The Rest, Only Noise

Before the semifinals began, the Indiana were pessimistic.

Later, they learned that Patrick Ewing had injured his knee and could miss the semifinals.

Indiana's rekindled hope, Ewing's absence, maybe they can take full advantage of Danny Manning's point?

They were wrong, and even if Ewing was there, there were not many chances to match Manning.

Because Manning's positioning in the Pacers is not a center, but a wing swing.

He's more of a 3 on offense and a 4 on defense.

The Pacers cultivated Sampson in the same way the Celtics cultivated him. However, Sampson is 2.2 meters tall. Manning does not have this height. Therefore, the Knicks can safely let McHale and Rhodes. Man waits for the flanks to counter him.

McHale is a top-tier defensive power forward with an extremely fast defense, and Rodman is this year's DPOY favorite. .

These two, Manning, who is still in the developmental stage, struggled to fight either.

The Pacers lost the first game, and the reflected situation will affect the process after the semifinals.

The other groups of duels were slightly more intense.

The Celtics-Pistons game was still intense, although it was inevitable that it would end up being crushed like the Pacers-Knicks game.

The West is exciting, and Game 1 of the two semifinals hit the last minute.

The Lakers face the fourth-ranked Suns, then the third-ranked Blazers and the second-ranked Jazz.

Unlike the 1980s, in the early 1990s, the overall competitiveness of the western region was extremely strong.

Game2

There's not much the Pacers can do, because Dick Versace's job isn't to give the team a complete tactical system.

He was to Danny Manning what Louie was to Ralph Sampson in 1980-1983.

Responsible for guiding them to prevent them from going astray.

But Versace is not Louis, and he has no clear concept of Manning's complete body, and the latter is not a genius like Sampson.

So they'll go back and forth, expecting the players to create their own miracles.

In the Knicks, the Pacers exposed a major problem, is Manning himself.

Taking Sampson as the positioning, when he encounters Rodman dislocation defense, or McHale comes to high defense, he can't play with his body like Sampson, or simply use his height advantage to pull up and shoot. Done.

Manning doesn't have the physicality, so he's more reliant on the ball than Sampson.

If you want to hold the ball and attack inside, you must first ask yourself to be strong.

Manning's weight gain was a success, but it wasn't enough to break the Knicks' blockade.

For the foreseeable next few years, Manning's top priority will be to grow as much meat as possible without affecting his movement.

Otherwise, there will be more embarrassing encounters like tonight.

Knicks team statistics, Rodman defended Manning's 12 possessions, the latter shot 1-for-6.

It stands to reason that he, a modern insider who can play multiple positions, should have a physical advantage against a swinging wing like Rodman.

But he didn't, and Rodman's excellent defense deflated Manning.

The Knicks' perimeter guns, Wilson and Miller, still maintained the feeling of despair for the Indiana people.

At the end of the game, Wilson scored 41 points with 64%, Miller scored 12 three-pointers and scored 31 points.

The Gemini's score is already close to the Pacers' starting five.

In addition to the scores of others, it was another big victory without suspense.

After the game, Versace, regardless of whether his words would be offended by his old boss Billy Cunningham, trumpeted the Knicks game: "This team plays the best basketball I've ever seen. It's like "Little Ghosts" For kids, parents go on a trip and leave them at home, where they can eat ice cream and tease sloppy thieves. And for fans, watching this Knicks game is awesome lucky."

Versace took the initiative to talk about "Home Alone", which Louis did not expect.

Because the movie hasn't been released yet, but the creative team introduced the plot on many occasions and predicted that it would be the best Christmas movie ever made.

""Home Alone" is indeed a good movie, please look forward to it." Louis followed the promotion.

A day later, Ewing came to Louie and said that he would go away with the team.

"What are you going to do? Cheer on everyone? No need, just stay at home honestly."

Now with a 2-0 lead in hand, Louie is less angry when he sees Ewing.

Ewing deliberately moved his foot and said, "Actually, I'm almost better."

"Really, I don't believe it," said Louie jokingly, "unless you kick a cow to death in front of me."

"!￥!@%"

Ewing's mouth immediately burst out in Jamaican that no one could understand, and translated into English: "Who the **** can kick a cow to death!"

Louie's face was full of suspicion: "You can't even kick a cow to death, how dare you say your feet are healed?"

"You just don't want me back, do you?"

"That's right!" Louie had a terrifying smile on his face. "This is a punishment for disregarding the overall situation. Who hurt you? Did I approve your injury?"

Ewing has nothing to do with such unreasonable people.

"!￥!￥"

That last sentence in Jamaican is definitely a curse.

But Louis didn't take it seriously, and happily sent Ewing away, and went to prepare Game3 and Game4.

After the first two games, Louie can rest easy on any Eastern Conference team that isn't called the Celtics. When there is a clear gap in hard power, even if they let an Ewing, there is no suspense.

Game3, the Pacers back at home, there are two main adjustment directions.

The first is to get Manning back to where he was before.

So far in the semifinals, under the alternate care of McHale and Rodman, he has averaged only 16 points per game and shot 44%. For an all-rounder who claims to be able to play in any position, this is too much.

Second, it is still related to Manning, and the Pacers need to lighten his burden.

While their game is dominated by Manning, there are other good players on the team.

Blaylock has the qualifications of a star player, Oakley's hard power is already an average All-Star, and Horace Grant is a good power forward.

These three people can relieve Manning.

At the beginning of Game 3, when Oakley and Horace were on the court, the Pacers would deliberately point to him for post-ups, hand-to-hand passes, various screens, and transitional possessions.

On the defensive end, Manning's mobility was used to fill up and sweep, and then Oakley was asked to carry the opposing big center, and the other two protected the basket.

For the Pacers' random play, Louis kept his goal of blocking the inside line unchanged.

Because the crux of the Pacers and many of the teams that Louie chose to block inside is that they don't pose much of a threat on the perimeter.

Whenever the Pacers' perimeter is accurate, Louis will adjust his strategy. But from the beginning to the end, the Pacers' perimeter was not allowed, and the Knicks will start a tidal counterattack when they catch the backcourt board.

The more they can't make shots from the outside, the more the Knicks shrink, which makes it difficult for the Pacers' backline to make damage in the penalty area. It is even more unrealistic to want to feed the Oakleys. The Pacers opened 6 and a half minutes. Only 2 points, the opposite Knicks is 16 points.

The Knicks used the backcourt boards of Povey and McHale to drive the counterattack, and the wide-range passing after Wilson held the ball to attract the pinch in the positional battle allowed teammates to play more and less locally, widening the point difference to 20 points.

From the second quarter onwards, the Pacers put out a pocket formation in a desperate attempt to protect the restricted area like the Knicks to prevent the Knicks from blooming both inside and outside.

As a fake zone defense, the pocket array fears the same things as zone defense.

What are pocket formations and zone defenses afraid of? Fear of the opponent's three-point shot;

I'm also afraid that the opponent's ball handler will move to the weak side in a wide range after dribbling the ball, because the core concept of zone defense is to keep an eye on the ball.

So far in the series, the Knicks' outside three-pointer has cast a psychological shadow on the Pacers.

They still choose to do this because the coaching staff does not have a clear judgment on the situation.

Sadly, Louis made a special trip to call a timeout for this matter.

Instead of letting the player pass the ball and destroy the opponent's pocket formation with a three-pointer from the bottom corner, he replaced Bowie and let him stand at the free throw line for fancy support.

If the Pacers do not shrink, Bowie will directly hit the mid-range~www.novelmt.com~ If the Pacers shrink, there will be opportunities on the perimeter, and Bowie will pass to his teammates to solve the problem.

Back from the timeout, the Knicks' first three-pointer was Bowie standing at the free throw line to attract defense, and then passed to Miller to score.

Pocket formation is like this, the more accurate the opponent's perimeter, the more frightened the defense will be.

The more defenses get together, the more opportunities the opponent will have.

Wilson, who had killed the Quartet in the previous two games, was stole the limelight by Sam Bowie tonight.

Bowie scored 19 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 blocks. This performance is like telling the world: Who the **** is not the 84 diamond generation!

Indiana was powerless to stop, and the Knicks led 3-0.

The next day, the league announced the winners of major awards in the regular season.

The Knicks are still the team with the biggest gains.

Their sixth man Dennis Rodman averaged 9 points, 8 rebounds, 2 steals and 1.7 blocks per game, and was selected as the first defense and was elected Defensive Player of the Year.