Rotational rest, as the name suggests, is a rotational rest.

In the modern NBA, it's not uncommon to take a rotational break. But in the NBA in the 90s, the matter of rotation was not widely popularized.

In this era of advocating one person, one city, advocating iron and blood, and emphasizing attendance, no one will talk about the matter of rotation on the table.

The young fans saved up money for a few months, and then bought tickets to watch the stars play, but when they entered, their favorite fans actually sat in the rest area in suits and leather shoes, and that feeling was how bad it was.

From the perspective of team operation, the rotation rest is also not conducive to ticket sales.

Therefore, when Coach Philip proposed a rotation in the lounge, the Timberwolves players did not show too happy expressions, and they all looked at Coach Philip inexplicably.

"Coach. Do you think I'm a softie? ”

"I don't have to take a rotational break, I'm in good shape!"

Garnett was the first to speak, disapproving from Coach Philip's suggestion of a rotational break. Kevin Garnett is known for his high attendance as a "ruthless man", which can also be seen at this stage.

And without injury, Garnett doesn't feel like he needs to take care of his body in a way like a rotation, he feels that his body is very good, there is no problem.

And Garnett has another layer of consideration, if the team is rested, the coach will inevitably give up some game wins, which Garnett can't accept anyway.

He and Philip think a little differently, he wants to win every game.

He wants his team to keep winning, and he wants to accumulate more and more honors.

He wants to pursue the championship, and he also wants to chase all the statistics and records in the regular season, and in his opinion, this is not a contradiction.

"Kevin disagrees."

"Well, you said it, I got it."

"It's flexible, and if the players don't want to rest, there's no problem on my side."

"Does anyone else have their own opinions other than Kevin?"

"Everyone present is your own people, it's okay to speak freely, it's okay."

Coach Philip heard Garnett's words, nodded slightly, and then looked at the other Timberwolves players and asked out loud.

"Coach, I don't have to take a turn off."

Under Philip's gaze, Marbury raised his hand and spoke.

His starting point for raising objections is basically the same as Garnett's, but Marbury has some other selfish motives compared to Garnett.

That is, he doesn't want his team's position to be shaken.

Although he is confident in his individual abilities and feels that he has established himself in the Timberwolves, he is still reluctant to sit on the sidelines and watch his teammates play.

He didn't want the day when Philip suddenly discovered someone who could replace his role and value, and pressed him off the field.

This is related to the future and value, Marbury does not dare to gamble, he would rather stay on the court by himself, even if he is really injured, he has no regrets.

This mentality, in fact, is not difficult to understand.

Garnett and Marbury have expressed their positions, and the rest of the Timberwolves players have also echoed it, saying that they don't need to take a rotation.

Even a player of Marbury's status is worried that his status will be shaken by the lack of appearances.

This is especially true of other players who are not secure enough in their own right.

The rest of the Timberwolves players are not worried about any injury problems at all, they are worried that they will not be able to play at the prime age of their playing careers, and they will not be able to play.

That's what other players care about the most.

The players of the Timberwolves expressed their positions one after another, and then everyone's eyes also fell on the martial arts one after another.

So far, only Martial Arts is the only one left who has not expressed his attitude.

"Rest in turn"

"It's really good for the players to have plenty of rest time."

"Coach, I naturally support your ideas."

Noticing his teammates' gazes, Wu Dao nodded with a smile, first recognizing the positive effect of Philip's suggestion.

Hearing this, Philip's own somewhat unpleasant face finally eased a little.

With so many team members opposing, Philip must say that he doesn't care at all, it must be impossible. As the coach of the Timberwolves, doesn't he lose face?!

Martial arts obedience and affirmation made Philip very useful.

"But."

As soon as the word "but" came out, Philip couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and looked at Martial Dao.

"The fans paid to watch our Timberwolves game, and if the main players didn't play, the fans would be disappointed."

"Coach, your intentions are good."

"I'm willing to cooperate with you, after all, I also want my career to be longer."

"My idea is that when you play against a weak team, you can adjust my playing time so that we can maintain our competitive condition and give us the rest of our lives.

Hearing Wu Dao's words, Coach Philip's expression was slightly gloomy.

That's a fair and feasible idea, and it's much more pleasing than the guys like Garnett and Marbury rejecting his kindness.

While Philip was happy in his heart, the Timberwolves' bench players also looked at Wudao with surprise on their faces, and the emotions in their eyes were full of gratitude.

The playing time of the main players is appropriately compressed, so who will fill the extra time? Not a substitute yet? Wu Dao's words are very much in line with the interests of the substitute players.

As for what the main players of the Timberwolves think.

Then the martial arts can't be controlled.

Playing time is such a thing, after all, it depends on hard power.

In the NBA, it's rare to have the kind of hard power that you can't play on.

As long as you're strong enough, you'll be able to play.

The eyes of the fans will not deceive, they can tell who is strong and who is weak.

"Then the matter of rotation rest, according to the opinion of the martial arts, make some adjustments."

"If you have any opinions, you can also tell me when the time comes."

Coach Philip clapped his hands and settled the matter.

The next day, all of the Timberwolves players were given a day off.

After the game against the Pistons, the Timberwolves will play the Dallas Mavericks at home after a day of rest.

Back-to-back home games are really a good thing for the Timberwolves, after all, they can wait for work at ease, and they don't need to rush to catch the plane and catch the game.

Although it was a day off, Martial Arts was not idle on this day.

His agent arranged for him to participate in a local radio program, which is an interview program, and the radio station has been contacting the management of the Timberwolves and the agent of the martial arts for a long time, and this interview invitation finally came to fruition during the Timberwolves game.

The recording time was in the evening, and Wu Dao had an "early" dinner at four or five o'clock, and then went to the recording site accompanied by his agent.

In the preparation stage of the show, the program team gave Wu Dao a "list of questions", and the content on the list was what the host would ask in the show, and the program team gave Wu Dao a lot of rights, and he could delete those questions he was unwilling to answer at will.

The content of the questions is varied, some ask about Martial Arts' emotional experience, some ask Martial Arts how he used to train and play in Asia, and at the same time, ask Martial Arts to evaluate what he thinks is the best player in the league at the moment, and look forward to and predict the future achievements of the Timberwolves.

And so on and so forth, and so on and so forth, and there are more than a dozen of them, covering a wide area.

Wu Dao just glanced at it, followed the agent's advice, deleted some questions about evaluating "peers", and then handed the list back to the program team.

The agent's idea is very simple, he let Wu Dao participate in the radio program, it is to open up popularity for himself, not to let him pull hatred for himself.

Wu Dao can talk about some of his own personal experience, increase the fans' understanding of themselves, and also look forward to their career planning, the future of the team, and harvest the expectations of the fans.

But whether it is a thing like evaluating peers, whether it is blown or black, even if it is a conscious and pertinent evaluation, there is a high probability that there will be problems.

In a few years, there may be fans who will find out the audio materials of other players to make a fuss, and this kind of thing is already predictable.

It can be avoided, and it is better to avoid it as much as possible.

The interview program was recorded for a long time, intermittently for more than two hours.

I have to say that Lao Mei's radio program is quite distinctive, and the host also took this opportunity to have a drink with martial arts during the recording.

It seems that they think that by pouring some wine into the martial arts, they will be able to get a more authentic answer from the mouth of the martial arts

A talk show was just a small episode in the life of martial arts vacation, and after it was over, he returned home and went to bed early.

Early the next morning, the figure of Wu Dao appeared in the arena on time to carry out today's adaptation practice.

During the regular season, the intensity of martial arts training is strictly controlled, and although he himself does not feel that his body is tired, it is good to pay attention to it.

In his spare time, he often pays attention to the situation in the financial industry and the development of domestic enterprises.

In 98 years, it was the time when various domestic industries were booming, and it was not an exaggeration to say that all industries were waiting to be prospered and gold was everywhere.

Martial arts don't actually have a very powerful financial mind.

But how to say that, standing on the tuyere, even a pig can fly.

He is in the NBA, earning dollars, and now that he is short of foreign exchange in China, he will return to China to invest in real estate, and the benefits that can bring him in the future will not be too big.

Needless to say, investing in this horse and that horse, buying land and buying a house in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, his assets will be doubled and doubled.

In an era when 10,000 households are scarce, he, an NBA player who earns millions of dollars a year, has countless ways to take advantage of the times.

On March 3, the Timberwolves took on the Mavericks.

With Tom out injured, Chris Kyle was promoted to the starting No. 1 for the Timberwolves, while Marbury switched to the No. 2 pick.

In the game with the Mavericks, Coach Philip implemented his "rotation plan", except for the first quarter after playing about ten minutes of play, Coach Philip pressed the rest area in the next two quarters, and in the fourth quarter, Philip saw that the scores of the two teams were deadlocked, so he sent Martial Arts back to the court.

In the middle two quarters of the game, the Timberwolves lost Wu Dao and Tom, two strong individual attackers, and their outside offensive tasks were all pressed on Marbury.

He, like Garnett, is the player who swore in front of Philip that he didn't need to be rested.

Therefore, in terms of the playing time of these two, Coach Philip did not greatly compress it.

In this game with the Timberwolves, the Mavericks played quite well.

Five players scored in double figures, and guard Hugh Porter-Davis scored 19 points on Chris Kyle's head in just 20 minutes of play.

And the No. 2 spot at the All-Star level, Cedric Ceballos (21st pick in the second round in '90, height 198cm/86kg) also played 34 minutes under Marbury's defense, scoring 22 points in a single game.

Marbury played more average today, and he didn't seem to play this kind of offensive role for a long time, shooting 6-of-15 from the field and 1-of-3 from three-point range, scoring just 17 points.

Garnett, on the other hand, carried the banner of interior offense, scoring 22 points on 9-of-14 shooting and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line, playing a star-level performance.

Although Wu Dao only played two quarters, Shan still played 8 of 10, 2 of 4 three-pointers, and 3 of 3 free throws, scoring a team-high 25 points in the whole game, and taught the Mavericks a solid lesson.

In this game, the Timberwolves finally narrowly defeated the Mavericks 114-110.

It's just that the fans who watched the game didn't have that kind of "ups and downs" mood. The Timberwolves were indeed suppressed by the Mavericks in the middle of the game.

But when the fans saw that Coach Philip was still able to put the martial arts in the rest area, the fans couldn't help but feel extremely relieved.

And Wudo, even if he rests off the court, still puts a lot of pressure on the Mavericks' players.

No matter how many points they win, the Mavericks' players don't feel at ease.

And the result of the game, as they expected, Garnett and Marbury and others bit the score, and when the fourth quarter of martial arts came on, it directly broke the morale of the Mavericks and won the game.

Filip was very happy with the win, and he felt that his arrangement was really good.

The team won again, and the players didn't consume much.

In this game, 11 players in their team got a chance to play, compared to those "standard 7-man rotation"; The "six-man rotation" team, the Timberwolves he coached, "really" showed the coaching art of coaching.

With this in mind, Coach Philip just started the next game.

defeated the Hornets 114-112 in a difficult way, and Wu Dao invested in the second lore of his career; Beat the Raptors with 113:91, scored 21 points in two quarters of martial arts, and clocked out of work.

Then on March 8, the Timberwolves played at home against the second-largest supersonic in the West, and with Coach Philip's micro-maneuvering, the Timberwolves trailed by one point 88:89 and lost to the supersonics.

With only five seconds left in the game, Coach Philip laid out the tactics for his players during the timeout, and he felt that the defensive pressure on the Budo side was too much, and then had a flash of inspiration for Sam Mitchell to execute the key mid-range shot.

As a result, Mitchell was in a vacuum, but he didn't make it.

This is also the first home defeat for the Timberwolves since March.

The fans were excited after the game, angrily complaining that the coach did not let the star of the house execute the key ball, and even Mitchell, who was throwing away, was sprayed by the fans.

In this regard, Mitchell also has a grudge against Philip.

In the eyes of a star of this level of martial arts, this is a key ball, a killer ball, and an opportunity to make a name for himself. But in Mitchell's eyes, this TM is the back pot!

Coach Philip's micro-manipulation, in reverse, has strengthened the position of the martial arts team.