MTL - Healing Basketball-Chapter 943 943. On the Importance of Free Throws

  Chapter 943 943. On the importance of free throws

   Liu Xiu is of course very distressed about Kwame Brown's injury, but he is used to looking at such things simply.

   If the champion of parallel imports is injured, he should be cured. If he is treated conservatively, he should take good care of it, so as not to make the injury worse.

   It is good to get 70 wins. When there is really no way, he can really not care about the final record.

  Egg pain is a negative emotion, and the more he thinks about it, the more angry he becomes. Therefore, he chose to think about how to survive the absence of Kwame Brown from the very beginning.

  By noon the next day, Kwame Brown, who went to the Rush School of Medicine at the University of Chicago for an examination, received the diagnosis.

  Although the team doctor was not Thomas Carter last night, the preliminary diagnosis at that time was very accurate.

  Knee joint sprain, fortunately there are no structural injuries to the tibia and meniscus, the ligament is strained, the muscle is strained and congested... The expected absence time is 3 to 4 weeks.

   Basically, Kwame Brown was gone for the first half of the season!

  If the All-Star Game is successfully selected, it may not be able to play.

   But in terms of news, the main report is his 8th 40+ in a single game this season, surpassing James' 7 times.

   On the 25th, the Trail Blazers came to Amway Arena in Orlando to challenge the Magic away.

  Without Kwame Brown's restriction, Beast performed well this time, making 9 of 16 shots and 6 of 10 free throws. He scored 24 points, 14 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 blocks.

  The Death Squad members Beasts charged forward, and Turkoglu, who commanded the army behind, performed better, scoring 16 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists, helping Lewis score 20 points and Maurice Evans 15 points.

  The Magic team scored 106 points!

For the Trail Blazers, Liu Xiu made 21 of 41 shots, including 3 of 5 three-pointers, but only 2 of 2 free throws. Beast has begun to show his ability to be a defensive system alone. Liu Xiu's impact tonight is not good. Qiang, got two caps from the beast, but fortunately he also returned the cap to the beast.

Liu Xiu scored 47 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks. Ray Allen had 12 points, Randolph had 12 points, Korver had 9 points, and the outlaws had 6 points...Liff Laffer, who started tonight Lenz played 20 minutes, made 0 of 4 shots, scored 0 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block. He has completely lost the coquettishness that he cheated on the Celtics with an annual salary of tens of millions...

   Liu Xiu scored 20 irons in a single game for the first time in the new season, 99 to 106. The Trail Blazers lost to the Magic in an away game, and their record became 29 wins and 14 losses.

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   Liu Xiu lost, but relying on two consecutive 40+ games, his scoring average jumped to 31.55 points per game.

  The Trail Blazers came to Atlanta the next day, and had an appointment with Yi Jianlian for dinner outside in the evening.

   Yi Jianlian rented a small building to live by himself, not far from Phillips Arena.

  The landlord is a Chinese, coincidentally, also surnamed Liu.

   According to Yi Jianlian, he is a buddy with bad teeth, married a beautiful widow with a daughter, and successfully ate delicious soft rice.

  After Yi Jianlian had the idea of ​​wanting to farm, he and the landlord's husband had a common topic, probably talent skills, blood inheritance, and the other party was not short of money. In his spare time, he wanted to plant land and go fishing.

   After dinner, Liu Xiu returned to the hotel and saw a piece of news.

  In the Cavaliers' home game against the Raptors, the Cavaliers lost 98 to 105.

   Bosh 30 points, Milicic 24 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists, Calderon 10 points and 9 assists.

But the most dazzling thing was the losing James, who made 18 of 39 shots, including 3 of 10 three-pointers and 19 of 27 free throws. He scored 58 points, breaking his career single-game scoring record and increasing his scoring average per game. To 32.3 points, reopening the scoring gap with Liu Xiu.

   Randolph ran to Liu Xiu's room to complain about James' 27 free throws after seeing the news.

Liu Xiu also complained: "You see, this is the importance of practicing good free throws. When KING has few free throws, it is still stable. When there are too many free throws, he often misses. But if his free throws can increase by 5% , can reach 75%, he will have 60 points in a single game!"

   "..."

   Randolph was speechless for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he forgot to complain about Liu Xiu.

   Anyway, it's definitely not a discussion about how important it is to practice free throws. He is good at free throws and doesn't need more training.

Back then, in order to compete with Liu Xiu, he practiced hard in the CIC. While developing the CIC, he also improved his free throw percentage from more than 60% to just over 80%. Although he did not continue to practice hard and failed to improve, he was already very good. up.

   Forget it, Randolph stopped thinking and asked, "Two CS?"

   "Okay, do I build houses, warehouses or desert ash?"

   "Desert, there are more passers-by."

   "Oak..."

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   On the 27th, the Trail Blazers came to Phillips Arena to challenge the Eagles away.

  19 to 29 in the first quarter, 18 to 23 in the second quarter, the Trail Blazers trailed the Eagles by 15 points 37 to 52 at halftime.

  Liu Xiu made 3 of 7 shots in the half, including 1 of 1 three-pointers, plus 2 of 2 free throws to score 9 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals. He didn't know what to say for a while.

  He was so heavily double-teamed and ended up passing so many passes for only 1 assist.

   Hard shots are not advisable... In the third quarter, he still chose to trust his teammates.

The Eagles were barefoot and were not afraid of wearing shoes. They continued to flank Liu Xiu. In the first half, they relied on infinite flanking in the middle to limit the Blazers' scoring, and then used the impact of Yi Jianlian and Josh Smith to attack the basket. The Blazers don't have the flaw of Kwame Brown.

   During the rookie contract stage, Eagles head coach Mike Woodson had a clear direction and well-trained training for Josh Smith, and he performed very well.

  But the situation was reversed in the third quarter. The Trail Blazers also squatted under the basket. The Eagles made 0 of 5 three-pointers in the first half, 4 of which were open shots, and 1 missed. It was the Blazers' turn to shrink their defense.

   The Trail Blazers only made 1 of 10 three-pointers in the first half, but they made 4 of 6 three-pointers in a single quarter in the third quarter!

   Liu Xiu scored 4 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists in a single quarter, leading the Trail Blazers to a 26-21 single quarter score, narrowing the gap behind the Eagles to 10 points!

   At the end of the quarter, Liu Xiu and Ray Allen entered the hurricane mode!

With Hill's support and McDyess and Millsap's pick-and-roll help, Liu Xiu made 4 of 6 shots in a single quarter, plus 3 of 4 free throws and scored 11 points. Ray Allen made 5 of 9 shots, including three-pointers 2 of 3 goals scored 12 points.

In addition, Millsap scored 4 points, Hill made two high shots and scored 4 points, the Blazers scored 31 points in the first 11 minutes and 55 seconds, and scored 31 to 22, narrowing the point difference to two. Points, and hold the ball!

  The Trail Blazers called a timeout and arranged tactics. Liu Xiu received the ball and used a screen to get rid of Josh Smith's defense.

  Accompanied by the long whistle, Liu Xiu stopped and retreated and made a mid-range shot!

   There is no need to watch the replay of this ball. It is very obvious that the ball began to fall until the final whistle was remembered.

  Liu Xiu scored 26 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists and 4 steals, and made a buzzer-beater. The Trail Blazers reversed the Eagles 96-95!

  (end of this chapter)