The corners of Tang Shuai's eyes were sour, he didn't expect his mother, a person who didn't understand basketball at all, to watch him play all the time.

The child is the mother's heart, thinking of the way his mother sees himself being bumped around, he must be worried all the time, he followed and said: "Mom, playing ball is like this, don't worry about it." ”

"Okay, you look at it yourself, it's not too early, I'll hang up first." His mother was still worried that it would affect his rest, so she hung up the phone shortly after speaking.

hung up the phone, Tang Shuai looked at the phone in a daze, then put it aside and went to bed to sleep.

Prince was still very efficient, and he called him the next day, and Tang Shuai met Chauncy Billups, the core of the Five Tigers, in the café before.

Billups was dressed in a formal suit, with a serious expression, which was not much different from what he remembered, and he spoke with arrogance, which was completely different from Prince's personality.

In the conversation, knowing that he turned down the Timberwolves' head coach offer in May this year, saying that he did not want to coach a team that has been rebuilding, such a decision is very consistent with his arrogance.

However, these are obviously not the focus of Tang Shuai's attention, when it was found that Billups only had a weakened purple breakthrough pack left, and the passing package was still a normal version of the purple skill pack, he decisively agreed to the whole thing.

After the talks, after the training session, he went to Kassel privately.

"Don, what are you looking for me?" Cassel was studying the next game against the Pelicans, and when he saw Tang Shuai mysteriously coming in, he asked with a puzzled expression.

"Coach, are you familiar with Chauncey Billups?" After Tang Shuai entered. said straight to the point.

"Chauncey?" Cassel paused, his eyes full of remembrance. It took a while to come back to his senses and follow. "It's not familiar, but I know, what, you know him?"

Kassel and Billups are players of the same era, and it is natural to know each other, Tang Shuai followed and said: "That's the case, I met Chauncey when I was out yesterday, you know, the Detroit Five Tigers." It's an idol for people of our age, and the conversation is quite speculative, and then when we talk, I heard that he wants to be a coach. ”

Cassel looked up at Tang Shuai suspiciously, laughed, and said, "That guy in Chauncy is not very easy to talk to, and it's really surprising that you can get along with him." ”

Tang Shuai smiled awkwardly.

"But there should have been rumors that he wanted to be a coach, and if I'm not mistaken, Minnesota had invited him, but he turned it down." Cassel chuckled. said, "Although Jason is thriving in Milwaukee, Fisher is not comfortable in New York, and Chauncey is still a little big." ”

From Kassel's tone. He was still a little biased against Billups's arrogance.

Bilops and Nash are recognized as high ball players in the league, and as long as the two are interested in becoming head coaches, there will definitely be teams who want them. This may also be the reason for Billups's arrogance, after all, people have a choice. Naturally, I don't care about some not-so-good opportunities.

Don Shuai's prejudice in Kassel is understandable, after all, he is also a contemporary of Billups. It is reasonable to think that Billups is a master of the eye.

Tang Shuai thought about it, or continued: "Coach, Chauncy also seems to have the intention of being an assistant coach, I can feel from his tone that he doesn't want to be the head coach of the Timberwolves because he is worried about instability, you also know that the team in the reconstruction, as long as the performance of the ball is not good, if it is not good, it will be out of class, so ......"

Tang Shuai was explaining as much as he could, hoping to offset Kassel's prejudice against Billups, but before he could finish speaking, Kassel suddenly stood up from his seat suddenly.

This sudden move startled Tang Shuai.

"You said Chauncey guy would be willing to be an assistant coach?!" Cassel said with an excited expression.

"Yes...... Oh, yes. Tang Shuai looked at Cassel blankly, not knowing why he suddenly seemed to be a different person.

"Do you have a way for me to meet Chauncy in private?" Kassel's next words surprised him even more that his head coach had asked to meet directly.

"Huh?" He didn't react yet.

"Didn't you say you had a good deal with Chaunse?" Seeing Tang Shuai's reaction, Cassel frowned slightly.

"yes, coach, you mean you want to invite Chauncey to the Clippers?" Tang Shuai finally understood the voice of Kassel's words.

"As long as what you say is true, I will not refuse such a good thing." Cassel said in the affirmative.

After listening to Kassel's words, Tang Shuai really couldn't cry or laugh all of a sudden, and originally thought about how to alleviate Kassel's prejudice against Billups, but he didn't expect things to change so dramatically.

He asked with some confusion: "Coach, didn't you say that Chauncy was a little too overbearing?" ”

"Yes, but if he is willing to come to our team as an assistant coach, do I have any reason to refuse?" Cassel asked with a smile.

At this point, Tang Shuai finally understood, yes, people's arrogance often comes from talent, if a person without talent is arrogant, then it can't be called arrogance, but should be called arrogance, Billups is obviously talented, being an assistant coach has been regarded as letting go of arrogance, Kassel definitely has no reason to refuse.

After thinking about it, he immediately smiled and said, "I can ask him out." ”

"You didn't say you just met him, he should be in Los Angeles right now, right? I'm going to see him today, if I can. Cassel's tone was a little impatient.

“…… Okay, I'll contact him now. Tang Shuai then took out his mobile phone to make an appointment.

Looking at Tang Shuai who was calling, Kassel breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed to be quite fortunate that he did not find an assistant coach in a short period of time.

You and I want to hit it off, Billups intends to be an assistant coach of the Clippers, and Cassel is also very much looking forward to Billups as an assistant coach, and the meeting between Kassel and Billups is quite pleasant.

Looking at the two of them who laughed from time to time, Tang Shuai finally breathed a sigh of relief, the assistant coaches are basically determined by the head coach, looking at the current situation, it should not be a big problem, so the matter of his assist skill package has finally been settled.

But even if things go well, it certainly won't be settled on the same day, and in the evening after a two-day break, the Clippers welcomed his third opponent in this wave of road games.

The New Orleans Pelicans, the original New Orleans Hornets, and the original Charlotte Hornets were renamed after they moved to New Orleans City, and the team that is now renamed the Charlotte Hornets by the Charlotte Bobcats is two teams.

Speaking of the Pelicans and the Clippers, they also have a lot of connections with Tang Shuai.

The core of the Pelicans, the Hornets before the name change, was Chris Paul, who brought Paul to the Clippers in a big trade that brought him to the Clippers.

For Tang Shuai, when he tried out with He Tianju, the Pelicans were the last stop, and He Tianju also played in the summer league on behalf of the Pelicans, but unfortunately he couldn't stay in the end, otherwise this game would have become a Chinese derby.

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