The rest is just noise

Kemp excited Louis with a dunk, and then spent 4 minutes accumulating 4 fouls, 2 turnovers, and 1 waste shot at the speed of light to cool down Louis.

Louis called a timeout for him, and Willis Reed had a look on his face like, "Look, this bastard needs a good scolding."

"You're still too young to sell out." Louis did not criticize Kemp harshly, "Leave it to you, Willis."

When Kemp came off the field, he didn't dare to look into Louis' eyes.

He knew he had messed up a lot of things.

As he walked past Louis, he prayed that Louis would ignore him.

As a result, Louis slapped him hard on the butt: "Although I really want to open your head to see if it contains shit or paste, your dunk makes me very happy, so I decided not to do it to you."

Criticize your disastrous performance... This is the first show of your career. I am a tolerant head coach. Remember this. I will give you a chance to make mistakes. Please promise me to dunk hard even if there is only a 1% chance.

Give it a good fuck, okay?"

Kemp didn't quite understand what Louis said.

Are you threatening him, praising him, encouraging him, or giving him homework?

"Sean, get over here!" Reed's roar instantly brought Kemp's attention back to reality.

Louis spent half the time talking nonsense to Kemp, and then spent the other half of the time replacing most of the main players, and briefly talked about the way to play later.

Except for Rodman, the other four members of the Knicks' five-man transition group were all replaced.

Subsequently replaced by Stockton, Miller, Wilson and McHale, who made his first appearance tonight.

"I hope to see more Exchange Ricky (high dynamic offense) in the high post." Louis said confidently, "You just need to be clear about this. As long as we run our tactics reasonably, the Portland defense will be overwhelmed."

The Knicks' Exchange Ricky (high-post dynamic offense), when facing other teams, uses IQ suppression. It relies on the strong containment of the off-ball personnel to cause the opponent's defense to make mistakes, thereby finding easy air cuts or catch-and-shoot opportunities.

Chance.

This routine has a high fault tolerance rate and stable abuse.

When playing against a strong team, you can also rely on a magic pitcher like Miller to change the opponent's tactics.

Exchange What is Ricky's biggest fear? It's a switching defense team. If the Knicks are not facing the Trail Blazers, but another team that implements switching defense down to every detail, they can rely on IQ to suppress it.

useless.

It's a pity that the pioneers are equipped with nothing but no one to teach them carefully.

They played the defense that was most likely to contain the Knicks, but couldn't produce the desired results.

Why that is, I'm afraid Pitino will never understand.

The Knicks returned to the main force, and the Trail Blazers replaced Drexler in exchange for Jordan, Terry Porter, Larry Nance and Rick Schmitz.

They retained Clifford Robinson, who performed amazingly.

There is one more newcomer and one less glider to give a chance.

The Trail Blazers usually make mistakes off the ball when defending against the Knicks, all on Drexler's side.

Now that a new member has joined, theoretically there will be some flaws in communication, which is what Louis wants to take advantage of - but in fact, in the next few minutes, except for a small amount of poor off-ball defense, the Blazers did a good job of executing the switch.

Not bad, not only did the Blazers' communication not deteriorate because of Robinson's addition, but because of his addition, the Blazers' defense seemed to become smoother.

Clifford Robinson's performance completely exceeded Louis' expectations.

Originally, Louis' impression of him was just a face that flashed through Jordan's shrug battle, but now he has a more intuitive impression of this person.

He is very similar to Rasheed Wallace, but he is more emotionally stable and will not constantly go to the referee to get a T.

Robinson's range of movement makes him special. He is the player with the largest defensive range in the Trail Blazers. Jordan has the best single defense and first-class assist defense, while Robinson has the best single defense and top assist defense.

On paper, the Blazers' defensive resources are too good.

But after the Knicks started playing, their high-post dynamic offense was like a shampoo commercial, looking like hair with special effects, extremely smooth.

McHale took the ball in the low post, and the attack was just a superficial gesture. The real intention was to layup Miller who was cutting in from the weak side.

Moreover, Robinson made the same mistakes that all rookies make.

He was too aggressive and wanted to fight but didn't know how. The referee at Madison Square Garden would not tolerate him and gave him a foul, which happened to be 2+1;

Wilson bypassed Rodman's off-ball screen to get rid of Jordan, bullied Schmitz's slow speed, and the defense could not keep up, and dunked.

Once again, the Knicks took advantage of the defensive shortcomings on the Trail Blazers' books.

Moreover, Schmitz may be the only shortcoming on the Blazers' books.

"The Knicks' performance embarrassed Rick Schmitz. When he faced other teams, he was often an important part of the Blazers' offense, but in front of the Knicks, he was beaten by Benj, Dennis, Kevin,

John Stockton treated him like a plaything."

In the high post, McHale pretended to pass the ball to a teammate, then suddenly turned and drove into the basket and hit Schmitz behind him.

It's Schmitz again!

Louis stood comfortably on the sidelines. Did he lay out specific tactics? No.

He only gave one strategy.

Because of the specific tactics, these players are already familiar with them.

They know how to fight, they just need Louis to tell them what strategy to implement, and they will know how to fight.

In this case, as long as they don't make low-level mistakes or other obvious mistakes, Louis only needs to stand on the sidelines and ask Jordan: "Michael, are you tired of running around like this? Do you want to sit down and have a sip of Gatorade?"

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Or, he would goad Schmitz: "Rick, why do my players prefer attacking the basket when you are on the court? Is it your problem?"

After continuous problems, Schmitz finally left the paint area during a relatively complicated free throw line coordination by the Knicks. It was a gratifying first time, and anyone's first time deserves to be taken seriously.

For the first time since the start of the game, Schmitz ran out of the paint area to defend.

Just because he ran out of the paint does not mean that the Blazers' defense is secure. The Knicks have many options. The ball carrier can hit Schmitz in a misplaced position, or, more sinisterly, let Schmitz know that there will be no good results if he runs out to defend.

Under Louis' instructions, they chose the more sinister latter option.

Schmitz came out, but McHale and Rodman walked toward the basket at full speed.

There was only Clifford Robinson there, and the poor rookie faced a partial one-defense-two situation. Either he could defend successfully and improve the team's morale, or he could be played like a monkey, proving that the Blazers had no way to take advantage of the Knicks' offense.

McHale faked a layup and made a back pass when he jumped into the air. Rodman caught the ball and dunked without pausing. Although the physical contact with Robinson was so small that it should be ignored, the rookie needs to be taught that this is a basketball game.

There are hidden rules here.

Robinson takes another body hair whistle.

After that, before the end of the first half, the Knicks led by Wilson and scored two more offenses.

Wilson's ball-holding ability has greatly improved this season, but he is more willing to show off his off-ball skills. Using Rodman's off-ball cover to hit Robinson in a misplaced position, he is not like other veterans who hit the porcelain rookie, but adjusted quickly.

Stopped the jump shot; the other shot was a circle in the corner. The Blazers made a communication error and lost the player. He took the ball and turned around and hit a three-pointer from the left corner to narrow the point difference to 13 points and put the game into a timeout.

Before the end of the first half, Miller hit the buzzer two meters beyond the three-point line from the top of the arc, giving the Knicks a 16-point lead over the Trail Blazers with a halftime score of 70 points.

"It's a joy to watch!" Hubie Brown praised. "Most of the Knicks' offense in the second quarter was when their opponents were not on a firm footing. They fired the bullets before they even had time to switch defenses or help defend."

Brent Musburger asked: "Hubby, if you were the coach of the Trail Blazers, what would you say to your players in the locker room?"

Brown joked: "I will let the players introduce themselves to each other and get to know each other again. They only know how to implement the intentions of the coaching staff on the court, but there is no communication and communication, especially Rick Schmitz, he looks too bad

Got it!"

When Louis was interviewed by CBS, he praised the Trail Blazers: "Coach Pitino has really changed this team. Give them a few more years and they will become completely different."

Well, Jordan should be beaten to retirement by then.

Although Pitino directed the game very strangely, Louis had to admit that the Trail Blazers' style was tailor-made for the Knicks.

Logically speaking, they should restrain the Knicks.

Terribly powerful wings, high-pressure defense, and advanced defensive switching concepts.

However, the Knicks are so good overall that even if their opponents have the best equipment, the coaching staff cannot make any mistakes.

To suppress the Knicks, the Blazers must first have a strong forward line (√), a coaching staff that emphasizes defense, pressing, confrontation, and switching defenses (√), and a coaching staff that emphasizes discipline over defensive pressure (×), like a perfectionist.

Details (×).

Even if everything is done right, the team's own lineup structure requires strong personal abilities.

Because a team with such an extreme defensive style can no longer score points by relying on tactics alone until the end. It needs to rely on personal ability. If the personal ability is too poor, it will not be able to beat the Knicks in a one-on-one match.

But the Trail Blazers happen to have all of this, but they don't have a head coach who can compete with Louis.

It's understandable that Louis wants Pitino to stay in Portland for a long time, because even he can't imagine what this team will do if it falls to Phil Jackson, Pat Riley or any other coach who pays attention to details and discipline.

What has become.

In his heart, he hoped that there would be no such person to save Portland and Jordan.

However, underneath his superficial thoughts, he also had a vague hope that there really was such a person.

Just like he doesn't know what it's like for the Blazers to be utilized to their full potential, he doesn't know what it's like for the current Knicks to go all out when they enter their heyday.

Will he face a team like they challenged the Celtics to challenge them?

If not, how regrettable would it be?