The godfather of basketball started from conquering the NBA

"This bunch of rubbish referees should really be dragged to Mars to see if there are as many pits on Mars as there are pits in their brains."

In the training room, Westbrook was doing leg strength training while complaining to Xu Xiao.

At the same time, Xu Xiao on one side

"Hey, is Minnesota Red romantic? Tonight we're going to have a team building, right, right, we're here for the team building, reserve a spot for us, and my sister, I want number 8, reserve it for me."

"Coach, are you dead or not?"

"I'm willing to admit defeat."

"Coach, the battle is imminent, why don't we next time?"

"At this time, it's more important to keep a calm mind. You see Demar is so nervous now that he can't even hold the ball. Why don't you just relax for a while?"

"No, boss." DeRozan replied absently, and then continued dribbling training.

Although DeRozan is expressionless on the surface, DeRozan's heart has long been unable to hold back.

"Yes, Russell, we've been waiting for this day."

Ibaka joked as he wiped his sweat with a towel after the strength warm-up.

With Ibaka's first shot, everyone immediately responded. Everyone was immersed in laughter and laughter. Only Westbrook watched his wallet hurt silently there.

Sure enough, the joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same.

"Russell, since someone is always going to get hurt, why can't it be you."

Xu Xiao was stabbing Westbrook in the chest.

But jokes are jokes, everyone still devoted themselves to training after having fun.

The training task that Xu Xiao gave them today was very simple, but also very difficult.

One is to complete a confrontation layup while moving quickly, and the other is to hit a three-pointer under strong confrontation interference.

"Coach, why do we practice this?"

After missing 8 three-pointers in a row, Oden couldn't bear it at first. As a big center, he rarely took three-pointers. tactical role.

Let him practice three-pointers and layups like this, Oden really can't stick to it.

"Continue to Greg, look at Yao, he is still persisting."

Auden wanted to say something more, but after seeing Xu Xiao's cold eyes, he swallowed it. He had been with Xu Xiao for 6 years, and he knew Xu Xiao's character.

I could only whisper while training:

"The game will start in 3 days, what's the use of practicing this now."

Although the voice was very small, it was just right for Xu Xiao to hear it, and of course Xu Xiao would not pay attention.

He knows in his heart that this kind of training will not bring much improvement to the team's strength, but he still chooses this training method, and there must be a reason for him.

So Xu Xiao didn't pay attention to the voices of the players complaining, and continued with the following training.

Of course, Xu Xiao still took them out to indulge in the evening, even though the money was all paid by Westbrook.

Finally on May 5th, the Timberwolves ushered in their next opponent, the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers were eliminated by the Timberwolves last year, and this year's Trail Blazers came with the determination of revenge.

This year, they sent away Kwame Brown, Xu Xiao's right-hand man, as well as the old Brad Miller, Jeffries and others.

Added the "dead man" Bogoute, who is affectionately called by the fans, and the young man came to the crazy dunk king Gerald Green.

After sending away Rodriguez, who is known as the "European white chocolate", he turned around and signed two strong players from Europe, Belica and Sheved with a solid style of play.

Coupled with the growth of last year's newcomer Vucevic, and the retention of Durant and Aldridge's overall lineup, this year's Trail Blazers are definitely capable of competing for the championship.

The Timberwolves replaced DeRozan with Jimmy Butler. The starting lineup was Westbrook and Butler in the backcourt, Josh and Ibaka in the frontcourt, and Oden at center.

The Blazers still retained the starting lineup with the Grizzlies in the previous round.Felton, Matthews, Durant, Aldridge and Bodogte.

At the beginning of the game, Xu Xiao arranged a very strange matchup. Instead of Jimmy Butler defending Durant, Josh defended Felton. This round directly confused the audience.

It stands to reason that Josh has just been selected for the first defense. He is the best defender in the team. He is still facing Durant. After all, he should be the best candidate to defend against Durant, but Xu Xiao entrusts this important task to To a sophomore rookie.

Instead, let Josh guard the least important person to him.

But Xu Xiao's change had an unexpected effect.

The Timberwolves got off to a 20-5 start and immediately stopped the Blazers. McMillan hurriedly called a timeout and laid out tactics while sweating profusely.

"Steve, I have to admit that this guy from China does have something."

"Oh, Jeff, what did you find?"

Cole smiled knowingly at Van Gundy, and it was time for Van Gundy to explain his tactics.

"Of course, the operation of using Josh to defend against Felton at the beginning really blinded my eyes. Felton doesn't have a stable shooting ability, so Josh's defense is to let him half a step, and Josh's height and movement The speed also prevents Felton from rushing up, so Felton's physical advantage is gone, which is basically useless."

"Of course this is Durant's team. Felton abolishing the opponent's strongest point of defense will not affect much on the surface, but basketball is a whole. Once one of the points goes wrong, then the entire link may be affected." There will be big problems.”

"Okay Jeff, stop being pretentious and start your explanation quickly."

"The advantage of Josh going to Felton is that Josh is always on the line and doesn't have to sink to the bottom corner with the shooter, so his defense is always timely, and his counterattack is also the fastest. So he became the core of the defense in this lineup."

"The Trail Blazers lacked a ball-holding point, so the ball can only be handed over to Durant to organize the team's offense. This is obviously not his strong point. You can see, so far, Durant There have been four turnovers, all pass errors, which is rare for him."

"The Huaxia people's trick is very insidious, so that Durant can't receive the ball in his familiar position to complete the finish, but has to catch the ball and organize the attack by himself, completely exposing his weakness of passing the ball.

If Durant wants to play singles, he must start from the three-point line. In this way, he will face Jimmy's stalking and Josh's quick defense, and he is not good at dealing with the weakness of double teams. exposed. "

"And their only strong point in the matchup is the matchup between Ade and Ibaka. You can see that Ade has received the ball a few times from the beginning to now, and he basically comes out as a screen. As long as this Josh By staying on the line, their screens are always being helped, and that's why they're struggling right now."

"What a cunning and difficult Chinese man. He pinpointed the Blazers' weaknesses so accurately. I have to say that he does have ideas."

After listening to Van Gundy's explanation, Kerr also had a different view of Xu Xiao.