The rest is just noise

The good days after defeating the Lakers did not last too long. Just a few days later, Dale Ellis' injury disrupted the Knicks' plan once again.

Judging from the data, Ellis currently averages 16 points per game and is the Knicks' third attacker, behind Ewing and Tony Campbell.

However, Ellis hits 2.4 three-pointers per game, and he brings outside involvement that neither Ewing nor Campbell has.

Rather, these two can average 20+ per game, and Ellis takes the most credit.

Without Ellis, an absolutely intimidating shooter from the outside, the Knicks' pick-and-roll system had problems.

With no one leading the way from the outside, the Knicks' offensive space was reduced.

The Knicks, who should have made another great effort, not only failed to improve their ranking, but suffered a four-game losing streak.

Fortunately, these four opponents are all strong teams.

They are the Pistons, Jazz (two games), and Philadelphia 76ers.

The next two games are very crucial, both emotionally and logically, the Knicks have to find a way to win.

Their opponent is none other than the Cleveland Cavaliers, who are in dire straits.

In last year's draft, the Cavaliers paid the price of the eighth pick in the first round and two pick swaps in order to acquire the Knicks' core center Bill Cartwright.

Although they received the Knicks' draft pick swap option for the next three years, unfortunately, the Knicks are already heading towards the playoffs, and the Cavaliers currently only have 18 wins.

The core is injured, and the team is still paying debts for Stepi's cerebral hemorrhage trade.

Now the old debt has not been paid off, and new debt has been added.

Louis grew up in Cleveland, and he was so cruel to his hometown team that the people of Cleveland hated him extremely.

On February 24, the Knicks first faced the Cavaliers at home.

Dale Ellis is still out, but Louis decided to use the Cavaliers to practice the full-court press.

In the four quarters of the game, he pressed the Cavaliers a total of four times.

When using full-court press tactics, Louis will always let one or two lead the team, which is safer.

To sum up, Stockton leads the team smarter, Ewing leads the team more aggressively, and Oakley leads the team with guaranteed rebounds.

Each has its merits.

Some people may ask, why not let these three people press the whole court together?

This is the clever part of Louis' idea. He didn't want the main players to waste their energy defending the full-court press. He had to find five players to practice this. Pitino called it the murder press.

Louis likes the concept.

Currently, there are three regular members of his murder press. Alex Stevens is the originator of the idea of ​​murder press. Without his hard work, there would be no Louis' inspiration. Plus Taylor

Corbyn and Gerald Wilkins.

Since the personnel allocation is still somewhat insufficient, since he has to do this, in the future draft or free market, Louis will have to find ways to find people suitable to participate in the murderous press.

Sooner or later, members of the murder press will become their own system, without the help of the main players.

Tonight, the weak Cavaliers became the sacrifice for murdering the press.

Louis plays Murder Press once per quarter, each time lasting 2-3 minutes.

Every time he asked his players to do that, the Knicks won by 4-6 points.

After one game, the Knicks beat the Cavaliers by 33 points.

At the end of the game, George Karl looked very ugly. When shaking hands with Louis, he shook hands with Louis: "In the Ridgefield Stadium in a few days, you can try to press us again!"

"Just try it."

He tricked the Cavaliers, and then led his team to a victory over the Cavaliers.

In Louis' adopted hometown, his reputation has gotten even worse.

Unfortunately, the Knicks' next game is an away game against the Cavaliers.

At Ridgefield Coliseum, Cleveland's basketball mecca, Louie was very rude and allowed Ewing to play an entire half of the game with a murderous press.

The Cavaliers have only one problem, they really can't keep up with the Knicks' intensity.

Ewing was so crazy when he ran the full-court press, it was like going back to college.

The full-court press was the only defensive tactic that Louis allowed him to pounce at will, and the Cavaliers were prevented from reaching halftime many times.

Anyone who has watched the national competition of "Slam Dunk" knows how brutal Sanno's full-court press is.

Although the Knicks didn't have the same effect, they still beat the Cavaliers to death.

The Cavaliers, who originally planned to give the Knicks a hard time at home, fell into deep confusion.

In the first half of the first quarter, the Knicks had already established their victory.

The remaining three and a half quarters were just Fat Tiger bullying Xiao Fu.

The Knicks are completely in the style of "I'll make whatever you want with your little one".

At home, the Cavaliers were defeated by 35 points.

Carl's expression after the game was the most murderous expression Louis had ever seen.

Louis said embarrassedly: "It was you who asked me to press hard. It was the first time I heard such a request, so..."

"Stop talking nonsense, you only dare to do this when you are playing a game with us!" Karl could only change the subject.

Louis is a talkative king who never loses his words when he loses, not to mention they both won the battle, so why can Carl be so arrogant with him?

"You're wrong, Coach Karl. We also used a full-court press to win against the Lakers. Originally, I planned to come here as a guest and didn't plan to use a full-court press, but you said a few days ago

But you said that to me after the game." Louis smiled lightly and said, "Then I can only show my cards, and you brought this result on yourselves."

The more ferocious Carl's expression was, the happier Louis felt.

"I hope you will continue to work hard and continue to lose. Our draft this year will all depend on you." Louis turned around with a smile and walked towards the reporters at the scene without looking back.

When Louis came to the reporter, he was elegant and easy-going.

Talking about the recent public controversy he had caused, mainly because he was scolded by people in Kecheng, he laughed it off.

"I understand how people in Cleveland feel, and I would be angry, but I'm a little wronged. The trade is a two-way street, and the game is a two-way street. Only the Cavaliers' management nods, and the trade can be completed. Only the Cavaliers' poor performance,

We were able to win so many points. It makes no sense for them to blame me for this."

Afterwards, although Ellis returned, the Knicks still lost two of the remaining three games in February.

Because the opponents in these two games are strong teams in the Eastern Conference that give them a headache.

One team is the Celtics. This is the Knicks' ninth consecutive defeat against the Celtics in two seasons.

The Celtics carefully prepared a method to deal with the Knicks' full-court press, but Louis did not use a murderous press.

The other loser was the Bucks, a veteran of the Eastern Conference who looked like they were going to die at the beginning of the season, but were forcibly suppressed by Don Nelson.

The team that lost to the Knicks was the New Jersey Nets.

Entering March, the Knicks played the same team twice in a row.

This time the opponent was changed to the Washington Bullets. They won one game first and then went to the Bullets' home court to lose in overtime.

Young teams often have problems that Louis can't understand.

For example, at the critical moment, Louis clearly drew up the tactics perfectly, but Stockton, a commander who is considered the best in history, was in a hurry.

The perfect tactic failed in the first step, so the decisive blow failed.

This kind of thing can only be attributed to experience, there is nothing to say.

The loss to the Bullets wasn't over yet, as the Knicks immediately encountered their bitter host, the Bulls.

Barkley and McHale, these two joked about dismembering the Knicks' inside line.

Especially that McHale, in Louis' view, is like a smaller version of Duncan. The low-post offense is even a super evolved version of Duncan. His footsteps are ever-changing and his methods are too many to guard against. However, he is too Buddha-like and plays without passion and anger.

, probably because he was teammates with Barkley, he actually had some fat on his body, which also affected his defensive pace.

Barkley took advantage of his youth and was not afraid of having a body. Every time he started, he was much faster than others. He rushed in and attacked the basket. He made at least five out of ten shots and had to cause one or two fouls.

There was no way to defend, the impact was too strong. Barkley was still playing the third position at this time, and anyone in the Knicks would be a piece of cake against him. Ewing's defense couldn't take care of it, and the game became a one-man show for the Flying Pigs.

Another two-game losing streak, Louis watched the team fall to fifth place in the Eastern Conference, and did not panic. It was a young team, and the ups and downs in form were normal. Moreover, in the games they lost, they rarely lost in such a way that their morale collapsed.

Either he doesn't know how to play at the critical moment and misses the winning chance, or he misses the winning shot, or he plays against a star like Bulls Kyrie.

It makes sense that everyone loses. Louis has nothing else to do except sum up experience and lessons. Besides, he has another big thing to do.