the rest, only noise

Chapter 252 The Source of Evil
The Lakers are well aware of their advantages, and from the beginning of the game, they focused on the inside.

In the first 20 points, 14 points came from the inside, 4 points came from the free throw line, and 2 points were long-range shots.

No three points.

Riley once tried to get the players to shoot more three-pointers after the rematch with the Celtics, but this is not how the Buddha's feet are hugged. Letting the players shoot a lot of three-pointers on the spur of the moment will only greatly reduce the efficiency of the Lakers.

So Riley sees this as a point of improvement in the future, not something to do now.

Unlike the Lakers, the Celtics played a full-scale offense after Louie's timeout adjustment.

Inside, low, high, outside the arc.

They led the Lakers 8-24 in the first 20 minutes of the first quarter with an unstoppable offensive.

Riley found that the Celtics scored five consecutive goals and called a timeout.

He severely reprimanded Wilkins and yelled: "Can you fucking be tougher, Dominick? Don't you find that they use you as a breakthrough? This is a shame for the players. I want to see your anger. The feedback of anger should be to dominate the defensive end, not to find a way to return to the offensive end!"

Louie replaced Isiah Thomas, Gerald Henderson and then Lambiel for Maxwell.

Henderson is a defensive back that Louie admires. He is very good at timing and can always appear in the right place at the right time.

Although he is not a big lock-level defensive master like Dennis Johnson, it is something to be happy for any team to have him as a substitute.

As soon as Henderson came on the court, he touched the magician's chest like a robber, and took out the ball in the magician's hand with an action that would definitely be called a foul for hand-checking in the future.

"Look! Gerald's consciousness is so good!"

No one would regard Henderson's actions as a foul, including Magic himself.

His first reaction was not to complain to the referee, but to chase back as fast as possible. He destroyed Henderson's center of gravity and balance from behind, but he couldn't stop him from putting the ball into the basket.

Louis stomped his feet and asked, "Isn't this a foul? He's almost pushing his big eagle into Gerald's ASS!"

The "home killer" Systrom didn't even have an obvious reaction, and he didn't even look at Louis.

"Well, if you have this standard, it's best to always be this standard, don't set a standard for them, and set a standard for us!" Louie shouted, "This is our home stadium!"

The magician quickly advanced across the half court, went outside the three-point line on the right, and threw a pass to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

As soon as Kareem got the ball, Henderson implemented Louie's grand strategy, decisively leaving the magician on the outside and going inside to double-team Kareem.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was double-teamed without even moving, and Magic was the only safe passer.

He throws the ball out, outside, and Magic catches and shoots.

22 is better than 26
In terms of shooting feel, the Magic has no problem at all.

He has the ability to develop a hand that is stable throughout the entire range. What limits his development in this area can only be the times.

The Lakers are playing the kind of game Pat Riley wants to see.

The internal line is cleared, and the external line is activated.

Defensively, they made major concessions.

Relax the control of the penalty area, allowing the Celtics to hit the offensive rebound, but never give three-pointers and easy breakthrough layups.

They gave up mid-range defense, and in order to ensure the quality of defense, they also ignored offensive rebounds.

So Louie let the players do their best and decisively hit the mid-range, while the other four all rushed to the rebound.

Asking a player to "give up" something on the field is dangerous.

Because the player doesn't know how far you want him to give up, whether to give up completely or selectively.

The Lakers players chose to give up completely, but the Celtics grabbed 9 offensive rebounds in a single quarter.

29 is better than 26
At the end of the first quarter, the Celtics still had the lead.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Louis let Thomas lead the second team as usual.

The Lakers use Magician and Wilkins as the core of the second team.

There is nothing to say about the pertinence of both sides. The magician frequently called the pick-and-roll misplaced back to hit Thomas.

He started playing back from outside the three-point line, and the Celtics really didn't dare to double-team him too much.

It's like playing against James, you can't double-team him.If you double-team him, his passing will cost you dearly.

At this time, there was no friendship between Thomas and the magician. One of them tried his best to blow up each other, and the other made various actions to embarrass each other.

Maxwell picked a good time, what he thought was a good time.

The magician obviously didn't even look at his position, but turned around a second after his flanking attack, and passed the missile to Wilkins in the paint with one hand.

"Human Film Digest" was thus screened in the Celtic exclusion zone.

28 is better than 29
"Isaiah, you can't prevent me no matter what." The magician said to Thomas.

Thrilling Thomas was one of the things Louie did every night.

Standing with his hands on his hips, he said to Thomas, "Isaiah, if you don't respond to his provocation because No-Maj is like a brother to you, I will look down on you for the rest of my life."

"you shut up!"

Thomas snorted annoyedly.

"Isaiah, don't you know that the only way to get people to shut up in this world is to show it to everyone?"

Accompanied by Louie's sarcasm and the trash talk of the Lakers undercover agent, Thomas didn't call the pick-and-roll and forced Byron Scott.

Without Dennis Johnson on the court, the Lakers don't even have anyone who can match up with Thomas.

Louie watched him drive outside the paint, heavily violated but focused.

With both hands holding the ball, he turned around and forcibly pulled the bar to avoid the blocked shot and score.

31 is better than 28
"Don't say it, this damn dwarf is really evil!" Louis always regarded Thomas as a weakened version of Chris Paul.

However, before being injured in the 2018 Western Conference Finals, Paul had never proved himself on the big stage.

He never had Thomas's moment in the Finals when he scored 25 points in a single quarter with only one leg and almost killed the Lakers.

Thomas scored a response ball and didn't talk back to the magician. He stared at Louie.

What do you say this time?
"It's okay, but No-Maj is about to fight back, you can't guard against him at all."

Louie looks like the coach of the Lakers. His "motivation" to Thomas made his desire to attack soar.

On the other hand, the magician didn't have the heart to hammer the Celtics with personal offense.

Calling the pick-and-roll dislocation to play Thomas is one of his ways to open up the situation, but soon, he found that this way would not work.

Louie gestured from a distance to let the players set up pocket formations and let go of all the peripheral players of the Lakers.

Even if the magician calls the pick-and-roll past Thomas, he will encounter two or three double-teams when he comes to the free throw line.

What he didn't expect was that the Celtics' defensive actions would be so intense.

In order to grab his ball, directly put the person down.

Fortunately the ball was passed before that.

The magician couldn't hear the whistle, indicating that the referee approved such a confrontation.

This really made him feel ridiculous, that kind of confrontation that wished to knock him into the air was actually a routine confrontation?
Outside, Sterling missed a three-pointer.

Rambis and Rambir grabbed the ball to grab a piece.

Rambis, who is more physically fit, took the lead to grab the rebound, and Rambir slammed the ball off his hand, and the two fell to the ground together for the rebound.

Next, more and more people fell to the ground to grab the ball.

As Thomas flew the floor ball into his arms, Magic tried to wrestle the ball from his arms.

The impatient Thomas couldn't care about his friendship with the magician. He twisted his arm and pulled an anti-knuckle that wanted to break the magician's arm.

The scene became lively in an instant.

The ball grab is the most conflict-prone part of the court, and it's a "I'm tough, you'd better leave me alone" show.

Will Thomas magnify the magician in order to keep the ball, will this hurt their relationship?
Louie saw the magician complaining loudly about Thomas' rudeness.

Thomas didn't respond, and he handed the ball to the referee.

The ball was awarded to the Celtics and the Magic got a foul.

Louie was relieved to see Systrom do something human.

"Earl, I blamed you wrongly, you are a good referee." Louis said contentedly.

The referee still doesn't look at him, and the animosity between the Celtics and the Lakers is increasing sharply.

This will result in a more intense round of confrontation and physical contact.

When Thomas and Maxwell's L tactics to hit the ball to the latter to attack the basket.

When Maxwell's layup was pushed out of bounds by Wilkins with a sturdy body confrontation, the game began to go to extremes.

An indescribable hatred appeared on the field.

There should be no animosity between players, but there is little friendship either.

The friendship between Magic and Thomas is rare. Before the age of social media, there were not a lot of basketball training camps in the United States, and basketball geniuses could only dominate in their own states.Therefore, many of them can only be known in the NBA, and the media will keep them at a distance.

The Lakers and Celtics are even more unique.

The history, the anger of the fans, and the ubiquitous "Celtics die", "Beat LA" make players naturally confrontational.

There will be a bloody trend in this round of the series, and the conflict at this time is only the root of evil.

(End of this chapter)