Chapter 53: Too Lonely?

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  "Coach, this is the scouting report on Denver Nuggets." Steven Green placed a file on Zhuang Fei's office desk.

  NBA teams have a dedicated scouting system to collect reports on their opponents, and Zhuang Fei specifically assigned this task to Stephon Green. He didn't particularly value these scouting reports, as the owner of the dynasty system, Zhuang Fei wasn't too concerned about them, mainly to train Stephon Green.

  Many NBA head coaches started as scouts or video coordinators, and Zhuang Fei not only asked Green to list data but also required him to express his own opinions at the end of the scouting report, which is a great way to train people.

  "How does it feel?" Zhuang Fei asked Steven Greene with a smile.

  Stephen Green understood that Zhu Fei was asking for his opinion. Stephen took a deep breath, stabilized his emotions, and said loudly: "The Golden State Warriors are not a defensive team, and their height is not sufficient either. In my opinion, it's too easy to defeat them with our strength. Their center, LaFrentz, the third overall pick this year, is an outside shooter, small forward Eric Williams has strong defensive capabilities and shooting skills, I think he can cause enough trouble for Pierce or Jackson. As for their backcourt, I don't quite understand, they signed Nick Van Exel and Marko Jaric, two capable point guards, so I think they might play a dual-point guard lineup, which will put a lot of pressure on Nash. However, their backcourt defense is just as bad as their interior defense. As for their star player, Mike D'Antoni, I think Kevin can limit him." After finishing his analysis, Green couldn't help but sneak a glance at Zhu Fei, feeling a bit apprehensive.

  Zhuang Fei smiled slightly and nodded slightly: "Very good"

  Seeing Zhuang Fei nodding in agreement, Stephen Green also let out a sigh of relief.

  The Nuggets are indeed as soft on defense as Green said, with both the interior and backcourt struggling to defend. Eric Williams is also a one-man show, but their outside shooting power is strong, especially Bilups. This is also a point that Timberwolves need to be wary of, because Nash will have a hard time defending against Bilups. However, basketball games are not about who plays better defense, but about who scores more points. As long as the Timberwolves can score more than the Nuggets, it's enough.

  The first opponent of the Timberwolves is the Nuggets, which Zhuang Fei thinks is very suitable. The current Nuggets will not be the opponent of this Timberwolves now, but even if Zhuang Fei thinks so, the media outside does not think so. Beal, last year's No. 3 pick, has stronger abilities than Nash; Nick Van Exel, an almost All-Star guard, is stronger than Jackson; LaFrentz was the No. 3 pick this year, while Lewis was the 17th pick, who is stronger and who is weaker is obvious. Even if the Timberwolves have Garnett, don't the Nuggets also have McDyess? As for the last Pierce encountering defensive strongman Erick Williams, no one knows how it will be. So the media generally thinks that the Nuggets can win this battle of the bottom teams. Why is it a battle of the bottom teams? Because in the media's prediction, one of these two teams must be the bottom team.

  Actually, just yesterday, Timberwolves boss Glen Taylor hinted that he would not fire Ryan Saunders due to the team's poor performance this season. He also encouraged Ryan Saunders not to be too stressed, which made Ryan Saunders smile bitterly.

  Facing such a thing, Zhuang Fei naturally wouldn't say that he really doesn't consider the Forest Wolf's performance this season. His goal is still the playoffs, which has never changed.

  Even if the whole world doesn't believe in him, he will still believe in himself and his team.

  After these two preseason games, Zhuang Fei can already clearly feel the team's progress, which is not only intuitive but also reflected in the data. The Wang Chao system's evaluation score for the Forest Wolves' cohesion is 50 points, and this score is not low at all. Zhuang Fei remembers that when he was in Vick's Forest for the first time, the team's cohesion score had not reached 50 points for a long time. The opponent Nuggets' cohesion score is only 58 points, which is not much higher than the Forest Wolves. Even if Nash is still in a slump, this will greatly discount the team's fast break effect. However, with a young lineup consisting of Pierce, Jackson, Lewis, and Garnett, they will not slow down at all in terms of attacking speed. Although there may be problems with the team's coordination, facing a team like the Nuggets, as long as their hand feeling is still good, taking them down should not be a problem.

  Thinking of this, Zhuang Fei's mood became even more relaxed. Red doors, red doors, Chinese people are relatively superstitious about these things.

  "Stephen, what do you think of Nash?" Zhuang Fei suddenly asked Greene with a smile, causing Greene to lose his composure for a moment.

  Nash? Green thought for a moment, Nash is one of the players that Zhuang Fei values most, Green knew this, but Nash's performance this season has been very poor, it can be said that if everyone has already initially recognized Pierce, then they have already given up on Nash, who wants to step on him.

  This question is quite difficult to answer. If I speak ill of Nash, it would be impolite to Zhuang Fei, but if I don't speak the truth, that would be dishonest. It's a dilemma either way.

  "Stephen, don't worry about other things, just speak your own mind." Zhuang Fei obviously saw Green's dilemma.

  "I don't think Nash is a good point guard," Green said, glancing at Zhuang Fei, who didn't react. Emboldened, he continued: "As a point guard, he's too ball-dominant. I admit his ball-handling and penetration are great, but often when he gets the ball, he just goes around in circles, neither attacking nor passing, which makes it impossible for the team to function normally. He's even become an obstacle to the team's fast break tactics. He himself is also prone to mistakes, too hesitant and too selfish."

  Very insightful, what Green said is very insightful. On the surface, this is Nash's current situation, whether to attack himself or organize his teammates? He can't make a good judgment yet, which causes hesitation on the court. To some extent, Nash is like the core point guard of a young team in his later years, who was also confused about attacking and passing when facing the Mavericks in the 2011 Western Finals.

  But is that really the case? Was Nash really selfish and alone? The young point guard of later years was indeed selfish, his offense was excellent, but his passing was terrible, he was indeed thinking about individual offense rather than organizing his teammates.

  But what's different is that Nash really wants to organize his teammates, many times he breaks through for half a day, the running positions of his teammates are not very satisfactory to him, his requirements are high, he is not the kind of point guard who easily gives up the ball, so he keeps controlling the ball himself, continuing to break through, continuing to look for opportunities, and even gives up personal attacks in order to pass the ball, this is not Nash being too selfish, but rather too selfless.

  However, these were things that Zhuangzi did not intend to tell Guan, and which required him to understand for himself.

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  Anthony returned to Denver for the first time since leaving, and it was a very emotional experience. Looking around the arena, McNichols Sports Arena was still packed, and he used to be one of them, but now he's an enemy here. Looking at the Nuggets' bench, Dan Issel had indeed become the team's head coach and general manager, which made Anthony slightly relieved, if he really stayed with the Nuggets, he would probably have been fired soon.

  This is also the first time that Zhuang Fei has come to an NBA team's away game. The Nuggets' fans are quite good, and they don't mock Zhuang Fei and his players like the Timberwolves' fans do, which makes Zhuang Fei slightly unaccustomed.

  Zhuang looked around and found that the very famous Mr. Key of the later generations had already finished his warm-up and sat on the bench earlier than Lupus, it seems that he will not start this game.

  "Hey there, young man! Welcome to the NBA!" Dan Isler said with a smile as he patted Zhuang Fei on the shoulder.

  "Thanks, but today our goal is to beat the last place team and become the second to last." Zhuang Fei smiled slightly. Dan-Iser first stunned, then angry, and finally calmly said: "I hope your team isn't as fragile as those ignorant media described, otherwise you have no chance of beating us."

  "This is also what I want to say" Zhuang Fei still had a smile on his face. It seems that Dani Sarel is also very dissatisfied with the media's underestimation of his team.

  "I'm Al Michaels, play-by-play announcer for ABC, and this Denver Nuggets-Minnesota Timberwolves game today will be my call to a national audience."

  NBA live broadcasts and NCAA live broadcasts are completely different. The CBA did not purchase the NBA's broadcasting rights. Originally, as a matchup between two bottom-ranked teams, it's estimated that no national media outlet in the US would be willing to broadcast such a game. However, due to Zhuang Fei, this game will be broadcast nationwide. Moreover, the Timberwolves have also become one of the most broadcast teams in the league this season. This is also the reason why the Timberwolves' boss has been repeatedly tolerant of Zhuang Fei.

  "This game is Coach Z's NBA debut, I think all the fans of Coach Z across the United States are eager to see him and his team perform. The game is about to start, let's see if Coach Z's show team can shine on the NBA court."

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