The referee did not react to the appeals of Tang Shuai and other teammates, and the referee kept crossing his hands and opening them again, indicating that the game was over. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Billups couldn't sit still at this time, and walked to the referee with Shaw.

Billups has played in the league for 17 years before, and has won the MVP, and he is still very familiar with the referee, and now he goes up to communicate, and the referee's attitude is obviously much better.

But in the end, Billups also walked back with a frown.

The game is over.

"Don, let's go back to the locker room first." Billups pulled Tang Shuai, who was a little excited, and directly motioned for the others to go back to the locker room first.

Tang Shuai's psychological quality was already very stable, and he was even calm, but because it was against the Warriors and all kinds of things before the game, this made him a little emotional.

On the way to the locker room, Billups kept talking to him again, and his mood gradually stabilized.

At the post-match press conference, Tang Shuai and Billups attended the press conference together.

At the behest of Billups, Tang Shuai did not answer too many questions from reporters, and the object of the questions focused on Billups.

"Chauncey, this was your first game as head coach against the Warriors, but the team played an impressive game, how did you do that?"

"Well, the Warriors are strong, but I believe every team has weaknesses and we're not without strengths, we have five new players, including me, and they don't have enough historical data, so we're new to the Warriors, on the contrary we're familiar with the Warriors, and my guys are good enough that I didn't win the game in the end, but I'm proud of them."

"Steve won a championship in his first season at the helm of the Warriors and set a new regular season record last year, so will you feel the pressure to play against such a great coach in your first game?"

"You're right, Steve is a successful player and he's a great coach." In response to this question from reporters, Billups said with a smile, "But I didn't feel the pressure because to be honest, he has been a manager for less than a year longer than me." ”

Kerr has coached a total of 2 and a half seasons with the Warriors this season, and more than half of them have been absent due to injury, Billups previously served as an assistant coach with the Clippers for one season, which is true, but using coaching time to answer this question is not right, but it will inexplicably make people grasp a certain point, but it is quite wavelike. The way Povich answered the question.

Some reporters at the scene couldn't help but laugh on the spot.

Tang Shuai couldn't help but smile, seeing that Billups coped with it easily, his previous depressed mood was also alleviated a lot.

"We saw two key turning points in the game, one was Don's fourth foul and one was a last-minute foul, so to speak, those two decisions changed the course of the game and even decided the outcome of the game, what do you think?"

"Well......" Billups was silent for a while, this most sensitive question was still raised by reporters, he did not answer reporters' questions in person, but said to himself, "I have played basketball in the league for 17 years, I know that refereeing is not an easy job, and there will be some penalties in the game, but I still hope that in the next game, there will be more correct decisions, after all, the most exciting part of competitive sports should be performed by players." ”

"Aren't you a little dissatisfied, or unwilling? After all, it was a good chance to end the Warriors' 20-game winning streak. The reporter asked.

Billups shook his head: "A lot of our players have just joined the team, there is still a lot of room for improvement, I care more about the competitiveness of the team than about the quality of the team, especially the win or defeat of the regular season, and honestly, I don't want to be the 'finish guy' in the media too early." ”

Tang Shuai couldn't help but nod on the side, when he was in the players' tunnel, Billups said something similar to him.

"One last question, is there anything you would like to say to the Warriors or the Oakland fans?" The reporter said and looked at Billups.

Billupston paused, then looked up, and only four words popped out of his mouth: "See you in the playoffs." ”

At the end of the press conference, despite not winning the game, the Lakers ultimately failed to make the headlines as Billups had hoped.

In one game, Billups's coaching ability and the Lakers' new style of play still dazzled fans, and the phrase "see you in the playoffs" at the press conference attracted special attention.

Maybe the reporters at the scene didn't think too much, but after the media reported it, this sentence seemed very meaningful.

The Lakers are now at a disadvantage in the playoff race, so the first thing to do to fulfill this sentence is to make the playoffs with a good performance in the second half of the season, and exclude a possible eighth place, and if they want to meet the Warriors during the playoffs, the Lakers must at least reach the Western Conference Finals.

Reading carefully, the confidence contained in this is surprising.

Fans in Los Angeles are excited, after all, Billups showed his mature coaching ability in the first game, and they are especially excited to see what he can take the team to in the second half of the season.

However, this also put him on the cusp of public opinion again.

Originally, a 4-year contract of 40 million was enough to attract criticism, but now it has just dispelled some doubts with one game, and immediately said big words like "see you in the playoffs", which made some media people really unable to sit still.

In particular, the media commentators who have just been slapped in the face seem to be working harder and harder to suppress Billups.

In the eyes of most of them, the Lakers' player talent is too limited, and it is no longer an era when players can win games with a single core, and Tang Shuai alone is simply not enough, they just wait for the end of the season to see the jokes of Billups and Tang Shuai.

In the following period, Billups focused on the physical fitness and chemistry of the players.

In this process, Tang Shuai also had a further understanding of him.

When he was with the Clippers, Billups was the head assistant coach, but he was mainly responsible for the team's tactics, and he didn't take care of things like training.

But now when he is working with the Lakers on a daily basis, he gives the biggest feeling that everyone on the team is important and an integral part of the team.

This feeling is terrifying, it seems to be an ordinary training session, but it is constantly condensing the tacit understanding between the players, so that the team has slowly become a solid team.

Slowly, Tang Shuai seemed to feel that the team was moving in the direction of the original Pistons, or a more perfect team.

The change was visible, and in the following games, the Lakers showed a completely different state of play than before the All-Star break, and even this state of affairs was puzzling to many experts.

On February 26, the Lakers challenged the Jazz, who are seventh in the West, and Tang Shuai scored 46 points and 6 assists again, helping the team finally win 111-103.

On February 28, the Lakers hosted the Bucks, and Tang Shuai scored 40 points and 9 assists to help the team win 97-86, which is worth mentioning that this is his fourth consecutive game after the trade deadline with a high score of 40+.

On March 2, the Lakers won back-to-back games, in the first game against the 76ers, Tang Shuai only played three quarters, easily scored 28 points and 8 assists, helped the team beat the opponent 110-89, and in the second game, he slashed 52 points and 3 assists to help the team defeat the rival Rockets again.

After winning the Rockets, they won a wave of four straight wins, and it was also the fourth straight win of Billups coaching the Lakers.

The 4-1 record is comparable to the scene when Kerr first arrived at the Warriors, and what is even more shocking is that the current Lakers team is much worse than the original Warriors.

After this wave of consecutive wins, the Lakers' record came to 31-18, and suddenly jumped from tenth in the West to fifth in the West.

And with this performance of the team, Tang Shuai fell off the MVP list in February, and then came back in March, and rose to third place, only lower than James and Durant.

It seems to be in line with what Billups said when he first arrived with the Lakers, and he didn't need to prove anything, because it all went according to the flow.

On March 4, U.S. time, after a day of rest, the Lakers hosted their archrival Spurs.

The game was a big test for the new team, as the Spurs didn't start the season well but finally found their groove before the All-Star break, and now have a 36-13 record that is much better than the Lakers, sitting in second place in the West.

The Lakers have just won four in a row and are in good shape, and it will definitely be a fierce game against their archrivals Spurs.

The game was indeed as expected by fans, in the first half of the game, Tang Shuai still killed all sides, Green, the top defender, seemed to be weak in front of him, and the two sides tied 52 at the end of the first half.

Billups in the first half at and Bo. Povich didn't fall behind in his fighting style.

Coming back in the second half, fans originally thought that this game would be played to the last minute like the game against the Warriors more than ten days ago, but after the game started in the third quarter, it fell into an unbelievable scene.

Wave. Povich holds the NBA's highest coaching contract, and his ability is needless to say, and the strange tricks he often uses in games are even more unguardable.

Less than three minutes into the third quarter, Bo. To everyone's astonishment, Povich used his tried and tested method of slashing people.

And this time the target who was cut turned out to be Tang Shuai! (To be continued.) )