Healing Basketball

   Chapter 729 729. Each according to his ability

The World Cup is still the most popular event in the Chinese sports market at present, but this time, relying on Liu Xiu and Yao Ming, the basketball industry has taken a big piece of cake... The happiest person about this is David Stern, who will continue to increase his efforts publicity.

  No. 1 point guard! No. 1 center forward!

   This gimmick, the NBA official bought a draft in the Chinese market and yelled it out, and it soon spread to the American market.

  Stern doesn’t care about how Liu Xiu and Yao Ming will be chased and intercepted by their opponents next season. Anyway, he adds another fire to the hot finals.

  It was 8 o'clock in the evening, at the Rose Garden Arena in Portland, the second game of the finals between the Trail Blazers and the Pistons began.

  Liu Xiu, as before, issued an order from the beginning to activate the power of the west coast.

  Bang Bang   But this time he started with two irons and didn't hit until the third ball.

  The Pistons kicked off with a slammed defense!

   Billups sticks close to Liu Xiu, defends against shots, and lets Liu Xiu break through. This defensive strategy is completely different from that of the Spurs.

The Spurs Duncan made up for the mid-range, and the defense at the basket was miserable. Muhammad was good at protecting the frame, and Nesterovic... In the finals, this center with an annual salary of nearly 10 million dollars is only tall and heavy. Can carry.

  As for the Pistons, Big Ben can expand without any worries.

  However, even if Liu Xiu only made 1 of 3 shots from the west coast in the start, the Pistons have always guarded him strictly and dared not give him a chance to shoot.

  Liu Xiu made good use of this point. She doesn't like continuous singles breakthroughs in physical strength. If she needs to slow down, she can let Ray Allen or Payton, who came off the bench, make do.

  This forced Ben Wallace's help defense range to concentrate on the free throw line area, and Yao Ming's frame protection increased pressure!

  The high-intensity defense also affected the shooting feel of the Pistons. Liu Xiu, Ray Allen, and the outside defense of the outsiders are not vegetarians.

  The two teams played back and forth in the opening stage, but after Yao Ming was replaced halfway through the first quarter and 4 minutes to rest, the Trail Blazers opened the gap to 5 points in one fell swoop, leading the Pistons 10-15!

Although Yao Ming scored two goals in a row after returning to the field in the last minute or so, and one of them was a 2+1 with a turn and hook, Liu Xiu also took advantage of Ben Wallace's replacement to rest and hit close range consecutively. European step layup.

  After the first quarter, the Trail Blazers led the Pistons by 4 points 24 to 20!

   In the second quarter, Liu Xiu scored 7 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in a single quarter, leading the team to score 20 points in a single quarter. At the same time, the Trail Blazers followed the rhythm of the first quarter and played defensively against the Pistons.

   As long as the iron-blooded battle starts, unless both sides stop at the same time, it will be difficult to stop. Of course, if one side can play an offense that defeats the opponent's defense, but the Pistons did not in the second quarter.

   In the second quarter, Carter scored 6 points and 4 rebounds, which was a good performance, but all 4 rebounds were defensive rebounds, which did not really help the offense much! The Pistons only scored 17 points in a single quarter!

After halftime, Liu Xiu made 5 of 12 shots, including 1 of 3 three-pointers and 3 of 3 free throws. He scored 14 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists in the half, helping the Trail Blazers lead the Pistons 44-37 7 points!

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   Entering the intermission, Philip Sanders began to make drastic adjustments.

  He said to the team members: "Our contingency has been predicted by them. If we are behind, we can continue the contingency we are used to before, and the only way to lose is not to worry about failure. Go all out!"

   Encouraged by him, in the third quarter, Yao Ming, Carter, and Billups started the bombing mode!

  They also felt that they were restrained in everything they did in the first half. The opponent had a good time defending with iron and blood, and they felt stuck between their teeth when they drank water.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Pistons caught the Trail Blazers by surprise. They relied on Yao Ming to score 3 goals in a row, and Billups and Carter scored two points each. 46 lead the Trail Blazers by 1 point!

  The Trail Blazers called a timeout, but they failed to regain the advantage.

  By the end of the third quarter, Ray Allen hit a three-pointer at the buzzer, the score was 72 to 73, and the Trail Blazers were still 1 point behind the Pistons!

Yao Ming made 6 of 9 shots in a single quarter. Because of the hand-to-hand combat in the first half, the referee relaxed the penalty scale, but he was stunned to score 12 points in a single quarter with Carter's 9 points , Billups' 4 points and 4 assists, and others eating pie or catching and shooting... The Pistons beat the Trail Blazers 36 to 28 in the third quarter!

   Throughout the third quarter, the Pistons made 13 of 25 shots, grabbed 6 offensive rebounds in a single quarter, and added 4 shots.

However, at the end of the quarter, the Pistons withered... They shot 25 times in the third quarter with a shooting percentage of more than 50%. By the end of the quarter, they only made 8 of 22 shots, 8 three-pointers, and 2 of 4 free throws. , Only got 18 points.

   As for the Trail Blazers, they basically lost their points at the basket in the last quarter. Yao Ming squatted under the basket, and Ben Wallace was too exhausted to expand, so he squatted at close range.

  But Ray Allen, Flying Squirrel, and Liu Xiu made a total of 6 of 9 three-pointers in the final quarter!

  In the final quarter, the Trail Blazers made 8 of 20 shots and made 6 three-pointers. Without free throws, they scored 24 to 18 in a single quarter!

At the last moment of the game, the Pistons threw four three-pointers in a row. Yao Ming grabbed two offensive rebounds, Ben Wallace had one offensive rebound, and Billups and Carter threw around the three-point line, but both missed. One.

In the end, relying on Liu Xiu's 26 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks, and 7 three-pointers in a single game, Ray Allen's 28 points, Kwame Brown's 16 points and 13 rebounds, Randolph's 10 12 points and 12 rebounds... The Trail Blazers reversed the Pistons 96-91.

Yao Ming made 11 of 20 shots, plus 5 of 6 free throws to get 27 points, Ben Wallace 14 points and 14 rebounds, Carter 18 points, Billups 15 points and 8 assists... The core players performed very well. The contingency was very successful, but the continuity was insufficient... The main reason was that Ray Allen scored 4 three-pointers in the final quarter, which directly knocked down the Pistons!

   With a big score of 2 to 0, the Trail Blazers will hold two home games!

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  After the two home games, the Trail Blazers got two days off, played G3 on the 14th, and the next 3 consecutive games were the home games of the Pistons.

  The next morning, Liu Xiu got up early to watch the video of last night's game.

   The Trail Blazers will not leave for Detroit today, and plan to go tomorrow.

   After watching the video, Liu Xiu still felt that the win was thrilling. Without Ray Allen's 4 three-pointers in the final quarter, they might have confessed.

  However, G1 Ray Allen also scored 25 points and performed well...

   Unlike Randolph, who almost wrote 'I want to grab the FMVP' on his face last year, Ray Allen came here!

Regarding this, Liu Xiu just smiled. If a teammate really performed well and snatched the FMVP, it was his ability. The ball is shot!

  (end of this chapter)