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Chapter 139 Use magic to defeat magic
At the beginning of October, just after the preseason training camp ended, the Celtics only had a day off in Boston before leaving for other cities to play preseason games.

Their first game was one of the biggest stages in the world - Madison Gardens.

Waiting for their opponent is the New York Knicks who were reborn last season.

"I have only one request of you tonight."

Louis looked at the scene and said lightly: "Don't let me call a timeout because you played ugly. Even if you can't shoot a goal, the process should be picturesque."

This kind of strange request has never been heard by the team members in their life.

The game started the way Louis had envisioned.

Sampson and Bill Cartwright jumped the ball for an easy win.

Bird then passed high to Isiah Thomas for a pick-and-roll, successfully keeping his defender on the perimeter.

Thomas drives so fast that by the time anyone else in New York notices, the ball has already been put in the basket.

"Fuck!" Knicks coach Hubie Brown actually wanted to get angry at this impossible-to-defend ball, "What the hell are you doing? That's called defense?"

So, a reporter from New York captured the moment Brown lost his temper.

The next day, if the Knicks lost, they would praise the efforts of the responsible head coach.If the Knicks win, can they win without such a responsible coach?
Coaches get close to the media in exchange for a good public opinion environment. Louis has seen this kind of thing before.

Fitch is a lesson learned from the past, and Brown just happened to be coaching in the city where modern media flourished, which happened to carry forward his characteristics of liking for the limelight.

The Celtics didn't make much effort.

Bird and Thomas are constantly running in, they will play the one system for a while, and then switch to the three system.

When Louis replaced Thomas, Bird directly activated the No. [-] system.

Sometimes with Thomas, Bird will also play the two system.Although Thomas' shooting is not accurate enough, he is not an ice shooter who can't make any shots.

If you want to talk about the Celtics' style of play in the first half.

It can only be four words, silky and smooth.

The two cores, Bird and Thomas, both played what Louis wanted to see. Sampson did not attack with the ball, but he scored the most points in the first quarter.

When Bird, John Long, and Lambiel opened with a side triangle according to Louie's prompt, the Knicks didn't believe in evil.

Continue to play the pocket array, and then Lambiel scored a three-pointer.

The space was torn apart in this way, Sampson continued to catch the ball at the basket, either scoring directly or hitting high, Cartwright had a similar style to him, but his physical fitness was not at the same level.

In the first quarter, the Celtics scored 39 points without pressure.

The Knicks also scored a lot, 28 points. Obviously they played well, but the point difference opened up unknowingly.

In the second quarter, Louis waved his hand and replaced the lineup of the connecting segment.

Led by Gerald Henderson, Danny Ainge, Bird, Maxwell and Sampson.

"We noticed an interesting detail." Marv Albert (Marv Albert), who is still working in the Knicks radio and television station, said, "Since the beginning of the game, Little Lu has not called a timeout on his own initiative, and he has never been as excited as Hubie. We saw him talking and laughing with the people around him, and he didn't seem to care about the process and results of the game."

Louis doesn't care about the result, but he cares about the process, he just pretends not to care.

He found that the current lineup is too suitable for Bird.

Henderson + Maxwell + Sampson, two powerful cutters, an unsolvable pie-eating machine, plus Angie and Bird both have high enough golf quotients to play the No. [-] system in the high position.

Although Henderson is not on the same level as Thomas in terms of strength, he can take over the No. [-] system and the No. [-] system with the help of Bird.

Sampson was the scoring leader in the second quarter again.

After halftime, he scored 22 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks.

He's becoming the kind of player Louie was looking for -- an effortless first- or second-scoring finisher on offense and a surreptitious spread of influence defensively.

This kind of possession does not occupy the ball, and the influence of the defensive end radiates the inside line of the whole team. If you add a three-point shot, isn't it the perfect inside line in the small ball era?

It's just that Louie is still uncertain about whether Sampson will shoot a three-pointer.

If you take too many strides, it's easy to scratch your head, and Sampson has only played a perfect first half now, not to mention the preseason game, the intensity is not that high.

65 is better than 49
At halftime, the Knicks trailed by 16 points.

Brown told reporters at the scene: "We will fight to the end on behalf of New York and our opponents, and we will not give up because of a preseason game!"

He's really one of those special, loud, punchy coaches.

In the second half, the Knicks' ace players played hard.

Bernard King, Louis didn't know anything about him before the crossing, and just tonight, the other party left an indelible impression on him.

His turnaround straight-arm jumper after receiving the ball on the left and right wings was almost impossible to guard. The Celtics switched defenses many times, but he was able to put the ball in the basket.

The speed of turning over, the shooting point, and the soft touch of being pressed to the face by the opponent, at first glance, his turning over reminds Louis of many people.

Maddie, Dirk and Rasheed Wallace.

His style of play is not as famous as his name. New Yorkers call him the new king, but his style of play is not domineering.If I have to say it, he is also like Pierce after the age of 30, solid and steady, even with a sense of sculpting.

His mid-range singles skills are unexpectedly comprehensive, whether it is a tentative jumper facing the basket, breaking through the basket and dribbling to attack the basket, or turning his back to the basket, or turning over to the wings.

In the third half of the quarter, the gold that found the touch was invincible, and even Sampson was slapped in the face by him.

"I'm going to pause."

Just by letting Louis take the initiative to call a timeout, King is proud enough.

The Celtics' defense is okay, but because King's state is too hot, Louis wants to try to see if he can limit his offense. If he can use a timeout to affect his state, it would be good.

King's outburst will not affect the outcome of this game.

Louis likes to win. Strictly speaking, this is his first game as a head coach. The few games he fought in the playoffs last season were all acting coaches.

Since it was the first game, even if it was a preseason game, Louis would win well.

"If Bernard comes to the low post again, Larry, you come to the corner to be a pocket." Louis laughed and teased his players, "I don't know how many times he turned to the baseline and you didn't do anything."

There is a troublesome point in defending King, that is, if Bird does not match up, if others come, they will either suffer from size or cannot keep up with the speed.

So Louie broke the rotation and brought in rookie Guy Williams.

"You don't even need to use your brain to defend, just hold him firmly and pay attention to his turning and slipping to the bottom line." Louis' request is not high.

Williams' ambition made Louis unexpected: "What if he just turned around and shot a jumper?"

The Celtics still have something in the draft department. Just choose any second-round pick and you can pick such a bold guy. What if you ask King to use his killer trick to turn around and shoot?
"Pray he misses," Louie said. "Pray he misses, and don't foul."

The pocket Louis made for Jin was useful at first, because the dude had a high probability of turning low and slipping the bottom line to attack the basket/stop and shoot.

But this is just his habitual offensive tendency, it doesn't mean that it is the only thing he is sure of.

His basic skills are very good. In addition to the low singles on the left and right wings, he also has many coups in facing the basket.

When he was facing the basket, he hit the left side hard with one move, and after receiving the ball, he turned and knocked Guy Williams down. The poor rookie put his face on the ground, looked back, and his opponent had already scored.

Sampson was in a temper, eyeing the ball that King tried to block him.

Tried several times but failed to cover the ball.

Jin's combination of sudden throws opened up completely, and the Celtics couldn't prevent him.

Right now, it's the world of attacking Yang Dingtian and defensive star forwards who can't get erect, and the one-on-one defense at the third position, especially this kind of hexagonal offensive player with speed, physical fitness and skills, really has nothing to do with him.

Louis feels that there will be many such guys scoring high points on the Celtics in the future.

Since he couldn't guard against it, Louis had no choice but to sit back and appreciate how this super scorer buried in history soared.

Later, Bird and others also understood that they couldn't guard against him today, but they were much better than the Knicks in terms of scoring.

The two sides increased their efforts to attack, and finally scored a high score of 139 to 112.

Bernard King led the game with 42 points, but two of the Celtics scored more than 30, and six of the team scored in double figures.

They are an overwhelming force. The game reached the fourth quarter. In order not to lose too much, the Knicks' intensity has reached the regular season level, but the Celtics score as much as they want, and the offensive is on fire.

"I dare to assert that the Celtics in the new season will blow a hurricane in the league."

Hubie Brown's compliment made Louis tremble. He called Brown a "nonsense" not only because he was so talkative, but also because he had a notorious crow's mouth. He boasted that unless he was lucky, he would not end well.

"It's hard to say whether we will blow a hurricane, but the Knicks will definitely be the favorites to win the championship in the new season." Louis defeated the membrane method with the method of worship (worship).

(End of this chapter)