The rest is just noise

Chapter 177: Only loneliness lasts forever

The Celtics suddenly went crazy and hit harder than the main lineup.

Laimbeer continued to be a villain in the paint, while Sampson played like a Antetokounmpo with offensive ability, combining sudden shots, like a 7-foot-4 small forward.

For half the quarter, the Dallasites at the scene were speechless.

49 to 30

The 19-point gap forced Dick Motta to call another timeout.

He found that the Celtics were not a team that relied on talent to play.

Because although the current lineup still has a terrifying talent like Sampson, their core and secondary cores—Bird and Thomas—are not there.

John Long, the corner sharpshooter who is feared throughout the league, is also resting. With Sampson and Laimbeer leading the second team, they actually have one star, three shots and one burst.

Sampson was free to dominate the game.

The Mavericks' defensive routine has bottomed out. Not only are they unable to restrain Bird, they are also unable to restrain Sampson. Without the support of the fans and the inner demons of Thomas, it's unclear whether they can restrain him.

"Since we can't defend, we'll attack!" Motta said crazily, "positioning in a triangle position on the outside. No matter who gets the ball, the first goal is to break through, break through, distribute the ball, break through, and distribute the ball again! If you have the chance, be decisive

Take action! Seize every opportunity they have to attack and push back to counterattack, and create more rotating attacks!"

Since the Mavericks are good at shooting, the Celtics' defense today mainly relies on man-to-man marking, and the pocket formation is not used much.

Therefore, the sudden separation will not be fully effective.

What Motta has to do is to stretch the defense, but this tests the player's personal ability.

Now he has no more options. To avoid being massacred by the Celtics, he can only choose to fight fire with fire.

Even if the gap cannot be narrowed, the Celtics must be prevented from quickly widening the gap. He has not forgotten what Louis said before the game, that he must win by 40 points.

He really beat him by 40 points, and Motta didn't know how he could have the dignity to continue working.

"The second team played well, which was a bit beyond my expectation." Louis continued to play with their mentality. "But it's still a little worse than the main players."

Karl said unconvinced: "We have expanded our lead."

"Don't waste my precious timeout, MLC," Louis said.

He is obviously wasting his time talking nonsense...

"Your performance is already outstanding enough. The next position adjustment has nothing to do with personal performance. It is purely based on rotation time." Louis called out Bird and John Long, "You replace Ralph and MLC."

Sampson was replaced because he played for a long time and needed to rest.

Karl was replaced because he was very noisy on the court and liked to interrupt Louis' spellcasting. This habit is unacceptable.

"Coach, why don't you replace me?" Louis heard Thomas's voice, "I have rested for a long time."

"You...?" Louis looked at Thomas seriously from top to bottom. He stood like a soldier, with a strong aura, and his signature honey fake smile was back - this was closely related to his mental state - but he

Everything has been arranged, how can we change it overnight?

"Are you ready?" Louis asked.

Thomas said: "I'm ready."

"But it's too late for you to express your position, and Gerald is in good condition, so you need to wait." Louis' smile was never sweet, but it was never hypocritical, just at this moment, "You know I don't like the first quarter.

You, so you'd better not show that state in front of me often. You look good now, especially the smile on your face. It's so fake that I want to tear your face apart, but I'm glad you're back.

.”

"Yes, coach."

Louis had no doubt that he was now the person Thomas hated most.

But Thomas also knew that he could not disobey Louis.

To some extent, Louis was more abusive than Fitch.

Fitch spent 85% of his energy swearing every time, and his words were not as vulgar as Louis.

And Louis, as long as he catches your mistakes, he will use 100% of his energy to spray people, from the mistake itself, to the body, to the spirit, from criticism to insults, everything.

Even if his words are so unpleasant, it is difficult for the person being scolded to refute, because they are indeed wrong.

At the same time, this is a great example of Louis establishing his authority.

If it is a coach without prestige, his players will not be able to bear being criticized like this.

After Bird returned to the court, as if to prove that he was better than Sampson, he turned the point difference to 25 points in two minutes in a more dominant way.

Mavericks' timeout arrangement was also discovered by Louis.

Choosing to constantly break out and stretch the defense to create space was a bad strategy because they couldn't make three-pointers.

What is really distinctive is the chasing ball of Mark Aguirre and Rolando Blackman.

Especially Aguirre, who was restricted by the Celtics' defensive system tonight. A small forward who can make sudden shots and shoot is the type of player the Celtics are least good at defending.

But Motta's system trapped his body, and the impact on him was greater than imagined.

Now Motta wants them to chase more. Their understanding is that if they are playing against a top offensive team like the Celtics, how can they get so many defensive rebounds to chase?

The Celtics couldn't even protect the defensive rebounds if they wanted to.

Therefore, the first modification Aguirre made was, "Whether it is a counterattack or a positional battle, isn't chasing the body just to catch the body by surprise? Counterattack, chasing the body, or a sudden attack from the position, cannot achieve the goal of chasing the body."

Is it effective?”

This kind of player who has the ability to draw inferences from one example should be praised.

Motta was angry at first, but he quickly calmed down.

Because he found that after the timeout, the Mavericks did not get a defensive rebound.

The Celtics' positional warfare attacks were all scored, and Bird, who was unable to solve the problem, left no way to survive.

On the contrary, the Celtics took advantage of the Mavericks' several missed shots and chased the ball.

So Aguirre suddenly pulled up and threw three-pointers. When he began to boldly try three-pointers, which he had previously averaged only 0.7 shots per game and scored 0.2 goals, Motta expressed his understanding with swear words and an angry look.

The important thing is, Aguirre made the shot.

He led Blackman, and the Mavericks now had two stars who started chasing and attacking without distinction between positional battles and counterattacks.

Chasing shots is nothing new to modern football fans.

The Warriors' chasing three-pointers changed the basketball game. Before the Warriors, Nash's Suns, Nelson's Mavericks, and White Chocolate during their madness were also fond of chasing.

As for the modern era, the king of chasing balls is the Nuggets in the Western Conference.

The Mavericks suddenly played this unaccustomed routine and could only rely on their stars to display their individual abilities.

This kind of routine is not stable and is entirely about seeking wealth and wealth through risk.

However, people who are rich and powerful are seeking truth from danger and just want to do one vote, but they do it every round.

Is that still called seeking wealth through risk?

Not looking for death?

So Louis watched with a smile as Bird led the second team to widen the point difference to 34 points. One minute before the end of the first half, he symbolically replaced Isiah Thomas.

"Don't laugh yet. I'm going to say something ugly. If you make any decision in the next minute that will make me, Rudy, Dahong, or anyone else on the field frown." Louis smiled brightly.

He threatened, "Just get out of the locker room and don't come back again, do you understand?"

Thomas smiled hypocritically and said, "I understand, Coach Lu."

The fans at the scene still attacked him, and the stupid white guy Brad Davis still said those annoying words to irritate Thomas.

But this time, Thomas was calmer than Louis imagined.

He sat for a long time and saw his teammates playing better than the other in his absence. He was probably very stimulated.

It's hard for him to smile so meanly, Louis has to say something about this.

Thomas obviously doesn't want his return to destroy the team's original understanding.

So he handed the ball to Bird and stood quietly on the sideline.

Bird just stood still with the ball and attracted two double-teams, and then passed the ball to Laimbeer.

Lambir clumsily returned to Thomas.

Thomas passed the ball from behind and John Long scored a three-pointer from the bottom corner, a perfect "L" tactic.

"Whoosh!"

The dead silence of the away game made Louis pat Cowens' butt with satisfaction: "Look at how smooth this tactic is!"

"You have some respect for my ass!" Cowens said angrily, "This is the ass that has been humped by countless legends!"

Louis looked at the score and accidentally found that the gap between the two sides reached 37 points.

The Mavericks wanted to press the pace, and they didn't want to fall behind by 40 points at halftime.

This is something Dick Motta cannot accept.

They didn't expect that Louis stood directly on the sidelines and shouted: "Whoever wins the ball, I will give him a bonus of 3,000 US dollars in a private name!"

Under heavy rewards, there must be reckless people.

Louis never expected that Bird, a damn country bumpkin, could bring down the opponent for $3,000 and found a foul for himself.

The Mavericks player who was knocked down had a conflict with Bird on the spot.

Just as Ranbir tried to break up the fight in a fancy way, he was separated by the referee.

"Larry, what about this little money? Can you bear to hurt your conscience?" Louis asked.

Bird sneered: "No matter what the price is, it will all be blamed on you in the end. Who asked you to lure us with money?"

Is this coming from someone who makes $600,000 a year? Knocking someone out for $3,000?

Louis somewhat underestimated Bird's moral limits. He knocked people down. On the one hand, he violently grabbed the ball to no avail, and on the other hand, he deliberately let the opponent die.

He invited the other party into the examination room and posed a global problem that broke the hearts of countless Chinese fans in 2019.

Side kick!

How many Chinese fans will think of Zhou Qi's cool skills when they see these three words?

That scene will never be forgotten by Louis. To him, Zhou Qi means as much to him as he did when he persuaded Sampson to participate in the draft in 1980. He "cheated" Zhou Qi to come to Xinjiang, but Zhou Qi's development did not

It's not as good as he said at first.

That sideline ball is like a microcosm of Zhou Qi's career so far. As much as you long for him to achieve glory with his once-in-20-year talent in Asian basketball, you will be disappointed by that sideline ball that was not delivered to Zhao Rui's arms.

Lost.

It symbolizes the shattering of a country's basketball dream.

Seeing the Mavericks preparing to serve the sideline ball, Louis' mind wandered back to before the time travel, and he suddenly realized that this might be Bird's conspiracy.

Then, the Mavericks, who were unaware of this, made a bad ball that was even worse than Bichi's.

"Snapped!"

Bird steals!

Louis saw Motta going crazy. His thoughts went from 2019 in his previous life to 1984 in this life. Memories are a road with no return, just like the sentence in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", everything in the past is

It's false. No matter how bitter the past is, in the final analysis it is just a fleeting reality, and only loneliness is eternal.

Bird dribbled to the frontcourt, now he is not the country bumpkin Louis said.

"Hey, why is no one guarding me?" Bird looked at Dick Motta.

When he said this, three people from the Mavericks team rushed in front of him.

Then he forced an unreasonable three-pointer against the opponent's defense.

"Whoosh!"

Larry Legend sat on the ground defiantly and said arrogantly: "You can't even guard me, so it's no wonder you are 40 points behind."