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Chapter 704 Who the hell is not from the 84 Diamond Generation
Before the semifinals, the Indiana was pessimistic.

Later, they learned that Patrick Ewing had injured his knee and was likely to miss the semifinals.

Indiana rekindled hope, Ewing is not in, maybe they can give full play to the advantages of Danny Manning this point?

They were wrong. Even with Ewing, there are not many chances to match Manning.

Because Manning's position in the Pacers is not a center, but a wing swingman.

On the offensive end, he plays the three position more, and on the defensive end, he plays the four position.

The Pacers cultivated him as the Celtics cultivated Sampson. However, Sampson is special in his height of 2 meters. Manning does not have this height. Therefore, the Knicks can safely let McHale, Rodman and other wings match him.

McHale is a top defensive power forward with extremely fast defensive steps, and Rodman is this year's DPOY favorite.

Of the two, Manning, who was still in the developmental stage, struggled to fight either one.

The Pacers lost in the first game, and the reflected situation will affect the process after the semifinals.

The other groups of duels were slightly more intense.

The game between the Celtics and the Pistons was fairly intense, although in the end it was inevitable that they would be crushed like the game between the Pacers and the Knicks.

The West is wonderful. Game 1 of the two rounds of semi-finals played to the last minute.

The Lakers played against the fourth-ranked Suns in the West, and then the third-ranked Trail Blazers and the second-ranked Jazz in the West.

Unlike in the 80s, in the early 90s, the overall competitiveness of the West was extremely strong.

Game2
The Pacers can't change much, because Dick Versace's task is not to give the team a complete tactical system.

He was to Danny Manning what Louie was to Ralph Sampson from 1980-1983.

Responsible for guiding and preventing them from going astray.

But Versace is not Louis, and he has no clear concept of Manning's completeness in his heart, and the latter is not a genius like Sampson.

So they will go back and forth, expecting the players to create miracles by themselves.

On the Knicks, a major problem exposed by the Pacers is Manning himself.

With Sampson as the positioning, when he meets Rodman's misplaced defense, or McHale comes to the high defense, he can't use his body to fight like Sampson, or simply use his own height advantage to pull up and shoot.

Manning doesn't have that physical condition, so he relies more on offense with the ball than Sampson.

If you want to attack with the ball inside, you first need to be strong.

Manning's weight gain was successful, but it was not enough to break the Knicks' blockade.

In the foreseeable next few years, Manning's top priority is to grow as much meat as possible without affecting his footwork.

Otherwise, there will be many more embarrassing encounters like tonight's.

According to Knicks statistics, in the 12 rounds Rodman defended Manning, the latter made 6 of 1 shots.

It stands to reason that he, a modern insider who can play multiple positions, should have a physical advantage when facing a swinging wing like Rodman.

But he didn't, and Rodman's excellent defense deflated Manning.

The Knicks' outside double guns, Wilson and Miller, still maintain a feeling of despair for the Indiana.

At the end of the game, Wilson scored 64 points with 41%, Miller made 12 of 7 three-pointers, and scored 31 points.

The scoring of UCLA's twin stars is close to that of the Pacers' starting five.

Adding the scores of others, it was another big victory without any suspense.

After the game, regardless of whether his words would be offended by his old boss Billy Cunningham, Versace praised the Knicks game: "This team plays the best basketball I have ever seen. Like "Home Alone", for children, the parents travel and then leave them at home, they can eat ice cream as much as they want, and then tease thoughtless fools. And for the fans, it is a great blessing to be able to watch this Knicks game."

Versace took the initiative to talk about "Home Alone" which Louis did not expect.

Because the movie has not yet been released, but the main creative team has introduced the plot on many occasions and predicted that this will be the best Christmas movie ever.

""Home Alone" is indeed a good movie, so please look forward to it." Louis then promoted it.

A day later, Ewing came to Louis and said that he would go away with the team.

"What are you going to do? Cheer everyone up? No need, stay at home honestly."

Now with a 2-0 lead in hand, Louis is not so angry when he sees Ewing.

Ewing moved his feet deliberately, and said, "Actually, I'm almost better."

"Really, I don't believe it." Louis said jokingly, "Unless you kick a cow to death in front of me."

"!￥!@%"

Immediately, Ewing burst out a Jamaican language that no one could understand, and translated it into English: "Who the hell can kick a cow to death!"

Louis' face was full of doubts: "You can't even kick a cow to death, how dare you say your feet are fine?"

"You just don't want me to come back, do you?"

"That's right!" Louis had a terrifying smile on his face, "This is your punishment for disregarding the overall situation. Who hurt you? Did I approve your injury?"

Ewing has nothing to do with such unreasonable people.

"!￥!￥"

That last Jamaican line must be a curse.

But Louis didn't take it seriously, sent Ewing off happily, and went to prepare for Game3 and Game4.

After the first two games, Louie can rest easy on any Eastern Conference team that isn't called the Celtics.When there is an obvious gap in hard power, even if they let an Ewing, there is no suspense.

Game3, the Pacers returning home, there are two main adjustment directions.

The first is to get Manning back to his previous state.

Since the semifinals, under the alternate care of McHale and Rodman, he has averaged only 16 points per game and a shooting percentage of 44%. For an all-around insider who claims to be able to play in any position, this is too hip.

Second, it is still related to Manning, and the Pacers need to reduce his burden.

While their game is dominated by Manning, there are other good players on the team.

Blaylock has the qualifications of a star player, Oakley's hard power is already an average All-Star, and Horace Grant is a powerful power forward.

These three people can relieve Manning's burden.

At the beginning of Game [-], when Oakley and Horace were on the court, the Pacers would deliberately point him to post-ups, hand-offs, various screens, and transition possessions.

On the defensive end, Manning's mobility was used to fill the position and sweep, and then let Oakley carry the opposing big center, and the other two protected the basket.

For the Pacers' random moves, Louis kept the policy of blocking the inside line unchanged.

Because the crux of the Pacers and many teams that Louie chose to block the inside is that their outside threat is not great.

As long as the Pacers' outside line is more accurate, Louis will adjust his strategy.But from the beginning to the end, the Pacers' outside line may pass, and the Knicks will launch a tidal counterattack if they catch the backcourt board.

The more they couldn't make outside shots, the more the Knicks shrunk. This made it difficult for the Pacers' back line to make damage in the penalty area. It would be impossible to feed the Oakleys.

The Knicks used Bowie and McHale's backcourt to drive a counterattack, and Wilson's wide-range pass after holding the ball to attract pincers in the positional battle made his teammates play more and less locally, widening the point difference to 20 points.

From the second quarter, the Pacers put all their eggs in one pocket formation, trying to protect the restricted area to prevent the Knicks from blooming inside and outside like the Knicks did.

Pocket array is a pseudo zone defense, and it fears the same things as zone defense.

What are pocket formations and zone defenses afraid of?Afraid that the opponent will shoot outside the three-point line;

I am also afraid that the opponent's ball holder will move to the weak side in a large range after breaking through with the ball, because the core concept of zone defense is to keep an eye on the ball.

So far in the series, the Knicks' outside three-pointers have cast a psychological shadow on the Pacers.

They still choose to do this because the coaching staff is not clear about the situation.

Sadly, Louis made a special trip to call a timeout for this matter.

He didn't let the player pass the ball and destroy the opponent's pocket formation with a three-pointer from the corner. Instead, he replaced Bowie and let him stand at the free throw line to support him fancy.

If the Pacers don't shrink, Bowie will shoot directly from the mid-range. If the Pacers shrink, there will be opportunities from the outside, and Bowie can pass it to his teammates to solve the problem.

Back from the timeout, the Knicks' first three-pointer was that Bowie stood at the free throw line to attract the defense, and then passed it to Miller for a shot.

This is the case with the pocket formation. The more accurate the opponent's outside line is, the more frightened the defense will be.

Once the defense is piled up, the opponent will have more and more opportunities.

Wilson, who had killed the Quartet in the previous two games, was robbed of the limelight by Sam Bowie tonight.

鲍维全场19分14篮板6助攻3盖帽，这表现，就像是在昭告天下：谁他妈不是84钻石一代来着！

Indiana couldn't stop it, and the Knicks led 3-0.

The next day, the league announced the winners of the regular season awards.

The Knicks are still the team that has gained the most.

Their sixth man, Dennis Rodman, averaged 9 points, 8 rebounds, 2 steals and 1.7 blocks per game. He was selected as the first defense and was elected the Defensive Player of the Year.

　The day after tomorrow resume three shift

　　
　
(End of this chapter)