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"Coach, Manu's attacking ability is stronger than before"

Just after Ginobili scored the goal that almost penetrated the Boston Celtics defense, Timberwolves assistant coach Stephen Green on the sidelines couldn't help but praise the former sixth man under Zhuang Fei, who became the only player in the league's history to win both the Best Sixth Man and the Most Improved Player award in a single season last season. []

For his former teammate James Posey, Stephen Green also knows very well, his defense is absolutely first-class, whether it is fast or strong and strong, he can limit and defend well, but this time he was directly passed by this Argentine, which also surprised him very much.

"Well, Manu's self-confidence is very strong now" Zhuang Fei frowned and said lightly, Zhuang Fei can read something different from the eyes of the Argentine defender, such as the flame, this defender also wants to prove himself, he wants to tell his teammates and the fans of the team that he can stand firm in the Timberwolves.

"In Van Gundy's system, Manu is indeed much more suitable than Nash," Zhuang Fei sighed after giving him a deep look at Ginobili at the end.

As the former head coach of these two, Zhuang Fei knows the characteristics of these two people well, Nash is stronger than Ginobili is his overall view, control and passing vision and organizational ability, and Ginobili Although he can also organize, it is much worse than Nash in terms of organizational ability or organizational experience or fire, Ginobili's characteristic is that he can force scores with his own personal ability when he has no chance, although Nash's offense is also very good, But Nash's offense relies more on mid-to-long-range shooting, and he can't do it if he runs through the entire Boston Celtics defense like Ginobili, and that's not what Nash thinks. Nash also doesn't have as much decisiveness as Ginobili on the offensive end. He still prefers to pass the ball to his teammates and create opportunities for his teammates.

But such a timberwolves can make Nash create opportunities for them, and does Nash need to create opportunities for them?

In fact, at the end of the last game between the Timberwolves and the Grizzlies, everyone already had the answer in their hearts, and the victory of that game was that at the last moment, Wang Zhizhi was locked by the opponent's two inside lines and could not score steadily. When Carter broke out, Ginobili shouldered the team's offensive responsibility and exchanged blows with Carter at the last moment. At the same time, he also led the team to victory in the end.

Obviously, when Van Gundy made this decision again today, he already had the answer, for a team with such a rhythm, Nash's presence on the court will disrupt the team's rhythm, and it will not be able to bring out all the energy of Nash, similarly, in such a system, as a playmaking defender, when organizing the team's offense, just hand over the ball to Garnett or Wang Zhizhi, and leave the rest to these two people. If these two can't do that, let Ginobili and Pierce use their individual offensive ability to complete the offense, such a system doesn't require a lot of playmaking talent, plus Nash's defensive black hole. Considering the combination of these aspects, this timberwolf does not have the soil for Nash to survive.

The point guard who has made a huge contribution to the Timberwolves is about to face the fate of being abandoned by the team's new coach.

Although Zhuang Fei is a little emotional now, he is also a little powerless. Zhuang Fei also knows that in fact, Nash is also very clear about his current situation, but it is a little difficult for this point guard to accept such a reality.

When Ginobili scored such a beautiful goal. Shuangfei began to change to the second team of their respective teams, and at this time Nash also appeared on the court, Zhuang Fei can obviously feel that his former favorite will is looking at his side, which is from now on the point of view of the playmaker The eyes of the playmaker are very complicated and struggling. …,

Most of the five players of the Timberwolves on the court are also former Zhuang Fei's subordinates, Nash and Reed on the guard line, Sam Mitchell on the front line, Dean Garrett and Reaves on the front line, among which the big center Reaves was exchanged for the Grizzlies, the center has declined rapidly after leaving the Grizzlies, and has now become a player with the same chicken ribs. And what makes Zhuang Fei even more helpless is that Van Gundy would rather use the almost forty-year-old veteran Sam Mitchell than the team's young player Crawford, it can be said that this lineup is obviously not suitable for Nash from the current point of view, and letting Nash lead such a group of substitutes will tie Nash's talent.

On the Boston Celtics side, the second team is led by Arenas plus guard Anderson, small forward Eric Williams, power forward McCarty and center Oku, and the Boston Celtics bench are all able to shoot from the perimeter, and everyone has good shooting ability, like center Oku and power forward McCarty. This is a lineup that is completely based on Arenas as the core, whether it is Arenas's own attack after the breakthrough or the distribution after the breakthrough, he can create a threat.

"I really didn't expect the two teams to play like this, and from the current point of view, the second team of both teams may be the key to winning this game, which is extremely important for both Nash and Arenas, both of whom are the absolute souls of the second team."

The ABC commentator McHale in the stands said with some expectation after seeing both sides change to the second lineup, in fact, many people make Nash's departure the only option, but Michaels thinks that if Nash can adapt to the role of the team's sixth man, he may be able to stay, and the current Timberwolves are not reused after Ginobili is raised, Crawford is not reused, such a team lacks a sixth man, but it is a little inappropriate to let a quasi-first-line superstar of the Finals MVP league play the sixth man? So Michaels also knew that he was a little naïve in his thinking.

But it's true that Nash won't stay here to play sixth man in the long run, but this game can, if Nash can get his mentality right, even if his teammates don't fit him, he can finish the game with his own individual offense, and Michaels doesn't think a small rookie Arenas can compare to Nash. Even if the two sides can draw this game, the Timberwolves have a bigger chance of winning.

In fact, in this situation, not only Michaels has this idea, but so is the head coach of the Timberwolves, Van Gundy, the defensive coach who came to the Timberwolves was also taken aback by the lineup of this team, the players of this team are too strong. Originally, he thought that he would spend a lot of time developing players who fit his tactics. But after coming here, he found that these players do not need to be trained by him, all of these people exist, and it can be said that the former New York head coach admires Zhuang Fei very much in this regard. This kind of player's tuning ability shocked him, you must know that Zhuang Fei used to be a crazy attacker, and it is such a crazy offensive team that can play crazy defense without any adjustment. What is this like?

So Van Gundy is extremely relieved about the depth of this team's squad, which is why he thinks he can beat Zhuang Fei today. Now there is no team in the NBA that will throw the Finals MVP to the second team, but he can, this is his confidence.

Nash had played a bench role in the Suns before, and Nash's style of play at that time was very different from now, when he was more reckless, and at this time he was more calm, but perhaps for a calm and mature Nash, letting him play the sixth man requires him to re-adapt, and Van Gundy may have never considered it at this point. …,

"Coach. Steve could have attacked on his own, but in the end he had to pass the ball, and Sam Mitchell's speed and athleticism couldn't even get the ball in the face of Eric Williams' defense."

Soon, the change of double flying on the court made many people on the scene a little unbelievable. The Timberwolves bench lineup, which obviously has the MVP of the Finals, now has no way to deal with the Boston Celtics' bench lineup. Even when he played the Grizzlies in the last game, Nash was a substitute, but Van Gundy didn't let him bring a second team. In the game before the Timberwolves, it has always been Ginobili who led the team's second team, and now everyone expected the Finals MVP to contribute to the team on the second team, but found that his side was completely suppressed by the opponent.

Compared to Nash's reasonableness, Arenas is too reckless, in either case the guard's first thought is to attack the basket, and other aspects are indeed his other options, but for the role of the sixth man, such Arenas is more suitable.

Nash, who was originally going to organize the whole team's offense, finally looked around him, these players were no longer Garnett, not O'Neal Jr., not Pierce, not even Jackson, at this time the point guard finally sadly found that even if the pass was good, there was no way to help these people score, which also made the playmaker feel a little sad.

"It's really struggling" Zhuang Fei was a little heartbroken at this time looking at the confused back on the court on the sidelines, perhaps because he felt Zhuang Fei's gaze, the guard quickly adjusted his mood, and began to slowly strengthen his personal offense, but this is a little insufficient for the Timberwolves, after all, the guard's style of play determines that even if he wants to attack, he can't completely let himself go, because he will subconsciously want to pass the ball, this is a little too different from the somewhat simple Arenas opposite him.

Therefore, the play of the two in the second team in this game is also a little too contrasting.

"Another natural bench bandit, from Mobley to Ginobili Coach Z has always been able to produce such players, from the current point of view this Arenas is even more crazy than the two mentioned earlier, and Steve doesn't seem to be suitable for the role right now"

Michaels, the ABC commentator in the grandstand commentary at the target center, sighed and said that he was more optimistic about the more capable Nash at the beginning, but from the current point of view, the ability does not seem to be very important for a sixth man, even if it seems that Arenas's performance can suppress Nash, but Michaels will not think that Nash will lose in terms of strength, but what makes Michaels a little amazed is that other coaches can not get a super sixth man, And this Chinese can constantly produce such players like an assembly line.

"It looks like this game is dangerous"

After Michaels finished speaking, McHale, the general manager of the Timberwolves on the side, also sighed softly.

Soon, when the five minutes of the second team on both sides were played, the two sides that were obviously drawn had now changed, and the Timberwolves had fallen behind Boston by 4 points at home, although this was only a four-point difference, but for a defensive battle where it was not easy to score, even a 4-point difference was extremely fatal, especially when the outcome of their own team and the opponent was unpredictable.

So at this time, the face of the Timberwolves head coach Van Gundy on the sidelines became extremely bad, and it was obvious that the head coach had no confidence at the beginning of the game, nor was he calm just now, but became a little anxious and uneasy.

This game is extremely difficult for both sides of the game, especially when the two teams can pair each other in the opposite position, although the basketball game is not a one-on-one match between players and players, but for such a slow-paced and slow offensive competition, many times the two teams are in a one-on-one competition, but from the lineup of both sides, each position of the two teams can be very good, Garnett and Xiao Ao, Pierce and Maddy, Yao Ming and Wang Zhizhi, Jackson and Bowen, Ginobili and Posey, These five groups are very similar in strength and style within their respective teams, which makes the two teams completely evenly matched in terms of lineups.

At halftime, the score was 44-40, and the Boston Celtics led by four points, and at this time it was still the same running line for the two teams, although Van Gundy was a little anxious about underestimating Boston, but also thought he could win the game.

When the game reached the end of the third quarter and the margin between the two sides was 65-60, the Timberwolves coach was a little desperate.

Because when Jaehai didn't get the score back, the two sides once again entered the contest of rotating lineups.

This time the defensive coach didn't have the confidence he had at the beginning.

And it was at this time that Zhuang Fei's frowning brows stretched out, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.