Meanwhile.

The league has also introduced some rule changes, and Xiao Hua can't wait to do it after taking office.

Originally, Xiao Hua was still thinking about whether it would cause resistance from many old fans to revise it now towards the small-ball era he envisioned.

But the championship of the Warriors, alleviated a lot of resistance.

Everyone's acceptance of the Warriors' championship also reflects the fans' acceptance of the small-ball era.

And whether those old fans like it or not, these rules must be enforced!

The NBA league is also facing a lot of competition, and the biggest opponent is football, which has a more intense physical confrontation that has made many NBA fans start to waver.

The three-point shot is undoubtedly a lower threshold to attract a new generation of fans, after all, not everyone is a talent monster.

At the same time, more dunks and breakthroughs increase the spectacle.

Cutting back on pointless defensive rounds and speeding up more offensive rounds is the way forward for the league in this era.

Everyone says they hate the floppy defense, but the stats don't lie.

The Finals battle between the Spurs and the Pistons that year was a top-level matchup in defense, but it set the lowest ratings for the Finals in NBA history.

Xiao Hua's rule modification this time is very bold, and it can be said that the small ball era has been advanced by two or three years.

This is also the butterfly effect brought by Su Chen, and the warriors have opened up the road to modern basketball in Xiao Hua's heart all at once.

The Finals gave up the darling Heat and turned to the Warriors, that is, because the Warriors can change drastically if they win the championship.

However, the tactic of elevator doors has received a lot of complaints.

Xiao Hua also felt that this tactic did not help to increase the viewing experience, and under the high-speed impact, it would increase the burden of injury management on the players.

Therefore, the elevator door tactics were also disabled by the way, and the scale of grasping and dismantling was also improved to a certain extent.

It can be said that Su Chen led the Warriors to win a championship, which accelerated the progress of the league for at least two years.

But now the outside media is learning about it.

In particular, some Miami fans ridiculed Su Chen and the Warriors.

"Without that elevator door, the championship would have been Miami!"

"The biggest shady championship in history, it is recommended to confiscate the championship of the Warriors and return it to the Heat."

"Without this trick, Su Chen's new season will be in its original form, and the Timberwolves will become the biggest loser!"

Regarding the change of the rules of the alliance, many people were upset about Su Chen and the warriors.

It is estimated that the spinach company also knew the news in advance, so it re-ranked the Heat to first place and the defending champion Warriors to third.

And Su Chen, the user of the elevator door tactic, and his Timberwolves, were even ranked in a position where they couldn't enter the playoffs.

Minnesota.

Su Chen also saw these changes to the rules at this time.

"It's really a lot faster than the original progress, and it seems that the Tun front line is not wrong."

Su Chen couldn't help but smile when he saw these rules change.

The news that the outside world ridiculed him, he wanted to laugh when he looked at it.

These people really can't understand the version.

It's easier to break through, and it's easier to defend against threes, which in turn requires more emphasis on defense.

The whistle of the physical confrontation will become tighter, then the size is very important!

The Timberwolves are now a bunch of long-handed spider-men, with a larger defensive footprint.

At the same time, the problem of insufficient offense will become offensive because of the change of whistle.

As for the elevator door tactics being disabled, this was originally his intention.

Everyone plays the elevator door, and his Timberwolves shooter is not as top as other teams, but he can't beat others.

He used the elevator door to make a trick and show a clear way of cheating, just to get the alliance to ban this tactic.

Otherwise, how can he fight a warrior?

After he won the championship with the elevator door bonus, he kicked the basin directly, and everyone didn't want to use it.

October 30, 2013.

The first battle belonging to the Timberwolves began.

Target Center Arena.

The Timberwolves' home court was filled with fans in blue jerseys at this time.

Although everyone complained a lot about Su Chen's operation in the offseason, the whole league regarded them as the target of robbery.

But after all, it is its own home team, and it is not easy to have a team stationed in this bitter cold place.

They don't support the Timberwolves, and who else can?

And after all, Su Chen was the champion coach of last season, and won the championship with the relatively civilian Warriors.

People also want to see where the Timberwolves can go this season.

Although the outside world is saying that Su Chen's championship winning tactics have been banned, Su Chen has signed a gambling agreement after all, which proves that he has enough confidence.

This season, whether for the Timberwolves or for Su Chen, there is no way back.

can't get into the playoffs, and both the Timberwolves and Su Chen are losers.

The requirements of Timberwolves fans are indeed very low, and entering the playoffs is such a simple and simple requirement.

The Timberwolves' first game tonight is against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Speaking of this opponent, it is still the team that invited Su Chen at the beginning, and they expect Su Chen to build the Trailblazers into the second Warriors.

But as Su Chen wanted to manage power, it collapsed.

Now the fans of the Trailblazers are also very glad that Su Chen did not come to the Trailblazers, the Trailblazers have enough combat effectiveness this season, and it is time to make results.

Lillard showed great talent last season, while Aldridge started to reach the peak of his career, and the rest of Batum, Matthews and Lopez are very good puzzle players.

If Su Chen is beaten up, the pioneers will fall into rebuilding again.

In fact, the Trail Blazers are indeed a very competitive team this season.

In the original timeline, the competition in the West was extremely fierce this season, and the eighth place in the West was the Mavericks, who had not yet changed their name to the Mavericks, who only qualified for the playoffs with a 59.8% win rate.

The Suns, who are ninth in the West, have a 58.5% win rate.

If the ninth-ranked Suns are placed in the East, they can have the same record as the Raptors, who are third in the West, and if they have the advantage of winning and losing, they can even directly rank third in the East.

That's why the Heat are still seen as the favorites to win the championship.

Rushing out of the weak East, the Heat won't have much of a hard time.

On the contrary, from the fiercely competitive and cruel West, whether it is the Spurs or the Warriors, it is very difficult to rush out of the West.

By the time it came to the finals, the team was exhausted.

And the Heat, who easily advanced all the way, have a great chance to win the championship.

The Timberwolves' opponent in this game, the Trail Blazers, is in such a wild West, and the team can rank fifth in the West with a win rate of 65.9%.

So even if it's a fight for the playoffs, it's not easy to do it in the West.

"The Timberwolves have gone through a lot of roster changes in the offseason, and now they are really hard to say competitive in the West, which is much more competitive than in the East."

Tonight's commentary is not a member of the gold medal commentary group, but a commentary that is not well-known.

The current Timberwolves are in the middle of nowhere, and they are also uncompetitive, and the league does not pay much attention to the Timberwolves.

This season, the Timberwolves have only had two live broadcasts in the United States, one of which is still the topic of the Warriors, the former championship coach of the Warriors and the current coach.

"The strength of the Trail Blazers is very strong, if according to Su Chen's bold words that he is determined to enter the playoffs, this is an opponent they cannot lose."

Another commentator said.

Su Chen stood on the sidelines, calmly watching the players warm up.

In a moment, the game will begin.

Su Chen also walked to the technical table and shook hands briefly with Trail Blazers coach Terry Stottes.

Judging by Terry Stottes' attitude, there seems to be some hostility towards him.

However, Su Chen immediately figured it out.

The Trail Blazers came to him at the beginning, and if he said yes, then Terry Stouts would have been fired.

So it's normal for Terry Stoutes to be hostile to the man who almost replaced him with his job.

Su Chen smiled.

It seems that the intensity of this game will not be too low.

Players from both sides walked onto the pitch.

Timberwolves starting lineup: Josh Smith (C), Giannis Antetokounmpo (PF), Lore Deng (SF), Andre Iguodala (SG), CJ McCollum (PG).

Trail Blazers starting lineup: Robin Lopez (C), LaMarcus Aldridge (PF), Nicolas Batum (SF), Wesley Matthews (SG), Damian Lillard (PG).

The starting lineup used by Su Chen this time did not use the set that was drawn up before the game.

The rookie is the rookie, but what Su Chen promised was Brother Alphabet alone.

Other rookies start at the beginning, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among these veteran players.

After all, the NBA still needs seniority, these are potential rules, and Su Chen can not abide by these rules.

But the team will be prone to conflicts between new and old players.

Josh Smith, Lore Deng, Iguodala.

All three of them belong to people with a certain level of seniority in the Alliance.

As for the likes of Butler, Beverley, and Middleton, who have played for a season or two, they are actually still rookies and have no qualifications.

In the first few games, Su Chen would use this set of starters to give these qualified people a certain face.

But that's all there is to it.

The rest is to look at individual performance.

The performance and data on the field were not as good as those of newcomers, and Su Chen would not give them face at that time, so he pressed it directly without discussion.

As for the Timberwolves, there are still some veteran players, but these players are all water cooler players that Su Chen can't use, and they have no face to speak of.

The jump ball is Giannis Antetokounmpo to jump on.

Josh Smith and Giannis Antetokounmpo don't really have a strict positional division, both of them are actually good at playmaking and attacking the frame, but Giannis Antetokounmpo hasn't grown enough to play against a center forward.

So most of the time, the center is Josh Smith to defend.

Josh Smith still has some complaints about playing the center position, although he can defend from 3 to 5, it does not mean that he is willing to play 5.

However, Su Chen didn't care about his emotions.

If you don't want to play the No. 5 position, you can go to the bench, and there are Gobert and Muscala who want to play below.

(End of chapter)