The Rest, Only Noise

Ewing's election as MVP has very clear historical significance for New York.

The last Knicks player to be named MVP was also a center, Willis Reed, who represented New York's professional basketball in its first prime.

Louie has repeatedly emphasized this concept. He believes that in the early 1970s, the Knicks' two championships promoted the commercialization of professional basketball far greater than the Celtics' 13-year and 11-year championships.

If this idea of ​​his is known by Auerbach, there is a high probability that he will be pulled into the blacklist.

But that's the truth, only a championship-winning New York can bring professional basketball to the nation.

This turned out to be correct.

After winning the championship in New York, the commercialization trend of the NBA began to appear. The unimaginable annual salary of 500,000, 600,000... million annual salary in the 1960s gradually emerged.

Ewing's MVP evoked nostalgia for many.

The Knicks were suddenly the most popular professional sports team in New York City, rivaled only by the Mets.

The Mets, like the Knicks, are the No. 1 title favorites in MLB, but they don't have as certain a title prospect as the Knicks.

Realistic New Yorkers are more willing to pay for the Knicks than an uncertain future.

Today, when the islanders are depressed, the Yankees are dying, the Giants make fans go crazy with sit-ups, and even the famous editorial of "Look at me again" by The Times, the rise of the Knicks has changed a lot of things.

Louis himself has little experience with this urban effect, because he has long been used to it.

The series goes into Game 2, and Chuck Daly won't give up.

His assistant coach, Brendan Malone, offered an idea for the Knicks' pick-and-roll: "Unlimited substitutions to ensure that the pick-and-roll doesn't create a dilemma. Give up perimeter defense appropriately. , I fully believe that the defensive intensity can make the perimeter feel less."

This is very close to the switching philosophy of the small ball era.

Game2, after the Pistons made this move, Louie gave the ball to Wilson with more confidence, and by the way replaced Stockton and let Hornacek start.

Game 1 has already proven Wilson's potential as a ball-handling core, and if the Pistons insist on switching to force them to play the giants, he's fine with that.

Moreover, no team can take care of the three areas of defense at the same time.

The Pistons have to control the mid-range, and they are bound to relax a lot on the outside.

The Knicks' shooters unexpectedly failed to give the Pistons a fatal response in the first half.

The Knicks' open three-pointer was not ideal, but Louis didn't even look at it, and clearly requested to continue the first half's play in the trailing second half.

The Pistons studied Wilson in all directions.

But they couldn't develop a XX rule to lock Wilson when Wilson had strong teammates.

When Louis saw that the Pistons defensive end was standing on the strong side, he would tilt the force slightly to the strong side, and decisively called a timeout to let Wilson pay attention to the weak side.

This small dislocation was discovered by Louis and arranged, and Wilson came back and made a diagonal cross to find Miller and Hornacek.

Their three-pointers gradually blossomed, giving the Pistons a huge threat.

In addition, infinite switching is not something that ordinary teams can play.

The Knicks can switch infinitely because their staffing is good enough.

Almost every one of them has the defensive flexibility to guard three positions.

Just looking at the starting lineup, there are all-around defensive fighters like Ewing, Wilson, and McHale, who often defend three or four positions in a game.

The strong switching defense is often the striker. No matter how strong the defense of the general guard is against the same position, if the dislocation defense effect is not good, Louis will not put them on the court to participate in infinite switching defense.

However, does the piston have this configuration?

Just looking at the starting lineup, they have Dumars, who can guard guards in three positions; Ilo, in Louie's eyes, he is a skilled and downsized version of Stevens, and he is indeed a rare 3D; Worthy , his amazing agility gives him an advantage when switching defenses, able to switch to the 3, top the 4, and keep up with the slow 2.

Then, it's gone.

Aguirre is not suitable for switching defenses, his defense is very problematic.

Ma Hong is a thug like Oakley, and it's okay to be a blue-collar player.

Parish is an authentic engineer center. He can do a lot of things, but everything is not top-notch. He doesn't have the attribute of switching defense that deviates from the responsibility of the contemporary inside line.

It can be said that the defensive configuration of the Pistons meets the needs of contemporary defensive powerhouses, but it is not enough to play a product of the small-ball era of switching defenses.

The core requirement of a switching-defense team is that players have sufficient one-on-one defense ability after switching defenses. If players have no flexibility to switch defenses and need to switch defenses, they are just actively exposing their defense weaknesses to the opponent.

This leads to a chain of logical relationships.

If the Knicks can't open a 3-pointer, the Pistons' switch can work well with a double-team, even if they only have three players fit to switch.

After all, there is an obvious difference between the contemporary defense and the small ball era, which is that it gives the attacker enough physical contact. The more intense the confrontation, the greater the impact of double-teaming on the attacker.

Therefore, in the first half, the Knicks couldn't make an open shot and fell behind, but Louis insisted on his strategy and let the players continue to play like that.

Because he knew in his heart that as long as the outside shot opened, the Pistons' routine would be over.

As soon as the shooter opened, the Pistons' defense fell into disarray.

One-on-one, Wilson would blow up any of them. No matter what Daley does, the Pistons' defense will be affected by him.

Double-teaming is like choosing one of the two bottles of poison. 50% of them will attack, and they will die after the attack.

Because as long as the Knicks start making 3s, the score goes up.

3 minutes before the end of the third quarter, 84 to 74, the Knicks led by 10 points.

The Pistons replaced Dumars and Worthy to rest, but Louie kept Wilson on the court and waved Ainge, Rodman, Stevens, and Salley.

Seeing this lineup, MSG boiled.

Woody Allen in the front row waved his fists and roared: "Don't let them live!"

Everyone knows what it means for these five people to stand on the field.

Murder looming, Louie's masterpiece, the killer of the Celtics dynasty, is now playing against the league's second-best defense.

Can it work?

"Aha! LittleLu opened a bottle of Coke, it seems that the suspense of this game is about to disappear!"

Marv Albert was the first announcer to discover that Louie would drink Coke when he was relaxed.

In the middle and later stages of the game, Louie drinks a Coke, which turns into a victory declaration similar to Auerbach smoking a cigar.

As the spokesperson of Coca-Cola, they also produced an exclusive Coke specially for Louis.

Of course, the taste has not changed, but the name has been changed. There are still a lot of people who think it tastes better than the original cola.

Louie didn't expect that drinking Coke would turn into a declaration of victory.

Chuck Daly was upset to see the Knicks' murder press team play.

Although the Knicks seldom used murder to press this season, but every time they used it, they lived up to the name of "murder" and killed their opponents on the spot without mercy.

At this point, no matter what they do, whether to let the starter come back or let the second lineup stand up, it will be what Louis wants.

You let the starters come to the top, do they still have the physical strength to fight the Knicks in the fourth quarter?

If you want to rely on the second unit to gamble, then the suspense of this game is likely to not last for the fourth quarter.

With a single thought from the coaching staff, the outcome of the entire game can be decided.

Daly's decision was to keep Dumars on the court and let Worthy rest.

But he still made a mistake.

The Pistons left two insiders on the court, one is Mahon and the other is James Edwards.

It's a well-established fact: traditional insiders are worthless in the face of murder looming. If you don't have the ball-handling ability to face the defense in the interior, it's better to have five guards or forwards.

Even if you want to protect the rebound, it's enough to keep one Mahon, and having Edwards on the court is a crime against the ball handler.

From the first round, Wilson, who was the big core of the Knicks tonight, played a strong defense against Ilo, forcing him to drop the ball.

Less than 5 seconds later, the Pistons made a mistake.

Wilson picked up his ball and passed it to Ainge.

Angie made a three-pointer directly from the outside.

Missed, but Rodman grabbed an offensive rebound and tipped.

After that, Dumars was pinched, and the referee saved the stalemate for seven seconds.

The referee called Rodman a defensive foul, and the Pistons got an out-of-bounds serve.

Terrible defensive pressure, a confrontational determination to overturn your off-ball players, and an all-around threat to the ball-handler.

Wilson's vicious on-ball defense, Rodman's terrifying flanking, Selly's small forward-like movement and Ainge's combative nature, plus Stevens, a Spider-Man who can switch five positions.

It has never been a secret why murder pressing is so hard to crack.

"If the biggest player in the team takes the lead and devotes all his energy to the defense, and keeps hitting the ground for the ball~www.readwn.com~ Wouldn't the others be infected and follow desperately?"

Zhao Yuanzheng asked questions.

"It's true," Tomjanovich said. "The performance of the players on the court affects each other."

From the point of view of the lineup, this is not the peak period of murder pressing.

The murderous press that buried the Celtics last season was the pinnacle. The Knicks' strength was weakened by the expansion of the league, but their murderous press could still fulfill the mission of "killing".

There's only one reason - because Wilson became a member, core, leader of the Murder Press.

Within two minutes, the Pistons were beaten 9-0.

The original 10-point lag turned into 19 points in a blink of an eye, and it would be too late for Daly to call a timeout at this time.

Louie put the Coke on the chair and patted Wilson: "Benj, take it easy, don't hit too hard."

Wilson gasped in excitement: "Coach, I can't help it."