The Rest, Only Noise

After greeting everyone's mother and Ewing's father over and over again, Louie routinely sprayed Wilson: "Benj, don't think I won't scold you if you play well, I didn't scold you just now because you were tonight. Your performance is impeccable, but I found that you can't do it without scolding you, because everyone has been scolded, and you didn't get scolded, doesn't it seem like I'm partial?"

And such? The players who were dizzy by Louis' scolding did not expect Wilson to enjoy the grace alone.

"You... brat!" Louie scolded harmlessly, "Next time these idiots get sick on the court again, you should give them up to take over the game instead of passing the ball! Late state and game attitude, what qualifications are there to shoot? Are they worthy? They don't deserve it!"

Wilson nodded blankly: "Yes, coach, my coach."

"Fuck!" Louie was angry, "You want to die, don't you?"

After the scolding, Kevin McHale scoffed: "I suspect Benj and the coach are related by blood, who agrees?"

McHale's guess was unanimous.

Wilson said, "Coachs treat high school students 10 times better than that."

"So I've always suspected that high school students are the illegitimate children of coaches." Ewing looked at Kemp suspiciously.

"Captain, this kind of joke is too much!" Camp said angrily. "You mean the coach was not a virgin when he was 9 years old?"

"!@!%%"

Ewing's outrageous guess caused the locker room to burst into laughter.

Only Rodman looked puzzled: "When did Patrick become captain?"

Captain McHale, who has no sense of existence, said with a smile: "I want to know too..."

After playing with the Heat, the next stop for the Knicks is Boston, and the opponent is the Celtics, who are ranked fourth in the East.

The Celtics are obviously already the main lineup, everyone is healthy, and in terms of strength, even if they can't compare to the Knicks, they are the second in the East.

Now 4-3 and fourth in the East, proves that not everyone drives even a good car.

The game between the Knicks and the Celtics is on the 20th. On the 19th, the Knicks team stayed in Miami.

After all, it is a rare resort city. After training, the players can go out to play. Now the Knicks implement a curfew responsibility system.

Broadly speaking, they don't have a curfew.

But all those who do not go home at night need to have a teammate as a guarantee. If the person who does not go home at night gets into trouble, the person responsible for the guarantee will be punished together.

Louie stayed at the hotel with his assistants to study last night's loss to the Heat.

Billy Donovan made two points: "Our unfamiliarity with Hank Gaithers and Petrovic has led to them playing well on offense, and if we played one more game, we would have done a better job on defense. ."

Zhao Yuanzheng doesn't look at defensive data, because the Knicks in the regular season and the playoffs are two different things.

In the regular season, their defensive intensity was high, but in the playoffs it went to another level.

Therefore, Zhao Yuanzheng only looked at offense.

"From the point of view of shot selection, we made a lot of shooting attempts." Zhao Yuanzheng pointed out sharply, "54% of the shots are from the area beyond the free throw line, but the shooting rate is pitiful, and the long rebounds are firmly controlled by Miami. Living."

Tomjanovich complained: "These guys really don't take the Heat seriously. They have a huge advantage in the inside, but they always shoot from the outside!"

As soon as the meeting opened, the problem became clear.

Being killed by the champion, but there will not be a second time for this kind of thing. With the experience of this time, the Knicks will definitely be able to do better defense next time they meet the Heat.

On the offensive end, there is a sense of pride in not treating opponents as human beings, too many high-level shots, low shooting percentages, and no long rebounds, which led to the first loss of the season.

It seemed normal, all the mistakes that could have cost them, the Knicks made.

After being scolded by Louis, the players can restrain themselves, but the mistakes in the style of play need to be pointed out.

Louie summed up the coaching staff's advice and took it seriously before the game against the Celtics.

The rematch between the Knicks and the Celtics was accompanied by an emotional battle between Ewing and Sampson.

Ewing said not long ago that he is the first center in the league and can handle Sampson.

After the media's fueling, Ewing's words have been passed as "I am the first center in history, and Ralph is not worth mentioning."

The current players are not friends in private, so many times, they believe whatever the media says.

After more than half a month of testing, Jimmy Rodgers found that it is unreliable to regard Sampson as the only offensive core.

It's not that Sampson is unreliable, it's that he can't create a system that's comfortable for both Bird and Thomas, but also has Sampson at its core.

If you can't make those two comfortable, the game will be difficult to win.

So Rogers has fallen. He refused to return to the K.C. Jones era and lived with the tactics left by Louis. He also gave up his own ideas and chose the "multi-giant" style of play that required the least brains.

This style of play is not uncommon, that is, the offense starts at multiple points, the basketball transitions at multiple points, and ends at multiple points. It is dominated by the Big Three, and most of the other players serve as a finishing role or a secondary transition. There will be mutual screening, empty cuts and counter-runs between players without the ball. It is advocating that people move the ball and move the ball.

In the face of such a "long attack", the opponent is most afraid of the role player brought by the star. In the end, the attacks on both sides could not be held back and were taken away by a wave.

So the opponent has to make a choice, in the end is it to double-team to limit the stars and let the role players finish? Or let the star singled out and prevent him from driving his teammates.

If it is the era of small balls, in the era when role players have a three-point shooting rate of more than 40%, it is the only option to meet multiple giant teams, switch defenses infinitely, and force players to go heads-up.

And in 1989, Louis did it very simply. Isaiah Thomas doesn't seem to be able to make more than 30% of his three-pointers to the death, so to guard him, he will open two meters to prevent breakthroughs as a show of respect. If the basketball goes to Bird or Sampson, show respect by letting Thomas open to double-team the other two.

The Green Army's No. 2 starter, Reggie Lewis, is actually a full-sized No. 3, but with Bird there, he can only play at No. 2 if he wants to start. But playing the No. 2 position, his shooting threat is average. At present, he is averaging 0.1 three-pointers per game, with a shooting rate of 26%. This kind of outside basket is played at the No. 2 position, so what are you waiting for?

The biggest difference between the big-ball era and the small-ball era is that there are many differences in the defensive rules. For example, in the small-ball era, even if the player who is vacated is not a three-point threat, if he gets the ball and kills it, what awaits him is often an empty penalty area like the sea. , In the era of big balls, there is no defense for three seconds, and the inside line can nest in the penalty area. In addition, the role players generally have a short range, and most defenders choose to open their positions and guard the penalty area.

So the person who was emptied either shot the ball, or didn't work with the ball and dashed in? Equally difficult.

The Celtics' offense, the Knicks have enough plans to prevent them, and the Knicks' offense, how can the Greens stop it?

The Knicks' starting lineup: Stockton, Miller, Wilson, McHale, Ewing, three outsiders, all have a three-point threat of more than 33.5%. Both Ewing and McHale can pick and roll and open high mid-range shots .

In this case, it was decided that as long as the Celtics gave them an open space, the person who got the open space could punish the opponent with a shot.

In less than a few rounds, the Celtics gave up this strategy, and Bird, who returned from injury, was very relaxed. Because Bird's defense has become a decoration, the speed is too slow to keep up.

Lewis did prevent Miller, but it wasn't enough.

In the second half, veteran John Long's three-pointer brought suspense to the game.

Louie knew that Lang was a threat they had to address.

He is the most accurate point for the Celtics on the outside. His three-pointers can basically be seen as a barometer of the Green Army's offense against the Knicks. Once he loses the chance to catch the ball and shoot, the Celtics' perimeter will suffer. Without a very important containment point, his tactical power of running after the Bird/Sampson pick-and-roll will be greatly reduced.

Louie replaced Rodman on the court, chasing Lang as a global sweeper.

The price of this is to give Laimbeer all kinds of shooting opportunities. The rest of the Knicks will try to rotate if they can, and shoot him if they can't.

Laimbeer's shots couldn't kill the game, and the shots he made were the necessary price the Knicks had to pay to prevent him from dying.

Compared to the game against the Heat, the Knicks' defensive intensity has greatly increased.

At the start of the fourth quarter, Miller finally got rid of Lewis' defense and hit the first three-pointer of the night.

After throwing in, he growled at Lewis: "CNM bastard, are you tired? Let's chase again!"

Miller scored and it was Ainge's turn.

Facing the old master, Angie was not soft, and continued Miller's offensive.

Then Hornacek, then Miller, and finally Benjamin Wilson.

He singled out Bird, changed his crotch in succession, and swayed past GOAT's center of gravity, pulled up, and hit.

That goal brought the difference to double digits.

The Celtics are the king of the downhill. They are still strong and proud. Bird quickly responded with a 2+1 of Wilson's singles.

Ranbir and Ewing's hand-to-hand fight in the restricted area caused a conflict between the two sides.

This is a reserved program in the game between the two teams. There is no conflict. It is like dumplings without vinegar, without that taste.

After a fight, it didn't have the kind of effect that Ranbir had thought.

Although Ewing's defense is stronger than Sampson, his offense is far inferior.

Although he wanted to prove he was the top center in the league, every time he tried to force the ball to fight Sampson, Louie's eyes would glare like electricity.

Louie didn't stop Ewing, he warned with his eyes: You can do that, but you have to think about the consequences, and everything can be said if you don't.

The three years Ewing wasted in Georgetown have determined his future. Offensive extreme and defensive extreme, he must choose one. He doesn't have enough foundation on the offensive end, but he has excellent talent and a certain foundation on the defensive end. Therefore, it is a matter of course for Louis to make him a lethal weapon on the defensive end.

Perhaps Ewing will never be able to have the same influence as Sampson on the offensive end, but after four seasons of coaching by Louis, his single defense, assist defense, switching defense, supplementary defense, various card position skills, partial one defense two. .. It has become a defensive museum~www.readwn.com~ It is Ewing's defense that keeps the Celtics from breaking through the Knicks' restricted area.

In this game, the Celtics shot only 39 percent from the restricted area, while the Knicks were 49 percent.

The 10% hit rate in the penalty area determines the final gap between the two sides.

109 to 101

The Knicks beat the Celtics by 8 points.

The debate between Ewing and Sampson will continue.

Tonight, Sampson had 29 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks, while Ewing had 17 points, 19 rebounds, 4 assists and 6 blocks. The shooting percentage was 10% lower than Sampson.

The pair increasingly resemble contemporary Russell and Chamberlain.

The difference is that the new version of Chamberlain does not have as many bugs as the old version, so every time Sampson is in the active service, many insiders will basically be beaten to amnesia.

Ewing this is good, losers do not lose.