the rest, only noise

Chapter 521
After the Knicks came back from a timeout, basically every offensive round was like this.

Stockton holds the ball from the outside, breaks through in singles, or calls McHale for a pick-and-roll.Either way, it will cause a chain reaction.

This chain reaction was given by the Pistons themselves.

Daly asked the inside line to cooperate with the outside line to lock Stockton's series.

If you just look at Stockton's assist numbers, they certainly did.

However, whenever Stockton's instigated offense ended in failure, what the fans saw was not that the Pistons seized the defensive rebound and launched a counterattack.

It was Ewing who, relying on his vigorous and powerful body, was firmly hanging on to Malone or Parish.

He raised his hand, took off, and his body, which was well protected by Louis, still maintains his explosive power intact. Coupled with his weight gain in recent years, Ewing is already a center that is close to perfect in size.

As long as Malone gives up his defensive position to make up, he will occupy the opponent's position and grab the offensive rebound.

Daly tried to let Malone pounce, and Parishka was in place.As a result, Ewing was indeed hooked here, but what about Oakley?
In terms of rebounding ability alone, it is hard to say whether Ewing is better than Oakley.

When playing in the team match, Oakley is obviously better at rebounding.

Parish held back Ewing, but Oakley flew free.

The Pistons' strategy fell into an endless loop.

Without guarding Stockton, he will play the ball easily.

Although Malone's defense can solve this problem, the rebounds cannot be guaranteed.

Lock Ewing, and an Oakley.

No matter how they move, the Knicks have the power to rebound.

So the game became interesting. The Knicks had a very low first-hand shooting percentage in the battle, but their offensive rebounds were crazy.

Most of the iron strikes were converted into offensive rebounds and second offenses by Ewing and Oakley, showing their dominance inside.

"It's so weird. Before the game started, we thought the Pistons would have a clear advantage inside because they had Moses, and Robert, and even James Worthy was an awesome rebounder. No matter which team they played against, their inside should dominate. However, we saw that the Knicks had an advantage in their weak positions."

Billy Cunningham understood tactics at this time: "This is caused by the Pistons' strategy. They sacrificed their inside positions in order to limit the Knicks' tactical operations."

"Can this disadvantage be reversed?" Dick Stockton asked.

Cunningham said affirmatively: "Trust Coach Daley, he will find a way."

"It seems that Coach Road's timeout has achieved some results, Billy." Stockton deliberately disgusted people.

"Hmm..." Cunningham's face was so ugly that it looked like someone was popping a cucumber... like.

The Knicks put the limit in place and made it 8-54 after eight minutes of the second quarter.

The Knicks led by 12 points, and Ewing and Oakley grabbed 9 offensive rebounds in less than half a quarter.

The Pistons requested a timeout, and Daly discussed it with the assistants.

They decided to carry out an operation against the sky.

Craig Illo was replaced, James Worthy played at the two position, no small forward, and a villain named Rick Mahon was replaced with Malone and Parish.

As a result, the Pistons have become the league's most cumbersome team.

At the same time, their rebounding pressure will also be given to the Knicks.

Three insiders who averaged double-doubles in rebounds per game, coupled with a Worthy who can also double-doubles in rebounds without so many rebound idiots, if they don't play the overwhelming dominance of "losing shots and grabbing again, throwing and grabbing again", it is a failure.

Louie didn't expect the Pistons to go crazy, so he just made a regular rotation.

Oakley and McHale went down to rest.

Wilson and Rodman substituted.

Louis gave up the three-inside play. Although he enjoyed the sense of accomplishment of defeating the opponent with the opponent's best style of play, the Pistons... he really can't do it.

That kind of luxury experience can only be had by the Celtics in the 1983-84 season.

Now, let's just play what we are good at honestly.

As a result, he saw the Pistons' four frontcourt lineup.

"This is going crazy!" Zhao Yuanzheng muttered.

Tomjanovich is not surprised, this piston has always been the focus of his research.

"This is their killer feature last season, we used outside shots to end." Tomjanovich suggested that Louis use the same strategy.

"Not urgent."

Louis believes that after such a long period of running-in, the players already know what to use to deal with the Pistons' four frontcourts.

If the coaching staff is too worried about interrupting the rhythm of the game, it will affect the state of the players.

Stockton pointed to the horn on the right, ready to call tactics.

The Pistons' defense started to struggle.

The biggest problem with the four frontcourt lineup is that when encountering teams that mainly attack from the outside, they will lose their positions due to their slow speed.

How can a player help himself or his teammates score? The most effective way is to attract more defenders from his teammates.When a player throws off the opponent's defense, more opponents will interfere with him, or when a player is very offensive threat, he will be double-teamed.

In the Knicks team, many people have the deterrent power to get the ball and get double-teamed.

Ewing is one of them. Most teams double-team him not because of his strong offense, but because his ability to distribute the ball is below average.

Ewing confuses many in college, convincing scouts that he is the master of the next era.Louie saw his essence, but not a little.Ewing in Georgetown seemed to be a good passer, but it was only an appearance.

Entering the NBA, his vision of passing the ball is narrow, with a little buttery hand, and the problem of dropping the ball from time to time has been magnified.

The Pistons asked Malone to single-handedly defend Ewing.

Bullets legend Wes Unseld is known as a bone crusher.But there is no way to verify this nickname. I don't know where it came from, and it doesn't belong to the official. Americans don't call him that.

In terms of style of play, Malone is more of a bone crusher than Unseld.

In all confrontations that do not use the ball, Malone is top-notch.

He confronted Ewing like a mad dog.

Ewing really couldn't handle it. At this time, Ma Hong double-teamed him.

Then it was time to test Ewing's pass.

Everyone focused on this, and Ewing held the ball and looked at Wilson who fell into the open space.

He sent a very low quality pass.

The Pistons can't make up defenses, and they can't rotate. They have a four-inside lineup.There are as many downsides to this lineup as there are upsides, the biggest being the inability to perform high-quality defensive rotations.

If someone misses the defense, the rotation speed and supplementary defense speed of others cannot be compared with the normal lineup.

Wilson shoots with this worrisome pass.

Miss!

"This is the opportunity for the Pistons!" Cunningham just finished speaking.

The long rebound in the penalty area popped out from a distance, and got rid of the control of the Pistons.

Louie stood calmly on the sidelines, as if he didn't pay attention to the Pistons' four frontcourt lineup.

Rebounds are picked up by the deadliest shooters.

Dale Ellis catches the ball.

"Since the start of the playoffs, Ellis got rid of his off-court controversy and became the most dangerous outside shooter in the league. He hit at least 3 three-pointers per game and his shooting percentage was as high as 46%."

"It's unbelievable considering the intensity of the defense he's facing, considering the Knicks have been trying to sell him before the trade deadline."

Cunningham hated Louie, and hated his players, too.

Hearing what Stockton said, he hummed softly without being heard by anyone.

Ellis' three-pointer did not give the Pistons a chance to react.

"Shh!"

That ball gave Daly an unspeakable sense of suffocation.

He was restless, as if caught in a weakness.

Daly looked over to the Knicks' bench, where Louie was smiling at him.

It wasn't a friendly smile, like Zhang Zifeng's scariest smile of the year in "Tang Detective One" — by the way, the remake in "Tang Detective Three" is like a fake, a stinky pile of fake shit-Daly admits that he was intimidated.

The coaches of this era don't believe that three-pointers can kill people.

Daly didn't believe it either.

Louie also doesn't regard the three-pointer as the trump card for winning.

The time has not come, and forcing them to play three-pointers against the times can only be asking for trouble.

But if the Pistons stick to their four-court lineup, the [-]-point shot can really kill.

On the defensive end, the Knicks take what the enemy uses for the enemy, and limit Joe Dumars in the same way.

One man marks, one flanks, and one crouches.

The difference is that, apart from Dumars, the Pistons have no No.2 player who can punish the Knicks outside the free throw line. Compared with Stockton, Dumars's breakthrough ability is just like all the works of Mr. Bodo and Kurosawa Zhirei's few minutes of fierce battle in "Red Cliff". The gap is too big.

Dumars can only force the starting throw.

Miss!

Not surprisingly, the Pistons got the offensive rebound. The four frontcourt lineups had an obvious advantage at the basket. Malone held the ball and wanted to launch a second attack.

"Ewing disagrees!" The gorilla jumped up and delivered the hot pot.

Malone's ball was slapped mercilessly.

Leaving the penalty area, the control of the Pistons' four frontcourt lineup dropped like an avalanche.

Ellis again!
He ran to control the floor ball and gave it to Stockton.

Stockton only lucked a bit, and immediately found Wilson who was about to get off.

Passing the ball is like a flag of command, where to play.

Wilson came to the front, and a shocking one-handed windmill made the star fans at the MSG scene get up, turning the garden into a noisy palace.

Finally, the Pistons got back a goal with Worthy's offense, but they didn't wait until they made the next step.

Ewing made a long pass from the baseline.

Wilson again!
The Pistons couldn't stop Wilson's fast play. They could only watch the Knicks' counterattack happen before their eyes, and there was nothing they could do.

"Is there anything Coach Daly can do?"

Dick Stockton asked.

No matter how crooked Cunningham's ass was, he couldn't speak now.

(End of this chapter)