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Laili reluctantly requested a timeout to find a strategy to crack the fake pick-and-roll.

In fact, this attack is very simple to crack.

As long as there are a few more people in the paint area, the inside line will not be able to get comfortable offensive space.

However, once this is done, the infinite switching of the Verdun line of defense cannot be sustained.

Because if you need two people inside to be safe, just relying on three players to rotate defenses on the perimeter is not enough to limit the Knicks' offense.

Because the Knicks lineup has at least two players who can shoot from the perimeter.

Laili took a compromise approach.

As long as the Knicks' fake pick-and-roll runs smoothly, the player responsible for containing the corner shooter must retreat to the basket as soon as possible.

And Mason/Clifford, who should have faced Ewing/McHale, will have to rotate to the Knicks corner shooter in the fastest time possible.

It's just idealism after all.

While feasible, the Blazers never practiced in a targeted manner.

After the timeout ended, the Blazers' flanks, with the advantage of quick movement, got stuck in the paint before Ewing went down.

However, Mason, who faced Ewing, was not as quick as Lali expected.

He was late.

Seeing that Jordan, who was in charge of defending Wilson, chose to shrink into the paint, Raouf could see clearly who to pass the ball to.

Wilson received the pass, and Mason's defense was not yet in place.

Mason's defense didn't come to him until he picked up the ball, but before he could block the shot, Wilson's three-pointer flew out of his hand.

The Trail Blazers allowed members of the Verdun line of defense to switch indefinitely in positional warfare, a way to maximize athleticism.

This trick is not clever.

Especially now, the Knicks have come up with a targeted cracking strategy, and Lai Li still insists on this, quite a kind of "so good cards in hand, how can I not show off well".

It seems that Li stubbornly maintains infinite switching, just like watching Claire Hasumi show off his riding skills in every work.

Although Hasumi's riding skills are indeed top-notch, but every time he makes his opponents like this, it is inevitable to make people tired.

This kind of behavior that does not jump out of the comfort zone is not worth learning.

The reason why infinite switching is so popular in the small-ball era is precisely because the Warriors made "small lineups" popular.

The small lineup combined with the pick-and-roll and the terrifying three-point threat from the outside make the already unbalanced game environment more and more biased towards the offensive side. Later, in order to limit the small lineup, the teams became reckless, focusing only on matchups and not on effects. Therefore, if you play a small lineup, I will also play a small lineup. It doesn’t matter if the center is 2.06 meters tall. The only way is to be able to defend, so that indiscriminate switching can be achieved.

But there are almost no small lineups at the moment, and Laili chose to switch defenses infinitely, which is not only a show of skills, but also a show of muscles.

Unfortunately, met the Knicks.

His opponent is the road coach who came back to torment him from the 2020s.

Although the concept of infinite switching is trendy, and the Blazers' flank lineup is really luxurious, the basis of this defense is based on the concept of pulling the inside line.

Therefore, as long as the inside players mainly attack the penalty area, even if they have a wing player in the basket, it is difficult to play a role.

Isn't it funny that a 6-foot-7 wing has to protect the rim in front of a 7-foot center?

Fast-footed flanks are useless in front of the paint. In the penalty area, size is king.

The reason why few teams in the small-ball era did such an infinite switch of their opponents was because in that era, there were few big men with absolute advantages in size. So even if the big man goes down, the opponent's flank is about as high as the big man, and the effect of assisting defense is naturally not bad.

As the game went on, Laili's face turned blue and purple.

Louie wasn't just fundamentally denying his strategy, he was personally teaching the rest of the league how to deal with the Blazers' infinite switching.

Other teams may not have the Knicks' posh lineup, but who doesn't have a few big men?

As long as the shooter is placed in the corner or the 45-degree angle on the opposite side, it can bring a heavy blow to the Blazers' infinite switching.

Starting today, the Blazers will either see infinite switching as an unsustainable means or take Mason off the Verdun line.

Because Clifford's speed is okay, Mason's straight-line speed is good, but it's too much to turn a corner or a forty-five-degree change of line speed.

For a variety of reasons, the Blazers' Verdun defense didn't work as expected.

For the first time so far this season, the Blazers didn't build a lead after playing the Verdun defense.

Fans inside the Memorial Coliseum were disappointed.

"It's the most frustrating scene of the season so far," announcer Bill Shanely said.

On the Knicks side, Louie replaced Laouf, McHale, Stevens, and returned to Stockton, Miller and Rodman.

The advantage on the field has been established, and the only thing left is to pursue it with full force.

"Now is the time when the Blazers' morale is low, and we have to seize this opportunity to show them what is the 'system' that really works." Louie said wildly, "Give Coach Laili and his team a lesson. Let's go to class!"

In the remaining half of the second quarter, the Knicks presented an amazing offensive feast to the audience. The players fully demonstrated Louis' basketball philosophy of "running high, tearing the side, and pressing inside." It stands to reason that it is difficult to decouple a large number of sudden points and transfer **** from mistakes, but it is precisely because this is a game in which the tip of the knife is danced but inextricable, which makes people addicted.

Especially the last goal of the first half.

With little time left in the game, Wilson dribbled to Jordan from the outside, and everyone except his teammates thought he would choose to run out of time and throw a three-pointer on Jordan's head.

However, Wilson did not choose to do that.

Using himself as a bait, he gestured to Rodman to pick and roll.

The Blazers, who were hit by the Knicks with a fake pick-and-roll, didn't know whether the pick-and-roll was real or not.

They overreacted.

As soon as Rodman stood still, before Wilson showed a clear offensive intention, the double-team of Jordan and Barkley came up.

Rodman took a chance.

Wilson jumps.

Rodman caught the ball, pretended to attack the basket, forced the Blazers' defense to shrink and passed the ball out to Ewing.

Ewing, who was in the high post, gave Miller a pass and a screen.

In those few seconds, the Knicks' ball was conducted as if the game had just started, and they had to play patiently.

With such cooperation, the dazzling and dull Blazers could not respond.

Miller made a three-pointer at the buzzer and hit a hollow.

The Knicks led the Blazers by 17 points before halftime with Miller's buzzer.

"Coach Lu, there are many people who are not optimistic about you, and even many fans think that the suspense has been lost this season. What do you think of this view?"

Louie joked: "I don't agree with everything they say, but I'm willing to defend their right to speak with a month of Coke drinking."

"Do you think the Knicks are still the No. 1 contender?"

Louie raised his brows, "Does anyone think that's not true? What a joke, we are the defending **** champions."

Since the interview is real-time and there is no intelligent voice mosaic, Louie did say "fuck" in the interview that was broadcast live across the United States.

Of course, it doesn't hurt.

Louie returned to the locker room, affirming the performance of the players, and deliberately using the victory to draw the players' attention back to the game.

It's late March, 2/3 of the way through, and it's time to focus.

"At the end of the game~www.novelmt.com~ If we don't win the opponent by more than 20 points, it means that you are not so eager to prove yourself in the game with the Blazers." Louie has always been well versed in the trick, "If that is the case, It will be the greatest sadness. As the defending champion and the dynasty team that has won five consecutive championships, we have lost the heart of a champion. The real champion will never have a second when facing a strong enemy like the Blazers. Slacken!"

Playing with the Blazers is always exciting.

The Avengers of Tear City push the Knicks at their best every time.

In the second half, when the game was in a deadlock, Wilson completed a difficult positional duel every time he took over the ball;

Ewing knocked out Sabonis, who was not suited to the intensity of the game. Miller's three-pointer threat may have surpassed that of Dale Ellis. Rodman proved that no matter how far Kemp evolves, the other side will not. May replace his value on the defensive end and rebounding protection;

If it is said that the Blazers have only played less than half of their strength for various reasons, then the Knicks have used 100% of their strength to defeat them at the opponent's home court.

In the absence of any preparations for the Portlanders, the Knicks gave the Blazers, who claimed to be the season finale, a hanging.