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Chapter 394 Love the newcomer's attack
On the first day of training camp, Louie checked his office, everything that should be there was there.

Before the start of training, according to regulations, rookies have to introduce themselves, and the head coach routinely lectures, mainly talking about the goals of this season and the like.

Louie came before the crowd, and the players lined up in two lines.

Stockton, McHale, Ewing, Ball, Oakley, Rodman, Wilson, Ellis, Corbin, Salley, Curry, Hornacek, Stevens, Song Tao.

Of the 14 players, except for Song Tao, almost all of them have the ability to play.

"I won't say here what kind of results to play this season, before the start of the regular season, it is meaningless to say the results."

"You may beat the Celtics to win the championship, or you may not even make the playoffs."

"Now let's invite this year's rookies to introduce themselves."

Hearing that he was going to introduce himself, Song Tao was in a hurry. He couldn't even remember basketball terms, so how could he introduce himself?

Zhao Yuanzheng is his personal translator. Hearing his difficulties, he gave a suggestion: "Introduce your name and where you come from. Everyone knows that your English is not good."

Louie can see the personalities of the players from their self-introductions.

Wilson sternly said, "You can call me Benj, I have no special hobbies, basketball is the oxygen in my life."

No special hobbies?Louis snorted.

Rodman was shy and didn't speak very loudly.

It's hard to imagine that this is a person who will mess around in order to relax in the finals in the future, let alone that he will liberate his nature under the guidance of Madonna.

Perhaps Louie should try to avoid meeting Rodman and Madonna.

He prefers the current version of Rodman.

Lack of self-confidence, but have valuable talent, just want to seize every opportunity to express themselves.

John Sely was like the opposite of Rodman, he was the only one with a hairdo, full of confidence, wanting everyone to like him, and looking like a star.

Jeff Hornacek is very self-cultivated, and his choice of words and sentences is very comfortable.

"You can call me Honey, I can play two guard positions, in the future I will help you play a better game, never slow down, every night as hard as playing the last game."

Song Tao's accent made everyone laugh.

He is not an introvert himself. Seeing everyone's response so well, he became more confident. He introduced himself, said where he was from, and used all the words he knew.

"I like Dunk very much. If you guys pass me more passes, I will play Dunk harder."

It all looks pretty much the same.

Louis looked at McHale: "It seems that our new captain hasn't introduced himself yet."

"Do I want it too? Kaka, is there anyone here who doesn't know me?" McHale's face was full of reluctance.

"You're new here too, let's go through the motions."

McHale had to get up, but did not go in front of the crowd, just stood there and spoke: "I am Kevin McHale traded from Chicago. Since Chicago traded me for a drug addict, I may bring some bad luck. I declare in advance that in order not to let my bad luck bring you bad luck, I am willing to accept the coach's arrangement to play as a substitute, so if your performance in the new season is not as good as last season, I will never take the blame."

McHale was the funniest person Louie had ever met, a genius who jazzed up the atmosphere and made his teammates laugh in an instant.

"Don't listen to his nonsense." Louis waited until the laughter subsided, and officially announced, "Kevin McHale will be the new Knicks captain. He is an experienced veteran. Under his leadership, we will definitely have a better record than last season."

It is not a convincing decision to let the freshman McHale be the captain.

The composition of the Knicks' players is different from that of the average team.

McHale is the only veteran who has played for more than five years. Not counting Bernard King, who is still unable to return this season, he is the oldest player on the team.

"Now, everyone runs 15 laps around the stadium, which counts as a warm-up. When the warm-up is over, we will hold a match to test your strength."

After Louie finished speaking, the players started to run in circles, and the coaching staff approached him.

"In this year's competition, the coaches of the black and white teams should be led by Rudy and Phil."

Tomjanovich and Jackson cherished the opportunity to coach the matchups.

Louie never dictated the training and match, at most he would just stand aside and watch the battle, recording some interesting details.

Louie divided the 14-man squad into two echelons.

The old players who played for the team last season count as one group, and the seven new players who joined this season count as another group.

Tomjanovich takes the elderly, and Jackson takes the newcomers.

Jackson's rookie team consists of McHale, Benj, Rodman, Salley, Curry, Hornacek, and Song Tao.

Tomjanovich's old team members are Ewing, Oakley, Stockton, Ball, Ellis, Corbin and Stevens.

"Let's have a fun game," Louie said expectantly.

This past summer, Jackson has been researching in college to find his own tactical system.

He didn't think he would always work under Louis, and he and Louis were not as close as Tomjanovich.

Sooner or later, he will leave. If he can't find a suitable tactical system by then, even if he leaves, it won't last long.

The hard work paid off, and he found an ancient offensive system called the triangle offense.

Interestingly, this offensive system also evolved from the UCLA offense.

Because Zhao Yuanzheng was Song Tao's translator, he had to sit in the rookie camp.However, apart from translation, he doesn't care about other things.

Both teams have seven players and two substitutes.

The old team has Stevens and Ball as substitutes; the rookie team has Song Tao and Rodman as substitutes.

Jackson had Rodman on the bench, which Louie didn't expect.

He thought that the substitute would be Sely. Although Rodman is a rookie, he was delayed for several years because of academic problems. He is 24 years old now and is a mature player.

Let Sely start, it shows that Jackson does not know enough about the newcomers.

Sely and Ewing jump the ball, they are not opponents at all.

Ewing, who gained 7 pounds this summer, finally has the physique of a dominant insider.

Originally not easy to mess with, and with this steel frame, Ewing has officially become the "most annoying looking" All-Star team vote king.

If you put all the centers in the league together and ask someone who doesn't know the ball to find the strongest among them, many people will choose Ewing.

He seemed like the toughest guy to mess with.

The Knicks lost a lot of players in the summer, but the main frame is still there.

The real main force is only one Tony Campbell, and the other four are still there.

Campbell was originally a brush position, and more opportunities came to him, not because he could run, but because the Knicks' tactics focused on him.

Louis purposely made him a premium commodity, in order to have a luxury that looks very valuable when trading, but only when he gets started does he know it is such a luxury.

Many teams have this kind of scoring machine.

There was a quick resonance between Stockton and the main players, and Ellis caught the ball from the outside and moved towards the top of the arc.

Stockton seemed to run to the left high post to open up space. In fact, Oakley's off-ball screen gave him a clever cut-in opportunity.

Stockton poured into the penalty area from the diagonal line, and Ellis' pass was not difficult.

The experience of the rookie team is far worse than that of the old team, and there is no tacit understanding between them.

2 is better than 0
An N.UCLA system Reid Spread Center offense.

The real core of this tactic is not the center (Center), but the spread (Spread). The running of the off-ball player is the tactic initiation, and the focus is on how the center players use screens to help them spread to the inside.

This tactic is usually designed for players who don't score too much into the penalty area, only they can have a surprise effect.

In the Knicks, there are 14 tactics based on Spread.

This is only a matter of last season. In the new season, due to personnel changes, Louis will have to update the team's tactical library. Many players have memorized the familiar tactics that are no longer applicable.

The rookie team's offense is very simple.

It was supposed to be singles for Benjamin Wilson. Suddenly, Wilson saw McHale asking for the ball with a terrifying wingspan of 2 meters.

"Here, champion!" McHale yelled angrily, "Trust your captain, he can handle Oak!"

Wilson can only pass the ball to him.

Oakley, who was about to try McHale's depth, was taken advantage of by the opponent as soon as he exerted his strength.

Although his defense is on McHale, McHale's low-post offense is ever-changing, his lower body rotates 360 degrees, and he passes Oakley's defensive position with amazing shoulder width.

After grabbing the position, he didn't pause for half a second, and directly used an extremely awkward shoveling low hand to pick the basket, leaning on Oakley's body to complete the attack.

2 is better than 2
"That's it?" McHale sneered, "Is it because I'm new here, I deliberately don't defend myself hard, it's not necessary, it's not necessary."

McHale managed to piss off Oakley.

As for the result of angering Oakley?Not as scary as Louis thought.

This bully who is good at fighting actually wants to respond to McHale with a shot. The opponent's wingspan is not a display, and he will be capped if he stands.

(End of this chapter)