Chapter 183: All-Stars
Dunleavy is very satisfied with the score on the court now, although this is the home of the Trail Blazers, although this is the Timberwolves' back-to-back games, but he is also extremely surprised to be able to suppress the Timberwolves in this game, the Timberwolves' state in the past month is too hot, although he doesn't want to lose to the Timberwolves again, but he doesn't have much confidence to stop the Timberwolves' winning streak.
The Trail Blazers' form has been up and down this season, winning against the Lakers and losing to the Suns, but now if they do beat the Timberwolves at home, then they will be the first team to beat both the Lakers and the Timberwolves this season, which is definitely a huge honor, and it will be extremely important to boost the morale of the Trail Blazers and run in the Trail Blazers' roster.
Dunleavy thought that this seemed to see the brightest future of the pioneers, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but appear a smile, and then looked at the frowning Chinese on the other side with some pride, which made him feel comfortable. He's leading a team that is on the verge of beating someone who has been unbeatable this season.
"We're going to win this game," Dunleavy swore to himself.
In this game, the Timberwolves players did not have a very good spirit from the end to the patch, or they were mentally tired, for young people, there will definitely be no physical problems at the beginning of the season, and the depth of the Timberwolves' squad will also ensure that the Timberwolves players will not lose because of poor fitness, there is no problem with physical fitness but there is a problem with the spirit, these players were too tense some time ago, and their expressions were highly nervous, and after beating the SuperSonics yesterday, the spirit of these players was also relaxed. Now in this game, they can't get up, they are tired, and they are very out of shape, like frosted eggplants.
"Do you think it's still useful to put on this Argentine now?" Dunleavy looked at Ginobili, who was ready to play in front of the technical table, and thought, this Argentinian has been on fire since the defeat of the Jazz, and then received a sideways look from all teams in the league, in the Timberwolves, a team that has received a lot of attention. Any highlight reel is mentioned many times, so it also caused Ginobili a lot of trouble, and everyone was on guard against him. So his current performance is much worse than it was at the beginning, even if his ability value is high, but he is also an international player with no NBA experience. It can be said that Dunleavy also has a special understanding of this player, and he is not surprised by Zhuang Fei's substitution at this time.
"With five minutes to go, 15 points behind, we're not Jazz with the Trail Blazers"
In fact, Zhuang Fei has no way, now the Timberwolves want to say that it is very difficult to chase points, but Zhuang Fei does not want his players to be lifeless on the court, he replaced Ginobili more to add some vitality to the team, as for Ginobili's final performance, then he can only do his best.
Ginobili played well, and the Timberwolves did have a change in tactics, Nash. Mobley and Ginobili have no problem with the speed and rhythm of the backcourt, but in the end, the Timberwolves players finally found that there was still no way to turn the score back, and it was even difficult to get close, and it was obvious that the Trail Blazers players had completely played out in this game. It's impossible to press it down now. In the last chase of points, the Timberwolves just chased the score to only 6 points, but time was gone, and the final score of this game was 100-94, and the Timberwolves lost back-to-back to the Trail Blazers. Scott Pippen had 18 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists in this game, making him the best player of the game.
"Regret? Yes, it's a bit of a shame because we've now lost our first game. And he also lost the No. 1 position in the West that he just didn't get his hands on," Zhuang Fei kept smiling at the post-game press conference, and no one could tell anything from his face. …,
"The Trail Blazers are a very strong team, I don't think there's anything wrong with losing to them, any team will lose, and the same is true for Jordan, if you lose to a super strong team in excellent condition in the end, I don't feel any dissatisfaction, the performance of the Trail Blazers is worthy of the favor of the goddess of victory" In the face of Zhuang Fei's praise, Dunleavy still didn't believe it, Zhuang Fei was called a mobile battery by the American media, which means that Zhuang Fei will scold wherever he goes, and he will rarely be like this for his opponent.
In fact, Zhuang Fei also wanted to sell the Trail Blazers a face, after all, this was their home court, and they finally sent Xiao Ao to the Timberwolves.
"Losing streak? It's impossible, the Timberwolves won't have this kind of thing, at least not this season, we're just playing a trick now, we're just slacking off a little bit, we're going to win the next game, and we're going to win it all the time."
"Phil has been great this season, they won again today, they're number one in the West, but we're always behind them"
After playing the Trail Blazers away, the Timberwolves also entered the fast lane, and then, on December 11, they hosted the Golden State Warriors, this season the Warriors are still playing badly under the leadership of Szczerbiak, and now they have only won 2 games, ranking first from the bottom in the West, and Szczerbiak's statistics are still beautiful, since his rookie season he averaged more than 20 points per game this season and reached 26 points, and is currently ranked 4th on the scoring list, second only to the No. 1 Sharks, Carter, who ranked second, and Iverson, who ranked third, although their scores were higher, their shooting percentage was much lower than last season, but even if the shooting rate was much lower, it was still the shooting rate of the league's top pitchers, and the Warriors with such a top pitcher in the league actually ranked first in the league.
There were no bright spots for the Timberwolves in this game, the final score was 125-100, and the Timberwolves won away from home, but for Zhuang Fei, there was a bright spot that surprised him.
"Wally, your organization is much higher," Zhuang Fei said with a smile as he looked at Szzerbiak with a lost face after the game.
"Is it" Szebiak was stunned for a moment and then smiled bitterly: "Actually, I really don't want to organize the team's attack like this, but I really don't know how I can change the team's current situation besides this, now our team is terrible, if only I had the ability of Vince and Thiem, coach, I don't even know what it feels like to win now, I'm so confused, although the team still supports me very much,
But I know a lot of fans are already dissatisfied, they say that I shoot too much, maybe I will be traded to the Lakers in a short time," said Szzczebiak and smiled helplessly.
Zhuang Fei looked at Szzambiak with a depressed face with some surprise, if Carter successfully took on the position of team leader not long ago, then the current Szzambiak is a person who tried to be the leader of the team but failed, in Zhuang Fei's heart, Szzebiak is not suitable to be a leader in terms of personality or style of play, in terms of style of play, he is more inclined to a miniature version of Kevin Durant, but he has no ability to hold the ball and organizational ability, he can only be an excellent finisher, In Wake Forest, he's a fearsome terminator and killer. But no matter how good a killer is, he can't make his teammates better. Szebiak's attempt to transform will make him very difficult, for example, although he delivered 5 assists but received 7 turnovers in this game, he does not have the talent of Durant, he is now finalized, which is a stupid transformation in Zhuang Fei's opinion.
"Wally, you don't have to force yourself to change anything, you are yourself, shoot whenever you get the chance, like you did in Wake Forest, when Wally was the strongest"...,
Szebiak looked at Zhuang Fei's serious and serious appearance, and finally thought for a while, but nodded.
"Coach, I know, I have my own path, I will not force myself to change in the future"
When Zhuang Fei left Golden State with the Timberwolves, Zhuang Fei was still worried about his disciple, Szebiak's current form is the worst, and as the boss of the team, he is now facing great doubts. He's not in the right place in the NBA right now.
But Zhuang Fei doesn't have time to think about these problems now, on December 13th, the Timberwolves faced the Hawks away, the Hawks are not in good shape now, as the fourth in the East last season, this season they are only ranked first in the East, Hawks head coach Wilkens is also under great pressure, although this old coach is highly respected, but this ranking definitely makes him embarrassed.
In this game, the Timberwolves defeated the Hawks 105-91 bloodlessly, and Zhuang Fei saw Wilkens a little haggard after the game.
"Zhuang, maybe I'll leave this place soon"
Looking at the lonely old man Zhuang Fei was also very sad.
On December 14, the Timberwolves came back-to-back to their home base in North Carolina, where Zhuang Fei once again enjoyed the treatment of the home court, and it was with the help of all the Hornets fans that the Timberwolves won three consecutive victories.
"It's great to be back in North Carolina, the fans here are still unforgettable, I've seen a lot of familiar people here, it's a wonderful feeling, and I'm enjoying it," Zhuang said with a smile at the press conference after the game, but the Hornets head coach next to Zhuang Fei, Paul Silas, was not so happy.
"I don't think they should be cheering for their opponents, it's very unpleasant"
It's just that Silas's complaint was only exchanged for a burst of laughter from reporters.
"Mr. Zhuang, have you seen the results of this year's all-star vote?"
"All-Star Vote?" Zhuang Fei was stunned, he really didn't care about this, he had been flying around in the air for the past two days. (Your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )