Chapter 60: Attack on the Timberwolves

After the Hornets game, the Timberwolves experienced a wave of ups and downs, losing to the Jazz, beating the Raptors, and winning the Hornets again after returning to their home court, and then suffering consecutive defeats, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers and the Saramento Kings in a row.

Before you know it, the December schedule is about halfway through, and in such a tight schedule, the Timberwolves have achieved a good record, on the contrary, compared to last season, it is simply different.

When all eyes were on the Los Angeles Lakers and Celtics, the young players of the Timberwolves worked hard step by step, climbing from eighth in the West to seventh in the West, and then fell back to eighth in the West again due to a wave of consecutive losses.

No one noticed the young team's ups and downs, only Timberwolves head coach Frank Vogel patiently and carefully recorded them.

For him, being a manager is a new and challenging profession, and it may be a lot of pressure, but it also gives him more motivation.

He does as much work as he likes to take on as much pressure!

It was with this consistent seriousness that the Timberwolves began to metamorphose very slowly.

Sometimes there are mistakes in passing, sometimes the number of fouls a player carries in a game becomes unbearable, and sometimes the player is cold and feels like a cold cube.

But it's all well controlled, and whenever there is a mistake, the Timberwolves' young players will look for opportunities to make up for it, either to score or to contribute on the defensive end!

Where there is a lack of help, go up and make up for it!

When a player is carrying too many fouls, head coach Frank Vogel doesn't say much, throwing players a detailed explanation of the rules of basketball and a box of videotapes, simple and straightforward, leaving the players to look for their own mistakes in the game.

And the cold hand is better solved, and the free throw is added after the game! It depends on the person, if you're a regular player and you miss 5 goals, you have to hit 500 shots after the game to go home. If you're the heart of the team, congratulations, you've been lucky enough to get a free throw package of 1,000 mid-range hits and 250 three-point hits.

After this rule was proposed by Timberwolves head coach Frank Vogel, a group of young players were scared silly, they were already tired enough after the game, and they had to practice more, and they were more tired than the game!

However, when the core of the team, Li Shihao, lost 10 shots after a game, and practiced shooting until late at night without saying a word, these young Timberwolves players resigned themselves to their fate!

Even the boss of the team is so serious, they have no room to complain, although this rule is strict, but in fact, the boss of the team is the most painful!

As the leader of the team, he is under more pressure than other players, and the defensive intensity he faces is even more suffocating, and it is normal to feel cold when defended with such restrictions.

Especially for a rookie, this phenomenon is normal, even the superstars in the league will also suffer ice ages under such defense for a long time.

However, the young core of the team, Li Shihao, had no complaints, and after silently implementing this rule, the young men in the Timberwolves team naturally did the same.

After playing away games every day, no matter how tired and tired you are, you have to project the proper training seriously.

Under such stable training, even if it will be a little uncomfortable at first, but after a period of time, the young players of the Timberwolves discovered that even if they were tired from practicing the night before, their arms would be so sore that they couldn't lift them the next day, but the projection felt really good, and the projection level that could only hit the board into the basket immediately became a tall projection level with a few hollow shots into the net.

Therefore, although the people in this training are crying out bitterly and tired, they are also clear in their hearts about the changes they have unconsciously made.

They are all improving, no one doesn't like the feeling of progress, and if the strength is improved, maybe they can get a big contract!

The Timberwolves are a group of young people who are full of energy and impact, but it is precisely because they are young that they lack the most important cohesion, which makes them not know how to handle the ball when facing some headwinds.

And head coach Frank Vogel is keenly aware of this, he does some of the assistant coaches and does it himself, as the head coach of an NBA team, he doesn't hire any assistant coaches, he believes in his ability and eyes.

In fact, the efficiency of this kind of service is very high, which not only saves a lot of expenses, but also saves a lot of time, and improves the efficiency and results of the work!

The number of times the Timberwolves have started to increase, the tactical coordination is not complicated, but all of them are very practical and simple, each player has been assigned a booklet, there are not too many complicated and cumbersome tactics, only some practical tactics and tricks.

At first, the Timberwolves boys didn't believe that the pamphlet would be of much use, but when they stumbled through it, they found that it was not too difficult, easy to understand, and even some of them were their own tips for college games, which were perfected in this pamphlet.

With regular joint practice and the completion of the complete tactical system, the Timberwolves' offensive and defensive operations on the court began to become simple, simplified, and some redundant fancy moves were eliminated as much as possible.

Today's Timberwolves, under the coaching of this young head coach, have begun to slowly develop on the good side, the team's offense and defense are sharp, and sometimes there will be some classic tactical coordination, which is amazing.

As the core of the team, Li Shihao is also the one who feels the deepest, as soon as the penalty rules come out, although the punishment he endures is the heaviest, he also obviously feels his own progress with the progress of the team.

The most important thing is the rhythm!

As the core of the team, he is the No. 1 starter, and his average assists per game this month are actually lower than last month, and he was originally able to get more than seven assists per game, but now he has dropped to 6 instead of rising. Around 1, depending on the situation, it may also drop to more than five o'clock.

As a point guard, the brain of the team, his offensive organization no longer relied on too much possession, and he began to find another way to play.

Just like Chauncee Billups during the Pistons, the number of possession sessions has not decreased much, but the time spent on the ball has been greatly reduced, and the team's offensive and defensive fluidity has increased more than a notch.

Lee was able to find a good balance when it came to breaking and sharing the ball, activating the positions of others on the pitch once he had the ball in his hands, and keeping him a threat on the offensive end when he was not on the ball!

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