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When Paul Pierce and Steve Nash stood on the sidelines and prepared to play, all the fans in the audience were stunned for a moment, and then let out a roaring applause.

It was still the familiar applause, but Pierce felt like two people, as if he had been reborn, many things had changed, Nash stood quietly on the side, he was feeling the aura on Pierce's body, and it was strange to say that this Pierce standing next to him gave him a feeling that he was not as sharp as before, on the contrary, there was a feeling that the lead had been washed away.

"What am I thinking, Paul is just a 21-year-old young man, how can he feel like this" Nash himself shook his head. I couldn't stop smiling bitterly in my heart.

Nash's feeling is indeed not wrong, Pierce has changed, more restrained than before, and there is another person who knows this change very well, that is, the head coach of the Timberwolves Zhuang Fei.

When Pierce bent down at 90 degrees to him, Zhuang Fei's ears suddenly sounded the electronic sound of the dynasty system.

"Congratulations to the host, Paul Pierce has +1 Perception Ability in the game"

This is definitely a bonus, after resolving the dispute between Pierce and Garnett, it will also allow Pierce to break through his barrier from an A- player to an A-level player, which means that the Timberwolves already have 2 A-level players, although the Spurs have an A+ player Duncan and an A-level player Robinson, but the Timberwolves have undoubtedly closed the gap with the Spurs again.

"Maybe it's not impossible to win this series," Zhuang Fei thought as he looked at Pierce's back.

Watching the Timberwolves re-send Pierce and Nash, Vicky on the Spurs bench isn't worried. The Spurs' offensive form was extremely poor today, but the hole the Timberwolves dug for themselves in the first half was too big to make a difference in this game.

"It's too late now," Vicky looked at Zhuang Fei and thought happily in his heart. Want to beat the Spurs by 12 points in the fourth quarter? No team in the league can do that.

"The Timberwolves made substitutions, regardless of what happened to the Timberwolves in the past. Regardless of what these youngsters have done before, they are still the closest brothers and comrades when they are back together, and Garnett and Pierce have not been able to share the stage for just over three quarters, but for the fans, those three quarters have been too long, and now it's okay, it's all over again, and we congratulate the young Timberwolves. They have overcome some things that we can see and can't see today, and I hope they can grow even greater" Michaels listened to the huge cheers of the audience, and looked at Pierce's calm face and Garnett's surprised expression with a hint of joy, and he couldn't help but get excited.

Pierce receives a pass from Nash on the wing. There was a very familiar feeling in his hand, and when he looked up, Garnett was entangled with Duncan, and in just a moment, Pierce saw an opportunity. Immediately accelerating to get rid of the defense and then to the basket, Robinson watched the forward, who had been humiliated by him and Duncan in the first half, once again come in without knowing whether to kill or die, and he also met it, but Robinson was about to face Pierce. Suddenly, Pierce disappeared from his eyes.

"This turn is too out-of-the-box, Pierce flies to pick up the blue," Michaels almost stood up. When Pierce passed David Robinson just now, the Timberwolves fans at the scene exclaimed. Pierce is not an extremely fast player, but his series of moves are very fast, not fancy, but very practical.

Pierce felt his body fly, he hadn't flown in the Spurs' restricted area for a long time, when he was in the air overlooking the basket, Garnett was swearing hideous and struggling to help him block Duncan behind him, Duncan was blocked by Garnett and couldn't come over to help defend, seeing this scene, Pierce suddenly became sad again, and the right hand that was about to go to the basket suddenly twisted, and the trend was a one-handed buckle.

"Hey, what about a layup instead of a dunk?" Michaels was once again amazed, and the young man's physical talent was once again on display.

"Thank you, Kevin," Pierce said with a shaky voice as he passed by Garnett.

"What?" Garnett looked at Pierce a little incredulously, is this Pierce saying thank you to him again? Pierce hasn't said a word of thanks to the Timberwolves since he arrived this season, which left Garnett unable to react for a while.

"Stupid, what are you doing stupidly, pay attention to retreat" Pierce's face was a little shy, after all, this was the first time he had said such a thing, and then shouted at Garnett with a pretended anger of rage.

"Hehe" looked at Pierce's awkward appearance, Garnett also touched his head and smirked, and then did not stop at his feet, and followed Pierce back to the defense.

"Zhuang, I'm not mistaken, right? Are the two above really Kevin and Paul? They were on the same page just now? D'Antoni on the sidelines was speechless as he watched the scene of Garnett and Pierce on the field.

"Well, I think you should be right" Zhuang Fei said with a smile, these two people are not the kind of villains who hold grudges, as long as they recognize each other's role and importance to each other and the team, then these two people can become the closest people.

"Seriously, Zhuang, I have to admire Ling's mediation ability, I'm afraid there is really no one in the NBA who can control a player like Ling," D'Antoni said with emotion. In the NBA coach is originally a vulnerable group, I am afraid that only this Chinese can play such a means, and only he can have such courage, thinking back to the Timberwolves' journey this season, this Chinese what he admires most is the courage to create everything, challenge everything and contempt everything, he believes that he can't do Zhuang Fei.

Zhuang Fei didn't speak, just shook his head slightly, he knew in his heart that this was not to say that he was really a cow, if he replaced Pierce with Marbury, he would also have no choice.

Even if Pierce and Nash played in this game, the Timberwolves' fighting spirit reached its peak, but as Vicky thought, the hole dug by the Timberwolves in this game was too big, almost too big to be filled. The Spurs' control is indeed sè, and they can always control the rhythm on the court, and the Timberwolves can close some scores, but they can't turn over, and it feels useless to struggle.

"The Timberwolves tried to speed up the pace of chasing points in the fourth quarter, with the golden combination of Pierce and Garnett, their offense did not have a lot, but they never managed to completely break the Spurs' defense, the result of the game may be very disappointing for Timberwolves fans, after all, the Timberwolves will suffer a defeat in this game, but the fans in the stands have been shouting enthusiastically, they don't feel that this game is a failure, this is another victory for these young people."

"Vince, I feel that Pierce is stronger than before, and his temperament is different, a bit like a sophomore in his sophomore year" Ragabel has watched the Timberwolves a lot, he is familiar with every player in the Timberwolves, and as a defensive giant, he is very sensitive to changes in other players.

"yes, he's changed," Carter nodded, and then continued: "He's now in the top 20 of the league, a notch higher than before."

"But he's still a Mississippi River away from you," Ragabel said, glaring at Carter.

Carter smiled, then set his eyes on the arena again, and he didn't deny it or admit it.

The result of this game did not make too many waves, the Spurs won, 75-69, and the Timberwolves played 49-35 in the second half, but still could not win.

Pierce walked to the sideline in frustration, if it wasn't for him in this game, the Timberwolves might have been able to beat the Spurs, when he saw Zhuang Fei standing on the sidelines to greet them as usual, Pierce no longer had the great jealousy of Garnett before, Garnett deserved the coach's first hug. Garnett is indeed the most important person on the team.

But when he and Garnett walked to the sidelines at the same time, Zhuang Fei did not greet Garnett as usual, but hugged him in his arms, Garnett on the side was stunned when he saw this scene, and then quickly applauded, and other Timberwolves players also followed Garnett to Zhuang Fei and Pierce to give applause.

Feeling this somewhat unfamiliar temperature, listening to the friendly applause and encouragement of the team, Pierce was really ashamed at this time and wanted to bury his head in Zhuang Fei's shoulder and never lift it.

"Thank you, thank you," Pierce silently thanked these dear people in his heart. These are brothers and partners that can be trusted in the future

"Mr. Zhuang, can you tell me why you let Nash and Garnett sit on the sidelines in the first half" When Zhuang Fei and Veky entered the press conference, Veky felt that he was no longer the protagonist today, but recalling the previous two press conferences, he didn't seem to be the protagonist, or standing with Zhuang Fei, no coach would be the protagonist.

"No comment," Zhuang Fei replied with a smile.

"Mr. Zhuang, if you continue like this, we can complain to the Alliance."

Zhuang Fei saw that he was a reporter from the New York Times, and he thought that they had done it last time to fine Zhuang Fei, but Zhuang Fei was not angry, but just smiled again and said.

"Feel free to welcome, I think you need to complain to the league 999 times to make me scared, by the way, these 999 times still need to be successful"

After saying this, Zhuang Fei left without looking at anyone at the scene, including Vicky, which made Vicky extremely embarrassed. Originally, he had already stood up and was about to shake hands with Zhuang Fei, but his hands were stretched out.