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Chapter 924 He's Not Benj
Chapter 925 He's Not Benj
"John, you replace Dennis."

Louie called out John Selley.

Sely jumped up.

Looking at his figure, he is really too thin.

Louie used to use him as a murder tight center, but now he has doubts about even playing him as a backup power forward.

Before playing, Sely asked: "Coach, what kind of attitude should we take towards this game?"

"A high-profile regular season, don't you think?" Louie asked.

"Got it," Sally said, "I'll do my best."

Louie is concerned about Salley's body, but not his performance.

Sely is a typical smiling tiger.

In the Knicks, there are three media darlings.

They are Benj, Rodman and Sely.

Needless to say, Wilson is New York's basketball god.

Needless to say, Rodman, every Knicks game, predicting Rodman's hair color is a repertoire of fans.

Wilson is popular because of his strength, and Rodman is fascinated by his equally powerful and unconventional behavior. His love affair with Madonna made his fame peak.

Only Sely, he became famous little by little.

Only he knows how much he has paid from the team's bench to become the most out-of-the-box faces of the Knicks.

Louis' greatest fear for him was also here.

The NBA job isn't the only thing he's begging for, and if he's going to be a media guy, he'll be better off than he is now.

Apparently he has a tendency to do so.

Louis believes that he still has potential for development on the court, but he himself seems to have lost his ambition.

After that, the Blazers made two free throws.

Thomas made two free throws and was still the Blazers' possession.

Mohammad Rauf continued to irritate Thomas, like a daredevil who didn't know what the red line was.

Thomas forced a breakthrough.

Rauf fouled.

The Blazers made another sideline kick.

The irritated Thomas is terrifying. He still has the ability to tear through any team's defense with the ball alone, but there are too many people in the Blazers who need the ball, and he must suppress his desire.

But now, he is full of anger, who dares to ask for the ball at this time?

He came to hug his thigh, but he himself is also a thigh, just like Harden in the Nets period.

What's more, as the only person in this team who has won the championship as a core player, he can be said to be the spiritual leader of this team.

The spiritual leader is insulted by some deviant black ***, shouldn't others support him?

That's what the Blazers did.

Louie's specially designed defense for Thomas-outside double-teaming, calling the pick-and-roll to switch directly, from the effect point of view, it is not good.

In several offenses, Thomas either scored or caused a foul. He rarely made a forced error, and even missed a shot under high-pressure defense.

He's too mature to pass the ball out whenever he feels uncomfortable being guarded.

Therefore, halfway through the second quarter, Louis called another timeout.

During the timeout, first substitutions, Stockton replaced Rauf, Kemp replaced Sely, Miller replaced Reggie Williams.

Then, he saw the change in the other party.

Riley waved his hand, ready to confront the Knicks.

This means that the Blazers are going to use a murderous press comparable to the peak Knicks.

The Blazers copied their homework thoroughly, and their murderous tight end consisted of five athletic, tough defensive wings.

They are Jordan, McDaniel, Cosey, Clifford Robinson and Anthony Mason.

The most amazing thing is that Riley even copied the concept of letting the core players take the lead and lead everyone to defend.

At the heart of Knicks' murderous urgency is Wilson.

The Blazers are Jordan.

On the Knicks' side, due to Sely's degradation, Rodman's poor attendance rate and frequent accidents due to emotional loss, he has rarely used murder pressing.

The murder press was originally synonymous with the Knicks, but now it has become the Blazers' trump card.

According to statistics, the Blazers use the murder press for 12 minutes per game, and the average score ratio of the murder press is 17 to 6.

This is a defensive system that can help them steadily build an 11-point advantage.

Riley is a face-saving person. He clearly knows that this tactic was copied from the Knicks, but he will not admit it in front of the media.

He'll talk about how their murderous press differs from the Knicks from a tactical standpoint.

And the Knicks call their full-court press the Murder Press, and the Blazers call their full-court press the Verdun Line.

Even the names are different.

"We have tested their full-court pressing strength in the finals." Louis has long heard the bad name of the Verdun defense line.

He believes that this oppressive full-court press may become more powerful due to the improvement of player tacit understanding and the increase of routines, but the intensity has a limit.

It's impossible for them to go beyond the fourth quarter of Game [-] of last season's Finals.

After the game started, the defense of Jordan and Kexi brought a lot of trouble to the Knicks.

It was brutal indeed.

Every time the Knicks tried to dribble past half court, they had to peel off their skin.

Stockton was knocked to the ground several times, but his basic skills of control and passing were so good that the Blazers couldn't force him to death alone, and two people couldn't stop him from passing the ball.

The most taboo of the murder press is to allow the opponent to pass the ball smoothly.

Because if possession can flow freely, no amount of athleticism can stop a player on the murder press from bringing the ball upfield.

The full-court press is an all-or-nothing tactic in itself.

The opponent must be locked in the backcourt.

Judging from this game, the Blazers' Verdun defense line is not strong enough to be indestructible.

Once the normal defensive strength is unreliable, they have to fight hard.

There are bound to be many unnecessary actions in a fierce confrontation.

However, the referee's scale is not in their favor.

Jack Nice can be said to be blowing the whistle. He didn't give the Blazers a chance to exert their strength. As long as he felt that the action was too big, he would blow the whistle.

After Wilson noticed the hint, he transformed himself into the Porcelain King, holding the ball and rushing towards the opponent.

Nice's whistle really cooperated and rang again and again.

In less than 5 minutes, the Blazers fouled 13 times and gave the Knicks many free throw opportunities.

Although most of the Knicks' scoring came from free throws, it also made the Blazers' Verdun defense meaningless.

If the referees continue to maintain this defensive scale, no matter how strong their defense is, it will be useless.

The referee didn't give him a chance to play, so Riley could only call for a timeout and adjustment.

In the remaining minutes of the first half, the two sides faced off normally.

Without the shackles of the full-court press, Jordan fired with full firepower and stormed around a point (Miller).

The Blazers' offensive firepower is above the Knicks.

Especially when the three-pointer is no longer Jordan's weakness, this monster who averaged 40 points per game in the Finals against the Knicks, like Mike Kay who opened nine doors and never died, has become a BUG on the court.

At halftime, Jordan led the Blazers into the second half with a 7-point lead.

"Coach Lu, do you think there is a strength gap between us and Portland after halftime?"

Louie replied humorously: "If this game is over, I will tell you that there is a 7-point gap between us and Portland. But now it's only the end of the first half, so I will say, the best is yet to come."

When entering the player channel, Zhao Yuanzheng provided an anti-logical routine to defend Jordan: "Old road, maybe we can put Jordan's right hand."

Louis stopped and touched his forehead to see if he had a fever.

"Yuanzheng, are you insane?"

"Old Lu, I'm fine, I'm serious."

Uh……

Put Jordan's right hand?

This is like allowing Curry to be on the perimeter every day; it's like Kobe's red eye, but the Raptors continue to insist that gentlemen fight only one-on-one; it's like O'Neal back-hitting Zhou Qi, Li Ran thinks the problem is not big, Zhou Qi can handle it.

Isn't this a joke?
The handedness of the top five breakthrough hands in NBA history?

"Tell me your opinion." Louis fully respected the whimsy of his subordinates, even if it sounded like the protagonist of a horror movie who likes to explore haunted houses—it's boring.

Zhao Yuanzheng said calmly: "The Blazers are now full of stars. Their biggest problem is the need to distribute the ball reasonably. Obviously, no team can reasonably distribute the ball to MJ, Charles, Isiah and the Lithuanians. Someone must make sacrifices."

"Go on."

"Charles is inside and the ball is not in his hands. Therefore, the person who can distribute the ball is MJ. The stability of the Trail Blazers depends largely on whether he is selfless enough. If he is unwilling to give up a lot of ball possessions, there will be problems within the Blazers-this is why we let him attack with his right hand. We want him to forget his teammates. We want him to expose his true nature. He is not Larry, not a tragic teacher, he is a selfish player."

At first, Louis really didn't take Zhao Yuanzheng's suggestion seriously.

Now he can't help thinking seriously about Zhao Yuanzheng's suggestion.

People's hearts are very complicated. He believes that Jordan is willing to give up some things in order to allow Thomas and the others to integrate into the team-such as scoring champions and part of the ball.

The scoring champion can give up, because there has never been a scoring champion in history that can lead the team to win the championship.Although Jordan wanted to be the only one, the strength of the Knicks made him realize the reality.

So he is willing to give up the scoring champion, but is he also willing to give up the ball?Even if he is willing, how much is he willing to give up the ball?

This thing is worth a try.

"Wrong, Expedition." Louis smiled excitedly.

Zhao Yuanzheng asked hesitantly: "Wrong?"

"Your plan is right, but your metaphor is wrong. The redneck may be selfless, but he's an arrogant bastard, is Erwin selfless? I don't think he'd be better off putting him in Mitch's shoes. Neither of those metaphors fits."

"Then what analogy is appropriate?"

Louie is like a parent who is proud of his children: "He's not Benj."

For Louie, the metaphor not only fits, but also satisfies his pride in how well Wilson has grown.

(End of this chapter)