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Chapter 711 I am joking with you

Chapter 712 I'm Just Joking With You

Bird is in good form today, and Ralph Sampson was supposed to be playing at an average level, but the Celtics fans have never counted, and it's not the head coach's sudden convulsions.

After Rodgers obviously affected Sampson's mentality and then had a follow-up reaction against the Celtics in the game, assistant coach Chris Ford said: "Jimmy, you shouldn't be too...too harsh on Ralph."

Rogers felt good about himself and said, "Chris, isn't that what Little Lu was like in Boston back then?"

"This..." Ford wanted to laugh but didn't dare, "it's really not."

"No? Then how did he do it?"

Ford said helplessly, "Just like KC, just like you."

"However, you have seen how he treated Patrick Ewing." Louie undoubtedly set a bad example for Rogers. He successfully misled Rogers into thinking, "Perhaps it is because the marginalization of inside players is against the law of the times, so Little Lu needs to speak ill of them. He wants to use this method to keep them vigilant. I think this is a good way. Ralph is too stable and he needs stimulation."

Ford stopped persuading, because he had already persuaded.

Rodgers only sees what he wants to see. If he goes his own way, it may be a devastating blow to the series, but it is beneficial to Ford.

Since he retired, he has served as the assistant coach of the Celtics. After KC was laid off, he took over smoothly. He wanted to make a big splash, but he didn't expect that the Celtics had many internal problems.

It's an eventful time now, and the people above are eager to use the peak tail of this group of people to achieve results. If Rogers messes up and makes a bad move that makes Sampson's mentality explode, he may be dismissed at the end of the season. At that time, he will naturally inherit the position of head coach.

Rogers continued to output Sampson.

It can be seen that Sampson is not like Ewing, the more stimulated, the better his performance.

He became frustrated. Rodgers misjudged the situation and misjudged the players.

Sampson is not Ewing's passive personality who needs to be driven forward with a whip. Just like he was famous all over the world before entering the professional league and dreaming of changing basketball, he always has the initiative.

He knows what he wants and what to do.

Louis saw him clearly, so he was very gentle with him when he was in the Celtics, but Ewing was different.

Rogers believed that Sampson and Ewing were the same, and needed to be stimulated with insulting language to perform better, but he broke the mentality of Sampson, who was invincible all over the world.

Sampson didn't understand, he made such a big sacrifice and didn't perform badly, so why did Rogers have such strong dissatisfaction with him?
Because of the split mentality, Sampson was almost invisible for the next quarter and a half.

The substitute was unreliable, Bird was targeted by the Knicks' tactics and could not drive his teammates with his personal performance, Sampson was invisible, and the head coach played snakes.

Celtics fans can almost sing: "I'm dead."

Indeed, the Celtics collapsed, but not completely collapsed.

Isiah Thomas knew he had to step up and hold the game, so the Celtics' offense was on his own during that stretch.

Thomas pushed into three mid-ranges against Stockton's defense. It was the Smiling Assassin's consecutive goals on the offensive end that helped the Celtics withstand the Knicks' offensive, preventing the game from entering garbage time too early, and giving the Celtics a chance to play until the last few minutes of the fourth quarter.

Early in the fourth quarter, Jimmy Rodgers sent two substitutes.

He hoped Thomas and Byrd could breathe a sigh of relief.

However, Thomas was not there, and Louis waved his hand and replaced the murderous tight lineup. Within 3 minutes, an 8-1 offensive pulled the point difference to 24 points, scaring Rogers from letting Thomas rest.

After Thomas came back, his hand feeling declined, and then Bird also came back, scoring two three-pointers in a row, narrowing the point difference to less than 20 points.

After that, the two sides remained deadlocked.

Falling behind by a large score, the Celtics need Sampson's strong performance. Only when the inside has offensive and defensive dominance, they have a chance to comeback in the hands of the Knicks.

But Sampson's mentality has collapsed.

There is no home court advantage, no lineup advantage, and the on-the-spot performance is not as good as the Knicks. The coaching staff is still working badly.

The Celtics were strong until 3 minutes before the end of the game. Wilson faced Reggie Lewis' three-pointer and pulled the point difference to 22 points.

Bird also caught the ball with a colorful running position and hit the iron with a three-pointer. Ewing grabbed the rebound and passed Rodman to counterattack and score a fast break.

Lost Sampson wanted to serve the fastball.

He looked restless, and even though he had a good idea, he didn't do his job carefully enough to send the ball into Rodman's hands.

Rodman stood still and waited for his teammates to come. Wilson followed the frontcourt, caught the ball, and made another three-pointer.

In this way, the point difference was pulled to 27 points, and the suspense was completely gone.

Jimmy Rogers symbolically called a timeout, replaced all the main players, and announced that the game had officially entered garbage time.

"I really didn't expect those three guys to start their journey in the 80s under the hands of this kind of coach after the glorious 90s." Louis is a person who doesn't believe in luck.

However, if any team in the NBA can represent luck, it must be the Celtics.

Because of Louie, they escaped the "death of prejudice", but also because of Louie, a team that had the potential to monopolize the championship until the end of the 80s, lost the championship two years early. Now, their lineup is aging, the bench is weak, and the head coach is sick.

Louis looked at Lewis. He always thought this person's name was familiar in the past, but he finally remembered it recently.

He knew that the man would fall into a coma on the training ground with a heart problem before long and then die suddenly.

He also looked at Jimmy Rogers, and he hoped that Rogers' performance today would not cast a shadow over Sampson.

The West is too wild. If the Celtics also fall and the Knicks have no opponents in the East, it is easy to be complacent. If you go to the Finals with that mentality, it will be a bit dangerous.

Because complacency can breed many complex problems.

There may be many people who want to see the Celtics have bad luck, but Louie is not included.

He would gloat about Rodgers' stupid things, which is completely a mentality of watching the excitement, but if this incident will further affect the state of the Celtics and the future of the team, he will have another mentality.

The Knicks need to find a counterpart in the East.

Very necessary.

"Coach Rogers, why is your attitude towards Ralph so bad?"

During the handshake after the game, Louie couldn't help but ask.

"Because of his lack of passion, I hope to motivate Ralph the same way you motivate Patrick." Rogers said regretfully, "He doesn't seem to be used to this position, Coach Lu, how did you make Patrick bow to you?"

"What's so difficult about it? As long as you are fierce enough, pay attention to accumulating more curse words, and use them in combination when you are angry, and slam your mouth when they make mistakes, I guarantee that Ralph will be as docile as a sheep."

While Louie doesn't want the Celtics to kill themselves, he also doesn't want such a coach to stay with the Celtics.

Therefore, short-term pain is worse than long-term pain. He is indirectly helping the Celtics to purify themselves.

When Rogers blows up Sampson, the Celtics' season is probably over. Although they lost hope of competing with the Knicks in the 1989-90 season, they gained a bright future.

Getting Rodgers out was a critical first step if they were to remain competitive in the '90s.

Louis could not have imagined that he could make such a contribution to them after he had been away from Boston for several years. Auerbach should send him a red envelope.

"Coach Lu, did you ever think that you would win so easily?"

It was still Leslie Visser who interviewed Louie live.

Louie said modestly: "No, I didn't think about it, because the Celtics are our number one opponent. Logically speaking, they shouldn't be like this."

"Oh, you think it's not the Knicks that are playing well, but the Celtics are playing poorly?"

"It's too impolite to say that. I didn't mean that, Leslie. If you continue to say this, I will be scolded again when I go to Boston after a while."

Louie brightens the mood with a joke.

In the end, he couldn't help complaining: "However, we really didn't expect this game to go so smoothly. This is just the first game. We won't relax because of a big win, because we can't expect the Celtics to be in this state every night. We must regard this game as a lucky gift, and then prepare more seriously for the next game."

The most interesting is the press conference.

On the Knicks side, Ewing said; "The reason why we performed well is because we have a good coach. You may not know Louie. I can introduce you to him-he asked us like this, 'Don't give the opponent a way out'. These are his exact words. If the Celtics take a breath in front of us, he will fly into a rage and insult us all with the most vulgar words."

Everyone's eyes widened, they didn't expect Louis to be so cruel.

Seeing that this group of people didn't know how to tease, Ewing suddenly said, "I'm just kidding you!"

"Hehehe." Wilson smirked three times.

Fortunately, in front of the reporters, in private, Louis' feet had already flown off Ewing's butt.

The Knicks' press conferences are funny, and while Ewing's bad jokes are never funny, it's become something of a repertoire.

Although Ewing's jokes were not funny and in most cases were embarrassing, if he didn't say it, the reporters would not be used to it.

When he said it, everyone would pretend that his jokes were funny, and laugh out loud after he reminded him, "I'm joking." What everyone liked was the scene where everyone forced themselves to laugh even though it was obviously not funny, it was so darkly humorous.

In contrast to the Celtics, Ralph Sampson publicly expressed his dissatisfaction.

"Everyone's style is different. I didn't like the game tonight. I didn't like my performance, and I didn't like the performance of others. We shouldn't play like this, and we shouldn't bring unnecessary pressure to each other."

"Ralph, what do you mean?"

Sampson is also a veteran. Knowing that the media wanted to make trouble, he didn't fall for it: "If you want to know more, go back and watch the game."

(End of this chapter)