During the break, Maurice Cheeks made adjustments to his lineup and playing style as discussed with the coaches.

The players who are going to play are preparing to play, and the coaches are standing together chatting.

Huo Tu was quite excited: "Warden's breakthroughs are becoming more and more powerful, and he is making better and better use of his physical fitness. When he breaks through in singles, Bibby, Martin, and Garcia can't guard him. Wait for him to hit the pick-and-roll."

Sometimes, the opponent has absolutely nothing to do. Against such an opponent, the warden can defeat the opponent's defense by himself."

The coach responded: "Yes, he can attack the inside like Francis, can cooperate with pick-and-roll masters like Marbury, and has the overall view of Davis. He seems to combine the advantages of the three.

Super genius."

"That's right," Coach Bush agreed and then said: "But our defense in the first quarter was very poor. Morris, our defense in the opening stage has not been very good until the middle and late stages of the first quarter.

In order to be compact, now we are rotating before the starting defense can play, and our defense will face a greater test, just like just now, we were easily scored 29 points by the Kings."

The coach nodded: "Yes, we will definitely face such a dilemma, but Ray is too tired this season. When Butcher is not in good condition at the beginning, he needs to play for a long time. After Butcher gets more injuries, he will

He still has to bear the responsibility of being the team's second-leading scorer, and sometimes the leading scorer. Now it's time to give him more rest time.

And since poor defense at the beginning is our flaw, we have to find ways to correct it, and now is a good opportunity, Jeff, I have to leave it to you."

Bu Shuai felt the strong trust and patted his chest to express his trust.

When the onlookers saw this scene, the vice president sighed with emotion. Results can indeed help a person improve. After the coach became a championship coach, his vision and overall view have obviously improved, and he can speak better.

While several coaches of the Trail Blazers were talking, the game on the field had already begun.

The Trail Blazers fielded a lineup of Payton, Stevenson, Outlaws, Kwame Brown, and Mourning. After tasting the sweetness of the defense, Coach Bush suggested that the coach play like this more often.

After fighting the defense for a few minutes to slow down the rhythm, Liu Xiu was replaced after resting for more than 4 minutes.

Liu Xiu's 11-point performance in the first quarter put a lot of pressure on the Kings. In the remaining 7 minutes of the quarter, he only made 1 of 3 shots, plus 2 of 4.

He only scored 4 points on free throws, but he had as many as 3 assists!

Under his leadership, the Trail Blazers' offensive performance began to pick up, but the Kings did not have such a player to turn the situation around.

Led by Liu Xiu with 4 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists, the Trail Blazers scored 25-23 in the second quarter. After halftime, the Trail Blazers led the Kings by 3 points, 55-52.

In the third quarter, Liu Xiu played 9 minutes and scored 9 points and 4 assists, helping the Trail Blazers score 29 points in a single quarter. However, the Kings failed to adjust the affected offensive rhythm during the halftime break, and instead played worse and worse.

Only scored 21 points.

At the end of three quarters, the Trail Blazers led the Kings by 11 points, 84-73, entering the final quarter.

Although Bonzi Wells scored 16 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the final quarter, he beat the four-man rotation of Raheem, Aaron Williams, Mourning, and McDyess inside and defeated the eagerness of his old club.

He led the team to score 29 points in a single quarter, but Liu Xiu performed steadily and played the final quarter, scoring 9 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, and led the team to score 25 points in a single quarter.

Liu Xiu played 41 minutes and made 12 of 23 shots, including 2 of 5 three-pointers, plus 7 of 10 free throws. He scored 33 points, 7 rebounds, 11 assists and 2 steals, leading the Trail Blazers to defeat the Kings 109-102.

The record improved to 51 wins and 10 losses!

…

On the second day, the Trail Blazers had no training scheduled in the morning and had a preparation meeting and two tactical training sessions at 2 p.m., but Liu Xiu came to the arena in the morning.

Also coming together were Payton, Ray Allen, Kwame Brown, Mourning... and others.

The coaching staff held a team meeting to discuss last night's defensive issues.

Coach Bush completed the analysis last night, opened the PPT and compared it and said: "Last night, we did a good job defensively in the second and third quarters, and finally won the game with our defense in these two quarters, but

There are still many problems.

Let’s not talk about the lack of tightness in defense in the opening stage. Our lax defense in the final quarter last night needs to be improved. Even though our defense in the second and third quarters was good, there are still problems.”

Payton took over: "Yes, we committed too many fouls on the defensive end in the second and third quarters. When the starting lineup played more time in the past, the problem of more fouls by substitute players was not obvious, but now the starting time is reduced.

Our number of fouls has obviously increased, which has a great impact on our defense..."

When Payton was talking, Coach Bush cut the PPT to Payton's career data. Payton only had 3 fouls in the first 3 years of his career. From the 4th year onwards, he never had more than 3 fouls.

Since 4 years, Payton has been selected to the first defense for 9 consecutive years.

In the past 10 seasons, Payton has averaged less than 2.5 fouls per game, and in these 10 seasons, Payton has averaged more than 40 minutes per game in most seasons.

"...Fouls will definitely happen, and sometimes they need to be actively fouled, but they are not meaningless fouls. Like Deshaun and Fred, they always continue to press after the opponent has finished taking the shot.

The action of going up and causing confrontation with the opponent, we have such fouls in almost every game... This is my suggestion for improvement based on what I am personally good at." After finishing speaking, Payton sat down.

Liu Xiu looked at Payton sitting upright and couldn't help but curse in his heart: Are you trying to imitate the nobility and elegance of the three-point king? Don't turn up the corners of your mouth! Who can't see your arrogance?

After hearing this, Coach Bush praised Payton a few words, and then said: "Our problems in the final quarter are even bigger. In the final quarter, our defensive performance seriously declined..."

When Liu Xiu heard this, he was confused for a moment. Are we finished with the second and third quarters? It’s not just about fouls!

Then he quickly realized that the defensive assistant coach had already found a problem that required energy to solve in the second and third quarters, so he didn't bother with this game.

And judging from what Bushuai said, the final issue is more complicated, and it feels like it involves all aspects.

But this seems very simple to Liu Xiu...
Chapter completed!