On January 10, 2016, the day after the All-Star second round votes were announced, the Clippers faced the Portlanders at home.

The Trail Blazers' performance this season has hit all the pundits in the face and made the support of the local fans for the team to an all-time high, and with Tang Shuai and Paul both far outnumbering Lillard in the Western Conference All-Star draft, some loyal Portland fans have formed a group to cheer on the visitors in Los Angeles, occupying a large area of the Staples Center.

For these fans, it was a classic Braves win game, a game where Lillard fought for the Portlanders.

In fact, not only the fans, but Lillard himself is also trying hard to prove himself, this is already the result of the second round of voting, Paul has played for ten years, has accumulated a lot of popularity in the league, and the strength is enough, ranking in front of him, he will not have any objections, but Tang Shuai is a rookie, a guy who relies on Chinese fans to get so many votes, he obviously wants to prove himself in such a game.

It's like in a company, you do a very good job performance, but suddenly there is a person who is younger than you and has just joined the company, but because of the preference of the leader, he got the opportunity to be promoted earlier than you, and it is impossible to be happy.

This can be seen from the seriousness of Lillard's face before the game.

Amid the shouts of the fans at the scene, the two teams ushered in the second meeting of the season.

The Clippers, for their part, still maintained their previous starting lineup.

On the Trail Blazers' side, the starting backcourt is Lillard and McCollum, who have super offensive firepower, and the small forward is a strong performance in the Mavericks playoffs last season. Aminu, who signed with the team in the offseason, is lined up by sophomores Mason Pralim and Noah Vonleh.

The beginning of the game. Lillard has shown a strong desire to attack, and he is non-stop on the offensive end. Whether it's a three-pointer or a breakthrough from the outside, it's all done unusually decisively.

Lillard is known for his big heart and scoring explosiveness, and he is really determined to attack, but he is also quite difficult to defend.

In the first quarter, Lillard shot 6-of-9, 3-of-4 from three-point range, and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line, scoring 17 points in a single quarter, in addition to a team-high 3 assists.

Thanks to his play, the Trail Blazers took the initiative on the court at 38-29 in the first quarter.

As he left the game, Lillard raised his hands to the fans. pouted, looking quite domineering.

At the break in the second quarter, Don Shuai sat on the court to rest, and at this time, the Clippers sent Ismael Smith, who had just been traded.

Before the trade to Smith, the Clippers' first backup point guard was Booker, Booker's scoring ability was okay, but the organization was still too immature, and the other points of the Clippers were all about the right to shoot, so it was reasonable that the bench performance was not effective.

After Smith came on the court. It didn't take long for him to play his part.

In the Clippers' team, Paul is a steady passer, he will always pass the ball to the most suitable person, plus the Clippers are a team that has always been good at positional battles. So Paul's passing feels like it's solid.

In this regard, Tang Shuai and Paul have very similar characteristics, and Billups also belonged to this category of point guards at the beginning.

Arguably. The whole Clippers feel like they're looking for stability, but Smith is a different story. This is a very aura defender, somewhat similar to Williams "White Chocolate". This is a player who likes to convey the visual of passing.

As soon as he came on the court, he staged a crotch pass in a fast attack, and Stephenson, who received the ball, made a one-handed slam dunk, which immediately attracted cheers from the fans.

That's not all, in the next few rounds, he contributed a beautiful pass that didn't look at the crotch, and Pierce hit a three-point shot after receiving the ball, which caused the fans to be excited again.

The players of the Clippers off the court are also hi, no.

After Smith made another behind-the-head pass, even Griffin and Paul couldn't sit still and rushed to the sidelines to shake the towel hard.

Tang Shuai was overjoyed by Smith's wonderful performance, after all, Smith's arrival solved the Clippers' lack of backup point guards.

Soon, though, he discovered something that no one else had noticed.

48-39, although Smith's passing was brilliant and the Clippers played with great momentum, in fact, the Trail Blazers still firmly occupied the initiative on the court.

The best performer among them is McCollum, one of the Trail Blazers' backcourt duo.

Trail Blazers coach Stotts knew that the team had a good scoring point, so when Lillard began to explode, he replaced McCollum early, and at the beginning of the second quarter, he let McCollum take over the scoring burden.

Step-back jumper, three-point pull, fast-break layup, turnaround throw.

He almost single-handedly took charge of the team's scoring during this period.

Tang Shuai was surprised at this time, because in the preseason, he and McCollum were opposed, McCollum's ability, if he remembers correctly, was that there were 5 purple skill packs, although he performed well in that preseason, but he was facing a green defensive bag at the time, and at this time he was opposite McCollum Stephenson with a blue defensive bag, but he didn't expect the performance to be even better.

Just when he was confused, McCollum made a difficult breakthrough layup, spun 180 degrees in the air, and easily dodged Stephenson's defensive throw-in to score.

Tang Shuai was even more surprised now, he also had a purple breakthrough bag, but in fact, he couldn't complete such a difficult action.

Don't......

He entered the packing system with a hint of doubt.

Because he had played against the Trail Blazers before, he didn't scan it again before the start of the game this time as he did before.

With a hint of curiosity, he re-scanned McCollum's skill pack with the packing system.

I don't know if I don't know if I don't sweep, I am scared when I sweep it.

McCollum's breakout pack turned orange!

Orange Exclusive Breakthrough Pack!

What's going on? Can a player's skill pack be upgraded?

"Yes, master, players can improve the level of the skill pack through their own efforts." At this moment, Xiao Luo floated in front of him and explained.

"Can it be promoted?" Tang Shuai frowned slightly, it's right to omit one thing, no player will have a high-level skill package at the beginning, even a player like Jordan has grown up step by step, but he didn't notice such a simple thing.

"But that's not right!" He soon noticed that something was wrong, "I played someone else's bag, but except for the weakened version and the old version, the other skill packs, the system never reminded me that I could level up!" ”

When he was in Rock Park, he played a lot of green skill packs, many of which were normal level skill packs on the opponent's body, according to this statement, those skill packs had already been upgraded, but the reality was that even though his power packs were upgraded from blue to purple, those green ones didn't move at all.

Isn't it said that the lower the level, the easier it is to level up?

Tang Shuai looked at Xiao Luo blankly. (To be continued.) )