Chapter 166: Champion Declaration
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How difficult is it for O'Neal Jr., Zhuang Fei has been frowning tightly after listening to D'Antoni and Green's report, O'Neal Jr. must have come to the Timberwolves with great ambitions, vowing to do something great in the Timberwolves, but after coming to the Timberwolves, Green and D'Antoni found that this young insider, who was valued by Zhuang Fei, was extremely self-assured, and looked like the first in the world that D'Antoni and Green were very unhappy, and more importantly, this young genius looked down on his teammates, It's okay if you just look down on those teammates who come to the Timberwolves training camp for a tryout, but even if it is the Timberwolves' official players Ginobili, Bowen, Wang Zhizhi and others, he looks down on them very much, and anyone can see the disdain on his face, which makes Xiao Ao just come to the Timberwolves for more than a month to offend all the players in the current Timberwolves training camp, not only that, but even the trainers and staff of the training camp don't like this player who is above the top, there are many talented players in the Timberwolves in the past two years, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, none of these people are like him, even Marbury was not as 'domineering' as he was. Zhuang Fei knew that Xiao Ao's xìng grid would definitely cause some accidents, but he didn't expect this accident to come so quickly.
In fact, there are very few teams in the NBA that can do a team's players on the court are teammates and friends off the court, most of them are not friends, not to mention the age gap between the players, the gap between the players and the gap in interest, they even have little communication off the court, because there is no need at all, this is the case in the Trail Blazers, even if you don't talk about the Trail Blazers, the Timberwolves still have factions last season, so Xiao Ao doesn't care about anything else except himself, And on the other hand, he really doesn't look down on Ginobili and a group of other people. However, this is just some small friction when everyone is not familiar with it, and it will be good after everyone slowly gets acquainted with it.
"Young people are like this, it will be fine in the future, Mike, when you arrange training, let him interact more with his teammates, and arrange more interactive training projects" Zhuang Fei finally lowered his eyebrows and said with a smile. Seeing Zhuang Fei like this, D'Antoni could only sigh and then agreed
"Brother Su, there are a lot of international media here, we can't be in the wrong place, right? Is this really just an NBA team's press conference? Yang Yi looked at the dense reporters around him, and then looked at the media around him, all of which were well-known media that resounded all over the world, which made this young reporter who had just graduated feel unreal for a while.
"What's this, you haven't seen a bigger scene yet" Su Skirt glanced at Yang Yi lightly, and then the old god was waiting for the protagonist Zhuang Fei for a few days, but Yang Yi next to him was surprised again, and his eyes couldn't stop rolling around. This scene shocked him too much, he had heard Zhuang Fei's deeds on the news network before, and he used to think it was blown, but now it is obviously like that.
The Timberwolves' media room, where the Timberwolves' first press conference of the season will be held, in fact, for other teams in the NBA, they have already completed this matter, because of Zhuang Fei's filming, the Timberwolves are delaying again and again, there is no way, the team's head coach is not there, how can the press conference of the new season be held?
Like the first press conference last year, this time the team owner Glenn Taylor and the team's general manager McHale were still accompanied by Zhuang Fei, Zhuang Fei sat in the middle unceremoniously, and Glenn Taylor and McHale sat on Zhuang Fei's left and right very comfortably. In the NBA, it is estimated that only the Timberwolves can give a head coach such treatment.
"Mr. Zhuang, it seems that you are much more mature than last season, and your temperament has changed a little, is it because of the failure last season, what is your goal next season?"
"Do I really look a lot more mature? I don't know" Zhuang Fei's face showed a hint of imperceptible red, but it was fleeting, and then Zhuang Fei smiled and said: "The failure last season gave us a lot of experience, and I think we will achieve greater success this season"
"Achieve greater success? Is it the Western Conference Champion and the Championship? But Mr. Zhuang, as far as we know, you haven't changed much this season, just selected two international players and signed a zìyóu player, oh yes, and got a backup center, do you mean that you can compete with the Spurs and Knicks with a player configuration like yours? This season's Trail Blazers, Lakers and Suns are also very strong, I think Mr. Zhuang, should you be more pragmatic, for example, the goal of this season is to enter the playoffs, you know, the shrinking season is completely different from the normal season" The New York Times reporter laughed out loud after speaking, and the contempt on his face was clearly visible to everyone present.
"Brother Su, how can the New York Times do this? It's too unqualified, isn't this a smashing field? Yang Yi said to Su Skirt angrily, in his opinion, this is the kicking hall.
"It's good to get used to it," Su Skirt shook her head, signaling Yang Yi to be quieter.
Zhuang Fei looked at the New York Times reporter and smiled, and there was no unusual expression on his face.
"The players of our team are very outstanding, I am very confident in them, they can make the Timberwolves achieve the results they want this season, I believe that after the end of the season, we can definitely beat the Spurs, Lakers, Suns, Trail Blazers" Zhuang Fei did not mention the Knicks, that is to say, in Zhuang Fei's heart, last season's Eastern Conference championship is not worth mentioning at all, which also makes reporters from New York smile heartily. Sometimes they like to watch Zhuang Fei and the top bull of the New York media.
"Mr. Zhuang, why do you think Jermaine O'Neal or Bruce Bowen can succeed? None of them seem to be very good players at the moment," said the Associated Press reporter, who said that the Timberwolves' recruitment this season is still too poor compared to other strong teams in the West.
"Why do I think Jermaine or Bruce can succeed?" Zhuang Fei smiled, then raised his head slightly and said, "Because I'm Coach Z"
Zhuang Fei's sentence 'Because I am Coach Z' made all the reporters off the field stunned for a while, and finally these reporters shook their heads with a wry smile, Zhuang Fei was right, because he is Coach Z, from the past to the present, Zhuang Fei has not missed a single selection of players, whether it is Szzerbiak in Wake Forest or Jackson Nash in the Timberwolves period are making great progress in his hands, which is enough to show Zhuang Fei's training ability.
This press conference was very warm, Zhuang Fei' Missing' for more than 2 months, they have too many questions to answer Zhuang Fei, looking at Zhuang Fei who is confident and busy on the side, Timberwolves owner Glenn Taylor is a little impatient, after all, it is embarrassing and painful to sit there and do nothing, and McHale on the other side is even more so, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer, he thought that today's press conference should ask him questions about the Hall of Fame, but these people did not ask him questions at all, and everyone's focus was on Zhuang Fei.
"Mr. Zhuang, not long ago, Lakers head coach Phil Jackson said that it is impossible to beat the triangle offense with run-and-gun tactics, the Lakers are the best offensive team in the league, and Phil also vowed to beat the Timberwolves to win the championship, what do you think about this?" This is from Los Angeles, and now Los Angeles can be described as being restless by Phil Jackson and Jerry West, the contradiction between the two is becoming more and more intensified, in order to get more support from fans, Phil Jackson basically shouted to beat the Timberwolves whenever he met people, and said that the Lakers would win the championship when he saw the media.
Zhuang Fei is of course clear about the contradictions of the Lakers, he has been in Los Angeles not long ago, and now the most embarrassing thing for the Lakers is not Phil Jackson or Jerry West, but the former Queen Bee Glen Les, Phil Jackson wants to trade him, Jerry West wants to keep him, and now he is left and right.
"I'm familiar with the triangle offense, I have a way to deal with Phil, so Phil may be disappointed, they can't beat us this season" Zhuang Fei shook his head and smiled, he knew that what these reporters below wanted to see the most was the scene of himself bombarding Phil Jackson, but Zhuang Fei really had no interest in fighting with Phil Jackson now.
Su Skirt still maintains his usual style, he originally had the right to ask questions first, but because of the embarrassing incident last season, he was used to xìng's love for the finale.
"Mr. Zhuang, what do you think of the Chinese player Wang Zhizhi, what kind of position will he be in the Timberwolves this season" This is the most concerned question for Chinese fans now, and now all domestic fan experts are calling on Zhuang Fei to put Wang Zhizhi in the starting lineup.
"He is a very good player, but he still needs to adapt to the NBA environment, he is very important to the Timberwolves, he will play a very important role in the new season" Zhuang Fei's answer made Su Skirt stunned for a moment, she originally wanted to ask again, but in the end she held back.
This press conference took more than 2 novels, longer than any team in the league, and Zhuang Fei's outlook and confidence in the new season at this press conference will soon be conveyed to the whole United States, which can be said to be Zhuang Fei's declaration of the league championship again.
And on October 1, after this press conference, all the Timberwolves' official players also returned, and after a summer break, many of these people's evaluations in the dynasty system have changed dramatically.
And the preparation for the new season of the Timberwolves has officially begun with the return of all players.