"Coach, you call me?" As soon as he came out of the locker room and saw Billups standing outside the door, he asked.

Billups nodded, a look of concern on his face, apparently worried about Griffin's injury, "You should have heard what Sam said. ”

Tang Shuai nodded.

'CP3 is injured and Blake is out for the season, which is definitely bad news for the team, but it's also an opportunity for you. Billups followed.

Tang Shuai was stunned for a moment, and looked at Billups with a puzzled expression.

"I was surprised by your performance in the last game, but it also shows that you have the ability to control the team, and now if CP3 and Blake can't play, you will definitely be the only attacking core of the team, I hope you have to prepare for this in advance, after all, we still have games to play."

Billups's next words made Tang Shuai understand at once, Paul and Griffin can't play, you can't expect the 38-year-old Pierce to dream back to the top and score high points, you can't let role players like Green and Smith suddenly break through the second vein of Ren Du, and you can't expect Booker to win all the points Griffin took before, what Billups said is the only situation that may occur in the next game.

"It's going to be difficult, maybe it's going to be more difficult than you think, but if you can keep going, I'm sure you're going to have a qualitative change." Billups said earnestly.

"I'll do my best, Coach." Tang Shuai said firmly, after such a period of time, he has recovered from the frustration of Griffin's injury and can't play, in fact, he should have been mentally prepared a long time ago, after all, he saw Griffin limp a long time ago. Now, as Billups said, this is bad news. But it's also an opportunity for him.

If he seizes the opportunity, from ordinary player to star. That's a shortcut.

"Let's do it." Billups patted him on the shoulder and walked back in the direction of the coach's office.

Tang Shuai looked at the direction where Billups disappeared and secretly pressed his fist.

On the evening of April 27, U.S. time, the Clippers officially announced the news of Griffin's reimbursement for the season due to injury.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and this news completely shocked the entire alliance.

If Paul's injury made the outside world think that the Clippers' hope of advancing to the semifinals was slim, now Griffin's injury is like a stab in the heart of a seriously ill patient, and the Clippers' hopes of advancing have almost become zero.

You can't expect the Cavaliers to go far in the playoffs without James and Irving, and you can't expect the Warriors to go big without Curry and Thompson, so the current Clippers. All that remains is endless regret.

If the Clippers were leading 3-0 at this time, it might still be promising for the team, but now it is only 3-2, and the next game is still played in Houston, which is directly equivalent to an early decision for the Clippers to be out.

"It's really frustrating news, the Clippers have a good chance of qualifying, but this news directly cuts off that possibility, and I think the next two games will be a battle of honor for the Los Angeles people. They've always been a tough team and even if they can't win, I'm sure they'll do their best. That's Reggie Miller's answer when he talked about the news when he was on the show.

"There's nothing worse than that, and the only possibility for the Clippers to play next game is Don. But that's pretty much the result, and yes, Don had a great performance in the last game. But I think he's nowhere near enough to lead a team that the Houstonians can celebrate early. They will meet the defending champions in the semi-finals. Compared with Miller's euphemism, Barry Sr.'s comments were much more direct. It can be seen that the on-site commentary in the last game still made him feel a lot of resentment.

Miller and Barry's comments are just the tip of the iceberg, and by this point, there is no such thing as a downside or a loser, and no one thinks the Clippers can advance to the semifinals, even if they have two match points.

Not to mention the outside world, even within the Clippers, the mood of the players is also extremely depressed, and the two cores are injured, which is unacceptable bad news for any team.

And on this day, Duffy sent a text message to Tang Shuai, the content of the text message was simple, but it was more glaring than Griffin's absence.

Anna's father, died.

Brain cancer, after all, is an incurable disease that human beings cannot defeat.

"I know I shouldn't tell you the news at this time, but Anna's emotions are a little out of control, she hasn't spoken since she came back, and has been sitting in her room for a day." Duffy concluded.

Tang Shuai hung up the phone, said hello to Su Mei, and then drove to the villa, as a friend, he had to do something now.

When I arrived at the villa, I met Duffy.

"She's upstairs, she's not very emotionally stable, I'm afraid she'll do something stupid." Duffy said worriedly.

"yes, I see." After Tang Shuai finished speaking, he then walked upstairs.

When he went upstairs, he unconsciously looked down at the chain on his hand, this thing was given to him by Anna at Christmas, and after establishing a relationship with Su Mei, he didn't wear it again, this time in order to comfort Anna, he turned it out and put it on again.

The door to the upstairs room was not closed, and Anna sat on the bed with her head down.

Tang Shuai didn't go in directly, but reached out and knocked on the door.

When Anna heard the voice, she turned her head and saw that it was Tang Shuai, a gleam flashed in her eyes, but it quickly dimmed, and she lowered her head again with a depressed expression.

At this moment of looking up, Tang Shuai saw that she looked lost, she hadn't seen her for a few months, and she had lost a lot of weight compared to before.

"Anna, I heard from Jaime that you're back." Tang Shuai said and entered the room.

Anna said "um" and didn't say anything more.

"Now that spring is in progress, the scenery outside is much more beautiful than before, shall we go out for a walk?" Tang Shuai followed.

Anna shook her head, still silent.

Tang Shuai felt that Anna's emotions had been holding back, and after thinking about it, he sat down beside her and said, "Let me tell you a little story, it is a true story that the teacher told me when I was a child. ”

Anna still didn't respond.

"There used to be a beggar, he was dumb and a little silly, he looked about thirty years old, and he couldn't find a clean place on him, and every day he would squat in that inconspicuous corner, and he would watch the crowd come and go, sometimes smirking, sometimes crying. Seeing that his well-wishers would cast sympathetic glances, and then throw him a little bit of money, or a little leftover food, then he would smile stupidly, probably expressing his gratitude-" Tang Shuai said to himself.

"One day a little girl passed by with her mother and saw him across the road, and the little girl said to her mother, 'Mother, that beggar is so pitiful, can I give him my breakfast?' The little girl's mother agreed, and the little girl ran to him with the bread and said, 'Now this steamed bun is yours, don't be afraid, eat it', his hands were very dirty, and it was soon dirty when he held it, and the white steamed bun turned into a black steamed bun, and the little girl repeated it again, and he picked up the steamed bun and smirked as usual. ”

Tang Shuai continued his story, but Anna still kept her head down and didn't react.

"At this time, the mother on the other side of the road shouted to the little girl, and the little girl said to him, 'We are leaving, I will come to see you next time', after saying that, the little girl left, just when the little girl was walking in the middle of the road, suddenly, a white car came speeding from the left, at this moment, he did not know where the courage and wisdom came from, he quickly ran towards the little girl, and pushed away the little girl who was only 1 meter away from the car, only to hear a scream, he fell in a pool of blood-"

Anna's body suddenly shuddered uncontrollably.

The people on the road were stunned by this scene, and they all gathered around him, and the little girl and her mother pounced on him, he was covered in blood, and his hands were still tightly pinching the steamed buns that were too late to take a bite, and the little girl cried and said, 'I don't want you to die, you get up and eat steamed buns, I will buy a lot of steamed buns for you to eat in the future, you get up, I don't like you lying on the ground, I don't like you to shed so much blood.' -The little girl's mother hugged the little girl and cried silently, he looked at the little girl weakly, and smiled like that......-"

......At this moment, Anna began to cry slowly, first quietly, slowly getting louder and louder, and finally her whole body trembled and she began to cry completely.

Tang Shuai reached out and hugged her into his arms and patted her back gently.

The loss of a loved one is a heart-rending pain for anyone, Anna has not recovered from this pain, and now she needs to cry like this to vent, otherwise something will really happen after holding it for a long time.

Anna cried very thoroughly, and after a while, Tang Shuai's entire clothes were all wet.

After more than half an hour, Anna's cry gradually turned low, and slowly lost its voice, and after a while, there was a soft snoring.

Tang Shuai looked down and saw that Anna was already asleep, he carefully put her on the bed, covered her with the quilt, and then quietly went downstairs.

"What's going on?" Duffy hadn't gone upstairs all the time, and when he saw Tang Shuai coming down, he asked suspiciously.

Tang Shuai made a silent movement, and then whispered: "She fell asleep, she should be relieved after crying, if you have time, help her buy some food, she hasn't eaten for a day, and she should be hungry soon when she wakes up." ”

"Okay." Duffy nodded.

"I'll go out with you, I'm going back too." Tang Shuai followed and went out with Duffy.

On the morning of April 28, US time, Tang Shuai and his teammates got on the plane to Houston, unlike the previous game, this time the teammates on the plane were all sullen, and the absence of Griffin and Paul made everyone uninterested.

Tang Shuai looked at the state of his teammates, thinking about what to do, otherwise he would have known the result without playing in this game.

As soon as he got off the plane and put his luggage down, he received a call from Duffy.

It's about Anna, who, after a lot of crying, is in a bad mood, but she has already eaten.

ps: Thank you for the monthly pass support of the Cao Nima group, Kanke 109, and Fengxuan Dance. (To be continued.) )