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In the regular season, many teams don't pay much attention to defense, and many players don't pay much attention to defense, as long as they score more than the other team, so that they can guarantee winning, especially for teams with strong offensive ability, the more prominent such a problem is, and it is easy for such teams to score, so in the same way, the easier it is to get something, the more they don't know how to cherish, many times some of the truths of basketball and some of the truths in the world have something in common, and now the king has encountered such a problem.

After Adelman suffered the defeat in the first game, it was obvious that he was ready to change his tactics, he was ready to strengthen the team's defense, and the loss in the first game taught him a big lesson, since you Timberwolves made us not easy to score, then we have to make you not easy to score, everyone will fight to defend in the end, but when he really implemented this decision, he was about to cry.

He overestimated the defensive ability of these players of the Kings team, these players of the Kings team really can't be tight if they want to, some teams have strong defensive ability, but they usually perform very loosely, but if they really tighten, they will still play very hot, but it is clear that the Kings are not such a team, the Kings can't be tight at all, no matter how Adelman mentions, no matter how hard the Kings' players defend, but the result is very disappointing to them.

The first game win gave them reason to believe that the Timberwolves could easily leapfrog their first playoff opponent of the season, and then they managed to make it to the second round for the first time in their history, and they are now looking forward to the next round.

At the beginning of the game, the Kings showed their defensive determination to the Timberwolves, in the first quarter of the game, Chris Webber, McBibby, these two defensive black holes are actually working hard to entangle with their respective defensive players, but to Webber and Bibby's disappointment, they always feel that they will be slightly slower than each other by half a beat, the Timberwolves' offensive speed makes him very helpless, and sometimes they even think, why the harder the defense, the worse the effect? At the end of the first quarter, the Timberwolves made 30 shots in the first quarter, and in the face of the king's tight defense, the Timberwolves' whirlwind play was very effective, 18 of 30 shots, and the Timberwolves scored 42 points in the first quarter, while on the contrary, the Kings, who paid a lot of physical defense, did not feel good, only 10 of 24 shots, scored 25 points, and at the end of the first quarter, the Kings fell behind by 17 points.

"Adelman, what is this doing? I don't want to play, their defensive zone is full of space, and players don't have to press hard if they don't have a good pressing ability, which will not only lose their defensive position, but also make the players tired. Zhuang Fei on the sidelines looked iron, and said with extreme disappointment, he had thought that Adelman would change the formation in this game, the competition in the playoffs is to change against change, the two teams will have changes for xìng after each game, which is also the place where the playoffs are more intense than the regular season, and the playoffs have more tactics against xìng, Zhuang Fei can understand what Adelman means, when his offense is contained, he wants to curb the Timberwolves' offense, but what makes Zhuang Fei can't understand is why the king will use tight defense, Pressing this is the simplest defensive tactic, just like the blocking and dismantling in the offense, but pressing and blocking and dismantling, it is also a test of basic skills, pressing defense needs players to echo each other, and players need to have a good defensive prediction ability, which is a kind of sacrificing defense, if it is broken by the opponent, then there will be a lot of defensive gaps, which will make their defense line collapse. This tactic is often used by the Timberwolves, because the Timberwolves players have good individual defensive abilities, and everyone works together tacitly.

However, it is clear that the Kings are not suitable for this type of defense, Bibby and Webb are good at speed, but the defensive prediction is extremely bad, these two are the least suitable for tight defensive tactics, they can't force others at all, but they will always be overcome.

"I don't think Adelman thought it would be like this," said D'Antoni, who didn't quite understand why Adelman would use such a suicidal style of defense, which was so unwise. But at the same time, he didn't quite understand why Zhuang Fei was so angry, Adelman should be happy when he messed up.

After the first three quarters, the Timberwolves had already led by 37 points at home 110-73, and less than two minutes into the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves replaced all their main players.

Adelman stood on the sidelines and looked solemn, the change of this game was a complete failure, and the pressing did not force the opponent to death but made himself mess up, he had already discovered this problem in the second quarter, but it was too late, the Kings' players were obviously defeated by the fiasco in the first quarter, and it was already too late for him to adjust later.

"I'm too eager for quick success, which makes me lose my square inch and mess up" Adelman thought to himself, he didn't really want to touch the Timberwolves, if he had a choice, he would rather play the Spurs, go to the Lakers, he didn't want to play the Timberwolves, if there is still a team in the league that can restrain the current king, then it can only be the Timberwolves, this team is simply born to restrain his king.

In the end, the Timberwolves defeated the Kings 140-100 in this game, winning by 40 points, and the Timberwolves players staged a jīng lottery score drama in front of the home fans, and finally fixed the score at 2-0, for the best-of-5 series, the Timberwolves have mastered the absolute initiative, and it can be said that one foot has stepped into the second round. And Nash, who delivered 20 assists in only three quarters in this game, became the best player of the game, Nash was so happy in this game, the Kings' defense was all open, as long as he broke through Bibby, he could easily find scoring opportunities, and he would even think about how the defense in the playoffs was too fragile than in the regular season, not only Nash had this idea, but the other Timberwolves players too.

"Coach Z, congratulations on winning the second game, but it doesn't look like you're very happy"

"Yes, I'm disappointed, I'm disappointed in this game, I think you might think I'm pretentious, I won the game and sold well, but it's a fact, Mr. Adelman didn't let me see what I wanted to see in this game, the Kings lost their traditions, they lost their roots, the King's strength was not defense in the first place, they didn't have to think about defense at all"

"I wanted to give a big game to the fans across the country, but obviously we couldn't do it against a king like that."

In the face of Zhuang Fei's sudden frenzy, the reporters in the audience were a little at a loss, even Adelman who was sitting on the side.

"Don't ask my king any more questions, I have nothing to say, I'm already thinking about my next opponent, Sir? Lakers? There is no problem," Zhuang Fei finished speaking, leaving a group of stunned people.

Adelman looked at Zhuang Fei's departing back and had mixed feelings, Zhuang Fei's sentence "The king's strength is not defense, they don't have to think about defense at all" made Adelman's somewhat confused heart calm down, he was not a fool, he naturally saw that this was Zhuang Fei's drink, but he and Zhuang Fei never had any intersection, he didn't understand why Zhuang Fei would remind him like this, remind him of such an opponent, but then think of Zhuang Fei when he left, "I am already thinking about the next opponent" made him very indignant.

Zhuang Fei himself doesn't know why it is so abnormal today, it may be that he has a very natural affinity for Adelman, after all, Adelman was the head coach of the Rockets in his previous life, and Zhuang Fei was an out-and-out Rocket fan in his previous life, so the confused Adelman Zhuang Fei has not seen it, and when he was in the Rocket, Adelman has been confused.

"Hey" Zhuang Fei was a little helpless and a little glad when he thought of this, Adelman did not have the temperament of a champion coach. In the end, Zhuang Fei shook his head and walked into the Timberwolves' locker room.

In today's four games, in addition to the Timberwolves' victory over the Kings at home, the Atlanta Hawks also defeated the Pistons with a score of 89-69 at home, and the big score also became 2:0, and the Pistons also went to the edge of the cliff, and the New York Knicks lost to the Miami Heat 73-83 on the road, and the big score of the two teams became 1:1, the suspense still exists, and the most surprising thing is that the Lakers lost to the Jazz again, and it is normal for the sixth in the West to lose to the third in the West, But everyone didn't expect the Lakers to lose so crisply, which reminded everyone of last season's Western Conference Finals, the Lakers also lost 0-4, and last season's Western Conference semifinals Lakers also lost 1-4, everyone wondered if the Lakers would be wiped out by the Jazz for three consecutive years?

Nemesis, this is the word that is mentioned the most in the American media after today's game.