Minnesota Timberwolves head coach's office, Zhuang Fei looked at stacks of newspapers with interest, after yesterday's home win over the Spurs, the Timberwolves still firmly occupy the top position in the West, and when everyone feels that this is a big battle, the Timberwolves are close to 50 points of victory, when the Timberwolves' performance is getting stronger and stronger, those who look down on the Timberwolves began to sing praises, if they were still watching before, then no one will continue to wait and see now. No pop-up window on the net, fast update //

"Minnesota is racing all the way, and the only ones who can stop them are themselves"

"Spurs? No, it turns out that this year's championship doesn't have their share, the Timberwolves or the Lakers, that's the answer."

"Coach Z told everyone that he would ignore all the rules and laws of the NBA"

"The Timberwolves and Lakers are on a rampage, offensive basketball is resurrected, and after shoutime is shouteam"

Although Zhuang Fei is now a well-known coach, he still likes to watch the news that praises him, this is a small person mentality, Zhuang Fei still thinks that he is still too small in some aspects, this mentality is like innate, in the face of this overwhelming praise Zhuang Fei is very happy but not confused, he knows what his goal is this season, and now this goal has not been achieved, and for the players of the Timberwolves, these voices from the outside world can of course also affect them, But after experiencing the task of 'Sloan's Killing' last season, these people are very mature in their minds, and they also know how to deal with these voices, and Zhuang Fei is not worried about the impact of these voices on the team now. That's why he can now sit in his office drinking coffee and reading the newspaper.

"Zhuang, I think you will be the most relaxed and happiest head coach in the league" When D'Antoni walked in, he found Zhuang Fei resting his legs on the desk, holding a newspaper in one hand and coffee in the other, so comfortable, while he himself and Green watched the players' training in the training hall every day, so compared to this, Zhuang Fei was so happy. However, D'Antoni is not really angry about Zhuang Fei's style, Zhuang Fei is not like this many times, D'Antoni will see Zhuang Fei holding a thick tactical guidance book reading. Now Zhuang Fei's office has two bookshelves, and the bookshelves are full of tactical books, and it can be said that Zhuang Fei is also the hardest working manager D'Antoni has ever seen. He didn't know what was the use of a coach of Zhuang Fei's status reading those basic tactics books? Of course, in addition to this, he was also glad that Zhuang Fei did not interfere in the team's training.

"Haha, Mike, if I stand in the training hall every day, I guess some people will be unhappy" Zhuang Fei looked at D'Antoni playfully and said, D'Antoni is face with a wry smile, Zhuang Fei has been following the agreement with D'Antoni since he poached D'Antoni from the Nuggets, the team's offensive training and tactical training are in charge of D'Antoni, he will only formulate a general direction, and D'Antoni is the specific implementation, it can be said that this Timberwolves is not only Zhuang Fei's team. It is also D'Antoni's team, and D'Antoni has always enjoyed such a status, just like Zhuang Fei doesn't want team owner Glenn Taylor to interfere in the team, D'Antoni doesn't want Zhuang Fei to interfere in his specific training, and he specializes in art. Zhuang Fei has always been very clear about this, and it was the same when he was in Wake Forest.

"Zhuang, I don't want to joke with you now, the current state of the players is indeed the same as you said, they are really excited, I am afraid that after such excitement, they will enter a trough" D'Antoni glanced at Zhuang Fei and sat down in front of Zhuang Fei. After the big win over Spurs, Zhuang Fei instructed him to observe the current emotional state of the team's players, and D'Antoni didn't care about it, but during today's training, these players were indeed the same as Zhuang Fei said, and they were extremely excited. …,

"Yes, it seems that we should give them a lower fire" Zhuang Fei said with a smile, of course, the player's good state is something that cannot be desired, but if the state is too excited, then it will not work, and the climax will be followed by the trough This is the natural law, so this season Zhuang Fei has always hoped that the state of the Timberwolves is on a certain baseline, and then it has been maintained smoothly, the Timberwolves have been doing well in the previous game, but after winning the Spurs, these Timberwolves players can not maintain that stable line again, but become high-pitched.

"Then do you have any way" D'Antoni also asked with some concern, these things are not his strong point, to say that he has no problem with arranging tactical training, but he has nothing to do about this kind of emotional regulation, which is also where he has always wanted to learn from Zhuang Fei. However, to D'Antoni's disappointment, Zhuang Fei just smiled and didn't answer again.

"Zhuang, you're so annoying" D'Antoni said to Zhuang Fei fiercely, but it caused Zhuang Fei to laugh

"Bruce, why do you think my defense hasn't improved, and am I born without defensive talent?" In the Timberwolves' training hall, Pierce frowned, and said to Bowen with some thought, at the beginning of this season, Zhuang Fei instructed Pierce to follow Bowen to defend, of course, and Ginobili Nash, although Bowen did not play much time this season, but he quickly gained a foothold within the team, because he was the defensive master of these outside players of the Timberwolves.

"Paul, your talent is very good" Bowen said with a smile, he never thought that he would come to the Timberwolves to be such a role, Zhuang Fei gave him more of a definition than a player but a coach, the team's outside defense coach, of course, Bowen is not annoyed by this matter Zhuang Fei, he is 28 years old, about to run thirty, his dream now is to hope that basketball can give him a stable job, as for what he wants him to do for this job, he doesn't care, And players like Pierce Nash Ginobili have always respected him, and now he enjoys the thrill of being a mentor himself.

"Yes, Paul, don't you see that Manu is improving very quickly" Nash on the side said with a smile, in fact, he himself is also very uncomfortable, and defending like Pierce is also a pain in his heart, even more painful than Pierce. Basically, as long as the opponent has a slightly better point guard, he will be blown up, which also makes some experts think that he is the culprit of the Timberwolves' poor defense, but in fact, the other Timberwolves' individual defense ability is very good.

"No, in fact, my defense is average" Ginobili quickly explained, it would be bad if he was targeted by Pierce, he came to the Timberwolves for so long and had a deep understanding of Pierce's temper, which is an extremely good player. It would be tragic if he was to be taken aback.

"The most important thing in defense is talent, but it's not necessarily talent that really makes it to the height of defense, like me. Am I talented? Bowen explained again that Nash and Pierce shook their heads, and that Bowen's talent was mediocre. Then Bowen continued: "Actually, among you who really has defensive talent, Paul's speed, strength is very good in all aspects, as long as you can keep paying attention you will be a good defensive player, but the key is that you can't keep paying all the time, you put too much energy on offense, maybe in your heart offense is the most important thing, the requirements of defense are really low, concentration is the first, the other is skill." Actually, in my opinion, I've pretty much given you everything in terms of defensive skills, Manu is improving faster because he is similar to me, and he also works hardest, Steve is still not improving, it's not that you don't work hard, it's that you really don't have the talent to defend. Not at all" Bowen said with a sigh in his heart, this white point guard's body is too weak, defense is like filling a barrel with water, talent is like a barrel, the bigger the barrel, the more water it contains, and Nash's barrel is full of holes. No matter how hard he tried to fill it with water, it was useless, and he was really powerless at this point. And Nash's eyes darkened after hearing Bowen's words. …,

"Paul, you try to concentrate more, don't get distracted, Manu, you go and break him" Bowen once again asked Pierce to practice one-on-one with Ginobili, and the defender like Ginobili couldn't get distracted at all.

"Kevin, Paul, they train very hard" On the other side of the training hall, Pierce put down the ball in his hand and sighed and said, Pierce is working hard In fact, he is also working hard, but Pierce is, and he himself is a substitute, although Zhuang Fei told him last time that he would perform better as a substitute, but no player would want to be a substitute, and he was also the main player last season, although he is not dissatisfied with the team now, but he is also very disappointed.

'They're making up for their shortcomings for the sake of the team's results and we're too, so our team is winless now, we're in a good mood and everybody's in high spirits,' Garnett said as he looked at Lewis who was a little depressed.

"yes, it's all for the team," Lewis said with a smile, and the unhappiness just now was also thrown out of his mind.

Now the Timberwolves' training hall is in an upward atmosphere, even without Zhuang Fei's supervision, these players have been training hard, and their emotions are quite high-pitched.

On January 6, 2000, the Timberwolves hosted the Trail Blazers, and in the Timberwolves' locker room, when Zhuang Fei read out the team's lineup for this game, all the Timberwolves players were shocked.

"Zhuang, this is your solution" D'Antoni on Zhuang Fei's side looked at Zhuang Fei with some surprise, Zhuang Fei's solution made him really difficult to accept, in the NBA, the team's main lineup is rarely rotated, and some teams will not even change in a season, and this time Zhuang Fei changed two, and now Wang Zhizhi is still resting, Bowen did not enter, the lineup of the Timberwolves in this game is Nashga Ginobili plus Pierce plus Lewis and Garnett.

"Yes, you can't let these people play high, let's take their turns, the opponent in this game is the Trailblazers, the strength is very good, rotate Xiao Ao and Jackson" Zhuang Fei said with a smile, can't you let the players play high? D'Antoni was speechless for a while when he heard this, I'm afraid no coach in the NBA would do that.

"Are you sure it works?" asked D'Antoni worriedly.

"Of course, after a few games of rotation, the team will slowly get back on track," Zhuang Fei said with a smile, he is learning from Popovich in the future, Popovich's rotation is the highest among all coaches in the NBA, Popovich is often to preserve the physical fitness of veterans, but it may not always be like this, the Spurs have always been the most stable team in the league I am afraid it has a lot to do with this. Of course, Zhuang Fei is not sure if this is the case.

"What's going on, Coach Z actually put Lewis and Ginobili on the lineup, these two are only entering for the first time this season" This game is ABC's national live broadcast, if Wang Zhizhi and Bowen are replaced, he may be acceptable, after all, Wang Zhizhi and Bowen have proven themselves, but Lewis and Ginobili? Lewis didn't play well last season and hasn't been conspicuous this season, and Ginobili has slowly flattened since being taken care of by the rest of the league since his final game against the Jazz.

"It seems that Coach Z is very confident in the depth of his team's squad," Michaels could only guess at the end.

This game against the Trail Blazers originally wanted Xiao Ao to take revenge, and finally being pressed on the bench made him very unhappy, but it didn't take long for him to usher in the opportunity to play, this game The Timberwolves have a lot of rotation in the lineup, and each rotation is a big rotation, which makes the other side of the Trail Blazers head coach Dunleavy is inexplicable, I don't know what Zhuang Fei is playing, but it is Zhuang Fei's rotation that makes him suffer, because every time he rotates the Timberwolves, the style will change dramatically, It's completely impossible to prevent.

In the end, the Timberwolves won again under Dunleavy's resentful eyes, and the final score was 110-101, and the Timberwolves had a total of 12 players on the court in this game, with Ginobili and Lewis playing the most minutes in 33 minutes, while Garnett, Pierce and Nash's three cores only played 29 minutes in this game.

And on January 8th, the Timberwolves who visited the Pistons once again offered such a big rotation tactic, this time the team changed again, the team boss and the team's second Garnett and Pierce were all on the bench, and it became Oga Lewis Jr. plus Jackson and Bowen Ganash, this game Timberwolves are still in the big rotation at the same time, the game is also a frequent rotation, and the Pistons and the Trail Blazers are also disrupted by Zhuang Fei's big adjustment, this game Timberwolves won 111-98 away from the Pistons, The most minutes played in this game became Bowen's 33 minutes, and everyone else played less than 30 minutes.

Zhuang Fei didn't expect such an effect when he implemented the rotation. But Zhuang Fei's unexpectedness brought a big storm of public opinion to the alliance again. In the words of the New York Times.

"It's a conspiracy of Coach Z"