The Rest, Only Noise

Pretending to be confused?

Louie can't pretend to be confused, that's the way to go, he won't do it.

But he does feel like the countdown to his coaching career in New York has begun.

Until then, though, he has to accompany this team to the end.

This year's regular season runs until the end of April.

On April 25, the Knicks ended the regular season with a big win.

68 wins and 14 losses

Although many people were not optimistic about the Knicks at the beginning of the season, in the end, they entered the playoffs with the second-best record in the league.

Unless they meet the Heat in the playoffs, they have home-court advantage in every round of the series.

At the same time, many people are optimistic about the Trail Blazers.

The Knicks' combat effectiveness seems to have declined, but in fact, it has always been stable.

The Blazers had a tendency to sweep the world at the beginning of the season, but as the season deepened, the league's generally strong competitiveness increased the risk of losing.

In the rematch with the Knicks, the Blazers' system was dismantled, revealing major problems.

Riley can not solve the problem, just rely on the team's talent to crush the opponent, the Blazers can undoubtedly lead the league in the record list.

But in this way, the team's problem has not been solved, and in the playoffs, the opponent will seize this problem and target it.

In this way, they are passive.

Riley wouldn't allow that to happen anyway, which is why the Trail Blazers lost in the closing stages.

The Blazers are third in the league with 67 wins.

Falling from first to third is not a good feeling, but Riley has his own opinion: "It's better to lose within the limits of our control than to be caught in the playoffs and chase after them."

At this point, the regular season is over.

The weak teams that did not make the playoffs should prepare for the draft. If they want to make a big splash in the offseason, they must find a way to clear the salary space.

And the strong teams whose journey is not over, also have to cheer up to deal with the upcoming playoffs.

The Knicks, ranked second in the East, will face the Detroit Pistons in the first round.

For the last practice before the playoffs, Louie had no other arrangements except for one request: don't get hurt.

Non-combat attrition during the playoffs due to too much training is the stupidest thing to do.

To talk about the most honest team, this season is none other than the Pistons.

They kept talking about rebuilding, and there were trade rumors for everyone on the team except super rookie Steve Smith.

But this group of people only thunder but not rain.

No rumors are true except rumors that are rumors.

Although Joe Dumars was sent away last summer, the Pistons still have strong players such as James Worthy, Parish, and Bowie.

In terms of lineup, they are definitely not bad, they just lack a commander who ties the team together.

Therefore, it had the book strength to hit the top five in the East, but it just became the seventh in the East, and unfortunately met the Knicks in the first round.

When Chuck Daly, a potential victim of the traveler's butterfly effect, met Louis in Madison Square Garden, he sighed with emotion: "Detroit has risen to the east since I came, but this time, it's really going to end."

Daly's so-called "end" not only means that the Pistons want to change the status quo, but more importantly, Daly also wants to leave.

After this season, Daly will not re-sign with the Pistons.

He's not going to lead a rebuild, and he doesn't want to lead a rebuild.

The butterfly effect driven by Louis has changed too many things.

Not to mention the players who have suffered, and coaches like Daly who could have achieved his glory in the late 1980s with the Bad Boys and defeated the Magic Bird God and locked the dream team coach. seat.

However, that team was torn apart by Louie.

Although the Pistons management changed their fate against the sky, with a series of good operations, they just conjured up a lineup, allowing the Pistons to remain competitive in the East for many years.

But over the years, the Pistons have become more and more like the Raptors of the Cavaliers James 2.0 era.

They look poor, especially in the regular season, and are often able to let their main rivals lose.

This creates two illusions for them and the fans.

One is to make them mistakenly think that they are strong, and the other is that basketball fans mistakenly think that they are strong. After coming to the playoffs, when they were killed by James as a pig, the fans could only understand what a dimensionality reduction blow was.

Compared with the Raptors in the era of garbage brothers, who suffered from a strong phobia, the Pistons on this plane are obviously much more unlucky.

They almost started with the Knicks.

In Louie's first summer in New York, the Pistons formed the league's No. 1 frontcourt against the Celtics' weak frontcourt.

Since then, the Pistons have gone down the wrong path.

And, every year for eight years, they made the playoffs, either as a bag for the Celtics or as a toy for the Knicks.

The only purpose of their existence is to play a good regular season performance and establish a "we're not good" image in the hearts of fans.

But that's about it.

Originally, they could comfort themselves with "I'm the top three in the East".

But with the rise of the Hornets, Heat, and Pacers, this self-comforting rhetoric has become unrealistic. In addition to the Knicks, these three teams are sure to beat the Pistons.

During the regular season, the Pistons have only won the Hornets once against these three teams.

That game was won because the Hornets underestimated the enemy.

Now they are timid before the battle, and even before the game starts, they feel that they are going to lose.

Daly begins to confide in Louis, who listens quietly.

"I won't let my players show mercy just because you told me this." Louie joked.

Daly caught Louie's joke: "It's great, if we play against the defending champions and can't make them go all out, it means we are too bad."

Before the game, Bowie, who played in New York and won the only NBA championship in his life, came to greet his old teammates.

Although the great 84 diamond generation is full of talents, there are three undisputed superstars, but none of them have a championship.

On the contrary, Stockton's championship ring can be worn on one hand, and Bowie, a recognized "parallel importer" in the top five, also has a ring that can show off to future generations that "Grandpa was also a winner back then".

"Coach Lu, the New York experience has reshaped my career," Bowie said gratefully. "I can't say enough about your help."

Louie felt that Bowie's reaction was a bit over the top.

If Ewing said so, it would be excusable.

This orangutan is one of the players who truly changed his life.

"Don't be merciless on the field, let it go." Louis laughed.

Louie underestimated his influence.

Although Bowie only played one year in New York, he won not only the championship, but also the baptism of the Knicks' advanced tactical system.

Bowie belongs to a modern center in terms of technical characteristics.

But in this era of three shifts of center players (post offense, rebounding, and rim protection), his strengths aren't being put to good use.

But when Louis coached him, he used every inch of his strengths.

Bowie has since had a fresh perspective on the game, proving himself to be a valuable player in both Miami and Detroit.

In the game against the Knicks, because they have a special lineup, they must be prepared to be dislocated throughout.

In this era when most teams are on par with the Knicks and the Blazers, and the teams are all iron-clad, the Pistons do not have the capital to play iron-blooded basketball.

Their core player, James Worthy, is a real gentleman who doesn't even know what to call.

Bowie already has the property of glass, and he can't make a big deal.

Therefore, although the Pistons have a good lineup, they rarely increase their strength.

Worthy averaged 18 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game as the team's core season.

His prime is over.

The impact of Dumars' departure has exceeded Detroit expectations.

In game 1 with the Knicks, the Pistons were beaten all the way.

Wilson made Worthy understand that what is behind the Yangtze River pushes the front.

Although Worthy is larger than Wilson, his core strength is not dominant.

Wilson played Worthy, not many steps, just a catch and shoot.

Although this attack method is single, as long as there are clever tactical coordination, it is difficult to be restricted.

Worthy's inability to defend Wilson wouldn't surprise anyone.

Because Worthy wasn't a great defender.

Louie pays more attention to the chemistry of the team itself~www.readwn.com~ After the "Garden of Eden" incident, the Knicks' overall tacit understanding has dropped significantly, and the core of the team, Wilson and Ewing, have become old and dead.

They barely communicated on the field.

Ewing remains businesslike in pick-and-rolls and screens, which Wilson can't use without his screens.

They are fighting.

Louie understands Wilson's dissatisfaction with Ewing, but what's the point of Ewing as a bastard?

If you don't ask the truth, and you slap people indiscriminately, isn't it just **** you, are you mad at your father?

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The next chapter will be late, the typos have not been corrected

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