Today, Tang Shuai has a unique skill package. His strength, at least on the offensive end, is already the strongest in the league in active service. Even scoring experts like Durant, Curry, and Harden can only be beaten.

But equally, compared to his offense, his performance on the defensive end is disastrous. In addition to a presidential defensive package that can limit his opponent's jump shots, he can even be called a defensive black hole.

Originally, this was nothing. Like Harden, his defense was also bad, and many times his defense was covered up by his offense.

But Tang Shuai is different, to be precise, it should be different. His strength and fame in the league are far higher than Harden at the time, and the attention he received is naturally much higher.

And this, after defeating the defenses of Leonard and Ansey, who were the strongest in the league, he was placed on the top of the coaches' table by the coaches of each team, and became the most problem that needs to be solved.

The result of the high fireworks among the crowd was that this problem was developed by Jazz head coach Snyder.

In previous games, Snyder promoted before the game that he could defend Tang Shuai, but was slapped in the face and became the laughing stock of others after dinner.

But this time, he really developed a countermeasure, and it was a countermeasure that could not be solved for a while.

Everyone knows that Tang Shuai is unsolvable on the offensive end, but Snyder noticed Tang Shuai's defensive end problem. The Lakers' previous game with the Knicks gave him enough inspiration. In the game between the two sides, he arranged a trick of taking a wrong move. He let all players, whether inside or outside, form a one-on-one opportunity with Tang Shuai on the offensive end, directly choose to attack strongly and attack at the basket.

This is a very nonsensical tactical deployment, and at first glance, it should not exist in top basketball leagues like NBA, but Snyder did this, and the effect was very obvious.

This is a bit like Harden was targeted at the beginning, and Tang Shuai quickly fell into the whirlpool of public opinion.

Harden is because of his attitude, but to put it bluntly, it is strength. He does not have enough defensive skills to support it. His talent alone cannot defend against most players.

Moreover, Snyder has done a thorough job. If other Lakers players come to assist Tang Shuai in defense, he will let other players continue to play after the defense change.

The result is that once Tang Shuai works hard to defend, his foul numbers will increase rapidly, and his playing time will naturally decrease with more fouls. If he does not work hard to defend, he will become the background wall for the opponent's offensive players from time to time.

This evolved into a big problem.

In the game against the Jazz, Snyder's strategy eventually helped the Jazz win over.

Seeing that it was effective, other teams followed suit.

The pressure Tang Shuai was under was unprecedented.

At this time, he felt very helpless.

The best way to solve this problem is naturally to obtain a defensive skill package, but he cannot find a suitable package at this time.

There are only a few top players in the league's defense, including Leonard, Ancy, Tony Allen, Danny Green, Delavedova, Bazemore, Avraro, Matthews, etc., but these people are not familiar with Tang Shuai. To put it bluntly, he doesn't have any chance to pack. If you want to get to know each other step by step, it will be far and water that cannot quench in the near thirst.

Batum, who is most suitable for the team, had to rest for a month and a half after the game with the Bulls. He also lost the best chance.

In the end, for emergency response, he had to play one-on-one with Westbrook and knocked down his blue defensive skill pack to relieve the pressure.

Such remedies did not have the expected effect. When other coaches saw that Tang Shuai's defense had improved, they also fine-tuned their tactics, constantly allowing the scorers in the team to have opportunities to be misaligned with him.

As a result, after more than a month of game, the Lakers' record of 9 wins and 7 losses was even worse than that of Bi Xiao's coaching period.

And in this atmosphere, the annual All-Star Game and the trading deadline are also coming.

The venue for this All-Star Game is in Philadelphia. Although Tang Shuai has struggled recently, he still has become the ticket king of the All-Star Game without any suspense.

However, Tang Shuai himself has declined a lot in his enthusiasm for the All-Star Game. Like last year, the league still has invitations to him in all events, but except for the main game, he has rejected them all. Even in the three-point competition, he announced that he had given up.

In fact, his idea is very clear. His purpose in this All-Star Game is not to win any honors, but to deepen his understanding with one or two players with top defensive packages and prepare for future packages. Otherwise, in the playoffs, the team will be struggling to get hit like this.

The attention of the All-Star Game is still rising. The rise of young talents of the 76ers and the settlement of the All-Star Game have made the city's basketball popularity rise.

Skills Challenge, three-point contest, and slam dunk contest, all 76 players participated. Simmons lived up to expectations and won the championship in the Skills Challenge and the slam dunk contest, earning a lot of glory for the city.

When the All-Star Game was in full swing, Tang Shuai easily won the MVP. Although he was targeted by the coaches of other teams, he was still very recognized in the circle of superstars. In addition, his biggest competitor, Westbrook, has become his teammate, which is naturally natural.

Tang Shuai was very excited, not because he won the MVP again, but because in the main game, he and Leonard cooperated several times very exquisitely. After he assisted the latter to complete several free-kicks, the relationship between the two also heated up.

On the bench, the two had a lot of communication.

Leonard is in the Spurs and has completely inherited Duncan's silent character. Being able to communicate with Tang Shuai means that he has regarded each other as friends.

And he was also a hot striker. When he made his MVP comment, he also specifically called Leonard, saying that his two aerial receptions helped the Western Conference boost morale.

After the All-Star Game, the two naturally left their numbers together.

Just as Tang Shuai was working hard towards his goal, and as the annual trading deadline approached, various trading rumors were also rumored. The playoff teams were working hard to strengthen, and many teams that had missed the playoffs had begun to reshuffle the teams, striving to trade for draft picks, and they would do a big deal in the draft next year.

The intensity of this rumor, like in previous years, reached a * after the All-Star Game.

Among these rumors, two are the most eye-catching.

One is the Cavaliers. It is rumored that the Cavaliers are discussing with the Celtics and are preparing to trade Love for Horford. It is also rumored that they are communicating with the Knicks and preparing to trade Love for other combat powers for Anthony. In short, the defending champion is dissatisfied with the All-Star Game record, or perhaps he is afraid of the Western Conference Cavaliers and the Lakers.

The other team is the Kings. The Kings missed the playoffs with a record of 13 wins and 27 losses in the new season. It was revealed that the team's core Cousins ​​had enough of general manager Divac. The two had a fierce quarrel in the locker room and almost fought. The Kings, which never stopped every year, had a particularly fierce quarrel this time.

In contrast, the Warriors, Lakers and Rockets, the top three teams in the West, are the quietest teams this deadline, and they seem to be satisfied with the team's current configuration.

But this is just a superficial phenomenon, and no one knows whether there was a sudden shocking news in this calm.

Billups has basically recovered. After the training that day, he called Shuai Tang and Westbrook to the coach's office.

Shuai Tang and Westbrook didn't know what was going on, they just entered the team's office curiously.

"Don, Russell, I called you here today to ask you a question." Billups seemed to have no intention of hiding it, and said straight to the point.

Shuai Tang and Westbrook both looked at their head coach curiously.

"You think the importance of Norance Noel to the team is to the team. If you score in 10 points, think about it carefully." Billups asked.

When Shuai Tang and Westbrook heard the news, they looked at each other and both read the other's meaning from their eyes.

During such a sensitive period, are you only going to attack Noel?

After Tang Shuai turned around, he felt even more confused. Noel's contract was signed this summer, and he performed well after signing the contract. Will he be traded so soon?

"You don't have to think too much. I just asked you what you mean, and there is no other deeper meaning." Billups saw that neither of them spoke, and then added.

"I think Norrens is a very important part of the team, especially the contribution to the team on the defensive end. If I want to score, I will score 9 points." Tang Shuai said after thinking about it.

"I scored 10 points, Norrens is still very young, and he still has a lot of room for growth," Westbrook said.

"Um."

After saying that, Shuai Tang and Westbrook both looked at Billups, thinking that he would have something to say, but what they didn't expect was that Billups just made a point shot, and then asked: "Then do you think Nicholas will score the importance of the team, how many points will it be."

Billups's words made Tang Shuai and Westbrook even more confused.

Could it be that they want to trade Batum, or should they choose one?

Seeing that the two of them didn't speak this time, Bilups smiled and continued, "You really don't have to think too much." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!