the rest, only noise

Chapter 715 Your era is over

Every time the coaching staff meets internally, Louis will prepare in advance.

This is the time for all assistant coaches to have their say.

Regarding how to fight against opponents, Louie will draw up a series of plans in advance, and then, if an assistant coach proposes a similar plan, he will praise the other party and accept the suggestion.

As for his preparation in advance, unless necessary, he will not specifically mention it.

Just like a teacher teaching a class, he definitely hopes to have a classroom atmosphere where everyone speaks enthusiastically.

Louie has created a good atmosphere in the team, and the assistants are willing to share their ideas.

And this is something you can't see in the Celtics. With so many changes after Ford took over, Louis can be sure that this birdman didn't assist Jimmy Rogers well.

Otherwise, with so many tricks, Rogers can always use a few.

When the Knicks coaching staff holds a pregame meeting, it is always extremely lively.

Zhao Yuanzheng speaks actively and can come up with some good ideas every time.

Billy Donovan has the potential to be a crouching dragon and phoenix with him, and he is also very active when offering advice.Moreover, he likes to defend, Zhao Yuanzheng prefers to attack, and the advice of the two does not conflict.

As the chief assistant coach, Tomjanovich doesn't have so many ideas. He often takes a pen and paper to write down everyone's suggestions and summarize them, and then analyze with Louis one by one which is the most suitable for use in the game.

In order to successfully end the series tomorrow, the meeting lasted for two hours.

In Louie's words, they stripped the Celtics of their weaknesses from head to toe.

What about going back to the original tactics?The Knicks, who were immature back then, defeated them. Now, with two consecutive championships, why is it so difficult to beat the Celtics?
1990/5/30

The unscrupulous Madison Square Garden event planning department, ingeniously planned a stage play.

They found a white man who looked like Bird from nowhere, and then simulated the scene after they lost the game in front of the Celtics players.

The white man who played Byrd was so skilled in acting that he burst into tears on the spot just like the characters in Two-dimensional.

"Haha!" commented Marv Albert gleefully. "I'm sure the play was inspired by Howard Stern's ridiculous funeral for John DeBella⑴."

Louis almost lost his footing when he saw it.

"Do the people in the event preparation department think that the Celtics are not angry enough?" Louis couldn't see the meaning of this gimmick, which has no other use than disgusting opponents, but only makes them more involved in the game.

Things have come to this point, the Knicks have to win this game.

Otherwise, if the Celtics win two consecutive games, although it will not shake the foundation, it is too passive to go to the away game.

Once the game is dragged to the tiebreaker, Louis still has a guilty conscience about the Celtics with Bird + No.1 in the league.

However, he doesn't think the series will drag on to a tiebreaker.

Not even a sixth game.

Just tonight, he will end the Eastern Conference Finals at home.

"This is CBS Sports Night, and tonight, we're bringing you Game [-] between the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics," Dick Stockton said to the camera, before asking his partner, "What do you think about this game, Hubie?"

"The loss in the last game reminded New York that they can't win all the games they want. Whether it's against the Celtics or against the Western Conference champions in the Finals, their strength is defense."

Brown said profoundly: "Only by doing a good job of defense can they give full play to their lineup advantages."

In the opening game, Sampson won the jump ball.

The Celtics' starting lineup hasn't changed, it's always those five players.

The Knicks, for the first time since the start of the series, took out their regular-season starters: Stockton, Miller, Wilson, McHale, Ewing.

This lineup is scary on paper.

Four of the five players in the starting lineup have defensive capabilities at the defensive level. Starting with this lineup shows that Louis no longer wants to entangle with the Celtics and wants to be serious.

The Celtics hope that Sampson will give them a good start.

The ball is passed to Sampson.

The only Mr. is ready to break through to the basket. For his offense, the Knicks have long been prepared.

Louis arranged a defensive plan for Sampson with Ewing, Wilson and Miller shrinking from the left and right, and piled up in the free throw line area, pinching his breakthrough route.

This arrangement was designed by Louis combined with Donovan's suggestions and carefully selected the location.

The position of the free throw line double-teams Sampson, which can force Sampson to return the ball to teammates outside the left and right 45-degree three-point line. Since the free throw line is very close to the left and right 45-degree three-point line, Wilson and Miller can return to their positions as soon as necessary to ensure that the Celtics shooter does not open a three-pointer.

Moreover, Sampson may have been shocked by the momentum of the three-person attack, the pass was too strong, and Bird's bounce was overestimated.

His pass went out of Bird's reach, sent the basketball out of bounds, and the Celtics missed the opening possession.

Louie clapped his hands, expressing his satisfaction with the opening defense.

Regardless of offense and defense, as long as the offense can advance or defend, it is a good start.

Ewing took the initiative to ask for a seat.

"Here it comes again!" Louis narrowed his eyes. He didn't want to see Ewing single-handedly playing against Sampson. "Why is this guy so obsessed with single-handedly playing Ralph? Isn't it uncomfortable to be put on fire in front of someone?"

Every time Ewing met Sampson, he was beaten until he lost his memory.

But he still likes to play singles against Sampson, even if the success rate is very low, he can still hit it.

With this ball, Sampson's chassis firmly supported Ewing's body, forcing him to turn and fall back.

The bunny jump shot that fans love to see flew out of Ewing's hand. Unfortunately, it was seriously interfered by Sampson, and the ball's parabola didn't look like it would go in.

"boom!"

"My fault!" Ewing yelled.

As if Louis could let him go.

However, the moment the rebound fell, a white figure flew up in the penalty area.

"Benj!!!"

Wilson flew up like he was in a helicopter, grabbed the falling rebound, and dunked it violently into the hoop.

The noise from MSG made Ewing heave a sigh of relief.

He was just about to return to defense, but he didn't expect Louis to come to the sideline and slap his ass hard: "I beg you to let Ralph go, okay? You are not his opponent!"

Even if what Louis said was true, Ewing did not intend to let Sampson go.

He was just like Ke Zhen'e, no matter whether he could beat him or not, as long as he saw it and felt dissatisfied, he must fight his way out, even if he was beaten to death, it didn't matter.

Louis couldn't fully understand his challenging attitude towards Sampson.

The Knicks' matchup is very interesting.

If Sampson is in the high post, let McHale defend; if Sampson goes in the low post, it is natural for Ewing to defend; Wilson keeps an eye on Bird all the time, and the others match up according to their positions.

Bird and Thomas pick and roll, and Stockton is forced to switch on Bird.

Thomas passed the ball, Bird received it, and he was sure to take Stockton alone. Two of the dirtiest players Louie had ever seen in his life suddenly met. Who could win?
Bird's physical gifts pushed Stockton away with ease, sauntering his way to the rim, laying up intentionally to avoid Ewing's block.

But he didn't expect Wilson's help defense to come so quickly.

This year's Eastern Conference Finals is like a handover battle between Wilson and Bird.

In the past two years, Bird's fans can lie in the past glory and forcefully justify. This year, the two faced off head-on and Bird was clearly at a disadvantage.

威尔逊东决至今场均35分10篮板6助攻，力压场均25分7篮板7助攻的伯德。

At this time, he saw Bird's dislocation defense against Stockton, who was expected to be unable to defend GOAT's offense.

In addition, Thomas is on the outside, so he has no worries. In the game against the Celtics, it is the Knicks' established strategy to let Thomas shoot three-pointers.

The decision was made within seconds, and Wilson was off, rushing to the hoop to take Bird's calculated counter-block.

McHale scrambled to catch the ball off the pegboard.

Wilson landed and turned, like a cheetah rushing forward.

"Benj dominates both offense and defense!"

Wilson dunked with a single-armed windmill in the frontcourt, sweeping the Knicks' two offenses and two defenses in the opening game.

4 is better than 0
When Wilson returned to the backcourt, he faced Bird again.

"Your time is over, Larry," said Wilson confidently.

"Hmph!" Bird said proudly, "It's not up to your fucking mouth to decide whether it's over or not."

This time, Bird pressed Wilson's body with all his strength, got the ball in a high position, exerted strength in his hands, pushed the defense away, and turned around to shoot.

"Shh!"

2 is better than 4
"You are no different from two years ago." Byrd sneered.

Wilson's mentality did not fluctuate. Bird's shot just now belonged to the category of personal ability. If he didn't score, if he didn't score, if he got a defensive rebound for the Knicks, it would be another counterattack that the Celtics could not stop.

Since Bird has ignored the consequences of the risky attack in order to pay back, it just shows that his method has worked.

⑴ Both of these two were popular TV hosts in the 80s and 90s, and they belonged to competitors of different programs.Stern Howard held a mock funeral for De Bella to gain attention.

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