910. The better you fight, the harder it is to escape

After playing the Mavericks, the Trail Blazers took a day off, and on November 10th, they faced the Grizzlies at home.

Sell ​​Gasol, destroy, and rebuild. This is the team building plan of Grizzlies general manager Chris Wallace. There is no cover up, and it is plainly told that they are selling Gasol.

Gasol also stated in an interview that he wanted better teammates. Last season, he used practical actions. This season, he can no longer hold back and speak out.

However, unlike Iverson who can go wherever he wants, the Grizzlies are really doing business, asking for equivalent returns, and even want to make a profit to pave the way for reconstruction.

Opposite the Trail Blazers is Gasol's dream team.

However, other players from the opposing dynasty team may still be traded. Ray Allen and Randolph, the two players who are ranked among the top three players in the team for establishing the dynasty, are definitely impossible.

Without moving these two players, even if the Trail Blazers move Kwame Brown, the Grizzlies will not be willing to trade him.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the game between the Trail Blazers and the Grizzlies started.

Gasol has been playing very unmotivated since the beginning of this season, not as hard as last season.

He discovered that the harder he worked, the better he fought, and the harder he got, the better he fought normally.

On Liu Xiu's side, he has been waiting for a long time for his teammates to feel warm, and it's finally hot tonight!

He played 36 minutes and made 11 of 20 shots, including 3 of 6 three-pointers, plus 4 of 4 free throws. He scored 29 points, 7 rebounds, 14 assists, 6 steals and 1 block.

Although he only got 7 rebounds, he had 14 assists!

Also, facing a team that has lost six games in a row at the beginning, the ‘Answer Wristband’ is so cool to use!

Relying on Liu Xiu's 4 times 5 performance, the Trail Blazers defeated the Grizzlies 110-98, improving their record to 4 wins and 2 losses!

The next day, the Trail Blazers had back-to-back games against the Hornets at home.

The Trail Blazers continued the feeling they had last night. The team made 11 of 25 three-point shots and the three-point shooting rate was as high as 44%.

Liu Xiu played 32 minutes and made 7 of 12 shots, including 2 of 5 three-pointers, plus 7 of 7 free throws. He scored 23 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists and 3 steals.

Not long into the fourth quarter, Liu Xiu was replaced by the coach after getting his 10th rebound.

Relying on Liu Xiu's triple-double, the Trail Blazers finally defeated the Hornets 109-93, winning 3 consecutive victories and improving their record to 5 wins and 2 losses!

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On November 13, the league announced the second Game Week Player of the Week award.

Eastern Conference: Howard, 3 wins and 0 losses, averaging 20.3 points, 15.7 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game; Western Conference, Liu Xiu, 3 wins and 0 losses, averaging 24.3 points, 10 rebounds, 10.3 assists, 3.3 steals and 1.3 blocks per game.

Liu Xiu averaged a triple-double in four games in the first week, which aroused fans' amazement.

Who would have known that I would be so surprised that Liu Xiu averaged a triple-double in 3 games in the second week! He led his team to 3 consecutive victories!

He also had 3 triple-doubles in the first 7 games, averaging 26.7 points, 10.7 rebounds and 9.57 assists per game.

Some fans put forward a bold guess on the Internet, which caused a wave of heated discussions, but everyone just made fun of it and did not take it seriously.

When Liu Xiu received the Player of the Week award, he had already traveled with the team to Washington, D.C., and visited the White House with the team for the third consecutive year.

The first two times he memorized a short composition, the kind written by an elementary school student, with three to four hundred words. This year he has nothing to say, except a few words of thank you...

On the second day, after two days of rest, the Trail Blazers started their fourth consecutive away game, challenging the Wizards away from home in their first game.

After entering the venue, Liu Xiu felt very sorry when he looked at the opponent's lineup.

Agent Zero is out with a knee injury.

He was injured in the playoffs last season. He came back at the beginning of this season and was injured again after playing a few games... However, since Arenas has played 80, 80, and 74 games in the past three years, no one thinks he is a glass player yet.

people.

But Liu Xiu knew that Arenas's pull-up jump shot style, which ignored the knee's endurance, really collapsed after the injury.

The next step is to decline in strength, then withdraw from the game, the popularity is gone, and the strength completely collapses after being suspended...

However, he felt that it was not Agent Zero who suffered, but the Wizards.

Arenas is not miserable. He just signed a six-year contract with a sky-high price of US$110 million. It will not be implemented until next season, and then he will just sit back and make money.

And the Wizards, with such a bad contract, will not be able to turn around in seven or eight years without a new amnesty clause.

The head coach of the Wizards also changed. After last season, the Nets were looking for someone to take the blame, and McMillan became the one to take the blame again.

A capable coach in the NBA may not necessarily be able to find a job. After all, being a head coach does not only require coaching ability.

But those who are willing to take the blame without complaining really don’t have to worry about their jobs. The NBA will always have teams that need a scapegoat. If this scapegoat is capable, he won’t have to worry about his job.

As soon as McMillan was fired, he received an invitation from the Wizards.

The Wizards were beaten by James in the first round last season, and they also used their coach to take the blame and changed coaches to solve the problem.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the Trail Blazers' away game against the Wizards started.

After the game started, the Wizards performed better than the Trail Blazers expected!

Antonio Daniels, the No. 4 pick in the 1997 class, performed very well and organized the Wizards' offense in an orderly manner.

Antonio Daniels's style of play focuses on breakthroughs. From the perspective of tactical coordination, he is more suitable for the Wizards' two-man striker than Arenas, who focuses on shooting.

Peja and Jamison obviously have more opportunities to perform than when they cooperated with Arenas.

Not only the shot power is improved, but also the chance of touching the ball and the tactical success rate.

After the Wizards let go of Larry Hughes, Arenas played very egotistically and was far less friendly than Larry Hughes to the two top scorers on the front line who can average 20 points per game.

Now combined with Antonio Daniels, the two strikers can unleash their abilities.

In the first quarter, Jamison had 7 points, Peja had 8 points, Antonio Daniels had 2 points and 4 assists, and Blatche, who came off the bench, scored 8 points... The Wizards scored 31 to 27 in the first quarter, leading the Trail Blazers by 4 points.

point!

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Although the performance of Jamison and Peja was amazing, Liu Xiu and Ray Allen had little problem dealing with these two people. Blatche replaced Haywood and was responsible for scoring when Jamison needed a rest. He relied on eating cakes and singles for 5 minutes.

Scored 8 points, this is the reason why the Trail Blazers fell behind in the first quarter.

The performance of this guy's performance reminded the Trail Blazers players of their class of 2005 high school power forward Blatche. They were all from the 2005 class. They were both high school students and had been playing soy sauce for two years...and then in the third grade.

Started to show his offensive talent.

However, the Wizards relied on Brac as an inside substitute, which also allowed Liu Xiu to find a breakthrough.

During the break, he discussed a few words with his teammates who were going to play together...

After returning from the break, coach McMillan on the opposite side indeed sent out the inside combination of Jamison and Blatche. This was what Liu Xiu expected!

This is a man who is more than capable of attacking.

After the start of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers began to attack the inside!
Chapter completed!