Chapter 224: Regular Season MVP Conjecture
"It seems that Vicky's team is powerless, they have been tenacious enough in this game, this is their second meeting in four days, the Spurs caught the Timberwolves off guard in the last game, and now it seems that the Timberwolves who are fully prepared are not comparable to the Spurs. They have done their best in this game. It's a gap in strength."
"But it seems that Vicky is not going to give up, he is still letting the players use foul tactics, but now it seems that as long as the Timberwolves do not miss more than 2 free throws, the Spurs have no hope of turning the tables, but this can also be seen that the Spurs are indeed an extremely disciplined team, regardless of whether the foul tactics are useful now, this is their attitude towards the game, in terms of this attitude, the Spurs are still the first in the league, perhaps because of the age of the players, their strength has completely shrunk" Michaels looked at the players on both sides of the court in amazement and said that for him, he has a special plot for both the Timberwolves and the Spurs, although he prefers the Timberwolves in terms of personal preference, but he also respects the Spurs. This is a team that he thinks is very memorable and respectful.
At the end of the game, with Nash's two free throws and Avery Johnson's three-point miss, the Minnesota Timberwolves won 108-102 on the road against the Spurs, which also made the Timberwolves avenge four days ago, this season the Spurs and the Timberwolves have won three of the four games of the Timberwolves, although the two teams were comparable in the playoffs last year, but now the more mature Timberwolves are no longer the aging Spurs can compare, Perhaps this is just a transitional season for the Spurs and Vicky. He needs to find enough helpers for Duncan and then get the Spurs back on the rise."
Zhuang Fei smiled and greeted Nash who came down from the court and gave him a hard hug, this game made Zhuang Fei happy not only the team's win, but Nash's play, although the Timberwolves won the game in the end, but as the point difference shows, the gap between the two teams is not big. The Timberwolves were even in a state of falling behind for a while, and the reason why the Timberwolves were able to get the score back in the end was because of Nash, who was more selfless than before. Nash is changing now.
In fact, after the start of this season, O'Neal Jr.'s integration into the team has not been very good, and Zhuang Fei has not been very satisfied with his performance on the offensive end. But O'Neal Jr.'s strength is there, and his cooperation with Garnett on the defensive end is extremely tacit, and in order to accommodate O'Neal Jr.'s performance on the offensive end, Nash has been ignoring Zhuang Fei's tactical arrangements and suppressing his own offense and breakthrough, which makes the overall offensive efficiency of the Timberwolves greatly reduced. Zhuang Fei also sometimes asked Wang Zhizhi and Nash to cooperate together when facing some weak teams. Let Nash find the right offensive rhythm, attacking Zhuang Fei for nearly two months of hard work, and now Nash's change is very good, and he commanded O'Neal Jr. very well in this game.
It's easy for a playmaker to pass the ball. The difficulty is how to organize his teammates, and what is more difficult than organizing his teammates is how to command his teammates, even if his teammates do not have high tactical literacy, like O'Neal Jr., who often runs around, but also to be able to force him into the team's tactical system, which is very difficult to do.
If a player is able to do that. Then it can be said that he is a master, this kind of master player has its own system, just like the Suns team in the future, Nash is a system, other players have come and gone, but the Suns' tactics will never be chaotic, and they don't need to run in for too long, just because Nash has his own system, as long as Nash's system is still there, the other players of the Suns can be iron-clad soldiers. …,
Nash's realm is also what Zhuang Fei hopes he can achieve, but although Nash was already very good before, the realm has not been reached, and now it is different, although this realm is not yet proficient for Nash, and sometimes there will be mistakes when commanding teammates, but it doesn't matter, Zhuang Fei has enough time for Nash to find a feeling and strengthen his proficiency, of course, Nash's realm has improved in this game, and similarly, his evaluation in the dynasty system has also risen, In the fourth quarter of this game, Zhuang Fei received a prompt from the dynasty system, Nash had an ability value of +1 because of his understanding on the court, and he also broke through from an A-level player to an A-level player in one fell swoop. After Nash's breakthrough, the Timberwolves' players now have 3 A-level players, although there is still a lack of an A+ player who can press the lineup, but maybe this is not important to the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves' tactical system can perfectly combine these three A-level players, and the combined play of these three A-level players may not be worse than the A+ players.
"Coach, you hug too tightly" Nash watched his coach hug himself and was a little surprised, usually Zhuang Fei is rarely like this, since last season Pierce and Garnett thought that Zhuang Fei's hug problem had infighting, Zhuang Fei rarely hugged a certain player after the game, so this time Zhuang Fei's action also surprised Nash, of course, the same is true for other Timberwolves players, most of the people who can enjoy this treatment before are only Garnett and Pierce.
"Hehe, sorry, I'm so excited, but Steve, your car race is really exciting," Zhuang Fei smiled and let Nash go, then patted him on the shoulder.
Zhuang Fei is really excited, Nash has finally transformed from an excellent playmaker to a junior playmaker, but what makes Zhuang Fei upset is that since yesterday he learned that February's best of the month was taken by Carter, Garnett's expression has been very strange, and the performance of this game is also very sluggish, and the impatience and desire in the game are very strong, because of Pierce not long ago, Zhuang Fei is particularly concerned about the performance of the Timberwolves' players in ordinary times.
After leaving San Antonio, the Timberwolves went to Milwaukee on March 4 to challenge the Bucks, and last season the Bucks made a historic return to the playoffs under the leadership of three muskets, but this season when all Bucks fans were full of expectations for them to go further, Kassel, Ray Allen and Glenn Robinson failed to make a breakthrough in results, and the Bucks led by these three muskets this season are only in seventh place. It's still less than last season.
Although there is basically no problem for the Bucks to enter the playoffs now, there is not much competitive pressure in the East, and it is unlikely that they want to catch up and enter the top five, it can be said that the Bucks, the Eastern playoff team, still lack some ruthlessness compared with some wolf-like playoff teams in the West, and the belief in winning is insufficient, so although the Timberwolves have traveled long distances in this game, and the state is only average, the Bucks have not created much threat to the Timberwolves, Pierce and Mobley, who were traded from the Bucks to the Timberwolves in this game, performed well, and the two combined for 50 points in this game, while the team's boss Garnett was still a little anxious, and his shot was much more unreasonable than before. However, it has been the Timberwolves who have been running away recently, so Zhuang Fei did not adjust Garnett, and on March 5, the Timberwolves returned to their home court to face the SuperSonics who are currently hovering on the edge of the Western Conference playoffs back-to-back, and like the Bucks, the SuperSonics are also a playoff team, but the pressure on the Timberwolves caused by the Western Conference playoff team led by Payton and Wenbeck is not at all comparable to the Bucks.
In this game, the supersonic Payton broke out again, in fact, basically every time he meets the Timberwolves Payton, the Timberwolves are not short of defensive giants, Nash can rarely defend a player in the entire NBA, but for most players, Zhuang Fei can use the change of defense to solve the problem, after all, the Timberwolves currently have defensive gates like Bowen and Jackson, and even now Pierce's defense has improved a lot, Ginobili and Mobley can also be on top when they need it, but for Payton, There is nothing the Timberwolves can do with all the defenders on the team, and this point guard with a good back and a very strange breakthrough is almost one of the most feared point guard players of the Timberwolves in the NBA. …,
So in this game, the Timberwolves actually lost to the SuperSonics at home, making their loss this season to 7 games, and Payton, the best player in this game, contributed 34 points and 10 assists, while Garnett, who Zhuang Fei has been worried about, continued to perform not long ago, but fortunately, the performance on the defensive end is still very stable. It's just that the offensive end is still frizzy.
Although the Timberwolves lost this game, they are still the first in the West, because now the Lakers are worse than them, and they have already lost a day earlier than the Timberwolves yesterday, and they also lost to a team on the verge of the playoffs, the Kings led by Adelman.
"Garnett, this kid isn't thinking about swiping data," Zhuang Fei said with an ugly face in his office. The coffee in his hand was not interested in drinking it, but he was thinking that he was now waiting for Garnett to arrive.
"Hehe, Zhuang, maybe Kevin really wants to brush the data, look at this" At this time, D'Antoni brought a lot of newspapers, and this time on the road trip Zhuang Fei piled up a lot of self-ordered documents and newspapers without reading.
"Is it" Zhuang Fei picked up the newspaper handed by D'Antoni with some doubts, and then looked down, Zhuang Fei only read a few lines, and his face became more gloomy, and D'Antoni stood aside with a smile.
The headline of the newspaper that Zhuang Fei read was very eye-catching, and Zhuang Fei felt uncomfortable just when he saw this headline.
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