NBA: This Center Is So Stable

The first time, the second time.

Chapter 247 The stubbornness of the bad boy army

“Fuck, damn yellow dog, get out of the Palace of Auburn Hills!”

“Does the sick man of East Asia deserve to be in the NBA?”

“The Knicks are indeed the last team in a row, and now they have fallen to using Asian bamboo poles as the core of the team!”

Inside the Palace of Auburn Hills.

The curses spread all over the venue. The blue-collar workers in the Motor City seemed to have lost their minds. They were passionate and cursed unscrupulously before the game.

As for the order management on the scene… The Pistons will not drive away their sponsors for insulting the visiting team.

Even if they may receive a ticket from the league after the game, the Pistons now need the support of the home fans.

When the opponent holds the match point, it is necessary to take an unconventional approach to win.

Even though the last game of the series will still go to New York, Larry Brown also wants to make full use of the remaining home advantage in this home game 6.

Reasonable use of objective factors is also one of the techniques and tactics that the coaching staff should master.

Bill Laimbeer and Isaiah Thomas appeared in the front row of the audience behind the Pistons’ players’ bench. These two members of the “Bad Boys” who once taught the Pistons players everything, Joe Dumars hired the Pistons’ off-court coaches with his personal connections.

Except for the game in New York, he went to the game site for every game, whether it was the intermission or the halftime, he was on the side to make plans.

It can be said that the Pistons’ current situation is inseparable from them.

At this moment, the two were looking at Joe Dumars with bitter faces.

“Joe, are you ready?”

“Don’t think about it. Special times call for special measures. Let’s let those bad boys play as agreed before the game. Winning is the most important thing.”

As a former member of the “Bad Boys”, the two are naturally dissatisfied with the current performance of the Pistons.

You know, their opponents back then were all Hall of Fame superstars like MJ, and they also defeated their opponents.

The Pistons today have such a hard time playing against a new team, and they are still under the guidance of the two of them. This alone makes the two feel frustrated.

Joe Dumars, who was sitting on the side, listened to the shouts of the two, and then frowned and his face was tangled.

He naturally knew what the suggestions the two provided to the team before the game were, but considering the cost of doing so, Joe Dumars did not dare to make a decision immediately.

Larry Brown, standing in the middle of the player’s bench, was the same, waiting for the general manager to give orders.

Although he was the head coach appointed by the Pistons, he dared to let the players do this “dangerous move” only after the approval of the team’s top management.

Seeing Joe Dumars’s tangled face, Isaiah Dumars on the side said with disdain: “Joe, you are still as timid as ever!”

“Isn’t it just a little bit bigger? As long as the original intention is to win the team, it can be forgiven. If Stern dares to impose a heavy penalty on the Pistons, I will go to talk to him.”

Bill Laimbeer also echoed on the side: “Yes, Joe, it’s okay. At this time, there is nothing to be entangled about. This scale was just a tickle for us at that time, and the game has reached this stage. I don’t believe that the league will be so fussy about such a small matter as a little bit bigger.”

Listening to the dissuasion of the two old teammates, Joe Dumars’s frown gradually relaxed.

Looking back to the past, he was also a winner of the Sports Ethics and Style Award.

Now he has to actively instigate players to do whatever it takes to win. Is this behavior that destroys the basketball competition in his heart really worth it?

What about friendship first and competition second!

Bill Laimbeer and Isaiah Thomas saw Joe Dumars wavering, and they didn’t care about the complexity of their old teammate’s heart, and continued to add fuel to the fire.

“Joe, believe us, as long as we cross the high mountain of the Knicks, it will no longer be a mirage to win the championship after 30 years. We are old and it’s time to retire. This may be the most promising time for you to win the championship in your general manager’s career.”

“Yes, as long as we make it to the finals, I don’t think the current Los Angeles Lakers are the so-called cosmic super battleship. It’s nothing more than a little boy with growing wings, a big shark with almost no teeth, and a bunch of veterans.”

The two people’s persuasion finally successfully moved Joe Dumars.

As the first winner of the NBA Sports Ethics and Style Award, as well as the owner of two championship trophies and one FMVP, Joe Dumars weighed the pros and cons in front of the manager championship trophy and let go of his obsession.

Soon

, the communication between him and his old teammates was transmitted through Larry Brown.

Seeing the Pistons players who received the instructions in high spirits, as if they had found themselves again, Joe Dumars felt more at ease.

As for the two old friends sitting next to him, they showed a satisfied smile.

Although they did not do well after retirement, they were finally invited to be off-court consultants for the Pistons. If they were eliminated by the Knicks with a big defeat, it would be somewhat embarrassing.

The two were dissatisfied with the “bad moves” of the Pistons players before.

They did not succeed in making the Knicks’ main force reimbursed in the first shot, but instead fell into the opponent’s trick and directly caused the Pistons to lose two games in a row and ruined their leading advantage.

So in the face of the life-and-death battle, the two also gambled on the reputation of their entire careers and passed on all they had learned throughout their lives to the young people of the Detroit Pistons.

How to move screens, support elbows, defend big moves, harass opponents, and other small moves that are on the edge of the rules, so as not to be discovered by the referee.

As long as these basic moves are in place, Bill Laimbeer and Isaiah Thomas, two notorious “bad boys” in the late 1980s, believe that this Pistons team can play the performance they want to see.

As for the victory of the game, it is just a bonus for the Pistons’ small moves.

Perhaps the Knicks should first consider how to get out of the Palace of Auburn Hills intact!

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The warm-up is over and the starting lineup is on the court.

The starting lineups of both sides have not changed, and they are still the same as before.

Pistons starting lineup: Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton, Maurice Taylor, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace

Knicks starting lineup: Steve Nash, Alan Houston, Tayshaun Prince, Kurt Thomas, Wang Song

CCTV live broadcast room.

The catchy commentary sound came from the studio to the TV. Just from the happy tone, you can hear the mood of the two commentators today.

“The starting lineups for both teams are still the same. Neither side has made any adjustments to the lineup.”

“After five games of trial and error, the coaching staff of both teams should be most confident in the starting lineup on the field… But it should be said that the Pistons lost badly in the first two games with this lineup. It is really unreasonable for Larry Brown not to change the lineup.”

“Unless the Pistons coaching staff has other plans, it is foreseeable that this will be another carnival for Knicks fans.”

(End of this chapter)