the rest, only noise

Chapter 175 The Restless Assassin
The Mavericks are a team that lacks bright spots.

Judging from the data that Louis is familiar with, they don't have many outstanding points.

Whether it's turnover rate, opponent's turnover rate, free throw rate, true shooting percentage, offensive rebounds and defensive rebounds, they are just the middle and bottom of the league.

But they are No.2 in the Midwest Division. If they really have no strengths, they will definitely not reach this ranking.

Louie still got some numbers to understand this team.

Their age structure is relatively young, with an average of 24.3 years old. Only the average age of the Bulls and Pacers is younger than them.

Second, while their offense translates to free throws inefficiently, their opponents have the third-highest free throw rate in the league.

What does this data reflect?their aggressiveness.

Young people are frizzy and prone to fouls, which is understandable.

With a turnover rate of 12.6%, only two teams in the league do a better job of controlling turnovers than they do.

Seventh in the league in effective field goal percentage.

These data, fed back to Louis, are such intelligence: the defensive end is strong, because the team is young, so they can maintain high-intensity data for a long time, have high tactical quality, good chemical reaction, and will not make risky pass attempts, so their turnover rate is low.

And this advantage will be directly fed back to their offensive efficiency.

As a result, their effective field goal percentage ranks among the best in the league.

In the era of weak three-point lines, a high effective field goal percentage may not directly reflect the quality of a team's offense, but an offense with a low effective field goal percentage must have problems.

In order to deal with the Mavericks, Louie changed the starting lineup.

Lambiel was removed from the starting lineup by him.

Although he still can't shoot three-pointers, Maxwell, who has greater athletic ability and defensive area, entered the starting lineup and once again swung the two forward positions with Bird.

"What should be said, I have said it before, and now I will emphasize it again." Louis let the starter approach him, and said, "Boldly expand the defense, prevent them from making comfortable high jump shots, pay attention to leading and defending the ball holder, and continue to put pressure on them!"

Louis' eyes swept over the starters.

"do you understand?"

"Understood, coach."

No matter how playful Louis is usually, as long as he comes to the game, his players always know what attitude to show.

On the opening possession, Sampson almost effortlessly outmaneuvered Bill Garnett PF.

Isiah Thomas used a rush strategy to speed past Brad Davis (PG) and missed a floater from outside the paint.

Sampson, who followed up from behind, grabbed the offensive rebound effortlessly, and the second offense was completed.

2 is better than 0
"Isiah, keep an eye on him!" Louie yelled.

Thomas did not forget Louie's order. After finishing the first ball in the opening game, Thomas stayed in the frontcourt to press Davis.

Louie doesn't trust Thomas' defense. Pressing Davis in the frontcourt is one of his established strategies for dealing with the Mavericks.

Because the Mavericks are a young team, the entire starting lineup has shooting ability, so a playmaker is needed to get them started.

Davis is the candidate.

This person made his debut with the Lakers in his early years. He was not reused because he had a bad relationship with the coaching staff and the person who should not be offended, Kareem Kareem. It was not until the Mavericks entered the NBA that he got a chance to show his talents.

He is a typical white point guard with good vision and accurate and reliable shooting. It is impossible for Thomas to press him to death, but he does not have enough explosive power to blast the latter's defense. Therefore, using a frontcourt press against him is a less threatening but highly harassing option.

Dick Motta narrowed his eyes when he saw the Celtic's opening move.

"Looks like that brat isn't as stupid as I thought," Motta said.

Motta's assistant, and the Mavericks' only assistant, Bob Weiss (Bob Weiss) said in surprise: "He seems to understand the value of Brad to our entire offensive system."

"It's not difficult to understand. Even the most incompetent coach can see the value of Brad." Mota said arrogantly, "It's like a student who prepares the homework that the teacher may teach in advance. I don't think it will change anything."

It seems like Mota said, nothing has changed.

Davis was pushed upfield by Thomas and passed the ball to low post Rolando Blackman SG.

Before Nowitzki, the best player in Mavericks history turned over and hit a jumper.

2 is better than 2
This scene was neither unusual nor unexpected to Louis.

The Mavericks' offensive quality and basic shooting skills are all excellent.

As far as their starters are concerned, the lowest free-throw percentage is Pat Cummings, who, as a center, has a 74% free-throw percentage.

Everyone else's free throw percentage is above 80%.

The free throw feel is a reflection of the shooting feel to a certain extent. Therefore, Louis did not hesitate to dismantle the tried-and-tested accumulation of restricted areas and set up pockets to let the opponent shoot. Instead, he oppressed the opponent's offensive hand and forced them to execute difficult shots.

Blackman's ball is beautiful, but is it sustainable?Louie was skeptical.

The Mavericks' defense can be described in four words, vicious.

For them, it is reasonable to defend and throw punches, feet and elbows during the period.

Before the introduction of malicious fouls, the conditions for using technical fouls were very strict. Therefore, as long as the home referee believes that they were not intentional, their actions will be called ordinary fouls at most.

Those who can be called ordinary fouls are relatively obvious malicious actions. Under normal circumstances, referees don't even look at malicious actions.

Thomas just wanted to attack with the ball, and the fans booed everywhere.

"Larry's servant!"

Fans of the notoriously racist city instinctively knew how to piss Thomas off.

Thomas was stimulated to miss another throw.

Louie watched in silence as Thomas made poor offensive choices, the rebounds being protected by the Mavericks.

The Mavericks' two ugly white insiders, Garnett and Cummings, although they don't look very good, have a way of controlling defensive rebounds.

They took the defensive rebound and found Davis immediately.

Davis immediately launched a counterattack.

The advantage of the young team is fully reflected here.

They run fast, and although they are not very athletic, their counterattacks are as powerful as the top teams.

Davis saw the lob opportunity at a glance and sent the ball out.

Garnett, who followed up from the backcourt to the frontcourt, jumped into the air and caught the ball for a layup.

4 is better than 2
"Thank you, Thomas!"

"Larry's servant, thank you!"

KC Jones said angrily: "These people are assholes!"

"If he can't even bear this interference, we should trade him as soon as possible." Louis didn't intend to blame the fans at the scene.

Thomas is a mysterious and unknown time bomb. Everyone knows that he is jealous of Bird, but he never shows it in front of Bird.

Bird has repeatedly claimed to the media that Thomas is the best teammate he has ever met.

This kind of remark is similar to the boss praising the second child in the team. It is interesting to outsiders, and it is hard to say what Thomas, whose heart is higher than the sky, thinks.

"Isaiah, can you play well?" Louie asked from the sidelines, "If you want to make another one and I can't make a throw, just get off me, okay?"

His tone was very gentle, and it was the first time Davis, who was facing Thomas, heard a coach who could threaten players on the field with such a soft tone.

Thomas didn't even look at Louie. A few seconds later, he performed his famous fingertip dribble. Davis only heard a few thuds in front of him, and his defense was penetrated by the smiling assassin.

It is expected that Davis can't restrain Thomas' breakthrough, and the Mavericks' backup plan is to use the police to defend.

The candidate for supplementary defense is Thomas' best friend Mark Aguirre.

This person was the No. 1980 pick in [-], and Thomas was the No. [-] pick that year.

Well, it looks like these two have the potential to play buddy basketball.

Aguirre was not merciful because of his personal relationship with Thomas. His defense was fast, accurate and ruthless, but unfortunately, his buddy, the smiling assassin, passed the ball even better.

Thomas passed the ball to the bottom corner almost the next second Aguirre chose to help defend.

Outside the three-point line from the bottom corner on the right, John Long received the ball for a three-pointer.

"Shh!"

"Don't miss that guy's threes!" Mota yelled.

Hearing the movement on the other side, Louis laughed jokingly: "Why? Why do these old coaches always make changes loudly after John's three-pointer punished them? Why didn't they make arrangements in advance? Could it be that they were lucky?"

"Three-pointers have only been in the NBA for five years, and coach Motta has been in this business for decades. For more than half of the time, his basketball world has no three-pointers."

KC's words can explain Motta and other old coaches' indifference to three-pointers.

In Louie's view, this is no different from those old people in the future who don't understand QR codes or how to make mobile payments.However, in reality, most of these old people will get help, and on the court, without the help of family, friends, and enthusiastic passers-by, Motta, an old and stubborn man, will only look at the three-point line after being severely educated.

　It’s been too long since I added an update, I forgot to owe a few chapters, I’ll calculate it at the end of the month

　　
　
(End of this chapter)