Chapter 660: The Last Hurdle

"George. Ricard is officially back, and the Trail Blazers are hitting 72 wins! ”

"The dynasty bull record will be flattened, and the Anjie dynasty may have arrived?"

'Divac: I'm enjoying my time in charge and Ricard's return means a lot to us.

When the media opened and reporters poured into the training gym to see Rickard standing on the sidelines, they all shouted with excitement.

Journalists have been wishing Riccard better and better, and of course, Rickard's news has always multiplied the number of reads of their stories. This guy is in good health, and the more news reporters can dig up.

In the days of print media, news of Ricard's comeback may not be reported until the next day. But in the age of the Internet, less than half an hour after the reporters walked out of the Moda Center, the news of Riccard's comeback was already known.

This time, the Trail Blazers did not hold any press conference to announce Ricard's return. Actually, Nelsey wanted to do one, but Riccard felt that holding a press conference at such a critical time was just a waste of time.

He'd rather use that time to run the players around than face the boring media.

It is for this reason that fans are not sure whether Ricard will return to the pitch in the next game. Rickard may have only been involved in training, but that doesn't mean he can definitely get back to the crushing game.

Ricard left the journalists with room for imagination, and the reporters created suspense for the fans. So on April 11, the Trail Blazers went away to challenge the Jazz, and the ratings were surprisingly high.

Curiosity, that's something that everyone will have. Will Ricard show up? When he shows up, what will the Trail Blazers look like? All of these have spurred fans around the world to turn on their TVs and pay attention to this originally huge disparity in strength.

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Anjie was bandaging her injured knee and fingers while Aldridge was on the phone with her mother. Iguodala, this guy is still the same as before, with his eyes closed. As for Lillard's kid, he's running around and getting excited.

Rickard looked at everything in front of him, still a familiar picture, nothing changed. He had been away from the pitch for two months, and Ricard was worried about whether he would suddenly become unaccustomed to life in the dressing room.

However, it was he who was overly concerned. The dressing room is now like Ricard's home, and he's at his best when he's in the dressing room.

Rickard let out a big sigh and clapped his hands. Suddenly, everyone's attention fell on him.

If it were someone else staring at a group of NBA stars, I guess I would have been so trembling that I couldn't speak. But since Ricard's first time coaching the NBA, he has never had stage fright because of this kind of thing.

"Guys, this game is probably the easiest of our remaining three games. The Jazz currently sit in the bottom of the West, and they've lost all hope of qualifying for the playoffs, so they probably won't be fighting the court. But we can't play with the Jazz like this, I need you to show all your strength as soon as you get on the court, end the game early, and avoid future trouble! Rickard waved his arms hard, and everyone knew what to do.

"Come on guys, it's just a warm-up! Let's walk out of the Energy Solutions arena with a beautiful victory! Rickard spoke, and according to the "convention", it was time for Anjie to stand up and shout.

"Victory!" The others in the locker room shouted along with Angel, and Ricard pushed open the locker room door, and the hungry wolves rushed out. Although it was on the road, almost all of the reporters in the tunnel focused their cameras on the Trail Blazers players. It seems that almost everyone, does not think that the Jazz have the ability to move to this formidable defending champion.

After the game began, many Trail Blazers fans who were watching the game in front of the TV shouted excitedly when they saw Riccard standing on the sidelines. This foul-mouthed guy is finally back after a two-month hiatus.

And the situation of the game, as Ricard and others had predicted. Utah Jazz, there is no power to fight back at all.

The Jazz players are playing quite loosely, because one more win or one more loss now can't change the fact that this season has failed.

In the face of such a relaxed Jazz, the defending champion took a more serious attitude.

An Jie kept shouting on the field, urging his teammates not to be in a hurry and stabilize the rhythm. If the Trail Blazers miss out on 72 wins because of their loss to the Jazz, the bottom of the West, they will surely become the biggest laughing stock in history.

So the Trail Blazers played cautiously and seriously, and they completely showed a different attitude from the Jazz.

The gap between the two sides is big enough, and now the Trail Blazers have a better mentality, and they are naturally firmly in control of the game.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Jazz's starting power forward, Derrick. Feffus symbolically resisted for a moment. However, his resistance did not last long before he was completely suppressed by Aldridge, who reappeared.

At this time, there was already a large gap in the stands of the Energy Solutions Arena. Fans are planning to leave the stadium early to express their dissatisfaction with the team's results.

The Jazz, who have given up from players to fans, have let the game go into garbage time early. An Jie and the starters have been given quite plenty of rest, and I believe they will play more easily in the next game.

111-89, the Trail Blazers easily won the Jazz on the road. With 70 wins and 10 losses, the Trail Blazers are only two games away from tying the Bulls' record, and there are only two games left until the end of the regular season!

"Ann! If the Trail Blazers fall in the last two games, you'll have a lot of regrets this season! After the game, the reporters also surrounded An Jie.

"Regret? No, no, no, we're going to get 72 wins! An Jie's categorical answer made several reporters stunned.

It's not that the Trail Blazers are now far from 72 wins, but that the group of reporters knows that the next two games will not be easy for the Trail Blazers......

With just one day off after the Jazz victory, the Trail Blazers play their penultimate game of the regular season of the season at Moda Center. And their opponents today are no longer the Jazz's generals.

The Los Angeles Clippers, ranked fourth in the West, are a team with star players such as Paul and Griffin, and they don't have a good relationship with the Trail Blazers.

The shadow of being swept by the Trail Blazers in last year's playoffs has always made the Clippers treat the Trail Blazers as mortal enemies.

Chris. Paul also knows that with only five days to go until the playoffs start, it may be a good opportunity to play against the Trail Blazers seriously.

As a result, the Clippers attacked particularly fiercely from the beginning, and even had some momentum that wanted to be anti-guest-oriented.

Paul, in particular, wanted so much to prove that he was one of the superstars as well, but he couldn't make it to the Western Conference Finals for a variety of reasons.

A superstar who hasn't even played in the division finals, Paul doesn't want to live with that name for the rest of his life.

And looking at the current West, Anjie and the Trailblazers are undoubtedly Paul's biggest threats.

In the first half of the game, the Clippers took the initiative. In addition to the starting five, the sixth man of the Clippers and the sixth man of the former Trail Blazers, Jamal . Crawford had a lot of fun at the Moda Centre.

On one point, Crawford and Anjie share the same mind. The more respectful the opponent, the more you must use all your strength to defeat him!

Today's feints after Crawford's breakthrough made Anjie suffer a lot, and people even exclaimed that the Clippers may be out of the West this year!

However, as soon as the fourth quarter arrived, everything changed.

Anjie, Aldridge and Lillard, the three guys started taking turns cutting points.

Because Anjie's aura is too big, people often ignore the other players of the Trail Blazers. But today, the Trail Blazers are a wake-up call for everyone. They are also an out-and-out triumvirate lineup!

Jamal. Crawford's scramble was okay, but when Anjie completely suppressed the rhythm in the fourth quarter, Crawford couldn't play.

Subsequently, Paul and Griffin intend to take over the game. But unfortunately, the Trail Blazers have already gained momentum and have not left any chance for the sworn enemy Clippers.

Anjie scored six straight points in the final minute and blocked Griffin's aerial relay performance to give the Trail Blazers the victory.

104 to 110, it is precisely because of An Jie's six points in the last moment that the result of the game will become like this.

Chris. Paul walked straight into the tunnel with his head crossed after the game, without saying hello to anyone on the Trail Blazers or paying attention to the media's questions.

Perhaps, this is how a person behaves after being disappointed.

After winning this match, the fans throughout the Moda Center stood up neatly and shouted.

"72 wins! 72 wins! 72 wins! 72 wins! ”

Everyone repeated the word neatly and regularly, and even some fans held up a big sign with the word "72".

Beating the Clippers means the Trail Blazers' record has changed to 71-10, and now there is one game left until the end of the Trail Blazers' 82-game regular season!

One game, with just one game remaining, the Trail Blazers will climb to the top of the year that the Bulls occupied. Compared to the scenery, it must be very beautiful.

"There's only one game left, chief." Angel walked up to Ricard, and the seemingly impossible record was now in front of the Trail Blazers, waiting for them to pick it up.

"yes, there's only one game left. That game wasn't fucking easy. Rickard's expression wasn't easy, even though his team had just beaten the Clippers, who were fourth in the West.

An Jie also agreed with this, and the experience of being killed by this opponent is still lingering in An Jie's mind.

April 16, 2014 was the day of the 13-14 NBA regular season finale. On that day, there was a good chance that something big enough would happen that would go down in the history of the Alliance.

But now, there's a team that has the ability to stop greatness from happening.

That's why Ricard wasn't excited about the victory, and the opponent they faced in the final game was one he feared so much.

The Golden State Warriors, the sixth-ranked team in the West and a blockbuster this season, are the team that Ricard worries the most in these three games.

Although the ranking of the Warriors this season is not amazing, Rickard can see that the strength of this team has exceeded people's imagination!

The biggest obstacle in the way for the Trail Blazers to reach 72 wins, and now it's time to try to get past him......