The Rest, Only Noise

The Knicks' semifinal opponent only had them wait two days to be determined.

No surprise, the Milwaukee Bucks are fourth in the East.

They've been an Eastern Conference powerhouse since 1980.

It's just because they happened to meet the Celtics in their prime. Once in a while, they eliminated the self-destructing Green Army. They originally wanted to touch the Lakers in the finals and have a game with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In front of you, you think I have a reunion like the old days, but I happened to meet the 1983 Destiny Team "FoFofo" 76ers.

In all fairness, that year was the most promising year for the Bucks in the '80s.

They're also the only team to beat the Sixers in the playoffs.

However, just winning one game is not enough.

Now, in 1987, Nelson and the high-level people are at odds with each other, and it is basically determined that he will leave after the season. Unless he can win the championship, this is an inevitable thing.

Louis attaches great importance to a team that has been winning at least 68 percent of the time since 1980.

The Bucks are not weak in the inside line. Jack Sikma was traded in the offseason, coupled with the already existing Terry Cummings, there are strong players at the 4th and 5th positions.

Their biggest concern is Sidney Moncrief's injury.

As the most offensive and defensive guard in the 1980s before Jordan, Moncrief was the key reason why the Bucks were strong, but he suffered an injury in the regular season and only played in 39 games, averaging 11.8 points in 25 minutes per game. , 3.3 rebounds and 3.1 assists, the data set a career low record.

On the wing line, the Bucks' players are also good enough.

Ricky Pierce and Paul Price are enough to be a threat to any team.

May 5, 1987, New York, Madison Square Garden

After many days of truce, the semi-finals kicked off.

At the beginning of the game, the two sides were normal matchpoints.

The Bucks started with Hickma, Cummings, John Lucas II (John Lukas IPG), Moncrief and Price.

On the Knicks side, untouched.

Judging from the record of the regular season, the Bucks have a psychological advantage.

But the playoffs are different.

As soon as Louis came up, he grabbed the Bucks' counterpoint defect and launched a fierce attack.

Ewing played very tough against Shikma, and every single defense made this master of post-attack shriveled.

At the same time, it also does a good job in assisting defense and rebounding protection.

Here's a picture of him all night.

It is also the positioning that Louis gave him since his rookie season.

Louie really cultivated him as Bill Russell, and Ewing gradually became an extremely fierce defensive end, with a large coverage area, strong aggression, and proficient in single defense, pinch attack, high-post defect detection and sweeping. All-powerful lock. Only Sampson and Olajuwon can break him in the matchup, but he can still exert his influence in the help defense.

Louie can safely say that a healthy Ewing has the league's highest ceiling on the defensive end.

His defensive performance this year is at the first defense level. Unfortunately, his competitor is Sampson, the unique "one and only Mr.". Unless Ewingen has the cheek to force the fourth position, he will most likely be the second defense.

In addition, Moncrief was on both ends of the offense and defense against Wilson. However, he didn't show aggression when he had a big matchup advantage. The impact of the injury on him is very obvious, and it stands to reason that he should give Wilson a lesson.

He occasionally has a couple of possessions to play nice offense.

The Bucks are a team that values ​​defense, but they weren't as strong today as they were in the regular season.

The Bucks have played two consecutive pick-and-rolls by Lucas and Cummings, and Moncrief, who should be most involved, has no sense of presence. Combined with his sluggish desire to impact the audience, perhaps his physical condition is indeed a key point in the series that cannot be ignored.

On the other end of the court, the Knicks' arrangement and pertinence are in place.

The Knicks' game principle is very clear. It can be seen from the opening few defenses. As long as the guard takes the ball and plays the pick-and-roll, he will be very resolute and attack, causing many forced mistakes by the Bucks, even if Lucas and Price. No cover is called yet, and there will be a lot of eyes on them too.

The Bucks are a team with very little space. Against this kind of team, Louie's goal has always been to ruthlessly use pockets to bully to death.

When it was the Knicks' turn to attack, Stockton called for a pick-and-roll, and the Bucks also asked the center or power forward to pick up and follow, and other points were also very afraid of Stockton's ball.

Stockton's defensive reading of the Bucks is spot on.

He can both attract defenses and know who to give the ball to.

Kevin McHale entered the game midway through the second quarter.

And he was the Bucks scoring leader Terry Cummings.

Cummings was also a promising player in his early years, but the subsequent development was not as expected. The old club was also uncompetitive. In the absence of results, they didn't want to keep him, so they traded him, and the Bucks were cheap. This was before the salary cap came out.

McHale's one-sided brutal slaughter of him shows his lack of confrontation.

Also, McHale didn't play at the rhythm he was used to when he started the offense.

There are a lot of dislocations, a lot of chance balls.

This is the characteristic of the system.

As long as the insider is smart, he won't have to worry about no bread to eat.

This McHale can go berserk, thanks to Stockton's sense of "dislocation", the Bucks dare not give him too much room to shoot, so McHale often appears in the basket with large and small dislocations, which makes him Easy to finish or get a rebound.

Occasionally, for a few possessions, the Bucks' interior defense is in place.

The defender standing in front of McHale is Cummings or Hickma.

Without waiting for the Bucks fans in front of the TV to breathe a sigh of relief, they admired how McHale devoured the defense of these two men with great skill.

this is the truth.

McHale likes to eat pancakes and play dislocations, but that's a tactical arrangement. If the Knicks' tactics don't work out and he needs to solve it one-on-one, he can easily eat any opponent who appears in front of him. .

Most of the time, looking at it is easier than eating a pie.

Tonight, McHale was having a blast. When several 2+1s were completed, he would wave his arms excitedly, show the fans his armpit hair, and scratch it with his hands.

It's disgusting to do that, but fans love seeing him like that.

If McHale doesn't feel disgusted, if fans don't feel disgusted, if even his teammates are used to it, then he can only disgust his opponent.

In this game, the Knicks are better prepared.

This is true on both ends of the offense and defense.

The Bucks looked like they were still alive in the regular season, they thought the Knicks were a team they could knead at will, but that wasn't the case.

McHale had an MVP-level performance, scoring 32 points and 15 rebounds~www.novelmt.com~ Stockton had 4 points, 5 rebounds and 20 assists. His passing today felt very good.

Ewing scored 20 points, 14 rebounds, 3 steals and 6 blocks. It can be said that he is the reason for the sluggishness of the Bucks' offense.

In Wilson's semifinal debut, he scored 18 points against a strong opponent like Moncrief, which is a good performance.

A total of five Knicks scored in double figures, while the Bucks opposite them only three scored in double figures.

The Bucks are a team that relies heavily on interior offense, with their leading scorer, Cummings. With Shikma, the No. 3 scorer, tonight's scores are all in single digits, which is the power of pocket formations.

Even if they received the ball in a good position, they had to face the Knicks' pinch, and then they were forced to pass the ball outside, and then their teammates couldn't grasp the open 3-pointer.

A fiasco made Don Nelson think a lot.

"The first game is just a test, and the good show is behind." Nielsen told reporters.