As a scout, I usually just go to investigate NCAA players and investigate the intelligence of each team. Tickets and hotels are all paid for by the public, and you can even bring your wife with you.

After Payton retired, he rarely came to the Rose Garden Arena. Counting the opening game to collect the ring, he came to the arena three times since the start of the new season. Today was the fourth time. Liu Xiu guessed that Payton didn't want to be treated as free labor.

Therefore, when Liu Xiu had something to think about Payton, she immediately called him over.

"Warden, your defense is completely adequate. Among the point guards I have seen in all my years of playing, maybe Dumars and Kidd are the only ones who can defend better than you. Defensive masters like Blaylock and Stockton

Maybe not as good as you...Although I am also a point guard, I must admit that the point guard's defense has the smallest impact on the team's defense among all positions."

Liu Xiu noticed that Payton's way of speaking had changed. When this guy was still a player, he couldn't say that the defense at his position was useless.

Liu Xiu did not deny it and responded: "It is difficult for our team's offensive end to stabilize, and it will become more and more unstable. The scorers are very tired. This problem cannot be solved. The big boss does not want to trade the defending champion so easily.

We can only get through this period slowly... In order to win, we can only continue to improve our defense. I looked around our team and I have the most room for improvement. If my defensive level can be as good as yours

Good, or close to your level, our team's defense will inevitably become better... Are you afraid that I will become better than you?"

"Who would be afraid of you! Start practicing now? Will it not delay the game at night?"

"It doesn't matter. I can take a nap after lunch and recover."

"Vaco...I just hate you physical monsters..."

…

A scout is also considered a member of your own team!

Moreover, perhaps because he is no longer a player, Payton has more time to teach and prepare for teaching, so Liu Xiu started a full version of the 'glove flow' defensive training and learning method.

Another 24,000 healing points were spent...

For more than 40 minutes in the morning, Payton did not teach, but played bullfighting with Liu Xiu for a while.

It has been less than half a year since he retired, but Payton has still maintained his body shape very well. He has not gained 30 kilograms in half a year like Jordan did after his second retirement.

One-on-one duel is not a competition, and many things cannot be seen.

But Payton knows Liu Xiu's defense very well, he just observes the details.

Payton knows that Liu Xiu has been busy all summer and should not have time to strengthen his defense. However, compared with last season's playoffs, he can still see that Liu Xiu has made significant progress on the defensive end.

Payton was cursing and playing bullfight with Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu was asking for help, but he was not forgiving and retaliated sarcastically. Payton was so angry that he didn't want anything he didn't want.

In the afternoon, Payton didn't leave. He was going to watch tonight's game live.

Playing against the Suns, the strongest offensive team in the league, perhaps we can better see what Liu Xiu lacks on the defensive end.

In fact, when Payton said that the defensive ability of the point guard has the smallest impact on the entire team among all positions, the meaning is slightly different from the literal meaning.

What he wants to express is that most point guards who are good defenders only care about their own defense, rush to the front, and enjoy the help of their teammates, but rarely help their teammates on the defensive end.

This is the true ‘defensive ability has the least impact on the entire team’.

If Liu Xiu was such a point guard, when he was a teammate, Payton might help him out for the championship and teach him. After retiring, even if they have a good relationship in private, he would find reasons to refuse. It really doesn't make much sense.

But what Payton knows is that Liu Xiu has been practicing defense since the second grade, treating himself as a member of the team, and this is still the case until now.

Last season, Liu Xiu was surprised that he was selected as the second defense, because in terms of single defense, Payton also felt that Liu Xiu was still a little behind, and he is still a little behind now.

But Liu Xiu's role in the overall defense is definitely worthy of the 'Best Defensive Team' award, which is voted by the head coaches of each team.

At 7:40 pm, the Trail Blazers players were waiting in the tunnel for the opposing Suns to enter first.

"Warden, do you know? Our game is broadcast live on many TV stations. They all want to see us lose three games in a row. I will not let them succeed. So, this butcher is back tonight... Hello! Warden

, are you listening to me?"

"Ah? Are you talking to me?"

"Warden! This butcher is going to kill you!"

"Okay, okay, let's enter..."

The spotlight at the away player's tunnel has been turned off. The visiting team has finished playing, and the light shines on the home team's player tunnel.

Liu Xiu ran out of the tunnel first. The positions of his teammates in the tunnel seemed chaotic, but the order of running out after Liu Xiu was actually fixed... When Randolph ran out in training clothes, the scene was

The fans' screams suddenly increased!

Butcher, in the eyes of Prison fans, is the team's strongest insider. If you want to have a dynasty, it would be impossible without Butcher.

Although sensible fans feel that the Butchers have often held back the Wardens since the start of the new season, but tonight's opponent is the Suns, that does not exist...

Randolph actually got Thomas Carter's permission to play before playing the Pacers, but the coach was worried that he was injured again and chose a better opponent.

Coach Liu Xiujue made the right decision, but the Suns...are definitely no better than the Pacers.

"Phoenix Suns, 12 wins and 3 losses, averaging 111 points per game, allowing 92.4 points per game...shooting 50.1%, limiting opponents to 46% from the field, 40% from three, limiting opponents to 37% from three

%……”

"Steve Nash, 32 years old, 191 cm, 88 kg, PG, ability evaluation 97, offense 96, defense 65, passing 100...averaged 19.2 points, 3.4 rebounds and 12.4 assists per game...shooting rate 55%, three

The point shooting rate was 46% and the free throw shooting rate was 92%..."

That’s outrageous!

Nash, who is one year older, played the best performance of his career!

Liu Xiu originally thought that Nash last season was the strongest pure point guard after Magic, but he didn't expect that he would be even stronger this year!

In fact, in the original time and space, Nash's 2006-07 season was indeed the peak year of his career. That year he ranked second in the MVP rankings.

But Nash that year was similar to Duncan in the 2003-04 season. When he was playing at the highest efficiency of his career, he had already won two consecutive MVP awards and met opponents who performed better than him. Duncan met another No. 21, and Nash met him.

The one who won 67 games was Nowitzki.

In addition to Nash, whose ability evaluation was 97, Liu Xiu took a look, and there were also Xiao Bawang, whose ability evaluation was 92, and Hacker, whose ability evaluation was 91.

Under the treatment of common team doctor Thomas Carter, the Suns' health this year has been very good. Barbosa, Laga Bell, Diaw, James Jones, Kurt Thomas and other five main players have played one game so far this season.

Not missing!

In other words, this team, with an average shooting percentage of 50% per game, is in the best condition!
Chapter completed!