the rest, only noise

Chapter 129 Duplicity
The Celtics named a new head coach to prepare for their new season, and the NBA playoffs, the Philadelphia 76ers are full steam ahead.

The 76ers swept their semifinal opponent, the New York Knicks, almost without problems.

In the Eastern Conference Finals, they met the Bucks, who had gone through a tough battle to eliminate the Celtics.

This is the farthest Bucks core player Bob Lanier has gone in the playoffs.

The Bucks' defense played an important role in their resistance to the 76ers. In the first game, they lost in overtime.

At the critical moment of the second game, there was a controversial penalty.

The decision stuck with Lanier for years, and he insisted the referee made a mistake.

However, the referee is the god on the field, and the things they rule cannot be questioned by you.

Lanier is injured, he can't play much, and he is the only Bucks who can face Moses Malone head-on.

Facing a fateful team like the 76ers, the Bucks can do nothing.

At least they broke Malone's curse and didn't make "FO-FO-FO" a reality.

The fourth game of the Eastern Conference finals, the brain-dead schedule, is still back-to-back.

Louis still can't understand why the NBA likes to arrange back-to-back playoffs so much. For Lanier, a veteran who has had 13 knee surgeries in 5 seasons, it is no different from torture.

Moreover, this is the only time Lanier has played back-to-back games this season, almost relying on his own will to allow his team to win, preventing the Bucks from becoming one of the "FO".

The 76ers are not called the team of destiny for nothing.

They're really the only team that's ready to win a championship.

Luck was also on their side in the Finals, as the Lakers suffered injuries and highly anticipated superstar Dominique Wilkins missed the playoffs due to injury.

Another contender, the Nets, also jumped out of the car after coach Larry Brown's habitual "I'm tired of you bastards making mistakes over and over again", and the Nets were finished.

The Celtics blew themselves up due to internal reasons.

Coupled with the labor disputes that lasted throughout the regular season, only the 76ers are ready to play in the playoffs and compete for the championship.

The Lakers lost 4-0. The 76ers are obviously a better team. Even if Wilkins can play, it will only affect the number of games in the finals, not the result.

In this way, the 76ers won the championship.

Dr. J broke the spell, and Moses Malone became the fourth player with MVP+FMVP in the same season.

This year is unlike any before, with nearly every playoff game on CBS, and the others on USA and ESPN. Members of the NBA's public relations department played an important role in the Western Conference Finals and Finals, greatly increasing the exposure of each playoff team.

With the signing of the collective bargaining agreement, the salary cap will be introduced next season, and a new era is coming.

After Louis signed the contract with the Celtics, he began to prepare for the new season.

Currently, the biggest problem for the Celtics is that there are too many people available in the team.

Bird, Thomas, Sampson, Maxwell, Lambiel, John Long, Rick Roby, Chris Ford, Archibald, ML Carr, Buckner When a team has 12 guys who can play, what do you think as a head coach?
ecstatic?

Shouting this is the trouble of happiness?
If this trouble will destroy the team, do you still think it is happy?

Too much but not enough, this is an eternal lesson. It is exciting to have 13 players who can play, but you only need nine people to win, and you can't satisfy everyone's needs, which means that more than half of them will be dissatisfied with his playing time.

These people who are dissatisfied with the status quo will destroy the team. Even if you have no coaching experience, as long as you have played 2K's dynasty mode or manager mode, you should know what this means.Of course, in the game you are dealing with a flawed AI, but in Celtic Louie is dealing with a group of living beings with very different personalities and needs.

On the first day of the offseason, Archibald announced his retirement, ending his career.

This is really a pity.

Because he can still play, just because the Celtics can no longer tolerate a veteran who needs a lot of ball possession.

Archibald spent most of his career playing for less competitive teams, and the Celtics fulfilled his championship dreams.

Now, the team that made his dream come true wants to eliminate his influence, and he is unwilling to scrape by on a team that can't win the championship.

The star's temper and self-esteem make him unwilling to be manipulated and become a tool for the Celtics to make profits.

So he decisively chose to retire.

Louie has a protected list of players he wants to keep.

Bird, Thomas, Sampson, Maxwell, Lambiel, Long, Gerald Henderson, ML Carr.

There are only eight people, that is to say, if a transaction can be made, the others can be sent away.

This contains three players.

Rick Robbie, the third pick in the same class as Bird, was sent to the Celtics by the Pacers after a few months of inspection.

Although he can't play as a starter or sixth/seventh man in the Celtics, he is a solid big man in his prime, and is undoubtedly a very pleasing item in the exchange.

Chris Ford, the surprise player who hit the key three-pointer in the 1981 Eastern Conference Finals.

Quinn Buckner PG, transferred from the Bucks to the Celtics through a trade last season.

Also one of the players who was buried in the Celtics, because he needed to compete with three other guards younger than him for playing time.

Because Buckner is still an important officer of the players union, his relationship with the team is very bad.

The Celtics' coaching staff and players are so divided that Buckner's role cannot be ignored.

Although the new trade agreement has been signed, Louis does not want this time bomb in the team.

Louie locked up three players in the draft.

The top targets are University of Houston star power forward Clyde "The Glider" Drexler, Lambiel's junior, Notre Dame's John Paxson PG and Doc Rivers.

These three are all his "acquaintances".

Rivers will not say that Louis knew Paxson because of Jordan.

This person is the starting point guard for the Bulls in the first three consecutive games. He has a beautiful shooting skill, which is in line with Louie's team building philosophy.

Rivers is the next choice. Although he is very familiar with Rivers as a coach, Louis is really not sure about this guy's player era.

Watching the video of the game, Rivers doesn't look like he can shoot. He has average speed, but his defense is fierce and aggressive, he has a wide vision and dares to pass the ball.

These are his strengths and likeable points, but the Celtics don't need you to have so many strengths as a backup point guard.

Paxson's specialization in shooting is more in Louis' mind.

At the briefing, the Celtics scouting department gave the candidate Greg Kite (Greg Kite C), the star center of Brigham Young University, the white monster who led the team to win the championship in high school, and a figure who can be as famous as Sampson, Sam Bowie, Worthy, Wilkins and others.

Unfortunately, his reputation continues to prove that commentators, media and scouts have a serious filter on white players.

Entering college, his mediocre athletic ability, poor physical condition and lack of stable shooting touch outside the paint were all exposed, and the four years of college have not been resolved.

"Should we trade Rick Robbie if we need him?" Louie asked the scouts with a grin.

The scout replied: "Rick is dissatisfied with his playing time, which is why we want to trade him."

"I'd rather coach a disgruntled but useful player than a friendly but useless player." Louie said domineeringly, "This man can't be had!"

Recently, Louis has been showing his nature a little bit. He didn't bother to reason anymore, so he directly called people to be selected.

Auerbach asked, "Who do you want to vote for?"

"Considering we need to send two or three players away, I think the two positions we need to add the most are forward and defender."

"Clyde Drexler?" Auerbach joked. "We don't have that high a draft pick."

Louis jumped back to the prophet: "It doesn't have to be too high, as long as it is higher than Portland's pick."

"Clyde isn't such a bad prospect, what if we don't get him?" Auerbach asked.

Louis didn't want Drexler that much, but saw that the Blazers only had the [-]th pick in the first round, so he expected that the former really only had that market.

You can get a superstar at a position outside the tenth pick. If you don't try this kind of thing, you will feel sorry for yourself who has traveled through time.

It's just that Louis still doesn't have that much expectation for this matter.

Because the Celtics are already strong enough, it has never been his goal to turn the Celtics into an invincible galaxy battleship. What if the Celtics become his opponent in the future.

Therefore, although he proposed to trade to a higher pick than the Blazers, his attitude was not firm, and Auerbach did not have to choose him.

The only thing he specifically wanted was John Paxson.

Therefore, when the day of the draft came, when Auerbach tried to ask for the 11th and 12th picks in the first round, he alarmed the Blazers.

The inside of the Celtics also leaked the wind.

So the Blazers traded up, got Detroit's ninth pick, and used that pick to draft Clyde Drexler.

Louie and Auerbach were in the draft prep room when this happened.

Louie said leisurely: "Hope this guy doesn't become Andrew Tony 2.0."

At the same time, the Celtics made a deal with the Bucks, who eliminated them last season.

The Bucks, who desperately need insiders, are eager for Robbie. The two sides hit it off. The Celtics traded Robbie for the first and second round picks of the Bucks this year.

(End of this chapter)