readytorunbook Chapter 360 May you make persistent efforts and continue to lose
Chapter 360 May you make persistent efforts and continue to lose
Chapter 360 May you make persistent efforts and continue to lose
The good days after defeating the Lakers did not last too long. Just a few days later, Dell Ellis' injury disrupted the Knicks' layout again.
From the data point of view, Ellis currently averages 16 points per game and is the Knicks' No. [-] attacker, second only to Ewing and Tony Campbell.
However, Ellis hits 2.4 three-pointers per game. The outside involvement he brings is something neither Ewing nor Campbell has.
It's better to say that these two can average 20+ per game, and Ellis has contributed a lot.
Without Ellis, an absolutely deterrent shooter, to contain the outside line, the Knicks' pick-and-roll system has problems.
With no one taking the line outside, the Knicks' offensive space has been reduced.
The Knicks, who were supposed to go all out to achieve another success, not only failed to improve their ranking, but suffered a wave of four-game losing streak.
Fortunately, these four opponents are strong teams.
They are the Pistons, the Jazz (two games), and the Philadelphia 76ers.
The next two games are critical, and the Knicks have to find a way to win because of emotion and reason.
Their opponent is none other than the Cleveland Cavaliers in dire straits.
In the draft last year, the Cavaliers paid the price of the No. [-] pick in the first round and the exchange of two draft picks in order to get the Knicks' core center Bill Cartwright.
Although they got the Knicks' draft pick swap option for the next three years, unfortunately, the current Knicks are already heading towards the playoffs, and the Cavaliers currently only have 18 wins.
The core is injured, and the team is still paying off Stepy's cerebral hemorrhage deal.
Now the old debt has not been paid off, and the new debt has been added.
Louie grew up in Cleveland, and he was so cruel to his hometown team that the people of Kecheng hated him extremely.
On February 2, the Knicks first played against the Cavaliers at home.
Dale Ellis is still out, but Louie decided to use the Cavaliers to work on the full-court press.
In the four quarters of the game, he pressed the Cavaliers a total of four times.
When playing a full-court pressing tactic, Louis will always let one or two starters lead the team, which is safer.
Taken together, Stockton leads the team smarter, Ewing leads the team more aggressively, and Oakley leads the team with guaranteed rebounds.
Each has its advantages.
Some people may ask, why not let the three of them press together?
This is exactly where Louis's idea is ingenious. He doesn't want the main players to waste their energy defending the full-court press. He wants to find five players to practice this. Pitino calls it a murder press.
Louie loves the concept.
At present, there are three regular members of his murder press, Alex Stevens, he is the initiator of the idea of murder press, without his hard work, there would be no flash of inspiration for Louis.Plus Taylor Corbin and Gerald Wilkins.
Due to the lack of staffing, since this matter is to be done, in the future draft or free market, Louis must find a way to find suitable people to participate in the murder press.
Sooner or later, members of the murderous tight end will stand on their own, without the help of the main players.
Tonight, the weakened Cavaliers became a victim of murder.
Louie played a murder press every quarter, each lasting 2-3 minutes.
Every time he lets a player do that, the Knicks win by 4-6 points.
After one game, the Knicks beat the Cavaliers by 33 points.
At the end of the game, George Karl looked very ugly, and he shook hands with Louis deliberately: "In a few days at the Ridgefield Stadium, try pressing us again!"
"Just try it."
He made the Cavaliers miserable, and led the team to beat the Cavaliers.
In Louie's adopted homeland, his reputation took a turn for the worse.
Unfortunately, the Knicks' next game is an away game against the Cavaliers.
In Cleveland's hoops mecca, Richfield Arena, Louie was unkind, allowing Ewing to play a full quarter of the game on a murderous press.
There is only one problem with the Cavaliers, they really can't keep up with the intensity of the Knicks.
Ewing was so crazy when he was making a full-court press, it was like going back to college.
The full-court press was the only defensive tactic in which Louie allowed him to pounce at will, and the Cavaliers were repeatedly defended to the point where they couldn't pass the halfcourt.
Anyone who has watched the "Slam Dunk" national competition chapter knows how brutal the Mountain King's full-court press is.
Although the Knicks didn't have exactly the same effect, they also beat the Cavaliers to the limit.
The Cavaliers, who originally planned to make things difficult for the Knicks at home, fell into deep confusion.
In the first half of the first quarter, the Knicks had already established the victory.
The remaining three and a half quarters were purely Fat Tiger bullying the husband.
Knicks is completely "I'll take care of you if you're small" style.
At home, the Cavaliers lost 35 points.
Carl's post-match expression was the most murderous expression Louis had ever seen.
Louie said shyly, "It was you who made me push, it's the first time I heard such a request, so I just"
"Stop talking nonsense, you dare to do this when you are playing against us!" Carl could only change the subject.
Louis is a talkative king who doesn't lose his mouth when he loses, not to mention they all won. Why can Karl be arrogant with him?
"You're wrong, Coach Carl, we also used the full-court press to win against the Lakers. Originally, I planned to come here as a guest and didn't plan to use the full-court press, but you said that to me after the game a few days ago." Louis smiled lightly, "Then I can only show my cards, and this result is what you asked for."
The more ferocious Carl's expression was, the happier Louis felt.
"I hope you will continue to work hard and continue to lose. This year's draft depends entirely on you." Louis turned around with a smile, and walked towards the reporter without looking back.
Louis, who came in front of the reporter, was elegant and easy-going.
Speaking of the public opinion turmoil he has recently provoked, mainly because of being scolded by Kecheng people, he just laughed it off.
"I understand how the Cleveland people feel. I would be angry if I were to change it, but I am a bit wronged. The transaction is two-way, and the game is also two-way. The transaction can only be completed if the Cavaliers' management nods. Only the Cavaliers' performance is bad. We can win so many points. They blame me for this, which is unreasonable."
After Ellis returned, the Knicks still lost two of the remaining three games in February.
Because the opponents in these two games are the strong Eastern teams that give them headaches.
One is the Celtics. This is the Knicks' nine-game losing streak against the Celtics in two seasons.
The Celtics seriously prepared a way to deal with the Knicks' full-court press, but Louie didn't come up with a murder press.
The other loser was the Bucks. Don Nelson forcibly suppressed the old East's dead pigskin hob.
The team that lost to the Knicks was the New Jersey Nets.
Entering March, the Knicks played two games with the same team.
This time the opponent was replaced by the Washington Bullets. They won a game first, and then went to the Bullets' home court and lost in overtime.
Young teams often have problems that Louie can't understand.
For example, at the critical moment, Louis clearly drew the tactics perfectly, even a commander like Stockton, who can be called the number one in history, was in a hurry.
The perfect tactic fails at the first step, so the lore fails.
This kind of thing can only be attributed to experience, and there is nothing to say.
The loss to the Bullets was not over yet, and the Knicks then ran into the bitter Bulls.
Barkley and McHale, these two people dismembered the Knicks' inside line in a joke.
Especially that McHale, in Louie's view, is like a shrunken version of Duncan. The low-post attack is even a super-evolved version of Duncan. His footsteps are ever-changing, and his methods are so numerous that it is impossible to defend against him.
Relying on his youth, Barkley is not afraid of having flesh on his body. Every time he starts up, he rushes in and hits the basket.
There was no way to defend, the impact was too strong, Barkley was still playing at the [-]rd position at this time, the Knicks would be a piece of cake against him, Ewing's defense couldn't take care of it, and the game became a solo show for Fliggy.
After another two-game losing streak, Louis saw the team drop to fifth place in the Eastern Conference. He didn't panic. It was a young team, and its ups and downs were normal. Moreover, in these games, it was rare to lose such a morale collapse.
Either he couldn't play at the critical moment and gave up the chance for the lore, or he didn't make the lore, or he was playing a star Kerry game like the Bulls.
It makes sense to lose. Louis has nothing else to do except sum up experience and lessons. Besides, he has another big thing to do.
(End of this chapter)