The Rest, Only Noise

The good days after the victory over the Lakers did not last too long. Just a few days later, Dale Ellis' injury once again disrupted the Knicks' layout.

From the data point of view, Ellis is currently averaging 16 points, is the Knicks' No. 3 attacker, second only to Ewing and Tony Campbell.

However, Ellis hits 2.4 three-pointers per game, and he brings perimeter involvement that neither Ewing nor Campbell have.

It would be better to say that these two can average 20+ per game, and Ellis has made great contributions.

Without Ellis, a shooter with absolute deterrence, there is a problem with the Knicks' pick-and-roll system.

With no one on the outside leading the line, the Knicks' offense has been reduced.

The Knicks, who should have made great achievements in one go, not only did not improve their ranking, but suffered a four-game losing streak.

Fortunately, these four opponents are strong teams.

They are the Pistons, the Jazz (two games), and the Philadelphia 76ers.

The next two games are very crucial, and the Knicks have to find a way to win.

Their opponent is none other than the fiery Cleveland Cavaliers.

In last year's draft, the Cavaliers paid for the Knicks' core center Bill Cartwright with the No. 8 pick in the first round and the exchange of two draft picks.

Although they got the Knicks' pick swap option for the next three years, unfortunately, the current Knicks are already heading for the playoffs, and the Cavaliers ... currently only have 18 wins.

With a core injury, the team is still paying off Steppi's cerebral hemorrhage deal.

Now the old debt has not been paid off, and the new debt has been added.

Louie, who was still raised in Cleveland, was so cruel to his hometown team that he was disgusted by the city people.

On February 24, the Knicks first played against the Cavaliers at home.

Dale Ellis was still sidelined, but Louie decided to use the Cavaliers for a full-court press.

In four quarters, he pressed the Cavaliers four times in total.

When carrying out the full-court pressing tactics, Louis will always let one or two starters lead the team, which is safer.

Taken together, Stockton leads the team smarter, Ewing leads the team more aggressively, and Oakley leads the team with guaranteed rebounds.

Each has its advantages.

Some people may ask, why not let these three people go to the audience to press together?

This is also the ingenious part of Louie's idea. He doesn't want the main force to waste physical energy to defend the full-court pressing. He has to find five players to practice this. Pitino called it a murder pressing.

Louie likes the concept.

Currently, there are three regular members of his Murder Press, Alex Stevens, who is the originator of the Murder Press idea, without his hard work, there would be no Louise. Plus Tyler Corbin and Gerald Wilkins.

Since there is still a lack of staffing, since this is to be done, in the future draft or the free market, Louie will have to find a way to search for people who are suitable to participate in the murder pressing.

Sooner or later, the members of the murder press will become self-contained and do not need the help of the main players.

Tonight, the weak Cavaliers became a sacrifice for murder.

Louie hits one murder press per quarter, lasting 2-3 minutes each.

Every time he lets a player do it, the Knicks win by 4-6.

In one game, the Knicks beat the Cavaliers by 33 points.

At the end of the game, George Karl's face was ugly, and he made a special effort when shaking hands with Louis: "In a few days at the Richfield Stadium, you can force us to try it!"

"Just try it."

The knights were miserable, and they led the team to a great victory over the knights.

In Louis' second home, his reputation got worse.

Unfortunately, the Knicks' next game is to play the Cavaliers on the road.

In Cleveland's basketball mecca, Richfield Arena, Louie was rude and let Ewing play a full half of the game with a murder press.

There's only one problem with the Cavaliers, they really can't keep up with the intensity of the Knicks.

Ewing was so insane when it came to the full court press, it was like going back to college.

The full-court press was the only defensive tactic that Louie allowed him to pounce at will, and the Cavaliers were repeatedly prevented from getting past the halfcourt.

Anyone who's seen the Slam Dunk National Championships knows how brutal Shan Wang's full-court press was.

Although the Knicks didn't have the exact same effect, they also beat the Cavaliers to the limit.

The Cavaliers, who originally planned to make things difficult for the Knicks at home, fell into deep confusion.

In the first half of the first quarter, the Knicks had already established the victory.

For the remaining three and a half quarters, it was just the fat tiger bullying the husband.

The Knicks are totally in a "I'll take care of you as a sample" style.

At home, the Cavaliers lost 35 points.

Carl's expression after the game was the most murderous expression Louis had ever seen.

Louie said embarrassedly: "You made me press... the first time I heard this kind of request, so I..."

"Stop talking nonsense, you dare to do this when you are playing with us!" Carl only changed the subject.

Louie is the king of mouths and guns who don't lose the battle, not to mention that they all won the battle, why can Karl be arrogant with him?

"You are wrong about this, Coach Karl, we also used full-court pressing to win the Lakers. Originally, I planned to come here as a guest, not to use full-court pressing, but you a few days ago. He said that to me after the game." Louis smiled lightly, "Then I can only showdown, this result is your own."

The fiercer Carl's expression, the more refreshing Louis' mood.

"I hope you will make persistent efforts and continue to lose. We will all see you in this year's draft." Louis turned around with a smile and walked to the reporters without turning his head.

Louis, who came to the reporter, was elegant and easy-going.

When talking about the public turmoil that he got into recently, mainly because he was scolded by Kecheng people, he smiled and passed it.

"I understand how the Clevelands feel, and I'd be **** off, but I'm a bit wronged. The trade is a two-way street, and the game is a two-way street. The deal can only be done if the Cavaliers' management nods. We can only win so many points. They blame me for that, it doesn't make sense."

After Ellis returned, the Knicks still lost two of the remaining three games in February.

Because the opponents in these two games are the Eastern powerhouses that give them headaches.

One is the Celtics, which is the Knicks' nine-game losing streak against the Greens in two consecutive seasons.

The Celtics seriously prepared a way to deal with the Knicks full-court press, but Louie didn't come up with a murder press.

The other loser was the Bucks, the old-fashioned dead pigskin hob meat in the East, who was about to fall at the beginning of the season and was forcibly suppressed by Don Nelson.

The team that lost to the Knicks was the New Jersey Nets.

Entering March, the Knicks played two consecutive games with the same team.

This time, the opponent was replaced by the Washington Bullets. They won a game first, and then went to the Bullets' home court and lost in overtime.

Young teams often have issues that Louie can't understand.

For example, at the critical moment, Louis clearly drew the tactics perfectly, and Rao, a commander like Stockton, who can be called the number one commander in history, was in a hurry.

The perfect tactic failed at the first step, so the lore failed.

This kind of thing can only be attributed to experience, there is nothing to say.

The loss to the Bullets is not over yet, and the Knicks then meet the Bitter Lord Bulls.

Barkley and McHale ~www.readwn.com~ jokingly dismembered the Knicks inside.

Especially that McHale, in Louis's eyes, is like a miniature version of Duncan. The low-post attack is even a super evolved version of Duncan. His footsteps are ever-changing, and the means are too many to be guarded against, but he is too Buddha-nature. , Probably because of being a teammate with Barkley, he actually got fat on his body, which also affected his defensive pace.

Relying on his youth, Barkley is not afraid of flesh on his body. Every time he starts, he is much faster than others. He slams in and hits the basket.

There is no defense, the impact is too strong. At this time, Barkley, who is still playing at the 3rd position, is a dish for the Knicks to face him. Ewing's defense cannot be taken care of.

Another two-game losing streak, Louis saw the team drop to fifth in the Eastern Conference, and he didn't panic. It was a young team, and its state of ups and downs was normal, and in these games, there were very few losses in which morale collapsed.

Either he won't play the ball at the critical moment to give the lore chance, or he missed the lore, or he played a star like the Bulls in Kerry's game.

Losing is justified. Louis has nothing else to do except sum up his experience and lessons. Besides, he has another big thing to do.