"Pablo, Wesley, you're ready to play." Reeves made a substitution at the start of the timeout, and this time he changed his usual style of substitution, bringing on both Johnson and Prigioni early.

Tang Shuai listened beside him, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, from this substitution, it can be seen that Reeves is a person who holds grudges.

Prigioni is an experienced veteran, and after he came on the court, the Clippers' offense finally improved, but it was obviously difficult for him to keep up with the young Walker, and when the Hornets also made personnel changes and replaced Jeremy Lin, who was more impactful, this defensive disadvantage became more and more obvious.

At 20:29, the first quarter ended with the Clippers trailing by nine points.

During the break between the festivals, the cheerleading beauties of the Hornets who accompanied the team presented the most primitive and real cheerleading dance for the Chinese fans, with a hot posture and sexy and exaggerated movements.

But this did not calm the restless fans, most of whom looked eagerly to the Clippers bench, the Chinese-American Jeremy Lin has already appeared, why is Tang Shuai, who is Chinese, delayed playing?

Compared with those cheerleaders who were full of heavy makeup, they were obviously looking forward to Tang Shuai's play.

During the pause between the quarters, Reeves was seizing the time to explain the tactics for the next quarter for the players.

Prigioni wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and grinned a little hard, he was already 38 years old, and he obviously couldn't withstand such a high-intensity continuous game.

After Reeves finished talking about tactics, he looked up and noticed Prigioni's state, he hesitated for a moment, and shouted to Tang Shuai on the periphery of the circle: "Don, you play first in the second quarter." ”

Tang Shuai was standing on the periphery of the circle at this time, Reeves didn't have the intention of arranging him to play for a long time, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart, and when he heard Reeves call him, he let out a sigh of relief, took off his training clothes, moved his muscles, and then prepared to play.

The interjuncture between the first and second quarters was not long, and when the cheerleaders were off the court, the players followed and walked onto the court.

When Tang Shuai took off his training uniform, the audience in the back row of the Clippers was there to talk about it, and when they really saw Tang Shuai put on the battle, the fans at the scene suddenly burst into a burst of enthusiastic cheers, and after waiting for a long time, they finally waited for Tang Shuai.

Reeves heard the cheers, turned his head in surprise, and after understanding that the cheers were for Tang Shuai, he shook his head, and then sat back in the coach's seat.

Hearing the cheers, Tang Shuai raised his head and smiled at the audience, but he didn't show too much excitement, he knew that the cheers of the fans at this time were completely because he was Chinese, if he didn't perform well on the field later, then the fans would treat him differently from others.

This Chinese match was broadcast live by CCTV, except for Su Qun and Xu Jicheng who were sitting in the Beijing studio, and Yang Yi and Yu Jia were broadcast on the sidelines.

"Look, Tang Shuai is finally on the field, and the fans at the scene have been waiting long enough." Yu Jia saw Tang Shuai appear, and said with some excitement.

"Well, yes, not only the fans on the scene, I'm afraid that many fans and friends in front of the TV are waiting for this moment, after the United Arab Emirates, we have been waiting for the Chinese to appear on the NBA stage, we have waited too long." As the first basketball person to enter the NBA circle, Yang Yi was also a little excited at this time.

"Yang Yi, if I'm not mistaken, when Tang Shuai was drafted by the NBA, you were on the scene with Zhang Weiping and Zhang Gui, how about telling the fans about Tang Shuai's first impression on you?" Yu Jia threw a question to Yang Yi.

"Tang Shuai, speaking of him, I have to mention something that Director Zhang said at that time." Yang Yi laughed as he spoke.

"What's the matter?" Yu Jia asked curiously.

"Tang Shuai is not the same as the players we have appeared on the NBA stage before, he is not a professional player, because of this, you may not know that he also went to the basketball training camp of Coach Zhang, and he also had one-on-one heads-up with Coach Zhang."

"What? You mean Tang Shuai and Director Zhang? Yu Jia was surprised, after all, Zhang Weiping is now over seventy years old.

"yes, you probably don't believe ......"

The two people on the commentary bench were talking about Tang Shuai's trip to Zhang Weiping's training camp, and Tang Shuai had already controlled the ball and began to advance to the front court at this time.

The lineup on the court of the Clippers at this time, in addition to Tang Shuai, the remaining four people are Smith, Griffin, Pierce and Stephenson, perhaps a little uneasy about Tang Shuai's control of the ball, and the remaining four people arranged by Reaves are all players who have more or less ball control ability.

On the Hornets side, Batum led a bench.

Tang Shuai is opposite Jeremy Lin at this time, a Chinese-American player who has become the focus of attention of many Chinese people since Yi Jianlian faded out of the NBA.

His match against Jeremy Lin was like a providence in the dark to see if he had the ability to divert the attention of the Chinese people from the opponent.

Tang Shuai controlled the ball to the front court, glanced at Jeremy Lin, who lowered his center of gravity in front of him and looked at the ball in his hand with a pair of eyes, and did not rush to pass the ball out.

Jeremy Lin is a player with several purple skill packs, including a steal purple skill pack, and if he passes the ball easily, it is likely to be a mistake.

The other players of the Clippers were running tactics in an orderly manner, and when the players were all in place, Tang Shuai threw a high ball and hoisted it to Griffin on the inside.

After passing the ball, he ran straight to the three-point line on the right side according to the tactics.

Because of Paul's absence, the Clippers' offensive core naturally shifted to Griffin, because of Griffin's excellent response ability, the ball fell into his hands, and naturally fell into a dual-threat state that can be attacked and passed.

The Hornets didn't shrink their defense, and the other four players on the Clippers' court, including Smith on the inside, all had three-point range, and they obviously didn't dare to wrap it up easily.

"Eat him!" Pierce saw that the Hornets were not packed, and shouted directly at Griffin on the inside.

Griffin directly sank down and began to punch in.

Defending Griffin is Cody Zeller, the 13-year-old No. 4 pick has been very eye-catching in this game, he has scored 6 points and 2 rebounds in the previous game off the bench, which is already quite a good statistic, but the previous excellent performance cannot hide the difference in strength between him and Griffin, who was pushed in by Griffin's beast-like body, and was about to lose his defensive position in two strokes.

At this time, the most experienced player on the Hornets team is Batum, "French Pippen" has been playing in the NBA for 7 years, and his all-round ability is not only shown on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end of the defensive judgment is also very accurate.

Before seeing that Zeller was about to completely lose his defensive position, he shouted at Jeremy Lin, who was defending Tang Shuai: "Lin! ”

A simple sentence, he didn't even say his intentions, but Jeremy Lin, who also had an excellent ball quotient, understood his intentions at the first time and went straight to Griffin's bag.