Chapter 719: We're going to be a dark horse

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I can feel that Nowitzki must be a good conversationalist in normal times.

Nowitzki looked back on his career in the following days, and his teammates followed suit.

Many long-time fans have followed his story back to those old days.

At the end of his story, he also gave Barnes a cowboy representing Dallas, hoping that he would lead Dallas to hold on to the city, and also saw that the old driver really gave everything to Dallas.

At the last moment, after the retirement ceremony of the No. 41 jersey for Nowitzki, Cuban moved out the championship trophy placed in the arena and raised it high again with Nowitzki, attracting a wave of cheers from the audience.

Driven by the DJs on the spot, the fans sang "We are the champions", which brought the atmosphere to the climax.

When he left the American Airlines Center Arena, Tang Shuai was full of emotion in his heart, he had watched many NBA star games in China, and now, he wanted to become a witness, witnessing their retirement one after another, this feeling is really emotional.

However, this emotion was quickly suppressed in his heart, because after another day of training, the playoffs of the season officially kicked off.

The Lakers' opponent in the first round was the Jazz.

Speaking of the Jazz, this season can be said to be really entangled with the Lakers, the main reason is because of their head coach Snyder, the Spurs coach against Tang Shuai's defense in the second half of the season has achieved unexpected results.

Although the addition of Cousins has made this tactic much less effective than before, as the inventor of the tactic, he clearly has a deeper understanding of this tactic.

It is this understanding that makes Snyder full of confidence in this matchup, and when facing the media, he said bluntly: "We are in the most advantageous position in the playoffs, the Warriors are no opponent that anyone wants to meet, and the Rockets have also undergone a qualitative change this season, compared to the Lakers' performance this season is very inconsistent, and we have a successful precedent here for Don's defense, so we have a lot of confidence to become a dark horse and complete the feat of Black Seven." ā€

Snyder's remarks were supported by Utah fans, and after making the playoffs for two years in a row, Snyder's Jazz team has skyrocketed expectations.

Regarding Snyder's remarks, the Lakers side seemed very low-key, and most of the players shook their heads in the face of reporters asking about their attitude towards this matter, and even Lakers fans were also snorting at Snyder's statement.

It's not that they're scared, but for a team aiming to win a championship, the Jazz should obviously not be an obstacle to their success.

On April 21, U.S. time, the Lakers welcomed the challenge of the Jazz at home.

The fans arrived at the stadium early, and there were many slogans of "We are champions", which made the Jazz players quite angry after watching it, and they also wanted to prove themselves.

This was evident in the game.

After the opening of the game, Cousins scored 4 points in a row on the inside to help the home team take the lead, but then the Jazz strengthened their defense, and the players took the lead one by one, especially Millsup, who returned to the Jazz team, and hit consecutive shots in the offense, but instead played a wave of 6-0 attack waves to overtake the score.

At the critical moment, Tang Shuai hit two beautiful dappling shots in a row to help the home team regain the lead.

At this time, Snyder sacrificed his killer move, and when it came to the offensive end, he put out his tactics to allow Millsup to form a single opportunity that was misplaced with Tang Shuai.

The audience was agitated.

This killer move was also the key to the Jazz's previous victory over the Lakers in the regular season, and in the playoffs, fans are worried that it will be the key to the victory or defeat of both sides.

Tang Shuai used pure strength to stand up to Millsap, who seemed to know that Cousins would come over to help defend, so he deliberately leaned to the other side, and was ready to end the round by turning and leaning back.

When Tang Shuai saw this scene, a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Although he knocked down Leonard's death wrapper, he didn't use it in the game because of Cousins' presence, and Millsup's offensive style just gave him a chance.

Of course, the fans don't know this, so when they saw Millsip's back playing smoothly, they couldn't help but show a worried look for Tang Shuai.

"Smack!"

There was a crisp sound of coldness, and at this moment, something happened that no one expected, Tang Shuai didn't know when, or didn't know how to do it, so he took out the ball in Millsip's hand in one fell swoop.

No one noticed how this happened, or no one realized that it would happen, and in the next second, Tang Shuai had already rushed to the front court after breaking the ball.

In the cheers of the fans at the scene, Tang Shuai was full of wind at his feet, turned around the defense of the Jazz team Burke and Hayward in a row, and hit a freehand throw to hit a fast-break layup.

Snyder was stunned when he saw this, he didn't realize how it all happened.

It wasn't until the big LED screen on the scene began to replay the ball just now that the head coach of the Spurs department found that at the moment when Millsup was about to turn around with the ball in one hand, Tang Shuai seized this flashing opportunity and broke the ball.

Millsup has been playing in the league for many years, and he has long been extremely skilled in the technique of back play, and this moment can be said to be the only flaw in his technique, but he was caught by Tang Shuai, and he completed the ball in an instant.

"Is this a coincidence?" After watching the replay, Snyder flashed a puzzle in his heart, Tang Shuai's defense is clear to everyone, if it weren't for Kupchak's gambling to bring in Cousins, maybe the Lakers' record would have plummeted, but he couldn't figure out how Tang Shuai's defense could improve so much in a short period of time, so in his heart, he was more willing to believe that this was just a coincidence.

"It must be a coincidence." He whispered to himself, then motioned for the team to continue looking for opportunities for Millsup.

When it comes to the tactical execution of the Spurs team, it is definitely a step stronger than other teams, and despite the hard defense of other Lakers players, the Jazz still created the opportunity for Millsup to play Tang Shuai alone.

However, compared with the previous goal, because of Tang Shuai's performance of breaking the ball, they didn't seem so nervous.

Millsup was also a lot more careful with his back at this time, always watching Tang Shuai's hand, afraid of being broken again.

Tang Shuai did not rush to make a move, but sank his heart and did not give Millsup a chance to hit inside.

Millsup played for six or seven seconds, but he didn't have a chance to go inside, and finally had to choose to shoot backwards again.

Tang Shuai made a steal, Millsp successfully dodged, but the threat was still there, which caused his technical movements to be completely deformed, and finally faced with the interference of Tang Shuai's blindfolded defense, and the back leaned directly to a three-point.

A big forward hit a point guard with his back and threw a three-pointer, which made the fans at the scene laugh.

Snyder also looked very dissatisfied, and when Millsup returned to defense, he couldn't help but shout at him, "What the hell are you doing?" ā€

Millsup looked helpless, at this time, he was the most suffering, in fact, he didn't know why Tang Shuai's defense became so strong, obviously he was still accurate in the regular season before.

"Defeat him and prove your strength!" When the Jazz went on offense, Snyder used a commanding tone to Millsup.

Another chance to eat hard, and this time Millsup's attack was much more ferocious than before.

The muffled sound of "bang" continued, and the two people kept colliding with each other.

Tang Shuai is not superior in height and weight, but he is not inferior at all in the confrontation of strength, and the audience watching is also excited.

At this moment, Millsup seized an opportunity, turned around Tang Shuai with a beautiful turn, and was ready to dunk with the ball.

"Smack!"

But at the moment when he started his hand, he suddenly found that he had lost control of the ball, and when he looked back, he found that Tang Shuai had once again broken off the ball in his hand like a ghost.

"What ......" he couldn't understand how it all happened.

But he couldn't stop Tang Shuai anymore.

Tang Shuai's ball was faster than expected, but he didn't give the other Jazz players a chance to make up for the defense, and after rushing to the front court, he directly staged a one-handed split.

The emotions of the audience were brought to a climax.

After this shot was hit, the Lakers fought back to the Jazz 6-0 and regained the lead.

Snyder finally couldn't stand it anymore, stretched out his hand and called a timeout, saying that it was only three things, Millsup failed to make three singles in a row, and he also knew that Tang Shuai was not the Tang Shuai before.

The LED screen at the scene was playing back Tang Shuai's goal just now, and it was not until then that the fans found out that Tang Shuai deliberately gave Millsup a chance to turn around, and when he turned around, he grabbed the moment the ball was exposed, and directly broke the ball.

The ball was bold, but what was even more shocking was the timing and speed of the tackle, which was absolutely superb.

This time, not only Snyder, but also the fans didn't understand why Tang Shuai had improved as much as you on the defensive end.

But unlike Snyder, the fans think differently, they don't dig too deep, and after the initial surprise, they get excited.

If Tang Shuai's defense is so strong, he will obviously lead the Lakers to go further in the playoffs.

After the timeout, Snyder adjusted his strategy, perhaps realizing that Millsup was not dominant in movement, and did not arrange for the latter to play with his back to the back, but it was clear that he was not giving up, and he still didn't seem to believe that Tang Shuai could have such a high defensive improvement in a period of time, so he should use Burke to force the front.

And Tang Shuai's response was quite simple.

"Smack!"

After Burke's cross-step shaking, when he tried to quickly pass Tang Shuai, his ball was slapped out by Tang Shuai with a slap. (To be continued.) )