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Chapter 707 No Good Thing
"This defense, what are you doing?"

Other Louis can bear it, but if he sees the Celtics create opportunities to score with passing and cutting, he can't bear it.

Passing on and cutting this thing, every era has it.

After playing well, it is beautiful basketball.

He is an aspiring coach who wants his players to play well.

Not to mention those who are obsessed with Steve Kerr, this Celtics objectively has a foundation for passing and passing.

As early as the Louis era, Chuanqie was the main body of their offensive system.Now let Sampson play the tool man, the ball movement is dominated by Thomas and Bird, which shows the value of passing and cutting to the Celtics.

This is why Louie would be unhappy seeing the Celtics score with passes.

The Celtics have the strength to play like this, and the Knicks also have the ability to defend them.

If you don't do it, it's a bad defense.

Therefore, when Reggie Lewis cut to score, Lewis expressed his displeasure loudly, which was intended to remind the players to stay focused.

Stockton's hands were not soft, and he simply returned a three-pointer.

The Celtics once again entered the positional battle and found that the Knicks' defense had risen to a higher level.

It is more rigorous than before, and it is not easy to cut out opportunities by passing.

In the future small ball era, there will be many teams who like to play pass and cut.

Because passes and cuts require space, and no era has more space on the court than the era of small balls with 40% three-point shooters as dogs.

The three-pointer is the lifeline of the ball, and it is also the indicator of passing and cutting and moving the ball.

Because, since the whole team needs to run non-stop to play passes, this requires space. The larger the space, the greater the possibility of running out of opportunities.But if the outside line can't be opened, the opponent will take all the inside lines. It's like asking Bolt to go to the vegetable market to break the [-]-meter record.

For other teams, the Celtics' passing and cutting may be all-round, but in front of the Knicks, it shouldn't have that effect.

Louis seized on the Celtics' weakness-their three-point threat has decreased year by year since Louis left, and now they have perfectly integrated into the era, not much different from other teams.

At this time, their passing and cutting were extremely difficult.

Bird's running position has never been able to get an open space.

Rodman's defense against him is very good, from hands to feet, body contact, everything is enough.

If they can't run out of opportunities, the Celtics need more personal offenses.

Lewis comes to a ball, Thomas plays a ball, and Bird can attack with the ball in the low post and high post, but this is not the way they are used to.

"We rarely see the Celtics play a lot of isolations with the ball."

"This happened because the Knicks were so good defensively that they made the Celtics less like the Celtics, like a young army with no team spirit."

Dick Stockton and Hubie Brown's comments made the audience more aware of the situation on the field.

Tactics can't be opened, singles are greatly increased, and the hit rate can't be guaranteed. The effect of the Knicks' twin tower lineup came out.

They steadily received the defensive rebounds, and Ben Yijuechen played a defensive counterattack.

Eight minutes into the first quarter, the Knicks led the Celtics 8-20.

Jimmy Rodgers requested a timeout.

Louis adjusted the lineup.

He replaced Bowie and Ewing. Although he and Ewing's twin towers worked well, Bowie was too fragile to use more.Although Ewing doesn't have much injury history, he has just returned from injury. To be conservative, he shouldn't be allowed to play more.

Louis replaced the other two inside: John Saley and McHale.

In addition, the point guard position also replaced Stockton with Hornacek.

In this game, Louis has a lot of on-the-spot command. He wants to use the most correct tactics to break the Celtics' position, so Stockton's command ability is not needed for the time being.

The Celtics dare not make substitutions, and their lineup depth cannot be compared with that of the Knicks. Therefore, making the starters play as much as possible is the only way for them to maintain their strength.

However, the strength of the Celtics' Big Three is still at the top of the league.

The last few minutes of the first quarter proved that.

Thomas asked Bird for a pick-and-roll, and the latter opened it up. After a successful breakthrough, he hit the ground to Sampson.

Changing the person defending Sampson from Ewing to Sely is like replacing Xia Xue in "Family with Children". The gap is unimaginable.

Salley is not a bad defensive player.

In fact, Salley's defense is the exact opposite of Sampson's feeling. His defense is strong, and when it's time to play hard, he will play hard.

But when he played against him, Sampson rewarded himself with a good meal like a holiday. He performed a dream dance like Olajuwon, and finally came to Chamberlain's style of leaning on others and licking the basket with his hands.

Sely was afraid of fouling and did not dare to move around, and was successfully scored by Sampson.

After that, Thomas made a lightning breakthrough.

As the core of the organization, Bird continuously connected with Sampson on the right side. His ability to play the ball is terrible.

Although Wilson can stably average 6 assists per game, in terms of coping ability, Wilson's average of 6 assists per game and Bird's average of 7 assists per game are of different quality.

Just like Westbrook has averaged double figures in assists per game for many seasons, but no one should think that his organizational skills are superior to Kidd.

No, even compared to Curry of the same generation, it is not as good.

Bird's point is not easy to deal with.

Moreover, the more he fought, the more crazy he became.

From the end of the first quarter to the beginning of the second quarter, facing Rodman's defense, he scored 14 points and 5 assists.

Halfway through the second quarter, he made a three-pointer and the Celtics evened the score.

43 is better than 43
Moreover, he ran up to Louis ostentatiously and asked, "Why didn't you send someone to guard against me?"

He did this in front of Rodman.

Who is Rodman?He regards defense more than life, just as he is obsessed with rebounding in the future.He knows that he can gain a foothold in the Knicks because the defense is strong enough.He is also working hard in this direction, entering the first defense for two consecutive years, and this year he has won everyone's approval and won the DPOY.

And what did the bastard Bird say to his most respected coach?
"Why don't you send someone to defend me"?
Louie ignored Bird, but said to Rodman: "If you are upset, his goal has been achieved."

Rodman said angrily: "I won't let him go easily!"

The two had a relationship, and Louis expressed his understanding.

In the 1988 Eastern Conference finals, it was Rodman's elbow that exacerbated Bird's back injury, and he had to withdraw from the tiebreaker that no Bostonian is willing to recall.

Now, Wilson is not on the court, but the Celtics coaching staff dare not act rashly.

For the Knicks, Louie allowed Rodman to play the entire first half, while other positions kept changing.

Rodman defended Bird's half, and as a DPOY, he didn't make Bird feel in awe.

Not only was Bird not in awe, but he also scored 24 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists with a touch of humiliation.

You know, this is only his halftime data.

Sometimes Louie wondered whether Jimmy Rogers was a fool or a wise man.

He foolishly took the ball away from Sampson at the cost of sacrificing the team's number one strength in exchange for internal harmony.But at the same time, he didn't let Thomas be the number one core on the offensive end.Although the ball was returned to Thomas, the core of the team is still Bird.

Just like James in the Lakers period, although his offensive and defensive influence is obviously not as good as that of Anthony Davis, he is still the one who dominates the team's offensive system.

Giving the ball to Bird secured the Celtics' basic set.

A player like Bird, as long as he has the ball, has amazing influence on the situation.

On the court, Ewing wanted to play, but Lambiel didn't give him a chance.The two were arguing about the position, and they were about to make a move. Unexpectedly, Bird and Rodman clashed first on the other side.

For the position outside the paint area, the two were close to each other, with their hands interlocking.

Louie knew Birdman that bird. Seeing that he was about to lose his position, he didn't want Rodman to succeed, so when he fell down, he grabbed Rodman's arm and lay down together.

Where is Rodman willing to give up?Another elbow was given on the spot, so that Bird could remember how he was elbowed out of the series by this audacious jerk.

"You fucking want to fight me, don't you?"

Byrd exploded.

Lambiel was not able to go up to escort the driver immediately because he had friction with Ewing.

The game between the Knicks and the Celtics will never be without gunpowder. More and more players are involved in the conflict, and it is about to develop into a gang fight. Fortunately, there are now three referees. They can effectively separate people in time and threaten them with technical fouls.

Louis rubbed his trigeminal nerve.

"Sure enough, we still have to fight." Zhao Yuanzheng smiled wryly.

"It's true that we haven't played this kind of game in the Eastern Conference for a long time. It's just a chance to recall the memories. Don't sit on the throne and forget your housekeeping skills."

Louie enjoys the conflict on the field.

Ewing and Laimbeer smacking each other out, and Rodman and Bird tearing each other's jerseys apart.

Sely and Isiah Thomas go head-to-head.
It was so funny, Louie missed that feeling.

The Celtics are the only team that realizes that they can't admit defeat in front of the Knicks.

Before the Knicks reached the top, they made the ShowTime Lakers of the mid-to-late 80s the laughing stock of the times with their horrific brutality.

Now the team that inherited their throne is a rougher and presumptuous team that often conflicts with others on the court, and every time there is a conflict, there is only fanning, not persuasion.

The Knicks are different from other teams.

Their synchronization rate is terrible, especially when they are in conflict with each other and need to be consistent.

The opposing team tried to persuade and make peace, but the Knicks never did.

So whenever there is a conflict on the court, the Knicks always have the numerical advantage, because these bastards don't have a fucking good thing.

"Forget it, after the conflict, let's use the murder press to confront the Bostonians."

Louis said flatly.

(End of this chapter)