Chapter Eighty-Four: Against the Thunder

Under the leadership of Tang Shuai, the Clippers gradually regained the state of play in training, but after all, the talent is too different from the Magic team, although Tang Shuai's performance is remarkable, it is far from the extent that it can reverse the game, and the two sides fought fiercely in four quarters, and finally the Magic team with better strength won the game 80:66.

On the Magic team's side, the three cores played very steadily, Gordon shot 11 of 13 from the field, cut down a super double-double of 24 points and 18 rebounds, and Hezonia on the outside also contributed 20 points on 8 of 9 two-point shots, as for the team's core point guard Payton's performance was extremely comprehensive, with 12 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists, and quasi-triple-double data.

On the other hand, on the Clippers' side, although Tang Shuai scored 18 points and 8 assists on 3-of-4 three-point shots, except for him, only Hamilton scored double-doubles, and everyone else scored in single digits, and the team's shooting rate was less than 40%, so it was obviously impossible for them to defeat their opponents.

At the end of the game, the players of the Clippers left the game in a slightly depressed manner, but the team's coach Cassel was in a good mood, the summer league was not about winning or losing, and the goal was achieved when the team's key training objects like Tang Shuai were trained.

Tang Shuai saw Cassel coming over in a good mood and patted him on the shoulder, and after smiling copingly, he walked out of the arena with his head down.

Although he knew that the victory or defeat of the match did not matter, but suffering such a big defeat in the first game of his career was obviously not the result he wanted to see.

After dinner, I returned to the hotel, and as soon as I entered, I saw Dawson wearing a training uniform and holding a basketball in his hand and about to go out.

"Brandon, are you going to train?" Tang Shuai asked suspiciously, it was only more than an hour before the end of the game, and he had just finished eating and took a walk to digest it.

"I heard that the stadium here is open at night, so I made an appointment with Jordan and Eric to go to the stadium to practice." Dawson said as if he remembered something, pointed in the direction of the bathroom and said, "By the way, the floor in the bathroom is a little slippery, you should be careful when you take a shower." ”

After speaking, after smiling at Tang Shuai, he was ready to leave.

"Wait a minute." Tang Shuai took out his training clothes from his bag, and said while undressing, "I'll go with you." ”

"With me, together?" Dawson looked a little surprised, Tang Shuai is different from them, he is the team's key training object, and there is no need to work as hard as them at all, just to get a non-guaranteed contract.

Tang Shuai didn't talk much nonsense at this time, he had already changed into training clothes, and the feeling of losing made him depressed, and he needed to go to the court to vent now.

"Let's go." Under Dawson's somewhat stunned expression, he took the room key card from the room and walked straight out.

Although the Amway Arena is a Chinese sponsored stadium, the facilities inside are the same, there are five training halls alone, and they went to the northernmost one, where it is said that the stadium is a little bigger.

When he arrived, Tang Shuai found that it was not only the people Dawson said, but most of the rest of the team had arrived early, if it weren't for Cassel's absence, he thought this was the team's daily training.

Tang Shuai's appearance was somewhat unexpected, but the players quickly trained on their own, and for them, they had lost a chance to show themselves today, and there were not many opportunities left.

After practicing for a while, a wave of people came one after another in the other half of the training hall, wearing all the uniforms, and Tang Shuai soon found out that it was their opponent tomorrow, the Thunder team.

The Thunder team has always been a team with very obvious characteristics, there are two BUG-level players in the team, the coach does not need to arrange too many tactics, as long as the offensive space is opened, so that the "double less" Westbrook and Durant take turns to bomb, the average team can no longer parry.

Of course, it is impossible for Shuangshao to participate in a low-level game like summer league, so the current Thunder team is a clear weaker team compared to the Magic team in the morning, as can be seen from the fact that their players come to the arena to practice at night like the Clippers.

In other words, it's a team on par with the Clippers.

The Thunder's presence didn't attract too much attention from the Clippers players, and the Thunder players didn't pay much attention to the situation on the other side of the court.

Tang Shuai stopped at this time, stood on the sidelines, and looked at the team with a packaging system.

"Only McGarry has a purple rebounding bag, and everyone else is mainly green bags, and sure enough, the weak ones are with us, but the team's point guard is good, and there are three blue skill packs, huh, there are no three-packs?"

Tang Shuai determined the skill package of the entire Thunder team, and after returning to reality, he immediately shouted: "Hey, guys, do you want to win?" ”

The teammates who were training stopped what they were doing and looked at him suspiciously, not knowing what he was doing.

"I have a way to get us to win and everybody has a chance to perform, would you like to hear that?" Tang Shuai said with a smile.

After he finished speaking, the other players put down the ball in their hands and slowly gathered over, after today's game, Tang Shuai has unconsciously become their core, not to mention that what he just said is so tempting.

Tang Shuai then said: "We ......"

On July 5, U.S. time, there was no time to recuperate, it was still 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and the Clippers and Thunder ushered in their respective second games.

The Thunder team led the team this time with assistant coach Monty Williams, he sat on the sidelines and held the tactical board with a solemn face, the former head coach of the Hornets, hoping to seize every opportunity to prove his ability, the assistant coach is obviously not his goal, the Thunder is just a springboard for him.

Compared to Williams's solemnity, Kassel is in a diametrically opposite state, he is still wearing his casual suit, when he arrives at the stadium and lets the players go to training, he leans back on his seat to observe the training, and seems to be in a good mood.

Tang Shuai is used to Kassel's coaching style, and from the bottom of his heart, he still likes this coaching style, which can give him enough freedom on the field.

This time, there were still only some team staff present, but compared to yesterday, there were significantly less, only a few sporadic people, and it can be seen that this weak match and bleak star game is difficult to attract their attention.

After a brief training session between the players of both sides, at 0:00 a.m., the referee blew the whistle for the start of the game on time.

It was Moreira and McGarry who jumped the ball, and this time Moreira managed to use his height to snatch the first chance to attack.

The Clippers got a chance to attack first.

Tang Shuai controlled the ball and advanced to the front court, then signaled his teammates to pull away, and then waited for Moreira under the basket to settle down, and he passed the ball in one hit.

Cassel was originally leaning back in his chair, but after seeing Tang Shuai's actions, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he got up from his seat and walked to the sidelines.

Yesterday, Moreira's singles ability can be described as impressive, and he was extremely embarrassed in the face of Gordon, but he didn't expect to change his opponent today, Tang Shuai actually let Moreira play as soon as he started?