The rest is just noise

"Lu, when the game started, you said, 'This group of people can't do it.'"

At halftime, Chuck Daly asked Louie.

"That's what it means in a literal sense." Louis said helplessly, "We are unfortunately in the same division as Boston. If you want to reach the finals and win the championship, there are only two or three of this group of people available right now."

Louis didn't hold anything back and told Daley clearly.

"You can't compete for a championship with just two or three people."

Daley roughly knew who the two or three people Louis was talking about were.

Obviously, it's Worthy, Parrish, Vinier.

Others are worse.

Just compare the front nine of the Celtics and Lakers.

Take the Celtics, for example, they are Bird, Sampson, Thomas, Long, Laimbeer, Maxwell, Ainge, Paxson, and Peterson.

You get what you want. The Pistons have good strength on paper, but if they are to compete with the Celtics, they are still a little bit behind.

In the first half, the Knicks took the right medicine, leading the Pistons by 14 points with correct strategies, efficient tactical execution and the outstanding performance of Cummings and Bannister.

This result was beyond everyone's expectation.

During the halftime interview, Louis explained the reason for Bernard King's poor performance: "He has not adapted to my tactical system yet. You should give him some time."

Louis and King had conflicts, and they were obvious.

But they didn't break up, and they didn't make it to the point where "the fish is dead and the net is broken, we'll leave tonight."

Moreover, Jin recognized Louis' coaching ability.

When Louis beat him in the three-point bet in the pre-season training camp, he had a complicated feeling about Louis.

There is fear in it, surprise in it, and even a little admiration.

However, psychological changes are changes, and it is a fact that he lost a whole year's salary.

Do you feel better when you think about how much money you will make in the next year? Can you be active in playing games?

In his heart, Jin was looking forward to Lord Louis giving him a lot of help, such as canceling their bet in private, so that they could turn their hostility into friendship and put things right in the past.

He swore that as long as Louis did this, he would play for him wholeheartedly.

It turns out that Louis' emotional intelligence is lower than he thought.

Not only did he have no intention of voiding the bet, he kept talking about it all day long and was excited about the fact that he would get an extra $900,000 in salary next year.

This plunged Jin into the deepest tangle in his history.

To be fair, Louis won beautifully.

He was good at shooting three-pointers. Only Tomjanovich knew about it in the Knicks. He suggested that the bet was his fault without inquiring about the situation. He was convinced that he lost, but the price was too damn high! A full 90

Ten thousand dollars!

Mr. Louis took a small amount and refused to give up. He couldn't default on the debt, and at the same time he was unwilling to accept it, so he had a sluggish first half tonight.

Louis and the King of New York had completely different ideas.

Next year, his basketball school in China will be completed. By then, recruiting teachers, selecting a coaching team, and sending players to the United States to study abroad in the future will all cost no money.

Bernard King's money was already ready to be invested in China.

He didn't care about Jin's own mood.

Whether he is angry or discouraged, scratching on the court, maliciously sabotaging the team's tactics and continuing to fight against him, it can all indirectly help him achieve his plan: ruin it.

If Jin causes trouble, he can logically share some of the responsibility for the team's poor record with him.

He is pretending to be dead now and looks like he doesn't have enough to eat. When the time comes, his performance will be poor and he will not be able to take the blame.

So, no matter what, Louis will not suffer any loss.

In the locker room, he praised the players' efforts in the first half.

"We led our opponents by 14 points when Bernard had no desire to attack. This is a very good performance!" Louis said loudly, "We must continue our efforts in the second half. A good start is half the battle. Play tonight well."

After a game, things will be easier to handle later on!"

Both Tomjanovich and Phil Jackson automatically interpreted Louis' words as: If you win this game, you can lose however you want later.

Louis analyzed the reasons why the team was able to take the lead in the first half.

"James Worthy's slump has helped us a lot. Bernard is bad enough, he is worse than Bernard." Louis said with a smile, "In the second half, no matter who of you faces James, you have to ask him

When launching an attack, consumption is the first priority, and destroying his confidence is the second priority. Don't be stingy with your trash talk, and 'communicate' with him more."

"In addition, we must maintain the quality of passing in the first half."

Louis prompted Stockton: "John, since everyone calls you general, you must strictly hold yourself to the standards of a general. On the battlefield, a general's wrong decision will ruin the entire army, but on the field, your

One mistake will cost us an offensive opportunity."

"You did a great job in the first half and continued in the second half."

Only Louis knows how much the Knicks' current lineup affects Stockton's performance.

Originally, he wanted to play more pick-and-roll routines around Stockton, but he had the desire to call for pick-and-rolls, and others did not have the tacit understanding and ability to complete the pick-and-roll.

There are often people blocking Stockton's offensive line, and only Cummings can get into a good position.

The situation was bad, but Stockton was not discouraged and used his own way to activate the Knicks' offense.

His performance was 100 points.

A perfect performance did not qualify him to play in the second half.

Louis doesn't want people to see that "Stockton is a player who can help the team win points."

If people see it, people will say it, and then he has to let Stockton play more minutes, so this guy may let the Knicks win a few more games that they could have lost.

A good tank team driver should know how to assess the situation.

Just like directors like Chen Sicheng, they have to know how to outsource the competition into an attractive film and trick the pigs into killing them.

The game should have three intense quarters, half of which is fighting and half of which is disarming.

In this way, those who win will achieve the purpose of training, and those who lose will feel that they lost the game on purpose. They have won the present and they have won the future.

There must be games like this where there is a winner but no loser, so that fans can have the patience to survive the long night.

Of course, the length of the night cannot be too long.

Like the future Clippers, the Timberwolves in the post-Garnett era, and the Kings in the post-Adelman era, it's really too much to bear.

After the start of the second half, the Pistons' problems became more and more obvious.

They are obviously a team with stronger combat power and talent, but their performance is in all kinds of strange ways.

Obviously focusing on passing and cutting inside and outside, there is very little movement without the ball. Most of the time, the ball holder and someone corresponding to him are moving, and others see; the most beautiful combination in the game is with Worthy's strong side

Starting a high pick-and-roll, Vinier cut inside on the weak side, caught the ball and attacked the basket. It was a rare three-man collaboration for the Pistons that night.

From this game we can see why they were baptized by the Celtics by 140 points in the last game.

The chemical reaction between the players is too poor. Worthy is trying to transform into a ball-holding core, but it seems to be unsuccessful so far.

The Knicks did everything necessary to win.

Parrish can block shots and can switch defenses, like a modern post, but Bannister and Cummings prefer to play the classic post routine with him, relying on hitting, screening, and cutting inside to catch the ball.

If you switch to a team that pays more attention to the inside, Parish can fully support the task of protecting the basket in the penalty area.

The Pistons are not a team that focuses on the inside, otherwise they would not let Worthy play the four position while letting him hold the ball as a big C on the offensive end.

What is this? This is the Celtics' usage of Bird, it is Louis' creative role positioning of Bird, and it is a decision that fully takes into account Bird's technical characteristics and shortcomings. Can Worthy copy that setting? Of course

Impossible, I don't have the ability.

The Knicks' offense is even more lively. Although two inside and three outside is the norm, Louis gives the ball carrier a lot of authority.

As long as the ball holder wants to pick and roll, everyone else has to cooperate.

Sparrow passed some good balls and woke up Bernard King.

The King of New York broke out and scored consecutive points when the Knicks were just one shot away from sealing the victory.

In comparison, after the Pistons are in position, they cannot move without the ball, and there is less linkage between the strong and weak sides. Then either Worthy and the defender support the two-man rotation in the high position, or someone holds the ball and finds a pick-and-roll.

Tripka is actively moving without the ball, but most of the time he is not trying to contain him, but trying to get into position himself. Therefore, even if the Pistons players have excellent personal abilities, the Knicks can keep up. On the other hand, the Pistons were brought by Louis from the Celtics.

The blocking and blocking Qieqie who came in were stunned.

In the fourth quarter, there was basically no suspense in the game.

Louis waved his hand and rotated, and everyone except Darnell Walker got a chance.

“Messiah’s first win at MSG is coming!”

Louis asked his assistants back: "Do you think if I light a cigar now, will Coach Daley break up with me?"

"It's best not to," Tomjanovich advised.

"That's right, we may lose ten games in a row, so we'd better keep a low profile." Louis smiled.

118 to 102

Louis' first regular season game coaching the Knicks ended in victory.