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Chapter 245 Long Spear and Sword
The magician started the game actively, whether it was personal offense or pass instigation, he did a good job.

After most of the quarter, the Lakers led the Celtics 17 to 15.

Louie called a timeout.

"How to defend the Magician is the most important thing for the Celtics right now."

Tom Heinsohn relates the criticality of the matter to the success or failure of the game.

"If the magician plays well, the victory or defeat is unknown; if the magician plays sluggishly, the Celtics will be sure to win."

The truth is this truth, how to do it?

Louis first replaced Maxwell, and then fixed Bird at the fourth position, establishing him as the core of the next offense, and Thomas wanted to hand over the ball.

Second, let ML Carr play the third position against the Magician.

"I don't care what method you use, harass him at all costs." Louis has done some research on how to defend the magician.

Let Maxwell do the matchup, because he doesn't want to be caught by the magician and misplaced.

Looking at it now, with Maxwell's defensive quality, the opposing magician is going to be eaten alive. Instead of letting him be tortured, it is better to change to Karl who can torture others just by opening his mouth.

Karl agreed loudly.

The Lakers also adjusted their lineup.

Riley replaced Rambis with Wilkins, who played at the four.This is Riley's prediction of Louie's suspension adjustment.He predicted that Louis would replace Maxwell, and would not replace Lambiel, but would allow Bird to play the fourth position logically.

As long as Bird is at the [-], he'll have to match up with Wilkins.

Wilkins couldn't guard Bird, but once he started running, Bird couldn't guard either.

If Wilkins and him can offset each other, it is a profit.

Carl came on, proving that Riley was right.

He smiled with satisfaction. When Louis saw Wilkins, he also understood that his abacus had been seen by the other party.

However, it doesn't matter.

Playing Wilkins at the [-], the Lakers expected him and Bird to blow each other up, would surely put more of the ball in the hands of the best guy ever to turn a game into a one-on-one game.

Louis really didn't believe that Bird would lose to Wilkins in a heads-up match.

Wilkins came up to guard Bird, only to eat his fake and jump up like a monkey.

Bird shot sideways and hit the board.

17 is better than 17
With less than 3 minutes left in the first quarter, both sides wanted to bring up the rhythm.

Carl is like a mad dog, chasing the magician's body all the way.

He kept his defense strictly in front of the magician, hitting, kicking, and confronting, as rough as he could.

"!##￥......"

Everyone in the garden is rooting for him, and he pushes Magic to the high post on the left, about one step inside the [-]-point line.

Karl has a strategy, press first, confront, and then widen the distance to prevent him from taking a single step.

In the high position on the left, he obviously has room to shoot but hesitates.

This caught Louis' attention.

"Is that his cool zone?" Louie asked.

Unfortunately, there are no data on this.

Tomjanovich said affirmatively: "If he is sure, he can continue to shoot, but he didn't, which shows."

He doesn't like that position?

No one knew, and everyone just saw Magic ignore his open chances and pass Wilkins to one-on-one with Bird.

The moment Wilkins received the ball, Carl completely ignored the magician and turned to the low post to pinch Wilkins with Bird.

With one against two, Wilkins just wanted to pass the ball.

If he tries to pass the ball, it's over.

"Baby hooked." Louis squinted and smiled.

Of course Wilkins' ball is going to the magician, but where is the magician standing?The high post on the left, almost on the three-point line, has a distance from him, and this distance is dangerous.

Thomas suddenly rushed out and took a pass from Wilkins, blocking the Lakers' internal and external response and turning it into a Celtics counterattack.

19 is better than 17
"It seems that Coach Lu has made up his mind today to test Magician's long-range shooting touch."

Heinsohn expressed concern about Celtic's arrangement.

"So far, Magic is 4 of 3 on jumpers one step beyond the three-point line. He has delivered a beautiful report card, but this has not affected the Celtics' defensive strategy at all."

Stockton echoed: "Little Lu is a solid guy."

This time, Magic let his teammates open the space. He and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stayed on the weak side and lobbed the ball.

Abdul-Jabbar was flanked and passed back.

The magician, who was shorted again, shot decisively.

"Shh!"

19 is better than 19
This goal means that the magician's pure long-range shooting rate tonight is 5 of 4, 80%, and he scored 19 of the Lakers' opening 10 points.

Just from these few shots of the magician, it can be seen that he is different from those players who followed him as a template but couldn't figure out how to shoot.

Right now, he's a threat inside the three-point line.

Give him space, and enough time to adjust, and he'll be able to hit an amazing percentage.

The only thing he is short of is the three-pointer, but he can make such accurate long-range shots with one step inside the three-point line. For him, there is no problem that he can't practice the three-pointer.

When the magician made the shot, he came back to defend and said to Louis: "Little Lu, if you let me shoot like this again, I will get 100 points!"

"Go ahead and get it, Erwin, it's my honor to witness your infinite potential being stimulated." Louis smiled kindly like a kind person, "Go, don't be polite."

The magician's dazzling performance, as well as the appearance of talking and laughing with Louis, touched the heartstrings of a certain country bumpkin.

He angrily took the ball in a high position. After the L tactic came out, he played a two-handed fake pass, pulled back, and then shot.

Wilkins was tricked until the ball went in to find out what happened.

"You have no fucking defense at all, get someone who can defend!" Bird yelled roughly.

Bird expressed anger at Wilkins, but the real reason for his anger was the magician's dazzling performance.

Magic saw clearly that he wanted to continue to irritate Bird, so he took advantage of his good hands and played a high pull-up jumper on the offensive end that was rarely seen on him.

Before he shot, Cooper and Wilkins made pick-and-rolls on the perimeter and outside the left paint.

They slowed Carl, giving Magic perfect space.

The problem is, the magician's shot is not suitable for the pull-up jumper.

Give him time to adjust, he will give people an abnormally accurate sense of sight, if it is like this, it will not be so accurate.

His ball bounced out of the basket, the rebound was received by the Celtics, and the fans in the Garden were elated, thinking that his booing had interfered with the magician's aim.

It’s hard to say how much interference the poor away environment can bring to the Magician, but Louis believes that the later the game is played, the hellish exhaust tunnel inside the garden will suffocate players who are used to playing in the comfortable arena of the Forum.

It was like a mine tunnel where an accident had occurred. It was oppressive, stuffy, and had a pungent smell.

Thomas rushed to the frontcourt at a high speed, making an emergency stop outside the paint to hit the iron with a jumper.

Bird and Cooper grabbed the offensive rebound together, and the two fell to the ground at the same time, but the referee called the latter's card foul.

Cooper yelled, "Are you kidding me?"

Fans booed like a wave, the referee did not give other explanations, Cooper had to accept.

Bird got up, the two sides completed their positions, and Sampson served the sideline ball.

Bird went to the outside to catch the ball, Cooper took the initiative to switch over, and Wilkins knew that his defense could not prevent Bird, so he consciously went to Carl.

While talking trash, Cooper pressed his body up, raising one hand and threatening the ball with the other.

This kind of double pressure on people and on the ball, if the referee allows it, the offensive side has almost no chance.

Bird wanted to pass the ball at first, but he changed his mind after Cooper trash-talked.

"Didn't you eat? You don't know how much strength you have, do you?"

"Have you had enough trouble? Have you had enough?"

"Should it be me?"

After Bird finished speaking sarcastically, he propped up his body with his right foot and one foot, and his body leaned back, but the range was small enough for him to shoot, but it also allowed Cooper to react and interfere.

Bird pulled fadeaways from beyond the arc just to avoid getting blocked, but Cooper could still use his physicality to create pressure.

However, Bird is Bird. He ignored the pressure brought by Cooper, and against the most difficult defense, he made a strong three-pointer.

22 is better than 19
"La-REEE!"

"La-REEE!"

The fans shouted Bird's name excitedly, and Louie's expression was very calm. Bird had done too many performances like this, and he was numb.

What he didn't expect was that what angered Byrd was not his "poisonous chicken soup", but the fact that "the magician performed well".

In Bird's heart, there was a fierce voice reminding him that he could not fall behind, and could not lose to the magician.

Louis has never been worried about the team's offense. Even Larry Brown may not be able to make the Celtics' offense misfire.

There's just so much talent on this team.

Louie just happened to use the right idea to give the Celtics a chance to touch his upper limit on the offensive end.

The new system built with this goal has been honed for a whole season, and it is basically complete and complete.

Louis put the winner of the Finals with the Lakers on defense.

How to cut off the connection between the magician and other people is the most critical.

One of his methods is to let the magician shoot.

He needs to use at least two games to prove whether the magician's shooting can kill people. If he can, he will think of other ways. If he can't, he will let the magician realize Ben Simmons' game decades in advance.

In the first quarter, the two sides launched a tug-of-war. The Lakers' offense remained the same. The Magic instigated the whole team, and then used the advantage of athletic talent to launch a suffocating defensive rotation.

Dennis Johnson's defense fills in the last of the system's weaknesses.

Two of the best teams in the league, two of the most talented teams of all time, are off to a 24-21 start in a diabolical arena.

The Celtics held the lead by a narrow margin.

In the second quarter, Louis replaced Bird to rest, with Thomas, Maxwell, Lambiel, Long and Angie as the connecting lineup, and let them score in a more impactful way.

The Lakers retained the magician and set up a spear and sword beside him-the four were Byron Scott, Wilkins, McAdoo, and Wilkes.

(End of this chapter)