On November 5th, after a day's rest, the Portland Trail Blazers continued to sit at the Rose Garden Arena at home to face the challenge from the Huskies (Timberwolves).

Zhou Si, who had nothing to do, flipped through the schedule and was quite satisfied with Mr. Stern. At the beginning of the season, the Blazers faced all the teams in the lottery last season. They just let themselves fight against the monsters to level up?

For example, Zhou Si's opponent today, the Timberwolves, currently has one win and three losses, ranking third in the Western Conference.

"Hey, Zhou, I miss you so much."

When they met at noon, Zhou Si stretched out his hand with a look of disgust and pushed away "Silver Wolf" Zeller who was about to give him a hug.

"Haha, I guess I haven't seen you in less than two months at most."

"Don't be so heartless!

Don’t you have an old saying in China:

A day without seeing each other is like three autumns passing by!

So we haven’t seen each other for many autumns."

Looking at Zeller who was so talkative and thinking about the big boy who hugged him for comfort during special training in the summer, Zhou Si knew that he must have a good life in the Timberwolves.

Haha, I have given him the beginner's guide. If he doesn't play well, it will be a problem of his own attitude.

"Zhou, let me tell you, the girls in Minnesota are great!

Hehe, I found that cold is also good for you. Have you heard of the expansion with heat and contraction with cold?

Hehehe, Zhou, you must know that feeling!"

"ha?"

"hehe!"

Zhou Si turned around and looked at Ye Qin with a sneer on his face, huh?

Xiao Qinqin, don’t go, don’t think nonsense, it’s not what you think!

I'm not human!

No, I'm not that kind of person!

…

At night, Zeller looked at Zhou Si who was targeting him with a look of sadness and anger.

"Brother, I said I was wrong, why don't you let me go?"

"Ah, there is an old saying in China:

When a guest comes, the host should greet him well."

So you're so crazy about greeting me with "hot pot"?

Did the exam consider my Minnesota-coach-than-tough-guy-Silver Wolf feelings?

Zhou Si smiled in his heart, wasn't he very happy when he tricked me at noon?

Didn't you laugh very loudly?

Laugh again!

…

In fact, Zhou Si really didn't specifically target this game...

Well, he targeted Zeller.

Although Zeller is relatively arrogant, his performance on the court is indeed getting tougher and tougher.

Zeller, who already had excellent physical fitness, made up for his lack of desire to win and showed a ruthless drive to choose and devour others on the court.

Originally, Pekovic joked in the locker room before the game that he should take good care of this junior!

The results of it?

On the offensive end, he can't push him in the low position, and on the defensive end, he can't defend him in the high position.

Zeller, who always pulls Pekovic into the high post to break out or provide support, doesn't take the former starting center of the Timberwolves seriously at all.

In the first half alone, Zeller already scored 18 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists.

In fact, this is also related to Zhou Si's suggestion that Zeller have a good relationship with Timberwolves coach Adelman.

The second most famous coach in the NBA, he once led the Trail Blazers to the Finals twice, and also built the Kings into the most entertaining team in the league!

That Kings team, with Webb, Peja, Bibby, Divac and other players as the core, and using Princeton tactics, is the most gorgeous team basketball team in the eyes of many fans.

However, what most Chinese fans remember him most is his use of Yao Ming during the Rockets period.

The biggest resentment the fans have against Dayao is that he was beaten so hard that Dayao was injured.

But there is one thing to say: Adelman really fucked up Yao Ming in the first season, letting Yao average 37 minutes per game. As a result, Yao was retired after playing 55 games.

In the second season, Adelman actually paid great attention to protecting Dayao, which caused Dayao's average playing time to drop to 33 minutes per game. The best example is that he played 77 games in the regular season.

But who wants to hear this?

Dayao is injured, the head coach has to take the blame!

Well, the power forward who can't pass and eat cakes also has to take the blame!

One thing to say, apart from the fact that he fucked Yao Ming to death, Adelman has almost no black spots.

As a famous college coach, Adelman led the Rockets to a 22-game winning streak in his first season after joining the Rockets, which was the second longest in NBA history at the time.

In the second season, he even led the Rockets to the Western Conference semifinals with his old team, the Trail Blazers!

In terms of the ability to build a system, there is no other active coach in the league. Therefore, for some teams that are at a bottleneck and looking for a breakthrough, Adelman can quickly solve the team's problems.

It's just that after the team system was established, he was always unable to lead the team further.

Because Adelman is accustomed to delegating the power to deal with problems on the field to the players in the system, although the degree of freedom is high, it also leads to a decrease in his direct command and reaction speed.

Therefore, for mid-range quasi-strong teams, Adelman is S-level (Kings, Trail Blazers, Rockets when he first took over)!

For top teams (Kings, Trail Blazers), Adelman is A-grade!

For teams below the playoff line (the Rockets' late stage), Adelman is Class B.

For a bad team (Warriors), Adelman is D-level...

Let’s use a more intuitive analogy.

This chef is good at using various excellent ingredients to cook delicious dishes, but he is still a little short of being able to serve at the state banquet.

In contrast, "Zen Master" Phil Jackson likes to use a variety of top-quality ingredients, and the dishes he makes are worthy of state banquets.

Popovich uses a set of top-quality ingredients all year round and has attended state banquets several times...

Adelman may only be one Jordan or Duncan away from the championship...

Closer to home, for the Timberwolves, who are currently aiming to be in trouble, Adelman is a D-level existence.

However, his character of trusting players and his style of letting players solve their own problems on the court gave Zeller opportunities to take advantage of loopholes.

Zeller went to discuss Princeton's tactics with Coach Adelman when he had nothing to do. Not only did his experience value for Princeton's tactics gradually increase, but he also increased Adelman's favorability.

Adelman, who is now sixty-seven years old and has white hair and beard, like many old men, likes to tell his younger generations about his past glory days.

Now Adelman is completely training Zeller as a close disciple.

Zeller unknowingly became the tactical core of this Erha team!

If the management asked Adelman to choose between Zeller and Love, he would definitely choose Love.

Well, if the team loses, the old man will choose Love to take the blame!

Although Guofu is very handsome, sometimes he is still too shy!

Thighs, when it’s time to hug them, don’t worry about your dignity!

When Zhou Si started the game, he was also happy for Zeller at first.

The Princeton tactics were so effective in such a short period of time, it’s amazing!

But slowly Zhou Si realized that something was wrong.

Today, Zhou Si, who focused mainly on learning Princeton's tactics in actual combat, is relatively invisible, but Director Li is a bit too sloppy today, right?

Only 9 points on 3-of-13 shooting in the first half?

In my impression, "Golden Boy" Rubio's defense wasn't very good either.

But no matter what, looking at the score of 52:47, Zhou Si felt that it was time for him to do something.

There is an old Chinese saying that goes well.

If a friend comes from afar, we’ll treat him to hot pot!
Chapter completed!