"Phil, don't be so nervous"

Los Angeles Lakers head coach's office, Lakers general manager Jerry West looked at Phil Jackson with disdain and said, the former Bulls head coach has performed extremely well in the regular season this season, but he still doesn't like this person, this person always makes him involuntarily compare him with the Chinese of the Timberwolves, and the final comparison results are often that Chinese win.

"Hmph"

Phil Jackson snorted and didn't react, which also made Jerry West a little stupid, and the assistant coach and deputy general manager next to the two were very embarrassed.

Now all these Lakers executives are looking at the TV in the office, and now the picture coming from the TV is a regular season game between the Timberwolves and the Boston Celtics, which is the last regular season game for the Timberwolves.

The day before, the Lakers had finished their entire regular season with a 74-8 record and remained in second place, while the Minnesota Timberwolves were in first place, with a 74-7 record.

It can be said that this game of the Timberwolves vs. the Boston Celtics is the game that determines the first place in the league, if the Timberwolves win at home, then the Timberwolves will win the first place in the league with a 75-7 record, if the Timberwolves fail, then their record will be equal with the Lakers, and the Lakers will surpass the Timberwolves to win the league in the regular season this season by virtue of winning three of the four games with the Timberwolves in the regular season.

"Hey, I didn't expect the Timberwolves to give us no chance" Jerry West looked at the Chinese standing on the sidelines on the TV and sighed helplessly.

Just half a month ago on April 3rd. The direct dialogue between the Lakers and the Timberwolves, that game was called the final redemption of the Lakers, that game the Lakers had to win, otherwise they would lose the battle for the first place in the league at that time, obviously for the Lakers who were in a ruin, that game was exciting, and fortunately, the Lakers once again won on the home court of the Timberwolves. In that game, the Lakers' Big Three combined for 101 points to beat the Timberwolves almost by a combination, and after that game, many media outlets who had previously touted the Timberwolves for locking up the regular season title early began to think that the Lakers still had a chance. After all, after that game, the Lakers and the Timberwolves have only one win difference, one is to lose eight games and the other is to lose seven, as long as the Timberwolves have problems in one of the remaining eight games, the Lakers are likely to overtake.

In fact, the Lakers all think that the Timberwolves will have some problems of depression or collapse under the pressure of the Lakers and the outside world. So the Lakers are also waiting for such an opportunity, but what disappoints these people is that the Chinese-led Timberwolves have not shown any negative events at all, these people are like a group of cold machines, harvesting the lives of opponents one by one, until the final round of the game, the Timberwolves and the Lakers are all victorious after that meeting, so that the Lakers can only look at the face of the opponent now, if the Timberwolves win, they will not have a chance.

Thinking of this, Jerry West is also a bit of a loss, isn't the Lakers' 74-8 record this season bad? This is currently the first record in history, which is two games better than the 72-10 set by the Bulls. Such a result can not be the first in the regular season, Jerry West was also a witness to the Lakers' 33-game winning streak, even if the Lakers at that time wanted to play a record of more than 74 wins, it can be said that the current Lakers have achieved the ultimate, and no team in the NBA can guarantee that they will not have a low ebb or a downturn. But this season's Lakers have done it, they have pressed the lows and ups and downs to the lowest point, from this point of view, this season's Lakers are the most stable team in history, but it is extremely regrettable for the Lakers that there is a team that is more stable than them this season. …,

"The Timberwolves won this game," Phil Jackson said lightly, staring at the TV, and there seemed to be no emotion in his voice. But if you listen carefully, you will hear that there is a little helplessness and regret hidden in this voice, after Phil Jackson finished speaking, Jerry West also nodded secretly, he is also a person with a very great vision, although this game was only played for less than three quarters, but it is enough to recognize something.

"Hmph, even if it's second in the league, we have a 3-1 lead in the regular season this season, and we won two games on the Timberwolves' home court, and we still don't need home-court advantage to beat them in the Western Conference Finals, and this year's championship must be mine."

Under Jerry West's surprised gaze, Phil Jackson suddenly got up and left without saying a word, while Jerry West looked at the back of the Lakers head coach in a daze.

"Beat Coach Z? Maybe you can really do it," Jerry West said secretly as he looked at Phil Jackson in the distance. Then he turned back and looked at the Chinese on the TV again.

"What a great pair of opponents...... On the 18th of the target center, today's 20,000 Timberwolves fans are more enthusiastic than ever, today is an absolute big day for the Timberwolves, if the Timberwolves win today's game, the Timberwolves will continue to be the league's regular season first, and it will also break the Lakers' 74-8 regular season record just created, this year's Timberwolves will become the first in NBA regular season history.

This is a big day for them to witness the Timberwolves become the first in history, many fans on the scene have raised the signs of "first in history" and "strongest in history", and these fans holding such signs have the opportunity to stand there and shake the signs, it can be said that they have always had great enthusiasm for the Timberwolves' achievements, even if the team's head coach always makes them look down on these, but how can this kind of thing be downplayed?

Today's opponent of the Timberwolves is the Boston Celtics, who have defeated the Timberwolves, and for any team, they don't want to be a footnote or stepping stone to other people's records, especially the Timberwolves, a record destined to go down in history, so the Boston Celtics are really desperate in this game.

Of course, in this game, Pitino did not use the 'umbrella tactics' of the last victory over the Timberwolves, in fact, after that victory over the Timberwolves, Pitino had plans to regularize the umbrella tactics, but he used the umbrella tactics in the next seven games all failed, and it is obvious that such gambling tactics cannot have a long-term effect, especially when the Celtics' three-point projection is a nerve knife.

So in this game, Pitino used conventional tactics to play against the Timberwolves, and today the Celtics double stars Maddy and Anthony Walker are in excellent condition, so this also makes the Celtics able to bite the Timberwolves in the first half, and even the Celtics had a brief lead in the first quarter, but when the game reached the second half, the Timberwolves players suddenly played a wave, and the Celtics star Anthony Walker suddenly lost power, while Pierce and Jackson hit consecutive shots, All of a sudden, the score was pulled apart.

When the Timberwolves entered the fourth quarter with a 10-point advantage, even the fans on the scene knew that the Timberwolves won the game, and Celtics head coach Pitino also replaced all the team's players in the fifth minute of the fourth quarter, replacing some role players who rarely played, which was also a farewell to the season for these players.

In the end, the game, which was given a lot of hope by many Lakers fans, ended with the victory of the Timberwolves, the final score was 115-100, the Timberwolves won by 15 points at home, and the best player of the game was awarded to the Timberwolves' point guard Steve Nash, Nash scored the first triple-double of his life in this game, 11 points, 14 assists and 11 rebounds, It is worth mentioning that Nash's average of 13.5 assists per game this season also made him the league's assist leader, which is also the first assist leader in the history of the Timberwolves. This season's Nash really let Zhuang Fei see the demeanor of the Suns at that peak, and Zhuang Fei is confident that the Timberwolves' Nash is not only the first to run and bomb point guards, but also believes that this Nash has better rhythm control and position organization ability than the Suns' Nash, which is the brain that really belongs to the Timberwolves, but Zhuang Fei has always regretted that this point guard has never been able to have too strong offensive desire, which also limits his growth at this point. At least at this point, he is still a big gap from Magic Johnson and Isaiah Thomas.

Of course, when the referee's whistle sounded, Zhuang Fei had already rushed into the court and hugged his disciples, at this time, all the fans on the scene of the Timberwolves also made the atmosphere in the target center reach its peak, and even the Timberwolves players and Timberwolves fans shouted the slogan "We are the strongest", until Zhuang Fei and the Timberwolves players finished celebrating, Zhuang Fei found that the head coach of the Bosceltics, Pitino, was still standing there waiting for him, which also made Zhuang Fei a little apologetic, how to forget this 'old friend'.

"Zhuang, congratulations. You're really doing a great job and you're the pride of all NCAA coaches."

"Thank you" Zhuang Fei looked at this somewhat different opponent with some wonder and said, now he actually saw this opponent smile, it was the first time he saw Pitino laughing, which also made Zhuang Fei a little dazed.

"Zhuang, I'm ready to resign and go back to the NCAA"

When Zhuang Fei had just woken up from his daze, Pitino's words made Zhuang Fei fall into a stupor again.

Is Pitino leaving? (To be continued) RQ