Chapter 588 Passing Master
One ball shocked everyone and even made the commentator even more. However, Tang Shuai was very calm when passing the ball. He turned his head unconsciously and looked at the directions of the fans.
The fans were stunned for a moment, and then continued to wave the board in their hands.
It can be seen that this pass did not cause them to react too much.
Tang Shuai withdrew his gaze and his emotions did not fluctuate much. In fact, the ball just now was just a preheating.
The players' state needs playing time to be mobilized. At the beginning, Tang Shuai passed two good balls, but Barnes and Gasol made a series of irons, which means that their hands have not yet heated up. But after playing for more than a quarter, their hands have become hot, and the success rate of assists naturally increases.
The Cavaliers' offense was defended, and the Lakers launched a fast attack. Tang Shuai made a long pass throughout the whole process to Stephenson, who was about to get down. Stephenson made a layup to score another 2 points for the team.
James's face became a little ugly. After he arrived at the frontcourt, he took Irving's pass and carried Barnes to a layup, causing the latter's foul, showing his first-person style in the league.
However, Tang Shuai was not showing any weakness and turned around to fight Shampoo alone, and responded to the score after the breakout.
No matter how strong James plays, he still scores a tough layup against Gasol and Barnes' double-team defense.
On the other hand, Tang Shuai arrived at the frontcourt, broke through and attracted double-team defense, and passed a pass without looking at the outside line to Stephenson, who hit the first three-pointer in the game with his hand.
White Chocolate is very creative in passing, but due to his own offensive strength, he does not have so many opportunities to pass the ball. However, Tang Shuai is different. He has two exclusive packages. His offensive strength is two levels higher than White Chocolate, which is an offensive threat in itself, so there are naturally much more opportunities to pass the ball.
He scored 3 assists in the first quarter, but after the second quarter, he scored 3 assists in just over two minutes, and all of them were effective. It was not the kind of fancy but unpractical passing.
After sending beautiful assists in a row, the fans on the sidelines finally calmed down.
But Tang Shuai didn't stop. If you don't slap them in the face hard, they will jump onto your head and clamor.
The game on the court continued. After the Lakers' offense, Tang Shuai gave the ball to Gasol, he ran out of the open position around the three-point line, and Gasol passed the ball.
After receiving the ball, Tang Shuai raised his hand to make a three-point shooting action.
Like last season, Tang Shuai still topped the three-pointers with a shooting percentage of 51 this season. His raising of his hand immediately attracted the attention of the three Cavaliers.
Just as the Cavaliers rushed towards Tang Shuai, he suddenly threw the ball under the basket with his right hand.
The basketball flew straight over the Cavaliers' heads and then came to Noel's hand at the basket. Noel took the ball and jumped with a dunk.
After this goal was deflected, the Lakers have tied the score at 46.
"It's another round that is enough to be selected into the top five goals. Tang showed his passing creativity that he had never shown before in this game. To be honest, this kind of performance pass is too needed in this era." Harren said happily.
"In fact, it's not just a performance, his passes are helping the team catch up with the score. They are now on par with the defending champions, which is really incredible." Miller's evaluation is higher than Harlen.
The game on the court continued. Tang Shuai sometimes attacked by himself, and sometimes made beautiful assists. His playing style of breaking and passing makes the Cavaliers' defense fragmented.
56 to 54, after the half-time game, the Cavaliers only led the score with a slight advantage.
Accompanied by the fans of the court, Tang Shuai gave 6 assists in the second quarter, including two impressive passes, just like the two in the first quarter, which were enough to be selected tonight's top five goals.
The fans' moods were ups and downs at this moment. They originally felt that Tang Shuai had no chance of winning 20 assists after the first quarter, but after the second quarter, Tang Shuai's assists had accumulated to 9, which was completely possible to achieve what he said 20.
But there is another question that comes to their minds. Why has the secret weapon Lu said before the game not been used? Or has Lu used it?
In this kind of doubt, at the beginning of the second half, Lu finally used his secret weapon.
In fact, it was similar to what Tang Shuai expected, which was the way Vic used to deal with him. Shampoo led the defense. As soon as he broke through, James would come to assist in the defense, while other players were tangled with his teammates and did not give him a chance to assist easily.
This is indeed very effective. At the beginning of the third quarter, the Cavaliers played an 8-0 game, pulling the score to two digits.
Walton then called for a pause.
He followed Cole to play in the finals for two years. In addition to his style, he also learned another thing called the inspiration. After returning from the timeout, he directly used Stephenson as the team's starting linebacker and moved Tang Shuai to the shooting guard position.
This adjustment is actually quite simple. Don’t you want to defend me, Tang Shuai? Then I will let Tang Shuai not hold the ball directly. It is not difficult for Tang Shuai to get rid of Shampoo’s defense and catch the ball. Moreover, as long as other people have enough space to open the offensive space, it is not that easy to assist in defense.
Walton's idea was like this, but after the game started, he was stunned. It was not that this strategy had no effect, but that the effect was far better than he imagined.
In the first round of the upcoming, Stephenson passed the ball to Tang Shuai who ran out of the position. Tang Shuai lived up to expectations and hit a pull-out jump shot.
This is a very normal round and it is also in line with Walton's tactical arrangements.
But in the next round, after the Cavaliers scored, the Lakers advanced to the frontcourt, and the situation changed.
Tang Shuai was still running out of the position, but after Stephenson's pass passed, he did not shoot, and it could even be said that he did not catch the ball. He slapped the ball with his right hand and added a little force to it when he slapped the ball.
Basketball is like a table tennis ball hitting a racket, not only changing direction, but also speeding forward at a faster speed, directly penetrating the defense of the Cavaliers players and entering Gasol's hands at the basket.
The fans at the scene were in an uproar.
Is this still playing basketball? Is this playing volleyball?
In the shock of the fans, Gasol easily put the ball into the basket.
It was this ball that Walton's expression was stunned. Tang Shuai's boldness and creativity really shocked him.
The fans holding the sign were stunned. Tang Shuai played so differently in this game. They already knew the reason why Tang Shuai dared to say 20 assists before the game. This was a complete confident performance and might even be reserved, but they could not surrender on their faces. After Tang Shuai gave this assist, they shouted for the home team even more hysterically.
“s!rs!”
The defending champion is imposing.
Irving broke through the basket with the ball. After a beautiful step shaking, he lay down and flew towards the basket, sending the ball lightly into the basket.
The fans at the scene suddenly burst into cheers.
After playing last year's finals, he became more calm and determined.
However, this did not stop Tang Shuai from continuing to pass the ball.
For the Lakers' offense, after receiving the ball, Tang Shuai asked Barnes to do a pick-and-roll and directly rushed to the basket.
Love and Shampoo at the basket forced him to the bottom line. Shampoo looked fierce. Obviously, after being "played" by Tang Shuai's performance, he could no longer bear the face.
With the two of them having all their strength in defense, Tang Shuai was forced to the bottom line and was about to squeeze out the bottom line.
At this moment, something unexpected happened.
When Tang Shuai was about to be forced out, he suddenly tested his body and threw the ball out of the field with his right hand.
The audience in the front row were stunned. Is he not going to give up treatment directly?
But for some reason, they always have a bad premonition in their hearts.
And at the moment when their thoughts came out, Tang Shuai threw out the ball outside the court, and suddenly passed through an arc outside the field, and then passed to the outside of the three-point line on the other side!
This is a pass!
When Tang Shuai was taking the ball, his wrist flipped in, just like when playing bowling. This gave the basketball a great rotation force. He then flew off the court like a ghost and then circled back to the court.
The basketball flew toward the bottom corner where Batum was ambushing. After receiving the ball, he directly chose to pull out a three-pointer.
Amid the amazement of fans.
With a "swish", Batum's three-pointer fell into the net bag accurately!
The difference in points was chased to 5 points!
"This ball is definitely given magic, otherwise you will tell me how he came back from flying out of the field? Tell me!" Harlan was almost shocked and dropped his chin.
"I think the five best balls tonight will not be ranked. In one game, Tang made too many wonderful passes to us, which is really unprecedented." Miller exclaimed.
At this time, in a villa in Los Angeles, Nash and Williams looked at each other. Even they didn't understand why Tang Shuai had the ability to pass in a day.
"Does Tang have magic that can copy other people's abilities?" Nash couldn't help but joke.
"I can't think of a second better explanation. In fact, this superhuman learning ability has exceeded the so-called talent we understand. He has become a passer master." Williams also said with a wry smile.
Of course, Tang Shuai had "magic", but he was the only one who knew about it, and the performance on the court was not over yet.
To be continued.
Chapter completed!