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Although there are equally many holidays and all teams took a good rest during the All-Star weekend, the Knicks seem to be the team that has the best rest.

They welcomed back several powerful generals.

Sam Bowie looks good, and Reggie Williams' energy and versatility on the wing is incredible.

He is like Bowie on the wing. He obviously has the ability, but he is forced to compete with others on the Knicks' bench filled with strong players.

Wilson is the unshakable starting No. 3, and Miller is also the unshakable starting No. 2. Williams could play two guard positions and small forward in college, so Louis did not fix him at No. 3.

position. As long as the team needs it, he can play the second position, the first position, or the third position.

The health of Bowie and Williams is the reason why the Knicks look invincible...

In the eight games after the All-Star break, the Knicks averaged 126 points per game and held their opponents to 91 points.

Each game was won by a margin of 35 points.

Among these eight corpses, there are many strong troops.

The Pistons were defended and only scored 101 points. The Heat were even worse. They scored 80 points in the game and were beaten by 42 points.

So much so that Lewis Shafir called Louis to complain that the Knicks were too harsh.

Louis is helpless. Sometimes, killing the opposing team is not his subjective idea.

He just wants to win, and he wants to win beautifully.

But the Knicks' bench is too thick.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Knicks' bench can pull off a playoff team.

This led to the game reaching garbage time, with both teams replacing their main players. However, the quality of the opponent's substitutes could not compare with the Knicks, so they were beaten hard.

It is impossible to narrow the score, and the substitutes will only beat the loser.

Can Louis stop them? Of course not, they are just playing the game well.

The team trying to stop the Knicks' winning streak appeared in early March.

They are the Boston Celtics, ranked second in the Eastern Conference.

Under the current situation, the Celtics can no longer come to the Knicks as the absolute king they were two years ago.

On the one hand, they are getting older, and on the other hand, the Knicks are getting stronger.

The status of the superior and the challenger has been changing for two years.

But here in Bird, nothing seems to have changed.

He spent a year rehabilitating his back, and at the age of 34, he enjoyed the second spring of his career, just like Kobe Bryant in the 2012-13 season.

Tonight, the Celtics' style of play was clear.

Bird mainly attacked, and Isiah Thomas made variations. Sampson did not have many opportunities to dominate the ball.

But this is due to the Celtics' own tactical position arrangement. Jimmie Rodgers is making adjustments. He doesn't know what his psychology is, but he thinks that Ewing's position in the Knicks is very suitable for Sampson.

Because Sampson was in the same position when he played under Louis.

But what is the biggest difference between Sampson and Ewing?

First, Sampson joined the league early, giving Louis time to correct his small but far-reaching problems.

So when he soared into the sky in 1984, he used it as a springboard to take another step forward every year and gradually grew into the most perfect big man in history.

This kind of growth path is something Ewing is inherently lacking.

Secondly, no matter how you look at it, Sampson has the basic skills of a defender, the agility to play, and the threat of holding the ball, which Ewing does not possess.

Third, all of Ewing's progress since his debut was within Louis' expectations.

The evolution of Sampson after 1984 was beyond Louis' expectation.

If Louis remains with the Celtics, Sampson's position will also change.

Rogers missed the forest for the trees and foolishly positioned Sampson as a pie-eating machine + a Greek monster-style rotating machine.

The latter is understandable, after all, Sampson is very difficult to stop when he rushes; he will use his stride advantage, coupled with his European step and turning skills, to cleverly bypass the defense and score.

In the former case, using such a versatile Sampson as Capela would be like James coaching the Heat but insisting on letting him play without the ball.

You can use it like this, but it’s too damn wasteful for you, right?

Rodgers' waste of money on Sampson made people feel numb, but Mr. Only is Mr. Only after all, and he is still the unique insider. Even though he is an insider with more blue-collar attributes, his influence on the court is still the strongest in the game.

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When Louis called the first timeout, the Celtics scored 14 points. Sampson scored 8 points by eating cakes and counterattacks. Three of them were converted points. The three rotation goals were all dunks, and he also used his own

Facing McHale's dislocation advantage, Bird provided a three-point assist.

The most important thing is that none of the scores related to him were caused by him facing Ewing directly.

"Do you think Jimmy Rodgers made this arrangement to deliberately let Ralph avoid the duel with Patrick to reduce his consumption, or did he really think that taking the ball away from Ralph would be better for them?

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Louis suspiciously asked the teaching assistants for their opinions.

If it's the former, then he really needs to give Rogers a thumbs up, because this wave is in the atmosphere.

"It's not impossible." Tomjanovich's answer was a typical fart, which was the same as whether he said it or not.

Zhao Yuanzheng did not have as many scruples as Tomjanovich, and said bluntly: "He should not be that far-sighted."

"Yes, not just against us. According to my observation, when the Celtics face other teams, Ralph only completes the offense as the end point and rarely leads the offense to drive his teammates." Billy Doe

Novan said, "Furthermore, Ralph has been averaging more than 26 points per game in the past few years, but this year it has dropped to 22 points, which is very consistent with his current tactical status." If it is to confuse us, there is no need to do it.

This step.”

The Celtics started like this, which the Knicks coaching staff did not expect.

Sampson is undoubtedly the most powerful player in the league today, and his influence on both offense and defense is endless. Even if he no longer has the ball, the threat is incredible just by relying on defense + counterattack rotation + offense.

Once he is charged, it will be like those teams in the small ball era letting the Greek monster rush into the formation at will. It is suicide.

Sampson has the destructive power of a Greek monster. If he is allowed to charge into the formation, the Knicks will not be able to withstand it.

This is the scary thing about this person. Even if this role can only bring out about 20%-30% of his offensive potential, the threat it can bring still makes Louis call two timeouts for him to adjust the deployment.

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Louis' first timeout asked for the space in the penalty area to be compressed at the expense of freeing up the Celtics' perimeter, without giving Sampson a chance to mess around.

As a result, in the first quarter, the Celtics shot 40% from the outside.

Moreover, Sampson's rotation is still unstoppable.

So in the middle of the second quarter, Louis called a timeout and asked the players to retreat more quickly to prevent the Green Army from counterattacking.

For Sampson and the Celtics, defensive counterattacks are like the steel blade on the handle of a knife. Once charged, they are invincible. However, as long as the steel blade is removed, this style of play will be in trouble.

Positional warfare has shrunk, and no matter what the Celtics' outside shots are, Sampson's space for movement will be squeezed;

After shooting, speed up the retreat and ensure that there are 3-4 people in the backcourt to slow down Sampson to prevent him from being penetrated by the Celtics' counterattack.

With such a systematic defense, even Sampson could do nothing.

Such is the dilemma of not having the ball, Sampson could have done more, and Rodgers only expected him to play a partial role.

Because asking the Knicks to give up their perimeter defense is exactly what he wants to see.

In order to limit Sampson's speed of retreating and giving up the fight for offensive rebounds, this is what Rogers hopes to see.

Coach Lu can now be regarded as "the child is not a fish, and he knows the joy of fish".

Rogers believed that he had achieved strategic intentions by using Sampson as a chess piece, while Louis believed that the strategic intentions he achieved were not as significant as the destruction of Sampson's tactical position.

But what is strange is that at the beginning of the season, the Celtics still had Sampson and Bird as the core, and the marginalized person was Thomas. How come Thomas and Bird have now become the core and marginalized the theory?

Sampson who least deserves to be marginalized?

"This appears to be the result of an internal struggle within them," Tomjanovich said.

"Internal struggle?"

Louis' eyes lit up and he looked at Tomjanovich gossiping.

"I just heard," Tomjanovich explained uncertainly, "that Isiah has made a lot of 'efforts', from complaining privately to complaining publicly, to applying for a deal, to pressure from the brokerage team, to

Fans put pressure”

“Fans pressure?”

Louis said in surprise: "I don't have any fans in Boston, but he has fans?"

"It's the 1990s now, Louis." Tomjanovich laughed. "The 'bus generation' has grown up, and they don't value skin color as much as the previous generation. Isiah made his mark for Boston in the late 1980s.

His contribution has won the support of many fans."

Being outside the region, it is difficult to face the changes within the region.

Boston's reputation for racism is still notorious, but the fan base is no longer the same.

Maybe Isiah Thomas still got what he wanted in the end.

"After Isiah's attack, Boston held several internal meetings. In the end, Jimmie Rodgers decided to change the tactical system, and Ralph sacrificed his own ball rights in exchange for the current situation." Tomjanovich said shockingly

Said, "It is said that Ralph has no regrets about this because Isiah has sacrificed enough."

After a long while, Louis said: "What a touching story."

"Is it touching?"

"Well," Louis looked at the court with complicated eyes, "I'm proud of Ralph."

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