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Chapter 102 Beat LA (245)

In the 1981-82 season, the Celtics had the league's first record for three consecutive seasons.

It's just that Bird's data is not so impressive compared to last season, barely hitting 20+10+4 assists, because the Celtics gave up the offensive system designed by Louie and transformed into a traditional high-post pick-and-roll + two-wing low-post attack.

Although the Celtics are the only team in the league with 60 wins, Louie has a hard time seeing them in the playoffs.

With a bye in the first round and the Washington Bullets in the second round, hidden dangers have emerged.

Bird, the core of the team, averaged only 15 points per game.

Although the team swept the Bullets 4-1, Bird couldn't play comfortably.

In the Eastern Conference finals, the Celtics once again met their old rivals, the 76ers.They went through another round of tough semifinals and eliminated the Bucks 4-2.

This year's Celtics were "Sports Illustrated" called "Green Monster."

The 76ers' lineup has not changed from last year, but the Celtics have a super rookie like Isiah Thomas that has greatly strengthened the depth of the lineup.

One trades the other, and the Celtics should easily win and advance to the Finals to defend their title.

In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, Louis sat on the sidelines for a long time, watching the game like an assistant coach, but his position was the most marginal.

He couldn't say anything about the game.

Last season, he was still Fitch's right-hand man, and now he has become Mrs. Niu.

Coincidentally, he wasn't going to do anything for Fitch either.

Game1, the Celtics performed as the outside world expected, 121 to 88, they hung up and ravaged the Phillies.

Bird sat in the low post and blasted Dr. J's defense, scoring 25 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists.

KC Jones was not happy to see Louie.

"What are you worried about?" KC asked.

"I'm afraid they'll play too well and I won't be appreciated by Bill again," Louie said falsely.

KC is a real person, he will believe whatever Louis says.

"Would you like me to speak to Bill for you?" KC asked.

"That's unnecessary, this situation is also a kind of experience for me now." Or rather, enjoyment?
If Fitch defeats the 76ers to lead the team to defend the title, this is certainly the worst news, but Louis can also observe from it and see how he resolves the many contradictions in the team and turns it into a source of victory.

It would be even better if the Celtics collapsed in internal conflicts, or Fitch made a mistake in command and was caught by the 76ers.Even if Fitch doesn't get fired for it, Louie can learn from it.

In the Celtics' victory, Louis saw Bird's bravery and obvious hidden dangers in the low post.

It is feasible to let Bird play an offensive system in the low post, the premise is to give him space.

If it can be done, then, how Dirk Nowitzki ravaged the league in the low post in 2011, and Bird with better passing can do the same thing.

The media who like to make trouble noticed that the night of Game 76 where the Celtics slaughtered the 1ers was May 5th, so they called this game the "Mother's Day Massacre".

This word made Louis shudder, he really couldn't figure out what the American reporter was thinking.

The word mother, in his opinion, is the softest word in the world, especially for him, a wanderer who has been away for a long time and rarely gets together with his mother. When he sees this word, he will only think of the bits and pieces of being with his mother.And they actually used the "Mother's Day Massacre" to commemorate the Celtics' victory over the 76ers.

They will have their comeuppance.

Louis thought to himself at the time.

The speed of retribution far exceeded Louis' imagination.

Three days later, also in the garden, the arrogance of the 76ers was completely different.

Bird, who still played in the low post, faced continuous harassment from Bobby Jones, Dawkins, and Caldwell Jones, and his score was controlled at 16 points.

Bobby Jones' defense range is extremely large, like a spider man, weaving a web and arranging silk holes, almost single-handedly reducing the Celtics' paint area hit rate by 20%.

He reminded Louie of Garnett and Kirilenko.

He has Kirilenko's sharpness and Garnett's boundless defensive enthusiasm.

The "White Lightning" defense is the foundation for the 76ers to win.

Andrew Tony's high stop jumper singled out from outside the free throw line is the key weapon to kill the Celtics.

The Boston Raiders committed crimes again, with 30 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. The 76ers defeated the Celtics and took away their home court advantage.

Louis accompanied the team to the away game after a long absence.

He never imagined that the god of basketball likes to joke so much.

Last season, the Celtics won one game in the Eastern Conference Finals and then lost three games in a row.

And this time, it seems to be repeating last year's script.

Going back to the first game of the spectrum, the fierce confrontation between the two sides was quite like the sixth and seventh games of the Eastern Conference finals last year. The Celtics did almost everything necessary to win.

Exploded the 76ers' rebounds, got more assists and free throws.

However, the 76ers used their athleticism to shoot 51 percent of their shots, suppressing the Celtics' 45 percent shooting.

In a bloody battle of 99 to 97, the difference in shooting percentage of 6 percentage points is more important than the difference in rebounds, assists and free throws.

2 is better than 1
The wonderful schedule of the Eastern Conference finals arranged Game4 on the overnight of Game3.

It was another back-to-back Eastern Conference Finals, and the Celtics didn't seem to wake up from the regretful defeat of Game3.Due to poor tactical arrangements, Bird fell into the steel torrent of the Phillies, and did nothing offensively.

Andrew Tony's butcher's knife was bloody again, scoring 39 points to lead the 76ers to a 3-1 lead over the Celtics.

"If you think Philadelphia has won, you might as well look back at last season's Eastern Conference Finals."

The Celtics' "replaying the same old tune" in the Eastern Conference Finals can only prove the failure of the offensive and defensive system that Fitch and his four assistants worked so hard to design for a season.

Losing will cause a lot of conflicts.

The Smiling Assassin couldn't stand Archibald holding himself down anymore, he wanted to start.

Sampson is unwilling to waste too much physical strength in the low post. He is eager to obtain the tactical status of last year's offensive and defensive ends where he can run and jump to show his athletic ability.

Lambiel argues with the teaching assistant every day.

Maxwell's complaints were bigger than Lambert's, but because he was black, his complaints were regarded as "shit" by the assistant coaches, and the Boston media went online, saying that he played passively on the court.

In the fifth game, the taciturn Bird and Thomas, who was put into the starting lineup by Fitch, stood up. They played their best and buried the 76ers.

2 is better than 3
Game 6 was a defensive battle. The combined scores of the two sides did not exceed 150 points. The 76ers' offensive efficiency was low. They were trapped in their own curse and worried about the recurrence of disaster.

The Celtics relentlessly tied the series at 3-3.

"What will happen in Game [-]?" Fitch asked the reporter triumphantly, "Don't you know? Go and see last year's game."

That day, Louie saw Bird kick the door of the visiting team's locker room fiercely in the locker room and shouted: "Win another game!"

Isaiah Thomas also clapped his hands vigorously to encourage everyone.

Louis is too familiar with this scene, last year's Celtics were resurrected in this way.

Will the 76ers be reversed again?

The plot is so similar to last season, almost no one believes that the weak 76ers can win in the garden of the seventh game.

On the day of the Game7 game, Louie heard a story.

76ers head coach Billy Cunningham ended the practice session an hour early, telling the players: "Anyone of you who wants to stay for training is welcome, and the rest is up to you."

The 76ers looked at each other in blank dismay. They did not expect that Cunningham, who had always been conscientious, would suddenly let go.

They succeeded in convincing the 76ers that the world had abandoned them, and even their own coaching staff didn't believe they could win. In addition to defeating the Celtics with high morale and enduring the poor garden environment, they also had to fight against the will of the whole world.

The soul of Zhong Er was burning in their bodies, and they suddenly ignited themselves. The players of the 76ers began to encourage each other, and the belief of "only relying on themselves" emerged.On the night of the game, they came to the garden, opened their locker, and found hundreds of envelopes inside, which were joint letters from countless Philadelphia fans, management, and coaching staff. There was only one sentence in the letter: Guys, we believe in you.

Louie didn't know at the time how this matter would be related to that night's game, but in that game, the 76ers worked harder than the Celtics in every round, and played with higher intensity and quality in each round. From the beginning to the end, Andrew Toney scored another 33 points, which established the great reputation of the Boston Raiders.

Before the end of the game, the Bostonians in the garden knew that there was no hope of winning, but they respected the performance of the 76ers and knew who they were about to face.

The audience applauded spontaneously and chanted the most famous cheering slogan in NBA history in unison: "Beat LA!"

"Beat LA!"

When this slogan sounded, countless goosebumps appeared on Louis' body. He saw the purity of sports. While hostile fans hated each other, they could respect and encourage their opponents when the victory was over.

The Celtics are about to fall, and the 76ers are going forward. What they represent is the entire East, and it is the continuation of the comprehensive competition between the East Coast and West Coast sports history.

Louie waited silently for the game to end, and the Celtics lost.

The fly in the ointment is that the 76ers faced a revived Lakers team in the finals.

The dismissal of Paul Westhead was the trough of the Lakers. After Pat Riley was in place, it took the Magicians 2 months to win back the love of the fans. Showtime returned to Los Angeles.

The Sixers' chemistry has been flawless, but they can't beat a healthy Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a smiling Magician who can handle the ball as he pleases, and a whole new Lakers team.

Happy basketball, wonderful offense, and victory solved the contradictions and put out the jealousy. 4-2, the 76ers became the runner-up again, and the magician was elected FMVP again with 16.2 points, 10.8 assists and 8 rebounds.

(End of this chapter)