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The Timberwolves assistant pouted, obediently ran to the bench and took the tactical board over to Finch.

Chris Finch took the tactical board, looked at the Timberwolves players who were still playing on the court, and sighed softly.

Don't look at the close scores of the two teams now, but in fact, the Timberwolves are now at an absolute disadvantage!
At this time, the first quarter had just ended, and Beverly had already committed 3 fouls!
Just finished the first quarter!

3 fouls, it means that Beverly will miss at least the next quarter and a half of the game, and as long as Beverly plays, the Lakers will definitely chase Beverly to play and make him foul!

As for the team's backup guards, if Beasley and McLaughlin play, the offense will be fine, but the defensive end will become a colander. Although they are much taller than Beverly, but work hard Said, that's more than 01:30 points behind Beverly. After all, a mad dog player like Beverly is rare in the league.

While Chris Finch was struggling, the Timberwolves players on the field started the final attack of the first quarter.

It was still Beverly holding the ball to face Gary Clark, but Beverly did not choose to make a foul on this ball. He also knew in his heart that if he made another foul on this ball, the referee would definitely not call it again!

Facing the little offensive time left, Beverly finally decided to let the core players in the team handle the ball.

Afterwards, Beverly made a gesture to Downs, and Downs immediately understood, and quickly stuck Dyke with his lower plate to ask for the ball.

Beverly handed the ball to Towns with a lob pass, and Towns immediately crushed the ball inside. Although Deckard's bottom plate was indeed strong, but with his body weight advantage, Towns was still tough. Rolled a few steps into the inner line.

After approaching the basket, Towns relied on his height advantage, turned around and hooked directly, and the basketball hit the basket!
As Towns completed his attack, the rest of the first quarter just ended, and the Timberwolves took a 2-point lead.

Following the whistle of the referee, the players on the court left the court one after another, returned to their benches, and waited for their coaches' instructions.

Timberwolves players circled around Chris Finch, ready to listen to Finch's instructions.

But Chris Finch seemed to be frozen, holding the tactical board and staying there stupidly without making a sound.

"Hey, Mr. Coach! The first quarter is over!"

The teaching assistant at the side saw Chris Finch standing there for a long time without making a sound, so he quickly touched him and reminded him.

At this time, Chris Finch was thinking about countermeasures, and when he heard the teaching assistant's words, he quickly pulled his thoughts back.

Although the Timberwolves are at a disadvantage now, no matter how severe the situation is, as the head coach, he must not be able to mess up on his own!
Chris Finch coughed twice, adjusted his emotions, and said in a deep voice to the surrounding Timberwolves players with a tactical board.

"Guys, we played well in the first quarter. We are leading now, so relax, but we need to pay attention to it in a while and control the number of fouls!"

"Beverly, especially you, you have committed 3 fouls, you must pay attention to your foul count!"

After talking about the foul issue, Chris Finch casually glanced at the Lakers bench, and then said softly: "For a while, we will still use the starting lineup, Beverly, you still play!"

Hearing what the head coach said, Beverly was a little confused. He had 3 fouls on his back. If he played in the second quarter, he would definitely be chased by the Lakers. Why did Finch choose to play himself?

Beverly quickly expressed his confusion to the head coach. Head coach Finch nodded slightly. He had expected Beverly's question, and he said calmly: "Based on what I know about the Lakers , They have a high probability of using a substitute lineup in the second quarter, and there are quite a few defensive weaknesses in their substitute lineup!"

"And what we have to do is, in the second quarter, attack their defensive weaknesses fiercely! Try to play a wave of offense and open the score! The score is opened, and we can arrange it in the next two quarters Already!"

"So, we still use the starting lineup. Our starting lineup has a strong offensive power. When I go on the field, I will play against their defensive weaknesses!"

After finishing speaking, Chris Finch paused, and then said: "As for defense, we still adopt a man-to-man defensive strategy. We choose not to switch defenses when facing pick-and-rolls, and weak delays!"

"Beverly, when you are on the court, you are mainly defending against a three-point shooter who does not have the ability to attack independently. Be careful not to get fouled. Once there is a fourth foul, I will take you down immediately." "Do you understand? ?”

After Chris Finch finished speaking, his eyes fixed, scanning the Timberwolves players present.

"Understood!"

Hearing the Timberwolves' answer, Chris Finch nodded with satisfaction, and then immediately made gestures on the tactical board, explaining the offensive tactics used by the Timberwolves for a while!
Chris Finch knows that this second quarter is very important to the Timberwolves. If the Lakers can use the bench lineup to open the score in the second quarter, then the Timberwolves still have a chance to play!

Letting the starting lineup continue to play in the second quarter does have certain risks, but if the bench lineup is allowed to play, I am afraid that it will be killed by the Lakers' bench lineup!
The current Lakers are different from the past. The joining of Brogdon, Hield and several other young strikers has improved the depth of the lineup a lot, although it is not as good as the top teams in the league.But it's still possible to play the Timberwolves as a substitute!
This is probably all due to the credit of that Chinese kid.

Thinking of this, Chris Finch glanced intentionally or unintentionally at Lin Fei who was sitting on the sidelines, and at the same time was secretly unhappy, if only this Lin Fei was the general manager of the Timberwolves team!

Ugh.

Chris Finch sighed softly, shook his head, and put all unrealistic thoughts behind him.

After a while, the second quarter began!
As Chris Finch expected, the Lakers chose to use the bench lineup, Brogdon, Hield, Johnson, Rivers, and Gabriel's five small lineups!

This is the turn of the Lakers coach Vogel to be dumbfounded. He never expected that the Timberwolves coach would dare to use the starting lineup and continue to let Beverly play.

Vogel smiled playfully, he had already guessed what the Timberwolves coach was thinking.

At this moment, the Lakers assistant coach couldn't sit still after seeing the Timberwolves lineup, and hurried to Vogel and whispered: "Mr. Coach, they still use the starting lineup, why don't we continue to use it for a while?" Let's play against them with the starting lineup!"

Vogel smiled contemptuously, waved his hands and said softly: "No, just in time for them to test the quality of our substitute lineup!"

After finishing speaking, Vogel waved at the Lakers players on the field. After attracting the attention of the Lakers players, Vogel pointed to Beverly on the field with his right hand, the meaning was obvious!

Hit me with Beverly!