On February 15th, the day of the Timberwolves' home game against the Nuggets, Zhuang Fei and D'Antoni sat in the office with a heavy face, at this time Zhuang Fei was looking at the players' various physical reports and training reports, and the more they watched, the more frightened they became.

"How so?" For Zhuang Fei, many times he can't use the reports of these players, after all, all of them are available in the dynasty system, but compared with the reports of the dynasty system, the reports of the team trainers and scouts are more detailed, the reports of the dynasty system are too brief, just take the status report of the players, the state value of the players on the dynasty system will show that the state of the players is in average or excellent condition, or it is sluggish and demonic, many times the state of the players is in general, and it is how the general dynasty system does not say, This is where the team's scouting report and training report come in.

This is the situation of the Timberwolves this time, in the report of the dynasty system, most of the players of the Timberwolves are in average condition, especially the players who participated in the All-Star Weekend, the state of the players is generally normal, and Zhuang Fei didn't care too much, but when D'Antoni made a training report on the players who returned from the All-Star Weekend, the state of these players was not average at all, and it could even be said to be sluggish, and the one in the dynasty system was generally very close to the downturn, However, the final judgment of the system is still average.

"Zhuang, have you heard about the All-Star Syndrome" D'Antoni stared at Zhuang Fei and said, in fact, he himself has not personally experienced this thing, whether as a player or coach D'Antoni is not a successful person in the NBA, and the All-Star is far away from him. However, because he has been in the NBA for many years, he knows a lot of things, but Zhuang Fei personally led the All-Star team and made the Timberwolves players have All-Star syndrome, which also surprised D'Antoni.

"All-Star Syndrome?" Zhuang Fei was stunned for a moment, and then fell into deep thought, this symptom Zhuang Fei had heard in his previous life, this refers to some inexperienced All-Star players playing too high during the All-Star Weekend, so that there will be a downturn in the next regular season, this playing too high does not necessarily refer to the game. In fact, the Timberwolves players did not consume too much energy in the All-Star Game this year, but participating in the All-Star Weekend is definitely not just about participating in the game, as an All-Star player needs to cooperate with the league to do advertising and commercial promotion during the All-Star period, in addition to some routine activities to increase the image of the NBA, such as some community activities, of course, in addition to these, there are also some parties, parties, etc., these things are very consuming of the player's energy and make the player out of the game, Some experienced players know how to avoid the big when they have experience. But All-Star rookies like the Timberwolves don't have such experience, and these people are the most active group of people in this All-Star, after all, the Timberwolves are huge in number and receive a lot of attention. Of course, it is also greatly affected by the all-star syndrome, and it is not surprising that there is a slump in form.

It's just that Zhuang Fei is a little unacceptable that he actually made an omission, he could have reminded the players, but in the end he forgot because he was also very excited, in the current Timberwolves, basically everyone is used to Zhuang Fei's omnipotence, and even thinks that Zhuang Fei will not be wrong, of course, he is also used to Zhuang Fei's arbitrariness, so now the Timberwolves have become Zhuang Fei's words. Few people give advice to Zhuang Fei, and even more so for something as small as this all-star syndrome. This also makes Zhuang Fei now make this extremely simple mistake.

Zhuang Fei is now contemplating not the state of the player, but thinking about his own coaching style, Zhuang Fei's path is too smooth, except for last season's loss to the Spurs, Zhuang Fei has never suffered a little setback, which makes Zhuang Fei develop a very confident and even conceited psychology. This makes him never consider anyone else's advice, and even makes Zhuang Fei an image of a dictator in the eyes of others. Zhuang Fei has heard some bad rumors about himself this season, this rumor is mainly circulated among the management of NBA teams, Zhuang Fei is very unpopular among the management of these dozens of NBA teams, it can be said that he is hated. Although there is no such thing on the surface of the Timberwolves right now. The players are cohesive, and the management is not as chaotic as the Lakers, but is this model of one team having only one voice right? Zhuang Fei fell into deep thought, a team can't be played by him alone, I'm afraid that a chairperson like Celtic head coach Pitino, the general manager, and the head coach don't have the right and arbitrariness like Zhuang Fei. In the Timberwolves, now the boss is afraid of Zhuang Fei, and others who dare to touch Zhuang Fei's tiger whiskers. Zhuang Fei is not a superman or a god, such a model is very easy to make mistakes, but his luck is too good, he has not committed it before. …,

"Mike, try to let the players do the confrontation practice with the ball, let them find the feeling of the game, this thing will be done" Zhuang Fei finally sighed a little uncertainly and said, D'Antoni also nodded slightly, this is consistent with his thoughts, although Zhuang Fei rarely listens to his advice, but Zhuang Fei's ability is undoubted, Zhuang Fei has been proving that he is right, which also makes D'Antoni very relieved about Zhuang Fei.

Looking at D'Antoni's back, Zhuang Fei pondered again.

On February 15th, the NBA regular season rekindled the fire, the Timberwolves this time at home against the Nuggets who had defeated themselves this season, the Timberwolves suffered consecutive defeats in the recent away trip because they lost to the Nuggets and the Lakers, this game Timberwolves must be determined to take revenge, the strength of the Nuggets is average, the Timberwolves are fighting at home, although Zhuang Fei is worried about the state of the players before the game, but there should be no problem to defeat the Nuggets, but this game Nuggets did not make the Timberwolves better, At the end of the first quarter of the game, the Nuggets and the Timberwolves played a 30-tie, and at the end of the half, with the help of the bench, the Timberwolves led by 59-56 by three points, just when Zhuang Fei thought that the Timberwolves were on the right track in this game, the Nuggets played a 28-18 to the Timberwolves in the third quarter, and the Timberwolves scored less than 20 in a single quarter, which was extremely rare, until the end of the fourth quarter, under Zhuang Fei's strict requirements and continuous substitutions, the state of the Timberwolves recovered some, At the end of the fourth quarter, Garnett's two-point whistle chased the game to 100 and dragged it into overtime, which was the first overtime game for the Timberwolves this season, in which the Timberwolves players finally took the initiative and finally won 107-104 against the Nuggets, and also avenged the revenge. But the process of this game may not give the Timberwolves players the thrill of revenge. And Pierce's performance in this game is a continuation of the last slump against the Nuggets, only 5 of 19 shots, he is the player with the greatest impact of the All-Star Syndrome, after this game was accepted, Zhuang Fei deliberately looked at the player report of the dynasty system again, and Pierce's state has changed from average to sluggish.

"We had a terrible game and we had some difficulties with our players right now, the Nuggets were brilliant and they kept us pressing, they were ahead 47 minutes and 59 seconds, it's a very good team"

Zhuang Fei didn't have a good face at the post-game press conference, just said a few polite words and left, the Timberwolves are not in a very good state now, and similarly, the Timberwolves' schedule is not very good, after the game with the Nuggets, they will face the Grizzlies back-to-back at home, and they will also face their rival New York every other day at home after the Grizzlies, the Grizzlies and New York are both strong teams, and naturally they will not let the Timberwolves have a lot of opportunities to find form in the game like the Nuggets.

On February 16th, Zhuang Fei ushered in the Grizzlies led by his most proud disciple Carter, in the last battle with the Grizzlies, the Timberwolves won away from home, at that time Artest was in conflict with the team, and Carter was also adjusting the relationship between Artest and other teammates, at that time the Grizzlies were not in harmony with the whole team, and the results were also very poor, but after Carter accepted Artest, after integrating Artest into the team, the Grizzlies have reached fifth in the West under the leadership of Carter, Raheem, and Artest, and have trampled the Spurs under their feet. The current Grizzlies are definitely not comparable to what they used to be, and this will be a tough battle for the Timberwolves.

In fact, this game is indeed as Zhuang Fei expected, this is a vicious battle, the Grizzlies took the lead as soon as they started, the Timberwolves' state is still not very good, the opening game is very passive, especially Pierce's state is very sluggish, as the team's most important outside knife, even if Zhuang Fei knows that Pierce is in a sluggish state, it is impossible to press him on the bench, it is not Carter who defends Pierce in this game, but Artest, but for this rookie rookie, Pierce does not have many ways.

Zhuang Fei looked at Pierce from the sidelines, his face was a little gloomy.

"It's time to talk to him after this game, now it's not that his ability and condition are not good, but that he has a psychological problem" Zhuang Fei thought secretly in his heart.

The game that made the Timberwolves struggle ended in the defeat of the Timberwolves, the final score of the game was 106-101, the Grizzlies won by 5 points away, the best player in this game was Carter, Carter scored 28 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, Carter's performance is very indifferent now, on and off the court, which reminds Zhuang Fei of the little emperor James who was in the Heat in the future, and now Carter's style of play is very similar to him.

After this game, the Timberwolves lost the fifth game of the season, and the record this season has become 44-5, and there is a Laker and Hornets at the same time with the Timberwolves.

But when Zhuang Fei left the court, he received a message from Green.

"The Lakers also lost?" Zhuang Fei was shocked, and then rejoiced.

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