The Rest, Only Noise

Louie's professed love of Coca-Cola got him some unexpected rewards.

The Coca-Cola Company offered a four-year, one-million-dollar endorsement contract.

For Louie personally, this is a good thing, and then, at home, they beat the Phoenix Suns, who have become more and more confused recently.

While they gave the Suns an eight-game losing streak, they also made their record third in the Eastern Conference.

With 6 wins and 2 losses, no one expected that the Knicks, who sent out almost all the major players last season, relied on a group of rookies to achieve their current results.

The next two games, or the Knicks home.

One is an eagle and the other is a bullet.

Neither is a strong team. For them, the best result is to win these two games, and perhaps the record can rush to the top two in the Eastern Conference.

Louie doesn't feel like their record can last forever, and the biggest problem with the young team is instability.

So, taking advantage of the good state and high morale, you have to find a way to win the game you can win.

Unfortunately, after beating the Eagles, they lost the game by 4 points against the Bullets.

Next, against the almost-reinvented Pistons, the game turned into an ugly fight.

Like two beasts in the Colosseum biting each other.

Originally this was not the style of the Pistons, but they lost to the Celtics last season, and the coaching staff to the management had a hard time.

Pistons general manager Jack McCloskey set out to change the team's framework.

First, he picked Joe Dumars with the 18th overall pick in the first round of the draft, and then signed Rick Mahone in the free market at a price that the Bullets could not afford.

These changes are all part of a rebuild for the Pistons, who made a conscious effort to build a defensive powerhouse of steel while maintaining their competitiveness.

The change in the pistons alerted Louie.

In his previous life, it was this team that realized that it was impossible to play against the Celtics and Lakers with a normal lineup. To beat them, they had to work **** defense.

So, the Bad Boys Army came along.

Today, this team has no Thomas, no Laimbeer, and Worthy, Dumars, and Parish obviously have nothing to do with bad boys.

Perhaps under the leadership of these three, the Pistons will be more like the 04 Pistons?

A clean-handed, suffocated defense, intense, and perfectly rotated defensive team is intimidating.

It's a pity that Ewing's excellent touch tonight, he scored 30 points and 11 rebounds, but the Knicks were overwhelmed by the strength of the Pistons, and finally lost by double digits.

After that, they went to the Bullets on the road to fight for a victory, but Tony Campbell made only 6 goals in 24 shots selfishly, and Ewing was robbed of offensive rebounds by the opponent, which caused them to lose again. bullet.

After the game, Louie blasted Ewing and Campbell.

"You're bouncing a jib around the rim all day? Like a monkey!" Louie's words were dangerous.

Ewing retorted: "I did not play well, but I will not allow you to insult me!"

"Stop telling me this is useless here, you have the highest salary in the league, and then you get beaten up by a group of players I can't even name, blame me for insulting you? Protect me!"

And then with Campbell, Louie didn't put as much emotion into Ewing.

It's more about telling him where he's not doing well, and then threatening to keep doing this and not play.

But Louie's threat never materialized with Campbell.

If one examines Campbell's performance and data carefully, a curious fact emerges.

Campbell has the lowest plus-minus among the Knicks starters.

But at the same time, he averaged 21 points per game, second only to Ewing, with 5 rebounds and 2 assists, while shooting 47% from the field, 21% from 3-point range and 74% from the free throw line.

Looking at the numbers alone, he's the Knicks' No. 2 player.

However, the Knicks' true No. 2 player is Stockton, who leads the assists list with 13 points and 13 assists per game.

Campbell has the most firepower, and he has more than enough to make his teammates complain.

Wilkins, Ellis, and Weber all thought he was too selfish.

Therefore, Louis often scolds him.

The rookies who complained about him stopped in their mouths, because this was their first year, and it was all about learning, and it was impossible to really have any contradiction with Campbell.

Louie carefully measured the proportions, and Campbell was now like a commodity with overflowing value.

From a distance, he looks worth $10,000, but if Louie buys it, he doesn't think it's worth $1,000.

In the absence of such detailed statistics, brush players like Campbell are landmines in the trading market.

It looks good, and you can see where the problem is when you use it.

Unfortunately, the Knicks could not end their losing streak, because the next game, they have to play against the defending champion, the league's hegemony Boston Celtics.

The Celtics are on their way to chasing a three-peat, but there is no sign of weakness.

Bird's competitive level has reached the peak of his career, Isaiah Thomas has begun to enter the peak, Sampson is still rising, some people say that the top five in the league, the Celtics have three, respectively, the league first, the league Second and third in the league.

John Long is a weak point on the Celtics' roster. He's down a lot this year, but he's still a solid 3-point shooter, but his defense is a weak link.

From beginning to end, Louis, who regarded the Celtics as their number one rival, decided to turn the game into a meat grinder battle.

However, the Celtics are far too strong.

Ewing was full of ugliness in this game. His card position was rubbed against the basket by Sampson; his defensive position was in front of the Celtics' Sampson + Bird + Walton. When he was in the lineup, he was often played with the appearance of arrears in IQ; his most proud defensive skill, the delayed defense of flying out, was successfully used by Sampson.

Sampson used his excellent ball-handling attack many times to make Ewing's defense look like a French soldier's surrender ceremony.

The basic process is as follows: Sampson feints, dribbling, Ewing can't get his center of gravity, he has to raise his hands, and then Sampson wipes it.

Ewing appeared to be giving the French military salute, while Sampson jumped for a dunk.

134 to 88

This is the heaviest loss the Knicks have experienced so far this season.

At the end of the game, Louie's face was as cold as a block of ice that had just been dug out of the North Pole.

He said to Tomjanovich with a dark face: "When I go back, edit every round of Patrick's attack and defense in this game. Remember, every round."

Seeing Louie's face, Tomjanovich knew that Ewing was going to suffer.

He felt bad for Ewing, and it wasn't his fault.

He was a rookie and met the Celtics who were at their peak.

Bird and they clearly intend to target Ewing, why? Because he holds the league's first salary. So, they played a lot of embarrassing scenes for Ewing.

Ewing's shortcomings are dazzlingly magnified by the deliberate targeting of the best offensive team in history, like those guards who can't miss shots.

Louie shakes hands with his old friend K.C~www.readwn.com~ I'm not telling you, it's too heavy? "Louis smiled wryly.

K.C looked ashamed, "I really didn't instruct him. You know that guy Larry. If he doesn't like some people, he will try to embarrass him."

"That's right, I can't blame others for my own incompetence." Louis was open to it. "However, if you guys are like this this year, the three consecutive championships seem to be within reach."

K.C hurriedly said: "Don't say that, the road is still long!"

"Humble again?"

"That's not humility!"

"Don't do this, K.C." Louie snorted, "The top three in the league are all in Boston. If you can't defend your title, don't do it, let Reed replace it."

K.C smiled helplessly.

Louie turned to the reporters at the scene, praised the Celtics' performance, but expressed clear dissatisfaction with some people in the team: "When your best player on the team behaves like a fool, you want to end the game with dignity. It will be difficult.”