The Way of the Center

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"George Ricard is officially back, and the Trail Blazers hit 72 wins!"

"Dynasty Bull's record will be tied, and the Anjie dynasty may have arrived?"

"Divac: I enjoyed the time of coaching the team. Ricard's return means a lot to us."

When the media opening time came and the reporters poured into the training hall and saw Ricard standing on the sidelines, they all shouted excitedly.

The reporters all wished Ricard better and better health. Of course, Ricard's news always doubled the reading volume of their reports several times. The healthier the guy, the more news reporters can dig up.

In the age of print media, news of Ricard's return may not appear in the papers until the next day. But in the age of the Internet, the news of Rickard's comeback was already known to everyone within half an hour after the reporters walked out of the Moda Center.

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

He would rather use that time to take the players to run tactics, and he doesn't want to face the group of boring media.

It is for this reason that fans are not sure whether Ricard will return to the stadium next game. Ricard may just be involved in training, but that doesn't mean he'll definitely be able to return to the crushing game scene.

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

Curiosity, this is something that everyone has. Will Rickard show up? With his appearance, what will the Trail Blazers look like? All these spurred fans from all over the world to turn on the TV and pay attention to this game with huge disparity in strength.

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Angie was bandaging his bruised knee and fingers while Aldridge was on the phone with his mother. Iguodala, this guy is still the same as before, closing his eyes and resting his mind. As for that kid Lillard, he was running around, excited.

Ricard looked at everything in front of him, it was still a familiar picture, nothing changed. He has been away from the arena for two full months. Ricard was still worried that he would suddenly become unaccustomed to life in the locker room.

However,

It was him who was worrying too much. The dressing room is now like Ricard's home. He is at his most comfortable when he is in the dressing room.

Ricard let out a big breath and clapped his hands in fear. Immediately, everyone's attention fell on him.

If it were someone else being stared at by a group of NBA stars, they would have been too shivering to speak. But from the first time he coached the NBA to the present, Ricard has never been stage frightened by such things.

"Guys, this game is probably the easiest of the three games we have left. The Jazz are at the bottom of the West right now and they've lost all hope of making the playoffs, so they're there Maybe you won't fight very hard. But we can't fight the Jazz like this, I need you to show your full strength as soon as you play, and end the game early to avoid future troubles!" Ricard waved his arms forcefully, Everyone knows what to do.

"Come on guys, this is just a warm-up! Let's walk out of the Energy Solutions Arena with a beautiful victory!" Ricard said, and according to the "convention", it was time for Anjie to stand up and shout a few words.

"Victory!" The other people in the locker room echoed An Jie and shouted, Rickard pushed open the door of the locker room, and the group of hungry wolves came out one after another. Although it was an away game, almost all reporters in the player channel pointed their cameras at the Trail Blazers players. It seems that almost everyone does not think that the Jazz has the ability to move to this powerful defending champion.

After the game started, seeing Ricard standing on the sidelines, many Trail Blazers fans who were watching the game in front of the TV shouted excitedly. This foul-mouthed guy finally came back after two months.

The situation of the game was just as Ricard and others expected. The Utah Jazz simply didn't have any strength to fight back.

The players of the Jazz played quite loosely, because they won one more game or lost one more game now, and they 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 yelling on the field, urging his teammates not to worry, and to stabilize the rhythm. If the Trail Blazers miss 72 wins because they lose to the Jazz, the bottom one in the Western Conference, they will definitely become the biggest laughing stock in history.

Therefore, the Trail Blazers played cautiously and took a completely different attitude from the Jazz.

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

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Jazz's starting power forward Derek Favors symbolically resisted for a while. However, his resistance didn't last long before he was completely suppressed by Aldridge who reappeared.

At this time, there were already large gaps in the stands of the Energy Solutions Arena. The fans are planning to leave the field early to express their dissatisfaction with the team's performance.

The Jazz, who have given up from players to fans, made the game enter garbage time early. An Jie and the starters got quite enough rest, and I believe they will play more easily in the next game.

111 to 89, the Trail Blazers easily won the Jazz in the away game. With 70 wins and 10 losses, the Trail Blazers are only two games away from tying the Bulls' record, and only two games away from the end of the regular season!

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

"Regret? No, no, no, we will definitely win 72!" An Jie's decisive answer made several reporters stunned.

It's not how far the Trail Blazers are from winning 72, but the reporters know that the next two games will not be easy for the Trail Blazers...

With just one day off after the win over the Jazz, the Trail Blazers will play their penultimate game of the regular season at the Moda Center. And their opponents today are no longer ordinary people like the Jazz.

The Los Angeles Clippers, ranked fourth in the Western Conference, have star players such as Paul and Griffin, and have a poor relationship with the Trail Blazers.

The shadow of being swept by the Blazers in the playoffs last year has always made the Clippers treat the Blazers as a deadly enemy.

Chris Paul also knows that now that the playoffs are only five days away, playing against the Trail Blazers in earnest may be a good opportunity to exercise.

As a result, the Clippers have been extremely aggressive from the very beginning, and even have some momentum to turn the game over.

Especially Paul, this guy really wants to prove that he is also one of the superstars, but he has never been able to stand on the stage of the Western Conference Finals due to various reasons.

A superstar who has never even played in the conference finals, Paul doesn't want to carry this name on his back for the rest of his life.

Looking at the West now, Anjie and the Blazers 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 Trail Blazers, Jamal Crawford played quite happily in the Moda Center.

On one point, Crawford and Angie were on the same page. The more you respect the opponent, the more you must use all your strength to defeat it!

Today, Crawford's fake action after the breakthrough made Angie suffer a lot. People are even exclaiming that the Clippers may break out of the West this year!

However, once the fourth quarter arrived, everything changed.

Anjie, Aldridge and Lillard, these three guys started to score points in turn.

Because of the great halo of Anjie, people often ignore the other players of the Trail Blazers. But today, the Trail Blazers sounded the alarm for everyone. They are also an out-and-out Big Three lineup!

Jamal Crawford was okay in disrupting the game, 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 it is a pity that the Blazers have already started and did not leave any chance for the mortal enemy Clippers.

Anjie scored six points in a row at the last moment and blocked Griffin's alley-oop performance, allowing the Trail Blazers to secure the victory.

104 to 110, it was because of Anjie's six points at the last moment that the result of the game became like this.

After the game, Chris Paul walked directly into the player tunnel with his hips on his hips and shook his head. He didn't say hello to anyone from the Trail Blazers, nor did he pay attention to the media's questions.

Perhaps, this is the performance of a person after being completely disappointed.

After winning the game, the entire Moda Center fans stood up neatly and shouted.

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

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

Defeating the Clippers means that the Trail Blazers' record has become 71 wins and 10 losses, and now the Trail Blazers' 82 regular season games are over, and there is one last game left!

One game, with only one game left, the Trail Blazers will reach the pinnacle that the Bulls occupied that year. Compared with the scenery there, it must be very beautiful.

"It's only one game away, boss." An Jie walked in front of Ricard. The seemingly impossible record was now placed in front of the Trail Blazers, waiting for them to take it.

"That's right, there is only one game left. That game is not fucking easy." Ricard's expression is not relaxed, even though his team just defeated the Clippers, the fourth place in the Western Conference.

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

April 16, 2014 was the day when the final battle of the 13-14 NBA regular season started. On that day, it is very likely that there will be a major event that is enough to be recorded in the history of the league.

But now, there is a team that has the ability to prevent greatness from happening.

That's why Ricard wasn't excited about his victory in this game. The opponent they met in the final battle was an opponent that made him very afraid.

The Golden State Warriors, the sixth-ranked team in the Western Conference and a blockbuster team this season, are the team that Ricard is most worried about in these three games.

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

The biggest obstacle on the way to the Trail Blazers' 72 wins, now, it's time to try to overcome him...