On December 22, U.S. time, the Lakers flew to Cleveland to challenge the defending champion Cavaliers.

With half a day to go before the game, the Cavaliers fans have gathered in the Guiken Credit Arena, and after James returned to the Cavaliers to win the first championship in team history last season, the team's popularity reached a new peak.

Tang Shuai and the players of the Lakers also came to the arena for training in advance.

After consecutive losses to the Warriors and Spurs, the team's morale was greatly hit, but in yesterday's training session, Tang Shuai showed an elusive pass, which made the team's morale rise back at once, and even head coach Wharton watched the training with a shocked face.

In fact, if you are any other person, it is difficult to calm down when you see Tang Shuai's suddenly changed passing style, but they can only choose to accept what is happening in front of them.

Tang Shuai was training with his teammates on the field before the game.

Just then, a group of local Boston reporters entered the venue.

The Lakers' workouts were open to the public, but the group of reporters was stopped outside the venue by the staff.

Journalists watched the fans train and were not allowed to enter the field until the training was over.

Most of the reporters went around the head coach Wharton to interview, and one female reporter didn't grab a favorable position, saw Tang Shuai and Stephenson talking and laughing not far away, turned around and walked towards them.

"Don, hurry up and introduce me to a 3v3 confrontation with Jason, your passing transformation is too sci-fi." Stephenson was chattering in Tang Shuai's ear.

Tang Shuai smiled bitterly, and was just about to say something, when he looked up, he saw a reporter walking towards him, swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, and then patted Stephenson.

Stephenson also noticed the reporter who came over, said "Beauty~", and then walked away with a wicked smile.

Tang Shuai shook his head helplessly, and then looked up at the female reporter walking in front of him.

"Hello Don, I'm Chris Dais, a reporter from Cleveland Sports, do you have time for my interview?" Daisy asked politely as soon as she came up.

Tang Shuai nodded, there was no special expression on his face, after seeing so many female reporters, he already had some basic immunity, these reporters, especially female reporters, were far from being as kind as they looked.

"Thank you very much." Daisy breathed a long sigh of relief, and then took out the recorder and aimed it at Tang Shuai.

"The Lakers have faced the Warriors and Spurs in the past games, and now they have met the Cavaliers, will there be any fluctuations in the mentality of the players? Or do you think this game is not a big chance of winning? Sure enough, Daisy's first question was very pertinent.

"No, we're confident in ourselves, the games are independent of each other and we won't let the loss of the last game affect the performance of this game." Tang Shuai said lightly.

"Well, we all know that you've played pretty well in previous games, averaging 30 points per game, which is a pretty good statistic, but yesterday when the Cavaliers were training, head coach Tyronn Lue mentioned a little secret, a defensive tactic against you, what do you think about that?" Daisy then asked.

"A little secret? I saw that report, but it's not a little secret, is it? Tang Shuai said with a smile that Lu's interview video is now well-known in Cleveland.

"Do you have any strategies for coping with this? Or would that be a little secret? Daisy asked with a smile.

Hearing Daisy ask, Tang Shuai smiled and shook his head: "I don't have any little secrets, but you know, players will watch the video, and if they find something bad, they will definitely make adjustments in the next game, so I think I will share more balls with my teammates to drive them to play out the state." ”

"You're saying you're going to share the ball more?" Daisy grasped the point of Tang Shuai's words.

Tang Shuai nodded.

Seeing this, Daisy showed a burst of excitement on her face, he didn't expect to ask for "important" information so easily.

"Last question, do you have a data target for yourself for this game? 40 points, or 50 points? Daisy asked.

"I don't necessarily win the game if I think I score that many points, but I'd rather have a few more assists, well, 15 or 20 assists, if I have to have a goal." Tang Shuai thought for a while and said.

"20 assists?" Daisy was happy again, "You mean you're ready to get a career-high number of assists in this game?" ”

"Well, if you're lucky." Tang Shuai smiled and nodded.

"Thank you very much for your time with me, I hope you play well." Daisy put away the recorder with excitement on her face, didn't even have time to say hello, and trotted out of the training hall directly, it seemed that she should have rushed back to do news.

Tang Shuai looked at Daisy running around a few times and almost twisted her high heels, and shook her head with a smile.

Soon, Tang Shuai's interview was reported, which immediately caused an uproar, because it was first-hand news, and the originally small Cleveland Sports Club also attracted a lot of attention from fans.

Many Cleveland fans were dismissive of what Tang Shuai said.

Tang Shuai is a standard scorer, if he says that he is ready to score 30 points in the game, even if it is 40 points, the fans will not have such a big reaction, after all, this is his forte, but now he says that he wants to get 20 assists, in their eyes, this is Chi. Bare. The naked pretended to be forced.

You know, Tang Shuai's career-high number of assists is 12, and he won it last year, and even he has played for more than a year, and the number of double-doubles is still in single digits, which shows that he is not a point guard who is good at passing the ball, but now he says that he wants to get 20 assists, or in the game with the Cavaliers, isn't this pretending?

Even a little higher, this is a provocation to the Cavaliers' defense, you must know that in those games with high assists, the opponent's defense is quite sparse, which will allow the passer to form a scoring opportunity with a pass, but now the opponent is the Cavaliers! The Cavaliers rank second in the league in points conceded per game, only a little more than the Spurs. Bare. Naked provocation!

This behavior has also attracted the disgust of some Cavaliers celebrities.

Austin Carr, the former celebrity of the Cavaliers and the current FOX commentator, said bluntly on his personal Twitter: I don't deny the courage of a sophomore, but I can't agree with this arrogant tone, LeBron just led the Clevelands to win the first championship in team history, and now someone is saying that they want to get 20 assists on their heads? What a crazy and unrealistic idea, as boring and ridiculous as someone holding a rooster and saying he could make it hatch eggs.

Carl's remarks were strongly supported by Cleveland fans, and below his personal tweet, he received a lot of fan support.

was originally an ordinary regular season, but it became different because of Tang Shuai's remarks.

An hour before the start of the game, the fans began to gather at the Guiken Credit Arena after dinner, and at this time, a fan brawl broke out outside the stadium.

After Tang Shuai played such a brilliant performance, he naturally gained a lot of fans, including Cleveland.

When the Cavaliers fans supported Carl on the Internet, they chose to remain silent, but before the game began, when some over-the-top fans were about to enter the stadium holding up the KT version of "Tang Shuai is a braggart king", they couldn't stand it, and they did it directly.

At first, it was just two or three people's pushing, but then it evolved into two groups of people's full martial arts.

The beating of thirty or forty people made the surrounding fans scream, and the scene of various garbage cans flying each other quickly attracted the security guards of the stadium.

After separating the two groups of people, the outside of the stadium was already a mess.

When the director of the stadium came to the outside of the stadium and saw the scene in front of him, his head suddenly became two big, and the game was like this before it was played.

In fact, fan brawls are not uncommon in sports, but most of them occur during important games, such as the World Cup or the Olympics, and now they are happening during the NBA regular season, which is really surprising, but it can also be seen from this that this game is different.

When the Lakers entered the arena to warm up before the game, it was already full.

As soon as Tang Shuai entered, he saw that there were many people in the stands holding KT boards that were not so kind, what "braggart people will be unlucky tonight", "let arrogant people eat deflated in Cleveland", he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

He said those words to reporters, he didn't think about it so much at all, he just took the white chocolate passing bag, and he must pass the ball as much as possible, that sentence was just an instinctive reaction, but he didn't expect it to attract such a big reaction from the fans.

The players from both sides warmed up for a while, and then the players were introduced.

"Gentlemen and ladies, let's welcome our Emperor with the greatest cheers, LeBron~~ James!!"

When James was introduced, there was a wave of cheers from the audience, and the fans got up from their seats, much stronger than before, and it felt like the game in front of them was not an ordinary regular season, but a tie-break in the finals.

Tang Shuai looked up at the audience at this time, the red-faced fans, the crazy swinging air stick and the KV version, this is not destined to be an easy game.

"Toot ~"

As the whistle blew and the starters from both sides walked onto the pitch, it was a momentous game that was about to begin.

ps: This is the 10,000 rewards for the rise of the Zerg, and the updates owed have all been repaid (long sigh of relief)! (To be continued.) )