Chapter 163: Goodbye Nash (1/3)
"Okay, I've rambled enough......"
Kano then drew another burst of laughter from the audience.
He then handed the MVP trophy to Tang Shuai.
Tang Shuai held the trophy excitedly, kissed it on it, and then raised it high above his head.
The scene erupted in a deafening cheer.
Kano handed the microphone to Tang Shuai at this time.
"Thank you, thank you." Tang Shuai took the microphone and said to the fans from the bottom of his heart.
The fans at the scene followed with another burst of cheers.
"To be honest, I still can't believe it, until I have this trophy in my hand, I can't believe that what is happening in front of me is real." As soon as Tang Shuai said two sentences, it attracted a burst of applause and whistles from the fans at the scene.
Tang Shuai smiled and continued: "Thank you to the league, thank you to the fans, thank you to the Clippers, thank you to Mr. Ballmer, thank you to Sam and Coach Chauncey, thank you to Coach Becky, thank you to my teammates, thank you to everyone who supported me, and Kevin, I broke your record, I hope you don't mind so much......"
When Tang Shuai said this, the fans at the scene immediately burst into laughter, and Durant also burst into laughter.
"I'd like to thank my college coach Sue, and I'd also like to thank Eduardo [referring to Nahula] and Dave [referring to Dave Wall], who brought me into this league, and honestly, there are so many people I have to thank if I keep talking about it, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold the trophy in my hand."
Tang Shuai's humor caused the fans to laugh again.
"Thank you, thank you, this honor does not belong to me alone. It belongs to everyone, thank God for learning basketball for us. I'm going to work hard and try to perform better. ”
Tang Shuai finished saying this. I returned the microphone to Noka.
The fans at the scene spontaneously applauded Tang Shuai.
"CP3, this kid is very good at talking." Wade then turned to Paul and said.
"Don is excited tonight, he's grown up." Paul said with a smile.
At the end of the award ceremony, Tang Shuai took some photos with his teammates of the world team with the trophy, and then went back to the locker room with Paul.
I had just returned to the locker room, and I hadn't had time to talk to Paul yet.
"Don." At this moment, there was a somewhat familiar shout from the door of the locker room.
Tang Shuai heard the shout, stopped communicating with Paul, and turned his head to see someone coming. A look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.
"Steve!" Tang Shuai said and gave the trophy to Paul, and walked towards the person at the door with an excited expression.
The one who came was Nash.
"Congratulations." Nash and Tang Shuai came to a deep hug.
Nash is Canadian, and was the assistant coach of the Canadian team during the previous Masters, and Tang Shuai has seen it in the stands before, but this is the first time they have met alone.
"You've been really good tonight, you've grown." After hugging, Nash congratulated.
"Steve, it's been a long time." Paul greeted Nash with a hint of respect.
"Hey, CP3." Nash smiled and shook Paul's hand.
"You've got a good teammate." Nash said to Tang Shuai with a smile.
"Yes. CP3 has helped me a lot. Tang Shuai said with a smile.
"Don't stand, let's sit down and talk." Paul set the trophy aside, pulled over the stool and said.
The three of them sat down and chatted for a while, and Paul was taken out by Vedra to chat. There are only two people left, Tang Shuai and Nash.
"How's it going, you've been with the Clippers?" After chatting about the All-Star Game, Nash started asking about other things.
"It's fine. As you can see, CP3 is a good teammate. Tang Shuai said with a smile.
"CP3 is a great mentor. Like Jason, he's always going to keep improving. Nash said with a smile.
"Oh. Yes, if I'm not mistaken, you and Jason were teammates. Listening to Nash talk about Kidd, Tang Shuai couldn't help but remember that Nash once played as a substitute for Kidd. Well, it's kind of similar to what you're in now, when I first came into the league, I was also Jason's backup, and I played for about two years, but I actually started with him a lot of the time. Nash had a look of remembrance on his face.
"All in all, what I'm experiencing now is very similar to what you were going through." Tang Shuai said with a smile.
"Well, those days in Phoenix are memorable, but I'm thankful to Mark [referring to Cuban] who helped bring me to Dallas, where I experienced the real joy of playing." Nash continued.
"What is the joy of playing?" Tang Shuai looked at Nash suspiciously, to be honest, although his life with the Clippers was very good, he always felt that something was pressing him.
"The feeling of being in control of the ball, Jason is a great player, if I was a super scorer I would be happy to hate him all the time, but I wasn't tall and sized enough, I was a point guard, and in fact a team only needs a master of the ball, so I found the joy of playing in Dallas." Nash was very direct.
"Control the ball." Tang Shuai was thoughtful.
Although he only stayed with the Clippers for half a season, his role has changed several times during this half season, from a fringe figure who couldn't play at the beginning to a role player, then beating Reaves Jr. to become the team's head guard on the bench, and finally to a starter, and even now the second choice for offense.
Thanks to the existence of the packaging system, he experienced the equivalent of someone else's entire rookie season or longer role change in half a season.
He's growing up fast, but with that comes an inevitable problem, the ball problem.
If you really want to talk about it, among these role changes, he played the most like a fish in water when he was the team's sixth man, when he was the only one in the bench group who controlled the ball, and he could play as he wanted.
And when it came to the starter, because Paul was there, he was more like a strengthened version of Redick, and his work was almost the same.
The joy of playing, the feeling of being in control of the ball, this is the hidden meaning of Nash's words just now.
Even the rookie game that just ended is almost a copy of this statement.
'You have a lot of potential, I've been watching you, your future is going to be immeasurable, I've experienced the feeling of being in complete control of the ball in two seasons, but I don't know how long you'll need it. Nash followed.
"You mean, I need to change teams now?" Tang Shuai finally understood the meaning of Nash's words.
Nash nodded, then shook his head again: "You're playing well with the Clippers right now, and this year is also an opportunity for the Clippers to hit a better record, so this season is not the time for you to leave, but I believe that by next season at the latest, you'll experience what I experienced in Phoenix, the ball problem, and it has nothing to do with Jason or CP3." ”
Tang Shuai looked at Nash in a daze.
"Maybe I'm saying it a little too soon, but when you really start to go through the kind of situation I said, I hope you can remember what I'm going to say, this time I'm not going to say anything for any team, I'm just going to say to you as a person who has come over, a friend, Kobe Bryant is retiring next season, the Lakers are a team with a lot of heritage, and everything you have in Los Angeles is going to change, this is a golden opportunity for you." (To be continued.) )