The Rest, Only Noise

"Coach Lu, this game has national attention."

Tonight's referee is Jack O'Donnell, an old acquaintance of Louie and a fair referee.

"I hope this kind of conflict doesn't happen again," O'Donnell said tactfully. "You know the league has been watching this series."

Hearing this, Louis smiled and said, "It sounds like it's all our fault? Why do you have such a perception?"

O'Donnell looked at the Knicks' upcoming players and knew what Louie wanted to do.

"What you're going to do will escalate the conflict."

"Jack, I'm sure you're not a prejudiced person, I'll just put it that way..." Louie put his arms around O'Donnell's shoulder and said affectionately, "Suppose there's a pair of adulterers**...well, it counts. Now, like the adultery of the century between Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor, who do you think is at fault? Is it Eddie? He **** his best friend right after he died unexpectedly , is there something wrong with him? Or Elizabeth, who was at fault with her husband's married friend not long after her husband's death?"

"Uh uh..."

O'Donnell was stunned at Louis' abstract but unassailable metaphor. .

"It's hard for you to put the blame on someone alone, right? If one of the two people doesn't want to do it, then there will be no adultery, so it's a shared responsibility for both of them. So, back to this conflict, If Larry didn't take Dennis down, the conflict wouldn't escalate, I don't blame Larry, that's the way he plays. But, Jake, are you here to remind me of this to make it clear that the blame lies in New York? "

O'Donnell couldn't retort Louis: "You know I don't mean that."

"Of course, I have been pushing the league to set up the award for the best referee of the year. If the league approves my proposal this year, I will definitely vote for you at that time."

O'Donnell didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"Coach Lu, are you kidding me?"

"How could I joke about this kind of thing?"

In fact, this is not a joke, it should be said that it is not even a joke, it is just a hilarity.

But O'Donnell's reaction led Louie to think that maybe he could actually make the proposal at this year's annual meeting.

On the one hand, you can get the referee's favor. On the other hand, there are the best referees of the year, and naturally there are also the worst referees of the year.

In order to maintain stability, the league will not explicitly set up awards for the worst referees, but satisfactory referees will get the most votes. Those referees who don't get many votes are naturally recognized as bad referees in the circle. Wouldn't someone with cerebral palsy like Dick Bavita face up to his business ability?

This thought flashed for a moment, and Louie decided to focus on the game first and think about nothing else.

The Celtics had a tough time with the remaining 5 minutes of the second quarter.

Because the murder press will be late, but not absent.

Originally, this defensive plan that frightened the whole league was specially prepared by Louis for the Celtics.

A few years have passed, the members of the murder pressing come and go, and now it is finally fixed, with Wilson, Rodman, Stevens, and Selly as the core frame, the fifth person always changes according to the characteristics of the opponent .

Tonight, the fifth man on the murder press team is Reggie Williams.

As a flanker to shoot this summer, he is one of Louie's favorite backup players.

He is like a shrunken black version of Kirilenko. He can do everything on the defensive end, and he is also versatile on the offensive end. If it is not too glassy, ​​his development prospect is at least an All-Star.

Now, Louie puts him in the murder press, taking turns with Doug West and Danny Ainge as the fifth man.

The Celtics suddenly found the game a lot harder.

The Knicks' murderous press is nothing compared to the legendary press that left Boston's psychological shadows in 1987-88.

Two first defense leaders, one of which is still DPOY, and the more mature Stevens and John Salley.

Jimmy Rodgers replaced Isiah Thomas, hoping to use his speed to break the game.

For the Celtics, it's ideal for Thomas to get the hang of it.

But things often don't go as well as they'd like, as the Knicks will start by guarding the catch to avoid letting Thomas get it easily.

Even if he gets the ball, it will be difficult to get out of this defense.

Many old fans of the national basketball team have a wrong impression of Liu Wei, the old pot bearer of the national team: when he is pressed by the whole court, he cannot dribble past the half court.

In fact, this impression is very stereotyped, but the fans can't be blamed, because Liu Wei has indeed been forced to drop the ball and miss a good game many times at critical moments. Think about Mr. Zhou's sideline ball against Poland. If you know the truth "Mr. Zhou's pass is actually not bad", can you accept it? I'm afraid not.

Why does Liu Wei leave that impression? Because when he was in power, the national team did not have a reliable No. 1 substitute, so he had to be roughed for more than 30-35 minutes in every game. There was no problem in the early stage, but in the final stage, the stamina tank could not hold up; Secondly, it is the most critical point. The reason why the National Basketball Team is really afraid of the full-court pressing is that the small forwards cultivated in China during the Yao Huan era were all 3D tool people. When the opponent uses a full-court press, they go to the frontcourt to respond and let the defender face the opponent's full-court press alone. This pressure is too great (1).

So even if the Celtics get the ball every possession, trying to break the Knicks' murder press alone is delusional.

This was demonstrated in the 1988 Eastern Conference finals.

It's just that the Knicks are more confident and experienced than they were two years ago.

Rodgers wants Thomas to buy some time for Bird and Sampson to try to survive the five minutes.

However, in the first minute, the Celtics brought the ball to the frontcourt once.

Moreover, Thomas' quick attack directed at the rim was eventually knocked down by a block saved by Stevens.

Stevens was called for a foul, and Thomas hit the ground hard.

An angry Thomas got up and wanted to make a move, but was stopped by his teammates.

Others on the Knicks court watched eagerly, and if they really started, the Celtics would definitely not be able to get cheap.

Watching Thomas scolding the street angrily, Louis found it interesting.

On the opposite side, Jimmy Rogers could only understand at this moment how K.C. Jones felt when he faced the Knicks.

It makes you angry and powerless. This is the style of the Knicks. They are brutal and self-controlled. They like to use those rough fouls to change the mentality of the opposing players.

Thomas's two free throws proved that his heart wasn't messed up.

But these two free throws won't solve the problem.

In the next few minutes, the Celtics successfully dribbled the ball through the halfcourt 4 times, but only 2 times formed a direct threat to the basket.

Moreover, all were stopped by the Knicks with a foul.

They allowed the Celtics to score free throws, but it was impossible to break the court.

On the Knicks side, the murderous press was very effective, Wilson didn't score, Rodman didn't score, but the two defenses made the Celtics scalp tingling.

The Knicks' main scoring points during this period were split between Williams, Salley and Stevens.

Mainly Williams outside the three-pointer, and the other two dunks.

In 4 minutes, the Knicks played a 16-6 offensive climax. With only 1 minute left in the first half, they forced the Celtics to replace Bird and Sampson to prevent the point difference from further widening.

Louis waved slowly.

"Clearly, Leader Lu doesn't intend to reduce the Knicks' defensive intensity."

"No, the defensive intensity has even increased from his rotation."

Louie replaced John Salley for Doug West, a physical man. This person has a great physical quality. If he went to other teams, he must have been trained as a score grabber in the second team. However, the Knicks took a different approach and just positioned him as a defensive hero, and began to practice his foundation from scratch.

West has a good savvy, and has won the Murder-pressing fifth-man rotation since his rookie season.

Louie replaced Sely and let him play to ensure that all five players on the court could achieve the ultimate rotation, supplementary defense, double-teaming, and a fiery counterattack after grabbing the ball.

At this point, the score was 59-49.

Bird and Sampson were tied before they got off the court, and after the clash, the Knicks ran a murder press on the Celtics to make it 10 in four minutes.

Now forced to switch back to Bird and Sampson, Rodgers hopes to use the Big Three to change the game, he is too naive.

After Rodman rotated, he cut off the Celtics' pass.

Wilson finally got a chance, facing Bird who didn't switch defense in time, and shot a three-pointer.

"Shh!"

The Celtics used the pass to pass the half-court difficultly. They wanted to let Sampson take advantage of his height, but as soon as he got the ball, he was attacked by the three Knicks and could only pass the ball.

Although the ball came out, John Long, who received the ball, was already being watched.

Pass others, and the Knicks' defensive rotation is also in place.

The Knicks took the advantage of their five-wing lineup without a pure inside line to the extreme~www.novelmt.com~ The Celtics had no choice but to score 24 seconds after the buzzer.

Then came the Knicks' final possession before the first half.

Wilson took the ball, changed direction and swayed past Lang, breaking through to Williams on the weak side.

The Celtics didn't know that this man was powerful, and they didn't even go forward when they saw him open, as if the three-pointers he made before didn't count.

Williams' three-pointer terrified everyone in the Celtics.

Unconsciously, the difference has reached 16 points.

There are 7 seconds left until the end of the first half.

(1) Guo Ailun, who is recognized as dribbling better than Liu Wei, was pushed to the halftime by the second Australian team when he played the Asian Cup or the World Cup in 2017 or 2018. Some people may want to say that Guo dribbles past halftime in the World Series without a problem. But my opinion is that after Yao Huan retired, when the national basketball team played in the world game, the strength was not strong enough to make people need to use the whole court to press against your weak back line. It's like playing LOL, your equipment advantage is so great that a few A's kill people, so what's the operation to show.