The rest is just noise

After Louis greeted everyone's mother and Ewing's father over and over again, he routinely sprayed Wilson: "Benj, don't think that I won't scold you if you play well. I didn't scold you just now because you tonight

Your performance is impeccable, but I find that I can't do it without scolding you, because everyone has been scolded, but you have not been scolded. Doesn't it show that I am partial?"

Is there such a thing? The team members who were so scolded by Louis that they were dizzy did not expect that Wilson would be the only one to enjoy the favor.

"You bastard!" Louis scolded without any lethality, "Next time these idiots get sick on the court again, you should give them up and take over the game instead of passing the ball continuously! The state of these people tonight

With their game attitude, what qualifications do they have to shoot? Are they worthy? They are not worthy!"

Wilson nodded numbly: "Yes, coach, my coach."

"Fuk!" Louis was angry, "Do you want to die?"

After the scolding passed, Kevin McHale laughed and said: "I suspect that Benj and the coach are related by blood. Who agrees?"

McHale's guess was unanimously agreed upon.

Wilson said, "The coach's attitude towards high school students is 10 times better than this."

"So I have always suspected that high school students are the illegitimate children of coaches." Ewing looked at Kemp suspiciously.

"Captain, this kind of joke is too much!" Kemp said sadly, "Do you mean that the coach was not a virgin when he was 9 years old?"

"!@!"

Ewing's outrageous speculation caused laughter in the locker room.

Only Rodman looked puzzled: "When did Patrick become the captain?"

Captain McHalpi, who has no sense of existence, said with a smile: "I want to know too..."

After playing against the Heat, the Knicks' next stop is Boston, where their opponent is the Celtics, who are ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference.

The Celtics clearly have a full lineup, and everyone is healthy. In terms of strength, even if they can't compare to the Knicks, they are still second in the Eastern Conference.

Now it has 4 wins and 3 losses, ranking fourth in the Eastern Conference, which proves that even if it is a good car, not everyone can drive it.

The game between the Knicks and Celtics is on the 20th, and on the 19th, the entire Knicks team is staying in Miami.

After all, it is a rare resort city. After training, the players can go out and play. Now the Knicks have implemented a curfew and responsibility system.

Broadly speaking, they don't have a curfew.

But all those who stay out at night need to have a teammate as a guarantor. If a person who stays out at night gets into trouble, the person responsible for guarantor will be punished together.

Louis stayed at the hotel with his assistants to study last night's loss to the Heat.

Billy Donovan made two points: "Our unfamiliarity with Hank Gathers and Petrovic caused them to perform well on the offensive end. If we play another game, our defense will do better.

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Zhao Yuanzheng doesn't look at defensive data because the Knicks in the regular season and the playoffs are two different things.

In the regular season, their defensive intensity was very high, but in the playoffs it went to another level.

Therefore, Zhao Yuanzheng only focused on offense.

"From the perspective of shot selection, we made a lot of shot attempts." Zhao Yuanzheng sharply pointed out, "54% of the shots came from the area outside the free throw line, but the shooting rate was pitifully low, and the long rebounds were firmly controlled by Miami.

Living."

Tomjanovich complained: "These guys really don't take the Heat seriously. They obviously have a huge advantage inside, but they always shoot from the outside!"

Once the meeting started, the problem became clear.

Being killed by the No. 1 draft pick will never happen again. With this experience, the Knicks' defense will definitely be better when they meet the Heat next time.

On the offensive end, there was a sense of pride in not taking the opponent seriously. There were too many high-post shots, the shooting rate was not high, and there were no long rebounds. This led to the first defeat of the season.

It seems pretty normal. The Knicks made all the mistakes that could have cost them the game.

After being scolded by Louis, the players can restrain themselves a little, but the mistakes in their playing style need to be pointed out.

Louis summarized the coaching staff's suggestions and gave a serious speech before the game against the Celtics.

The second battle between the Knicks and the Celtics involves a battle of spirits between Ewing and Sampson.

Ewing said not long ago that he is the number one center in the league and can handle Sampson.

After being embellished by the media, Ewing's words have been spread as "I am the number one center in history, and Ralph is not worth mentioning."

Today's players are not friends in private, so they often believe whatever the media says.

After more than half a month of testing, Jimmie Rodgers found that it was unreliable to regard Sampson as the only offensive core.

It's not that Sampson is unreliable, but that he is unable to create a system that makes Bird and Thomas feel comfortable and at the same time has Sampson as the core.

If you can't make those two comfortable, it will be difficult to win the game.

So Rogers degenerated. He refused to go back to the K.C. Jones era and live by the tactics left by Louis. He also gave up his own ideas and chose the "multi-giant" style of play that requires the least effort.

This style of play is not unusual, that is, the offense is initiated at multiple points, the basketball is transitioned at multiple points, and the basketball is finished at multiple points. It is dominated by the Big Three, and most other players act as finishing roles or secondary transitions. There will be mutual competition between players without the ball.

Screening, cutting and counter-running, advocating the movement of people and the ball, if it really doesn't work anymore, the big three will come out to solve the problem.

Facing such a "multi-headed attack", what opponents fear most is that the stars will lead the role players. In the end, both sides of the offense will be unable to hold on and be taken away by a wave of attacks.

Therefore, the opponent must make a choice. Should they double-team and restrict the star and let role players finish the game? Or should they let the star go one-on-one and prevent him from driving his teammates.

If we were in the small ball era, when role players shot more than 40% of their three-pointers, the only option was to have unlimited defense changes and force the stars to duel when meeting multiple giant teams.

In 1989, Louis' approach was very simple. It seems that Isiah Thomas will never be able to shoot more than 30% of three-pointers until his death, so to guard against him, he would leave two meters open to guard against breakthroughs to show respect. If basketball

When it comes to Bird or Sampson, Thomas is left open to double-team the other two to show respect for the other two.

The Greens' No. 2 Reggie Lewis is actually a full-sized No. 3, but with Bird around, he can only play the No. 2 position. But in the No. 2 position, his shooting threat is average.

Currently averaging 0.1 three-pointers per game and shooting 26% from the field. If you play the second position with this kind of outside basket, what are you waiting for if you don't give him a three-meter respect?

The biggest difference between the big ball era and the small ball era is that there are many differences in defensive rules. For example, in the small ball era, even if the player who is left open has no three-point threat, if he gets the ball and goes in, what awaits him is often a sea-like empty penalty area.

, and in the big ball era, there is no defensive three seconds, and the inside line can build a nest in the penalty area. In addition, role players generally have short range, and defenders mostly choose to spread their positions and defend the penalty area.

So the person who is left open has to either shoot the ball, or he can hold the ball without working and rush in? It's also difficult.

The Knicks have enough plans to prevent the Celtics' offense, but as for the Knicks' offense, how can the Green Army stop it?

The Knicks: Stockton, Miller, Wilson, McHale, Ewing, and the three outsiders all have a three-point threat of more than 33.5%. Ewing and McHale can pick and roll and open high mid-range shots.

In this case, it was decided that the Celtics only need to leave them open, and the person who gets the open can punish the opponent with shooting.

Within a few rounds, the Celtics gave up this strategy. Wilson beat Bird, who had returned from injury, very easily. Because Bird's defense had become a decoration, and his speed was too slow to keep up.

Lewis guarded Miller to death, but it was still not enough.

In the second half, veteran John Long's accurate three-pointer brought suspense to the game.

Louis knew that Long was a threat they had to deal with.

He is the most accurate point on the Celtics' perimeter. His three-point shooting can basically be regarded as a barometer of the Green Army's offense against the Knicks. Once he loses the opportunity to catch and shoot, the Celtics' perimeter will

Without a very important containment point, his tactical power of running after the Bird/Sampson pick-and-roll will be greatly weakened.

Louis replaced Rodman and acted as the overall sweeper to chase Long and defend.

The cost of doing this is to give Laimbeer various shooting opportunities. The rest of the Knicks will rotate as much as possible if they can, and if they can't, they will give him shots.

Laimbeer's shooting can't kill the game, and those shots he made are the necessary price the Knicks paid to prevent Long from dying.

Compared with the game against the Heat, the Knicks' defensive intensity has greatly increased.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Miller finally got rid of Lewis's defense and hit his first three-pointer of the night.

After making the shot, he roared at Lewis: "You son of a bitch from CNM, are you tired now? Let's chase him again!"

After Miller scored, it was Ainge's turn.

Facing his old boss, Ainge showed no mercy and continued Miller's offensive.

Then Hornacek, then Miller, and finally Benjamin Wilson.

He challenged Bird one-on-one, made continuous crotch changes and swung backwards past the GOAT's center of gravity, pulled up and hit the target.

That goal brought the score difference to double digits.

The Celtics were the kings of the descent. They were still strong and proud. Bird quickly responded with a 2+1 from Wilson in isolation. Sampson and Thomas started a pick-and-roll and then made a three-pointer from the outside.

The physical fight between Laimbeer and Ewing in the penalty area caused a conflict between the two sides.

This is a repertoire in the competition between the two teams. There is no conflict. It is like dumplings without vinegar, without the same flavor.

After a fight, it did not have the effect Ranbir thought.

Although Ewing's defense is worse than Sampson's, his offense is far inferior.

Although he wanted to prove that he was the best center in the league, every time he tried to force the ball to confront Sampson, Louis' eyes would stare at him like electricity.

Louis didn't stop Ewing with his voice. He warned with his eyes: You can do that, but you have to consider the consequences clearly. If you get in, everything will be fine. If you don't get in, I won't be rough on your dad.

Since Ewing wasted three years in Georgetown, his future situation has been determined. He has to choose between the best offense and the best defense. On the offensive end, he does not have enough foundation, but on the defensive end, he has excellent talent and

With a certain foundation, Louis naturally turned him into a deadly weapon on the defensive end.

Perhaps Ewing will never have the same influence as Sampson on the offensive end, but after four seasons of training by Louis, his single defense, assist defense, switching defense, supplementary defense, various blocking skills, and local one-to-two defense are simply perfect.

It became a defense museum.

It was Ewing's defense that kept the Celtics from penetrating the Knicks' penalty area.

In this game, the Celtics shot only 39% in the penalty area, while the Knicks shot 49%.

The 10% penalty area shooting rate determined the final gap between the two sides.

109 to 101

The Knicks defeated the Celtics with an 8-point advantage.

The debate between Ewing and Sampson will continue.

Tonight, Sampson had 29 points, 15 rebounds, 5 assists and 5 blocks. Opposite Ewing had 17 points, 19 rebounds, 4 assists and 6 blocks. His shooting percentage was 10% lower than Sampson.

The two are becoming more and more like modern-day versions of Russell and Chamberlain.

The difference is that the new version of Chamberlain does not have as many bugs as the old version, so many insiders in active service will basically be beaten to amnesia every time they encounter Sampson.

Ewing, that's fine. If you lose, you don't lose.