"Greg, are you going back so early today?"

In the head coach's office of the San Antonio Spurs, the general manager of this team, Buford, just pushed the door in when he saw Popovich ready to get up and leave, which also made the general manager of the Spurs stunned.

The Spurs didn't play today, and in his impression that the head coach of the team would not leave so early whether the Spurs would have a game or not, you know, it is not a simple matter to be able to make such a stubborn guy change his own rules.

"Oh, yes, I need to go back now" Seeing the general manager of his team come in, the head coach of the Spurs also showed a faint smile and said, the head coach of the Spurs has always had a stinky face in front of the media, in fact, he is not much worse even in private, he always looks like he is not approached, and in the end, even his wife always blames him for this incident.

In the end, he even threatened him to get out if he still had this stinky face when he entered the house, although this did not make Popovich much better, but at least there was no such thing as a person not to enter, and recently in the media, the Spurs head coach actually told jokes, although the joke sounded like cold humor.

"That's it, then I'll come back to you tomorrow morning" finally looked at Popovich, Buford also smiled and said, he doesn't have anything special, it's about the renewal of the team's young player Tony Parker, the Spurs intend to keep him, he also wants to stay with the Spurs, and now the young player's value is not too expensive, so it is not very difficult to renew the contract. It just needs Popovich to give a rough reference contract. It's really not in a hurry right now.

"Well" after Buford left with a smile. Popovich also looked at the back of his team's general manager, and also quickly left his office.

The Spurs did not play today, but today it was a game between the Lakers, who are currently the first in the West, and the Timberwolves, the third in the West. In particular, there are only two opponents in the West, the Timberwolves, who eliminated them last season, and the Lakers, who have beaten them twice in a row this season.

Of course, in addition to these two teams being his main opponents, the more important thing is that he wants to see if the Lakers will lose this game, because in his estimate, in the face of a twin-tower team like Garnett and Wang Zhizhi, the Lakers have no way to parry, and now the head coach of the Timberwolves is not the little Van Gundy who can't attack at all.

Now if the Lakers' offense is the first in the league, then the Timberwolves' offense can rank in the top three in the league, and more importantly, it's more important. This team's offense is basically unstoppable by the Lakers, and the Lakers' offense may not be able to penetrate the Timberwolves. In particular, this team has a stronger interior line than Duncan's defensive ability, and in this case, it is unclear how much the Lakers' offense can play.

Under his analysis, the winning rate of the Lakers and Timberwolves in this game will be five to five, and the important reason why the Lakers can occupy a fifty percent winning rate is because of the Lakers' Terminator tactics that have been hidden, and if there is no Terminator tactics, the Lakers' winning rate will be even lower.

"Has the game started?"

When Popovich returned home, he didn't pay attention to his wife at all, and went directly to his study, but at this time, his wife glared at the Spurs head coach viciously in the back, probably thinking about whether to let him kneel on the washboard later, but at this time, the extremely anxious Spurs head coach did not feel this 'dangerous' atmosphere.

And when Popovich turned on the TV in his study in a hurry, it was a little late in the end, and the game did start, and Popovich also subconsciously looked at the score, and then the corners of his mouth involuntarily showed a smile, less than half of the game was played in the first quarter, the Lakers only scored 12 points, and the Timberwolves on the other side had scored 18 points, the Lakers were so passive at the beginning of the game, which made Popovich a little surprised, although he was more optimistic about the Timberwolves in this game, But I didn't think the Timberwolves could start so strongly.

"The Timberwolves' game intensity is really big" and after sitting down and watching for a while, the Spurs head coach was also surprised, at the beginning of this game, the Timberwolves' game intensity surprised him, at least this Timberwolves in the regular season game, the intensity of the game is no worse than last year and their Western Conference semifinals, it is definitely full firepower.

"Hehe, it seems that the Minnesota media has really had a lot of influence on this team in recent times" When he thought of this, the Spurs head coach also smiled a little happily, and at this time, when he saw the TV camera coming to the Timberwolves fans cheering for Zhuang Fei around, the smile on the Spurs head coach's face was a little embarrassed, although the smile on his face also disappeared, and finally he snorted coldly.

For Popovich and the Spurs, they can get more benefits if the Lakers win this game, after all, they are still competing with the Timberwolves for the second place in the Western regular season, if the Lakers can beat the Timberwolves, the gap between them and the Timberwolves will widen, and in comparison, even if the Lakers lose, they are not able to catch up with the Lakers, but will let the Timberwolves catch up at the end.

It's just that compared to the rational hope that the Lakers can win, he hopes that the Timberwolves can win more, you know, he has been waiting for this game for half a month, and he doesn't want the Lakers and Zhuang Fei to continue to win like this.

At the beginning of the season, at the draft meeting, he also felt that there was a conspiracy for Zhuang Fei's situation of not having a center, but at that time the whole world thought that this team would not do anything, and now, this is indeed proof of his original guess, but even if he guessed that the Lakers might play an amazing performance this season, he never thought that the Lakers would play so amazingly, which is simply not amazing but appalling.

It's just that for Popovich, of course he knows where a team like the Lakers is, although the league is now withering, especially the center, but this does not mean that the NBA does not have a traditional interior team, and the Timberwolves are one of them, when the Lakers played with the Bulls and the Bucks, the team's performance was thrilling, and at that time Popovich was already looking forward to what would happen to the Lakers meeting the Timberwolves or the Celtics.

"It's a pity that David has retired, if the Spurs were in 1999, we could have beaten this Laker" Finally, looking at the bigger and more ferocious Timberwolves on TV, the Spurs head coach also said with some sighs, if his team also has a 1999 admiral, this Spurs have no problem beating the Lakers, so every time the media boasts that this Lakers is the best team in history, he will scoff, in his opinion, this Laker just appeared in a special era, If you really want to say which team is stronger in the best decade, except for the Bulls in '96 and the Timberwolves in 2001, the Lakers are far from these two teams.

Of course, although Popovich has always been disdainful of this Laker, but in fact, in the current league, few teams can beat this Laker is also a fact, even his own Spurs are difficult to beat the current Lakers after abandoning the twin towers to start a small-ball offense, although this Laker can't say that the strongest team in history, but it is still okay to say that the strongest small-ball tactical team in history, and even in Popovich's opinion, this Laker is the nemesis of small-ball tactics.

"You are our nemesis, then the Timberwolves are your nemesis" When thinking of this, the corner of the Spurs' head coach's mouth showed a smile again, in the current NBA, the league is full of all kinds of nemesis, even the strongest teams have nemesis, which may be a good thing or a bad thing for the NBA, after all, the strongest team has no way to really dominate the entire league because of the existence of nemesis, which is the so-called lack of dominance.

Of course, although the Timberwolves are the nemesis of the Lakers, it is impossible to easily defeat the Lakers, so in the first quarter, the crazy Timberwolves caught the Lakers off guard, and after the Lakers fell behind by ten points in a single quarter, in the second quarter, the Lakers' second lineup and the Timberwolves' second team began to really play inseparable, and the Lakers also got some respite.

"If he can be at the Spurs, then our team is perfect, and we may not be able to beat the Lakers" Looking at the Argentine who almost single-handedly fought against the Lakers' second team on TV, Popovich also had some heartache, you know, Ginobili was the first he looked at, but in the end he was robbed by Zhuang Fei, and now, the Argentine actually took three Chinese and the Lakers' bench lineup that claimed to be the strongest second team in the league to play inseparable, This shows the current strength of this defender, and now he has come to the peak of his strength.

Of course, even if Popovich is in pain and red-eyed, Ginobili is now a Timberwolves player, and he and Pierce took Xue Yuyang, Moko and Battle, three Chinese, to completely suppress the Lakers' comeback momentum in the second quarter, and when the halftime was over, the fact that the Lakers were 11 points behind was also very happy for Popovich.

Even now he has seen that the door for the Timberwolves to beat the Lakers has appeared, but this gate is a little wider open than he imagined, and this also makes him feel a little uneasy.

"This Timberwolves are stronger than last year" (To be continued.) )