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Chapter 60 The Attacking Timberwolves
Chapter 60 Attack on Timberwolves
After the Hornets, the Timberwolves experienced a wave of ups and downs. They lost to the Jazz, beat the Raptors, and won the Hornets again after returning to the home court. .

Unknowingly, about half of the December schedule has gone through. In such a tight schedule, the Timberwolves' record is not bad. On the contrary, compared with last season, there is almost a difference.

When everyone's eyes were on the Los Angeles Lakers and Celtics, the Timberwolves' young players worked hard step by step, climbing from eighth in the West to seventh in the West, and fell back to eighth in the West again due to a wave of losing streak.

No one noticed the ups and downs of this young team, only Timberwolves head coach Frank Vogel patiently and carefully documented them.

For him, head coaching is a new and challenging career, and the pressure may be huge, but it also gives him more motivation.

As much pressure as he likes to bear, he can do as much work as he likes!
It is precisely by maintaining this persistent and serious attitude that the Timberwolves began a very slow transformation.

Sometimes passes go wrong, sometimes the number of fouls a player carries in a game becomes unbearable, and sometimes a player is cold and feels as cold as ice.

But these are well controlled. Whenever there is a mistake, the young players of the Timberwolves will look for opportunities to make up for this mistake, or score, or contribute on the defensive end!
Where there is a lack of help, just make up for it!

When a player has too many fouls, the head coach Frank Vogel doesn't say much, and throws the player a detailed explanation of the basketball rules and a video tape, which is simple and clear, allowing the player to find his own mistakes in the game.

And it's better to feel cold, and add penalty shots after the game!It depends on the person. If you are an ordinary player and miss 5 shots, you can go home after hitting 500 shots after the game.If you are the core of the team, congratulations, you are lucky to get a luxury gift package with extra penalties, 1000 mid-range hits plus 250 three-point hits.

After this rule was proposed by the Timberwolves head coach Frank Vogel, a group of young players were frightened. They were already tired enough after the game, and they had to practice more, and the training intensity was more tiring than the game!

However, when the core of the team, Li Shihao, felt cold and missed 10 shots after a game, and practiced shooting without saying a word until late at night, these young Timberwolves players resigned!
Even the boss of the team is so serious, they have no room to complain. Although this rule is strict, in fact, the boss of the team is the most painful!

As the leader of the team, he bears more pressure than other players, and the defensive intensity he faces is even more suffocating. It is normal for him to feel cold under such restricted defense.

Especially for a rookie, such a phenomenon couldn't be more normal, even the superstars in the league will encounter the ice age under such defense for a long time.

However, Li Shihao, the young core of the team, didn't have any complaints. After silently implementing this rule, the young men in the Timberwolves naturally followed suit.

After playing the away game every day, no matter how tired or exhausted, you have to seriously project the due training.

Under this kind of stable training, even though he might feel a little uncomfortable at first, after a while, the young player of the Timberwolves discovered that no matter how tired he was from training the night before, his arms would be so sore that he couldn’t lift it the next day. But the shooting feeling is really good. The shooting level that could only hit the board into the basket immediately turned into a tall shooting level with a few hollow shots into the net.

Therefore, although everyone in this training is complaining about suffering and tiredness, they are also clear in their hearts about the unknowing changes in it.

They are all improving, and no one doesn't like the feeling of progress. If their strength improves, they may be able to get a big contract!

The Timberwolves group of young people are full of energy and impact, but because they are young, they lack the most important cohesion. The lack of this makes them do not know how to handle the ball when facing some headwind situations. Will fuze on the court, unable to perform at the usual level.

The head coach Frank Vogel observed this keenly. He put some assistant coaches to work and did it himself. As the head coach of an NBA team, he did not hire any assistant coaches. He believed in his own ability. and eyes.

In fact, this kind of work is very efficient, not only saves a lot of expenses, but also saves a lot of time, improving work efficiency and results!
Timberwolves' team frequency began to increase. The tactical coordination was not complicated, but all of them were practical and simple. Each player was assigned a booklet. There were not too many complicated and cumbersome tactics, only some practical little tactics and tips.

At first, the Timberwolves boys didn't believe that this booklet would be of much use, but after reading it by chance, they found that the things recorded in it were not too difficult, easy to understand, and even some of them were from college games. The tricks they figured out by themselves are detailed and perfected in this booklet.

With regular joint training and the completion of a complete tactical system, the Timberwolves' offensive and defensive operations on the court began to become simple and simple, and some redundant fancy moves were eliminated as much as possible.

Today's Timberwolves, under the coaching of this young head coach, have begun to slowly develop towards the good side. The team's offense and defense are sharp, and sometimes there will be some classic tactical coordination, which is amazing.

As the core of the team, Li Shihao is also the one who feels the most. After the penalty rules came out, although he suffered the heaviest punishment, he also obviously felt his own progress with the progress of the team.

The most important thing is the rhythm problem!
As the core of the team, he starts at the No. 6 position. This month's average assist data is actually lower than last month. He originally averaged more than seven assists per game, but now he has dropped instead of rising, and has dropped to 1. .[-] or so, depending on the situation, it may drop to more than five points.

As the point guard, the brains of the team, his offense no longer relies on possession of the ball so much, and he's starting to find another way to play.

Just like Chauncey Billups in the Pistons period, although the number of possessions of the ball has not decreased much, the time of possession has been greatly reduced, and the smoothness of the team's offensive and defensive transitions has increased by more than one level.

When it comes to driving and distributing the ball, Lee Se-ho is able to find a good balance, once he has the ball in his hands, he can activate the position of others on the court, and when he does not have the ball in his hands, he can also keep him in the attack end threat!
This change cannot be seen from the game data!
(End of this chapter)