The rest is just noise

The Blazers gave up on hard-core basketball.

However, giving up is not the right word.

It should be a replacement. They replaced the system with a system that is more suitable than the iron-blooded defense.

This choice is based on reality. If we keep the original style of play, there will definitely be people who are not accustomed to it.

Therefore, the Blazers are different from the substitutes. They do not regard defense as the most important thing, as long as they try their best.

For Barkley, this was liberating.

If he continues to defend like a mad dog every night like he did last season, he will be exhausted.

Likewise, this incident is also a relief for veteran Larry Nance. He is more accustomed to a slow defensive pace. The Blazers' pace was too strong last season.

They don't need to pursue guarding their opponents every possession like they did last season.

Instead, you only need to defend your opponent for part of the round, and then use an unstoppable attack to defeat the entire league.

Wait until their offensive attack destroys the defense of other teams, and then set up the Verdun defense line to harvest.

The offensive and defensive logic is very simple, and the effect is as it is now, beating the entire league.

However, the Knicks are different from other opponents the Trail Blazers have encountered.

If the defensive configuration is not right, let alone guarding them, even guarding them in some rounds is a luxury.

As long as the Knicks feel online and the Blazers' five-man strategy remains unchanged, they won't be able to defend against them.

Sabonis' tiger-like posture looked scary, but Rauf and Ewing's various jump shots outside the paint area that ignored his presence also gave the Blazers inspiration.

After being beaten to a 14-8 start, the Trail Blazers requested a timeout.

"Xiao Yu, please replace Patrick."

Louis rotates ahead of schedule.

"Patrick, I want to speed up the pace of the game. You are not suitable for being on the court."

Ewing had a question: "Is Harold better suited to playing fast-paced games than me?"

"Of course he is not more suitable than you, but he is a substitute and you are our core." Louis explained patiently, "I don't want you to consume too much in the fast-paced game."

Ewing nodded: "I understand."

The Trail Blazers made the same substitution decision as the Knicks.

But what they replaced was not Sabonis, who seemed to have been regarded as a weakness, but Barkley, who missed one game per game.

Although Barkley is still in his prime, if he plays the third position, his movement speed on the defensive end will be a big problem. Coupled with his inherent problem of missing people, when he encounters the Knicks' N.UCLA system, after a few rounds,

It was the mine bombing of the toilet that aroused public outrage.

Fans like Barkley, but they don't like his attitude of doing nothing and not caring about the game.

In fact, Barkley doesn't care about the game, he just doesn't know how to defend.

Even if he knows it, he only knows it with his brain, not his hands and feet.

Just like many teaching videos on the Internet, you seem to have learned it after watching it once, but when you get to the practical stage, you find that you are still far behind.

The Trail Blazers are very particular about their substitutions.

They traded Clifford Robinson for Barkley.

An athletic swing forward nearly 2.10 meters tall replaced Barkley.

As a result, the Blazers' frontcourt lineup has a clear advantage in height.

Moreover, Clifford's assist defense and switching defense are at the top level in the league, and it is the most suitable to use against the Knicks' N.UCLA system.

Louis didn't think it was a good move to let Clifford play.

This person really made a splash in last season's finals and proved his infinite value as a two-way swing forward, but now, what the Trail Blazers need is a forward who can not slow down the rhythm during the rotation.

Clifford is good at everything, but he is too tall.

With a height of nearly 2.10 meters, even if he can keep up with the rotation, he can easily be outnumbered.

The result was unexpected. Although Clifford was very tall, he was extremely fast.

Due to his fast speed, height and long arms, he is extremely effective when switching defenses.

His performance reminded Louie of John Salley in his own team.

The comparison between Sabonis and Gobert can also be applied to these two people.

Clifford, Nance and Jordan together gave the Blazers the confidence to switch defenses indefinitely.

This is also one of Laili's innovations.

Unlimited defense switching. Before the strong rise of the Warriors, the NBA rarely switched defenses. Because in a popular sense, switching defenses means outputting the minimum defensive intensity at the expense of defensive quality.

But the Warriors' small ball changed everything.

Facing the peak Warriors, two teams came up with ways to dismantle small balls in 2016. One was the Spurs. When the two teams met for the second time that season, Popovich boldly ordered the team to use unlimited switching defenses, which will

The Warriors, who averaged 114 points per game this season, were limited to only 79 points in a single game and won the game; the other team was the Cavaliers in the Finals. The brainless ball-handler guided by tactician Lu Lu made Curry's fans more enthusiastic.

The fans gnashed their teeth, but this did limit the unanimous MVP, and then defeated the 73-win Warriors when the right place and the right people came together.

The birth of unlimited defense changes requires soil.

What is soil?

This is when a team that relies heavily on pick-and-rolls and screens must be invincible.

Whoever comes up with this method must have clear ideas, a calm mind, forward-thinking knowledge, and the corresponding team configuration.

The Knicks' N.UCLA system is based on the UCLA system. After years of evolution, it has found its own way.

Even, in the outside world, the N.UCLA system is called the "L.NYK" system.

Because the name N.UCLA has never jumped out of the ranks of "UCLA", but New York and UCLA can't compete with each other, so why bother to add glory to their faces? Therefore, the New York media, which strives to be the first in everything, calls the Knicks' system "L.NYK"

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The overbearing New York media thinks it has this right.

Just like they did not allow foreign media to call Louis "Little Lou", this kind of fanatical admiration for the team and the individual gradually transferred from the critics to the fan circle.

Back to the topic, the emergence of unlimited defense requires the right team, the right people, and the right time.

The Knicks have the foundation to trigger the birth of unlimited switching defenses. Their main rival, the Trail Blazers, has a visionary coach who has the most luxurious wing group in basketball history.

All this laid the foundation for him to stand on Louis' shoulders and implement his own defensive philosophy.

Moreover, although the main defensive players in the Trail Blazers' lineup are Jordan, Clifford and Nance, Thomas will also be involved.

Only Sabonis will stay away from switching defenses.

Jordan's defensive aggressiveness, Clifford's movement speed and defensive area, coupled with Nance's gap-filling sweep, the Trail Blazers caused trouble for the Knicks' tactical operations.

Mohammad Rauf's form has declined to a certain extent.

Louis could tell it was time for a replacement.

He hopes that Rauf will break out like he did in Game 5 of last season's finals, but this wish is unrealistic.

Under the absolute close pressure, even his ultimate enhanced version of Golden State LaVine will be prevented from finding the basket. And he is in the most unfriendly era for ball handlers, plus the Trail Blazers' wing group.

Due to his defensive influence, it is normal for him to be unable to find his rhythm.

During this period, although the Trail Blazers lost points, they suppressed the Knicks on the field.

Laili suppressed Louis's tactical intention of speeding up the game and used beautiful unlimited defense changes to force the Knicks to execute a large number of individual singles.

This is just the effect obtained by replacing one Barkley. If the five people on the field were replaced by the legendary Verdun Defense Line, I can't imagine what it would look like.

Louis is in awe of the Blazers' defensive power, but this is just the Blazers normalizing their performance in the Finals.

Compared with last year's finals, they have been working together for more than half a season, so it is natural for them to make progress.

With 4 minutes left in the first quarter, Louis replaced Rauf and Wilson, which was a normal rotation, and replaced him with Stockton and Reggie Williams.

The Trail Blazers have also changed.

Larry decided to give the Knicks a punch.

He replaced Thomas, Jordan, Nance, and Sabonis.

Of the original five, only Clifford was retained, and then Alvin Robertson, Jerome Cosey, Anthony Mason, and Xavier McDaniel were replaced.

"The fans at Memorial Stadium were on their feet with excitement!"

"With 4 minutes left in the first quarter, they had the 'meat grinder moment' they had been waiting for!"

The pioneers' murderous press was dubbed the "Verdun Line" by Laili, and the name was taken from the "Battle of Verdun". The Battle of Verdun was also called the Verdun Meat Grinder. So the Trail Blazers placed

The time when this lineup came on the field to slaughter the opponent's second team was called the "meat grinder moment" by fans.

It seems that they are still a little conservative.

If you really decide to beat the Knicks to death, you should keep Jordan in this lineup.

Only by replacing Jerome Causey with Jordan can this lineup be full of strength on both offense and defense.

However, even this lineup is enough to beat all the invincible opponents in the league.

When such changes occurred, Louis had no idea of ​​temporarily adjusting his strategy.

It was a good opportunity to test their second lineup. He wanted to see if the Knicks' second lineup could withstand the Blazers' Verdun defense.

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