NBA: Duncan feels uneasy coaching Warriors

Chapter 156 Ron, what kind of person is Sue
This is not only a series for Su Chen to prove himself, but also a series for Cole to prove himself.

After Cole took office, his pressure is still quite high.

Either way, the Warriors are the defending champions.

In the past season, although there have been cases of champion coaches switching jobs, they usually do not jump jobs so quickly.

After winning the championship, there was no successful defense of the championship, followed by another failed season.

Under such circumstances, the team management will consider changing the head coach, and the head coach himself will prefer to coach a team that he has already led successfully.

Like Su Chen, who just won the championship last season, he will change jobs immediately in the new season.

Looking at the entire history of the NBA, it is also quite wow.

Since Su Chen has not led this team to a failed season, Golden State fans have a relatively good impression of Su Chen.

Cole replaced Su Chen as the head coach of the Warriors. From the offseason to now, the doubts have never stopped.

At the beginning, they were questioning whether Cole could bring the Warriors back to normal, but after finally running in, Cole led the team to the third place in the Western Conference with a high winning percentage.

Cole's doubts have not stopped.

Fans feel that Cole simply copied Su Chen's system, and Cole has no way to deny this.

Although he originally wanted to fight like this, he had to admit that Su Chen's tactical system was more mature and advanced than his.

In order to improve the strength of the team, he has no reason not to use it.

But Cole is annoyed that others compare Su Chen with him. If he loses to the Timberwolves in this series, he may be shrouded in the shadow of Su Chen throughout his career.

Eastern side.

Originally, there was no suspense in the game between the No. [-] Pacers in the Eastern Conference and the Eagles.

It took a 2-0 lead from the start.

Given the disparity in strength in the Eastern Conference, this should have been the Pacers' sweep of their opponents.

You must know that the Eagles, the eighth in the East, are the only team that has entered the playoffs this season, and the only one with a winning percentage of less than 50%.

It is not too much to say that the Eagles are the worst.

Next, the Eagles played very nervously against the Pacers.

At one point, they fought the Pacers three to three, and they had to rely on tie-breaks to decide the outcome.

Al Horford, Paul Millsap, DeMarre Carroll, Kyle Korver, Jeff Teague, this civilian Eagles began to show their minions.

Especially Horford and Millsap on the inside, they even restricted Roy Hibbert, who almost led the team to overthrow the Heat's Big Three last season, to a very embarrassing statistic in G5.

Roy Hibbert, who started the game, scored 0 points and 2 rebounds.

In a basketball game, it is not easy to score 0 points, especially in the starting game.

However, George's 30 points in the tie-break still led the Pacers into the next round of advancement.

Originally, everyone was expecting to see the excitement of Black Eight and Black Seven in the West. As a result, the Timberwolves and Spurs swept their opponents, and the Pacers, who were number one in the East, almost lost to Black Eight.

This is what many people did not expect.

Although the Pacers are not as popular as the Heat's champions, they are also a team that closely follows the Heat and has a clear gap with other teams.

In addition, the Heat directly swept the Hornets against the Hornets.

The only shameful high-post team is the Pacers.

During the offseason, there are actually two teams in the Eastern Conference that are also favored.

One is the bull.

After they got Love, they formed the two star combination of Ross and Love.

But the Bulls only got two victories against the Raptors and were eliminated.

Without Rose, the Bulls relying on Love to become the core of the offense obviously won't work.

The two games they were able to win were all due to the outstanding performance of the team's role players.

Especially Boozer, who took over the banner of offense, and Love directly sat on the bench behind him.

It can even be said that the two games the Bulls won were the result of putting Love on the bench.

Lowry and DeRozan have not reached a very high level of strength themselves, so they still gave the Bulls a little chance.

Losing this round of the series, the Bulls became a bigger loser than the Thunder.

No matter how the Thunder made it to the second round, the Bulls were eliminated in the first round.

The other team is the Nets.

This old All-Star team fell into a fierce battle with the Wizards.

Entered the next round through the tie-break.

It can be seen that the current Nets, in the weak Eastern Conference, are not at the first echelon level at all.

The East's matchup chart is also out.

Indiana Pacers vs Toronto Raptors.

Miami Heat VS Brooklyn Nets.

On the whole, the matchup in the west will be more exciting, and the strength gap in the east is still relatively large.

Although the Pacers faced relatively big challenges in the first round, it can be seen that the Pacers are still a higher-level team.

The Raptors belong to the second echelon in the East, and they are all teams in the middle.

As for the Heat playing the Nets, this group of battle gimmicks seems to be relatively sufficient, but in fact the gap between the two teams is already very large.

Overall, the series between the Timberwolves and the Warriors is full of expectations.

The defending champion team and the new team led by the former head coach of the defending champion, just think about it, they all feel wonderful.

In the league, there is no need to worry about no audience for the revenge scene against the old club.

And speaking of it, Su Chen and the Warriors did not break up peacefully.

There are certain contradictions between Lacob and Su Chen.

Both teams had frictions in the offseason trading market.

Facing Lacob's favorite Iguodala, the Warriors could have traded for Iguodala without changing the rotation.

Su Chen ran out to raise the price on purpose.

Carrying it to the back is no longer a business, it is fighting.

The Timberwolves used the already high bargaining chips and raised the price of Rubio, so that if the Warriors change to Iguodala, they will have to hurt their muscles and bones.

What kind of contradiction is this?
So the playoff encounter between these two teams is undoubtedly the most interesting series.

golden state.

Warriors training arena.

At this moment, the Warriors players did not conduct individual training, but played a simple team training game under Cole's command.

It didn't take long, after all, they had to go to Minnesota earlier.

The cold weather there, while not as overwhelming as in the Denver Plateau, still requires getting there early.

Cole is holding a board with a notebook on it, and he is communicating with the data engineer.

The Warriors' entire coaching staff is in a relatively busy state.

"The team bus is out."

At this time Ron Adams came over and said.

Hearing this sentence, Cole stopped the pen in his hand.

"Have you arrived? Let the players stop training and go to the locker room to change and get ready to go."

Cole stood up and said to Ron Adams.

"Ok."

After Ron Adams agreed, he walked towards the court.

"and many more."

At this moment, Cole stopped Ron Adams.

"What's the matter, Coach Cole?"

Ron Adams asked with some doubts.

Cole didn't answer right away, but put down the board and walked towards the other side where there were no people.

Ron Adams didn't know what Cole wanted to do, but he followed Cole.

"You have worked with Su Chen for a long time, what kind of person do you think he is?"

After Cole said that, he frowned, and before Ron Adams could answer, he emphasized again: "It's not about tactics, I'm talking about him, what kind of person he is."

Cole has done a lot of research on Su Chen's tactics.

His research on Su Chen started from the start of last season's playoffs.

Because the style of play that Su Chen showed was his ideal style of play.

And from the very beginning, he noticed that the Warriors team is a team that fits his tactical philosophy very well.

If it weren't for the Warriors, he wouldn't really want to go out.

What Cole wants to know now is Su Chen's character.

The character of a team coach can actually affect the team.

For example, Larry Brown has very high discipline requirements in his team, and his tolerance for rookies is extremely low. The coach is a tyrant, and the atmosphere of the entire team is also affected, and he behaves rudely on the court.

Thibodeau also has the same style, and the team is also very disciplined. Even the second leader of the team like Love has the courage to put down the bench after performing like that.

Popovich is also an old-school coach, but Popovich is serious with some humor, and the overall team style is not very depressed but still disciplined.

The opposite of these coaches is Brooks of the Thunder.

He cares more about the players, pays attention to the players' ideas, and is more like a nanny coach.

So under such a coach, the entire Thunder is also very aggressive, following the players to play freely.

Then there's Doc Rivers.

Regardless of the level of coaching, but he is very keen on Gongdou.

The team he is in can often stage palace fights.

This is the coach's character, which has an impact on the team.

Hearing Cole's question, the old assistant coach Ron Adams also fell into deep thought. He knew that Cole was asking a very serious question.

Cole was not in a hurry, instead of urging Ron Adams, he just waited quietly.

"Su is a very strange person, yes, it is strange."

"When we felt that a comeback was impossible, Su always encouraged the whole team, as if he knew that he would not lose."

"I have been an assistant coach in this league for a long time. He is not that strong and calm, but he really has a mysterious self-confidence many times."

After Ron Adams thought for a while, he said Su Chen in his heart.

"is that so."

After hearing this, Cole fell into thinking.

After waiting for a while, Cole still didn't speak.

"Coach Kerr, about the team bus."

Ron Adams reminded Cole.

"Oh, you go to work on this matter first, thank you for telling me this."

Cole thanked Ron Adams.

"It's nothing. After all, I'm also a member of the Warriors. He really needs to be careful. Su Chen is very powerful."

Ron Adams laughed at Cole.

"Yes, of course I will."

Cole smiled too.

After Ron Adams walked out, Cole picked up the notebook again.

After thinking about it, Cole wrote down the news he had just received from Ron Adams in his notebook.

After writing, Cole turned the notebook forward again.

There are many tactics written and drawn on it, and these tactics are all the notes he wrote while watching Su Chen's video last season.

He has this note with him all the time.

"Su Chen, it's really interesting, but I will beat you."

Cole smiled and closed his notebook.

Minnesota.

Target Center Arena.

This game can be said to be the most eye-catching game in this round of the series.

Even on the same day, there is still a game between the Pacers and the Raptors in the East.

But the ratings of the western game basically crushed the eastern one.

After winning the championship last season, the Warriors have accumulated quite a lot of fans, although the traffic is not as good as that of the Warriors later.

But it has already begun to take shape as a traffic team.

As long as the number of champions accumulates a bit more, this Warriors team can become the league's most popular king team.

Although the Timberwolves are a small ball market, there are no popular star players in the league.

But Su Chen is the former coach of the Warriors.

There was some unpleasantness between Su Chen and the Warriors. For Warriors fans, many people thought that the team would beat traitors hard.

In the final analysis, it was because the Warriors did not give Su Chen control over the management. Su Chen not only resigned, but also deliberately targeted the Warriors after finding a new owner.

This pattern is small.

If it weren't for Su Chen, what the Warriors got from the Nuggets now would not be Brewer, but Iguodala.

Iguodala's strength is obvious to everyone this season.

Compared with Brewer, Iguodala is obviously much stronger.

At the same time, the Timberwolves have no more traffic, which is also the second in the West.

Whether it's Timberwolves fans, viewers who think Timberwolves are a pseudo-strong team, or Su Chen's little blackie, they all have to pay attention to this game.

The Warriors are the best touchstone for what kind of team the Timberwolves are.

But no matter how the outside world looks, the people of Minnesota are very excited.

When the players entered the field, even the Timberwolves' role players received a lot of cheers from the fans.

And as the head star Giannis Adetokun, when he played, the arena was like a tsunami.

In fact, they also wanted to give these cheers to Su Chen.

But Su Chen likes to enter the venue in a low-key manner.

For example, tonight's Su Chen, before the players entered the field, Su Chen had already entered from the sidelines with the coaching staff.

After the entrance ceremony of the Timberwolves players, the Warriors players also entered the field one after another.

Su Chen also saw those familiar faces, Curry, Thompson and others.

It's just that last season, everyone was still in the same group, working together to compete for the championship.

This season, it has become an opponent.

Defeat the opponent to win the championship trophy!
Unlike the regular season, before this game, Su Chen didn't say hello to the Warriors players.

The opponent has to look like an opponent.

When I was coaching the Splash Brothers, I didn't feel much.

Now as the Splash Brothers' opponent, even Su Chen is under pressure.

The Warriors' system has matured, and speaking of it, it is still an opponent he created for himself.

Curry and others also did not come to say hello.

As a professional player, now that the opponent is the opponent in the series, it is inappropriate to talk and laugh with the opponent.

(End of this chapter)