The Rest, Only Noise

Time entered 1987.

This is a year that makes Louis feel emotional.

If you don't care about the months, then today is the tenth year of his travel.

From 1977 to 1987, ten years have passed in a flash.

In the first month of the new year, the Knicks were scheduled for a six-game trip.

The first away game for the six consecutive guests is Salt Lake City, Utah.

The opponent is the Jazz, another team influenced by Louie and whose future is unpredictable.

The current Jazz, which can be considered a strong team in the West, ranked fourth, and sent Adrian Dantley away in the summer to officially straighten Karl Malone, who has great potential.

It's just that there is a man named Stockton missing by his side, and a few more guys such as Vinier Johnson, Antoine Kyle, and Mark Price.

In terms of strength, Venier at this time and Price in the past few years are not inferior to Stockton. For Price alone, he was probably stronger than Stockton in his prime.

But they're all probably a little bit worse than Stockton.

That is Evergreen.

What makes Stockton special is that he has maintained his competitive state at a high level for many years in a row, which is just in line with Malone, one of the oldest players in history.

It is because of the pairing of Stockton and Malone that the Jazz have been able to maintain their competitiveness for so many years, and even during the period of 1995-1999, they should have grown old, but they have become more competitive.

At noon, the Knicks entered the hotel.

Meetings, preparations, training, and a half day passed.

After sunset, prepare for the game in earnest.

Salt Palace / Salt Lake City Palace Stadium (SaltPace), the Knicks arrived at the scene an hour early to adapt to the venue.

The Salt Palace is as its name suggests, and the color scheme of the floor looks very "salty".

The staff of the arena has adopted a light yellow floor color scheme, so that every guest who comes here is like a NetEase cloud user who is depressed on time at 0:00 every day.

However, the fans here are full of passion.

Because the Jazz are the only professional sports team they have.

Even with poor results in previous years, their love for the team has not diminished.

This love culminated in the near loss of Jazz.

Former Jazz owner Sam Battiston, who had suffered financially over the past few years before Larry Miller took over, managed to keep the team in Salt Lake City.

Inside the league, there are many people who want the Jazz to relocate to Las Vegas. In fact, the Jazz played a lot of the regular season there in the years preceding Miller's arrival.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar famously scored from Mark Eaton's skyhook to surpass Wilt Chamberlain's scoring record in Las Vegas.

There is the Jazz's "second home."

No matter what, the Jazz stayed, and the fans loved them even more, no matter what the record, as long as they were there.

Louie moved to midfield and shook hands with Jazz coach and general manager Frank Ryden.

Two powerful men meet at midfield.

Louie was extra friendly: "I can already feel the warmth of Salt Lake City."

"We have a lot here that you don't know about!" There are many old-school coaches who don't like Louie, and there are many coaches who have a good personal relationship with Louie.

Ryden is one of them, and he's an interesting guy.

But Layden is also an old-fashioned coach in Louie's impression. He not only regards himself as a coach, but also as a parent.

His coaching philosophy is not to make players a great athlete, but to make them a good person.

Just after Karl Malone came to the Jazz, he has never **** an underage girl again, and at most molested the wife of a young teammate in the future, which fully proves that his work is fruitful.

Back on the court, tonight is another Dale Ellis truce night.

He can't fight because of the Cleveland lawsuit.

Jazz's starting lineup is Vinier Johnson, Bob Hansen (BobHansenSG), Darrell Griffith, Karl Malone, Mark Eaton.

The Jazz also have some obvious problems with their roster.

They start without a small forward, similar to the Celtics when Bird was out, and start at three guards on the perimeter.

Louie has a stress disorder every time he sees a back three.

That's right, the 2019 World Cup memories are back again.

Against this lineup of the Jazz, Louie is very relaxed, and the Knicks start with Stockton, Wilson, Tyrone Corbin, McHale, and Ewing.

On the jump ball, Eaton made Ewing look like a junior.

There was a problem with the Jazz's offense, and the ball could not be passed to the key players.

Griffith did not open up the space, Venier wanted to give the ball to Malone, but the pass missed.

The Knicks stole the ball and fought back.

Wilson dunks.

2 to 0

"Dr. Dunk" Griffith's dry-pull three-pointer hit the iron.

Louie was a witness to Griffith's ascent to the top of college and then struggling for years in Utah, where he took on a load that was too early for him to handle.

Playing and playing, the spirituality of the college years disappeared, and it became a mediocre scorer who dunked a few **** every game to please the fans and shot a few **** to score 20 points.

The ball hit hard, but the rebound rolled to the most crowded position.

Eaton threw off what might have been a 2.5-meter wingspan and took the ball.

Malone caught the offensive rebound and went straight to the basket. His explosive muscles looked extremely beautiful, and McHale's defense was not enough to resist him.

2 to 2

The Jazz have a lot of defensive features. They know that the Knicks system will have a lot of pick-and-rolls. Eaton's rim protection is the league's best, but his movement is short.

The pick-and-roll offense is a natural counter to this inflexible monster.

So the Jazz lay flat, pick and roll whatever you want, and Eaton's foot moved out of the box to count me as a loser.

They let Malone bluff in the high post, and it was very ineffective.

Wilson runs around ExgeRicky (high dynamic offense), tops the arc, and catches a 3-pointer.

"Shh!"

5 to 2

"Benj, don't patronize yourself." Louis reminded, "Pay attention to the position of your teammates."

Wilson nodded and quickly returned to defense.

The Jazz counterattacked extremely fast, and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to score points.

Griffith didn't look behind him and wanted to dunk when he came over with the ball.

That's what Louie said, the Jazz killed Griffith's aura, he was an extremely smart and aggressive offensive player in college.

Now, he only has aggression and no spirituality.

Griffith tried to ignite the scene with a dunk, but Ewing's return was faster.

His dunk was chased by Ewing.

The ball fell to the floor, was picked up by Stockton, and was thrown from the back to the front.

Wilson made another dunk and scored 7 points in a row.

7 to 2

Layden's Malone is very personal in attack.

There is no comfortable pick-and-roll system, and even if there is, Vinier and Griffith are not the players who can play the pick-and-roll.

Malone shook the ball and made an emergency stop.

This kind of shot has a high degree of difficulty and is difficult to hit.

Stockton fed the ball to Corbin this time.

There was no defense in front, and Corbin also played a fast-break dunk.

9 to 2

Leiden reluctantly requested a timeout and replaced Venier. He failed to meet the requirements and the offense was in a mess.

Replacing Venier was Mark Price.

The Knicks lineup remains unchanged.

Price averaged 20 minutes per game for the Jazz, but he didn't show a good enough level. His shooting percentage was only 40%. He was still getting used to it, but his assist numbers were outstanding, averaging 5 assists per game.

Unlike Vinier's point guard, mind guard, and body guard, Price is a natural playmaker.

He gave Griffith a good pass.

Griffith dribbled the ball to the basket, dodging Ewing's block and scoring.

4 to 9

That one exchange for Vinier wouldn't have made such an appropriate pass.

The same pass, changing the pass is very different.

The Knicks let McHale make a dislocation with 2HighRip.

But the dislocation caused this time is very general. Originally, the match against Malone was good. After running the tactics, it was Eaton who was not in the penalty area at all.

McHale hit Eaton, will it work?

Louie was thinking about it, McHale passed the ball.

He threw the ball to Ewing at the basket, but Eaton turned and stood up and capped Ewing.

Ewing recovered the ball himself and attacked again.

This time, Eaton jumped and blocked for the second time.

Ewing grabbed another offensive rebound, and Eaton completely posted it. Ewing, who had been capped twice, had his IQ cleared, and he was only thinking about what to do with Eaton.

He was thinking about it when he heard a whistle.

24 seconds offensive violation!

"What's this?" Tomjanovich said speechlessly.

Louie sneered loudly: "It's just like this, I'm so sick of God! Why didn't John Thompson take him for four years and didn't teach him to look at the watch?"

Ewing defended dissatisfiedly: "I didn't watch when I played before!"

"You're still making excuses? Several shots in a row were blocked by the opponent, don't you know you're running out of time? You're still thinking about life with your back on the defense!" Ewing was extremely angry with Louie's mental attack.

Just in time, the Jazz's ball hit Eaton's hands.

Just now, he performed a standing hat.

This time, he made another terrible stand.

Ewing couldn't stand up because of his pressure, and it was hard to resist.

The Jazz gradually recovered, but Ewing knew that Louie was unhappy with him.

He looked at Louis's position, and found that the other party had a mocking expression on his face, shaking his head in hatred ~www.novelmt.com~ as if he had become a parallel importer who disappointed everyone.

Ewing yelled.

"Give me the ball!"

When some people are angry, the combat value is increased, Ewing is not included.

Instead of running tactics, he chose to back Eaton.

This scene made Louis stunned.

It's like Zhou Qi was knocked out of consciousness by Haddadi in 2016. In a certain round, he was in a low position and wanted to use his weight that had dropped to 94KG to back and beat Haddadi, who was at least 125KG. What is that?

As expected, Ewing took the hat again.

⑴ If you think O'Neal's appearance of blasting Mutombo is very cruel, and in that round of series, Zhou Qi was much worse in front of Haddadi. Haddadi's stats of 30+20 per game, playing Zhou Qi is a back-play, hitting the basket and shooting casually, grabbing offensive rebounds if he doesn't get in, and dunking in front of Zhou Qi (several times in a row). I can imagine that the worse thing than this is to let Zhou Qi in that state go to O'Neal...