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Chapter 365 We Are Civilized People
In the last few minutes of the first quarter, the Celtics expected Louis to come up with a full-court press.

As a result, Louis did not use the full-court press as they thought, but finished the first quarter naturally.

27 is better than 24
The Celtics led by 3 points, the Big Three played 7-9 minutes each, and the Knicks insisted on changing players every 6 minutes.

The player who played the longest in the starting lineup was Dale Ellis. He was marked by the Celtics tonight, but Louis was used as a bait.

So although Ellis only scored 3 points in the first quarter, he verified the famous saying of the small ball era.

An off-ball master can save the entire team's offense.

You must know that Ellis is far from being an off-ball master. Although his off-ball running is amazing, he is not a historical-level off-ball player like Jordan, Miller, Ray Allen, and Curry.

He is a great off-ball threat in the Knicks because the team focuses on the N.UCLA system.

The system that focuses on pick-and-roll and screens is more conducive to his performance, and he then uses his shooting skills and shooting threats to feed back his teammates.

It's a virtuous circle.

In the second quarter, Louis boldly put on the three inside lineup of Webber, Gerald Wilkins, AC Green, Antoine Kyle and Manute Ball.

Because the Celtics' lineup in the second quarter is Thomas, Angie, Guy Williams, Jim Peterson and Lambiel.

Compared with the previous two years, the Celtics' lineup depth has been greatly weakened, but it can still be compared with the starting lineups of some weak teams.

What's more, the person who leads this lineup is Thomas.

Louie expected that KC would not deliberately DIY the lineup for the Knicks, so the Knicks' second team was very targeted.

The Celtics can't keep up with Webber in the first position. The three insiders strengthen the rebound advantage. Ball's basket protection and the Celtics' attacking performance will determine the tone of the second quarter.

In the second quarter, the Knicks took the lead in attacking.

Antoine Kyle runs outside the paint on the right to receive the ball.

Louie won't force them to play the N.UCLA offense as long as they don't play with Stockton.

Kyle catches the ball, sees that his opponent is not keeping up, and makes the shot.

26 is better than 27
Louis whistled and said to Lambiel, "Bill, what's the matter, do you think Antoine can't shoot?"

The Celtics intended to counterattack quickly, but the Knicks' retreat speed did not slow down because of the three inside lanes.

AC is a flexible and brisk insider. As a religious believer with faith, he may be the most clean-cut player in NBA history.

The flexible footwork allows him to defend the third position on the defensive end, which is why Louis dared to use the three-inner lineup.

Kyle is a player who needs to use offense to mobilize the enthusiasm of defense. He scored a goal as soon as he came up, which helped him to defend seriously.

Ball's speed is slower, but it doesn't matter, the coaching staff never expect him to defend the opponent's counterattack, as long as he can keep up with the rhythm as much as possible.

Thomas faced Webber up front.

Thomas, who played against opponents who were taller than him in almost every game, suddenly met a player who was 20 centimeters shorter than him.On rare occasions when he is attacking with the ball, his speed has become a disadvantage.

Webb put Thomas two meters away.

Thomas came in with the dribble, fearful of Ball's height advantage, and chose to stop and shoot a jumper.

29 is better than 26
Webber often doesn't know what tactics to play, there are too many pick-and-roll tactics.

Stockton is well-read and memorized, and can play all the tactics at will as part of the game memory, and he often looks to Louie to see what instructions he has.

"Empty 9!" Louie yelled.

After being instructed, Weber gestured towards his teammates from a distance.

Kyle pulls to the left, taking the defender away.

AC ran out to the outside, and Gerald Wilkins got the ball from Webber.

It seems to be a tactic to clear the space for Wilkins to play singles, but after the handover, Webb just took a step behind Wilkins and then turned around and ran back, using the body of his teammates to block Thomas behind him.The average defensive IQ of the Celtics is very high. Ainge switched defenses decisively, but one after another, on the right three-point line, AC's off-ball screen was already in place.

Ainge, knowing the collision was inevitable, threw a hard elbow at AC, and they both fell to the ground at the same time, while Webb shot straight inside.

Wilkins made a lob, and Webber jumped up from the paint area after catching the ball, which was unimaginable for Lambiel.

A guy with a height of less than 1 meters actually completed a dunk on their inside!
This is "Empty9", Empty Lob, direct translation means empty side lob coordination, still based on the running of the players, pick-and-roll screens, to create space.Unlike Empty Side, Lob will use the ball holder more as a cut-in player, while Side is often a cooperation between the ball holder and the inside line, and what he plays is a surprise.

It didn't take long for the Knicks to be happy, and Louis saw Angie and AC clashing.

"Try to fuck me!" Angie, who elbowed first, didn't seem to be at fault, making it seem like AC struck first.

Almost immediately, the other four Knicks teammates gathered around, they happened to be his same grade students.What are the benefits of being a peer?We are very close to each other.Because Louis almost gives everyone a chance, they cooperate with each other, make progress together, and help anyone who encounters problems.

Kyle, Poll, Webb, and Wilkins all rushed over and surrounded them, and the second conflict was about to happen.

Luckily there were referees, and Tommy Nunes grabbed the whistle and yelled, "Want a tee? If you don't want a tee, let me go and play hard!"

"He elbowed me first, and then uttered rude words, so that's all?" AC made a legitimate allegation.

"Stop fucking farting here, rookie, this is part of the game, if you don't like it, go home and stop playing!" Angie taunted vulgarly.

"Okay!" Kyle and the others took AC away, and then said to Angie, "Let's see who is more ruthless!"

Nunes roared angrily: "Whoever dares to do unnecessary things, I will definitely not let him go!"

"Tommy, I'm really not talking about you. If you didn't see what Angie did to my players, you can ask your assistant referee. He should have seen it clearly, but he doesn't like me, so he can't blow the whistle. But you should know who Angie is, and you should also know that AC will never initiate trouble!"

Louie puts a little pressure on Nunes from the sidelines and finds Oakley eager to try.

"Coach, should I go?"

The look of his hardened fists clearly indicated that he was going to fight.

"Go back and sit down, it's none of your business!"

"Can I be missing from the fight?"

"Damn, can you stop thinking about fighting all day? We are fucking civilized people. Is fighting a fucking thing for civilized people? Can you fucking learn from me and stop thinking about fucking fighting all day long?"

Oakley was quite shocked: "Coach, I must listen to you and be a fucking civilized person!"

The dispute caused by Ainge brought the Celtics a tougher team.

AC and Guy Williams rolled all over the floor in the confrontation.

Louis remembered that Williams wanted to be a thug at the beginning, and Louis hoped that he could have his own unique skills, but unfortunately he didn't realize it.

Now he has become Lambir's executor.

Lambiel never initiates a fight, he's not strictly an enforcer, and he's not a fighter like Oakley, he's above them all, he's a provocateur.He is responsible for inciting the opponent's emotions, provoking troubles, and letting the opponent do it.

Williams' current role is the executor of Lambiel's subordinates, and he basically acts according to Lambiel's face.

Louie couldn't tell if that was good or bad.

In fact, this is a good thing for Williams.In Louie's previous life, he had faded out of the league at this stage, but now he has a stable position in Boston, because both KC and Auerbach feel that Lambiel needs a thug next to him.

AC and Williams landed together, and Thomas made a strong breakthrough.

Ainge made a shot from outside the three-point line, but was destroyed by Antoine Kyle.

Confusingly, the referee didn't call Kyle a foul.

Instead, he gave Lambir a foul at the basket.

"Tommy?" Now it was KC's turn to be dissatisfied.

KC got up and complained loudly, "Where was the foul just now? If the inside line is not stuck, why play the ball?"

Louis smiled, and said to Tomjanovich: "Mr. Nunes is really a good balance whistle."

"I still like Earl Strom more than Tom Nunes (referee/calling games home team wins less than away team)." Tomjanovich said.

The dispute caused by Angie further escalated the confrontation on the court.

It seemed that the defending champions were putting pressure on their opponents, but this was exactly what Louie wanted to see.

The current Celtics team is no longer the Steel Division team that relied on hand-to-hand combat to recover three consecutive reversals of the Philadelphia 1981ers in 76.

In fact, even if you look through NBA history, you can't find a second team like the Celtics that has three of the league's top four players.

Their combat power and talent are above many teams.

Hand-to-hand combat is considered self-defeating for them, and it is not good for them to fight like this.

This time Webb is going to come up with a ladder screen. With the Celtics' unstoppable offensive speed, he rushed outside the paint with a high-altitude parabolic throw and hit the board.

30 is better than 29
"With Spotter Webber's drop shot, the Knicks overtook the score!"

"It's time for us to let go of our past prejudices and take this team seriously." Tom Heinsohn said, "Little Lu is doing to this team what he once did to the Celtics."

The fierce physical confrontation made the Celtics temporarily unable to find opportunities with the conduction ball. Thomas went to the basket and gave the ball to Lambiel.

Lambiel fired a shot, shook Ball up, and then hit the time difference to cause a foul by Ball.

Of the two free throws, he only made one and missed the second one.

AC grabbed the rebound and directly threw a long pass to Webb.

Thomas caught up at full speed and also sent a shooting foul.

The rhythm and confrontation intensity of this game are not on the Celtics' point. At the beginning of the second quarter, they did not gain any planned advantage, but let the Knicks control the rhythm.

The source of the change in the game came just after Ainge clashed with AC, and he forced out the blood of the Knicks' young people.

(End of this chapter)