warden's remarks...

…

After the interview, Liu Xiu followed the team for pre-game meetings and training. At noon, Liu Xiu heard Payton say something - Artest, who won the eighth MVP vote, yelled at James through the air.

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They are both players with beast-level physical fitness. Artest and James are on par with each other. The Pacers and Cavaliers are the favorites to play next season.

This time, Liu Xiu felt that Le Bang was really innocent, and it was beyond his control.

If he were the warden in the same situation, he would not be able to jump out and say that he was not worthy.

However, having said that, since you choose to accept all this calmly and enjoy the benefits, you must bear the side effects by yourself.

Payton was very well-informed about some information, and Liu Xiu also heard about some things related to the labor agreement.

The maximum contract period in the new version of the labor agreement will be cut by another year, from 7 years to 6 years, giving players and teams more options. For example, if you sign a contract of 4 years or more, you can sign a contract after the first two years.

Add player options or team options.

This was closely related to the interests of the players, so Liu Xiu took note of it.

What he is most interested in in the new collective bargaining agreement is that the Knicks applied to the league to buy out Alan Houston's contract but the remaining contract will not be included in the salary cap.

Last year, Alan Houston was reimbursed midway through the season and suffered a devastating serious injury. Although he returned this season, he averaged only 12 points and 2 assists in 20 games. The knee injury obviously did not heal. Later, the injury worsened and he was reimbursed again.

The first-generation amnesty clause, the Alan Houston clause, is about to be released!

As a player, I feel like this is a sad thing.

Sympathy for Houston for three seconds... Sympathy is over, happily eat lunch, calm down and take a nap to recharge for tonight's game.

At 5 o'clock in the evening Western time, the two games in the Eastern Conference started at the same time. The Trail Blazers and Mavericks also regrouped, and the players began to warm up before the game one after another.

The warm-up preparations before the game were almost complete. When Liu Xiu and his teammates were chatting and waiting to enter, Randolph rushed over from the lounge in a hurry.

"Something big happened! Something big happened!"

Randolph's voice immediately attracted everyone's attention, but he was always startled, and no one really thought it was anything serious.

Randolph was not embarrassed and said the answer directly: "Iverson won! He scored 54 points, a black seven!"

This news is indeed shocking!

Liu Xiu asked: "Butcher, you actually like Iverson?"

"?" The black butcher had a question mark face, shook his head and replied: "You are the one who likes Iverson, I like O'Neal!"

Liu Xiu asked in confusion: "Then why are you so happy that O'Neal was eliminated?"

Randolph really answered: "If O'Neal reaches the finals and we also reach the finals, I will have a hard time. Now that he has been eliminated, there will only be one O'Neal in the playoffs, and that is the Rose.

Bay…”

"Jermaine O'Neal."

"Damn warden, don't run away, stop for me..."

…

Iverson made 21 of 40 shots, plus 12 of 12 free throws. He scored 54 points and 6 assists. He led the 76ers to a narrow victory over the Heat 97-91, won the tiebreaker, and became the only team in the first round of this season.

Defeat the team above!

O'Neal scored 27 points on 12-of-19 shooting, and Wade scored 21 points on 7-of-20 shooting. The Heat's dual-core performance was good, but other than the two of them, no one scored in double figures!

This season, some people have been saying that the Pacers have a poor rotation and the Suns have an 8-man rotation. In fact, the Heat are the worst. In order to get O'Neal, they gave away three of their original starters - Caron Butler.

Odom, Brian Grant.

Although Eddie Jones is left, Eddie Jones is 33 years old and his condition has collapsed. There are fewer people on the outside taking shots in the team. Eddie Jones's scoring has plummeted. When Wade and O'Neal are around

Not even a qualified wing pitcher can do it.

Of course, the key to the Heat's upset was Iverson's violent performance!

In Portland, the game between the Trail Blazers and the Mavericks is about to begin, and the TV commentator is still talking about the 76ers advancing to the second round.

T.N.T Sports, Barkley laughed out loud and joked that Iverson was helping Carter and Tracy McGrady meet in the Eastern Conference Finals.

For the Pistons, if they meet the Heat in the second round, it won't be easy, but they will play the 76ers, Billups, Hamilton, Carter, Ben Wallace, and Prince on the bench.

, Darius Miles and others... collectively surrounded and suppressed Iverson, and the effect during the regular season was quite good!

While the 76ers were playing against the Heat, there was also a game that originally attracted a lot of attention, the game between the Nets, the strongest outside trio, and the defending champion Pacers.

With McGrady's 20 points, Richard Jefferson's 21 points, and Kidd's 15 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists, the Nets defeated the Pacers 96-81.

Lianzhuang DPOY Artest, who made 7 of 17 shots and 9 of 11 free throws, scored 23 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals and 1 block. He performed well, but whether it was offense or defense, he could only rely on Tracy McGrady and Richard.

-Jefferson was defeated in the repeated bombings between the two men.

The defending champion's back line is weak, and the frontcourt bench lineup is old and weak. Kidd has become more dominant in the playoffs with better teammates, and he has the demeanor of a magician... There are so many highlights, but they are not as good as Iver.

Mori shines!

When their eyes came to the court of the Rose Garden Arena, the Trail Blazers players who had already entered the court focused their attention on the game that was about to start.

Liu Xiu enjoyed the enthusiastic cheers of the fans at the scene. Iverson's amazing black seven was just a matter of another division for him.

If the Trail Blazers don't make it to the Finals, everything that happens in the Eastern Conference playoffs has nothing to do with him.

Once he steps on the court, Liu Xiu is always so calm in this regard.

Under the leadership of the Warden, in the fanatical atmosphere of the scene, the rest of the Blazers were also particularly focused.

Compared to the Blazers who are calm and focused, the Mavericks players are a bit impetuous.

Confidence, worry, anger, hatred, fear...all kinds of emotions are mixed together.

After the entrance ceremony, an award ceremony was held for the best sixth man of the Flying Squirrels.

The director accepted Liu Xiu's suggestion and marked the two consecutive years when posting the Best Sixth Man award on the big screen, and posted the names of two famous players, McHaledan and Schrempf, who had achieved this achievement.

When the little flying squirrel came out and took the trophy from the vice president's hand, he smiled brightly.

Liu Xiu was very curious about why the boss didn't come to present the awards, so he asked the coach, who was also puzzled. In the morning, he saw his boss dressed in fancy clothes for an interview with Xinhua News Agency. In the afternoon, he suddenly said that he couldn't come to watch the game because of something else...

In the final preparation time before the game, Maurice Cheeks did not make any adjustments to his tactics or playing style. He just boosted morale and emphasized the things to pay attention to.

The game was about to start. Liu Xiu copied the Flying Squirrel's 'Flying Squirrel' and Terry's 'Jet' and put on four extra pairs of socks.
To be continued...