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Chapter 625 The Untouchable Bavita

For a good basketball game, its ideal stage should be Madison Square Garden.

But in a good basketball game, the referee in charge of law enforcement should not have Dick Bavita's name.

Louie faced up to his opponent tonight--the rookie coach Jerry Sloan who was kicked out of the duck.

Sloan's ascension belongs to the "everyone was shocked when it happened, but no one cares over time" story.

Louis still hasn't figured out why Jazz's godfather, Frank Lydon, dismissed get out of class.

Lydon sees coaching as a tool for educating people, and he makes his players better people.Never shying away from his responsibilities, he embraced his role as coach, teacher, and parent and took seriously the obligations that came with it.

Louie often communicated with him at the annual meeting. When talking about his coaching philosophy, Layden always emphasized that he wanted players to be a good person more than an excellent basketball player.This kind of concept is not tolerated by professional basketball.

Now when the Jazz are in a good situation, they retreat behind the scenes and hand over the responsibility to the rookie Sloan. This is a risk and a gamble. If one fails, Sloan's coaching career will be ruined.

Sloan looked nervous, and when he greeted Louie, he even made a grammatical error: "How are you, Coach Louie?"

"I'm fine." Louis showed the demeanor of a "senior", "Let's work hard together."

This is undoubtedly ironic. In terms of qualifications, Sloan is Louie's predecessor.

Sloan, who was active in the 70s, retired his jersey at the Chicago Stadium as the "Original Bull" and then spent four meaningless coaching seasons in Chicago.

From this point of view, Sloan can be regarded as Louis' senior.

But he is not only humble in front of Louis, but also has a heart of apprenticeship, because the Jazz's offensive system completely copied the UCLA offense, but Louis created a N.UCLA system in the Knicks that is different from UCLA's offense.

Even John Wooden himself admitted that the Knicks' offensive system only bears the name of UCLA, and has little to do with the Bruins.

Louis was surprised to see Sloan for the first time.

The Sloan he learned before was a rumor from his player days. The rumored Sloan is a desperate lunatic, who sounds like Kevin Garnett, Dave Cowens, and Draymond Green. People who can burn themselves out for the game.

The coaching version of Sloan regards the coaching experience of the Bulls as a shame and is very humble. This may be related to his poor background. He has awe and a strong desire to explore his own work.

This kind of person is not easy to deal with. Louis suddenly felt that today, when the Celtics and Blazers were out of the game, Sloan's Jazz would become the final opponent this year.

Before the start of the game, the referee and the assistant referee came to say hello.

Today's referee is Dick Bavita, who is hated by everyone, and the assistant referee is Jim Kinsey, who entered the professional league for the first year. Before that, he had been law enforcement in the college league.

As one of the many high-level referees introduced by the league, his professional ability has been fully tested in college.

The introduction of these referees is for another plan of the league office: restoring the three-person referee system.

The appearance of a team like the Knicks reminded the league office.That is, the two referees can only watch four or five players at most, which gives the players the opportunity to make small moves.

Although the Knicks don't want to be labeled as hands-on, the title of gangster is dead, and they can't take it off even if they want to.

If the future alliance really restores the three-person referee system, Louis will be relieved.

The more referees there are, the less room there is for small moves. In this way, a team like theirs that is formal and serious about physical abuse and torture can go wider. On the contrary, a certain Boston team has problems.

Is there a person on earth who knows basketball and doesn't know that Bird and Lambiel are the dirtiest players on Blue Star?

The warm-up session before the game ended, and the starting players of both sides entered the court.

Knicks starters: Stockton, Miller, Wilson, Brad Rohaus, Ewing.

"I don't know if Little Lu is so arrogant that he ignores the opponent, or if he really thinks they can't lose again." Billy Cunningham sneered, "How dare he start Brad in this game?"

Louis never paid any attention to the fly's questioning.

The Jazz's starting lineup is also very strange: Mark Price, Alvin Robertson, Tom Chambers, Malone, Eaton.

This lineup has no shooting guard and no small forward. In fact, this is a lineup of 2PG, 2PF, and 1C.

However, because Chambers' athletic ability can keep up with most of the three positions, and Robertson can defend from the first position to the third position, they will not have problems in defense, but on the offensive end, various misplaced arrangements have become advantages.

The dislocation offensive power of UCLA's offensive pick-and-roll system is magnified on them.

Eaton won the jump ball, and the Knicks quickly returned to the position to defend.

In terms of defense, the Knicks showed a clear 1-4 pocket formation.

Stockton marks Price, and the other four keep a distance from the defender, mainly defending the penalty area.

Louie also gave Stockton special instructions.

"The first few possessions, try to get Mark to shoot."

You know, Price can be regarded as the least able-bodied person in the league.

He is undoubtedly the contemporary Nash, with a three-point shooting rate of 44.1%. Whether it is an emergency stop shot with the ball, or a running position to catch the ball, he has a very high level.

It is the times that restrict him from magnifying his own threat.

It is difficult for Sloan to break through the limitations of the era, let him play Malone's pick-and-roll, and shoot decisively when he sees an open space.

Sure enough, after Stockton stretched the floor, Price's first choice wasn't a shot.

He is waiting for Malone to ask for a seat.

After all, Malone is facing Rohaus, what kind of stinky fish is that?Give Ma Long one-on-one and kill him?
His idea makes sense, but he didn't expect that when Stockton gave him shooting space, he would not try to shoot, even if he made 44% of his three-pointers?

Rohaus tried his best to run on Malone.

Price worried about Malone's defenders on the flanks, and the Knicks obviously waited for his pass before pinching.

Thinking of this, Price was no longer obsessed with passing the ball to Malone, and found that he had room to shoot, so he threw it with his first hand.

"Shh!"

"Sure enough!" Louis exclaimed.

In 1988, he was hesitant to be put on a three-pointer from the corner, but after realizing that he couldn't pass the ball, he chose to shoot.

How good of a shot is this?
It's a pity, Louis sighed secretly, Price would have developed better under his command.

"John, don't let it go." Louie laughed, "That guy's shooting is incredible!"

All Stockton's actions are under the command of Louis, and after hearing what Louis says, he will know what to do next.

The Knicks' offense went according to plan.

The value of Rohaus in this game is that he can execute the tactic of shooting three-pointers from outside the pick-and-roll.

For a giant center like Eaton, the inside pick-and-roll outside the three-pointer is deviant.

Even Malone would not care about Brad, they would only focus on marking Stockton.

So, Rohaus scored the Knicks' first goal of the night.

3 is better than 3
"The most memorable characteristic of Little Lu is that he doesn't put an obscure player in the starting lineup for no reason."

Dick Stockton intentionally disgusted Cunningham.

"But, as long as Karl Malone is going to be in position, I can't imagine how Brad Rohaus will defend."

What Cunningham said was correct. In order to prevent Malone from taking the position, Rohaus tried his best, and all kinds of fouls came out, but the referee did not blow the whistle.

He pissed Malone off.

Ma Long was not a kind person in the first place, but when he found out that the referee didn't care about the small tricks, he hit Luo Haosi with a return elbow on the spot.

Luo Haosi was hit hard and fell peacefully without acting.

Exactly at that moment, "Beep!"

One of Dick Bavetta's most hated traits: double standards!
He treats players on both sides with different standards.

Rohaus made at least 6 fouls against Malone just now, and he didn't call any of them.

Malone returned one and he blew.

"Didn't you see what he did to me?" Ma Long yelled, entangled like an angry woman.

Doesn't he know that Bavetta is a scumbag referee who does his own thing?

"Hey!" Ewing shook the confused Luo Haosi.

Louis asked from a distance, "Is the person still alive?"

"I'm panting." Ewing replied.

"Do you want to lift it down?"

"Don't! Don't replace me!" Luo Haosi forced himself to stand up, "I can persevere!"

Although Sloan is a rookie coach (defined by himself), he also knows the truth of pressure, and immediately sent a pass to Bavita.

Bavita raised his eyebrows coldly, and Sloan was speechless with one sentence: "Because the opponent's action violated the law, so your players can launch a personal attack on the opponent?"

"Dick Bavita is a person, although you can see him horizontally, vertically, from a distance, and up close."

McHale echoed: "Anyway, he's an idiot!"

"That's right, but if this stupid thing is good for us, don't you think that this stupid thing looks a lot more pleasing to the eye?" Before Louis came to MSG today, he was prepared to be disgusted by Baveta.

It's useful to put pressure on some referees, it's useful to threaten, it's even useful to stand on the sidelines and chat with them, but with Bavita, there's really nothing you can do if he wants to screw up a game.

Malone's complaints and the entanglement of the Jazz coaching staff caused Bavita to add a technical foul to them.

This made Sloan's assistant coach and former Jazz coach Frank Layden explode in anger: "You just judge New York to win!"

"Oh?" Bavita asked coldly, "Your players attack each other personally. Is it a problem for me to call him a foul? He doesn't admit his mistake and questions my authority, but you don't try to dissuade him and obstruct the progress of the game with him, despise the majesty of the referee. Is there a problem with calling you a technical foul? Is there a problem? Is there a problem? Can you try again?"

(End of this chapter)