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Chapter 702 Little Sampson in Yincheng
In the playoffs, the Knicks met the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round.

In the post-Don Nelson era, although the Bucks are still exploring future plans, they can still guarantee the most basic competitiveness.

Making the playoffs is nothing new for them.

However, when they met the Knicks, their heads went down.

"I've broken my head, and I can't imagine the Knicks losing to the Bucks in the playoffs." Hubie Brown exaggerated, "This kind of thing won't happen in another ten years, and they won't win a game."

It is true that the Bucks can't win a game, but won't it happen in another ten years?

This is an exaggeration, anyway, Louis can't guarantee that they will not lose to the Bucks in the next ten years.

But the next five or six years are guaranteed.

The first round between the Knicks and the Bucks became an exhibition match for the former.

Louie used the Bucks to simulate what he might encounter against the Celtics. Although no one can simulate Bird, no one can simulate Thomas, and no one can simulate Sampson, they at least wear green jerseys when they are away.

As long as you have green on your body, the simulation is passable.

Game1
The Knicks' starting scores were all above 15 points, and the audience blasted 130 points.

Even though this team is the best defensive team in history in Louie's vision, their offense is not a shortcoming, and it doesn't torture fans like the Spurs and Pistons in another timeline in the new century.

They don't torture the fans. In terms of game viewing, the Knicks are not the first in the league but also the top three in the league.

In the second game, Louis deliberately kept the playing time of the starters below 25 minutes. Strictly speaking, the director played a game in which there was no distinction between starters and substitutes.

The Knicks scored another 130 points, and 13 of the team's 11 players scored in double figures. Hornacek's 18 points were the team's highest.

In this way, they grasped the match point decisively and forced the Bucks to return to the home court for a last stand.

In the first round of the era of the best-of-five series, it is not uncommon for a team to go behind 0 to 2 in straight sets and overtake in three straight games.However, there is only one example throughout the ages, and it has a long history. It must be traced back to the series between the Fort Wayne Pistons and the St. Louis Hawks 34 years ago.

Moreover, the strength gap between the Knicks and the Bucks is so large that the Milwaukee people dare not even imagine.

Impossible to win, this is a recognized fact.

Game3
There was no miracle. Wilson scored 42 points in a single game and led the team to beat the Bucks in an away game, advancing 3-0 to the semifinals.

This is the third consecutive year that the Knicks have eliminated the Bucks in the playoffs.

After the game, Del Harris said helplessly: "Even if the Knicks only use the second team to play against us, it will be difficult for us to win."

Only very, very few people think Harris is making excuses.

After passing the Bucks, the Knicks can take a little rest.

Their semifinal opponents will be decided between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers.

The Heat and the Pacers are ranked fourth and fifth in the Eastern Conference respectively.

The Heat have home court advantage, but facing the sudden emergence of the Pacers, the Heat don't have many cards against Danny Manning in the playoffs.

Hank Gaithers may be one of the options, but he has a heart problem, and the Heat don't dare to kill Gaithers like the Pacers killed Manning for 48 minutes every game.

He was determined to limit Gaithers' playing time to 34 minutes.

In this case, Gaithers carried a heavy burden with a sense of guilt, and instead played poorly.

The Heat relied on Petrovic's outside firepower to support them.

Except for Manning, the performance of other Pacers players is equally astonishing.

Based on the three frontcourt players of Manning, Horace Grant and Charles Oakley, they created an awesome frontcourt lineup similar to the Pistons in previous years.

It's just that they are not as rigid as the Pistons of previous years.

In this lineup, Manning plays the third position on the offensive end and has no clear position on the defensive end. He can defend anyone except the opposing point guard.

The experience of the Celtics in training Sampson and the way Louis trained Ewing gave the Pacers a lot of inspiration.

Pacers executive Donnie Walsh did not hesitate to trade the superstar nanny Oakley from the Knicks, and invited young coaches to ask for no restrictions on Manning's court positioning.

On the contrary, this arrangement has activated Manning's own vague position attributes. In addition, he was lucky to avoid injuries in the first few years of his career and successfully gained weight. A little Sampson with Ralph Sampson as the blueprint but a smaller model is ready to come out.

Although the Heat have Brian Shaw, Willie Anderson, Vernon Maxwell, Maurice Cheeks, Gaithers, Petrovich, and BJ Armstrong, the number of players who can play does not mean that these people will have a 1+1>2 effect.

No other coach has ever succeeded in the long rotation mode like Louis's since ancient times.

For the Heat, they played five games against the Pacers when Geithers had a problem with his mentality.

In the fifth game of the series, it was completely dominated by Manning.

曼宁连续五场比赛打满48分钟，抢五大战，他轰下非人的37分14篮板7助攻4抢断4盖帽，进攻热区从禁区蔓延到弧顶三分线外。

He followed Sampson's approach to the skill tree completely.

Louis watched the live broadcast of the game, and Manning's performance made him feel emotional.

He remembered what Ralph Sampson's wish was back then. He wanted to change the game of basketball and take a path that no one had traveled.

Has he come out to this day?
At least, his success has guided younger generations like Manning.

If the whole thing is to be traced back, Louis seems to be the source of everything.

It was he who persuaded Sampson to participate in the draft early, which changed everything in the 1980 offseason, which in turn affected the pattern of the 80s, and changed the fate of many players by the way.

Unlike the tragedian, what Manning was infected with was a positive butterfly effect.

From the starting point of his career, to the development template, to the present, he, like Sampson, has already made his own way.

3 is better than 2
The Heat team rebuilt by Louie remotely entered the playoffs in the second year of the team's establishment, but was eliminated by the Pacers in the first round.

Is this a failure?
Of course not, and they are just getting started.

After the Heat were eliminated, less than an hour later, Lewis Shafier called Louis's home and complained about Charles Oakley: "Coach Lu, that Oakley has caused us so much suffering! He is simply a thug, burning, killing and looting inside, we can do nothing to him!"

"So you should know the direction of the next reinforcement?" Louis asked lightly.

Shafier took it for granted: "Insider! Even if Hank is healthy, he is not a full-sized insider. It is really uncomfortable to have no insider in the playoffs."

"Then what, Coach Lu, do you have any recommendations for this year?"

"Goodbye."

Louis hung up the phone, even though he enjoyed participating in the rebuilding process of the Heat, Shafier's virtue always made him feel like being used as an ATM by green tea.

Louis rubbed his cheeks, and then he had to concentrate on dealing with the Pacers in the semifinals.

Danny Manning seems to be carved out of the same mold as Sampson. I don't know if his performance is discovered by Ewing, will it arouse Mr. You's fond memories of being beaten by Sampson?
(End of this chapter)