The rest is just noise

Chapter 174 The Restless Assassin

The Mavericks are a team that lacks highlights.

Judging from the data that Louis was familiar with, they didn't have much to offer.

Whether it's turnover rate, opponent's turnover rate, free throw rate, true shooting percentage, offensive rebounds and defensive rebounds and many other statistics, they are only in the middle or bottom of the league.

But they are second in the Midwest Division. If they really have no strengths, they will never reach this ranking.

Louis still got some data to understand the team.

Their age structure is relatively young. Only bulls and walkers are younger than them on average.

Secondly, although their offense is very inefficient at converting free throws, their opponents' free throw rate ranks third in the league.

What does this data reflect? Their aggressiveness.

It is understandable that young people are impatient and prone to fouling.

The turnover rate is 12.6%, and only two teams in the league do a better job of controlling turnovers than them.

Ranked seventh in the league in effective field goal percentage.

These data, fed back to Louis, are the following intelligence: The defensive end is highly aggressive. Because the team is young, it can maintain high-intensity data for a long time. It has high tactical literacy, good chemical reactions, and will not make risky passing attempts.

, so their error rate is low.

And this advantage will directly feed back to their offensive efficiency.

As a result, their effective field goal percentage ranks among the best in the league.

In the era of weak three-point lines, a high effective field goal percentage may not directly reflect a team's offensive quality, but an offense with a low effective field goal percentage must have problems.

To deal with the Mavericks, Louis changed his lineup.

Ranbir was removed by him.

Although he still can't shoot three-pointers, Maxwell, who has greater athletic ability and defensive area, enters the lineup and once again swaps the two forward positions with Bird.

"I've said what I need to say before, and I'll emphasize it again." Louis asked close to him and said, "Boldly expand the defense, don't let them make comfortable high jumpers, pay attention to leading the ball holder, and continue to

Pressure them!"

Louis' eyes swept around them.

"do you understand?"

"Understood, coach."

No matter how careless Louis usually is, whenever he comes to a game, his players always know what attitude to adopt.

In the opening possession, Sampson almost effortlessly defeated Bill Garnett, who has nothing to do with the person you think of (forcing ll gart PF).

Isiah Thomas adopted a fast-break strategy, accelerated past Brad Davis (Brad Davis Pg), and missed a throw from outside the paint area.

Sampson, who followed up from behind, effortlessly grabbed the offensive rebound and completed the second attack.

2 to 0

"Isiah, keep an eye on him!" Louis shouted.

Thomas did not forget Louis' instructions. After the first ball was played, he stayed in the frontcourt to press Davis.

Louis does not trust Thomas' defense. Pressing Davis in the frontcourt is one of his established strategies to deal with the Mavericks.

Because the Mavericks are a young team and the entire lineup has shooting ability, they need an organizer to activate them.

Davis is this candidate.

This man made his debut with the Lakers in his early years, but because he had a bad relationship with the coaching staff and the person who should not be offended the most, Kareem Jabbar, he was not reused. It was not until the Mavericks entered the NBA that he got a chance to show off his talents.

He is a typical white point guard with good vision and accurate and reliable shooting. It is impossible for Thomas to press him to death, but he does not have enough explosive power to break through the latter's defense. Therefore, he adopts a frontcourt press against him.

, is an option that is less threatening but highly harassing.

Dick Motta narrowed his eyes when he saw the Celtics' opening move.

"It seems that little boy is not as stupid as I thought." Mota said.

Bob Weis, Motta's assistant coach and the Mavericks' only assistant coach, said in surprise: "He seems to know the value of Brad to our entire offensive system."

"This is not difficult to understand. Even the most incompetent coach can see the value of Brad." Motta said arrogantly, "It's like a student preparing in advance the lessons that the teacher may want to teach. I don't think

What does this change?"

It seems like what Motta said, nothing has changed.

Davis was pressed into the frontcourt by Thomas and passed a ball to Rolando Blakman SG in the low post.

Before Nowitzki, the best player in the history of the Mavericks made a turnaround jump shot.

2 to 2

This scene was neither strange nor unexpected for Louis.

The Mavericks' offensive quality and basic shooting skills are both excellent.

Taking their free throw shooting as an example, the one with the lowest free throw shooting rate is Pat Cummings. As a center, this person has a free throw shooting rate of 74%.

Everyone else's free throw shooting percentage is above 80%.

The free throw feel is a reflection of the shooting feel to some extent. Therefore, Louis did not hesitate to dismantle the tried and tested strategy of stacking the penalty area, placing pockets and letting the opponent shoot, and instead pressured the opponent's attackers, forcing them to execute difficult shots.

Blackman's goal is indeed beautiful, but is it sustainable? Louis expressed doubts.

The Mavericks' defense can be described in four words: ferocious.

For them, it is reasonable to defend and throw punches, kicks, and elbows in the meantime.

Before the introduction of flagrant fouls, the conditions for the use of technical fouls were very strict. Therefore, as long as the home referee believed that they were not intentional, their actions would be called ordinary fouls at most.

Those that can be called for common fouls are relatively obvious malicious actions. Under normal circumstances, the referee will not even look at malicious actions.

Thomas just held the ball to attack, and the fans at the scene burst into boos.

"Larry's servant!"

Fans of this notoriously racist city instinctively know how to irritate Thomas.

Thomas was stimulated and missed another throw.

Louis watched Thomas' poor offensive choices in silence, and the rebound was protected by the Mavericks.

Although the Mavericks' two ugly white big men, Garnett and Cummings, don't look very good, they do have a good way of controlling defensive rebounds.

They got the defensive rebound and found Davis immediately.

Davis immediately launched a counterattack.

The advantage of the young team is fully reflected here.

They run very fast, and although their athletic talent is not very strong, their counterattack impact is no less than that of the top teams.

Davis saw the alley-oop opportunity at a glance and sent the ball out.

Garnett followed up from the backcourt to the frontcourt, jumped into the air, caught the ball and made a layup.

4 to 2

"Thank you, Thomas!"

"Larry's servant, thank you!"

K. Jones said angrily: "These people are really bastards!"

"If he can't even stand this little interference, we'd better trade him as soon as possible." Louis didn't intend to blame the fans at the scene.

Thomas is a mysterious and unknown time bomb. Everyone knows that he is jealous of Bird, but he has never shown it in front of Bird.

Bird repeatedly told the media that Thomas was the best teammate he had ever had.

This kind of statement is similar to the boss praising the second player in the team. It seems interesting to outsiders, but it’s hard to say what Thomas, who has a high-spirited attitude, thinks.

"Isiah, can you play well?" Louis asked while standing on the sidelines. "If you want to make another throw that I can do but can't make it, just get out of here, okay?"

His tone was gentle. It was the first time for Davis, who was playing against Thomas, to hear a coach threaten the players on the field with such a gentle tone.

Thomas didn't even look at Louis. A few seconds later, he performed his famous fingertip dribble. Davis only heard several bangs in front of him, and his defense was penetrated by the smiling assassin.

It was expected that Davis could not restrict Thomas' breakthrough. The Mavericks' backup plan was to send someone to cover up the defense.

The choice to fill in the defense is Thomas' best friend Mark Aguirre.

This man was the No. 1 pick in 1980, and Thomas was the No. 2 pick that year.

Well, it looks like these two have the potential to play brother basketball.

Aguirre did not show mercy because of his personal relationship with Thomas. His defense was fast and accurate, but unfortunately, his best friend, the Smiling Assassin, was even better in passing.

Thomas passed the ball to the bottom corner almost the next second Aguirre chose to help defend.

Outside the three-point line in the right corner, John Long received the ball and made a three-pointer.

"Whoosh!"

"Don't miss that guy's three points!" Motta yelled.

Hearing the movement on the other side, Louis laughed jokingly: "Why? Why do these old coaches always have to make loud changes after John's three-pointers punished them? Why don't they make arrangements in advance? Do they have intentions?

Is it a fluke?"

"Three-pointers only have a five-year history in the NBA, and Coach Motta has been in this industry for decades. For most of that time, there were no three-pointers in his basketball world."

K.'s words can explain Motta and other old coaches' indifference to three-pointers.

In Louis' view, this is no different from those elderly people in the future who cannot understand QR codes or how to make mobile payments. However, in reality, most of these elderly people will receive help, but on the court, there are no family, friends, or enthusiastic

With the help of passers-by, a stubborn man like Motta will only look at the three-point line after being taught a lesson.