Chapter 109: Against a Strong Team (Ask for Recommendation Votes!!) )
There are a few recommended tickets in the past two days! The brothers flipped through the account to see if there was anything left, and as soon as they voted for it, the big eggplant was full of blood again!
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After a meal, Stephenson complained about Little Reeves, and Tang Shuai also complained a lot about Little Reeves in his heart.
But eating is eating, complaining is complaining, they don't plan to really do anything, and after eating and talking, they forget about it.
After the first game at home, with little rest, the team boarded a plane the next day to rush to the second venue.
The second game is on the road, and this time abroad, and their destination is Vancouver, Canada, where they face the Toronto Raptors.
The Toronto Raptors, as part of the NBA's overseas expansion plan, are the only team in the league whose home court is outside the United States, it only officially joined the NBA in 1995, but after joining, it has shown good performance, especially after Masai Ujiri became the team's general manager, a series of miracle strokes brought the team to the ranks of the Eastern Conference powerhouses, and last season achieved a good record of fourth overall in the league in the regular season.
For the impression of the Raptors, Tang Shuai's deepest impression is of course the Carter era, the popularity of the "Canadian Flyers" in China at the beginning was on par with Maddy, Kobe, and Iverson, and was called the four quarterbacks, and the term violent aesthetics also appeared because of him.
Of course, Carter is entering the late stages of his career at this time, and he is still contributing his spare heat in Memphis, and now the core of this powerhouse is Kevin Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, two backcourts, one solid and one explosive, full of aggression.
Compared with the Nuggets in the first game, the strength of the Raptors is obviously not at the same level, which is very effective for testing the strength of the Clippers.
After arriving in Toronto, Reeves immediately conducted team training, and it was obvious that he also took this game very seriously.
On October 4, 2015, U.S. time, the preseason game between the Clippers and the Raptors was played at the Air Canada Center arena, and the arena was full of nearly 20,000 people.
The Clippers adjusted the team's starting lineup, Reaves replaced Pierce with Wesley Johnson, and Pierce was wearing a suit in this game, not on the team's activation list, it seems that Reaves still wants to have a protection for Pierce, after all, Pierce is now 38 years old.
On the Raptors' side, the starting five are the usual five in the regular season, with Lowry and DeRozan forming a guard line, the offensive line is the offseason-signed defensive titan Demaro Carroll, and the interior is Patrick Patterson, who is tall and army, and the Lithuanian Younas Valance Yunas, who has unlimited potential.
With the referee's whistle, the two sides officially started.
As soon as the game opened, the Raptors showed their strong offensive ability, Lowry and DeRozan played together, and the Clippers' Big Three were inseparable, the two sides sent attack waves to each other, and when they entered the rotation time, the two teams were tied at 16, which can be described as an equal match.
With 2 minutes left in the first quarter, both sides entered the team rotation, and the Clippers made four substitutions in one go, Reaves Jr., Stephenson, Smith, and Wesley Johnson all appeared, and only Jordan Jr. was left in the starting five.
The Raptors also made personnel adjustments, and "Diamond" Scola was replaced.
Tang Shuai sat on the court at this time, saw Scola full of scum, and somewhat fell into the memory, when Yao Ming was still in the NBA, Scola was his right arm, and any Chinese is very familiar with it.
Reeves Jr. is still in bad shape, facing Corey Joseph, who also played for the Spurs last season, he failed to hit several strong shots, and was also robbed by Joseph in a row, in turn, Scola is still young, playing talented interior lines like Smith and Jordan Jr., not too easy, and the dream footsteps shook the two all over the sky, but they couldn't cover it.
During the bench rotation, the Raptors gradually opened the score, and by the middle of the second quarter, the Raptors had a 36-26 lead of as many as 10 points.
Cassel shook his head from the sidelines, Reeves Jr. didn't know what was wrong this season, his form was so bad, and his shot selection was too poor.
After seeing that Little Reeves missed another strong shot, he finally couldn't help it, turned his head and said to Reeves: "Doug, let Tang Shuai go up and try it, he played well in the last game." ”
Reeves glanced at Cassel, hesitated, but nodded, although he didn't treat Tang Shuai very well, but Cassel was his assistant coach after all, and what Cassel said was right, although Tang Shuai played less time in the last game, his performance was still remarkable.
Tang Shuai was sitting nervously off the field at this time, seeing Little Reeves' constant nonsense, he really wanted to pull him down, but who was decided by the coach last time after all, he could only wait patiently.
When Reeves called him, he jumped to his feet.
"Don, play steady, don't make mistakes." Kassel came over and admonished.
Tang Shuai nodded, he was not stupid, he soon knew that this opportunity to play was won by Kassel, and he must play hard.
Tang Shuai came on the field and replaced the embarrassed little Reeves.
The moment he got on the court, he used the packing system to scan Corey Joseph's basketball bag, purple dribble bag, purple triple bag, and purple defense bag.
Looking at the purple skill pack on this opponent, he took a deep breath, which was obviously a strong opponent.
The referee blew the whistle for the game to continue, Tang Shuai dribbled the ball to the frontcourt, Joseph immediately stepped up, and the pressure brought by the purple defensive bag made him dribble a little staggering.
Reeves frowned on the field, turned his head and glanced at Cassel coldly, as if expressing his dissatisfaction with his proposal to replace Tang Shuai.
Cassel sensed Reeves' gaze, but pretended not to see it, and just looked directly at Tang Shuai.
Tang Shuai was sweating on his forehead at this moment, the weakness of this dribbling skill package was too painful, and in the face of a defensive titan like Joseph, it was not easy for him to really dribble through the game.
"Hey, Don!"
At the critical moment, Stephenson, who had rubbed it the night before, helped him and ran back to the backcourt and shouted at him.
Although it was a bit embarrassing, he couldn't care so much about it at this time, so he shook his hand and gave the ball to Stephenson.
Stephenson had a purple dribble bag, and he faced Terrence Ross, who was weak in attack, and dribbled to the front court with ease.
Tang Shuai also arrived at the front court smoothly.
Stephenson beckons to command.
The players of the Clippers began to run tactics, but I have to say that the Raptors and the Nuggets are indeed not teams at the same level, in the last game, Tang Shuai easily ran out of the opportunity, but this time, he ran to the tactical position, but the Rose who made up the defense had already resisted him to death, and there was no chance to shoot at all, and to make matters worse, Stephenson suffered a double bag and saw that the ball was about to be broken.
In desperation, Stephenson had no choice but to throw the ball to Tang Shuai in his field of vision.
The Clippers only had five seconds left on offense.
Reeves frowned at this time, sat up straight, and looked at him, as if he was going to wait until Tang Shuai made a mistake, and he was going to get up and replace him.