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Chapter 176 Isaiah can never do it, right?

The Mavericks' pressing defense quickly ran into trouble.

The general oppressive defense is effective against teams without a formed offensive system.Because there is no system, the offense is like a headless chicken, and it is easy to mess up when encountering a strong defense.

However, the Celtics have introduced four new tactical systems since Louis coached, and the content is so rich that even if Thomas and Bird sit on the court at the same time, they can still play high-quality offense.

Dick Motta's emphasis on pressuring and giving up the wing philosophy ran into trouble after John Long and Bird took turns shooting 5-pointers, going 3-for-[-] from [-]-point range in the half.

Maxwell's entry into the starting lineup is an overlooked variable.

He can help Bird match up with Mark Aguirre, and Bird can easily withstand the low attack of the Mavericks' two white big men starting inside.

Since the Mavericks' insiders are Pat Cummings and Bill Garnett, Bird was originally a defensive four-offensive three-position, but he changed into a strange positioning that defends the four and five positions at will and attacks the three position.

Bird, who turned into a meat tank and topped the front row, liberated Sampson and Maxwell, and they jointly sent 3 steals and 2 blocks on the defensive end.

In the half quarter, the Celtics led the Mavericks 19 to 8.

Trembling with rage, Mota growled and called his timeout.

"Good job!" Louie cheered up every player who came off the field, especially reminding Thomas, "Isiah, control your emotions, don't care what the fans say, you know they just want to piss you off."

Thomas asked back: "Why do they only want to piss me off and not everyone else?"

"Maybe everyone knows you are narrow-minded?" Louis asked with a smile.

Thomas' face darkened, speechless.

"If they don't make changes according to the current style of play, then we don't need to make any changes, but there are a few points to pay attention to." Louis picked up the tactical board and said to the crowd, "Don't let Rolando Blackman catch the ball in the elbow area. You should have noticed that it is his sweet spot. He wants to eat dessert. You should feed him a mouthful of shit!"

"Mark Aguirre was very calm tonight, Ralph, you have a lot to do, but there are three and a half quarters left, your defense must continue to maintain!"

Louie then asked Tomjanovich, "Rudy, is there anything I'm missing?"

Tomjanovich flattered, "Perfect, Coach Road."

Louis smiled and said, "Rudy, what I like most about you is that you always tell the truth."

Cowens frowned and his lips trembled when he heard this. He also wanted to tell the "truth", but he was worried that his truth would make Louis angry and deduct his salary.

Mavericks
The atmosphere was tense, and Motta made his trademark move.

He put the tactical board on the floor, squatted down, and grabbed his biceps with his hands crossed: "You guys are so ugly! Not ordinary ugly, uglier than the ugliest fat woman I saw in San Antonio!"

No one dares to talk back. Motta is famous for his sharp mouth and sharp heart. He may be the shortest coach in the NBA. He is less than 1.7 meters tall.

"From now on, let's do this!" Motta split the tactical board into two, and it was really divided into two. He frantically folded the tactical board into two sections, leaving only the right side.

"Whoever has the ball, we have to block the middle and let them attack our right wing. Isiah is fast, but he is not big, and our fans obviously annoy him. So, you have to take advantage of this home court, inflame his emotions, and use your height to block his vision and cut off his linkage with Larry Bird."

"What if he manages to pass the ball to Larry?"

"Punch Larry directly."

"If it is passed on to others?"

Mota said heavily: "Let them shoot!"

Once the ball is blocked by Bird, let the Celtics shoot and bet on their hand feel. If their hand feel is not good, the Mavericks can rely on their youthful vitality to launch a lightning and thunderous counterattack.

Motta's arrangement cannot be said to be unsophisticated, especially the idea of ​​​​blocking the middle and putting the side.

Those who are familiar with the Spurs know that this is a family secret of the Spurs coaches, and it will not be outdated from 1997 to 2021. Now it is 1984, and Motta has realized that forcing the opponent's ball holder to make decisions on the sideline has a narrower vision and is more prone to mistakes.

Motta can set up the defense, but the offense has few solutions.

Brad Davis dribbles and breaks through. Although his starting speed is not fast, he wins because of his good rhythm, and he can always surpass others when he is slow.

See him pass Thomas quickly, drive to the bottom corner, and distribute it to Garnett.

Garnett hit the basket and scored.

Davis didn't forget to execute Mota's arrangement when he ran back-to incite Thomas' emotions.

"I think you should give Larry a kowtow," Davis said meanly. "Without him, you're just a premium nigga. Oh no, it's a new era, I can't say that, but you know what I mean."

Thomas' mood was changed from that moment on.

It was not his fault that Davis had a conflict with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the Lakers.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a natural character, extremely racist, and Davis, who joined the league at the beginning, wanted to please him.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's first reaction was not to thank him, or to have a good impression of him like a normal person, but "This guy is not related to me, and he is a white guy, so he pleases me so much? I guess he is trying to kill me?" So Davis' hot face was printed with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's footprints, and he has never had a good impression of black people⑴.

Saying those words to Thomas at this time was not only to carry out Motta's order, but also to express his dissatisfaction with black people in his heart.

Thomas couldn't think of anything else. He took Davis' words as an insult, his eyes were cold, and he dribbled the ball to the frontcourt and saw that the opponent emptied his right hand, so that the opponent was looking for death.

In an instant, Thomas dribbled the ball into the wing, and what awaited him was the Mavericks' pincer attack.

Because Davis couldn't keep up with him, Blackman, who was going to flank Bird, turned to flank Thomas instead.

Davis followed from behind.

Losing his mind, Thomas ignored John Long's opening and forced a shot.

Louie didn't notice Thomas' emotional change, but he noticed some changes in the Mavericks' defense.

Originally, they were simply increasing their defensive strength, giving enough confrontation.

That kind of reckless, unskilled defense, meeting the Celtics is a dead end.

Suddenly, they played a lot of tricks on the wing.

It seems that John Long is short, but someone near him is always ready to steal the ball.

Let the tall Blackman help defend Thomas, and Davis flanks to give strength.

In this case, it is reasonable for Thomas to make a random shot, pass the ball by mistake, pass it to a teammate, pass it out of bounds, or pass it to the opponent.

The change in the Mavericks is sudden, and Thomas won't be able to adapt for a while.

Louis still didn't notice a change in Thomas' mood.

But soon, he noticed it.

In the next few rounds, the Mavericks' offense was not good. Davis went through the needle and Thomas' defense was quite aggressive.

On their home court, Thomas' defense was not tolerated by the referees.

Louis saw Thomas' gloomy face, and the sweet smirk disappeared at some point. The more Davis talked trash, the uglier his face became.

"Ah, is this releasing the demon in Isaiah's heart again?" Louis asked with a smile from the sidelines.

He has Tomjanovich and KC Jones by his side.

Tomjanovich hesitated: "It's not good for us if he continues like this."

"That's right, I just want to see if he puts himself first or puts the team first after his true nature is exposed." Louis laughed.

For a few minutes when Thomas was out of control, the Mavericks relied on defense to counterattack, and their scoring efficiency improved a little.

The Celtics can only rely on the advantage of the inside to focus on the second offense.

Maxwell appeared in various positions around the basket. As long as Sampson got offensive rebounds, he would pass half of them to him and the other half by himself.

He could see that Thomas was not in the right mood.

He suddenly lost sight of his teammates.

The tipping point of this paragraph is that Bird finally can't tolerate Thomas jumping to the right like a fool, being double-teamed like a fool, shooting like a fool, and closing his face like a fool.

"Give me the ball, Isiah!"

Byrd yelled.

Thomas froze.

"Isaiah, do you want me to call a timeout and kneel in front of you and beg you to pass the ball?" Louis asked lazily.

Thomas no longer slams into the right of his opponent like a fool, and gives the ball to Bird.

The Mavericks immediately flanked Bird.

The man who flanked Bird was Bill Garnett, an athletic white forward who would otherwise not have been a jumper, and he flanked Bird, tantamount to letting Maxwell go.

The Mavericks don't seem to have learned enough about Maxwell's roaming ability.

Bird leads with the ball and creates opportunities for Maxwell.

Maxwell caught the ball and attacked the basket and dunked directly.

When Thomas ran back, Louis complained in his ears: "I don't understand, is it so difficult to pass the ball? Look at Larry's hand, Isiah will never be able to do it, right?"

⑴ After reading this, you must think that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a psychopath, but there is a cause and effect.When Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a teenager, a black kid in the United States was beaten to death by his boyfriend because he glanced at a white woman too much; when he was 10 years old, his best friend was a white man, and then this friend blocked the school gate with a group of white kids one day and called him a big nigger; his most respected high school coach (white man) once said that word to stimulate him because he was not angry in playing basketball; so as an adult, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar instinctively did not believe in the kindness of white people.He felt that all white people who were kind to him would hurt him badly one day—this final conclusion is not my speculation, but his own words in his autobiography "Becoming Kareem". PS: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's autobiography is the most resentful of all the autobiographies I have read.

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