The rest is just noise

Chuck Daley picks up the game ball.

The air connection failed for 0.2 seconds, which is normal.

The difficulty is too high, and it is a tactic that may not be successful even if you do it 10 times.

Daley held the basketball in his hands and was thinking about the future of the Pistons.

Is it possible that this game will end the Pistons' current system?

A comeback is no longer possible. No team can complete a 0-3 comeback when all the opponents are healthy.

Without even adding the premise that "all opponents are healthy", a 0-3 reversal is unprecedented.

Tonight's winner, Louis, straightened his clothes, showed his kindness to the referee, and greeted the technical table.

He is the kind of smart person who will complain crazily about referees and complain about the substandard statistics of the technical table, but after a game, he will still face them with the most sincere smile.

"How I wish the semifinals were a best-of-five series."

Daley has no expectations for the next one.

"Don't lose heart, Chuck." Louis said playfully, "Maybe you can actually win four games in a row."

"Stop looking for my happiness, I can see the gap." Daly saw not only the gap between the lineups of the Knicks and the Pistons, but also the gap between the coaching staff.

Age is no longer Louis' "shortcoming", and all those who underestimate him will pay the price.

His coaching style is unpredictable and he is decisive and straightforward in making decisions. Perhaps because of his youth, he is particularly daring to take risks.

The kind of old coach who would think twice before taking action, but he always pushed forward regardless of the risk of failure.

In tonight's game, he insisted on killing James Worthy and let Dumars and Ilo shoot from the outside, leaving the Pistons with no countermeasures.

Generally speaking, Louis knows the power of three-pointers. He is the coach who is most receptive to three-pointers, and he should also be the coach who is most afraid of three-pointers.

But he just ignored it and blocked Worthy, allowing the Knicks' advantage to last until the end.

Daly asked himself that he had tried his best to change the outcome of this game, but he still lost.

"You're going too extreme." Louis looked at the Pistons' frontcourt players. They were definitely the most luxurious in the league, but they only had thickness, not "width."

What is width?

Comparing it with the Knicks will tell you everything. McHale is usually at the 4th position, but Louis will let him play the small-ball 5th position, and will also let him play the big-ball 3rd position; Ewing's agility can be used at the 4th position.

The five position can swing back and forth; Selley can swing back and forth between the four and five positions; Rodman can swing back and forth between the three and four positions.

Swing, this is the most special and rare attribute in basketball.

This represents the flexibility of the lineup, allowing Louis to do the incredible job of letting Brad Rohaus play the second position.

On the other hand, the Pistons have a strong and deep frontcourt, but Moses Malone, Parish, and Mahon are all single-position insiders with poor shooting abilities.

They are the type that look very strong when put together, but are prone to problems when put into competition.

The Pistons' only swingman, James Worthy, can play from the second to the fourth position, so Louis focused on him in Game 2 and Game 3.

Worthy was guarded, Dumars and Ilo's three-point shots were invincible, Adrian Dantley injured 250 enemies and suffered 580 self-losses. The only thing the Pistons could do was to increase the intensity of the game on a large scale.

They relied on their super high intensity to maintain the suspense until the end.

Daly looked at the Knicks players and said with a wry smile: "Dennis Rodman and John Salley are both players that Jack likes. If you hadn't made a move too quickly, they would have played for the Pistons."

Louis smiled meaningfully.

In Daley's opinion, Louis' smile had no other meaning.

But Louis himself knows how much he cost the Pistons.

The Bad Boys no longer exist, Thomas and Laimbeer play for the Celtics, and Rodman Selly plays for the Knicks. The Pistons still follow the old path of focusing on defense and athletic ability, but the taste is different.

Just like Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola, they both bear the name of Coke. One makes Louis drunk, and the other is used to flush the toilet, and the toilet finds the smell disgusting.

Louis indirectly caused the Pistons to lose 10 years of glory, two championship flags, and his unparalleled achievement in confronting the Magic Bird God head-on.

So he smiled, with a little bit of shame.

When he came to reporters and talked about tonight's game and the final victory, he said vividly: "Benj's shot helped me relax some parts of my body. Do you understand what I mean? I was in the most critical position."

We requested a timeout at any time, and we led the whole game, but were eventually overtaken by the Pistons. If I said I wasn't nervous at the time, it would be a lie. For some unknown reason, the Pistons relaxed their defense on Benj, which created a problem for him.

Benj loves moments like this, when he hits that shot, he's like, 'Coach, I got this,' and he's saved us time and time again this season."

Wilson is getting more attention.

In just the second grade, he is already a superstar, just like "Dr. K" Dwight Gooden⑴ and "Mr. October" Reggie Jackson.

"Coach has been talking to me about leadership and execution, and we know the games can be physical, every series we go through is emotional, and in a critical game, those moments always come.

The coach trusts me and I want to repay him."

Wilson's answer was hard to fault and very formulaic.

When asked about his opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals, Wilson's answer was very modest.

"The semifinals are not over yet, and I haven't considered my opponents in the next round yet." Wilson paused. "If we are lucky enough to advance to the Eastern Conference finals, I hope our opponent is Boston. We have an account to settle."

After the meeting, the Knicks team took the bus back to the hotel.

Louis strictly ordered the players not to go out. The public security situation in Detroit has been poor recently, and it is during the playoffs. If something happened, it would be too embarrassing to affect the subsequent series.

Everyone knows who Louis's regulation is mainly aimed at.

"Why are you looking at me?" Dale Ellis asked innocently.

Stockton kindly reminded: "You'd better be honest."

Ellis said confidently: "I have been sober for two months."

"Oh, this is really a great thing." Louis said jokingly, "I have also started to lose weight for two months, and the effect is outstanding!"

Ewing said angrily: "With your fragile will, it's impossible to lose weight. You might as well pray to God to give you a body that won't gain weight in your next life."

"What do you mean? Do you think I need to ask God to take action for a simple matter like losing weight?" Louis asked, "Who are you looking down on?"

Ewing immediately showed an arrogant look of not listening to what Louis said.

Good guy, it made Louis angry.

"I swear I will lose weight after the season!" Louis stood up and announced.

Ewing said almost immediately: "I bet $5,000 that he can't lose it."

"I think so," McHale cajoled, "I also bet $1,000 on the coach's failure to lose weight."

"You two bastards really made the wrong bet!"

Louis stared and asked: "Does no one believe that I can lose weight?"

"You are going too far, how can you not believe in the coach?" Wilson is indeed Louis' loyal dog, "I see the coach's determination, so I will stand with him, coach, I bet $100 to support you."

Louie grabbed Wilson's clothes angrily: "What do you mean, my determination is worth a fucking $100?"

The bus suddenly fell into a cheerful atmosphere.

In order to implement his own rules, after the Knicks' bus arrived at the hotel, Louis announced that he and several other assistant coaches would pick a time to check the room, so those guys who were planning to go out and fool around in secret gave up their thoughts as soon as possible.

Entering the hotel, Louis called all the assistant coaches Tomjanovich, Zhao Yuanzheng, Phil Jackson, Sharif, Dennis Dillon, and Truk Robinson to his room.

Louis told the players that they would pick random times for ward rounds, but the execution was not so random.

Six people are divided into six batches, with one hour between each time.

Sharif, Dillon, and Robinson came in the first half of the night, and Tomjanovich, Zhao Yuanzheng, and Zen Master came in the second half of the night.

What about Louis? As a coach, he still has the right to sleep on time.

That night, no players went out, but a woman appeared in someone's room. The coaching staff didn't care about this, as long as they didn't leave the hotel.

The next day, the Knicks practiced normally.

Louis did not go to the training ground and stayed in the hotel with Zhao Yuanzheng to study the Celtics game video.

The Celtics, like the Knicks, have not lost a game in the playoffs so far.

It is very likely that both sides will reach the Eastern Conference Finals with a undefeated record.

What worried Louis was that the Celtics' semifinal opponents frequently used full-court press against them, and they took the opportunity to practice breaking the full-court press.

Although the full-court press of their semifinal opponent, the Bucks, was no better than that of the Knicks, it can be seen that the Celtics' routine of breaking the press was prepared for the Knicks.

"Larry's body seems to be well maintained, and he has performed extremely well since the start of the semifinals." Zhao Yuanzheng said with a gloomy face when talking about the Celtics' current situation, "Ralph is still performing at the MVP level, and Isaiah

Asia is often the easiest to be ignored, but it is also the most dangerous."

"Ron Harper, Bill Laimbeer, Reggie Lewis, Danny Ainge and others are also in great condition."

"With the exception of Larry, everyone else on the Celtics is in their prime."

This is the opponent the Knicks are about to face, the Celtics who are still at the top after winning four consecutive championships.

⑴Gooden was a contemporary New York Mets (MLB) superstar. He was a talented player who was at the peak of his powers when he debuted. After helping the Mets win the championship, he died due to alcoholism, drug abuse and drug abuse. He is a bit like David Thompson.