Chapter 140: Always Remember Your Strengths
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"Why are you so frustrated? Why are they all hanging their heads so low? Zhuang Fei looked at the group of Timberwolves players who came down from the court with their heads down and said with a smile. The current Timberwolves bench is probably the only one who can laugh, but as the head coach of the team, he must also have this mentality. The players are down, and if he is also down, then don't play, just admit defeat.
"Are we losing now? Not yet, it's just two points behind, not 20 points behind, we almost chased it back in the last game" Zhuang Fei's words made the Timberwolves players raise some fighting spirit a little. But as soon as they thought of what had just happened, these people lowered their heads again.
"Coach, Duncan is so strong, a group of us can't stop him, he can score as much as he wants, the points we worked hard to get he easily completed alone, the more anxious we are, the more difficult it is to fight against him, we all understand this truth, we need to calm down now, but we just can't calm down, we always have this Duncan's shadow in our minds now, and then we have been tormented by his shadow" Mobley said to Zhuang Fei with some frustration, he is also one of the players who wrapped Duncan, He is also one of the main offensive players of the Timberwolves. He can be said to be the most affected, of course, except for Garnett, but now Garnett didn't let Zhuang Fei see any frustrated expression, and the Timberwolves were normal for him.
"I know Duncan is strong, no one knows it better than me, and I also know that in addition to Duncan, O'Neal for the Lakers, Carter for the Grizzlies, and Iverson for the 76ers are also strong. None of them are one or two players to play against, and I never belittle my opponents, but I also don't feel like I'm small because my opponents are strong. At the end of the two words, Zhuang Fei's tone obviously became no longer so kind.
"Guys, are you scared now? If you're really scared, then I can tell you. In the future, when you meet the Lakers, you will meet the 76ers, and you will be afraid when you meet the Grizzlies, and these teams have players of Duncan's level in them. Are you going to meet these teams like this in the future?"
"What does it have to do with the strength of others and our strength, if you are a river that is only one meter wide, no matter whether your comparison is 10 meters or 10 centimeters, you are the same 1 meter. There is no insignificance and no expansion, so, what are you afraid of? There is no problem with your strength, but there is a problem in your heart. In your heart, you already think of yourself as a 10-centimeter river."
The Timberwolves players looked at Zhuang Fei, who was already getting more and more excited, in surprise, and there was a hint of realization in their hearts.
"Do you still know what makes the Timberwolves so powerful? Do you still know what your strengths are? Or are you really cowards and wastes who become useless when they see giants? ”
"Steve, do you know what your strengths are?"
Jackson saw that Zhuang Fei was looking at him, then gritted his teeth and said, "Shooting and defense"
"Well, that's good, Nash. Do you know what the advantages of Ling are? Zhuang Fei then asked
"Breakout and shooting," Nash said after a little thought.
"And what about Rashadling?"
"I think it's shooting," Lewis said with a wry smile after thinking for a while, the Timberwolves really don't have a single player like him now.
"That's right? Aren't you all well aware of your strengths? Why did you forget it when you were on the field just now? After taking the ball one by one, I hesitated and didn't know what to do, what should I do now? ”
The players of the Timberwolves blushed a little when Zhuang Fei said, just now they did have some gains and losses, and then they were tied.
"Guys. If we want to win the championship, we need to play to our strengths, and we have to remember what our strengths are. Instead of thinking about what the opponent is good at, we need to beat a lot of opponents if we want to win the title. You don't have to worry about it at all, as long as we play to the best of our ability, it doesn't matter what happens to his opponent, guys, it's enough to remember our own strengths."
"Always remember your own advantages" The Timberwolves players were all recalling this sentence, and slowly understood what Zhuang Fei meant.
Looking at the eyes of these players without the confusion just now, Zhuang Fei was also a little relieved, which reminded him of the words in a previous martial arts novel, "He is strong by him, and the breeze blows the hills." He is horizontal, and the bright moon shines on the river, "As long as you can maintain your own self at all times, the strength of the other party does not matter at all." But many players can't do this at all now, in the NBA, it's more about the opponent being weak as soon as they are strong, and this kind of change is not what Zhuang Fei wants to see in the Timberwolves, because now the Timberwolves can't disappear because of the rise of the Spurs.
"Now that everyone understands what they have to do, let's play"
"Vince, did you say the coach's timeout worked?" Ragabel and Carter both see the problems of the Timberwolves, and he is now worried that the Timberwolves will be taken away by Duncan, and now the Timberwolves have seen such a trend.
"I don't know, I think the coach should have a way," Carter frowned, he wasn't very confident anymore, because he thought of the Grizzlies' teammate Raheem again, Raheem was addicted to Duncan's strength and finally lost his own ability, no matter how much the Grizzlies tried to comfort him, they couldn't make him return to his original self. Even now there are demons in the heart. This is also a big reason why the Grizzlies were eliminated by the Spurs in the end.
"If it's a coach, I think there should be no problem," Carter added firmly.
Vicky is happy now, this is definitely not just because the score has been overtaken, but more importantly, Duncan has scared a team again, if the Timberwolves can't get their mentality right, then the Spurs will win this game, there is no doubt about it.
The timeout is over, the game begins, this is the Timberwolves' offense, Nash is advancing quickly, after the offensive timeout, he is no longer confused, he knows very well what the Timberwolves need him to do, he needs his breakthrough and shooting, as long as he does these two things, it doesn't matter how he is with the Spurs and Duncan.
Nash didn't wait for his teammates to settle down before he chased down and gave the Spurs a three-pointer. This time, the shot was unusually decisive.
"Brushing" the hollow hit, Nash breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and waved his arm fiercely, this is the feeling, this is the familiar feeling.
Zhuang Fei nodded with satisfaction off the court, he just needs such a Nash, and he also expects other Timberwolves players to be like Nash.
"It's amazing" Vicky sighed in his heart after seeing Nash's shot, this Z coach's mental control ability is too strong, and it only took a timeout to solve the problem of the Timberwolves, you must know that the Grizzlies and the Trail Blazers have not solved a series.
"It doesn't look like it's going to be easy," Vicky shook his head. This opponent is really tough.
"It looks like we don't have to worry about it, the coach is really good, and the Timberwolves have no problem now," Carter said with a smile.
"Can just Nash push the entire Timberwolves?" James Posey asked.
"Enough," replied Ragabel this time.
The Timberwolves' timeout did solve all the problems of the players, and in the next game, Duncan was still wreaking havoc on the Timberwolves, but slowly he began to organize his teammates, after all, no matter how strong he was, he was just a person, not a tireless god, which also made the Timberwolves gradually breathe a sigh of relief, and slowly maintained the score, at the end of the second quarter, the score between the Timberwolves and the Spurs was 44-46 and still 2 points behind, But now this two points behind is completely incomparable to the one just now.
At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, Vicky also began to get nervous, the tenacity of the Timberwolves was beyond his expectations, if you remove the slump of the Spurs' outside group offense, the Spurs have shown their strongest strength in this game, but these young players of the Timberwolves have been able to bite the score, especially after Duncan's madness, the Timberwolves players can still hold on, which also changed the situation of the whole game, don't look at the Spurs are still ahead, but the Timberwolves are already accumulating, It is very likely to turn the score back when Duncan is napping, after all, the Spurs rely too much on Duncan in this game, and Duncan's consumption is also very large, and sooner or later there will be a period of power outage.
"Damn perimeter shooting, damn three-point shooting, I must pay attention to outside shooting in the future" This playoff trip gave Vicky a great inspiration, and the three-point offense that had always despised him began to make him face it. After all, this year's playoffs have suffered too many three-point losses, and if the Spurs' perimeter shooting can be like the Timberwolves, then who can beat the Spurs? If Zhuang Fei knew what Vicky was thinking now, he would be surprised, because isn't this the spur in the future? It's just that Duncan was already old at that time.
In the third quarter of the game, the two teams were still nervously entangled, during which there were many score alternations, the Timberwolves and the Spurs both took the lead, the Timberwolves' offense was still shooting, and the Spurs were still two interior offenses. In the final third quarter, the score of the two teams was tied at 67.
"It's too close for this game" James Posey was a little nervous, even though he had already been through a lot of big fights.
"Now the advantage has returned to the Timberwolves, both teams have a single offense, one is desperately shooting from the perimeter, the other is desperately going to the inside to play hard, and this is the first time I've seen two teams with such a distinct style play against each other," Ragabel said with a smile.
"yes, it's a very jīng lottery game, and I tried it a little bit, maybe there will be a miracle in this game," Carter said with a smile as Duncan finally looked at the arena.