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Chapter 830 Itchy Skin?
Jordan in 1992 was at the peak of his competitive state.

Louie doesn't expect the 24-year-old Benjamin Wilson to be able to split [-]/[-] with such a Jordan.

But in the second half of the first quarter, Wilson did show momentum.

He first let Clifford Robinson break his promise, and he scored the Blazers penalty area, which was known as "no one can score here".

Robinson jumped up to try to block, but failed.

Wilson's dunk slipped past Robinson's arm and landed a perfectly positioned dunk.

Wilson's offense played the momentum of the Knicks. It seems that even Jordan can't limit him.

The tragedy teacher said: "If you want to defend the Knicks' offense, you must not rely solely on a certain player. Their pick-and-rolls and screens are ever-changing. No matter how good a player's defensive ability is, one person's strength is limited after all. What the Knicks like to do most is to use screens to cooperate with local ones. This is why it is difficult for MJ to limit Benj."

The Knicks started with three first defenses and one second defense. Under the full defense, the Blazers' opportunities concentrated on Jordan and Barkley.

Jordan occasionally made offensive moves with the ball, but in most cases, he still passed the ball first.

Riley instilled in him the concept of focusing on the team. In fact, he does not lack this concept. When he was at the University of North Carolina, Dean Smith often told him that a strong individual is only strong alone, and a strong team is really strong.

It's just that after entering the league, he met Adelman, who was eager to achieve results and lacked discipline on the players, so he developed some bad habits.

Riley corrected his shortcomings, so he saw Wilson explode but did nothing, and continued to pass the ball until the second quarter.

At the start of the second quarter, Louie replaced Wilson, McHale and Stockton with Chris Jackson, Kemp and Vernon Maxwell.

Riley replaced Barkley to rest and let Jordan spin, as did Porter and Mason, replaced by Xavier McDaniels and Larry Nance.

"Ervin, what do you think of the Knicks' substitution?"

asked Groom Albert.

"From a player's point of view, I don't like this aspect." Tragedian smiled, "It's a little proud. Portland's adjustment is more reasonable, and they kept Michael on the court, but New York didn't keep Benj to continue playing. This is a rotation that disrespects Michael. However, this is also the characteristic of Coach Lu. He doesn't play cards according to common sense."

Another analyst, Mike Fratello, clearly pointed out Louie's intentions: "As always, Little Lu chose to use offense to overwhelm the opponent's defense. And we can see that although there is no Benj on the court, there are Shawn Kemp and Dennis Rodman. A Defensive Player of the Year and a second team member of the All-Defensive Team of the Year are enough to bring a strong defense. How much effect it plays is worthy of our attention.”

After the start of the second quarter, the Blazers were eager to make up for their lag in the first quarter.

The Knicks established a 5-point lead in the first quarter by virtue of a higher offensive and defensive start.

The current score is 28 to 23.

The intensity of the Blazers' game is indeed unprecedented.

In the past, this kind of intensity was usually brought to their opponents by the Knicks. Unexpectedly, the Blazers calmed down the defending champion as soon as they came up.

But the Knicks adjusted faster and are better suited to play at this level of intensity.

The Blazers always gave people a feeling of leaving room, because Jordan never broke out with all his firepower.

As a result, in the first round of the second quarter, Jordan passed Maxwell in one step and scored a gliding layup.

25 is better than 28
"Where's the pocket? Why don't you close it?" Louie asked loudly.

The pocket array is essentially to force Jordan and his group to use shooting to solve the problem.

It is very simple to crack this defense. Jordan and the others keep hitting shots, which is also the result that Louie foresees.Another way to break is to deploy reliable shooters on both wings.

But the Blazers are like the Lakers in the past few years. They don't pay attention to outside shooting, and they firmly believe that shooters are only auxiliary, rather than playing a key role in qualitative change.

This is also a difference in thinking brought about by the times.

Louie has been influenced by the small ball era where there is space and the offense is as smooth as water. No matter how tossing the offensive end, there must be a shooter.

Now that Porter is the only shooter in the Trail Blazers, the Knicks should give targeted defense and close the pocket tightly.

The Knicks' offense started along Chris Jackson.

Porter took a high-intensity post defense against CJ.

This is one of the evidences that the Blazers have studied the Knicks' personnel characteristics, but can Porter's defense lock Jackson?

Rodman's pick-and-roll, Kemp followed up with a pick-and-roll behind Rodman.

This is the Knicks' specialty -- the slide pick-and-roll.

Jackson broke through Porter's defense, broke into the paint area and was surrounded by the Blazers. He suddenly stopped and chose a high-throw pass.

Larry Nance thought he could intercept, but he didn't expect it.Kemp, who was in charge of the second pick-and-roll in a high position a second ago, has already run to the paint area, and took off with a kind of elasticity and speed that has never been seen before.

At that moment, Louis thought of Griffin's ruthless dunk that "killed" Pau Gasol in the air.

Camp now, only beyond, but not less than.

Unlike Griffin, who couldn't keep his hands and feet clean, he knocked Nance away purely with the impact of his body, and then the hand holding the ball exploded with terrifying force, as if he was about to smash the basket for a dunk.

Nance's body showed a posture of lying backward, completely out of control.

"Oh oh oh oh oh oh buy Karma!!!"

Albert cried out excitedly.

"Shawn Kemp has no regard for human life! What a spectacular shot!"

The noise made by Kemp made the scene ignore Dick Bavita's whistle.

It was a 2+1, and Nance was called for a foul.

So, as Kemp walked to the free throw line, fans at Madison Square Garden chanted his nickname in unison.

The cries of "ruler" resounded through MSG.

Kemp's penalty was also added.

31 is better than 25
The point difference came to 6 points.

Louie happily reached out to give Kemp a high five.

"He is amazing!" Tomjanovich admired, "Only he can do that kind of dunk, not even Dominique Wilkins."

Louie had been mentally prepared for Kemp's dunk, no matter how outrageous his dunk, he would not be excited-he thought so.

But he was wrong.

It's as if no matter how much he dislikes Griffin's hand that has nowhere to rest in the dunk collection and the sneaky extra footsteps in the James collection, the moment they complete the goal, the visual impact that stimulates the eyeball is unparalleled.

Kemp is better than them. His dunks can't be faulted. They are clean, powerful and stretched.

Kemp's stunning dunk successfully aroused Jordan's desire to compete.

The trapeze dribbled the ball to the top of the frontcourt, and Maxwell, who was in charge of defending him, had a strong shooting ability and a good defense.

If he is not excellent both offensively and defensively, Danny Ainge's bench will not be "reliable".

However, it is still too reluctant to defend against Jordan with his defense.

Jordan suddenly opened up his aura, made a strong sudden stop, received the ball, and just fell outside the three-point line, so he pulled out.

28 is better than 31
His long-range shooters feel a serious decline in the effect of muscle growth, but this does not mean that he will not shoot three-pointers.

He will take a certain number of three-pointers in each game to test his touch, and if he can make a shot, he will continue to shoot.

He knows very well how much it will help the Blazers' offense if he can make a three-pointer.

"Max (nickname)!" Louie called Maxwell.

Maxwell looked back.

"In principle, we can let him shoot, but if he can make a shot, we have to find a way to let him in for a breakthrough. Our insiders have a clear advantage in assisting defense!"

After Louis finished giving his instructions, there was a problem in the audience.

Jackson fell into the trap of the Blazers and was double-teamed by Porter and McDaniel to force a turnover.

The Trail Blazers' double-teaming is not like the Knicks, where the opposing player enters a certain area to trigger a trap, but relies on the athletic ability of the wing players to launch a sudden attack unreasonably.

This kind of unstructured punching is very difficult to prevent, because the point of judging their double-teaming is "do they think this position can be double-teamed?" rather than "can't get to that position, otherwise the double-team will come".

Jackson fumbled the ball, Jordan went to the frontcourt and gave a wonderful pass to McDaniel who followed up.

McDaniel scored a slam dunk.

30 is better than 31
"Freak, how on earth do players like you get into the rotation in New York?" McDaniel deliberately stimulated Jackson, trying to mess with his mentality.

"If you, a mediocre person with no strengths other than fighting, can make MJ give up the fast break and choose to pass the ball, what can't happen?"

Louie loudly supported CJ.

"Or, is your face itchy again?"

(End of this chapter)