Healing Basketball

   Chapter 197 197. An opponent who cannot turn an enemy into a friend

   "I got an 8 too."

   Pierce heard this and saw Liu Xiu, who had his neck tilted and his head raised after landing, and walked up cursing...

   The players who were going down quickly and those who were retreating blocked both of them.

   Although Liu Xiu didn't move, his teammates stopped him.

On Pierce's side, Atkins, who had returned, hugged Pierce and said, "Calm down, boss, have you forgotten about him smoking Garnett?"

   Pierce roared, "What's the point of hitting Garnett?"

   Having said that, Pierce calmed down.

   He thinks he has enough temper, but after hearing the real situation of Garnett's situation, he knows that someone can be so violent.

   Such a big official event really took an All-Star starter to the bathroom and broke a belt.

   But calm down, I still have to say something cruel: "I can hit Garnett with one hand!"

   Many people have heard these words. Some fans on the sidelines heard Pierce's roar...

   The referee was relieved to see that Pierce didn't make a move, and warned Pierce.

   As for that rookie... Not to mention, more than half a season has passed, and most of the referees have called Liu Xiu's game, so I'm really not afraid of Liu Xiu taking the initiative to hit someone.

   In fact, most referees have never even seen Liu Xiu go rough.

   But I am really afraid that someone will run to find a fight.

   Almost had a conflict, but this time the referee was an old referee with more than ten years of whistling experience. He had experienced the end-stage bad boy army, and he just warned Pierce and it was over.

  The conflict was resolved, and Celtics coach John Carroll called a timeout!

  The score came to 8-14, only 3 minutes and 52 seconds left, and the Celtics were 6 points behind!

  John Carroll reassured Pierce, then replaced Ricky Davis for Virshenko and Jumaine Jones for Walter McCarty.

   On the other hand, Liu Xiu provoked his opponent again, and everyone was used to it.

   Not to mention, the opponent is Pierce, who is notoriously violent.

  Randolph made a small profit of $200, opened a banker before the game, and bought a maximum of $100, betting on whether Pierce would be healed by their warden's heart-warming, and it would be 2 to 1.

   The Trail Blazers are not in the rotation.

   Paused back, and Liu Xiu looked at Ricky Davis' player detection report again.

"Ricky Davis, 24 years old, 198 cm, 90 kg, SF/PG, ability rating 83...The Celtics averaged 14.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 3 assists per game in the 2003-2004 season...shooting 48.3%... "

   The most eye-catching is the hit rate.

  Liu Xiu had a question mark in her head when she saw the Celtics scouting report yesterday-how is the efficiency so high?

   When playing against the Cavaliers and meeting Ricky Davis before, this guy's shooting rate is similar to James's, and both will exceed 40%.

   He deliberately checked Ricky Davis' past performance to see if the lower shooting percentage of a ball-handling star was caused by a certain old-fashioned high school student.

   The result is really not.

  Ricky Davis only shot 41% as the core last season. With James sharing the ball, the efficiency has actually improved.

   Go back to the 2001-02 season, when Ricky Davis almost won the sixth man of the year, and his efficiency was also extremely high. At that time, the Cavaliers dominated Andre Miller.

  Look at Ricky Davis' efficiency coming back after joining the Celtics this season with Pierce, the better ball handler at the moment.

   Liu Xiu concluded that Ricky Davis is not suitable for the first core.

However, it can be seen from the expression of Ricky Davis that the rising star, who averaged 20.6 points, 4.9 rebounds, 5.5 assists and 1.6 steals at the age of 23, suffered after being sold cheaply by the Cavaliers. such a blow.

   He used to be with the Cavaliers, and his eyes were shining, but now he's gone.

  …

The    timeout came back, the Celtics attacked.

  Atkins advances the ball to Ricky Davis.

  Ricky Davis catches the ball and breaks... sharper than Pierce!

   Encountered a supplementary defense, Ricky Davis passed to the back, Pierce followed up with the ball and scored two points.

   Less than half a quarter, Pierce scored 10 points!

   When the Blazers attacked, Liu Xiu advanced to the frontcourt. It was obvious that the opponent's defensive position was more targeted - he could better pinch him to score.

   If you rush in, you will be pinched, so Liu Xiu chose to break through!

   Randolph mastered a few rounds and it was his turn.

   Liu Xiu was pinched on the right side of the three-second zone and scored the ball on the left bottom line. The extrajudicial madman who cut in was blocked and scored high. Ruben Patterson received the ball and scored.

  To the Celtics offense, the Blazers' defense against Pierce was tighter.

  This time the ball went to Chris Mim, who had a short jumper from the free throw line.

Immediately after Liu Xiu's singles from the Trail Blazers made a pull-up jumper, it was the Celtics' turn to attack again. This time, Pierce didn't pass the ball after receiving the ball. After receiving the pass from Ricky Davis, he cut to three seconds. At close range on the left side of the area, facing McDyess shot...

  McDyce here, Pierce dodged, but he couldn't dodge the extrajudicial fanatics who were chasing after him!

   The extrajudicial fanatic slapped Pierce's lever to the backboard.

   Ruben Patterson rushed in to grab the ball, passed it to Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu pushed the counterattack!

   During the advance, Liu Xiu gave the ball to Randolph who was going down quickly.

   Randolph received the ball from the free throw line on the left side of the three-second zone, and dashed the ball skillfully, attracting the defense... Liu Xiu scored the ball!

  Liu Xiu made a cut around the right and made a layup!

   This rookie can control the rhythm! Instead of taking assists as the first goal, there was a high school student with explosive physical fitness in the middle, still thinking about double insurance to follow up from the right side, and it worked... Although Pierce didn't like Liu Xiu, he admitted that Liu Xiu played this ball. well done.

   But right away, Pierce felt that the rookie was only annoying.

   He saw the rookie holding up that handsome face, squinting his eyes and smiling, and clenched his fist towards him.

The meaning of    is obvious - I got 10 points too!

   Pierce immediately became angry and shouted to his teammates: "Didn't you see someone cutting in from there? Stare that rookie!"

Originally, this season was not going well. It was unpleasant to meet a new star like Liu Xiu, who was proud of his career from the beginning. He was constantly provoked by the opponent. Although he was not afraid of fighting, he was not sure. Pierce, unlock again!

  The next time in the first quarter, even when the official timeout came back, Pierce took his shot as the first target, and even ignored his teammates for a while, he had to play the ball.

   fell into the Blazers' trap!

  The Blazers are very defensive. Others don't need to pay attention to them, and they are staring at Pierce alone.

  The outside line is defended by extrajudicial fanatics, mid-range assist defense, and close-range pinch attack.

   Pierce, who scored 10 points in the first half of the first quarter, only scored 5 points in the second half.

   Under Pierce's style of play, the Celtics only scored 21 points in the first quarter!

   He shot 6-for-14 by himself, while the rest of the Celtics were only 2-for-7!

   After the first quarter, the Celtics trailed the Blazers 21-30 by 9 points!

  …

With 15 points in a single quarter, Pierce scored the second highest score in a single quarter this season. When he was playing against the Cavaliers before, he made 6 of 8 shots in the first quarter, including 2 of 2 three-pointers, plus 4 of 4 free throws in a single quarter. Get 18 points.

   15 points in a single quarter looked great, but after entering the break, Pierce was dumbfounded when he saw the result of his entire quarter on the big screen...

   6 of 15 shots, 40% of the shots, missed all two 3-pointers, 3 of 4 free throws, so to get 15 points, how bad the efficiency is!

   And, because of him, their team basically has no team offense, and teammates' shots are really catch-and-shoot shots.

This has led to a poor start to their hands. Their team basically has no feel. Two goals, one is a rushing score, the other is a counter-attack dunk, and the teammates scored two points from free throws, and it was also Ricky David. Sri Lanka's catch and break caused a foul and scored two points.

   On the other hand, the rookie on the opposite side made 5 of 10 shots in the first quarter, including 1 of 2 three-pointers, plus 3 of 4 free throws, and scored 14 points.

   That rookie has a better chance?

   No, Pierce knew that the opponent's scoring conditions were not very good, because he kept yelling for his teammates to make up defenses and attack the rookie.

   Now, watching the rookie score 14 points and the opponent's entire team scored 30 points in a single quarter, he remembered that the rookie sent a lot of good passes by taking advantage of their pinch attack and supplementary defense.

   But looking at that rookie's stats on the big screen.

   Played 12 minutes in a single quarter, with 14 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists.

  Pierce remembered that Liu Xiu had passed a lot of balls. After being pinched even more seriously, he attacked almost every ball from the rookie... but only had two assists.

   This shows that this rookie pass is not aimed at getting assists at all!

  Pierce recalled that before he was completely irritated by the rookie, the opponent's counterattacks were not aimed at getting assists, and he did not use himself as the first point of contact, but only as a backup point...

   Think about it again, the ability of the other party is actually not that outstanding.

   compared to other talented rookies he met.

   James's side is not easy to compare.

   Compared with Anthony, Pierce felt that the opponent's rookie scoring method was far less effective.

   Even compared with Wade and Hinrich, the opponent's rookie scoring means are not comparable.

  Pierce substituted it for a moment…

   He never looked down on the rookie opposite from the beginning... No, it's Liu Xiu!

Before   , Pierce would only call Liu Xiu a 'rookie' in his heart, but now, the address in his heart has changed.

  Before the game, he thought that Liu Xiu was only at the level of Wade and Hinrich, and he was definitely not as good as Anthony.

   Now, it’s not like that.

   Put any one of Anthony, Wade, Hinrich in Liu Xiu's position, Pierce dares to guarantee, none of these people can do better than Liu Xiu!

  Some things are born and cannot be learned.

   At this moment, Pierce really recognized Liu Xiu, and he really hated this rookie—why, he was also a genius, why did this guy have such a good life and have such a great teammate from the beginning?

   (end of this chapter)