The Portland Trail Blazers, part of Oregon, were founded in 1970 and immediately joined the NBA league and showed great competitiveness, winning the championship in the 76-77 season under the leadership of Bill Walton, the father of Warriors acting head coach Luke Wharton, which is also the only championship trophy in the history of the Trail Blazers.

After winning the championship, it has always been one of the most competitive teams in the West because of the team's successful operation and reasonable draft.

Until last season, after winning the fourth record in the West in the regular season, but losing to the Memphis Grizzlies 1-4 in the first round, the team broke up and completely entered the rebuild, the team's interior core, All-Star power forward LaMarcus Aldridge left San Antonio, the team's remaining three starters were all traded away, and last season's starting lineup only left All-Star guard Damion Lillard, who had just signed a contract extension, and in addition, the entire team was rookies and role players, which can be described as an unusually complete rebuild.

For the Trail Blazers, Tang Shuai's most impressive thing is naturally the Trail Blazers team doctor who is nicknamed "veterinarian" by fans, "Yellow Mamba" Brandon Roy, and Lang Grieg Oden, who is known as a combination of Chamberlain and Russell, all suffered serious injuries at their peak and caused career reimbursements, and a highly anticipated youth army fell, which made countless fans sigh.

On October 22, after a day of rest, the Clippers welcomed their final preseason game at home at Staples Center, against the Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers are led by Lillard, and he is partnered with CJ McCollum, a sophomore rookie who performed bravely in the second half of last season, and Al Farouk Aminu, a new offseason signing who played well in the Mavericks playoffs last season, and Noah Vonleh, the No. 9 pick in 2014 who was traded from the Hornets, and Miles Leonard, who has been developed by himself, at center.

In fact, even Lillard is a player born in the 90s, and the whole team can be described as full of vitality.

Although this game is against the Youth Army, because it is the last game of the preseason, plus the big victory over the defending champion in the last game, the attendance rate of the Staples Center is much higher than the previous game, and the attendance rate of the entire stadium has reached 80%, and the lively atmosphere of the entire stadium is almost the same as the regular season.

During the warm-up training, Tang Shuai inadvertently found that there were several Chinese in this game, and they were holding his big-headed KT board in their hands, which made him inexplicably nervous.

The NBA is a place where rumors and news sources are flying all over the world, after Reaves confirmed that Tang Shuai would start in this game, fans naturally knew the news quickly, and it can be seen that these Chinese are senior fans, and they must have known in advance that Tang Shuai would start the game, so they would appear on the scene so well-equipped.

At the end of the short training, the timer on the sidelines began the last three minutes of countdown, looking at the decreasing numbers, Tang Shuai unconsciously became nervous.

Although it was only a pre-season game, although it was due to Redick's rotation, it was the first start of his career, and as with any other first, nervousness was inevitable.

With the timer about two minutes down, Reeves pulled out his tactical board and shouted to bring the players together.

Tang Shuai was a little nervous at this time, and he came back to his senses after being slapped by Paul next to him.

Seeing his nervousness, Paul rubbed his hand on his arm twice and said with a smile, "Nervous, aren't you?" Just take it easy and just play as you normally do in training. ”

Tang Shuai nodded, but he was still a little nervous uncontrollably.

"Let's start with the No. 3 tactic, Don, Paul, you start to run around the baseline in the opposite direction from a 45-degree angle on both sides, run to the opponent's initial position, pay attention to get rid of the defenders, CP3 will pass the ball according to judgment, as long as there is an offensive opportunity, absolutely don't hesitate, the Trail Blazers have little experience this season, you must seize all the loopholes that exist on their defensive end, understand?"

The players all nodded vigorously, and Reeves' tactics were not much different from the previous game.

Tang Shuai also relaxed his nervousness slightly, according to Reeves's tactical deployment, what he has to do when he gets on the court later is the work that Redick did before, running and shooting three points, which is the offensive method he is better at now.

Time flew by, and when the three-minute countdown was over, the whistle blew on the sidelines, and the players walked to the field after a brief encouragement ceremony.

Tang Shuai's whole heart was beating "bang", and the feeling of starting the game and coming off the bench was completely one day and one place, and that sense of oppression was not the same at all.

It was Jordan Jr. and Leonard who jumped the ball.

The referee walked to the center of the field with the ball, signaled to both sides, and then threw the ball into the air.

To say that when he sat on the court before, he didn't pay much attention to this jumping ball link, but after making his debut at this time, his eyes were unconsciously attracted by the two people who jumped the ball.

When Jordan Jr. jumped the ball, he directly pressed Leonard with his body first, and when the referee's whistle blew, he leaned on and jumped up, and the result was obvious, Leonard didn't jump up at all on the first shot, and Jordan Jr. easily dialed the ball back to the Clippers' backcourt.

Tang Shuai suddenly realized, no wonder when he watched it off the court, it was basically little Jordan who jumped to win, it turned out that in addition to physical fitness, this little Jordan jumped a lot and jumped out of experience.

The ball slapped into Pierce's hand, and Pierce immediately passed the ball to Paul's hand.

Tang Shuai took a deep breath and ran to the front court with him.

When running forward, he scanned the skill packs of the players on the court with a different dimension, in addition to Lillard is the master with an exclusive skill pack, the Trail Blazers have the second most skill packs among the starting five tigers, and the highest attribute is McCollum, who he will be facing at this time.

The Trail Blazers' starter in the first half of the regular season last season was Wesley Matthews, who had signed with the Mavericks, but after Matthews' injury season was out last season, McCollum burst onto the plate and showed his scoring ability and strong heart in the playoffs.

Purple dribble pack, purple breakout pack, purple triple pack, purple throw pack, purple back pack......

Seeing McCollum in a purple suit, Tang Shuai finally knew why this guy was able to make a big splash in the playoffs, where does this look like a sophomore player should have, this is clearly a dynamite bag! There are no dead ends in scoring, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a weakened version of Lillard!

With such a strong player on the first start, Tang Shuai's already nervous mood was even worse.

"Run! Run! ”

At that moment, Paul dribbled with one hand and shouted with the other hand in a tactical gesture of "3".

Tang Shuai came back to his senses for a moment, glanced at McCollum in front of him, and then accelerated and rushed to the basket.

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