The Way of the Center

As a businessman, Paul Allen certainly hopes to make money from the Trail Blazers. As a team manager, what Neil Orsi has to do is to help Allen manage the team and by the way make the Trail Blazers an enduring cash cow.

As long as the Trail Blazers perform well, the team's revenue will double. As long as the team's income increases, Paul Allen will invest more.

Last season, when Paul Allen offered An Jie a five-year 202 million contract, didn't he even blink?

So today, when Nell Orsi took the ticket issued by the league and found Paul Allen, who had just landed in Portland, the former Microsoft giant just read the ticket and letter, and wrote one at hand. A check for half a million dollars was handed to Orsi.

"Sir... Actually, coach Ricard and I are willing to bear part of the fine." Orsi thought his boss would be very angry, but he didn't expect him to be so happy.

"The league penalizes the team, not you. My team is penalized, and of course I pay for it. Moreover, you did it right, and I support you." Paul Allen knows that Ricard is a A very personal head coach, but this guy has never let himself down. He insisted not to allow the media to enter, there must be his reasons. As long as this reason is able to help get closer to the championship, Paul Allen will support it.

"Then I..."

"Go back and do your job, buddy, tomorrow night, the finals are about to start. Hurry up and get the fine done, lest the whistle is against us tomorrow." Paul Allen, who walked to the special car, patted Olsi. On the shoulders, smiled slightly. After that, he got into the limousine under the protection of the security guard and drove away.

Paul Allen is such a person, he is vigorous and vigorous, and he never speaks a word of nonsense. And one more thing, this guy never sells the face of the president of the league. When the Trail Blazers won the championship for the first time that year, David Stern was sore, and Paul Allen had not borrowed the O'Brien Cup for a long time. Instead, he gave this supreme honor to An Jie.

Orsi looked at the check in his hand and then at the car that had disappeared from sight. Everyone, everyone is working hard for the O'Brien Cup, including his general manager, including the team owner Allen.

The whole world is not optimistic about the Trail Blazers, but everyone on the Trail Blazers just doesn't believe in this evil. We are one of the best-performing teams this season. Why is there no championship for us?

Orsi looked up at Angel's huge billboard outside the airport. "Please, let us win!"

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In the huge training ground, the Blazers players wearing training jerseys are running non-stop on the field. Although the finals will start tomorrow night, they are still nervously conducting team confrontation training.

The shouts between the players, the loud roars of Ricard and Divac, and the rubbing between basketball shoes and the hardwood floor constitute a moving "melody" that surrounds the training ground.

Iguodala advanced with the ball, and Aminu opened his long arms in front of him, trying to block Iguodala's vision.

Ricard requires the players to restore the real game situation as much as possible on the field, as long as all difficulties are overcome during training, in order to perform well in the game.

When Iguodala controlled the ball and advanced, the players of the main team had already started a superb running position. An Jie ran right behind the free throw line and raised his arm. Iguodala did not hesitate, and gave the basketball to An Jie with a strong flick.

After Anjie received the basketball, there was no defensive player around him. But Anjie didn't shoot the basket, but watched the running position of his teammates and waited for the opportunity to pass the ball.

After receiving the basketball, An Jie divided the basketball out again less than a second. Evan Turner, who ran to the three-point line and received Anjie's pass, made a direct shot and the basketball hollowed into the net. At the moment when the goal was scored, even the demanding Ricard applauded the players.

"Evan, well done! Harkless, if you are so defensive in the game tomorrow, I will ask you if you lose the ball!" Ricard wants the players to score and the players not to score. He not only wants to improve the quality of the team's offense, but also to make the team a perfect defensive machine.

As for Anjie, Ricard specifically explained. During the confrontation training, Anjie could not move after receiving the basketball and could not attack by himself. The only thing he can do is pass the ball! Once Anjie dribbles or shoots the ball, the ball will be immediately returned to the substitute team.

In the beginning, Anjie was not used to this kind of training. In the day before yesterday’s training, the main team lost to the substitutes three times because of Anjie’s inability to attack on his own.

But to this day, An Jie has perfected Ricard's tactics and his passing timing. Even if An Jie can't move and can't attack, he can still lead the main team to win easily.

An Jie is getting used to his new style of play, and the rest of the Trail Blazers are also adapting to An Jie.

Without a large number of stars, Ricard will use the power of his team to defeat the Cavaliers! After tactical adjustments and several days of closed training, Ricard has disassembled the players into parts one after another. And when these parts are recombined, what Ricard is presented to is a perfect machine that can't go wrong!

Anjie gave Evan Turner a thumbs up, then ran towards his own half, preparing to defend. No team will train like the Trail Blazers, but Anjie and everyone believe that this summer's sweat will be worth the money.

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Everything that just happened on the training ground, the Trail Blazers were carried out without anyone knowing. Tyron Lue must be very upset at the moment, because there is no news about the Trail Blazers training in the world.

In the past few days, the only piece of news about the Trail Blazers is that the league received a huge fine of $500,000 because the Trail Blazers refused to allow media interviews on the Open Media Day. But this kind of news is completely useless for the Cavaliers.

Rather than fight against Xiao Hua and resolutely not open training, Tyronn Lu didn't know what Ricard was doing in Moda Center.

In any case, the Cavaliers are fully prepared. As long as Ricard does not transform his players into robots, the Blazers have no chance of winning!

If it's just some people who think the Blazers can't win the championship, you can still say they are ignorant. But if people all over the world have been looking down on the pioneers, this is very telling.

Tyronn Lu shook his head. Ricard, this guy, did everything in order to win. What kind of closed training he is doing now is probably just bewitching people's hearts. If he and the Cavaliers get nervous, then he really caught his trap.

After losing to the Warriors at a huge disadvantage last season, the Cavaliers suffered a huge blow. Last summer, the Cavaliers were able to complete several big deals because the championship is the catalyst for everyone!

Whether it's Rose or Wade, or the young Thomas who has performed well. They all got together because of the championship. If the Cavaliers fail again this year, let alone other people, even if James will continue to stay in Cleveland, there will be a question mark.

Therefore, the Cavaliers must win anyway this year. Facing a badly injured Trailblazers team, Tyronn Lu did not dare to make any mistakes!

Thinking of this, the guy who had been stepped by Iverson pressed the start button again and continued to watch the Trail Blazers game video.

It’s just that this guy may not know ~www.NovelMTL.com~ The videos that he watched have lost their timeliness. Because of Ricard and the Trail Blazers, big changes have already been done!

Time passed by every minute, and the moment the finals began, it was getting closer and closer.

Both the Cavaliers and the Blazers are fully prepared, no matter what the outside world says, the game still attracts everyone's attention.

After a day of training, Anjie took off his jersey in the locker room and took a shower.

The guy let the water flow over him, his eyes closed tightly, as if thinking something.

This is the last night's rest and the last day of peace in Portland. After returning home today, he will spend time with his wife and son. Because from tomorrow until the end of the finals, in Anjie’s world, there will be only battles!

Lillard, George, James, Wade... By the way, there are those guys who don't care about themselves and the Trail Blazers. Open your eyes and be optimistic about how a legendary center who created a dynasty won the championship!

The smell of gunpowder has permeated the world...