the rest, only noise

Chapter 340

Louie's professed love for Coca-Cola earned him some unexpected rewards.

The Coca-Cola Company presented a 4-year endorsement contract of 100 million yuan.

For Louis personally, this is a good thing, and then they beat the Phoenix Suns at home, which has become more and more confused recently.

While giving the Suns an eight-game losing streak at the start of the season, they also brought their record to third in the Eastern Conference.

6 wins and 2 losses, no one expected that the Knicks, who almost sent out all the main players last season, achieved their current results with a group of rookies.

The next two games will still be the home of the Knicks.

One is an eagle and the other is a bullet.

They are not strong teams. For them, the best result is to win these two games, and maybe the record can reach the top two in the Eastern Conference.

Louis doesn't think their record can be maintained forever. The biggest problem of the young team is instability.

Therefore, taking advantage of the good morale, you have to find a way to win the game you can win.

It is a pity that after defeating the Eagles, they lost the game by 4 points in the game against the Bullets.

Then, against a nearly reinvented Pistons, the game turned into an ugly fight.

Biting each other like two beasts in the Colosseum.

Originally, this was not the style of the Pistons, but they lost to the Celtics last season, from the coaching staff to the management.

Pistons general manager Jack McCloskey began to change the framework of the team.

First, he had a discerning eye in the draft, selected Joe Dumars with the 18th overall pick in the first round, and then signed Rick Mahon in the free market at a price that the Bullets could not afford.

These changes are all part of the rebuilding of the Pistons. They consciously built the team into a steely defensive team while maintaining their competitiveness.

The change of the piston made Louis alert.

In his previous life, it was this team that realized that it was impossible to fight the Celtics and Lakers with a normal lineup. To beat them, the only way to beat them was to work hard on defense.

So, the Legion of Bad Boys appeared.

Now this team has no Thomas, no Lambiel, and Worthy, Dumars, and Parish are obviously not bad boys.

Maybe under the leadership of these three, the Pistons will be more like the 04 Pistons?

A defensive team with clean hands and feet, suffocated defense, intense confrontation, and perfect rotation is scary.

It's a pity that Ewing's excellent touch tonight, he scored 30 points and 11 rebounds, but the Knicks were overwhelmed by the strength of the Pistons, and finally lost by double digits.

Afterwards, they went to the away game against the Bullets, hoping to fight for another victory, but Tony Campbell selfishly made 24 shots and only hit 6 goals, and Ewing was robbed by his opponent for offensive rebounds, causing them to lose to the Bullets again.

After the game, Louie spat on Ewing and Campbell.

"You're fucking jerking around the hoop all day? Like a monkey!" Louie's words were dangerous.

Ewing retorted: "It's true that I didn't play well, but I won't allow you to insult me!"

"Don't tell me these things are useless here. You have the highest salary in the league, and then you were beaten by a group of players whose names I can't name. You blame me for insulting you? You fucking protect me with the rebound!"

Then to Campbell, Louie didn't put as much emotion into Ewing.

It's more about telling him what he did not do well, and then threatening not to play if he continues to do so.

But Louie's threat never materialized on Campbell.

If one carefully examines Campbell's performance and data, one will find a strange fact.

Campbell is the Knicks starter with the lowest plus/minus.

But at the same time, he averaged 21 points per game, second only to Ewing, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, shooting 47% from the field, 21% from the three-point range, and 74% from the free throw line.

Looking at the numbers alone, he's the Knicks' No. [-] player.

However, the real No. 13 player for the Knicks is Stockton, who leads the league in assists with 13 points and [-] assists per game.

Campbell has the most shooting rights, and his possession of the ball is so much that his teammates complain.

Wilkins, Ellis, and Weber all thought he was too selfish.

Therefore, Louis often scolded him.

The rookies who complained about him stopped talking, because this was their first year, and they were supposed to focus on learning, so it was impossible to really have any conflicts with Campbell.

Louis carefully grasped the proportions, Campbell is now like a commodity with overflowing value.

From a distance, he looks worth $10000, but if Louis were to buy it, $1000 would be worthless to him.

In the case of less detailed statistics, players like Campbell are landmines in the trading market.

It looks good, and you can see where the problem is when you use it.

Unfortunately, the Knicks failed to end their losing streak, because the next game they will face is the defending champion, the overlord of the league Boston Celtics.

The Celtics are on the road to chasing three consecutive championships, but there is no weakness.

Bird's competitive level has reached the peak of his career, Isiah Thomas has begun to enter the peak, and Sampson is still on the rise. Some people say that among the top five players in the league, the Celtics have three, which are first in the league, second in the league and third in the league.

John Long can be regarded as a shortcoming in the Celtics lineup. He has declined a lot this year, but he is still a reliable three-point shooter, but defense is a weak link.

From the beginning to the end, Louis, who regarded the Celtics as his number one rival, decided to turn the game into a meat grinder battle.

However, the Celtics are too strong.

Ewing was full of ugliness in this game. His positional habit was rubbed against the basket by Sampson; his defensive position, when the Celtics put up a frontcourt lineup of Sampson+Bird+Wharton, he was often teased as if his IQ was low; his most proud defensive skill, the delay defense of flying outwards, was successfully used by Sampson.

Sampson has repeatedly used outstanding ball-handling attacks to make Ewing's defense look like a French soldier's surrender ceremony.

The basic process is as follows: Sampson feints, dribbles, Ewing can't get up, so he has to raise his hands, and then Sampson wipes them.

Ewing appears to be doing the French salute while Sampson jumps and dunks.

134 is better than 88
This is the heaviest defeat the Knicks have experienced so far this season.

At the end of the game, Louie's face was as cold as a block of ice just dug out of the North Pole.

He said to Tomjanovich with a dark face: "When I go back, I will edit every round of Patrick's offense and defense in this game. Remember, it is every round."

Seeing Louis' face, Tomjanovich knew that Ewing was going to suffer.

He felt sorry for Ewing, and it wasn't his fault.

He is a rookie who met the Celtics who are at their peak.

Byrd they obviously intend to target Ewing, why?Because he has the league's first salary.Therefore, they played many embarrassing scenes for Ewing.

Ewing's shortcomings, under the special targeting of the best offensive team in history, are like those guards who can't shoot and are emptied, and their shortcomings are magnified harshly.

Louie shakes hands with his old friend KC.

"It's not that I'm talking about you, is it too harsh?" Louis said with a wry smile.

KC showed a look of shame, "It's really not my order. You know that Larry, he doesn't like certain people and he will find ways to make him embarrass himself."

"That's right, I can't blame others for my inability." Louis was quite open-minded. "However, with your situation this year, the three consecutive championships seem to be within easy reach."

KC hurriedly said: "Don't say that, the road is still long!"

"Humble again?"

"This is not modesty!"

"Stop doing this, KC." Louie snorted, "The top three players in the league are all in Boston. If you can't defend your title, stop doing it and let Reid replace you."

KC smiled helplessly.

Louis turned to the reporters on the scene, praised the Celtics' performance, but expressed clear dissatisfaction with some people in the team: "When your best player on the team behaves like a fool, it is difficult for you to end the game decently."

(End of this chapter)