The rest is just noise

Time has entered 1987.

This is a year that makes Louis feel emotional.

If you don't care about the month, then today is the tenth year since he traveled through time.

From 1977 to 1987, ten years passed in a flash.

In the first month of the new year, the Knicks are scheduled to have six consecutive away games.

The first away game of six consecutive games is Salt Lake City, Utah.

The opponent is the Jazz, another team influenced by Louis and whose future is unpredictable.

The current Jazz are considered a strong team in the Western Conference, ranking fourth. They sent away Adrian Dantley in the summer and officially replaced Karl Malone, who has great potential.

It's just that there is less of a man named Stockton around him, and there are a few more guys such as Vinyl Johnson, Antoine Kyle, and Mark Price.

In terms of strength, Vinier at this time and Price a few years later were not inferior to Stockton. Speaking of Price alone, he may have been stronger than Stockton in his peak period.

But they may all be a little worse than Stockton.

That is evergreen.

The special thing about Stockton is that he has maintained his competitive status at a high level for many years in a row, which is exactly matched with Malone, one of the oldest players in history.

It is precisely because of the partnership of Stockton and Malone that the Jazz have been able to maintain their competitiveness for so many years. Even during the period from 1995 to 1999, when they should have aged, they became more competitive.

At noon, the Knicks arrived at the hotel.

Half a day passed with meetings, preparations, and training.

After sunset, it’s time to get ready for the game.

Salt Palace/Salt Lake City Palace Stadium (Salt Palace), the Knicks arrived an hour early to adapt to the venue.

The Salt Palace is as its name suggests, and the color of the floor looks very "salty".

The staff of the arena adopted a light yellow floor color scheme, making every guest who comes here feel like a NetEase Cloud user depressed at 0 o'clock every day.

However, the fans here are full of passion.

Because the Jazz are the only professional sports team they have.

Even if the results were not good in the past few years, their love for the team has not diminished.

This love reached its peak after almost losing Jazz.

The Jazz's former owner, Sam Battiston, had been suffering financial losses over the past few years before Larry Miller took over, but he still found ways to keep the team in Salt Lake City.

Within the league, there are many people who want the Jazz to move to Las Vegas. In fact, before Miller arrived, the Jazz played a lot of regular season games there in the past few years.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's famous skyhook score over Mark Eaton's head, which surpassed Wilt Chamberlain's scoring record, happened in Las Vegas.

That's the "second home" of the Jazz.

No matter what, the Jazz stayed, and the fans loved them even more. No matter what the record was, as long as they were still there.

Louis went to midfield and shook hands with Jazz coach and general manager Frank Leyden.

Two powerful men meet at midfield.

Louis was extremely friendly: "I already feel the enthusiasm of Salt Lake City."

"There are a lot of things you don't know about us here!" There are many old-school coaches who don't like Louis, and there are also many coaches who have good personal relationships with Louis.

Leyden is one of them, he's an interesting guy.

But Leyden is also an old-fashioned coach in Louis' impression. He not only regards himself as a coach, but also as a parent.

His coaching philosophy is not to make players become great athletes, but to make them good people.

For example, Karl Malone has never messed with an underage girl since he came to the Jazz. At most, he will molest the wives of young teammates in the future, which fully proves that his work is effective.

Back on our own court, tonight is another truce night for Dale Ellis.

He can't fight because of Cleveland's lawsuit.

The Jazz's starting lineup is Vinyl Johnson, Bob Hansen (Bob Hansen SG), Darrell Griffith, Karl Malone, and Mark Eaton.

The Jazz also have some obvious problems with their lineup.

There is no small forward in their starting lineup. Similar to the Celtics when Bird was absent, they started with three guards on the outside.

Louis gets a stress disorder every time he sees a back three.

Yes, the 2019 World Cup memories come back again.

Louis was very relaxed against the Jazz's lineup. The Knicks' starting lineup was Stockton, Wilson, Tyrone Corbin, McHale, and Ewing.

On the jump ball, Eaton made Ewing look like a junior high school kid.

There was something wrong with the Jazz's offense, and the ball couldn't be passed to the key players.

Griffith failed to open up the space, and Vernier tried to pass the ball to Malone, but the pass was deflected.

The Knicks steal the ball and counterattack.

Wilson made a one-stop dunk.

2 to 0

"Dr. Dunk" Griffith's pull-up three-pointer was a hit.

Louie was a witness to Griffith's rise to the top in college and then his years of struggling at Utah, where the man took on more than he could handle prematurely.

As time went by, the spirituality he had in college disappeared and he turned into a mediocre scorer who made fans happy by dunking a few balls in every game and shooting a few balls to score 20 points.

This shot was a hit, but the backboard rolled to the position with the most people.

Eaton shook off a wingspan of maybe two and a half meters and took the penalty shot.

Malone caught the offensive rebound and went straight to the basket. His powerful muscles looked extremely beautiful, and McHale's defense was not enough to resist him.

2 to 2

The Jazz's defensive characteristics are very good. They know that the Knicks' N.UCLA system will have a lot of pick-and-rolls. Eaton's rim protection is ranked first in the league, but his movement is a shortcoming.

The pick-and-roll offense naturally restrains this monster with inflexible feet.

So the Jazz are lying flat, you can pick and roll as you like, and if Eaton takes one step out of the penalty area, I lose.

They asked Malone to bluff people from a high position, but the effect was very poor.

Wilson moved around Exchange Ricky (high post dynamic offense), took the opportunity at the top of the arc, and received the ball for a three-pointer.

"Whoosh!"

5 to 2

"Benj, don't look after yourself." Louis reminded, "pay attention to the position of your teammates."

Wilson nodded and quickly returned to defense.

The Jazz counterattacked very quickly, trying to take advantage of the chaos to score points.

Griffith didn't look behind him, he came over with the ball and wanted to dunk.

This is what Louis said. The Jazz killed Griffith's aura. He was an extremely smart and aggressive offensive player in college.

Now, all he has left is aggression and no spirituality.

Griffith wanted to ignite the scene with a dunk, but Ewing's counterattack was faster.

His dunk was blocked by Ewing.

The ball fell to the floor, was picked up by Stockton, and swung from the backcourt to the frontcourt.

Wilson hit another dunk and scored 7 consecutive points in the opening game.

7 to 2

Malone's offense under Leyden is very demanding on personal ability.

There is no comfortable pick-and-roll system, and even if there is one, Vinnier and Griffith are not players who can play the pick-and-roll.

Malone flicked the ball and stopped suddenly.

This kind of shot has a high degree of difficulty and is difficult to hit.

Stockton fed the ball to Corbin this time.

With no one defending in front, Corbin also had a fast break dunk.

9 to 2

Leyden reluctantly requested a timeout and replaced Vinier. He failed to meet the requirements and the offensive organization was in a mess.

Venier's replacement is Mark Price.

The Knicks lineup remains unchanged.

Price averaged 20 minutes of playing time per game for the Jazz, but he has not yet shown a sufficient level, with a shooting percentage of only 40%. He is still adapting, but his assist numbers are very impressive, averaging 5 assists per game.

Unlike Vinier, a player who shoots and controls the defender, Price is a natural organizer.

He passed a good ball to Griffith.

Griffith dribbled into the basket and avoided Ewing's block to score.

4 to 9

That ball would not have been such an appropriate pass if Vinnier was substituted.

The same pass is completely different if it is passed by another person.

The Knicks used 2 High Rip to allow McHale to create mismatches.

But the dislocation caused this time felt very ordinary. Originally, the matchup with Malone was good, but after running the tactics, he came back to face Eaton, who did not leave the penalty area at all.

Is it okay for McHale to beat Eaton?

Louis was thinking about it when McHale passed the ball.

He passed the ball to Ewing under the basket, but Eaton turned around and blocked Ewing.

Ewing recovered the ball himself and attacked again.

This time, Eaton jumped and blocked the shot for the second time.

Ewing grabbed another offensive rebound, and Eaton got right in on him. Ewing, who had been blocked twice, had his golf skills cleared, and all he could think about was how to fuck Eaton.

He was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a whistle.

24 seconds offensive violation!

"What is this?" Tomjanovich said speechlessly.

Louis laughed loudly: "That's what happens when your brain is not working well. God, I'm so fucked! Why didn't John Thompson teach him to watch the offense after taking him for four years?"

Ewing argued dissatisfiedly: "I didn't have a watch when I played games before!"

"Are you still making excuses? You have been blocked by the opponent several times in a row, and you don't know if you have any time? You are still thinking about life with your back on defense!" Louis' verbal mental attack made Ewing extremely angry.

Just in time, the Jazz's ball hit Eaton's hand.

Just now, he performed his standing hat.

This time, he made another terrifying stance.

Ewing was pinned to the ground and unable to get up, making it difficult for him to resist.

Jazz gradually recovered, but Ewing knew that Louis was dissatisfied with his behavior.

He looked at Louis's position and saw that the other person had a mocking look on his face, shaking his head in an unyielding manner, as if he had become a parallel import that disappointed everyone.

Ewing yelled.

"Give me the ball!"

When some people are angry, their combat value increases, but Ewing is not one of them.

He did not run tactics and chose to rely on Eaton.

Louis was stunned by this scene.

Just like Zhou Qi was knocked unconscious by Haddadi in 2016. In one round, he actually took a low position and wanted to use his weight, which had dropped to 94KG at that time, to beat Haddadi, who was at least 125KG.

As expected, Ewing was capped again.

⑴If you think O'Neal's attack on Mutombo was cruel, but in that series, Zhou Qi was much worse in front of Haddadi. Haddadi's statistics of 30+20 in every game, beating Zhou Qi would be a disgrace.

He hit, hit the basket and took random shots, grabbed offensive rebounds if he didn't score, and dunked in front of Zhou Qi (several times in a row). I can imagine the worse thing than this is to let Zhou Qi in that state go to O'Neal.

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