The rest is just noise

For a good basketball game, its ideal stage should be Madison Square Garden.

But in a good basketball game, Dick Bavetta's name should not appear among the referees responsible for officiating the game.

Louie made peace with his tonight's opponent, rookie coach Jerry Sloan.

Sloan's rise to power is one of those stories where "everyone was shocked when it happened, but no one cared about it as time went by."

Louis still doesn't understand why Frank Leyden, the godfather of jazz, was fired.

Layden viewed coaching as a nurturing tool that would make his players better people. He never shied away from responsibility, embracing the roles of coach, teacher and parent and taking the obligations that came with them seriously.

Louis often communicated with him at the annual meeting. When talking about his coaching philosophy, Leyden always emphasized that he wanted his players to become good people more than to become excellent basketball players. This concept has given rise to

Not allowed in professional basketball.

Now, when the Jazz are doing well, they have to step back behind the scenes and hand over the responsibility to the rookie Sloan. This can not but be said to be a risk and a gamble. If it goes wrong, Sloan's coaching career will be ruined.

Sloan looked very nervous. When he said hello to Louis, he even made a grammatical error: "How are you, Coach Lu?"

"I'm pretty good." Louis showed his "senior" demeanor, "Let's work hard together."

This is undoubtedly ironic. In terms of qualifications, Sloan is Louis' senior.

Sloan, who was active in the 1970s, had his jersey retired at the Chicago Stadium as the "Original Bull" and then spent four meaningless coaching seasons in Chicago.

From this point of view, Sloan can be regarded as Louis' predecessor.

But he was not only humble in front of Louis, but also had the heart of an apprentice, because the Jazz's offensive system completely copied the UCLA offense, but Louis created a N.UCLA system in the Knicks that was different from the UCLA offense.

Even John Wooden himself admitted that the Knicks' offensive system only bears the name of UCLA and has little to do with the Bruins.

Louis was surprised when he met Sloan for the first time.

The Sloan he learned about before was a rumor from his playing days. The rumored Sloan was a desperate lunatic, sounding like Kevin Garnett, Dave Cowens, Draymond...

Green is the kind of person who can burn himself out for the game.

The coaching version of Sloan regards his coaching experience with the Bulls as a shame and is very humble. This may be related to his poor background. He has awe and a strong desire to explore his work.

This kind of person is difficult to deal with. Louis suddenly felt that with the Celtics and Trail Blazers eliminated one after another, Sloan's Jazz would become this year's final opponent.

Before the game started, the chief referee and the assistant referee came to say hello.

Today's chief referee is Dick Bavetta, who is disliked by everyone, and the assistant referee is Jim Kinsey, who has been officiating in the college league for the first year.

As one of the many high-level referees introduced by the league, his professional abilities have been fully tested in college.

The introduction of these referees is for another plan of the league office: restoring the three-person referee system.

The emergence of a team like the Knicks has reminded the league office that two referees can only watch four or five players at most, which gives players the opportunity to make small moves.

Although the Knicks don't want to be labeled as someone who likes to use hands and feet, the title of gangster is already firmly entrenched and they can't take it off even if they want to.

If the league really resumes the three-person referee system in the future, Louis will have peace of mind.

The more referees there are, the less room there is for making small moves. In this way, a team like them that is formal and serious about body ravage and torture can have a wider road. On the contrary, a certain Boston team will have problems.

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Is there anyone on earth who knows basketball who doesn’t know that Bird and Laimbeer are the dirtiest people on the Blue Star?

The pre-match warm-up session ended and players from both sides entered the court.

For the Knicks: Hornacek, Miller, Wilson, Brad Rohaus, Ewing.

"I don't know if Little Lou is so arrogant that he ignores his opponent, or if he really thinks they won't lose again." Billy Cunningham scoffed, "How dare he lose to Brad in this game?"

Louis never paid attention to the flies' questions.

The Jazz are also very weird: Mark Price, Alvin Robertson, Tom Chambers, Malone, Eaton.

This lineup has no shooting guard or small forward. In fact, it is a 2PG, 2PF, and 1C lineup.

However, because Chambers' athletic ability can keep up with most of the three positions, and Robertson can defend from the one to the three position, they will not have problems on defense, but on the offensive end

, various dislocation arrangements have become advantages.

The mismatched offensive power of UCLA's offensive pick-and-roll system is amplified by them.

Eaton won the jump ball and the Knicks quickly returned to defense.

The Knicks' position defense showed a clear 1-4 pocket formation.

Stockton marked Price, and the other four people kept a distance from the defender, mainly guarding the penalty area.

Louis also gave Stockton special instructions.

"The first few possessions, try to get Mark to shoot."

You know, Price can be regarded as the most incapable of shooting in the league.

He is undoubtedly the contemporary Nash, with a three-point shooting percentage of 44.1%. Whether it is a pull-up shot with the ball or a running catch and shot, he has a very high level.

What limits him from amplifying his own threats is the times.

It is difficult for Sloan to break the limitations of the times. Let him set up Malone's pick-and-roll and take decisive action when he sees an opening.

Sure enough, after Stockton opened up the space, Price's first choice was not to shoot.

He's waiting for Malone to take over.

After all, Malone was facing off against Luo Haos. What kind of stinky fish was he? Give Malone a one-on-one kill and kill him?

His idea made sense, but he didn't expect that when Stockton gave him space to shoot, he would not try to shoot, even if his three-point shooting rate was 44%?

Luo Haosi tried his best to squeeze Ma Long.

Price was worried about Malone's defender on the wing. The Knicks obviously wanted to wait for him to pass the ball before flanking him.

Thinking of this, Price no longer insisted on passing the ball to Malone. When he found that he had space to shoot, he started throwing.

"Whoosh!"

"It's really accurate!" Louis exclaimed.

In 1988, I was given a three-point shot from the corner. I was still hesitant at first, but after I found out that I couldn't pass the ball, I chose to shoot. I didn't aim much at all and just made the shot.

How good a shot is this?

What a pity, Louis sighed to himself, Price would have developed better if he was under his command.

"John, don't let it go anymore." Louis laughed, "That guy's shooting is incredible!"

All Stockton's actions were directed by Louis. After hearing Louis' words, he knew what to do next.

The Knicks' offense went according to plan.

Luo Haos's value in this game is his ability to execute pick-and-roll three-pointers.

For a giant center like Eaton, it is unconventional to pick and roll inside and shoot out three-pointers.

Even Malone will not care about Brad, they will only focus on focusing on Stockton.

So, Luo Haos scored the Knicks' first goal of the night.

3 to 3

"Little's most memorable characteristic is that he won't put an obscure player on the roster for no reason."

Dick Stockton deliberately disgusted Cunningham.

"But as long as Karl Malone is in position, I can't imagine how Brad Rohaus is going to defend."

What Cunningham said is correct. In order to prevent Malone from taking the position, Luo Haos tried his best and committed all kinds of fouls, but the referee did not blow the whistle.

He made Malone angry.

This Malone was not a kind person to begin with. When he found out that the referee was not paying attention to small moves, he hit Luo Haos with a Guixi elbow on the spot.

Luo Haosi was hit hard and fell down peacefully without any acting skills.

It happened to be that moment, "Beep!"

One of Dick Bavetta's most hated traits: double standards!

His standards for treating players on both sides are different.

Luo Haos just made at least 6 fouls against Malone, but he didn't call any of them.

Malone replied and he blew it.

"Didn't you see what he did to me?" Ma Long yelled, pestering her like an angry woman.

Doesn't he know that Bavetta is a referee who goes his own way?

"Hey!" Ewing shook the confused Luo Haos.

Louis shouted from a distance: "Is the person still alive?"

"Panthering," Ewing responded.

"Do you want to lift it down?"

"No! Don't go down in my place!" Luo Haosi stood up forcefully, "I can persist!"

Although Sloan was a rookie coach (as defined by himself), he also knew how to apply pressure and immediately dealt with Bavetta.

Bavetta glared at him coldly, and one sentence left Sloan speechless: "Because the opponent's actions are illegal, your players can launch personal attacks on the opponent?"

"Dick Bavetta is a person who looks stupid when he looks horizontally, looks stupid when he looks vertically, looks stupid when he is far, and looks stupid when he looks up close."

McHale echoed: "He's just stupid after all!"

"Yes, but if the stupid things this idiot does are beneficial to us, don't you think this idiot will look a lot more pleasing to the eye?" Louis was prepared to be disgusted by Bavetta before coming to MSG today.

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It's useful to put pressure on certain referees, it's useful to threaten, it's useful to even stand on the sidelines and chat with them, but with Bavetta, there's really nothing you can do if he messes up a game.

Malone's complaints and the Jazz coaching staff's entanglement led to Bavetta adding a technical foul to them.

Frank Leyden, Sloan's assistant and former Jazz head coach, was so angry that he said, "You just judge New York to win!"

"Oh?" Bavetta asked coldly, "Your player attacked the opponent personally, and I gave him a foul. Is there something wrong with me? He knew his mistake and refused to admit it and questioned my authority, but you didn't dissuade him and worked with him.

Is there something wrong with hindering the progress of the game, disrespecting the dignity of the referee, and giving you a technical foul? Is there a problem? Is there a problem? Can you please say something again?"