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Chapter 567: When the Dynasty Will Fall (12160)

With 4 minutes left in the third quarter, Bird had already scored 19 points. Dale Ellis's performance was comparable. He hit 5 three-pointers in 4 minutes and scored 17 points. In less than three quarters, he hit seven three-pointers and scored a team-high 26 points.

The score stayed at 75 to 76.

The Celtics trailed by 1 point, and Bird had a chance to tie in a 2+1 round.

His free throw was missed, and this detail was captured by Louie. He decisively stopped the game, and the murderous press centered on Cooper, John Selley, Rodman, Stevens, and Wilson played again.

For Bird, who has played continuously for 6 minutes, use the highest intensity defense. If he gets the ball and has a chance to attack, except for Wilson, everyone else must make a decisive foul and send him to the free throw line.

Louie would rather test Bird's free throw touch than his shooting percentage against defense.

When Ellis was replaced, he collapsed directly on the bench.

Louie delivered him a bottle of Gatorade, and he couldn't imagine what this series would have been like without Ellis.

He's the only Knicks guy who's fully prepared mentally.

Without him, perhaps Bird's performance of 19 points in a single quarter just now took the game away.

"Sorry, Coach," Alice said hoarsely, "I should have done better!"

"Don't say that, Dale." Louis said with emotion, "You have far exceeded my imagination."

Alice's nose was sore, and the pain in his feet, like waves, hit him one after another.

He didn't know if he could still play, he didn't know.

What Ellis didn't even know was that his performance gave his young teammates a shot in the arm.

Rodman is like a lunatic, Stevens is always like a mad dog, Salley has no hippie smile, Cooper has rekindled his blood, and Wilson, who has played a full 8 minutes, has not been replaced because Louie knows that he is still full of energy.

Ellis' impact is difficult to quantify, but if anyone's performance is most affected by Ellis, that person must be Wilson.

He is such a person who is willing to be dominated by emotions, an emotional, selfless, and defeated idiot.

In the playoffs, he has become the leader of the murderous tight end, blending in with the Celtics, even if he rarely practiced with them.

Louie's arrangement for fouling Bird has had amazing results.

Bird bent on crushing the Knicks, firing again and again in the third quarter, he did reach an invincible extreme.

Maybe that's the fabled Zone, and if he's healthy, even Dell Ellis, at his best, can't compete.

God bless New York, his back is as fragile as crystal glass, and the stronger Bird overworked his body.His mind can rule the pain, his will can rule the court, but only for a limited time.

That wonderful, immortal 6 minutes is the time limit given to Bird by the body.

He almost destroyed Wilson, but he didn't expect the Knicks to have a brilliant Dell Ellis.

Now, the body began to backlash and give him severe pain.

When he made free throws, when he made the movement of lifting the ball, the spasm and throbbing in his back made it difficult for him to find muscle memory.

One of two free throws, two free throws missed, two free throws missed. It is hard to imagine that two free throws will appear in Bird's body in a row.

When Bird made one of six free throws, it can be seen how uncomfortable he is.

In this interlocking war of attrition, whether the will of the Knicks will collapse first, or the Celtics will be the first to be exhausted, the result will be revealed.

Bird's unsustainable body made it difficult for the Celtics to find a solution to the Knicks' murder.

In contrast to the Knicks, Wilson played more and more, and finally played a wave of 4-9 offense in those 1 minutes.

85 is better than 76
The Knicks entered the fourth quarter with an 9-point lead.

"Are you tired?" Louie asked, looking at his players.

Wilson replied loudly: "Coach, we are not tired!"

"Believe me, the Celtics are more tired than us!" Louie shouted. "Remember, all the bad results in history were not caused by evil or cruelty. What makes the results sad, often comes from the weakness of the parties involved! I am sure that we are facing the strongest team, so we have to challenge them with the toughest posture! In the fourth quarter, we will continue to press the whole court. If Bird continues to play, you must use more aggressive methods to find physical contact."

Louis adjusted two positions. He replaced Stevens, who fouled too much, and John Selley, who was slightly less aggressive, and replaced him with Hornacek and Ewing.

After the players came on the field, Louis turned around and said to the others: "All players on the activation list must be ready, I will press the murder to the end, and whoever plays on the field will give me bloody hell to trouble them!"

Louie's face was flushed and, like Wilson, he was in extreme emotion.

He, like Dale Ellis, has to win this game.

"It appears that he decided to end the match in the bloodiest way possible."

Knicks star Dave Debusschell sighed.

"It's hard to imagine anyone else doing that to a friend they once had," Willis Reid said. "But it's the only way to win. No, this team has been around since the day Little Lu started it. It's for today. To win this game, Little Lu will stop at nothing."

Everyone who watched Louis walk along the way had mixed feelings.

Boston is where he became famous. There are his Bole, friends and fans who once liked him very much.

Right now, he's more annoying than Magic + Chamberlain + Pettit + Reed Holzman.

"Except for China Song, the other [-] players on the Knicks' active list got the chance to play, while the Celtics always had only seven rotations. In this case, if the Knicks decide to maintain their full-court press until the last second of the game, it will be for the Celtics"

Hubie Brown never imagined that the game would unfold this way.

Byrd dragged his weak body against the alarm of his body.

No one knows how long this will last.

The Knicks serve and Hornacek dribbles across half court.

The Celtics no longer have the energy to counter the Knicks with a full-court press.

They played a seven-man rotation, and everyone was tired, so the Knicks didn't have to worry about their press.

Ewing shook off Sampson and went to the high post to get the ball.

Sampson posted up, denying him a shot.Ewing dribbled the ball with his right hand, made a big three-step strong move, and made a one-handed hook shot with an awkward confrontation, and hit the board.

"Ahhhh~~!!!"

Ewing clenches his fist and roars like Kevin Garnett.

87 is better than 76
Louie held out his hand.

Ewing patted it excitedly, and then he retreated to the backcourt to defend the Celtics' long pass, while the other four were distributed in the frontcourt in an orderly manner.

Shocking boos came from all directions in the arena.

Louis stood on the sidelines, and the fans' grief and indignation were blocked by his hearing.

The Celtics struggled to serve the ball, and Thomas, who was head-scratched in the first half, found that he didn't have a teammate who could help him get the ball upfield.

Where is Byrd?
Even he, when he encounters difficulties, thinks of Bird.

Then, he saw Bird barely running, but no matter where he ran, Rodman clung to him like a shadow.

"Eight seconds! Watch out for eight seconds!"

KC Jones yelled and reminded Thomas.

The nervous Smiling Assassin made dangerous passes against the impenetrable Knicks defense.

His pass was for Danny Ainge, but Ainge was matched up with Hornacek, who jammed Ainge's body and slapped the ball away.

In a split second, Rodman flew to grab the ball in the palm of his hand, and Bird rushed over with all his strength, making small moves, preparing to bring Rodman down.

Realizing that Bird was by his side, Rodman turned into a dangerous beast. He recklessly swung a terrible elbow to Bird behind him.

This time, the elbow reached Bird's shoulder, and the shock made his weak back.

Bird cried out in pain, and the referee whistled for it.

The audience at the garden scene was suffocated for a moment.

Half a second later, furious fans almost flooded the stadium.

"I've seen George Mikan fight and I've seen Wilt and Russell fight."

said Hubie Brown, apprehensively.

"From the '40s, to the '50s, to the '60s, to the '70s, I dare say I understand the game in all four eras, but, I swear to God, this Knicks team is the scariest team I've ever seen. They don't think of it as a basketball game at all. It's like a group of people trapped in a concentration camp. They can only survive by killing a certain number of companions, and they are the ones who will not hesitate to kill their companions." Brown criticized angrily. Beast!"

Louis just stood there, not moving for a long time.

The position where Bird and Rodman grabbed the ball was less than four meters away from him. He didn't go over to ask Bird's injury, and the expression on his face didn't change a bit. He just stood there, waiting for the game to restart.

Byrd was unable to get up due to constant back spasms.

After the Celtics team doctor came up to check, he was carried on a stretcher.

The Knicks were called a technical foul again, and they had no objection.

For Louis, this is a "good thing" because technical fouls are not counted as personal fouls.

At the moment Bird was carried down, the garden seemed to be the scene of a hanging.The sad thing is that the onlookers are not here to join in the fun, they are like watching their relatives being strangled.

Just before Bird was carried down, he grabbed Isiah Thomas' hand.

"Don't give up, Isiah!"

These are Bird's last words to his teammates.

"Benj, do you think this game is over?"

Louis asked.

"Not yet, Coach!"

"Bird has been killed, why is it not over yet?"

Wilson replied, "There are two troublesome fellows!"

Louis' tense face finally eased up: "It's good that you know, and I also know that there is an old dispute between you and Isaiah that has not yet been settled."

Louie patted Wilson on the back. "I can't think of a better way, Benj."

Wilson took a deep breath and took the other four teammates onto the field.

The Celtics will execute two free throws, and they choose to let Ainge take the free throw.Others lined up in the midfield, and when Wilson walked past Thomas, the two geniuses from Chicago looked at each other.

For Louie, his real role as a coach is to make his players realize their potential.But in addition to potential, there is another point that is also very important-they have to find their true selves on the court.A solidly great player must never be trapped by an unreal self, whether you are a hero who stands up or a coward who stands up, these questions are concluded from the moment you are born.

Some people can stand up, some people can't.

Talent and ego, when you have these two things, you must stick to them.

During the series with the Celtics, Wilson faltered several times, and Bird repeatedly tried to break him down, but all came close.These blows, torture, loss and frustration made Wilson see himself more clearly.He sees his true self, he will fear, be afraid, make mistakes, and let people down, but the more he suffers, the more he will rise up.

He does not accept failure and giving up before all the results come out, this is the way he will pursue for life.

He will put his heart and soul into it, stick to his beliefs, and never stop.

"Isiah," Wilson said murderously, "it's your turn."

(End of this chapter)