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Chapter 156 Moses Said, Watch Out For His Tracks

In the opening game, the Celtics won the jump ball.

The first round was down and Lambiel's body charge to Marc Iavaroni PF was the real deal, pure brute force.

Louis wanted to see three of the 1ers fall to the ground within 76 minute, and Lambiel followed this order.

The 76ers' fierce defense made the Celtics' tactics impossible for a while.

Just at the beginning, they were so fierce that they seemed to be fighting the last round.

As a result, Bird found his touch in the jungle-like confrontation and scored a jumper.

Louis is basically at ease about the offense. In terms of offensive ability, the Celtics are more than ten times stronger than the 76ers.

They have had the problem of insufficient attacking ability since the era of Dr. J, and it was not until the arrival of Andrew Tony that the problem of attacking difficult problems was roughly solved.

However, if there is a problem with Tony's state, they will face that dilemma again.

"Doctor, is that also called defense? You didn't put pressure on Larry at all!"

If ML Karl can stop his bad mouth for a second, it will be regarded as a good deed for his descendants.

Hearing his words, Dr. J was not offended, because he knew that this mad dog never brushed his teeth and liked to spray feces.What the doctor didn't expect was that his opponent picked up the conversation.

"MLC is right." Bird didn't know whether it was self-confidence or arrogance. "You really can't guard me. Not only this round, but also the next round, the next round will be the same."

Dr. J lost his temper. At the beginning, his position in the ABA was no less than that of some weak team owners, and he was regarded as the top card in the league when he entered the NBA. Although he did not replicate the success of the ABA, he was not something that juniors like Bird could bully.

"Young man, be careful not to flash your tongue when you talk big." Dr. J intends to teach Bird the principles of life.

If he could do it, Louis would really like to thank him. He and Byrd have known each other for four or five years, but they still don't know how to teach the bumpkin how to be a human being.

It's the turn of the 76ers to attack, this is the link that the Celtics need to face the test.

Louis doesn't care about the team's offense, what he cares about is defense. How to prevent the 76ers' positional battle is the key to this campaign.

At this time, fierce conflicts broke out inside again.

It was Lambiel just now, and this time it was Sampson, who had a fierce conflict with Moses Malone.Ma Long didn't expect Sampson, a junior, to dare to make small moves against him. He immediately used the famous buttocks to push the young man to the ground.

Sampson screamed miserably, taking advantage of the opportunity to perform the flop he learned from Lambiel.

"Beep!"

The only referee on the field, Joe Borgia, whom Louie had high hopes for, did what he was supposed to do.

He called Malone for an offensive foul.

"Moses didn't foul!" Ma Long roared aggrievedly, "Moses is! #!￥Wronged!"

Borgia looked calm and did not listen to Malone's justification.

Cunningham was there to put the pressure on.

Louis clapped his hands and applauded: "This referee is very courageous, I admire him very much."

Tomjanovich smiled and said nothing, as long as he is willing to blow the Celtics' home whistle, it will be a good show in Louis' eyes.

The Celtics are rejected by many people because of their rough style of play and a series of demonized legends about Auerbach and Garden. The referees don't like this team, because from Auerbach onwards, the Celtics' successive head coaches have been the deadly enemies of the referees.

I thought this young man, Louis, would restrain himself a bit, but he didn't expect this to go too far. Today he directly punched the referee.

This has gone far beyond the scolding battle between Auerbach and the referees, and Heinsohn's repeated verbal threats to the referee's personal safety.

Just relying on his punch to KO the referee, this achievement belongs to the only record in NBA history, and it is difficult to surpass it.

When it was the Celtics' turn to attack, Karl couldn't sit still.

He jumped up and yelled at Sampson: "Catch the ball, Ralph, you're not afraid of Moses, are you? Look at the difference in height between you two. If I were as tall as you, I'd smash his head off on the spot!"

Isaiah Thomas really passed the ball to Sampson, looking like it's not a big deal to watch the excitement.

Sampson gets the ball in the low post.

Carl asked, "Is that okay? Can you kill him?"

"no problem!"

Sampson answered, then turned over and made a fadeaway jumper that Malone couldn't touch.

"Boom!"

Ma Long stared angrily: "You are mad at Moses!"

4 is better than 0
Hearing this kind of trash talk, Louis didn't know what expression to use to react.

What's the matter with being a little cute?

The 76ers' offense was in trouble.

Louie's arrangement began to work. First of all, the Celtics will never give the 76ers the opportunity to create strong points and play weak points.

Once there is a sign of a strong point attacking a weak point, their double-teaming will instantly approach.

Moreover, they are not worried about the 76ers shooting three-pointers.

A few years later, the team didn't learn their lesson. They didn't realize that the small space was a problem that severely limited Dr. J's takeoff.

They have never thought of improving this problem, otherwise, you can't explain why after three years, their three-point shot frequency is still the second-lowest in the league, only 0.003 away from the last-lowest Atlanta Hawks.

This kind of team with a three-point rate of only 0.16% does not need to worry about their three-point shooting at all. The key players will decisively pinch the ball when they get the ball, and boldly empty the outside line.

Under Louis' arrangements, the Celtics' attack on Tony was particularly tragic.

One was not controlled well, and Tony's pass made a mistake.

Sampson at the free throw line started immediately. He ran fast, and Malone, who was a little shorter than him, lagged behind him in straight-line speed.

Sampson took the ball in the middle and made a big step into the three-point line.

In front of him, the weakest point in the 76ers' starting lineup, the white power forward Avaroni chose to foul.

However, even though his body lost its center of gravity, he could still throw the ball to the basket with his right hand. He didn't look at the basket, just felt it, and then the ball went in.

"Beep!"

The referee blows his whistle again.

Sampson scored 2+1. He clenched his fist and shouted loudly. Looking at Malone behind him, he said abruptly, "Ralph is invincible!"

Let the Celtics start with a 6-0 start. If Sampson makes an extra penalty, it will be 7-0. The potential crisis makes Cunningham have to pay attention to the problem.

There are two critical problems plaguing Cunningham, the offense can't score, and the fourth position is short of manpower.

Before Malone came, they had Jones Brothers and Dawkins inside, both of them were tall and athletic insiders, not as exaggerated as Sampson, but they were right.

Now, Malone is one size smaller, and he's a center.

Alvaro is not in the same class from size to strength.

Ask Malone to defend, not to mention that Alvaro will be bullied to death by that stinky hooligan Lambir, Sampson with a good touch is as simple as throwing the ball into the swimming pool on the second floor.Let Alvaro defend, and Sampson can do whatever he wants.

The success of last season more or less confused the 76ers.

They thought that they only needed to stabilize the lineup, rather than upgrade accordingly.

Just look at what the Lakers did. They traded Norm Nixon for Dennis Johnson, and then took an insignificant role + $40 in cash, got Byron Scott for nothing, and found a strong support like Bob McAdoo for the aging Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as a substitute.

The Lakers, who were swept by the 76ers, made no excuses and improved the strength of their lineup in all aspects.

The 76ers have stalled.

Cunningham can only replace Alvaro, who is not in very good form, and replace him with another insider Clemon Johnson (Clemon Johnson C/PF).

The difference between Johnson and Alvaro is that one can't defend against Sampson, and the other can at least put some pressure on the confrontation.

Louis saw that the 76ers' inside strength was low, so he replaced Lambir, who had knocked down his opponent many times in a few minutes, to rest, and replaced him with Maxwell to speed up.

He specifically asked Maxwell: "I don't agree with the Suns trading so many people for you, so please fight for me!"

Maxwell said regretfully: "Why don't you agree?"

"How could I give away my sweetheart for that pile of leftovers?" Louis said nastyly.

Maxwell felt a chill in his heart, and then walked away.

Hearing what Louis said to Maxwell, KC, who knew the inside story, recognized Louis' true face again.

Naive KC, Louie seems to refresh his impressions every day.

"Is it okay to lie like this?" KC asked.

"This world is full of lies," Louis said after a pause, "letting them live in lies like fools is my tenderness to them."

"them?"

"...Don't pay attention to such details."

The 76ers' offensive breaker is the unexpected Moses Malone.

He came to the high position to get the ball, with the intention of responding, but he didn't expect everyone to disperse, and Sampson, Bird, and Maxwell didn't come to defend him, so they threw him directly at the free throw line.

Ma Long shot excitedly and scored with a cricket.

He scored from the free throw line for the first time ever.

After scoring, he also gurgled a lot of words.

Unfortunately, his words were hard to hear because he was so excited.

"Moses said," Dr. J acted as an interpreter, "you should pay attention to his tracks."

(End of this chapter)