This is not only a series for Su Chen to prove himself, but also a series for Cole to prove himself.

After Cole took office, the pressure on him was still quite high.

Regardless, this Warriors are the defending champions.

In the past season, there have been cases of champion managers changing jobs, but they usually don't do so quickly.

After winning the title, he failed to defend the title, and then another failed season.

In such a situation, the team management will consider changing the head coach, and the head coach himself will prefer to coach the teams he has already led successfully.

Like Su Chen, he just won the championship last season, and he will change jobs immediately in the new season.

If you look at the entire history of the NBA, that's pretty wow.

Since Su Chen has not led this team to a failed season, Golden State fans still have a good impression of Su Chen.

Kerr replaced Su Chen as the head coach of the Warriors, and from the offseason to the present, the doubts have not stopped.

At the beginning, they were questioning whether Kerr could bring the Warriors back to normal, but after finally running in later, Kerr rushed to third in the West with the team's high winning rate.

Cole's doubts still haven't stopped.

Fans feel that Cole is purely copying Su Chen's system, and Cole has no way to deny this.

Although he originally wanted to fight like this, he also had to admit that Su Chen's tactical system was more mature and advanced than his.

In order to improve the strength of the team, there is no reason why he should not use it.

But Kerr is very annoyed that others compare Su Chen with him, if he loses to the Timberwolves in this series, he may be shrouded in Su Chen's shadow for the rest of his career.

Eastern Front.

Originally, at the beginning of the game between the Pacers and the Hawks, who were first in the East, there was no suspense.

They started with a 2-0 lead.

With the Eastern Conference power gap, this should have been the Pacers sweeping the opponent.

You must know that the Hawks, who are eighth in the East, are the only team that has entered the playoffs this season with a win rate of less than 50%.

It is not too much to say that the strength of the Eagles is the worst.

Next, the Hawks played very nervously with the Pacers.

At one point, they were tied 3-3 with the Pacers, and they had to rely on a tie-break to score the win.

Al Horford, Paul Millsap, Demarre Carroll, Kyle Korver, Jeff Teague, this civilian Hawks are starting to show their minions.

Especially Horford and Millsap on the inside, they even limited Roy Hibbert, who almost led the team to overturn the Heat Big Three last season, to a very embarrassing statistic when they were in G5.

Roy Hibbert, who started the game, scored 0 points and 2 rebounds in the game.

In basketball, it's not easy to score 0 points, especially when you start the game.

However, George's 30 points in the tie-break still led the Pacers to the next round.

Originally, everyone was expecting to see the excitement of the Black Eight and Black Seven in the West, but the Timberwolves and Spurs both swept their opponents, and the Pacers, who were the first in the East, almost gave the Black Eight.

This is also what many people did not expect.

Although the Pacers are not as popular as the Heat's champion, they are also teams that closely follow the Heat and have a clear gap in strength with other teams.

In addition, the Heat swept the Hornets directly against the Hornets.

The only team in the high post to lose is the Pacers.

In the offseason, there are actually two other teams in the East that are also favorites.

One is the bull.

After they got LeFou, they formed the two star duo of Ross and Lefou.

However, the Bulls only won two games against the Raptors and were eliminated.

Without Rose, the Bulls, who rely on Love to be the core of the offense, obviously won't work.

The two games they were able to win were due to the excellent performance of the role players on the team.

Boozer, in particular, took over the offensive banner, and Lefu sat directly on the bench behind him.

It can even be said that the two games won by the Bulls were the result of putting Love on the bench.

Lowry and DeRozan themselves are not at a very high level, but they still give the Bulls a chance.

Losing the series, the Bulls became a bigger loser than the Thunder.

The Thunder also entered the second round, and the Bulls went out in the first round.

The other team is the Nets.

This senior All-Star team is locked in a fierce battle with the Wizards.

Passed through a tie-break to the next round.

It can be seen that the current Nets, in the weak East, are not at the level of the first echelon at all.

The matchup map for the east is also out.

Indiana Pacers vs Toronto Raptors.

Miami Heat vs Brooklyn Nets.

On the whole, the match in the west will be more exciting, and the gap in strength in the east is still relatively large.

Although the Pacers faced a big challenge in the first round, it can be seen that the Pacers are still a higher-level team.

The Raptors belong to the second tier in the East, and they are all teams in the middle of the pack.

As for the Heat playing the Nets, this set of battle gimmicks seems to be quite sufficient, but in fact, the gap between the two teams is already very large.

Overall, the series between the Timberwolves and the Warriors is full of expectations.

The defending champions and the new team led by the former head coach of the defending champions, just think about it, and they all feel wonderful.

In the league, the revenge drama against the old club is not worried about having no audience.

And speaking of which, Su Chen and the warrior did not break up peacefully.

There is a certain contradiction between Lacob and Su Chen.

Both teams have had friction in the offseason trade market.

Facing Racob's favorite Iguodala, the Warriors could have traded for Iguodala without moving the rotation.

Su Chen ran out and deliberately raised the price.

It's not business anymore, it's just vindictive.

The Timberwolves used their already high chips to raise the price of a Rubio, making it necessary for the Warriors to break their bones if they traded for Iguodala.

What kind of contradiction is this?

So for the playoff meeting of these two teams, it is undoubtedly the most interesting series.

Golden State.

The Warriors' training arena.

At this moment, the Warriors players did not have individual training, but played a simple intra-team training game under the command of Kerr.

It didn't take too long, after all, they had to go to Minnesota sooner.

The cold weather there isn't as hard to get used to as it is on the Denver Plateau, but you still need to get there early.

Cole was holding a board with a notebook on it, and he was talking to the data clerk about something.

The entire coaching staff of the Warriors is in a relatively busy state.

"The team's bus is outside."

That's when Ron Adams came over and said.

Hearing this, Cole stopped his pen.

"It's already here, then let the players stop training, go to the locker room to change clothes and get ready to go."

Cole stood up and said to Ron Adams.

“ok。”

Ron Adams said yes and headed for the pitch.

"Wait."

It was at this point that Cole called out to Ron Adams.

"What's wrong, Coach Cole?"

Ron Adams asked, a little confused.

Cole didn't answer right away, but put down the board and walked towards the other side, where there was no one.

Ron Adams didn't know what Cole was trying to do, but he followed Cole anyway.

"You have worked with Su Chen for a short time, what kind of person do you think he is."

After Cole said that, he frowned, and before Ron Adams could answer, he emphasized again: "It's not tactical, I'm talking about what kind of person he is." ”

For Su Chen's tactics, Cole has studied a lot.

His research on Su Chen has been started since the beginning of the playoffs last season.

Because the playing styles that Su Chen showed were his ideal playing styles.

And from the beginning, he noticed that the Warriors team was a team that was very much in line with his tactical philosophy.

If it weren't for the warriors, he wouldn't have wanted to go out of the mountain.

What Cole wants to know now is the character of Su Chen.

The character of a team's coach can actually affect the team.

Larry Brown, for example, has a very high level of discipline on his team, has a very low tolerance for rookies, a coach who is a tyrant, and the whole team atmosphere is affected and he behaves rudely on the court.

The same style is also Thibodeau, and the team is also disciplined, and even the second leader of the team like Love has the courage to put down the substitute lineup after performing like that.

Popovich is also an old-school coach, but Popovich is serious with some humor, and the overall team style is not very repressive but still disciplined.

The opposite of these coaching styles is the Thunder's Brooks.

He cares more about the players, values the ideas of the players, and is more like a nanny coach.

So under such a coach, the whole Thunder is also very impulsive, with the players playing freely.

And then there's Doug Rivers.

Regardless of the level of coaching, but he is very keen on Gong Dou.

In his team, he can often stage palace fighting dramas.

That's the character of a coach and the impact it has on the team.

Hearing Cole's question, the old assistant coach Ron Adams also fell into deep thought, and he knew that Cole was a very serious question.

Cole wasn't in a hurry, didn't rush Ron Adams, just waited quietly.

"Sue is a very peculiar person, yes, just peculiar."

"When we all thought a comeback was unlikely, Sue was always encouraging the whole team and he was like he knew he wasn't going to lose."

"I've been an assistant coach in this league for a long time, and he's not the kind of strong and composed, but he really has the confidence of a mystery a lot of the time."

Ron Adams thought for a moment and then said Su Chen in his heart.

"Is that so?"

Cole listened, and fell into thought.

After waiting for a while, Cole still didn't speak.

"Coach Cole, the team bus."

Ron Adams gave Cole a reminder.

"Oh, you can go ahead and get this done, thank you for telling me this."

Cole thanked Ron Adams.

"It's nothing, after all, I'm also a member of the warriors, he really has to be careful, Su Chen, he is very powerful."

Ron Adams smiled at Cole.

"Yes, of course I will."

Cole smiled too.

When Ron Adams walked out, Cole picked up the notebook again.

After thinking about it, Cole put the news he had just received from Ron Adams into his notebook.

After writing, Cole flipped through the notebook again.

There are many tactics recorded on it, and these tactics are all notes he wrote when he watched Su Chen's video at the beginning of last season.

This note, he always carried.

"Su Chen, it's really interesting, but I'll beat you."

Cole smiled and closed his notes.

Minnesota.

Target Center Arena.

This game can be said to be the most eye-catching game of this series.

Even on the same day, there are still Pacers and Raptors games in the East.

But the ratings of this game in the west are basically crushing the one in the east.

After winning the championship last season, the Warriors have accumulated quite a lot of fans, although the traffic is not as good as the later Warriors.

But it has begun to take shape on the scale of the traffic team.

As long as the number of championships accumulates points, this Warriors team can become the most popular team in the league.

Although the Timberwolves are a small ball market, they don't have any popular star players in the league.

But Su Chen is the former coach of this Warriors.

Su Chen and the Warriors had some unpleasantness, and for Warriors fans, there are many people who want the team to beat the traitors.

In the final analysis, it was because the Warriors did not give Su Chen control of the management, Su Chen not only resigned, but also deliberately targeted the Warriors after finding a new owner.

It's a small pattern.

If it weren't for Su Chen, the Warriors would not have gotten Brewer from the Nuggets now, but Iguodala.

What strength Iguodala has, this season is obvious to everyone.

Compared to Brewer, Iguodala is significantly stronger.

At the same time, the Timberwolves no longer have traffic, which is also the second in the West.

Whether it is the fans of the Timberwolves or the viewers who think that the Timberwolves are a pseudo-strong team, as well as Su Chen's little sunspot, they all have to pay attention to this game.

What kind of team the Timberwolves are, the Warriors are the best litmus test.

But no matter what the outside world thinks, Minnesotans are very excited.

When the players entered the stadium, even the Timberwolves' role players received a lot of cheers from the fans.

As the star of the house, Giannis Antetokun, when he played, the stadium was like a tsunami.

In fact, these cheers, they also wanted to give Su Chen.

But Su Chen likes to enter in a low-key manner.

For example, tonight's Su Chen, before the players entered, Su Chen had already come in with the coaching staff on the sidelines.

After the entrance ceremony of the Timberwolves players, the Warriors players also entered one after another.

Su Chen also saw those familiar faces, Curry, Thompson and others.

It's just that last season, everyone was still in a group, working together to compete for the championship.

This season, it has become an opponent.

Defeat each other and win the championship trophy!

Unlike the regular season, before the game this time, Su Chen did not greet the Warriors' players or anything like that.

The opponent has to look like an opponent.

When I was the coach of the Splash Brothers, I didn't feel anything yet.

Now as the opponent of the Splash Brothers, even Su Chen is under pressure.

The system of this warrior has matured, and speaking of which, it is still an opponent that he has created for himself.

Curry and the others also didn't come to say hello.

As a professional player, now that the other party is the opponent of the series, it is not appropriate to talk and laugh with the other party.

(End of chapter)