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Chapter 925 He is not benj

"John, you replace Dennis."

Louie called out John Salley.

Selly stood up in response.

Looking at his figure, he is really too thin.

In the past, Louis used him as the center of the pressing team, but now he has doubts about even using him as a backup power forward.

Before taking the field, Selly asked: "Coach, what attitude should we take towards this game?"

"A regular season that attracted a lot of attention, what do you think?" Louis asked.

"I understand." Saili said, "I will try my best."

Louis is worried about Selly's health, but not his performance.

Selly is a typical smiling tiger.

Within the Knicks, there are three media darlings.

They are benj, Rodman and Selley respectively.

Needless to say, Wilson is the basketball god of New York.

Needless to say, Rodman, in every Knicks game, predicting Rodman's hair color is a repertoire of fans.

Wilson was popular because of his strength, and Rodman was fascinated by his equally strong strength and various unconventional actions. His love affair with Madonna reached the peak of his fame.

Only Selly, he became famous little by little.

From the team's substitute to becoming one of the Knicks' most prominent faces, only he knows how much he has sacrificed.

Louis' biggest worry about him is also here.

The NBA job is not his only job. If he wanted to transform into a media person, he would be better off than he is now.

Apparently he has this tendency.

Louis believes that he still has potential for development on the court, but he himself seems to have lost his ambition.

After that, the Blazers made two free throws.

Thomas made both free throws, and the Blazers still had the ball.

Mohamed Raouf continued to stimulate Thomas, he was like a daredevil who didn't know what a red line was.

Thomas forced a breakthrough.

Caused Rauf's foul.

The Blazers took another sideline kick.

The enraged Thomas is terrifying. He still has the ability to tear apart any team's defense with the ball alone, but there are too many people in the Trail Blazers who need the ball, so he must suppress his desire.

But now, he is full of anger, who dares to ask for the ball at this time?

He is here to hold the thigh, but he himself is also a thigh, just like Harden during the Nets era.

What's more, as the only person in this team who has the experience of winning championships as a core player, he can be said to be the spiritual leader of this team.

If a spiritual leader is insulted by a deviant black ***, shouldn't others support him?

That's what the Trail Blazers did.

Louis' specially designed defense for Thomas - double-teaming on the outside, calling the pick-and-roll and directly switching defenses. Judging from the effect, it was not good.

In several attacks, Thomas either scored or caused a foul. He rarely made forced errors, and he never missed a shot under high-pressure defense.

He is too mature and will pass the ball whenever he feels uncomfortable being defended.

Therefore, halfway through the second quarter, Louis called another timeout.

During the timeout, substitutions were made first, Stockton replaced Rauf, Kemp replaced Selly, and Miller replaced Reggie Williams.

Then, he saw the change in the other party.

Riley waved his hand, preparing to challenge the Knicks.

This means that the Trail Blazers will use a murderous press comparable to the Knicks at their peak.

The Blazers copied the game thoroughly. Their murderous press consisted of five wing players with outstanding athletic ability and fierce defense.

They are Jordan, McDaniel, Cosey, Clifford Robinson and Anthony Mason.

The most incredible thing is that Riley even copied the concept of letting core players lead the defense.

The centerpiece of the Knicks' murderous tight end is Wilson.

The trailblazer is Jordan.

For the Knicks, due to Selley's degradation, Rodman's poor attendance and frequent accidents due to emotional outbursts, they have rarely used murderous presses.

Murderous press was originally synonymous with the Knicks, but now it has become the trump card of the Trail Blazers.

According to statistics, the Trail Blazers use the murder press for an average of 12 minutes per game, and the average score-loss ratio of the murder press per game is 17 to 6.

This is a defensive system that can help them steadily build an 11-point advantage.

Riley is a man who cares about face. He clearly knows that this strategy was copied from the Knicks, but he will not admit it in front of the media.

He'll talk about how their murderous press is different from the Knicks from a tactical standpoint.

Moreover, the Knicks call their full-court press the Murder Press, and the Trail Blazers call their full-court press the Verdun Line.

Even the names are different.

"We have tested the intensity of their full-court press in the finals." Louis has long heard about the bad reputation of Verdun's defense.

He believes that this kind of oppressive full-court press may become more powerful due to the improvement of players' tacit understanding and the increase in routines, but there is a limit to intensity.

Their intensity cannot exceed the fourth quarter of Game 7 of last season's Finals.

After the game started, the defense of Jordan and Cauchy caused a lot of trouble for the Knicks.

It's really cruel.

Every time the Knicks tried to dribble past half court, they had to peel off their skin.

Stockton was knocked to the ground several times, but his basic skills of controlling movement and passing were so good that the Blazers alone couldn't force him to death, and two people couldn't stop him from passing the ball.

The most taboo thing about a murderous press is to allow the opponent to pass the ball smoothly.

Because if the ball can be passed freely, no matter how athletic the players of the murderous press are, they will not be able to prevent them from bringing the ball upfield.

The full-court press itself is an all-or-nothing tactic.

The opponent must be locked in the backcourt.

Judging from this game, the Trail Blazers' Verdun defense is not yet indestructible.

Once the normal defensive strength is unreliable, they have to fight hard.

A fierce confrontation will inevitably involve many unnecessary actions.

However, the referee's standards were not good for them.

It can be said that Jack Niss was blowing the whistle. He did not give the Blazers a chance to increase their intensity. Whenever he felt that the action was too big, he would blow the whistle.

After Wilson sensed the hint, he turned into a porcelain king, held the ball and rushed towards the opponent.

Nice's whistle really cooperated and sounded continuously.

In less than five minutes, the Trail Blazers committed 13 fouls and gave the Knicks multiple free throw opportunities.

Although most of the Knicks' scoring came from free throws, it also made the Blazers' Verdun defense meaningless.

If the referees continue to maintain this defensive standard, no matter how strong their defense is, it will be useless.

The referee didn't give him a chance to perform, so Riley could only call a timeout to adjust.

For the remaining few minutes of the first half, the two sides faced off normally.

Without the restraints of a full-court press, Jordan unleashed all his firepower and attacked one point (Miller).

The Blazers' offensive firepower is superior to the Knicks.

Especially when three-pointers are no longer Jordan's weakness. Facing the monster who averaged 40 points per game in the Finals against the Knicks, he is like Mike Kay who opened nine goals and never died. He has become a hero on the court.

bug.

At halftime, Jordan led the Trail Blazers into the second half with a 7-point lead.

"Coach Lu, do you think there is a strength gap between you and Portland after this half?"

Louis replied humorously: "If this game was over, I would tell you that there is a 7-point gap between us and Portland. But now it is only the first half, so I would say, good show

At the back."

When entering the player tunnel, Zhao Yuanzheng provided a counter-logical method to defend Jordan: "Old way, maybe we can let Jordan's right hand go."

Louis stopped and touched his forehead to see if he had a fever.

"Yuanzheng, are you okay?"

"Lao Lu, I'm fine, I'm serious."

Well……

Put Jordan's right hand?

This is like letting Curry go around the perimeter all day long; it's like Kobe Bryant getting red-handed, but the Raptors continue to insist that gentlemen only fight one-on-one; it's like O'Neal hitting Zhou Qi from behind, and Li Ran thinks it's not a big problem, Zhou Qi can handle it.

Isn't this a joke?

What is the dominant hand of the top five breakthrough players in NBA history?

"Tell me what you think." Louis fully respects his subordinate's whims, even if it sounds like the protagonist of a horror movie who likes to explore haunted houses - he is tired of living.

Zhao Yuanzheng said calmly: "The Trail Blazers are now full of stars. Their biggest problem is that they need to distribute the ball rights reasonably. Obviously, no team can reasonably distribute the ball rights to MJ, Charles, Isiah and Lithuania.

Someone has to make a sacrifice."

"Go on."

"Charles is inside and the ball is not in his hands, so the person who can distribute the ball is MJ. The stability of the Trail Blazers depends largely on whether he is selfless enough. If he is unwilling to give up a large amount of the ball,

There will be problems within the Blazers - this is why we want to let him attack with his right hand. We want him to forget his teammates, we want to let his true nature be exposed. He is not Larry, not a tragedy maker, he is a

Selfish player."

At first, Louis really didn't take Zhao Yuanzheng's suggestion seriously.

Now he couldn't help but think seriously about Zhao Yuanzheng's suggestion.

People's hearts are very complicated, and he believes that Jordan is willing to give up some things - such as the scoring title and some ball rights - in order to let Thomas and others integrate into the team.

The scoring champion can be given up, because no scoring champion in history has ever led a team to win the championship. Although Jordan wanted to be the only one, the strength of the Knicks made him recognize the reality.

So he is willing to give up the scoring title, but is he also willing to give up the ball? Even if he is willing, how many ball rights is he willing to give up?

This thing is worth a try.

"Wrong, expedition." Louis smiled excitedly.

Zhao Yuanzheng asked hesitantly: "Wrong?"

"Your plan is right, but your metaphor is wrong. The redneck may be selfless, but he is an arrogant bastard. Is Ervin selfless? I don't think he could do more if he were put in Mickey's position."

OK. Neither metaphor is appropriate."

"So what metaphor is appropriate?"

Louis is like a parent who is proud of his child: "He's not Benj."

For Louis, the metaphor was not only appropriate, but also satisfied his pride in how well Wilson had grown.

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