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Chapter 669 Self Contradictory Road Coach

Kemp excited Louis with a dunk, and then spent 4 minutes at the speed of light to accumulate 4 fouls, 2 turnovers, and 1 wave shot to cool Louis down.

Louie called a timeout for him, and Willis Reed had that look of "look, this son of a bitch needs a good slap."

"Xiao Xiao is still too young." Louis didn't criticize Kemp, "I'll leave it to you, Willis."

When Kemp was off the court, he didn't dare to look Louis in the eyes.

He knows he screwed up a lot.

As he walked past Louie, he prayed that Louis would ignore him.

As a result, Louie slapped him heavily on the ass: "Although I really want to open your head to see if it's shit or paste, but your dunk was so enjoyable to me, so I decided not to criticize your disastrous performance in the next few minutes. This is your first professional performance. I am a tolerant head coach. You remember this. I will give you the chance to make mistakes. Please promise me that even if there is only a 1% chance of dunking, you will dunk hard and fuck hard, okay?"

Kemp didn't quite understand Louis' words.

Are you threatening him, praising him, encouraging him, or giving him homework?
"Sean, get over here!" Reed's lion roar brought Kemp's attention back to reality in an instant.

Louis spent half of the time talking nonsense at Kemp, and then used the other half of the time to return to most of the main players, and briefly talked about the later style of play.

Except for Rodman, the other four members of the Knicks transition five were all replaced.

Then came Stockton, Miller, Wilson and McHale, who played for the first time tonight.

"I hope to see more Exchange Ricky (high dynamic offense) in the high position." Louis said confidently, "You just need to be clear about this. As long as we run our tactics reasonably, Portland's defense will be overwhelmed."

The Knicks' Exchange Ricky (high-post dynamic offense), when facing other teams, plays IQ suppression, relying on the strong containment of off-ball personnel to cause opponents to make mistakes in defense, so as to find easy air cuts or catch and shoot opportunities.

This kind of routine has a high fault tolerance rate and stable abuse.

Playing against a strong team can also rely on a good pitcher like Miller to change the opponent's tactics.

What is Exchange Ricky most afraid of?It is a switch team. If the Knicks are not facing the Trail Blazers, but another team that implements the execution of the switch to every detail, it is useless to rely on IQ to suppress it.

It's a pity that the pioneers have nothing to configure, but no one to teach them carefully.

They played the defense most likely to contain the Knicks, but it failed to produce the desired results.

Why, I'm afraid Pitino will never understand.

The Knicks returned to the main force, the Blazers replaced Drexler, and returned Jordan and Terry Porter, Larry Nance and Rick Schmitz.

They kept the stunning Clifford Robinson.

One more rookie, one less chance glider.

The Blazers' off-ball mistakes against the Knicks are usually on Drexler's side.

Now that a new member joins, theoretically there will be some flaws in communication, which Louis wants to take advantage of-but in fact, in the next few minutes, except for a small amount of poor off-ball defense, the Blazers did a good job of switching defenses.

The performance of Clifford Robinson completely exceeded Louis' expectations.

Originally, Louis' impression of him was just a face that flashed in the Jordan Shrugging Battle, but now he has a more intuitive impression of this person.

He's a lot like Rasheed Wallace, but more emotionally stable and won't go to the referee for a tee.

Robinson's range of movement makes him very special. He is the player with the largest defensive range in the Trail Blazers. Jordan has the top single defense and first-class help defense, and Robinson has first-class single defense and top help defense.

On paper, the Blazers' defensive resources are too good.

But after the Knicks started playing, their high-post dynamic offense was like a shampoo commercial, looking like hair with special effects, so smooth.

McHale took the ball in the low post, and the offense was just a superficial gesture. The real intention was to lay up Miller who cut from the weak side.

Moreover, Robinson made mistakes that rookies will make.

He was too active and wanted to fight, but he didn't know how to give it. The referee at Madison Square Garden would not let him get used to it. He gave him a foul, which happened to be 2+1;

Wilson threw off Jordan around Rodman's off-ball screen, bullied Schmitz for being slow, the defense couldn't keep up, and scored a dunk.

Once again, the Knicks took advantage of the Blazers' deficiencies in defense.

Moreover, Schmitz may be the only short board on the Blazers' books.

"The performance of the Knicks made Rick Schmitz embarrassing. When he faced other teams, he was often an important part of the Blazers' offensive end. But in front of the Knicks, he was regarded as a plaything by Benj, Dennis, Kevin, and John Stockton."

In the high post, McHale pretended to hand the ball to his teammate, then turned suddenly, went to the basket and hit Schmitz behind him.

It's Schmitz again!
Louis easily stood on the sidelines, did he arrange specific tactics?No.

He only gave a strategy.

Because of the specific tactics, these players are already familiar with it.

They know how to fight, and they only need Louis to tell them what strategy to implement, and they will know how to fight.

In this case, as long as they don't make low-level mistakes or other obvious mistakes, Louis only needs to stand on the sidelines and ask Jordan: "Michael, are you tired from running around like this? Do you want to sit down and drink Gatorade?"

Or, he would prod Schmitz: "Rick, why do my players prefer to attack the basket when you are on the court? Is it your problem?"

After consecutive problems, Schmitz finally left the paint in a more complicated free throw line cooperation by the Knicks.It's a gratifying first time, anyone's first time deserves to be taken seriously.

For the first time since the start of the game, Schmitz ran out of the paint to defend.

He ran out of the paint area, which does not mean that the Blazers' defense is safe.The Knicks have a lot of options. The ball handler can play Schmitz in a misplaced position, or more insidiously, let Schmitz know that there is no good fruit for running out to defend.

Under Louis' instruction, they chose the latter, which was more insidious.

Schmitz came out, but McHale and Rodman went full speed to the basket.

There was only Clifford Robinson. The poor rookie was faced with a situation of one defense and two defenses. Either he successfully defended and improved the team's morale, or he was played like a monkey, proving that the Blazers had no way to take advantage of the Knicks' offense.

McHale pretended to layup and made a back pass when he jumped into the air. Rodman caught the ball and dunked without stopping. Although the physical contact with Robinson was so small that it should be ignored, it is an unspoken rule in basketball games that rookies need to be educated.

Robinson ate another body whistle.

After that, before the end of the first half, the Knicks dominated Wilson and made two more offenses.

Wilson's ability with the ball has improved dramatically this season, but he's more willing to show off his off-ball skills.Using Rodman's off-ball screen to hit Robinson in a misplaced position, he didn't touch the rookie like other veterans, but made an emergency stop jump shot after adjustment; the other ball was a corner circle.

Before the end of the first half, Miller received another two-meter buzzer from the top of the arc, giving the Knicks a 70-point halftime lead over the Blazers by 16 points.

"It's pleasing to the eye!" Hubie Brown praised, "Most of the Knicks' offense in the second quarter caught the opponent's unsteady foothold, and they shot out the bullets before they had time to switch defenses or help defenses."

Brent Musberg asked: "Hubby, if you were the coach of the Blazers, what would you say to the players in the locker room?"

Brown joked: "I will let the players introduce themselves to each other and get to know each other again. They only know to implement the coaching staff's intentions on the court, but there is no communication and communication, especially Rick Schmitz, he looks terrible!"

In an interview with CBS, Louis praised the Trail Blazers: "Coach Pitino has really changed this team. Give them a few more years and they will become completely different."

Well, by then Jordan should have been beaten to retirement.

Although Pitino directed the game very weirdly, Louis had to admit that the Blazers' style was tailor-made for the Knicks.

Logically speaking, they should restrain the Knicks.

Terribly powerful flanks, high-pressure press defense, and advanced switching concepts.

However, the Knicks are so good overall that even if his opponent has the best configuration, the coaching staff can't make any mistakes.

To suppress the Knicks, the Blazers must first have a strong striker (√), a coaching staff that emphasizes defense, pressing, confrontation, and switching (√), pay more attention to discipline than defensive pressure (×), and pay attention to details like a perfectionist (×).

Even if everything is done right, the team's own lineup structure is required to have a strong individual ability.

Because a team with such an extreme defensive style will not be able to score by tactics alone until the end. It needs to rely on personal ability. If the personal ability is too poor, it will not be as good as the Knicks in singles.

But the Blazers happen to have all of these, but they don't have a head coach comparable to Louie.

It's easy for Louie to want Pitino to stay in Portland, because even he can't imagine what this team would be like if it fell to Phil Jackson, Pat Riley or any other coach who pays attention to detail and discipline.

In his heart, he hoped that no such person would save Portland and Jordan.

However, under the superficial intentions, he vaguely hoped that there really was such a person.

Just like he doesn't know what it's like to use the strength of this Trail Blazers to the extreme, he doesn't know what it's like for the current Knicks team to go all out when it enters its heyday.

Will he meet a team like they challenged the Celtics to challenge them?

If not, how regrettable is that?

(End of this chapter)