"Don, first of all, congratulations on winning the final game." The interview was with a female reporter, and she was not frustrated by the home team's defeat, but was a little excited because of the success of the basket against Tang Shuai.

'It was just a pre-season game and both teams played well. Tang Shuai smiled and said, after all, it was someone's home field, and he didn't want to get into any trouble.

"Don, the coach called you." Stephens saw that Tang Shuai was stopped by the reporter and called out to him to help him get out.

Tang Shuai glanced at the reporter and said a little embarrassedly: "I have to leave." ”

"No, just answer me a few questions, a few questions." The female reporter clasped her hands in front of her, looked at him pitifully, and begged, "Please......"

Tang Shuai couldn't bear it, he also knew that it wasn't really Wharton looking for him, and waved his hand to Stephenson to signal him to go back to the locker room first.

"Thank you, thank you very much." The female reporter saw that Tang Shuai acquiesced, and she couldn't hide a smile on her excited face.

"So...... Here we go. Tang Shuai looked at the photographer over there.

The photographer walked over quickly, and when the preparations were complete, the interview began.

"It was a good game, the team worked together to get the Lakers to win the game, but we might notice some details of the game, according to the official stats, you and your teammates made as many as 30 passes to each other, but there was no Harrison Barnes in it, is there something wrong with that?" As soon as the female reporter spoke, the question was quite lethal.

Tang Shuai glanced at the female reporter, and suddenly felt that he shouldn't have agreed to her soft-heartedly.

"To be honest, I haven't paid attention to this statistic, maybe you want to ask if there is a problem between me and Harrison, then the answer is obvious, no, there are fewer passes between each other, more because of the run-in, after all, this is the first game of our new team." Tang Shuai thought for a while and said, although Barnes does have some problems, but in front of the media, it is impossible for him to spread out this kind of problem, if it is spread out, the team will be chaotic.

"Okay, thanks, second question." The female reporter has a lot of experience, so she didn't ask the question in depth, but immediately changed the subject and asked, "During the competition, we noticed the cooperation between you and Paul (referring to Pau de la Pau de la Paul), and as far as we know, the two of you have played against each other in the Olympics, did this experience make it easier for you to find each other?" ”

Hearing that the second question was no longer so targeted, Tang Shuai's frowning brows relaxed, and said with a smile: "Yes, Paul is a first-class team player, when he is there, we can always play more fluently, his passing is always so good, it is an honor to be able to play with such a future Hall of Fame player." ”

For Da Gasol, Tang Shuai is not stingy, although because of the decline in athleticism due to age, Da Gasol's threat on the defensive end is far less than the peak, but in terms of offense alone, it really has not degraded at all, but like Duncan, there is a tendency to get older and more demonic.

"Does that mean you want to be more on the field with Gasol, after all, we can see that Harrison didn't play that well in this game."

Tang Shuai's smile slowly retracted.

Pit! What a pit!

This reporter was going to take him into the ditch with him, and sure enough, he was a reporter from New York, and he was deceived by this harmless expression just now.

"The role of pre-season is mainly to run in the lineup, this time I worked closely with Paul, maybe the next game I will work perfectly with Harrison, the game is always changing, and who plays with whom, it's a matter for the coach to decide, my responsibility is just to play well, it's as simple as that."

After Tang Shuai said this, he said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I think my coach should have been waiting for me for a while." ”

After saying that, he cast an apologetic look at the female reporter and photographer, and then turned around and walked directly towards the players' tunnel.

"Wait a minute......" The female reporter wanted to stop, but soon found that Tang Shuai had no intention of stopping at all, and finally had to retract her hand helplessly.

Entering the players' tunnel, Tang Shuai's expression suddenly became serious.

Even the New York media noticed the problem between him and Barnes, and it seemed that he had to find a chance to talk about it.

Barnes is different from Reaves Jr., he is the Lakers' biggest recruit in the summer, at least in terms of salary, this is not to say that he will enter the cold palace when he enters the cold palace, and the relationship between dealing with this is much more complicated than that of Reaves Jr. at the beginning.

Now that he remembered what Gasol had said to him, he was really planning ahead, and it seemed that he had to find an opportunity to have a good conversation with Barnes.

The preseason game continues, and the Lakers continue to face the Spurs and Raptors in the next games.

Tang Shuai's performance is still excellent, after using two exclusive skill packs and a number of purple skill packs, he can be said to have been promoted to the ranks of quasi-superstars all of a sudden, after three games, he only played an average of 20 minutes per game, and he was able to score as many as 25 points, and the shooting rate was an astonishing 60%, and the preseason was not much different from abuse.

But unlike the first time they faced the Knicks, the Lakers lost the next two games, although in the next two games, Tang Shuai and other main players did not play, but if they lost, they lost, which still reflected some problems.

The most obvious of these are Tang Shuai and Barnes.

What was never expected was that the two men had played three games and passed each other a staggering 0, and the media in Los Angeles began to report on some kind of gap that could exist between the two men.

Tang Shuai originally wanted to try to find a feeling for the two of them on the field, but after finding that Barnes would not pass the ball to him, he naturally would not go to the hot face and cold ass.

Finally, after losing the fourth home game to the Celtics, he dragged Barnes straight to the next office after the game.

Tang Shuai's movements were quite rough and savage, the power of the bus was wrapped in his hand, and Barnes, a swinging player in the third or fourth position, was dragged by him and directly into the office next door.

With a bang, the office door slammed shut, leaving the other Lakers players looking at each other, not knowing what was going on.

"Paul, are we going to Coach Luke?" Seeing Lian enter the office like this, Batum turned his head to Gasol with a hint of inquiry.

Just like Pierce was the locker room leader with the Clippers, Gasol, the oldest and the Lakers' old man, naturally became the Lakers' locker room leader.

"Yes, I don't think Tang's face is too good, I'm afraid something will happen." Brewer also said with a worried face, as Tang Shuai's old teammate, he was naturally worried that Tang Shuai would suffer in the entanglement with Barnes, after all, Barnes was much bigger than Tang Shuai anyway.

"Let's wait and see how they talk, anyway, it's only a door, and we have time to stop it." Da Gasol waved his hand and said, he knew that the day when the conversation between Tang Shuai and Barnes would definitely come, and now it was just a little earlier.

Gasol spoke, and the players didn't say anything more, and Brewer and Stephenson looked at each other and chose to wait and see.

"Now, it's just the two of us." Tang Shuai dragged Barnes to the office, closed the door and said straightforwardly.

"What do you want to do?" Barnes looked at Tang Shuai coldly, Tang Shuai's strength exceeded his estimates, and he was obviously not in a good mood if he was dragged in so forcefully.

"I don't want anything, I need to talk to you properly." Tang Shuai did not beat around the bush.

"Talk? What to talk about? Barnes' eyes were still cold.

"I know why you're reluctant to pass the ball to me." Tang Shuai ignored his expression, but said straight to the point.

Barnes frowned.

"It's been a crazy summer this summer, a max contract is the trust that Mitch and the Lakers have in you, and you want to prove yourself after you leave the Warriors, and you want to perform, at least statistically." Tang Shuai said and glanced at Barnes.

Barnes' eyes flickered, and he said, "I didn't think so. ”

"I think it's human, it's understandable, if it were me, I would do the same, and you've had too many questions about your performance in the playoffs and you need to prove yourself." Tang Shuai ignored Barnes and continued.

Barnes chose to be silent this time, he was not good at words, and at this time, Tang Shuai said that he was weak, and he couldn't speak for a while.

"But......" Tang Shuai said suddenly, "you also have to know what performance is." ”

Barnes looked up at him.

"Your stats on the Warriors, if I'm not mistaken, 12 points and 5 rebounds in the regular season? 9 points and 5 boards in the playoffs? With a shooting percentage of less than 40%, this kind of performance is not considered a good one, right? But there are a lot of teams that have offered you a contract with a maximum salary, what does that mean? It's not just stats that determine performance, and you should be aware of that with the Warriors. Tang Shuai said and glanced at Barnes.

After Barnston paused, he looked up at Tang Shuai and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

"You don't have to worry about me stealing your core position, because that position is ......," Tang Shuai said, looking at Barnes with a firm gaze, "It was originally mine." ”

Barnes was stunned for a moment, and his eyes widened at Tang Shuai.

"You were a three-man under Curry and Thompson for three years when you were with the Warriors, so why can't you be a second-in-command next to me? I can guarantee that if we work together well, you will definitely not perform badly, although there is only one basketball, but there is never a team that has only one core. ”

Barnes was silent and didn't speak, and although Tang Shuai's words were a little harsh, they were very true.

"Of course......" Tang Shuai saw that Barnes didn't say anything, and then said, "If you think I'm not worthy of this core, then you can challenge me at any time, or rather, now?" (To be continued.) )