The Rest, Only Noise

Even with the same amount of vacation time, and all teams well-recovered during the All-Star break, the Knicks looked to be the team with the best recuperation.

They welcomed back a few fighters.

Sam Bowie looks good, and Reggie Williams has incredible energy and versatility on the wing.

He is like Bowie on the flank. He clearly has the strength to start, but he is forced to compete with others on the bench where the Knicks are gathered.

Wilson is an unshakable starting No. 3, Miller is an unshakable starting No. 2, and Williams can play two guard positions and small forward in college. Therefore, Louie does not fix him at No. 3. position. He can play the 2, he can play the 1, he can play the 3 whenever the team needs it.

The health of Bowie and Williams is why the Knicks look unbeatable.

In the eight games after the All-Star break, the Knicks averaged 126 points and held their opponents to 91. .

A 35-point margin per game.

Among these eight corpses, there are many strong teams.

The Pistons were guarded to only 101 points, and the Heat were even worse, with 80 points in the audience and 42 points from being abused.

So much so that Lewis Shafir called Louie to complain that the Knicks were too ruthless.

Louis is also helpless. Sometimes, it is not his subjective idea to slaughter the opposing team.

He just wants to win, and he wants to win pretty.

But the Knicks' bench is too thick.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Knicks' bench can pull out a set of starters for a playoff team.

This caused the game to hit garbage time, and both sides replaced the main force, but the opponent's bench quality couldn't compare with the Knicks, so they were beaten.

It's impossible to narrow the score, the substitutes will only beat the underdogs.

Can Louie stop them? Of course not, people are just playing the game well.

The team trying to stop the Knicks' winning streak emerged in early March.

They are the Boston Celtics ranked second in the East.

Under the current situation, the Celtics can no longer come to the Knicks with the absolute king attitude as they did two years ago.

On the one hand, they are getting older, and on the other hand, the Knicks are getting stronger.

The status of superior and challenger has been changed for two years.

But here in Bird, nothing seems to have changed.

He took a year to cultivate his back, and at the age of 34, he played the second spring of his career, just like Kobe in the 2012-13 season.

Tonight, the Celtics' style of play was clear.

Bird is the main attack, Isaiah Thomas variation, Sampson has not much chance to dominate the ball.

But this is because of the Celtics' tactical position. Jimmy Rodgers is working on it. He doesn't know what the reason is. He thinks that Ewing's position in the Knicks is very suitable for Sampson.

Because Sampson was in that position when he played under Louie.

However, what is the biggest difference between Sampson and Ewing?

For one, Sampson joined the league early, giving Louie time to correct his small but far-reaching ailments.

So when he took off in 1984 and used it as a springboard, he took a big step forward every year and gradually grew into the most perfect big man ever.

This kind of growth path is what Ewing lacks.

Second, no matter how you look at it, Sampson has the basic skills as a defender, the spirituality of playing, and the threat of holding the ball, which Ewing does not have.

Third, all the progress Ewing has made since his debut was within Louis' expectations.

The evolution of Sampson after 1984 was unexpected by Louis.

If Louie remains with the Celtics, Sampson's positioning will also change.

Rogers saw only the grass and trees but not the forest, and foolishly positioned Sampson as a pie-eating machine + a Greek monster-style rotating machine.

The latter is understandable, after all, Sampson's rush is really hard to stop; he will use his stride advantage, coupled with the European step and turning skills, to subtly bypass the defense and score.

In the former case...using Sampson, who is so versatile, as Capela is like coaching the Heat when James had to let him play off the ball.

It can be used like this, but you are too **** wasteful, right?

Rodgers' waste on Sampson makes the scalp tingling, but the only gentleman is the only gentleman after all, and he is still the unique insider. Even as an insider with blue-collar attributes, his influence on the court is still the strongest in the game.

When Louie called the first timeout, the Celtics scored 14 points, and Sampson scored 8 points by eating cakes and counterattacks. Among them, three conversion points and three rotation goals were all dunks. In the face of McHale's dislocation advantage, Bird sent a three-point assist.

Most importantly, none of these scoring related to him was caused by him facing Ewing.

"You're saying, Jimmy Rogers did this on purpose to keep Ralph out of the fight with Patrick to reduce his consumption, or did he really think it would be better for them to take the ball away from Ralph? "

Louie asked the teaching assistants suspiciously.

If it is the former, then he really has to give Rogers a thumbs up, high, this wave is in the atmosphere.

"It's not impossible." Tomjanovich's answer was typical fart, saying the same thing as not saying it.

Zhao Yuanzheng didn't have as much scruples as Tomjanovich, and said bluntly: "He shouldn't be so far-sighted."

"Yes, not just for our games. According to my observation, when the Celtics face other teams' games, Ralph only completes the offense as a finishing point, and rarely leads the offense and drives his teammates." Billy Doe "Also, Ralph has been averaging over 26 points per game for the past few years, and it's down to 22 this year, which fits his current tactical position." this step."

The Celtics started like this, which the Knicks' coaching staff did not expect.

Sampson is undoubtedly the number one hard power player in the league today. His influence on both ends of the offense and defense is endless. Even if he loses the ball, relying on defense + rotation counterattack + offense to eat cake, the threat is unbelievable.

Once you rush him, it's suicide like those teams in the small-ball era let the Greek monster rush at will.

Sampson has the destructive power of a Greek monster, and the Knicks can't stand it if he is left to charge.

This person is terrible. Even if this role position can only exert about 20%-30% of his offensive potential, the threat it can bring still makes Louis call two timeouts for him to adjust the deployment. .

Louie's first suspension required to compress the penalty area space at the expense of emptying the Celtics' perimeter and not give Sampson a chance to toss.

In the first quarter, the Celtics shot 40 percent from the outside.

And, Sampson's rotation is still unstoppable.

So in the middle of the second quarter, Louis specifically called a timeout, asking the players to retreat more quickly to prevent the Green Army from fighting back.

For Sampson and the Celtics, the counterattack is like the steel blade on the handle of a knife. Once it is charged, it is invincible, but as long as the steel blade is removed, this style of play will be in trouble.

The shrinking of the positional warfare, no matter what the Celtics cast on the outside, will squeeze Sampson's space for activities;

Speed ​​up the defense after shooting, and ensure that there are 3-4 people in the backcourt to slow down Sampson to prevent being penetrated by the Celtics counterattack.

With such a systematic defense, even Sampson can't do anything about it.

Such is the dilemma of not having the ball, Sampson could have done more and Rodgers only wanted him to play a part.

Because getting the Knicks to drop the perimeter defense is exactly what he wants to see.

In order to limit Sampson to speed up the retreat and give up the fight for offensive rebounds, it is also what Rodgers wants to see.

Coach Lu is now regarded as "a child is not a fish, the joy of knowing the fish".

Rogers believed that he used Sampson as a **** to achieve strategic intentions, while Louis believed that these strategic intentions he had achieved were not as influential as abolishing Sampson's tactical position.

What is strange is that the Celtics at the beginning of the season were still centered on Sampson and Bird, and the marginalized person was Thomas. How come Thomas and Bird have now become the core and marginalized the theory? Sampson, who should least be marginalized?

"It seems to be the result of their internal struggle," Tomjanovich said.

"Internal struggle?"

Louie's eyes lit up, and he looked at Tomjanovich gossip.

"I just heard..." Tomjanovich explained uncertainly, "Isiah made a lot of 'efforts', from complaining privately to complaining publicly, to applying for a deal, pressure from the brokerage team , and then to the pressure from the fans..."

"Fans pressure?"

Louie said in surprise: "I have no fans in Boston, but he has fans instead?"

"It's the '90s, Louie." Tomjanovich laughs ~www.novelmt.com~ The bus generation' has grown up and they don't care about skin color as much as the previous generation, Isiah in the late 80s His contribution to Boston has won the support of many fans. "

It is difficult to face the changes in the realm when you are outside the realm.

Boston's notoriety for racism remains, but the fan carrier has changed.

Maybe Isiah Thomas still got what he wanted in the end.

"After Isiah's attack, Boston had several internal meetings, and in the end it was Jimmy Rodgers who decided to change the tactical system, and Ralph sacrificed his possession in exchange for the current situation." Tomjanovich is amazing. Said, "It is said that Ralph has no regrets about it, because Isiah has sacrificed enough."

After a long time, Louis said, "It's a touching story."

"Is it touching?"

"Well," Louie looked at the court complexly, "I'm proud of Ralph."

(1) The lower limit of the insider eating cake is high (the score is fast and stable), and the upper limit is low (there are only so many cakes, it is impossible to feed them all).