(Ask for recommendation)

"Manu? He's a very good player, I've always admired him, he's one of the most important players in this team? ”

"How do you feel about the substitution? I don't feel anything else, you know, it's tough, and I've never been back on the bench since I left Phoenix."

"Yes, I've had a lot of playing time this season, maybe Mr. Van Gundy is thinking about how to use me, but obviously he's using me in a different direction, I'm not a three-point shooter, I'll admit my shooting is great, but there are other things I can do"

"Today's win was great, the Vancouver Grizzlies have been strong this year, they've been the best defensive team in the league this season, but we did better than them in this game, that's all"

"This game is a defensive win? Yes, defense is very important, but offense is also able to win any game, and when Mr. Zhuang was there, we won two championships with attack, so Mr. Zhuang is a great coach."

"Leave? I don't know, I love this team and I never thought I'd leave here, there are a lot of my friends here, it just looks like Mr. Van Gundy doesn't need me"

"You're right, I think I'm really upset because I'm now the first Finals MVP in NBA history to sit on the bench, and I hate that feeling."

The Minnesota Timberwolves had a problem, and the defending champion was in the aftergame of the tournament's 79-76 win over the Grizzlies at home, where last season's Finals MVP Nash expressed his public displeasure with the team's head coach Van Gundy, knowing that it was only the ninth game since the start of the new season. {}

In fact, when Van Gundy joined the Grizzlies, many people would be worried about this team, after all, Van Gundy is a defensive coach and the Timberwolves are an offensive team, and there is a natural sense of exclusion between the two in terms of attributes. There are even those who think Van Gundy will end up in defeat this year. And then finally left Minnesota in a gloomy way.

But things didn't turn out as these people expected, and the former Knicks head coach showed great adaptability when he came to the Timberwolves, making adjustments to the team with little effort. And soon, the offensive team that once terrified the league turned into a suffocating defensive team like it is now, if this year's Grizzlies are the league's strongest defense. Then in the previous direct confrontation between the two teams, the two teams played a close match in the target center, and the Grizzlies also lost by 3 points in the end.

Of course, many times Zhuang Fei's Timberwolves' offense is too dazzling, so many people ignore the defensive ability of the previous Timberwolves, in fact, the Timberwolves have a lot of players with excellent single defense ability, but these people were not very famous in the past, and similarly, the Timberwolves also have a lot of defensive black holes that can only attack and cannot defend, such as Nash, who expressed his dissatisfaction with the team's head coach at a press conference after the team's victory over the Grizzlies. {}

Nash's stature with the Timberwolves is declining this season. For this, the Finals MVP found out in the first game of the regular season this season, and in the first game, the first player of the Timberwolves Finals last season actually only got 20 minutes of playing time, which is unthinkable for Nash, who has been serving as the absolute core under Zhuang Fei. Originally, Nash thought Van Gundy might be tweaking the team's lineup. In fact, it is inevitable for a new head coach to come to a new team and then adjust the team's roster, so Nash was not unhappy when he started. But as the game deepened, the Timberwolves' point guard found that something was wrong, because in the next few games, the absolute playmaking core of the Timberwolves only played about 20 minutes per game, and even at the end of the most critical fourth quarter, the playmaking guard was directly pressed to the bench. …,

The team was abandoned at a critical time, and when he saw this scene, the organizational guard finally understood something, so soon one of the leaders of the Timberwolves found Van Gundy, but he didn't get any answer or good news from Van Gundy, and the final result was that in the battle with the Grizzlies for the league's first record, the organizational guard played as a substitute in the Timberwolves for the first time, and Ginobili, who replaced it, played well on both offensive and defensive ends in this game. He himself only played 10 minutes in this game.

And the final result of this game is also the Timberwolves' home victory over the Grizzlies, who have won eight in a row, and then with a 9-1 record to the top of the West and the first in the league, it is precisely because of Van Gundy's record at the beginning of the season that he can slowly start to take Nash, although Nash is the former core of this team, the former Timberwolves This player may have the highest tactical status on the court, but in Minnesota and the United States, the popularity of the local and the United States is not as good as the other two core players, In addition, the owner Glenn Taylor also seems to be acquiescing in such a thing, so Van Gundy also began his own drastic pace of reform.

In fact, after Nash expressed his rumors about Van Gundy to the outside world, the organizer of the Timberwolves called Zhuang Fei overnight. Tell Zhuang Fei about his current situation.

Zhuang Fei can clearly feel the confusion of this proud disciple from the phone, Zhuang Fei knows that it is difficult for Nash to have a good development space under the system of Van Gundy and Tin Foil Du, under that system, the Timberwolves need to play slow and need to play positional offense, and although Nash is now fast and slow under Zhuang Fei's transformation, it is obvious that the threat of this point guard on the offensive end will decline, and the defensive end is a colander when the threat on the offensive end declines, which is tantamount to a black hole, in the era of Zhuang Fei, Nash can concede 40 points when defending, but he can bring 50 or even 60 points to the Timberwolves on the offensive end, so Zhuang Fei doesn't care about the defensive ability of this guard, but under Van Gundy's system, this point guard can only bring 30 points to the team at most, but it can make the team lose more than 35 points, so for Van Gundy, he is not a personal grudge with Nash, but really based on tactical considerations.

Of course, Zhuang Fei also knows that Nash is calling him, mainly in the hope of finding someone who can talk to him, Nash also knows that Zhuang Fei can give him limited help now, although there are many teammates in the Timberwolves who complain about themselves, but Ginobili, who takes his place, is not an outsider. He is also his own brother. In this case, it is also difficult for those teammates of the Timberwolves to do it, and Nash also doesn't want something bad to happen to the team because of his own affairs, so the point guard will think of Zhuang Fei. Now in the heart of the Timberwolves point guard, he can only tell Zhuang Fei the pain in his heart.

Zhuang Fei and Nash talked on the phone for more than 2 hours, and when Zhuang Fei sighed and hung up the phone, it was already three o'clock in the morning, and he felt a little sorry for Nash in his heart. In the Timberwolves' team, the point guard has sacrificed everything except defense, he obviously has a strong scoring ability, but in the end he only takes about 6 shots per game, he obviously has a strong ability to make key shots, but as long as Pierce and Garnett want to take over the game, this point guard will not hesitate to hand over the ball, he is the former Minnesota team nanny.

Van Gundy doesn't want Nash now, but Nash, who was the MVP of last season's Finals and a two-time All-Star guard, has no shortage of next home, so after Nash exposed the news, almost the whole league was shaken, and a large number of small teams in the league such as the Mavericks, Wizards, and Raptors began to frantically rush to the Timberwolves management to discuss the feasibility of trading this player. …,

It's just that even with such madness, Van Gundy, Jr., who is the owner of Nash, still has no other plans. It still doesn't look like he has retracted his decision

In the office of the Minnesota head coach, the new Minnesota head coach Van Gundy sighed helplessly with the newspaper in his hand.

The current Minnesota head coach's office is not the same place as Zhuang Fei's luxurious office before, and Zhuang Fei's original office belonged to Glenn Taylor. It's just that Glenn Taylor gave his chairman's office to Zhuang Fei in order to show favor to Zhuang Fei. But with Zhuang Fei leaving, Glenn Taylor naturally took back the office, and although Van Gundy Jr. is also famous, it will definitely make him treat him like Zhuang Fei.

"Jeff. You're not really going to send Steve away, are you?" Van Gundy's assistant coach Tin Foil Du asked with some concern, although the team's recent record has been very good, and the Timberwolves fans have also recognized them, but Nash is one of the leaders here after all, although the owner has not stopped their behavior, but the local media in Minnesota have been a little dissatisfied with this matter in recent days, and now the newspaper Van Gundy is holding in his hand is the report of the local media in Minnesota.

The headline in the newspaper was: Coach Z can lead this team to two championships, why can't Mr. Van Gundy?

Tin Foil Du knew very well that when his boss saw this newspaper, his face was pale, Tin Foil Du was very aware of Van Gundy's weakness, and the former Knicks head coach hated to be compared to Zhuang Fei the most. But it's clear that as long as Van Gundy trades Nash, then Van Gundy has no way back, and if he breaks up a championship team, then he needs to prove to everyone that he can lead the team he broke up to win the championship, otherwise he won't have a place here.

"Well, I've decided on this, Steve is not the player I want, I will prove to everyone that I can do better than that Chinese" Van Gundy's face changed at first after listening to his assistant's words, but soon returned to normal, and then said a little indifferently. Seeing Van Gundy like this, he also sighed.

"The next game is Celtic, what do you want?" Tin Foil Du looked at his boss and asked again, and Van Gundy was also lost in thought.

This game is very important to him, although he has won nine of the first ten games since he became the owner of the Timberwolves, but before he entered the Timberwolves, the Timberwolves are a team that can achieve more than 70 wins in a single season for two consecutive seasons, for such a team 10 games and 9 wins is nothing, only after he directly defeated Zhuang Fei in the head-to-head confrontation with Zhuang Fei, he can really prove that he can sit in this position.

So the next home game against the Boston Celtics can be called a battle of life and death.

"The Boston Celtics have been in good shape recently, and now they have won five in a row and are in third place in the East" Tin Foil Du sighed again with some pity, it would have been good if he had played the Celtics in the first half of the month, when the team was still in the quagmire, and he also believed that at that time the Timberwolves would definitely be able to easily beat the Celtics and let Van Gundy gain a foothold here, but it was obvious that the opportunity had been missed.

"Anyway, the winner of the next game must be me" Van Gundy certainly understood the reason for Tin Foil's pity, but the head coach still said with a firm look in his eyes, and Tin Foil Du looked at the serious man in front of him and nodded.

In the Timberwolves head coach's office, Van Gundy was thinking about how to deal with Zhuang Fei.

And when Zhuang Fei led his team from Boston to Minnesota, he was simply taken aback by the scene in front of him.

The airport in Minnesota was full of Timberwolves fans inside and out, all of whom were chanting Zhuang Fei's name, some people were waving Zhuang Fei's large avatar, and some fan organizations were waving huge banners.

"It's terrifying, isn't it?"

Arenas looked at the scene in front of him with some dumbfounded, even when he was playing in the Olympics with the Dream Team, he didn't encounter such a battle, as Boston walked up and down the airport, the Boston defender estimated that there were at least tens of thousands of fans here, and even when they had boarded the bus, the bus was crowded with fans on both sides.

"Hehe, you haven't seen it when we won the championship parade here this year, it was even more lively at that time" Jackson, who saw Arenas on the side, also showed a hint of aftertaste.

And Arenas and the other Boston players also looked at the Chinese in front of the bus in disbelief, and a coach can do this, which is unprecedented.

At this time, Zhuang Fei didn't care about their strange gazes, but fell into deep thought.

It was the first time he had led the team against his original team.

This is the first time. This feeling made Zhuang Fei very complicated.