The Rest, Only Noise

May 20, 1988

In the morning, Louis woke up in a nightmare, and he hadn't slept well these days.

Game2's game plan is already in his hands.

The planner is Zhao Yuanzheng, and he is also Louis's most important assistant. Although Tomjanovich is his chief assistant coach, Zhao Yuanzheng's future is limitless.

He is a natural coach. He has been with Louis for four years and is proficient in various businesses. He is also the most versatile existence in the Louis assistant team.

The game plan made one thing clear, turning the series into a war of attrition.

The Celtics don't have as many people as the Knicks, and although the lineup is deep, they can't compare to the Knicks.

Moreover, Bird's back injury is also a major hidden danger for them.

Once Bird can't hold on, the Celtics will have to focus the pressure on Sampson and Thomas.

The significance of this is that the Celtics three unsolved players have become two. Thomas' inability to solve is slightly inferior to Bird and Sampson, after all, his long shot is unstable. As an insider, Sampson is not as easy to catch the ball as guards and flanks.

He is indeed a player with no countermeasures for the Knicks. The identity of the post makes it easy for him to dominate the game, but it also allows him to dominate the upper limit of the game, which is slightly worse than the omnipotent wing like Bird.

This is the core meaning of the game plan formulated by Zhao Yuanzheng.

dragging

The longer the series goes, the worse it is for the Celtics.

This was originally their advantage. Before Bird was injured, all teams that wanted to beat the Celtics had to pursue quick wins.

Once the two sides are deadlocked, or the Knicks, like the Lakers in 1985, become the second team in four years to drag the Celtics to the tiebreaker, the Celtics Big Three explode with all they can The upper limit encountered is unmatched by other teams.

Now, it's the other way around.

The Celtics want a quick win to allow Bird to end the season early to recover from an injury.

Therefore, whether the Knicks can drag out this round of the series and consume the Celtics is the key to the outcome.

As such, it is important to return to MSG with a 1-1 score rather than a 2-0 win on the road.

If you go home with 2-0, the Celtics will win four match points in a row if they lose again, and there is absolutely no chance of a comeback.

1 to 1 is equivalent to returning to the starting line.

Louie turned over the team's roster and thought seriously about tonight's starting lineup.

Reggie Miller must be replaced. He was the all-time leading shooter before Ray Allen and Curry, but now he is just a rookie. In the future, he will become the most feared knife on the Knicks perimeter, and it is a little too early for him to be the vanguard of the Celtics.

Louie took Miller off the starting roster and was torn between Cooper and Dale Ellis.

In addition, the selection of the starting point guard is also a question worth pondering.

Stockton, what Louis considers the best commander in history, excels in a system more advanced than Utah's pick-and-roll system.

What Lou did not expect was that when he used a modern offensive system to benefit his players, the opponent would also change their minds and use a modern defense to target the player's weaknesses.

Unlike the classic pick-and-rolls of Stockton and Malone, the Knicks' pick-and-rolls do not necessarily end in the inside line, everyone is moving, and often two tactics are parallel.

Stockton needs to use his knowledge of tactics to find the one with the best chance to complete the offense.

This kind of offense was popular in the days of the ball-handler who ran the pick-and-roll three-pointer. We don't have that kind of philosophy and skills yet, so Louis has added a lot of strong and weak side passes and cuts.

To play this tactic, the key depends on how Stockton plays the ball and the effect of playing the pick-and-roll as the ball carrier.

Beginning with Don Nelson, for the first time there has been a ball-handler shot that gave up defending the Knicks and chose to go around and open up space to keep the defense.

This kind of defense will be shot through by Harden, Curry, Lillard, Irving and others in the future, but in this era, Stocktons have never touched the three-pointer since they were children, and it is even less likely that there will be a three-point line. The habit of shooting outside the ball, naturally there is no shooting rhythm.

Therefore, when faced with such a defense, his pick-and-roll offense always has a visual sense of the magic dance in Indian movies.

Even if you know this Indian movie is good, people who don't like it don't want to click (like me) thinking they're going to put a lot of dance music in the movie.

Stockton found a way to deal with it, a breakthrough.

Doing so did solve his problems to a certain extent, but it seriously violated his game habits.

What is Stockton's style of play? First of all, his passing is not very aggressive, but emphasizes accuracy, so it also depends on the positioning of his teammates

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Organizations like Kidd and Rondo are considered to be stable and winning, and watch their teammates come out and give the ball in time.

Like Nash, Curry, Harden, and Westbrook, those who actively attack and destroy the opponent's defense and give assists are considered creative.

Stockton cannot be strictly divided into these two categories.

He belongs to the five-point rhythm five-point creation.

Having coached him for four years, Louie knew that Stockton rarely got to the rim, and even if it was called the pick-and-roll, he liked to get to the free throw line.

He doesn't get to the rim very much, so he doesn't make a lot of free throws and isn't good enough for damage. His every move is to instigate the attack of his teammates, and he doesn't pay much attention to his own attack.

Now the Celtics give him the problem is to let him attack.

Once the opponent finds that he is mainly passing the ball when he breaks through to the basket, the defensive pertinence will be more obvious.

Louie called Stokes and Miller's room and asked them to come by himself.

If they are to be benched, the reasons for doing so must be made clear to them before the decision is announced.

The process went very smoothly. As a rookie, Miller's rookie season has far exceeded his expectations. It is completely acceptable to play as a substitute now.

Stockton is simpler than expected.

"Is it because I can't make threes?" he asked.

"Yes, and no," Louie explained. "The Celtics do have a bunch of plans based on your game habits, but it's also based on the premise that we don't have a second plan for you. If there is only one It’s normal to be targeted. You’re not going to be on the bench for a long time, so be ready to play.”

Stockton no longer objected.

In the afternoon training session, Louis announced tonight's starter.

"Bostonians think they're going to win, I just want them to know that the first defeat is just an accident, and from now on, every game will be a war!"

The news of Louie's change in the starting lineup sparked a positive response from players.

In the training sessions that followed, Louis didn't want the players to waste too much energy, so he just practiced casually.

That night, Boston Garden.

Every time he is here, Louis is proud of the fact that he has worked here for seven years.

How did he persevere? The environment in the garden is really stinky.

If you compare all the arenas in the league together, there is no way to surpass them.

However, Louie has this kind of thinking, and the Bucks and Bulls have no chance to play in June.

For example, all the old stadiums named after the **** stadium are basically the products of half a century ago.

Since they are all old objects, it is normal to pull the crotch under certain conditions.

"But this is too stretched!"

When Louis shook hands with K.C. Jones, he said, "The four-time champion of the championship, the home court has become such a virtue, and you don't mention it above."

K.C said heartily: "MSG is the most luxurious arena in the league, but what about your results? Although the garden is old, it can keep us working hard. MSG is rich and beautiful, but it is not the best. It's useless at home."

Louie was speechless at the logic of forcibly linking the results to the home court.

Is this different from spraying Curry and spraying him without an FMVP, spraying James and spraying the group, spraying Jordan and spraying Pippen and not making it through the first round? It's all sophistry with facts, it's better to spray Harden's crotch pull in key games as "truth".

"Okay, don't be too complacent." Louis put away his smile and turned from an old friend to a great enemy of the Celts, "The era when you were king and hegemony is over."

K.C said confidently: "Then it depends on your ability~www.readwn.com~road."

Both sides threw the ball for a while, and all replaced the starters.

The Celtics' lineup has changed a bit from Game 1. The starting No. 2 is Danny Ainge, the starting No. 3 is Ron Harper, and the starting No. 4 is... Bird?

Sampson played center and Laimbeer came off the bench.

"Larry playing the four, what do they mean?" Louie didn't think it would be a good decision to play Bird, who has not recovered from his back injury.

Is K.C crazy? Or, Bird's injury is not as serious as imagined?

"No, this lineup is too aimed at us, right?" Tomjanovich felt wrong. "How do they know that we are going to change, and how do they know what kind of lineup we are going to make? Is it..."

Louis was not surprised at all.

His eyes turned to the smiling old man in the middle of the garden, Reed Auerbach, who of course could inquire about the Knicks' evolution.

"So are we still going as planned?" Tomjanovich asked.

Although the Celtics' evolution is very targeted, the light

Targeting is not enough, some are targeted, and they don't seem to be that strong. For example, about letting Bird play the 4th position, are they serious?

"do not worry."

Louie did not change the team's lineup.

Game2 Knicks starters are: Hornacek, Michael Cooper, Wilson, Oakley, Ewing.

"This lineup...Are the Knicks going to use their full court press from the start???"

Dick Stockton said in surprise.