"This snow is so big" Zhuang Fei stood in his office and looked out the window, the street was already white, and the pedestrians on the street had begun to put on thick cotton jackets and wrapped themselves tightly, and it was just summer before Zhuang Fei's memory Minnesota.

D'Antoni walked into Zhuang Fei's office, and saw that Zhuang Fei was looking out the window and thinking, thinking that he should be thinking about the problem, after leaving Chicago and returning to Minnesota, the Timberwolves did have a large number of problems that Zhuang Fei needed to solve. D'Antoni gently placed a report and a stack of newspapers on Zhuang Fei's desk and sat down silently. Just as D'Antoni 1 sat down, Zhuang Fei spoke up.

"How is the situation with Mike, Manu and Wang Zhizhi" Zhuang Fei turned to look at D'Antoni and asked, his face full of worry.

"Wang Zhizhi is a little better, but Manu is a bit more serious and may take longer" D'Antoni sighed and said, although these two players are not indispensable players for the team, but they are important rotation players, in this case they retired due to a cold, you know, it is about to be a Christmas game with the Lakers.

"That's it" Zhuang Fei nodded, and then served D'Antoni a cup of hot coffee, Wang Zhizhi and Ginobili did not adapt to the weather in Minnesota, and they caught a cold when they returned to Minnesota yesterday, this cold was not only because the weather was too cold, but also because the two of them were a little tired, these two players had experienced such a dense schedule there before, and they caught a cold under the dual influence of this physical exhaustion and cold weather.

Of course, a cold is not a big deal for NBA players, but this time point is a little unacceptable, today is December 23, and there are two days left to fight the Christmas battle with the Lakers, Ginobili and Wang Zhizhi are important chess pieces for Zhuang Fei against the Lakers.

"Hehe, this Ao Fat is really chasing after me" Zhuang Fei picked up the newspaper sent by D'Antoni and looked at it and said, the sentence he said in Chicago yesterday that the Timberwolves did not have Duncan and could not afford Shaq's rampant words quickly became the front page headlines of major sports pages in the United States. This sentence is as long as people who know a little bit about the grievances between Zhuang Fei and O'Neal know what Zhuang Fei means, before the warm-up game between the American Dream Team and the NCAA championship team Wake Forest before the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, O'Neal spoke to teach Duncan of Wake Forest a lesson, but after the game started, everyone saw that Duncan was teaching O'Neal a lesson. At the same time, it also made Zhuang Fei famous in the United States, and achieved the greatest legend in the history of Wake Forest and American basketball. At the same time, it also made O'Neal's pre-game wild words a laughing stock, which is also an eternal pain in his heart. In addition to this competition, CBS and ABC in the United States jointly created a new event, the North American Challenger Cup, which is held every four years. The first tournament was won by Wake Forest in 1996 and the second on July 15, 2000, with CBS being the NCAA and ABC being the NBA, the first being the first time the two broadcasters had joined forces.

"yes, who told you to say that yesterday, it's almost the equivalent of a challenge book," D'Antoni said with a smile, knowing a thing or two about Zhuang Fei and O'Neill when he was in Italy. At that time, he was still coaching in Italy, but the invincible American Dream Team actually lost to a college team, even if he was thousands of miles away in Italy, he heard about it, and it was quite a sensation at the time.

"Challenge book? In fact, O'Neill himself thinks too much" Zhuang Fei shook his head and said with a wry smile, Zhuang Fei is a little joking, but there is absolutely no intention to provoke, who in the alliance now dares to tease this increasingly invincible shark? Now with the other three of the big four centers aging. O'Neal now has no opponent, maybe the only one who can compete with him is Duncan, but now Duncan is indeed not in the Timberwolves, how can Garnett and Xiao Ao of the Timberwolves withstand the ravages of O's fat now, this is a fact. It can even be said that no one in the entire alliance can afford to be ravaged by Ao Fat. …,

"Anyway, you should think about how to deal with this big shark now, he is threatening to score 80 points in the Christmas game" D'Antoni looked at Zhuang Fei, who was a little deflated, and said with a smile, he rarely saw Zhuang Fei look like this when facing a player. This is a very helpless look, the last time I saw it was when I faced the Spurs last season, when I faced Duncan who he single-handedly adjusted, Duncan's play at that time has been haunting D'Antoni's mind, Duncan is indeed worthy of Zhuang Fei's helplessness, but I don't know what will happen to O'Neal, D'Antoni is full of expectations.

"Maybe he really has the potential to score 80 points" Zhuang Fei said with a smile, O'Neal scored 75 points alone in yesterday's game with the Warriors, setting a new record for his highest score in the regular season. Ao Fat's current dynasty system score is 98 points, at present, there is no player in the NBA who knows that Zhuang Fei has a higher rating than him, Duncan's 97, Carter's 96, Iverson's 95, Grant Hill's 95, these people are all A+ players, but they are not as good as O'Neal, the rating is 98, his offensive rating is as high as 99, and he is still the first in the league known to Zhuang Fei. Zhuang Fei remembers the 2004 finals that made the Pistons a god, and Ao Fat, who was close to the late stage of his peak, was giving everything he wanted when facing Daben and Tianzun at the peak, with a shooting rate of more than 60%, although the game was lost, but Ao Fat's performance was still unsolvable.

At that time, Ao Fat couldn't solve it, let alone now, what the Lakers need to play now is not to beat them on the defensive end, because no team can prevent them now, if it weren't for the Utah duo last year to stop Fat again, last year's championship would not have been the Spurs, why the Utah Jazz have been able to destroy the Lakers in recent years, and every time they almost humiliate the Lakers in a sweeping way, not because they stopped the Lakers or Fat Fat's offense, but because they let their offense suppress the Lakers' offense, This is also the reason why Zhuang Fei has been emphasizing the team's offense rather than defense in order to deal with the Lakers, he can't do everything, so let's go to extremes, offense to offense, this is Zhuang Fei's choice.

Even if Ao Fat can score 80 points, Zhuang Fei will let Ao Fat lose 81 points on the defensive end, so it is still the Timberwolves who win.

D'Antoni could only smile bitterly when he looked at Zhuang Fei, who had become indifferent, this Chinese was simply against the sky in terms of emotional adjustment, which was what he admired the most. Always so confident, so confident.

"Maybe that's the quality of a champion," D'Antoni thought.

On December 23, 1999, at 7 p.m., the Timberwolves hosted the Seattle SuperSonics, who were seventh in the West, and the Seattle SuperSonics did not enter the playoffs for the first time in the last nine years last season, which also made them want to be ashamed of this season, before the start of this season, the second leader of the SuperSonics, Wenbeck, had just renewed his contract with the team for 7 years, which was also the prelude to the SuperSonics preparing to do a big job, and their performance this season was indeed very good, compared to last season, This season, Payton has maintained an MVP-level statistic of 24 points and 9 assists, and the SuperSonics have always maintained seventh in the West, although they are not as good as the Lakers, Timberwolves, Trail Blazers, Jazz and Spurs in front, but they are not bad compared to the Suns who are sixth in the West, and it can be said that they want to make a difference this season.

Nash's defense has always been a problem, so in the Timberwolves' tactical system, as long as the opponent has a strong offensive No. 1 position, the Timberwolves' defense of the opponent's No. 1 position is generally Jackson's misplaced defense, although Jackson's defensive ability has always been very good, but many times in terms of speed is hard, after all, he is a tall man of more than 2 meters, which also makes the Timberwolves very afraid of fast, high-impact point guards, especially in the face of Payton, when the Timberwolves suffer the most, Payton is not the kind of player who is absolutely fast, but his breakthrough is very weird, very different from ordinary people, which is also what makes Jackson unbearable, if Nash is allowed to defend against the position, Nash's small body will be directly played by Payton with his back.

So in this game, Zhuang Fei is still pursuing offense to deal with offense, in the face of the Timberwolves Garnett and Nash in the horn area after the fast down, in the face of Xiao Ao and Pierce on the flank, supersonic also has no way, and they have no way to deal with the Timberwolves' whirlwind play, although the supersonic has a super No. 1 position, but they can't control the rhythm of the Timberwolves on the court like the Spurs, so although the two teams have been very anxious in this game, the final victory is still the Timberwolves fighting at home.

"Won another game, it seems that the battle for the first place in the West is the direct conversation with the Lakers" Zhuang Fei watched Pierce hit the three-point shot after receiving Nash's breakthrough point, and thought happily in his heart, the Timberwolves have not met a team that is in good shape or too strong so far, it can be said that the Timberwolves' schedule at the beginning of the season is very good, which is why Zhuang Fei's Timberwolves have been able to bite the Lakers. The Timberwolves now have a 22-1 record and the Lakers are 23-1, and the Lakers are now on a 20-game winning streak.

Just as the whistle sounded, Zhuang Fei's ears also sounded the electronic sound of the dynasty system.

"Congratulations to the host for upgrading to level 25 and leaving the rookie coach period, please pay attention to check the rookie gift package given by the system"