On January 3, the Trail Blazers ushered in the first game day of 2006.

At 8:50 in the morning, at the Rose Garden Arena, Randolph slowly changed into his training clothes and came out of the locker room. To his surprise, he saw Liu Xiu had arrived!

Randolph said loudly to Liu Xiu: "Warden, you came so early. It's unbelievable. Bryant scored 75 points... Uh... Lei, why are you staring at me?"

Ray Allen glanced at Randolph, stood up and walked to the conference room.

Randolph walked up to Liu Xiu and asked in confusion: "Warden, do you and Lei have such a good relationship? He seemed more upset than you when he heard that Bryant surpassed your 72 points."

Liu Xiu looked at Randolph with dead fish eyes: "Lei is also from the class of 1996, the same class as Kobe... Well... By the way, the Boston Post did a basketball feature the day before yesterday, ranking the players of the 2001 class, and started to implement the new

Among the 2001 players with contracts, do you know who is ranked highest?"

Randolph's eyes widened: "I don't know! I don't want to know either!"

When Liu Xiu saw Randolph covering his ears, he increased his voice and said: "The number one inside is Pau Gasol! The number one outside is Gilbert Arenas!"

"Ah..." Randolph screamed, and then yelled: "Your 72 points were surpassed by Bryant!"

Liu Xiu retaliated decisively: "Gasol is the best insider in the 2001 class!"

Then, the two started a Kobe and Artest-style trash-talking showdown, saying these two sentences repeatedly.

Teammates can no longer get used to seeing this scene...

Amid the bickering and ridicule with Randolph, Liu Xiu's first game day of the new year kicked off.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Trail Blazers held a pre-game meeting. The coaching staff officially announced that Kwame Brown was diagnosed with a groin strain and will miss the back-to-back games today and tomorrow due to injury. The follow-up situation remains to be seen.

He also welcomed his new teammate Skotishvili.

Randolph looked at Scotishvili, held back his comment for a long time: "He's quite tall."

The preparations for the game in the morning went smoothly. By noon, both the agent and the team's press officer were begging Liu Xiu to accept an interview. Liu Xiu guessed that the West Coast great also wanted to hear his warden's evaluation of 75 points in a single game.

Fans are also looking forward to his performance, so he will not accept interviews.

After a day of preparation, at 7 p.m., the Trail Blazers played against the Clippers at home.

In view of the fact that the Clippers have a record of 19 wins and 13 losses in 32 games, with a winning rate of 59.3%, Liu Xiu safely chose Ray Allen's 'quick shot' and Maggette's 'unstoppable' when copying his talents.

Shooting and driving.

There was no nationwide live broadcast of this game at the beginning, and even though the Clippers had an astonishingly good record, there was no additional broadcast. However, after Kobe Bryant scored 75 points last night, this game was temporarily broadcast by T.N.T Sports.

After the game started, Liu Xiu made a few random shots, and Barkley was so excited.

But Livingston did a good job of interfering with outside shots and defending, Kaman was top-notch in protecting the frame, Cassel was very good at mid-range defense, and Liu Xiu made 1 of 4 shots in his first few attacks.

The Trail Blazers are missing Kwame Brown to protect the rim. Facing the frontcourt combination of Maggette, Brand, and Kaman, they still have the trio of Cassel, Randolph and Mourning to organize the offense.

Very poorly defended.

Following Stoudemire, Brand also proved the importance of a good point guard to an inside man.

Brand, who was at full level when he entered the NBA, averaged about 20 points per game and had no room for improvement. Anyway, Liu Xiu played against Brand for the first time when he entered the NBA in 2003 and saw that Brand's player detection report was 88

Ability evaluation, borderline All-Star level. It’s now 2006, and Brand still has an 88 ability evaluation. But so far this season, Brand is averaging 24.4 points per game, with a career-high number of shots, and a career-high field goal percentage.

new highs!

Under Cassel's leadership, Brand's performance was almost a notch above what he should have been.

In other words, Brand has been held back by the lack of a good point guard partner.

No matter what, the Trail Blazers got off to a bad start!

Trailing 9-2 at the start, Liu Xiuli restrained his impulse, organized the attack well, and calmly seized the available points.

How good Brand is on the offensive end, the more obvious his deficiencies are on the defensive end.

Liu Xiu increased the frequency of feeding Randolph the ball and asked Randolph to attack Brand's shortcoming of slow lateral movement.

In the rest of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers and Clippers were evenly matched, with a score of 18 to 17. After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers trailed the Clippers by 6 points, 20 to 26.

Although they were still lagging behind, they quickly adjusted after a bad start and played back and forth with the opponent. The confidence of the Trail Blazers players increased instead of falling!

In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers and Clippers both scored 26 points. The two teams played evenly in this quarter. In the third quarter, the difference in strength came. Liu Xiu, Randolph, and Ray Allen played exquisitely.

In cooperation, Ray Allen made 6 of 7 shots in a single quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers. He scored 14 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal in a single quarter without making a free throw. The Trail Blazers beat the Clippers in the third quarter.

29 to 20!

Liu Xiu took advantage of the Clippers' defensive emphasis on him in this quarter! The Clippers failed to stand up after falling into a headwind and were beaten for one quarter.

After three quarters, the Trail Blazers led the Clippers by 3 points, 75-72.

In the last quarter, the Trail Blazers kept up their efforts. Randolph and Ray Allen both scored 8 points in a single quarter. Liu Xiumei scored 4 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in a single quarter, and the rebounds reached double digits. Under the leadership of the three,

The Trail Blazers scored 31 points in a single quarter.

For the Clippers, although Brand scored 12 points in the final quarter, he failed to lead the team. The team only scored 22 points.

In the end, with Liu Xiu's 23 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists, Randolph's 25 points, 11 rebounds and 7 assists, and Ray Allen's 28 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, the Trail Blazers defeated the Clippers 106-94.

Get 10 consecutive wins!

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At 1:58 pm on the second day of the game between the Trail Blazers and Clippers, Liu Xiu walked into the home team's training ground at the Rose Garden Arena.

There was a meeting at two o'clock in the afternoon to prepare for the second back-to-back game in the evening. Liu Xiu did not check the time and was not late.

Seeing Liu Xiu coming, Randolph yelled: "Bryant, Bryant, Bryant...it's so annoying! We have a 10-game winning streak! We just ended the Pistons' run."

15 consecutive wins, and this is our second 10-game winning streak this season. Doesn’t it mean that our two 10-game winning streaks are miraculous performances? Those news are still one for Bryant!

Warden, please say a few words! In the past, people were discussing your 72 points, but now everyone is talking about Bryant’s 75 points..."

Liu Xiu shrugged: "The value of his 75 points is higher than my 72 points. His opponent is the Mavericks, and my opponent with 72 points is the favorite of scorers. Stars look for confident players.

Good friends, Green Jersey Army."

Randolph was furious when he heard this: "Don't you want to take the first place back?"

Liu Xiu was stunned: "Butcher, haven't you always wanted to surpass my score of 72? You haven't surpassed it yet, how can I have the nerve to get a higher score..."

[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]

"Yeah...

Ahem... No, you fart! You played several single rounds in a row at the beginning of last night's game, and you didn't want to take it back."

Liu Xiu nodded: "Yes, I tried it, but I can't get it."

Randolph: "..."

Ray Allen, who was watching on the sidelines, couldn't understand Liu Xiu. He said Liu Xiu didn't care about data, but he absolutely didn't believe it! When he had the chance to brush, this guy really tried to brush with his life.

But in this situation where someone else would be absolutely impulsive, Liu Xiu seemed so calm...

From 2 to 2:30 in the afternoon, the Trail Blazers held a half-hour pre-game meeting, followed by physical therapy time and rest time.

After the meeting, Liu Xiu came to the coach's office.

Seeing Liu Xiu coming, the coach looked at the vice president, the vice president looked at Huo Tu, Huo Tu looked at Bu Shu, Bu Shu looked at the coach...

Liu Xiu saw several coaches each providing more than ten points of healing value, and a big question mark popped up on his head - are these coaches unhappy with his warden?

Don't tell me, it's true! Several coaches were really unhappy with Liu Xiusheng just now.

But it wasn't like this at first.

Before the meeting started, Huo Tu informed Liu Xiu that he would come here after the meeting.

The purpose is to educate Liu Xiu about the single-game scoring record.

This thing, despite the lively hype in the media these two days, it will pass after a while. For example, recently, before Kobe Bryant scored 75 points, people would say that Liu Xiu's 72 points were awesome, but it is no longer the case.

What a hot topic.

Now, the media is focusing their attention on Liu Xiu. In the eyes of the coaches, it is just because Liu Xiu was called the "single-game scoring ceiling for active players" when he scored 72 points.

None of the top four coaches said they didn't like Liu Xiu's scoring, but Liu Xiu was not calm at the start of the game last night. In their opinion, this was not a good sign, so they wanted to discuss this matter with Liu Xiu.

The topic of Kobe Bryant scoring 75 points is still at its peak. Liu Xiu did not score high points last night, but only scored a triple-double. Instead of decreasing, the popularity of his public opinion here has become higher.

But in the pre-match meeting just now, Liu Xiu very calmly analyzed what needs to be paid attention to in tonight's match and what points can be exploited...it seemed that he was not affected by public opinion at all.

As a result, an embarrassing situation arose. The coaches came to Liu Xiu to resolve Liu Xiu's "psychological problems." But Liu Xiu had no psychological problems. They didn't know what to talk about at the moment. They couldn't just call him over.

Just say hello and let people go, right?

Therefore, unable to do anything, they began to complain about why Liu Xiu had such good psychological control ability.

Finally, the eyes of the coach, Huo Tu and Bu were focused on the vice president.

The vice president had a black line. He looked at Liu Xiu and forced himself to think of a topic... We have it!

"Jace, have you lost some weight recently? I saw in the report from the logistics department that there is an application for customizing your jersey."

Liu Xiu: "????"

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To be continued...