The rest is just noise

On the first day of training camp, Louis checked his office and found everything that should be there.

Before the training begins, according to regulations, rookies have to introduce themselves, and the head coach gives a routine speech, mainly talking about goals for this season.

Louis came to the crowd and the players lined up in two teams.

Stockton, McHale, Ewing, Ball, Oakley, Rodman, Wilson, Ellis, Corbin, Selley, Curry, Hornacek, Stevens, Song Tao.

14 players, except Song Tao, almost all have the ability to play.

"I won't say here what kind of results we will achieve this season. It is meaningless to say results before the start of the regular season."

"You may defeat the Celtics and win the championship, or you may not even make the playoffs."

"Now let's ask this year's rookies to introduce themselves."

Song Tao was anxious when he heard that he had to introduce himself. He couldn't even remember basketball terminology now. How should he introduce himself?

Zhao Yuanzheng was his personal translator. Hearing his difficulties, he gave him a suggestion: "Tell me your name and where you are from. Everyone knows that your English is not good."

Louis can tell a lot about the players' personalities from their self-introductions.

Wilson said sternly, "You can call me Benj. I have no special hobbies. Basketball is the oxygen in my life."

No special hobbies? Louis snorted.

Rodman was shy and didn't speak loudly.

It’s hard to imagine that this is a person who would mess around in the finals just to relax, let alone that he would liberate his nature under the guidance of Madonna.

Maybe Louis should try to avoid Rodman and Madonna meeting.

He prefers the current version of Rodman.

He lacks self-confidence, but he has valuable talents and just wants to seize every opportunity to express himself.

John Salley is like the opposite of Rodman. He is the only one who has a hairstyle, is full of confidence, and wants everyone to like him, and looks like a star.

Jeff Hornacek is very cultured, and his choice of words and sentences makes people feel comfortable.

"You can call me Honey, I can play two guard positions. I will help you play better games in the future, never hold back, and work hard every night as if it is the last game."

Song Tao's accent made everyone laugh non-stop.

He was not an introvert himself, but seeing everyone reacting so well, he became more confident. He introduced himself, told where he was from, and used all the words he knew.

"I like Dunk very much. If you pass the ball to me more, I will do my best to Dunk."

It all looks almost the same.

Louis looked at McHale: "It seems that our new captain hasn't introduced himself yet."

"Do I want it too? Kaha, who here doesn't know me?" McHale's face was full of reluctance.

"You're new here too, let's go through the motions."

McHale had to stand up, but did not go to the crowd. He just stood there and spoke: "I am Kevin McHale who was traded from Chicago. Since Chicago traded me for a drug addict, I may bring

Some bad luck. Let me declare in advance that in order to prevent you from having bad luck due to my bad luck, I am willing to accept the coach's arrangement as a substitute, so if your results in the new season are not as good as last season, I will never take the blame."

McHale is the funniest person Louis has ever seen, a genius who can liven up the atmosphere and make his teammates laugh in an instant.

"Don't listen to his nonsense." Louis waited for the laughter to subside and officially announced, "Kevin McHale will be the new Knicks captain. He is an experienced veteran. Under his leadership, we will definitely compete.

A better record this season.”

Letting McHale, who had just arrived, be the captain was not a decision that convinced everyone.

But the Knicks' player composition is different from that of ordinary teams.

McHale is the only veteran who has played more than five years. Not counting Bernard King, who is still unable to return this season, he is the oldest player on the team.

"Now, everyone runs around the court 15 times, which counts as a warm-up. When the warm-up is over, we will hold a competition to test your strength."

After Louis finished speaking, the players started running circles, and the coaching staff came towards him.

"In this year's competition, the coaches of the black and white teams will be Rudy and Phil each leading one team."

Tomjanovich and Jackson cherish the opportunity to coach rivalries.

Louis would never give instructions on training and competition. At most, he would just stand aside and watch the game and record some interesting details.

Louis divided the 14-man roster into two tiers.

The old players who played for the team last season are counted as one group, and the seven new players who joined this season are counted as another group.

Tomjanovich takes care of the old people, and Jackson takes care of the newcomers.

Jackson's rookie team members are McHale, Benj, Rodman, Selley, Curry, Hornacek, and Song Tao.

The members of Tomjanovich's senior team are Ewing, Oakley, Stockton, Ball, Ellis, Corbin, and Stevens.

"Let's watch an interesting game." Louis said expectantly.

This past summer, Jackson has been researching colleges to find his own tactical system.

He did not think that he would always work under Louis, and he and Louis were not as close as Tomjanovich.

Sooner or later he will leave. If he can't find a tactical system that suits him by then, even if he leaves, he won't be able to last long.

His hard work paid off, and he found an ancient offensive system called the triangle offense.

Interestingly, this offensive system also evolved from the UCLA offense.

Because Zhao Yuanzheng is Song Tao's translator, he has to come and sit in the rookie team's camp. However, apart from translating, he doesn't care about anything else.

Both teams have seven players and two substitutes.

The senior team used Stevens and Bol as substitutes; the rookie team used Song Tao and Rodman as substitutes.

Jackson substituted Rodman, something Louis didn't expect.

He thought that Selley would be the substitute. Even though Rodman was a rookie, he had been delayed for several years due to academic problems. Now he is 24 years old and is a mature and ready player.

Jean Celi shows that Jackson does not understand the new people well enough.

Selly and Ewing jumped the ball and were no match for each other.

Ewing, who gained 7 pounds this summer, finally has a dominant inside figure.

He was not easy to mess with in the first place, but with his body of steel, Ewing has officially become the vote-winner of the All-Star team who "looks the least easy to mess with."

If you put all the centers in the league together and let someone who doesn't understand football find the strongest among them, many people will choose Ewing.

He seems to be the most difficult one to mess with.

The Knicks lost a lot of players in the summer, but the main framework is still there.

Only one of the real main players, Tony Campbell, is gone, and the other four are still there.

Campbell is originally a brush position, and opportunities come to him more. It's not that he can run, but the Knicks' tactics focus on him.

Louis deliberately made it a premium product, in order to have a luxury product that looks valuable when trading, but only when you get it, you will know that it is not such a luxury product.

Many teams have this kind of scoring machine.

Stockton and the main players quickly resonated with each other, and Ellis received the ball from the outside and moved toward the top of the arc.

Stockton seemed to be running to the high post on the left to open up space, but in fact, Oakley's off-ball screen gave him a clever opportunity to cut in.

Stockton poured into the penalty area from a diagonal, and Ellis' pass was not difficult.

The experience of the rookie team is far inferior to that of the senior team, and there is no tacit understanding between them.

2 to 0

An N.UCLA System Reed SpreadCenter Offense.

The real core of this tactic is not the center, but the spread. The movement of people without the ball is the initiator of the tactic, and the focus is on how the center players use screens to help them spread to the inside.

This tactic is usually designed for players who rarely score in the penalty area. Only they can achieve unexpected results.

There are 14 spread-based tactics in the Knicks team.

This was only last season. In the new season, due to personnel changes, Louis has to update the team's tactical library. The tactics that many players have memorized by heart are no longer applicable.

The rookie team's offense is very simple.

It was originally going to be a single for Benjamin Wilson. Suddenly, Wilson saw McHale holding up a terrifying wingspan of 2.44 meters to ask for the ball.

"Here, champion!" McHale yelled angrily, "Believe in your captain, he can handle Oak!"

Wilson can only pass the ball to him.

Oakley, who was about to try McHale's depth, was taken advantage of by the opponent as soon as he exerted his strength.

Although his defense was pressed against McHale, McHale's low post attack was ever-changing, with his lower limbs rotating 360 degrees and passing Oakley's defensive position with an astonishing shoulder width.

After seizing the position, he didn't pause for half a second. He directly picked up the basket with an extremely awkward shovel style and leaned on Oakley's body to complete the attack.

2 to 2

"Is that it?" McHale scoffed, "Are you deliberately not guarding me because I'm new? There's no need, there's no need."

McHale succeeded in pissing off Oakley.

As for the consequences of irritating Oakley? It's not as terrible as Louis thought.

This bully who is good at fighting actually wanted to respond to McHale with a shot. The opponent's wingspan was not a decoration, and he was blocked while standing.