Healing Basketball - Chapter 813

  Bosh was shocked: What am I challenging?

   Veteran Anthony Parker on the side quickly said: “Don’t be influenced by the warden, he did it on purpose. He wants to disrupt our game strategy. We must be firm!”

  Bosh, as a standard rabble, has a teammate with a strong will, and he immediately stood up: “Yes, he wants to score points, I… we will compete with him! It depends on whether he is better or us!”

  What I said… Anyway, the teammates felt the momentum.

  But in the eyes of the Raptors players, Liu Xiu is more imposing.

   Said to single out the whole team, this guy really did it! It really did it!

In the next three rounds, Liu Xiu first hit a breakthrough layup, and then made an anti-aircraft gun turnaround jumper on the left side of the three-second zone, followed by Liu Xiu’s flank and Millsap’s off-ball pick-and-roll followed by Kwame- Brown made a long two-pointer from the bottom line to support the ball.

   Liu Xiu scored 7 goals in a row at the start, including a three-pointer, scoring 15 points!

  However, the Raptors were not afraid during this period. Anthony Parker made a second three-pointer, Bosh scored a long two-pointer, and Milicic made a tip-up.

   The current score is 12 to 15, and the Raptors have been clinging to the score.

   It was the Raptors’ attack again. Felton caught the ball from the top arc and hit a three-pointer after being emptied. The Raptors tied the score and withstood Liu Xiu’s impact!

  Although the score was tied, the warden and the opponent team fought against each other in the first few minutes, and the fans on the scene were extremely excited.

  At first, they also thought that playing the Raptors would eventually become the warden’s assists, but they didn’t expect it to soar!

   It was the Blazers’ turn to attack, and Liu Xiu responded with a three-pointer to Felton… Unfortunately, the ball hit the basket with a “bang”.

  The fans at the scene sighed regretfully. The warden hit 7 goals in a row, but fortunately, the opponent couldn’t continue after scoring 4 goals in a row.

   Kwame Brown protects the defensive rebound, Maurice Cheeks calls a timeout!

  The purpose of calling this timeout is to give Liu Xiu some time to slow down. After 8 rounds in a row, she needs to slow down.

   As for whether this will interrupt Liu Xiu’s excellent form… Maurice Cheeks knows it won’t.

   More than one-third of the regular season has been played, and he has already understood Liu Xiu’s characteristics in this regard.

Maurice Cheeks doesn’t worry about why he has such characteristics, he makes good use of the advantages and avoids the disadvantages. That’s enough. The Trail Blazers can go from scoring in the first quarter of last season to scoring in the first quarter now. The brigade is inseparable from his use of Liu Xiu’s characteristic.

   What surprised him now was that the opponent was able to tie the score after Liu Xiu played like this!

From being so afraid of the warden before, to the warden who dares to face hard steel and face the “invincible” state, the performance of the Raptors made Maurice Cheeks think of a Chinese idiom that he thought was very interesting—— Extremes must be reversed.

   But the game was a bit difficult. The warden started like this, but he didn’t get the lead at the beginning. For the Trail Blazers, the next thing is going to be uncomfortable…

  Morris Cheeks is in pain, while Sam Mitchell on the opposite side is extremely excited!

  As expected by the two coaches, after the timeout came back, the Raptors, who used conventional play to counter Liu Xiu’s fiercest opening stage, began to gain the upper hand.

  The “fierce first quarter” of the Trail Blazers this season is actually Liu Xiu averaging 13.7 points in the first quarter of the first 30 games.

The normal defense of the Raptors is actually very strong. It is not for nothing that the Nets are ranked first in the Eastern Conference. Time to swap defensive roles, the defense built around these two people may not be good.

The defense of the Raptors’ back line is actually not bad, but Liu Xiu restrained them too much. In the next 8 minutes of the first quarter, Liu Xiu mainly worked at a high position, from the three-point line to the free throw line. The defensive weakness of the Raptors. Liu Xiu made 3 of 5 shots and 2 of 2 free throws and scored 8 points. In the first quarter, Liu Xiu made 10 of 13 shots, including 1 of 2 three-pointers and 2 of 2 free throws. Scored 23 points in the first quarter.

  However, his teammates were prevented from shooting 2 of 9 and only scored 6 points!

   After Liu Xiu scored 15 consecutive points in the first 3 minutes, the Trail Blazers only scored 14 points in the next 8 minutes!

  As for the Raptors, although they failed to continue their crazy offensive performance of 15 points in more than 3 minutes in the next 8 minutes, the overall offensive performance was still hot.

   Relying on Milicic’s 6 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, Bosh’s 11 points and 1 assist, Anthony Parker’s 6 points, Ford’s 4 points, Felton’s 5 points… The Raptors scored 36 points in the first quarter.

  36 to 29, the Raptors lead the Trail Blazers by 7 points and enter the intermission!

  …

  Gap in strength!

  The Trail Blazers smelled the ‘smell’ of the ‘strength gap’.

  It makes them very upset, very angry.

  Morris Cheeks knows that their biggest disadvantage at present is not their strength, but ‘poor information’.

  The opponent knows them very well, very well, maybe they know everything about their style of play.

  However, they don’t know much about the Raptors, whose strength has been greatly improved again by the Twin Towers. Their knowledge is limited to watching videos and scouting reports, and they don’t have any actual combat understanding.

   Not only against the Raptors, but against teams with larger rosters or changes in style of play.

  The key is that when they played against the Raptors last time, they didn’t have any experience in fighting. The last time the Raptors played against them was exactly the same as when they were beaten by Kobe last season.

   The current situation, Maurice Cheeks feels quite incomprehensible.

   But since there is no solution, he will not solve it. He will rotate normally and adjust the tactics normally according to the actual situation.

   In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers focused on defense as before, using the depth of the lineup to consume opponents without limit on the defensive end.

  The effect is very good. Through reasonable strategic response and lineup adjustment, the coach successfully pulled down the scoring performance of the Raptors. The Raptors only scored 27 points in the second quarter, a quarter less than the first quarter.

  With the Raptors playing very hard offensively and the tactical coordination still in place, this is definitely a good defensive performance.

However, the Blazers’ own offense has started the daily “drive high and go low” mode. Liu Xiu made 4 of 7 shots in a single quarter, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, and 2 of 2 free throws in a single quarter. To 11 points, but the Trail Blazers team only scored 20 points in a single quarter!

  In fact, the Trail Blazers’ offense was better than Liu Xiu’s scoring start in the first quarter, but the Raptors’ defense was excellent!

   Throughout the first half, the Trail Blazers scored the highest score except for Liu Xiu, and it was Ray Allen who scored 7 points on 3 of 9 shots.