The godfather of basketball started from conquering the NBA

Now that he had such a plan, Xu Xiao also made a decision.

After the All-Star Game, give players as many opportunities as possible to brush up their statistics without affecting their record.

You must know that before this, Xu Xiao has always emphasized the need to play team basketball, so most of the team's statistics are relatively average, and even few people in the team have scored 40 points.

This season, Xu Xiao plans to make an exception and give the players a chance to brush up on their data as much as possible.

This is not Xu Xiao's compromise with them. The reason why Xu Xiao made this decision was after a long period of thinking.

Finally, I summarized two reasons. One is to give players a psychological guarantee.

It would be a bad thing if they were allowed to have longing for a big contract but couldn't give them full guarantees, causing them to feel dissatisfied and confused, and go into the playoffs with this mentality.

The former Ayton really cast a shadow over Xu Xiao. In the first year, he was the starting center of the Finals team and played very hard. In the next season, because he could not get a satisfactory offer for his contract, he directly transformed into a "germ boy". Princess".

So Xu Xiao now asks them to generate some data, so that even if the player is not given a suitable quotation contract, the player will not worry. After all, he has the data, and signing out of the contract is still a big contract.

The second is that Xu Xiao can have more say next summer.

After all, most players like the Timberwolves' contracts will not expire next year. If they can produce some good data and have a good record, the bargaining chip will definitely be satisfactory.

Therefore, this year's Timberwolves have changed their previous style, not only shortening the rotation, but also adding many offensive tactical systems.

Let most people hit their career highs.

On December 12th, there was a Christmas match between the Timberwolves and the Knicks. The Knicks were relatively weak inside, and their only blue-collar inside man, Perkins, was also absent due to injury.

This gave Oden enough room to play, and Xu Xiao also made many tactics for Oden to save face.

这场比赛奥登25投19中，罚球9中7，全场狂砍45分19篮板跟8次封盖，给尼克斯的内线搅了个天翻地覆。

一己之力撕碎了小斯与卡曼的内线防守，同时在他的威慑下，让小斯11投仅4中，仅仅9分7篮板，卡曼也是仅4投2中拿下4分4篮板。

If Anthony hadn't scored 39 points, the Christmas Day game would have turned into a brutal game.

Immediately after the Timberwolves challenged the Thunder away from home, there were some problems with the combination of Harden and Rose this season.

Although the offensive firepower is still fierce, the defense is not as good as before, and the coordination is much less.

Harden also used the long-famous "eye defense". Although Harden himself also scored 37 points, he made 7 turnovers alone.

在哈登的眼神威慑下，吉米巴特勒23投中17，三分球9中6，罚球10中8，取得了职业生涯最高的48分还有6次抢断。

In this game, Butler scored 13 points on fast break counterattacks. Xu Xiao's inspiration also came from Brewer, the former "Captain of the Cavalry Company".

He relied on a counterattack to steal 51 points over Harden's head. Originally, Xu Xiao wanted to repeat this moment.

But unfortunately, the Thunder failed to resist in the end, and the point difference widened. The Thunder surrendered directly, and Xu Xiao did not continue to make deadly moves. The final score was fixed at 137 to 118.

Otherwise, after struggling for a few rounds, Jimmy would really have a chance to get his first career 50+.

Continuing back-to-back away games against the Pistons, Josh broke out without warning.

He singled out Paul George many times, using his strong body and excellent mid-range touch to successfully challenge Paul George again and again.

He smoothly scored a career-high 44 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists.

The opponent George's 16 points and 7 rebounds were a bit unbearable.

Poor George is once again the backdrop.

In the first game of 2014, the Timberwolves continue their road trip.

Challenge the Mavericks away from home (I still think the Mavericks are more smooth-talking than the Mavericks)

The Mavericks' backcourt combination is Thomas Jr. and Monta Ellis.

There is no doubt about the offensive ability of these two people, but their defense is also unsatisfactory.

In addition, one of the Mavericks' insiders is the aging Nowitzki, and the other is the "Polish Hammer" Gortat.

These two people basically have no speed, they are both slow and leisurely old man types.

This kind of lineup and this kind of defensive intensity are heaven for the Timberwolves' defenders.

Directly punching hard, Xu Xiao rested Westbrook in this game. Give Bledsoe enough playing time.

Bledsoe, who possesses the skills of Thomas, is simply a dimensionality-reducing blow against Thomas.

Bledsoe also lived up to Xu Xiao's trust, making 23 of 14 shots and scoring 43 points and 9 assists.

Next, facing the Pelicans, the bottom team in the league, Xu Xiao directly rested Westbrook and Josh, allowing Luo Teng to have the best game of his career with 40 points and 8 assists.

After returning to the home court for the first home game of 2014, Westbrook directly defeated the Suns with a triple-double of 44 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.

The Suns' starting guard is the former "Linsanity" Jeremy Lin. In this game, he was completely crushed by Westbrook. There was nothing he could do. After the game, he could only shake his head at the camera and exclaim:

"He is simply inhuman. He is too fast and too strong. There is nothing I can do to restrain him."

In this way, the Timberwolves once again achieved 10 consecutive victories and have secured the first place in the league.

At the same time, the first phase of All-Star voting has ended, and Westbrook, Josh and Oden of the Timberwolves have been selected.

Westbrook directly squeezed out Rose and Paul to become the first backcourt in the Western Conference. Josh's votes were also on par with Durant, only more than 300 votes less than Durant and ranked second.

At this time, the All-Stars have not canceled the center position. Oden ranks second at the center position. At present, it is difficult to surpass Howard.

However, this result is also very satisfying.

After that, although the Timberwolves lost to the 76ers, it didn't hurt them, and they went all out to fight the Heat.

Xu Xiao didn't make too many adjustments in this game. After all, the season is long, and he doesn't want to show his trump card now.

The win in this game was entirely due to the Timberwolves' three-point shooting. They took 38 shots and hit 20 three-pointers.

At the same time, Oden's advantage in the paint allowed the Timberwolves' rebounding to always suppress the Heat.

全场比赛森林狼篮板数量56比37，赢了热火19个，前场篮板更是18比5.其中奥登一人就抢下了22个篮板。

Although the Timberwolves lost to the Spurs and Wizards after this game, it did not affect the record. The Timberwolves have achieved a record of 29 wins and 6 losses.

Xu Xiao does not want to deliberately pursue record this season. He does not want to sacrifice the health of the players for the sake of regular season record.

After all, he doesn't have many health cards in his hand, and he has shortened the rotation this season. Players' playing time is longer, and injuries are easy to occur.