You are the pearl, Mo Mengchen

Chapter 451 The Greatest Finals in History

It has been ten days since I came to Duamarez. Apart from maintaining training, Mo Mengchen also met with the neighbors one by one.

Some people can bring back Mo Mengchen's memories, but some people can't.

On August 8th, China was fighting a once-in-a-century torrent head-on, and the NBA's labor and capital were still wrangling a battle of words that seemed to never end.

Mo Mengchen was supposed to be the key figure in this war of words, but people suddenly discovered that he was missing.

No news, no trace.

The world doesn't know where Dor.Mo went.

A small place has its benefits. Although the residents of Du Amerez knew that Mo Mengchen was a big shot, no one disclosed the news.

Therefore, Mo Mengchen returned to his hometown for ten days, but the outside world's understanding of him still remained at the end of the Eastern Conference Finals.

It has been a month since the alliance was suspended, but Mo Mengchen disappeared like an outsider.

Tonight, he was sorting out Mo Yuanhang's warehouse.

This is a warehouse with a special sense of age. Mo Mengchen found many medical instruments decades ago in it, which are quite valuable for collection.

In addition to medical equipment, there are some things that can reflect Mo Yuanhang's hobbies.

The items hidden in the most secret place of the storage room are hundreds of video tapes.

There is a white seal on the tape, which reads: Dr.J.

That's right, it's Dr. J's game video.

Mo Mengchen took a closer look, and found that there are not only Dr. J's game videos in the NBA period, but also the game videos in the ABA period. These videotapes are distributed according to the seasons. The earliest ABA videotapes have dozens of games in each season. Oh my God, the videos of each season are quite complete. It can be seen that these videos were recorded by someone during the live broadcast.

Even the NBA official doesn't have such a complete video, does it?

This is Mo Yuanhang's treasure, but unfortunately he has no feelings for Dr. J.

He looked all the way over and found a set of "Finals Collection" videotapes.

There are about a dozen videos in it, and each video tape has a corresponding comment written with a colored pen. One of the video tapes aroused Mo Mengchen's curiosity.

1976Final Game5 - the greatest finals in history.

The following label, Mo Yuanhang is written in Chinese.

If Mo Mengchen remembers correctly, Dr. J was still in the ABA at that time, so this videotape should be the NBA finals videotape.

1976 years?
He began to recall that the 70s were the most turbulent years in the NBA. The super giants fell and the heroes rose. In ten years, no team successfully defended the championship. Even stronger than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar only won the championship once in the 70s.

He really couldn't remember who the opponents were in the 76 Finals.

He took the videotape into the lobby and hooked up the TV.

The TV screen went black for a while, and then the picture appeared.

To be sure, this is definitely the clearest videotape of the 1976 NBA Finals preserved in the world. This kind of videotape is not like the kind of garbled characters that people saw on YouTube after being compressed by various channels and blurred. Even if some people say that the player in it is Guo Jingming, there are some convincing old videos.

It was so clear that Mo Mengchen recognized a player on the scene, and he was the only person he knew in this video tape.

John Havlicek, the iron king before Kobe.

In Game 1976 of the 5 Finals, the opponents were the Boston Celtics and the Phoenix Suns.

Mo Mengchen watched the game with nostalgia, he wondered why Mo Yuanhang thought this was the greatest finals in history.

Through the introduction of the commentator, Mo Mengchen began to know the players on the field, some players he had heard of, and some he hadn't.

Jojo White, Dave Cowens, Paul Sellars, Paul Westphal, Alwan Adams, Hugh Gaard
This is a bunch of names that are extremely unfamiliar to future generations of fans. No one knows what they play like, and no one is willing to patiently watch a vague game tape from the 70s.

Even Mo Mengchen didn't usually have this leisurely mood, and now he just watched patiently because of the "greatest video tape in history" that Mo Yuanhang bragged about.

From the first quarter to the first half of the second quarter, the Celtics dominated the game. The Suns seemed to have no strength to parry and retreated. The difference between the two sides reached 20 points at the time. At that time, the first half was not over yet. , this should have been a massacre.

After watching one and a half quarters of the game, Mo Mengchen's biggest feeling is that everyone in this era has a mid-range jumper.

Because there was no three-point line at that time, back-ups from the inside would inevitably be double-teamed, and breakthroughs from the outside would have to rush into the crowd.

The closer you are to the basket, the higher the chance of scoring is a false proposition in this era. To maintain your shooting percentage when you are close to the basket, you must first have strong confrontation and strong athletic ability, otherwise, you will hit three times when you come and go Four times, people will be knocked crooked.

Without the three-point line, the CIC is the only way to stretch the space.

Moreover, the tactics are still immature, there is no high-position pick-and-roll, the breakthrough with the ball from the outside depends entirely on personal ability, and the off-ball cover is limited to the left and right sides. This is specially prepared for those who are sure to score goals in high positions. .

After one and a half quarters of the game, apart from the perpetual motion machine Havlicek, there were three other people who left a deep impression on Mo Mengchen.

The star of the Celtics, the red giant Dave Cowens, looks thin and not tall and strong, but his destructive power in the low post is amazing. He can hook both left and right sides and can start attacking as long as he enters the paint.

Alwan Adams, the center of the Suns, looks only about 208 centimeters tall, but he is a precise jump shooter. In just one and a half quarters, he scored at least three jump shots from the left and right corners with off-ball screens.

Then there is the Suns' leading guard, the core of the ball, Paul Westphal, a strong breakthrough, a fast and steady layup, when the difference between the two sides reached 20 points, he was blocked after the breakthrough and completed a twist The 360-degree turnaround jumper kicked off the Suns' counterattack.

The game started to get interesting.

At the end of the first half, the Celtics' lead was only 10 points. This was not because the Suns' offense was extremely sharp, but because the Celtics themselves had a problem.

Havlicek played the iron king's true qualities and missed shots one after another, giving the Suns many opportunities to counterattack.

However, the Suns' offensive efficiency is not high, and there are many cases of missed shots. The Celtics also protected the defensive rebounds, but they played acrobatics.

This is another impression this game gave Mo Mengchen.

These two teams especially like to pass long passes directly to the frontcourt after taking rebounds from the backcourt, because there is a superman with physical strength who can't run to death on both sides.

Westphal and Havlicek, these two are like fierce players pulled from the track and field, as long as they run, they don't care about the people around them.

Havlicek's counterattack was extremely fast, but unfortunately his teammates gave a dizzying acrobatic performance.

Continuous long pass mistakes, the Suns made more steals and counterattacks in the frontcourt and scored less.

"Havlicek really lives up to his reputation."

Although Mo Mengchen has never watched a live broadcast of Havlicek's game, his legendary stories are common in the league. Not to mention his legendary steals, nor his amazing total strikes, he is Larry Before Bird, the most influential star in the history of the Celtics.

That's right, the most influential player before Bird was not Bill Russell, not Bob Cousy, but Havlicek.

Before Kobe, Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Dr. J, he was the first star in history to enjoy a national tour during the retirement season, and fans spontaneously came to the scene to bid farewell to him.

In tonight's game, Havlicek showed all his characteristics: he can't run to death, he is all-round, his shots have no dead ends but are sometimes unstable, his iron production is amazing, and he always appears in key positions at critical moments.

In the final stage of regular time, Havlicek had a chance to kill the game, but he missed the lore.

The game entered the first overtime.

At this time, Ephraim brought a plate of Lamington cake to Mo Mengchen.

Aussies love jam and coconut, and lamingtons are one of the most popular pastries.

Mo Mengchen was engrossed in watching the game, so he picked it up and took a bite.

He was sure that the cake came from Ephraim because it was so sweet.

Did Ephraim not realize that her food was too sweet, or did she, like other Americans, have a problem with her taste buds and couldn't taste that the food was overly sweet?
Mo Mengchen continued to watch the game.

The first overtime is a battle between the two sides inside.

Cowens hit back in the sun's penalty area, left and right in slow motion, his hook is not as elegant as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but every time it makes people very confident.

Awkwardness is accompanied by softness, that's what it feels like.

The Suns insider Alwan Adams gave up his jump shot and focused on the basket. They also knew that they had to go to the basket at the critical moment.

Adams doesn't have the low-post offensive power of Cowens, but he is quite effective in rushing to offensive rebounds, scoring two consecutive offenses.

In overtime, the two sides stalemate until the last ten seconds, and the score is equal.

Havlicek should have a chance to kill the game with the ball in his hands.

He dribbles patiently, and then, he pops up and makes a strong shot.

strike iron.

The game entered the second overtime.

The second overtime was a legend. The two sides bit the score, but they still couldn't open it. The time gradually came to the last 30 seconds.

In the last half minute, the atmosphere of the game was suffocating. Westphal first passed the ball to his teammate and missed the shot. Points were given to the most dangerous opponent - Westphal.

JoJo White steps up to tangle, Westphal jumps, another 360 in the air, twisted shot -- who knows how he finds his touch in this situation -- ball in, Suns trailing by 1 .

(End of this chapter)