The Rest, Only Noise

Louie didn't know what the schedulers were thinking to give them such powerful opponents as the Blazers and the Celtics in Game 1 and Game 2 of the regular season.

As soon as it comes, they will not complain about what has been determined.

The Celtics' opener against the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference.

They almost made it to the finals last season, and they are definitely not bad, and the successful extension of Alvin Robertson ensures that they are still a strong team.

In this case, Larry Legend, who had been out for a season, played a disastrous performance. In the face of Tom Chambers, one of his maids, he failed to rise up, which led to a disadvantage for the Green Army and lost the first game (1).

The Celtics welcomed Bird back, but lost Ron Harper.

This is an offseason subplot that Louis did not pay attention to. The Celtics' contract renewal focused on Sampson, but unexpectedly Harper's contract expired. Although the Celtics have mandatory matching rights, what if a team is willing to send Harper to a four-year, $8.5 million contract?

Although Harper has Jordan's shadow in all aspects, he is not Jordan after all. .

Plus, the Celtics have Reggie Lewis, a promising rookie, on the bench.

Renewing the contract with Sampson has already caused them a lot of blood, so Harper was sent away for nothing.

It was none other than the Detroit Pistons who did this.

Since Mark Aguirre's contract expired, freeing up a lot of cap space, they tried to pursue Harper.

As a result, the Celtics really let people go, and they also let Aguirre go.

Aguirre didn't expect that he would become a spare tire. He thought that he had entered the league as a champion back then, but now he was disliked by the Pistons. Although he was given freedom, it was too shameful to think about it carefully.

He was so angry that he wanted to go to Boston to join Isiah Thomas.

Aguirre and Thomas have been hard-core brothers since they were children. Since they are here to prove themselves, sacrificing a little money is nothing.

Although he was willing to take a pay cut, the Celtics didn't take him because of his style and style of play.

Aguirre is an iconoclastic low-post threat.

Most of the post kills are inside, and Aguirre, like Jordan's generation, is proficient in post work, and at the same time he prefers McHale's low post finisher and doesn't like to shoot the ball.

The Celtics didn't need more low-post threats, so they didn't contain him.

Aguirre got even more angry, and vowed to make both the Celtics and the Pistons pay the price.

He diverted to the west, defected to another good brother - "tragedy" Johnson.

Aguirre's asking price is not high, only 2 million for 2 years, and there is a team option at the end of the first year. If he doesn't play well, the Lakers could dump him next summer.

This attitude is low enough.

There is a tragic teacher, and the Lakers are not afraid of him doing things.

In this way, Aguirre was forced from the east to the west, adding another fighter to the already very strong Lakers.

When a big drama fell, the Celtics lost their depth of the lineup as a result, and sent Mark Aguirre to the old enemy.

Although the Celtics are all three, their roster depth is no longer comparable to that of the dynasty.

In addition to the Big Three, the Celtics also have 32-year-old Laimbeer on their books, Jim Peterson, the last player Louis introduced to the team before leaving that year, and John Long (33), the stepping stone for Louis to enter professional basketball. and Reggie Lewis.

Overall, the Celtics still have seven guys who can play tough games.

But if you are against a super team like the Knicks, which often rotates with 12 players, such a shallow lineup will be exhausted.

In the long run, the decline of the Green Army is irreversible, not to mention the Knicks, or the Lakers, they are all too old.

The Lakers spent two years changing the team for the tragic master. Now standing beside the tragic master are another Russell II David Robinson, the fast-growing Scottie Pippen, and the bench gangster Kevin. Johnson, Mark Aguirre who put on a super low profile to prove himself.

There are also quality power forward A.C. Green, two-way wing Derek McKay, and little fox Vlad Divac.

The Lakers, who were suppressed by the Celtics so hard to lift their heads, were left with only the tragic division.

The rest are old for new.

November 3

Madison Square Garden

The last time Larry Bird came, there were only two old flags above MSG's arena. Now, there are four.

One of them should have belonged to them. If they didn't meet the Knicks, the Celtics could have achieved five consecutive championships.

The East is now dominated by the Knicks, and the Celtics have changed from a dominant player to a challenger.

The Benjamin Wilson, who has been beaten up many times by him, now dares to say in front of him: "I hope you are in a better state tonight."

Did he think he could talk to him like that with two championships?

Louie met with current Celtics head coach Jimmy Rodgers.

Rodgers worked for the Green Kai as early as the Fitch era, but Rodgers was away the year he was head coach.

After K.C. Jones took office, he came back to assist K.C.

Last year, K.C retired, and it was his turn to take over.

"K.C is really irresponsible, to throw such a big stall to you." Louis joked.

Many rookie coaches who have been out for a year or two are in awe of Louie, even though he is not yet 30 years old, but what he has accomplished is something that many coaches cannot achieve in their entire lives.

Just after he dared to win the championship in 1984, he jumped from the peak of the sky, and it can be seen that he is not an ordinary person.

"Yes, I've been complaining to him too, he left so suddenly."

"Don't, you're talking like K.C is dead."

Louie and Rodgers exchanged polite greetings before returning to their respective players.

Because of the Ewing truce, no one inside the Knicks can face Sampson.

Louie simply didn't want to be a center, let McHale stand at the 5th position, and then mention Rodman at the 4th position.

Because whoever plays Sampson on the 5th position will be blown up.

Therefore, this point can only be double-teamed, and it is useless even if Ewing is in the single defense.

For the Celtics, the starting lineup has not changed.

Thomas, Reggie Lewis, Bird, Sampson, Laimbeer.

If Lewis was replaced by John Long, it would be the Celtics' dynasty lineup that dominated the mid-to-late 1980s.

The stability of the roster over the years is also the reason they can dominate the league.

Before the opening, Louie asked Bird: "How does your back feel?"

Bird said arrogantly, "It's enough to hit you."

Bird's words are not uncommon. If he speaks one day, it is estimated that it is the rhythm of preparing to retire.

After all, when a person is about to die, his words are also good.

The introduction before the opening reflects the grievances between the two sides.

There's no way to hide the disgust of fans when DJ mentions the Celtics players.

"Even if all the players on the court retire one day, this feud will continue, and I believe that the matchups of the past few years have created a huge rift between Boston basketball and New York basketball similar to Boston and Los Angeles."

"They'll always hate each other."

Opening, Sampson won the jump ball without suspense.

Thomas passes the ball to Bird.

Bird stood on the left-wing perimeter, and Sampson asked for the ball low.

Wilson, who was in charge of defending Bird, stood at the three-point line. He knew that Bird's range was very long. As long as the Birds were here, he couldn't attack.

It seems that this weak-side low-post one-on-one plan will be successfully executed by the Celtics, but things are not so simple.

Sampson just got the ball, and behind him stood McHale, a power forward who was far less tall than him, and could play whenever he wanted.

Suddenly, Rodman's double team approached like a nightmare.

"Bring it to you!"

Rodman roared and rudely hit Sampson's ball to the ground, with a good chance of being called for a foul if it was in another garden.

Sampson was double-teamed and made a mistake, and the Knicks' counterattack was difficult for the Celtics to stop.

Rodman threw the ball to Stockton, who then threw it to Wilson, who was almost halfway through the second half.

The Celtics have only two players who can keep up with that rhythm.

Sampson and Lewis, the former dropped the ball in the low post, the distance is too far and can't do anything, the latter is alone, and his defensive awareness needs to be tempered.

Wilson grabbed the ball with one hand, took two steps inside the free throw line, and instantly jumped like a detonated bomb.

Lewis is a little better than Wilson in terms of size, but his explosiveness is a few grades worse.

Wilson knocked down Lewis directly in the air, without any extra action, his long arm stretched out a crescent-like arc with the ball, and smashed into the basket like a broken bamboo.

"BOOM!!"

Almost at the same moment, Marv Albert roared: "Yessss!! Benj made an amazing dunk for Reggie Lewis!"

Anyone watching a Knicks game will remember Albert's signature "Yessss," and any high-light shot paired with his emotional shouting will elevate it several notches.

Fortunately, Lewis was not called a foul. Wilson ignored his opponent, just turned around and ran past Bird with fiery passion: "Your era is over!"

The next round, the exact same position.

Or pass the ball to Sampson by Bird.

Through these two rounds, Louis determined that the Celtics had completed the transformation of the power status of the stadium.

They officially established Ralph Sampson as the first core, but at the same time made a stupid decision: take the ball away from Bird.

Jimmy Rodgers committed the Bill Fitch crime~www.readwn.com~ The gang always took it for granted that Bird was someone so talented that he didn't need the ball to make the most of it.

Yes, Bird without the ball is still great, but it's like Tang Guoqiang's version of Zhuge Liang, of course you can let him play Zhou Yu, his looks are definitely affordable, but Zhuge Liang's role has played him as a the full potential of the actor.

This applies to Bird, Curry, and many other players who are versatile enough to shine even when the ball is taken away.

A lot of coaches just don't understand that the last thing you should feel when you take the ball away from a top player and he's still playing at his best is happy and you have to know you're missing out on his best performance. .

But a lot of coaches won't understand, like Jimmy Rodgers, who thinks he's doing a good job.

⑴ Anyone who has followed table tennis knows that the men’s singles competition is actually quite fierce. Although Ochalov of the German team is a famous player in the world, he has never won a dozen games with Ma Long in his career, so he is called the Dragon Maid. In the NBA, Bird has a group of his own maids, led by white forwards such as Chambers, Vandeweghe, and Tripka. If these guys were all playing in the East, just playing them, I feel like Bird's scoring average in the early '80s would have gone up 1-2 points per game.