For other substitutes, the better ones are better, and the marginal ones are more marginal.

This is a characteristic of Mustache's tactics - playing time is concentrated on 7-8 main players.

To this end, the coach has been thinking of ways to do this. For example, since the beginning of the training camp, he has strengthened Korver's movement training, and now he is also cultivating Novak's ability in this area.

The style of play is somewhat similar to Liu Xiu. Dragic is a combo guard who is keen on scoring. He also plays a lot of playing time. He averages 13 minutes per game in 4 games, averaging 4.5 points, 2 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.

In the coach's view, any system must have functional players. Even the triangle offense, which is known as a free play style, also has fixed roles.

Since there are at most 8 main players, one of them is close to a jack-of-all-trades, which the Trail Blazers don't have yet... The current coach's idea is to reduce the unnecessary roles and increase the same type of players who need the roles.

This idea was confirmed after many discussions between the coach and Liu Xiu, and the reference object was the Spurs.

As the saying goes, those who came before planted trees and those who will come after will enjoy the shade...

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After returning to Portland to rest for a day, the Trail Blazers ushered in their first back-to-back of the new season.

On the 8th, the Trail Blazers faced the challenge of the Rockets at home.

The game was very fierce. The twin towers of Bynum and Varejao, one offensive and one defensive, were no weaker than Randolph and Kwame Brown.

The front-back combination of Hamilton and Granger is also quite powerful.

The main thing is defense. Former Rockets defensive assistant Tom Thibodeau helped Granger and Bynum lay a solid defensive foundation.

With Granger on the outside, Bynum at the basket, and the assistance of Hamilton and Varejao, as well as Darius Miles, Landry, Alston and other good defensive players, the Rockets will be able to win this season.

It has become another... to put it nicely, it is called the Iron-Blooded Brigade.

Tonight Granger scored 25 points, Bynum had 17 points and 10 rebounds, Alston had 10 points and 4 assists, and Hamilton had 14 points...

For the Trail Blazers, Liu Xiu scored 27 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 steals and 1 block, Randolph had 17 points and 7 rebounds, Ray Allen had 15 points, Kwame Brown had 14 points and 15 rebounds, and Outlaws had 8 points.

5 rebounds, Hill 8 points, 3 rebounds and 8 assists...

99 to 94, the Trail Blazers narrowly defeated the Rockets by 5 points.

On the second day, the Trail Blazers faced back-to-back challenges from the Timberwolves at home.

The Timberwolves exchanged Oden for Gasol. Even if Oden succeeds in this transaction, no one will say that the Timberwolves are losing money.

There is no loss in exchanging a talent that was written off before playing in his rookie season for an All-Star player in the prime of his career.

However, the Timberwolves did not take off as people expected at the beginning of the new season. Instead, they started off badly.

Because last season their starting point guard Marko Jaric joined La Liga Real Madrid for 9 million euros in three years, the Timberwolves offered him the full mid-level offer, but was rejected by the other side.

The European leagues are different from the NBA in that salaries there are after-tax. Calculated based on Minneapolis' tax rate during the economic downturn in recent years, Yaric's new contract is equivalent to an annual salary of approximately tens of millions of dollars.

And last year's power forward Anthony Walker was rejected for a long-term contract.

Neither player was the core, they were just puzzle pieces. The Timberwolves management didn't care and let them go.

Anthony Walker couldn't find a contract, and the Timberwolves boss still mocked the veteran who made a big contribution to their rise last season while participating in the recording of the show...

Unexpectedly, puzzle pieces are also so important!

Yalic distributes the ball, and Fat Tou Tuo connects his teammates like a hub... Now the Timberwolves have a stronger lineup, but the two big stars on the outside don't seem to know how to play.

Only then did Roy realize that he was so dependent on the ball-distributing point guard.

There is another problem, their head coach Randy Whitman is really average.

Now there are black bookmakers on the Internet, betting on when the Timberwolves owner will pull Randy Whitman out to take the blame. This is the most common operation of the Timberwolves.

After understanding the current situation of the Timberwolves, Liu Xiu didn't feel surprised when he saw the scouting report when preparing for the game.

The tactics were inappropriate, the lineup was inappropriate, and even the combination of Nash + Kobe + Artest + Gasol + Howard almost failed to make the playoffs.

The Trail Blazers performed extremely well on the defensive end tonight, preventing the Timberwolves from making 29 of 84 shots from the field, with a shooting percentage of only 34%, and only scored 68 points.

Roy scored 14 points, Gasol scored 12 points, and sixth man Mike Miller had 11 points... Mike Miller felt like crying. He accepted the identity of the sixth man and joined the Timberwolves for $18 million in 2 years.

team, he came here because of the potential of the Timberwolves, but the result was such a disastrous result.

For the Trail Blazers, Liu Xiu played 18 minutes and scored 20 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists on 7 of 10 shots. Ray Allen had 15 points and 2 assists, Randolph had 10 points and 10 rebounds, and Kwame Brown had 8 points and 7 assists.

Board, Hill 5 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists... The Trail Blazers' five starters did not play in the second half.

But Dragic on the bench had 4 points, 3 rebounds and 11 assists, the Outlaws had 15 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 blocks, the Birdman had 17 points, Korver had 13 points, and Gasol had 5 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks.

Block shot...

114 to 68, the Trail Blazers slaughtered the Timberwolves.

The most impressive scene for Liu Xiu in the whole game was the scene of brothers and sisters - Gasol blocked Gasol twice in one round and then laughed wildly...
Chapter completed!