In the Minnesota Timberwolves head coach's office, Zhuang Fei looked at the piles of newspapers with interest. After yesterday's home victory over the Spurs, the Timberwolves still firmly occupied the top spot in the West. And when everyone felt that this was a big battle, the Timberwolves had a big victory of nearly 50 points. When the Timberwolves' performance became stronger and stronger, those who looked down on the Timberwolves began to sing hymns. If they were still watching before, then no one would continue to watch now.

"Minnesota is soaring all the way, and they are the only ones who can stop them."

"Spurs? No, it turns out that this year's championship has no share. The Timberwolves or the Lakers, this is the answer."

"Coach Z tells everyone that he will ignore all the rules and laws of NBA"

"The Timberwolves and the Lakers are in a rush, and the offensive basketball is resurrected again, and the shouttime is followed by the shouteam."

Although Zhuang Fei is now a well-known coach, he still likes to read 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 being born with him. Zhuang Fei is very happy but not confused when facing this overwhelming praise of Zhuang Fei. He knows what his goal is this season, and this goal has not been achieved. For Timberwolves players, these voices from the outside can certainly affect them. However, after experiencing the task of "Sloan's praise" last season, these people's minds have become very mature, and they also know how to treat these voices. Zhuang Fei's current impact on the team. So he can now drink coffee and read newspapers in his office safely.

"Zhuang, I think you will be the easiest and happiest head coach in the league." When D'Antoni walked in, he found that Zhuang Fei was putting his legs on the desk, holding newspapers in one hand and coffee in the other. It was so comfortable, but he and Green watched the players' training in the training hall every day. In this way, Zhuang Fei was really lucky. However, D'Antoni was not really angry about Zhuang Fei's style. Zhuang Fei was not like this many times. D'Antoni would often see Zhuang Fei reading a thick tactical instruction book. Now Zhuang Fei's office has two bookshelves, and the bookshelf is full of tactical books. It can be said that Zhuang Fei is also the hardest-working head coach D'Antoni has ever seen. He doesn't know what the use of coaches with status like Zhuang Fei is reading those basic tactical books? Of course, in addition to this, he is also very happy that Zhuang Fei will not interfere in the team's training.

"Haha, Mike, if I stand in the training hall every day, some people would be unhappy." Zhuang Fei looked at D'Antoni jokingly and said, "D'Antoni smiled bitterly. After Zhuang Fei dug D'Antoni from the Nuggets, he has always followed the agreement with D'Antoni. The team's offensive training and tactical training are all under D'Antoni. He will only set a big direction, and D'Antoni is implementing it in detail. It can be said that this Timberwolves is not only Zhuang Fei's team, but also D'Antoni's team. D'Antoni has always enjoyed such a position, just like Zhuang Fei's boss Glenn Taylor involved in the team, D'Antoni does not want Zhuang Fei to intervene in his specific training. He has specialized in his profession. Zhuang Fei has always made a clear point. He was the same when he was in Wake Forest.

"Zhuang, I don't want to joke with you now. The players' condition is indeed the same as you said. They are really too excited. I'm afraid that they will enter a trough after such excitement." D'Antoni gave Zhuang Fei a blank look and sat down in front of Zhuang Fei. After a big victory over the Spurs, Zhuang Fei told him to observe the current emotional state of the team players. D'Antoni didn't care, but during training today, these players were indeed the same as Zhuang Fei said, and were extremely excited.

"Is that so? It seems we should reduce the popularity for them." Zhuang Fei said with a smile. Of course, it is a matter of hope for the players' good condition, but if they are too excited, it will not work. **There will be a trough afterwards. This is a natural law. Therefore, this season, Zhuang Fei has been on a certain baseline and has maintained it smoothly. The Timberwolves have been doing well in the previous game, but after winning the Spurs, these Timberwolves players can no longer maintain that stable line, but become high-pitched.

"Then do you have any solutions?" D'Antoni also asked with some concern. These things are not his strengths. He has no problem with setting up tactical arrangements and training, but he has no choice but to do this kind of emotional adjustment. This is also what he always wants to learn from Zhuang Fei. However, what disappointed D'Antoni was that Zhuang Fei just smiled and did not answer again.

"Zhuang, you really hate it." D'Antoni said fiercely to Zhuang Fei, but it caused Zhuang Fei to laugh.

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"Bruce, why did my defense not improve? Am I born without defensive talent?" In the Timberwolves' training hall, Pierce frowned and said to Bowen with some thoughts. At the beginning of this season, Zhuang Fei told Pierce to follow Bowen to defend, and of course Ginobilin Nash are the same. Although Bowen doesn't play much time this season, he quickly gained a foothold within the team because he is the defensive master of outside players such as the Timberwolves.

"Paul, you have a good talent," Bao Wen said with a smile. He never thought that he would be like this role when he came to the Timberwolves. Zhuang Fei defined him more than a player but a coach. The team's outside defensive coach. Of course, Bao Wen was not annoyed by this. Zhuang Fei was already 28 years old and was about to reach thirty years old. His current dream was to waste basketball to give him a stable job. As for what he wanted to do for this job, he didn't care. And players like Pierce Nash Ginobili have always respected him very much. Now he himself enjoys the pleasure of being a teacher.

"Yes, Paul, you see, Manu makes rapid progress," Nash said with a smile. In fact, he felt very uncomfortable. Just like Pierce, defense is also a pain in his heart, and it is even more painful than Pierce. Basically, as long as the opponent has a slightly better offense, he will be beaten up, which also makes some experts think that he is the culprit of the Timberwolves' poor defense. In fact, the other Timberwolves have very good single defense abilities.

"No, actually my defense is average," Ginobili quickly explained. It would be bad if Pierce targeted him. After he came to the Timberwolves for so long, he had a deep understanding of Pierce's temper. He was an extremely strong player. It would be tragic if he was attracted to him.

"The most important thing about defense is talent, but the one who truly achieves the height of defense is not necessarily talent, just like me. Am I very talented?" Bowen explained again. Nash and Pierce shook their heads. Bowen's talent is indeed average. Then Bowen continued: "Actually, among you, the one who can truly be called defensive talent is Paul. Paul's speed and strength are very good in all aspects. As long as you can keep your attention, you will be a good defensive player, but the key is that you can't keep your attention all the time. You put too much energy on the offense. Perhaps the most important thing is to attack in your heart. The defense requirement is really low. Attention is the first priority, and the others are

Skills. Actually, in my opinion, I have given you almost everything about defensive skills. Manu has made faster progress because he is very similar to me, and he also works hardest. Steve still has no progress. It’s not that you don’t work hard, but that you really don’t have the talent for defense. There is nothing at all.” Bowen said, and sighed in his heart. The body of this white point guard is too weak. Defense is like filling water into a wooden barrel. The talent is like a wooden barrel. The bigger the barrel, the more water it contains, and Nash’s wooden barrel is full of loopholes. Even if he works hard to fill water into it, it is useless. At this point, he is really powerless. After hearing Bowen’s words, Nash’s eyes were dark.

"Paul, try to focus more again, don't get distracted, Manu, go break through him." Bowen once again asked Pierce to practice one-on-one with Ginobili, and defend a breakthrough hand like Ginobili, which is not distracted at all.

"Kevin, Paul and the others are training very hard." On the other side of the training hall, Pierce put down the ball in his hand and sighed. Pierce worked very hard, actually he worked hard himself, but Pierce was, and he himself was a substitute. Although Zhuang Fei told him last time that he would perform better as a substitute, no player would be willing to be a substitute, and he was also the main player last season. Although he is not dissatisfied with the team now, he is also very disappointed.

"They are making up for their shortcomings for the team's performance, and we are the same, so our team is invincible now. We are very motivated now, and everyone is very motivated," Garnett said, looking at Lewis, who was in a little downturn.

"Yes, it's all for the team," Lewis also said with a smile, and the discomfort 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.

On January 6, 2000, the Timberwolves played against the Trail Blazers at home. 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, who was beside Zhuang Fei, looked at Zhuang Fei in surprise. Zhuang Fei's solution made him difficult to accept. In the NBA, he rarely rotated the team's main lineup. Some teams did not even change in a season. This time, Zhuang Fei changed two at once. Moreover, Wang Zhizhi is still resting, and Bowen has not entered. In this game, the Timberwolves lineup is Nashga Ginobili, Pierce, Lewis and Garnett.

"Yes, you can't let all these people play high, take turns. This game is the Trail Blazers, and you have very good strength. Just rotate O'O and Jackson," Zhuang Fei said with a smile. He can't let all the players play high? D'Antoni was speechless after hearing this. I'm afraid no coach in NBA would do this.

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

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

"What's going on? Coach Z actually put Lewis and Ginobili on the lineup. These two people are only entering the lineup for the first time this season." This game is a national live broadcast of Ab. If Wang Zhizhi and Bowen were replaced, he might still be acceptable. After all, Wang Zhizhi and Bowen have proved themselves, but Lewis and Ginobili Lewis did not perform well last season and were not conspicuous this season. As for Ginobili, since he played a final victory against the Jazz, he has gradually become dull.

"It seems that Coach Z is very confident about the depth of his team's lineup." In the end, Michaels could only guess so.

In this game against the Trail Blazers, Xiao Ao wanted to take revenge, but he was very upset when he was pressed on the bench. However, it didn't take long for him to get on the court. In this game, the Timberwolves had many rotations, and each rotation was a big rotation, which made the Trail Blazers coach Dunleavy on the other side inexplicably and didn't know what Zhuang Fei was playing. However, Zhuang Fei's rotation caused him to suffer a lot, because the style of the Timberwolves rotated greatly every time, and it was completely unpredictable to defend.

In the last game, the Timberwolves won again under Dunleavy's resentful eyes. The final score was 110 to 101. The Timberwolves had 12 players playing in this game. The most playing time was Ginobili and Lewis, while the three core players Garnett, Pierce and Nash only played 29 minutes in this game.

On January 8, the Timberwolves, who were visiting the Pistons, once again used such a big rotation tactic. This time the team changed a lot again. The team's boss and the team's second-place Garnett and Pierce were all on the bench, and they became Oga, Lewis, Jackson, and Bowen, and Nash. In this game, the Timberwolves were still rotating frequently, and the game was rotated frequently. The Pistons, like the Trail Blazers, were also disrupted by Zhuang Fei's major adjustments. In this game, the Timberwolves defeated the Pistons 111-98 away, and the most playing time in this game became Bowen's 33 minutes, and the others played less than 30 minutes.

When Zhuang Fei was in the rotation, he never thought that there would be such an effect. However, Zhuang Fei's unexpected situation brought another big public opinion storm to the alliance. According to the New York Times.
Chapter completed!