"Healing value +38, from Baron Davis."

"Healing value +99, from Baron Davis."

"Healing value +99, from Baron Davis."

After Liu Xiu told Big Beard the truth, he received three waves of healing points during the pause.

‘What are you talking about?’, ‘Why are you telling me such cruel things?’, ‘Why are you so lucky for a player who is so tall and heavy?’.

During the pause, the bearded man, whose pupils were dilated the whole time, went through this mental process.

Returning to the bench, new coach Byron Scott did not make any tactical adjustments, but just performed regular player rotation.

The bearded man further confirmed this fact.

On the other side, Liu Xiu showed strong adaptability to the new rules from the beginning and made good adjustments. Mainly because he had the opposing point guard for comparison, which surprised the coaching staff.

After returning from the timeout, both teams allowed their starting point guards to continue playing.

For the Hornets, it is the master of field control who ensures Big Beard's playing time so that Big Beard can produce good enough data.

For the Trail Blazers, Liu Xiu has adapted well. Of course, Liu Xiu must be allowed to continue playing so that Liu Xiu has more time to adapt to the game under the new rules.

Two point guards who looked very similar in their penetration and attacking the frame once again played completely different performances.

With the thinking during the timeout, Liu Xiu defended better after returning.

This one is better, but I’m not saying that it’s really good. Liu Xiu’s breakthrough defense is far inferior to that at the end of last season. At that time, Liu Xiu’s single defense was almost at an excellent level. Now it can be said to be passable at best.

But compared to the beginning of the game when I couldn't even guide the bearded man to break through the route, it was much better.

If compared numerically, his defensive performance was definitely below 60 at the beginning of the game, but by the second half of the first quarter, it was already above 60!

The new rules affect more than just perimeter defense.

The interior line also needs to adapt to the situation where the outside line is passed more cleanly, and it will become more difficult to expand to defend the pick-and-roll.

In the past, when outside players were out of position, they could press up to fight and fight in blind spots.

It doesn't work now, the referee will blow the whistle whenever there are those actions.

This will make the insiders face a greater impact.

Therefore, the defensive role of outside players has not declined, but has become more important.

Liu Xiuneng gave Beard the most basic restrictions, which greatly helped the Blazers' insiders adapt to the new rules!

The bearded man on the other side was completely unable to calm down and adapt to the new rules.

I was unprepared and my mentality exploded.

On the defensive end, he either stalled or resigned and resorted to the defense that nearly broke Wade in the playoffs last season, pressing, confronting, pulling, and getting fouled.

Beard, who had already received two fouls in the first half of the first quarter, received two more fouls after returning from the timeout.

In the first half of the second quarter, Big Beard was not substituted. In the second half, the master of the field was forced to substitute. After getting a foul, he calmed down for half a quarter and stood up for half a quarter. At the beginning of the second half, he was replaced by Xiao

Momonga changed direction and committed a foul, and left the game with an honorable sixth foul.

Big Beard had a mentality of competing with Liu Xiu, but Liu Xiu never paid attention to the outcome of the game after the official timeout in the first quarter. Big Beard did not take it to heart.

All attention is focused on how to adapt to the new rules, and communicating with teammates to practice how to better cooperate defensively under the new rules.

Liu Xiu played a long time tonight, playing 9 minutes in the first quarter, 7 minutes in the second quarter, 7 minutes in the third quarter, and 5 minutes in the final quarter.

In 28 minutes of playing time, he scored 17 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 3 fouls.

Three fouls in 28 minutes. This foul rate is too high. If a center can accept it, then a point guard will definitely find it difficult to maintain a stable foul rate even in playing time.

but!

Looking at all the players who defended in the top arc in this game, Liu Xiu is already the one who controls fouls best!

Reuben Patterson played 19 minutes, guarding JR Smith, Rodney Rogers and others on the outside alone, and also received 3 fouls, which was even higher than Liu Xiu's foul probability!

On the defensive end, everyone is not used to it, and on the offensive end, it is not as good as the media and experts predicted.

The bullfight between the warden and the bearded man in the first half of the first quarter was great to watch when they had enough energy.

But after that, it became full of fouls, dead balls, and constant complaints about referee calls... like an old woman's footcloth.

The score was not good either. In the end, the Trail Blazers defeated the Hornets 91-79 and won their first win of the preseason!

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Six fouls leaving the game is a very rare thing in preseason... It was very rare in preseason games in previous years. On the first match day of this year's preseason, there were many such situations!

In a total of 8 games, 6 players left the field with 6 fouls, and 7 players committed 5 fouls.

In 8 games and 16 teams, only two teams scored more than 100 points!

This seems completely different from the media's propaganda that "defense is dead and the era of offensive basketball has arrived."

On the first match day, it was hard for the media to brag about how well a certain player was playing. Most of the games were sparse. Even some stars adapted well, but their performance was dragged down by the overall game environment, just like

I don’t think Liu Xiu, who scored 17 points and 5 assists on 6 of 14 shots, performed very well.

But, there is a situation in the world called extreme things must reverse themselves.

By October 11th, the second match day of the pre-season, there will be 7 games, and everyone will be in trouble!

This poor performance means that the outside defense is timid, not daring to fight, and not daring to reach out.

At this time, two ways of coping emerged.

One is that the inside line is strong or the help defense is good enough.

They didn't dare to defend from the outside, so the pressure was concentrated on their frame protectors and help defenders.

Take Garnett, Kirilenko, Duncan, O'Neal... as examples, their importance in the game has further increased.

This is really beyond people's expectations. They thought the new regulations would weaken them, but it turned out to make them more important.

There is another way to deal with the new rules - attack! Attack like crazy!

Tonight, the Suns and Mavericks are scheduled to play the first game of the preseason.

Nash scored 33 points and 15 assists, leading the Suns to a 111-87 victory over the Mavericks!

The pick-and-roll between Nash and Stoudemire or Marion is one of a kind.

After Liu Xiu saw the game report between the Suns and the Mavericks, he came up with an idea - could the pick-and-roll be the most strengthened by the new rules?

Thinking of this, Liu Xiu thought of three types of pick-and-rolls.

One is the ultimate technical flow, represented by Shuangsha who has retired.

One is the ultimate violent flow, which represents the future, not one, not two, not three...

There are also new doubles like the future, Paul + a comprehensive flow of inside players who can block and cut at will, but facts have proved that Deron and the young Paul looked very strong in the regular season, but in the playoffs,

Only to find out that they are not good enough. Their technical pick-and-roll and violent pick-and-roll cannot maintain the standard in the playoff environment, because they are not extremely strong enough, but there are various problems caused by the big package.

On the contrary, the aging Paul performed better in the playoffs after he became a pure technical player and did not take over everything.

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Xiu put aside the pick-and-roll and focused on the immediate matter first.

Even if it is determined that the new rules will move the NBA towards a pick-and-roll league, it has little to do with him.

How can he do it if he doesn't know how to pick and roll?

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Rules are always adaptable.

In the beginning, extreme situations will occur.

On the first game day, many players were dissatisfied with the new rules. They broke the rules, fought randomly, defended randomly, rejected the new rules from the bottom of their hearts, resisted their implementation, and even naively imagined that if they refused to implement the rules, the league would change the rules back.

In the next two or three competition days, everyone struggled at first, then slowly adjusted and accepted it all.

In fact, there are many teams that start preparations as early as the Trail Blazers, but their preparations are not necessarily in the right direction, and their judgment of the league's execution strength is not necessarily accurate... In the end, it seems that everyone's defensive adjustments are almost terrible.

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But after confirming the implementation of the new regulations, everyone accepted it.

Make positive adjustments, or mess things up more indulgently.

As time goes by, each team is becoming more and more accustomed to the penalties under the new rules and is constantly making adjustments.

The effect of adjustment is naturally different.

Players such as Iverson, James, Flying Squirrel, Francis... etc. continue to dominate the daily foul rankings.

Another black list is the 'air defense list', which refers to some players who seem to be working hard but are useless defensively.

Steve Nash takes first place.

There are bad ones, and naturally there are good defensive ones.

And those who are good at defense usually have good defense in the first place.
To be continued...