The rest is just noise

It is a joy to watch young players grow up step by step under your nose.

Tonight, Benjamin Wilson and Rodman both played like young players.

Wilson's several attacks after coming on the field were not jump shots after holding the ball, but Hamilton-style roaming without the ball, briskly bypassing the heavy screen walls, catching the ball, and shooting.

He has not adapted to the Knicks' N.UCLA system, but once he adapts and integrates like Dale Ellis, his size, his shooting ability, and his ability to score in the face of defenses,

will be displayed to the maximum extent.

Just like Kevin Durant during the Warriors era.

Louis hopes that Benj in his prime will be as deadly as Durant without the ball and as unstoppable as Tracy McGrady with the ball.

When most people get Wilson, they will just mindlessly give him the ball, just like taking steroids, hoping that he will quickly grow into a core ball-handling core.

Louis has compatibility and comprehensiveness in mind.

He hopes Benj can become a pantheon-level versatile star like Durant.

Now his off-ball offense is a bit like Michael Porter's, very immature, and some opportunities that are not opportunities rely entirely on talent to score. Once he learns to use pick-and-rolls and screens flexibly like tonight, it will be difficult for the Lakers to guard him.

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If you don't guard his shot, he will take it directly.

If you try to guard against his shooting, he will be like Westbrook who is playing chicken, stretching out his long legs and breaking through from the start. He has such a long stride that he can go from the three-point line to the basket in just two steps.

A flying dunk like a kite.

Imagine this: a guy who can run and shoot like Hamilton, has the height of Tracy McGrady, the long legs of Michael Porter and the first step of Westbrook, how do you defend him?

His talent structure gives him unlimited possibilities.

In the last five minutes of the first quarter, Wilson functioned as the core of the offense, making 5 of 7 shots and scoring 12 points.

Pat Riley sighed when he saw this: "New York is destined to rise."

Rodman's performance was not as dazzling as Wilson's.

Louis asked him to guard against the magician, but he didn't expect him to guard against it, and he really couldn't.

The Magician who developed the three-point shot is already a mismatch machine with no blind spots after halftime. Rodman cannot be defended, but the true value of a great defender is always reflected in the assist defense end.

In terms of individual defense ability, Howard may not be the best in the league at his peak, but his assist defense is enough to protect the teammates around him who have poor defensive abilities, making the Magic a top seven defensive team in the league.

This is what Rodman embodied in the game.

Flexible, fast, with a wide range of movement, terrible bullet speed, and extremely sharp options for assisting defense and flanking attack.

Rodman didn't take a single shot after coming on the court, but grabbed 4 rebounds. At the same time, he had blocks and steals on the defensive end.

The Knicks' young storm has produced solid results, catching the Lakers off guard.

At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers replaced Magic and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, leaving three main players on the field with two high-quality substitutes, hoping to drag through the transition period.

Louis suddenly waved his hand and replaced the four main players, including Wilson, leaving Rodman and replacing the other four players who killed the press.

Corbin, Stevens, Rodman, Oakley, John Salley.

"Here we go, Little Lu has revealed a terrifying trump card!"

The Lakers' second team is Dennis Johnson, Byron Scott, Wilkins, Rambis, Michael Cooper, Billy Thompson (SF).

This lineup is definitely not weak, comparable to the starting lineup of some weak teams.

But what they encountered was the Knicks' murderous press.

Murderous pressing is not about whether you are strong or weak, but whether your ball carrier is strong or not.

Johnson has transformed into a 3D position at the first position next to the Magic. He usually only dribbles the ball like a porter. In his early years in Seattle, he was an all-around second position. He can dribble, but he is by no means a ball handler who can withstand pressure.

As soon as the Knicks' murderous press came out, the Lakers immediately fell into chaos.

With two minutes left in the first quarter, the first possession of the Lakers' second team facing a murderous press was as follows.

The ball did not reach Mazi's hands and was caught by Cooper.

Cooper is a worse ball handler than Maris, and he has to find a way to get the ball to Maris or Scott.

The safest choice is to give the ball to Scott. However, the Knicks' murderous press defends Scott the tightest.

Unable to get the ball to the right person, the Lakers were called for an eight-second violation.

The scene stunned Pat Riley.

The five members of the Knicks' murderous tight end lineup, except for Oakley, are all energetic, mad-dog-like wing players.

The combination of Rodman, Selley, and Stevens is enough to cause a devastating blow to the second team of any team in the league.

Not to mention, Tyler Corbin is also a very high-level defender.

Oakley is the most aggressive rebounding power forward in the league, and the league's top hitter.

To Riley's chagrin, among so many good players, none of the draft picks, except for Oakley, was in the top ten of the first round.

Selley was this year's No. 10 pick, Rodman was at the end of the first round, Stevens was a bonus in the Sonics trade, and Corbin was a waste the Spurs didn't want and was used twice by Louis...

In the entire suffocating lineup, two players were given away for free, one was picked up at the end of the first round, and only two players were drafted early in the draft.

Within two minutes, the Lakers did not engage in any positional battle.

Instead, he scored 4 points with free throws.

The quality of the Lakers' usual training is guaranteed. The Knicks' murderous press is so intense that they can still score free throws.

However, after scoring 4 points from free throws, the Knicks used full-court pressure to end the first quarter, scoring 8 points.

In the first quarter, the Knicks led the Lakers by 16 points 40-24.

"The gorgeous Show Time Lakers were burst like a bubble!"

In the second quarter, Louis replaced Oakley and replaced Benjamin Wilson.

Because he found that this lineup lacked a ball-handling point and no stable scorer. Without Oakley, their rebounding was not guaranteed, but Wilson's passion for the game is currently very suitable as a supplement to the murderous press.

Moreover, with these assassins around him, Louis would have no problem with whatever he did.

Replacing Oakley with Wilson increases the number of the Knicks' murderous pressing spiders from three to four. Moreover, players like Wilson who like to play chicken often come with the buff of playing chicken to their teammates.

Riley, who tried to get the second unit to hold on for a few more minutes, gave up the idea after 90 seconds.

Wilson stole the Lakers' pass and shot directly from outside the three-point line, making a hit.

43 to 24

The 19-point gap forced the Lakers to call a timeout.

"You are so weak!" Riley was furious. "What is pressing against you is a group of rookies who have just entered the league, but you are unable to move even an inch under the defense of those rookies! Shame! You should be ashamed of yourselves!"

Louis stared at the crazy "murderers" and asked: "If I ask you to continue pressing for three minutes, can you persist?"

Wilson shouted back: "Five minutes is fine!"

"Benj, you just came on the field and have no say." Louis smiled, "From the last two minutes of the first quarter to the current ones, who can give me an accurate answer?"

Stevens became the representative of everyone and said: "We have no problem at all!"

"Okay!" Louis smiled, "I believe they will let Maggie return to the game next, so that they will have two dangerous ball carriers on the court. The plan is this, Alex, you

To prevent Moji from catching the ball, if he catches the ball, press if you can. If you can’t press, I will give you a decisive foul! As for Byron Scott, he has played for eight consecutive minutes and is very physically exhausted, so continue

Put pressure on him and foul him when necessary! Except for Benj, everyone else doesn’t need to care about the number of fouls they get, just go ahead and do it!”

The timeout was over, and after listening to Louis' arrangement, Tomjanovich said jokingly: "Lu, are you using the Lakers as guinea pigs for experiments?"

"You can't blame me." Louis spread his hands and said, "If you do, blame them for not having a ball carrier that scares me."

Including Magic and Scott, the Lakers don't have a player who would scare Louis if he gets the ball in the backcourt.

this is the key of the problem.

No matter how gorgeous Show Time is, even a magician would have a headache when faced with four spider-men in the Murderous Force lineup.

As expected, Magic returned to the lineup, and the Lakers' full-court press against the Knicks was well planned.

What they didn't expect was that the Knicks' current full-court press was much more stable than the impromptu one-shot deal last season.

Whether it is the personnel involved in the press, the full-court press routine, or the tacit understanding and coordination among the players, they are all much better than last season.

Perhaps the biggest discovery is that Wilson actually played a leading role in the Murderous Press.

There are still many problems with his defense, but the full-court press is like a positional battle, a game of five people.

Only by helping each other can we exert our greatest power.

Wilson's passion and aggression fit perfectly into the rhythm of the other four.

Louis has another happy dilemma. Can he put Wilson in the murder press? Can this kind of dirty work be done by the future offensive core?

But he seems very suitable and enjoys it...