The task is finally completed, this is all Zhuang Fei's feelings at the end of the away trip, recalling this task at the beginning of this season, he is almost in the way of squeezing the potential of the players in the way of asking them to keep their state at a certain level, this is a very dangerous practice, according to other explanations, Zhuang Fei's approach is against science, now it's okay, it's all over, and the Timberwolves players don't seem to have much problem now, just a little tired.

On January 29, the stands at the Minnesota Target Center were packed, the Timberwolves' 41st game of the season and the Timberwolves' last game of January 2000, after a staggering 38-2 record.

"Hahaha, our form this year is fantastic, it seems that we can still win the game against the Jazz today, plus the Jazz have lost to us eight games in a row in last year's game, and there is no problem with this one today"

"yes, but you have to be careful, after all, we lost to the Pacers in the last home game because we were too light, but for the Timberwolves, the Jazz are still easier to deal with."

"It seems that after all the games are over today, the league will announce the list of All-Star head coaches tomorrow, and the list of All-Star East and West will also come out, I don't know how many players we will have on our team for this year's All-Star"

"Who knows, anyway, I just know that our coach must beat Phil Jackson to become the head coach of the West, and now the Lakers are 37-3, even if we lose this game, we are in front of them according to the ranking rules"

"Do you think Wang Zhizhi can really become a center in the west? I still think O'Neill is better, but looking at the number of votes in the second round, Wang Zhizhi should be confirmed"

"Wang's strength is good, his performance this season is very good, but he is still a lot worse than the All-Star, but the difference between Paul and Duncan is very small, I don't know if I can squeeze out Duncan, and there is Nash and Kidd and Kobe, and their vote difference is not big. I think Nash should have a better chance."

"Paul may not be as good as Duncan, who is the best player in the NBA right now, and Steve should have a good chance. Although there is not much difference between Steve's votes in the first phase and Kobe Kidd, the votes in the second phase have been opened, and now it depends on how many players on our team can make it to the All-Star team."

"I think there are three at the minimum, and if there were four, we would not have set a record in All-Star history. I think that back then, our team didn't even have a single player on the All-Star bench, but now we can go so much at once, it's really emotional."

"Don't be emotional, watch the game, this is the last game of the first half of our schedule, we must have a good ending"

Zhuang Fei didn't take Zhuang Fei seriously in today's game, and now he doesn't need to tighten his nerves anymore, everything just goes naturally, but compared with Zhuang Fei's nature, Sloan is a little nervous. has lost Zhuang Fei 8 games in a row, where will his old face go if he loses again? He has never lost so badly because of one person or one team, no matter what, he has to beat Zhuang Fei in this game, this is not the first time he said that he must beat Zhuang Fei, but Zhuang Fei is like his nemesis. No matter what he tried, he could never win him. This also made Sloan very helpless.

In this game, the Jazz played very actively at the beginning, and it was not seen that it was an away game at all, and on the contrary, the Timberwolves were a little shrunken and couldn't let go, and the Jazz even led the Timberwolves by as much as 7 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Timberwolves who came off the bench quickly recovered the point difference, this season Mobley and Ginobili and Lewis The bench lineup is extremely powerful, and in the entire NBA, I am afraid that only the Lakers can compare, no matter what makes Zhuang Fei and the Timberwolves a little embarrassed, after the bench lineup came back, the Timberwolves fell behind again, and the Timberwolves were still behind by 5 points at halftime.

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Obviously, the state of the Timberwolves' players began to fluctuate greatly, just like the last home loss to the Pacers, it is the most normal phenomenon for the state to fluctuate, and now Zhuang Fei really hopes that the Timberwolves can slump for a few games, when the second half of this game begins, until the end of the third quarter, the Timberwolves' backwardness has come to 10 points, Zhuang Fei did not do anything and changed all the team's bench lineup in the fourth quarter, and Sloan was almost dumbfounded when he saw the Timberwolves all down, Because now it is only 10 points behind, there is every chance to catch it up, but Zhuang Fei gave up directly, and when Sloan thought that he could finally end the losing streak against Zhuang Fei, these bench lineups of the Timberwolves gave the Jazz a fatal blow. Ginobili once again played the role of the Jazz killer, Ginobili's fame in the NBA is because of the shutout Jazz, after the start of the fourth quarter of the game, the Argentine was extremely active, and soon led the Timberwolves' bench lineup to pull the score back, after the score caught up, Zhuang Fei still did not change the main force, but let these benches continue to stay on the court.

Zhuang Fei really didn't care about the outcome of this game, but even so, the Timberwolves won in the end, and won a lot, the final score was 102-97, the Timberwolves beat the Jazz by 5 points at home, it is obvious that from this game, the Timberwolves' current strength has begun to have a gap with the Jazz. The best player of the game was Ginobili, who played 30 minutes and had 22 points and five assists.

"Zhuang, congratulations, this is a fax from the Alliance" When Zhuang Fei came to his office early the next morning, McHale was already waiting there.

"Hehe, this piece of paper is very painful," Zhuang Fei glanced at the document and said with a smile.

Looking at Zhuang Fei like this, McHale didn't care, but handed another document to Zhuang Fei's hand, Zhuang Fei picked it up and saw that it was the selection form of the All-Star bench lineup, the players in the NBA East and West were 5 and 7 substitutes respectively, 5 of which were selected by the fans, and the other seven substitutes were all selected by the coach.

"Zhuang, this is the list, I still want to congratulate now, our team has three All-Star players in the Western Conference this time, which is an NBA record."

"I'll see" Zhuang Fei smiled and took the document and looked at it, in fact, he had a hunch before the results of this vote, this time the center in the west is still Wang Zhizhi, 20,000 votes more than O'Neal, the forwards are Garnett and Duncan, Pierce is ultimately defeated, the guards are Carter and Nash, and Carter is also the vote king of this All-Star, with a total of 2.22 million votes.

"Zhuang, what should you do about Wang Zhizhi" McHale looked at Zhuang Fei and said, his face was a little solemn, and now the boss is also putting pressure on him to persuade Zhuang Fei that Wang Zhizhi is already an All-Star, so he can't let him be substituted, so it's too bad to give the NBA face, and the All-Star can't play the main force in your little Timberwolves?

"Let's talk about this later, if he really has that ability, I won't press him," Zhuang Fei frowned, and then sighed.

This time, in addition to the accident in the lineup in the West, there was also an accident in the East, the Eastern All-Star center is the current NBA's No. 2 center Mourning, and the guard is the 76ers leader Iverson and the Hornets' former Lakers player Eddie Jones, but in addition to Grant Hill's victory, the other player has become Maddy, Maddie performed extremely well last month, 10 consecutive 30+ performances once shocked the entire league, and Maddie became the leader of the Raptors this season after playing last season, I heard that the Raptors have been preparing to renew Maddy's contract recently, but Maddie has been shirking it for various reasons. Now Maddy's average points per game is 21 points and 6 assists, and he already has the strength of an All-Star in terms of statistics, and it is understandable that he will come from behind this time.

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"These fourteen players are really difficult to choose" Zhuang Fei looked at the table on the desk and said with a wry smile, now that the NBA stars are rising, and the veterans are also very strong, there are too many people to choose, take the guards in the West, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, Kidd and Hardaway of the Suns, and Payton of the SuperSonics, these people are all capable of entering the All-Star, and after thinking about it for half an hour, Zhuang Fei finally put pen to paper.

The center of the Western bench list Zhuang Fei naturally chose O'Neal, the forwards are Malone and Webb, the guards are Kobe and Kidd, the two non-position spots are given to Szzebiak and Payton, and the Eastern side Zhuang Fei's choice is the center Mutombo, the forwards are Glen Johnson and Dale Davis, as for the guards are Ray Allen and Reggie Miller, the two non-position options are given to Starkerhouse and Marbury, although Marbury and Zhuang Fei are not very good at dealing with each other, but the strength is not good, and it is definitely outstanding in the East.

Judging from the list of players in this All-Star, the strength of the West is significantly higher than that of the East, just take the top ten of the current league scoring list, 8 of the 10 people in the West, and only Hill and Iverson are on the list in the East, as long as Zhuang Fei really wants to win the game, there is no suspense that this All-Star is more stupid, but according to the rules of the previous years, it is estimated that Zhuang Fei will not be able to play casually with his own temperament, there are still rules in this.

"Kevin, these are my lists" Zhuang Fei finally checked the list and handed it to McHale without errors, and this year's All-Star Game was held on February 11, which means that there are still two weeks left. used to watch it on TV, but now the on-site command really makes Zhuang Fei a little excited.

Just after McHale left with the form filled out by Zhuang Fei, the familiar electronic sound sounded in Zhuang Fei's ears.

"Congratulations to the host for completing Phil Jackson's challenge, the quest reward has been sent, please check"