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In the playoff lineup, the Knicks met the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round.

In the post-Don Nelson era, although the Bucks are still exploring future plans, they are still able to ensure the most basic competitiveness.

Reaching the playoffs is nothing new for them.

However, when they met the Knicks, their heads shut down.

"I've been thinking so hard that I can't even imagine the Knicks losing to the Bucks in the playoffs." Hubie Brown said exaggeratedly, "This kind of thing will never happen in another ten years. They won't win a game."

Neither can win."

It’s true that the Bucks can’t win a game, but won’t it happen in another ten years?

This is an exaggeration. Anyway, Louis cannot guarantee that they will not lose to the Bucks in the next ten years.

But the next five or six years are still guaranteed...

The first round between the Knicks and Bucks turned into an exhibition game for the former.

Louis used the Bucks to simulate what they might encounter against the Celtics. Although no one of them could simulate Bird, no one could simulate Thomas, and no one could simulate Sampson, at least they were on the road.

Wearing a green jersey.

As long as you have green on you, the simulation will be passable.

Game1

The Knicks scored all over 15 points, scoring 130 points in the game.

Even though this team is the best defensive team in history in Louis's vision, their offense is not a shortcoming, unlike the Spurs and Pistons in the new century in another timeline that tortured fans.

They don't torture fans. In terms of game viewing, the Knicks are not first in the league but also in the top three.

In the second game, Louis deliberately controlled his playing time to less than 25 minutes, and directed a game that strictly speaking had no distinction between substitutes.

The Knicks scored another 130 points. 11 of the 13 players on the team scored in double figures. Hornacek's 18 points was the highest on the team.

In this way, they decisively seized the match point and forced the Bucks to return to their home court for a last-ditch battle.

In the first round of the best-of-five-game era, there were cases where a 0-2 deficit led to a comeback in three straight games. However, there is only one case in history, and it is very old. It must be traced back to 34 years ago, when the Fort Wayne Pistons and St. Louis

Eagles series.

Moreover, the strength gap between the Knicks and Bucks is so huge that Milwaukeeans don't even dare to dream about it.

It is impossible to win, this is a recognized fact.

Game3

There was no miracle. Wilson scored 42 points in a single game and led the team to defeat the Bucks in the away game and advance to the semifinals 3-0.

This is the third consecutive year the Knicks have eliminated the Bucks in the playoffs.

After the game, Del Harris said helplessly: "Even if the Knicks only use the second team to play against us, it will be difficult for us to win."

Very few people would think Harris was making excuses.

After passing the Bucks, the Knicks can take a little rest.

Their semifinal opponents will be decided between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers.

The Heat and Pacers are ranked fourth and fifth in the Eastern Conference respectively.

The Heat have home court advantage, but facing the sudden rise of the Pacers, the Heat don't have many cards to fight Danny Manning in the playoffs.

Hank Gathers may be one of the options, but he has heart problems and the Heat don't dare to rough Gathers like the Pacers beat Manning for 48 minutes every game.

He resolutely limited Gathers' playing time to 34 minutes.

Under such circumstances, Gathers carried a heavy burden with a guilty conscience, and he did not play well.

The Heat relied on Petrovic's outside firepower to support themselves.

Except for Manning, the performance of other Pacers players was equally surprising.

They have three frontcourt players, Manning, Horace Grant and Charles Oakley, to create a formidable frontcourt lineup similar to the Pistons in previous years.

However, they are not as rigid as the Pistons of previous years.

In this lineup, Manning plays the third position on the offensive end and has no clear position on the defensive end. He can guard anyone except the opponent's point guard.

The Celtics' experience in cultivating Sampson and the way Louis cultivated Ewing gave the Pacers a lot of inspiration.

Pacers executive Donnie Walsh did not hesitate to trade superstar nanny Oakley from the Knicks, and invited a young coach to ask for no restrictions on Manning's positioning on the court.

This arrangement instead activated Manning's position-ambiguous attributes. In addition, he was lucky enough to avoid injuries in the first few years of his career and successfully gained weight. He was a model based on Ralph Sampson, but the model was not that big.

Little Sampson is ready to come out.

Although the Heat have Brian Shaw, Willie Anderson, Vernon Maxwell, Maurice Cheeks, Gathers, Petrovic, and B.J. Armstrong, having many players who can play does not mean that.

People will have the effect of 1+1>2.

No other coach has ever succeeded in a long-rotation model like Louis's.

The Heat played five full games with the Pacers when Gathers had mental problems.

Game 5 of the series was completely dominated by Manning.

Manning played 48 minutes in five consecutive games and in five games, he scored an incredible 37 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals and 4 blocks. The offensive hot zone spread from the penalty area to beyond the three-point line at the top of the arc.

He followed Sampson's approach to the skill tree.

Louis watched the live broadcast of this game and was impressed by Manning's performance.

He remembered what Ralph Sampson's wish was back then. He wanted to change the sport of basketball and blaze a trail that no one had traveled.

Today, has he come out?

At least, his success has guided younger generations like Manning.

If the whole thing is to be traced back, Louis seems to be the source of it all.

It was he who persuaded Sampson to participate in the draft early, which changed everything in the 1980 offseason, which in turn affected the pattern of the 1980s and changed the fate of many players.

Unlike the Tragedian, Manning was exposed to a positive butterfly effect.

From the beginning of his career, to his development template, and now to where he is now, he, like Sampson, has already made his own path.

3 to 2

The Heat, rebuilt by Louis, made the playoffs in their second year, but were eliminated by the Pacers in the first round.

Is this considered a failure?

Of course not, they are just getting started.

After the Heat were eliminated, less than an hour later, Lewis Shafir's phone call came to Louis' home, criticizing Charles Oakley: "Coach Lu, that Oakley has caused us so much misery! He is simply a bastard.

The thugs are burning, killing and looting inside, but we can't do anything to them!"

"So you should know the next direction of reinforcements, right?" Louis asked calmly.

Shafir said matter-of-factly: "It's an inside job! Even if Hank is healthy, he is not a full-sized inside man. It would be really uncomfortable in the playoffs without an inside man."

"So, Coach Lu, do you have any recommendations for this year?"

"goodbye."

Louis hung up the phone. Even though he enjoyed participating in the Heat's rebuilding process, Shafir's virtue always made him feel like he was being treated as an ATM for green tea.

Louis rubbed his cheek, and then he had to concentrate on dealing with the Pacers in the semifinals.

Danny Manning seems to be the exact same mold as Sampson. I wonder if his performance after being discovered by Ewing will arouse Mr. You's fond memories of being beaten unconscious by Sampson? Why?

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