Chapter 108: Slaughtering Bears (1)

Liang Xiao ended his trip to Los Angeles, and finally let go of one thing in his heart, Liang Xiao has not trained well in the past few days, Liang Xiao has continuously strengthened his physical reserves in the talent training ground, and at the same time added his skill backing and the talent points of 100 steps through Yang, a period of competition and exercise, accumulated a certain amount of talent points, Liang Xiao added the level of 100 steps through Yang to the E top level, and the shooting rate has a 9% bonus, but the skill of the back has not yet reached the C level, but this is not far away.

After Liang Xiao returned to New York, he had a good night's rest, and went to the stadium early the next day for training. Today's game at home will host the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies are a very young team that was founded in 1995 in Vancouver, Canada, and moved to Memphis in the United States in 2001 the previous season. Since the Grizzlies entered the league, the team has not had a good record, and the winning rate has been hovering below 30% every year, so the team has been branded as a fish belly since entering the league.

However, the team has always had a good hand in the draft, in 1995 the team selected rookie Bryant Rivers, in '96 the rookie all-round forward Abdullah Rahim, in '98, the team recruited guard Mike Bibby to the team, and in '01 he traded with the Hawks for quality power forward Pau Gasol. The Grizzlies have never had a shortage of stars, but unfortunately their record has always been lackluster.

The Grizzlies started the season with an eight-game losing streak, which made the Grizzlies' top management quite dissatisfied, and the original head coach Sidney Lowe became the scapegoat for the team's poor results, and was removed from class, and he was replaced by the old coach Huby Brown, the nearly seventy-year-old coach re-emerged, but not to mention, in the 03-04 season, he also won the title of best coach with this team with a record of 50 wins. Look at the players who are not Grizzlies, you can find a few high-quality players every year, but you can't win, it seems that it is still a problem of coaching and management.

This season, the Grizzlies brought in basketball legend Jerry West as the team's new president of the basketball business. FedEx also came and announced that it had spent $90 million to buy the 20-year naming rights to the Grizzlies' upcoming stadium. This year's Grizzlies also have a group of excellent rookies, such as 2001 rookie Pau Gasol, sixth pick Sean Battier, this season's rookie Drew Gooden, and Gordon Girisek, who was drafted in '99 but didn't land in the NBA, all of which are rookies in the past two years. It can be said that the current grizzly bear is rich and talented.

But even if it's ten Kobe, ten Garnett, and ten O'Neal, if there is no good coach, all this is for nothing, and the coach is like a team's fusion agent, fusing all the strength of this team together, in order to exert great power.

Liang Xiao trained in the arena for nearly two hours, and the other Knicks players arrived one after another, Sprewell did not see Liang Xiao's arrival in the past two days, and he felt curious that Liang Xiao, who had always been a good child, did not participate in training. Liang Xiao had to tell him about the past few days shooting advertisements, and he was tired of taking out a small gift for him, which made this child-like guy let him go.

Van Gundy gave a summary of the previous games in this training session. The team's current physical decline and the emergence of barriers among substitutes were analysed, as was Van Gundy's future problems. The problems of the age of the players, the fitness of the players and the development of new players are all issues that need to be solved in the future. Van Gundy is still very satisfied with the current record of the Knicks, and the current team record from the beginning to the present can achieve such good results, which can be said to have exceeded everyone's expectations.

Van Gundy has strengthened the team's rotation lineup, constantly establishing a good balance between new players and main players, and now the Knicks' fitness problems are starting to appear, and the whole season has only played less than a eighth of the game, and the rest of the game is intensive. Cultivating new players can be rotated well when the time comes, and at the same time, they can also withstand critical moments, especially when these old players have injuries.

In the training session, Liang Xiao was taken care of by Van Gundy, and constantly asked him to come up with more effective scoring methods on the offensive end, not only to improve his shooting rate, but also to play his breakthrough ability as a substitute when the team was in a stalemate, and now Liang Xiao has become the leader of a team in the hands of Van Gundy. But with this kind of treatment, Liang Xiao will not miss it.

Liang Xiao is more able to play to his advantages under Van Gundy's training, there was no such opportunity to get Van Gundy's personal guidance in the past, many times it is the assistant coach who points out Liang Xiao's problems next to him, and now Van Gundy as the head coach of the team, his offensive and defensive philosophy can be said to be no one who can know better than him.

Unconsciously, under the guidance of Van Gundy, Liang Xiao passed much faster than usual, and together with Houston and Sprewell, he could feel the atmosphere on the court even more. During this time, Liang Xiao encountered the bottleneck of the rookie wall, to a large extent, it was a change in his heart, and now he sees that he can get personal guidance from his home and be able to compete with the main force, this mentality, Liang Xiao is changing little by little.

After the training session at noon, there is no training session in the afternoon, and you can't be too tired to play in the evening.

At Madison Square Garden in New York, it was nine o'clock and the arena was already crowded, with all the Knicks fans wearing their favorite players' jerseys and waving slogans. At a glance, you can see many fans wearing Liang Xiao's No. 7 jersey, and Liang Xiao's influence is constantly increasing in New York.

This game was not broadcast live in the United States in the United States, because the Grizzlies' extremely bad record simply can't bring up the nature of fans to watch this game, NBA team has 82 games per season, there are always a few games worth paying attention to, why watch this kind of boring game without suspense when there are wonderful games.

However, as long as it is a team's game, there will always be a broadcast, as a healthy event like the NBA, every game will have data left, fans have their favorite team, and they are not afraid that there will be no market.

Many local sports channels in China have broadcast Liang Xiao's Knicks, for Chinese fans, the vast majority of fans are going to Liang Xiao and Da Yao, there is no Chinese figure, it is estimated that the ratings of this basketball will drop a cut. This game was not broadcast on Imperial Court Channel 5, the broadcast time of Imperial Court Channel 5 has a fixed time, this game happened not to be within that time, and Liang Xiao's state was sluggish during this time, and he may not be favored by Imperial Court TV.

Liang Xiao was doing pre-game physical therapy in the locker room, while watching the Grizzlies game video, the Grizzlies have not won a game in this period of time, the last head coach started with an eight-game losing streak, and now Hubby Brown has just taken over the team, and the first game is today's game. Liang Xiao watched the Grizzlies' game video, more to find the shortcomings of the Grizzlies, since it is an eight-game losing streak, there must be something bad that can't be worse. To sum up, the Grizzlies do not have a smooth offensive system, and the strength of the players is there, but it is a bit of a separate battle, and it is not established how to play to receive better results.

Looking at the videos of these games, Liang Xiao's heart was a little low, and he wanted to get back the feeling he had at the beginning of this game. Thinking that the current Grizzlies have just experienced a change of coach, no matter how powerful the current head coach is and how good the tactics are, it is only the beginning now, and the team will definitely not be integrated so quickly. It's about taking advantage of that opportunity, which was also relegated to Van Gundy's training sessions, and at the same time defending well in this game, he had to be sharper on the offensive end.

The game is about to start, and most of the fans in the country have gathered, either in front of the TV or in front of the computer, waiting for the game to start. Liang Xiao's best friend Zuo Qiang has not fallen in every game since Liang Xiao entered the NBA.

"Hadron son, in this game, the Grizzlies are a garbage team, and now the Knicks are still more than enough to beat them, right?" Zuo Qiang's bedroom was full of people, and someone asked next to him.

"This game depends on whether Liang Xiao's state recovers, the rest is not easy to say, I heard that the Grizzlies have changed their head coach, it is estimated that there will be improvement, the Grizzlies players are still young and energetic, and the Knicks are weaker in terms of physical fitness, and the other Knicks have nothing to worry about. If nothing else, the Knicks will get a win at home. Zuo Qiang replied to the questions raised by the classmates around him.