The rest is just noise

John Patterson/Long, Bird, Ainge, Laimbeer, Louis What is certain is that only the Celtics can produce five players who can score from beyond the three-point line at once.

It's rare for other teams to have one as their perimeter turret.

Since Pat Riley wants to control the penalty area and the three-point line at the same time, and their defense can really do it, Louis has to find a way to make one of the defenses lose control and radiate to the other.

Louis doesn't believe that any team can control the outside and inside. This is unreasonable.

In the second quarter, the Celtics kicked off the game.

Paxson dribbled the ball steadily to the frontcourt and passed the ball to Bird in the high post.

Bird winked, and Laimbeer came up for a pick-and-roll. This was equivalent to a pick-and-roll from the inside to the inside. At this time, the Lakers' inside lineup was Bob McAdoo partnered with Kurt Rambis, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar went to rest.

McAdoo and Rambis, one black and one white, but the strange thing is that although these two big men can pull out and shoot, as a white man, Rambis's style is much tougher than McAdoo.

He took the initiative to defend Bird. When encountering a pick-and-roll and needed to count on McAdoo, the latter's defense was usually weak.

Suddenly, Laimbeer helped Bird block someone, and then immediately bounced to the outside.

Seeing Laimbeer going to the outside, both Rambis and McAdoo thought there was no need to go out to defend and wanted to flank Bird on the spot.

All Bird has to do is throw the ball to Laimbeer behind him.

Outside the three-point line at the top of the arc, Laimbeer caught the ball and threw a three-pointer.

"Whoosh!"

27 to 27

"I love your shitty defense so much!" Laimbeer sneered.

Bird saw the confused Rambis and McAdoo and said a cold joke: "Don't be afraid, he can score at most 1 goal in 100 shots like this."

Off the court with the Lakers, Pat Riley couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw Laimbeer hit a three-pointer.

He couldn't help but be nervous. Statistics showed that Laimbeer could shoot three-pointers, Bird could shoot three-pointers, and the other three players on the Celtics court could also shoot three-pointers.

Originally they only had to focus on two three-pointers, but now each of them can shoot three-pointers, making defense much more difficult.

The magician wants to force the positional battle into a fast break.

He strode to the frontcourt and dribbled the ball, opened his hand and made another iconic one-handed Qigong wave push pass⑴.

This passing method is fancy, but the turnover rate is a bit high. If you can't control it, it's easy to give away the ball.

The magician made a mistake.

This is the second time Louis has seen the magician make such a mistake tonight.

The Lakers' fast break is unbeatable, but their turnovers per game also remain high.

Freehand passes like Magic's are undoubtedly an important reason why their turnovers per game rank fourth in the league.

Too wasteful!

This time it was pretty good. His teammate didn't catch the ball and it went out of bounds. If it fell to the ground and was picked up by the Celtics, they would definitely give him a hard counterattack.

Louis walked to the sidelines, stretched out his right hand and spread the fingers.

Paxson saw his gesture and followed his instructions to call tactics.

It's the high post again, Bird gets the ball, and sticks to Rambis with his back, and Rambis comes over to pick and roll.

The Lakers thought they were repeating the same trick, but they didn't realize that Ainge, who was on the weak side, swam in like a snake.

Bird was clearly on his back, but he seemed to have locked Ainge's position early and threw the ball behind his head without looking at anyone.

Anji scored an easy layup.

29 to 27

"What can you do with this kind of ball? Larry is so good!" Heinsohn praised. "He is the best basketball player I have ever seen!"

"Moreover, since the beginning, Larry's presence is obviously greater than that of Magic."

This may be the last comment Magic wants to hear. He dribbles the ball from the backcourt. Although he has the ability to shoot inside the three-point line, the Celtics' defense against him still focuses on limiting breakthroughs.

McAdoo came up to pick and roll, and John Long went around the screen without thinking.

Magic made a pull-up jumper from the high post on the left wing.

Ironically, however, one of the major drawbacks of the Celtics' lineup is that the rebounding is not strong enough.

Rambis and Laimbeer are both white insiders, but they have the demeanor of a black basketball leader when it comes to rebounding. Every time they grab a rebound, they seem to be fighting tooth and nail.

He grabbed an offensive rebound, and Magic came inside and leaned against Danny Ainge in a misplaced position.

When his teammates passed the ball, Magic hit his body and scored.

29 to 29

Bird made a long pass from the backcourt.

John Paxson had a chance on the fast break, but was caught up by Dominic Wilkins and was blocked.

The ball flew from the penalty area to the outside and was picked up by John Long.

At this time, all the Lakers players were under the basket, and no one was looking after Long.

In one breath, Byron Scott ran toward him, but it was too late. Long aimed at the basket and made an open three-pointer.

32 to 29

The Lakers' strategy is failing.

They tried to use their size and athletic ability to maximize the defensive intensity on the outside and inside, forcing the Celtics to use mid-range to decide the victory. If the Celtics shoot a lot of mid-range shots, the efficiency will definitely not be guaranteed.

, every defensive rebound the Lakers get will turn into ShowTime.

Pat Riley's calculation was good. He wanted to completely suppress the Celtics' offense, but he underestimated the flexibility of the Celtics' offensive system.

He even didn't expect that Louis could hit five three-pointers.

The Celtics' defense is also more targeted than the Lakers'. Although Magic has strong personal abilities, he shoulders the responsibility of leading the Lakers' offense.

Therefore, he cannot make decisions arbitrarily.

Everything he does is accountable to the entire team.

As I said before, the Lakers can play a ten-man rotation.

The worst players in the ten-man rotation can all play on weak teams. Bass's ability to use money makes these players willing to come off the bench, but how to make them happy requires the coaching staff and Magic to work together.

The Magic sacrificed a lot of personal offense to activate the team, and invisibly lost many opportunities to exercise his offensive ability.

Therefore, Louis asked the players on the court to ignore the Lakers' pick-and-roll, switch defenses in large numbers, force the Lakers to fight one-on-one, and completely let go of their three-pointers.

After switching defenses, first block the movement of the ball. If you can force a stop, stop it. If you don't stop, don't make him too comfortable. People without the ball must find their opponents to fight, and the defensive intensity cannot be low.

The Lakers have three or four one-on-one players on the court, and they all need Magic to deliver ammunition.

In this round, Magic passed the ball to McAdoo, who helped the Celtics complete the rebuilding with his flesh and blood.

In fact, M-L Carr also contributed to the Celtics' reconstruction. In order to sign him, the Celtics had to compensate the Pistons. No one expected that this compensation would turn into a compensation transaction.

Later, compensation needs to be put in quotation marks for correct interpretation.

Future fans may not realize the position and role McAdoo played in the entire history of the Celtics.

He symbolizes the Celtics' lowest point in the 1970s, but he himself is an offensive superstar with acceptable strength.

As one of the early beneficiaries of the NBA salary boom, his selfishness has not restrained due to the current situation. From the late 1860s to the mid-1970s, the league's salary level increased six times. On the one hand, this was due to the NBA

The bidding war with the ABA also benefited from the television media's definition of basketball as a "popular sport" in the future. Compared with baseball, the rhythm of basketball games is more in tune with young audiences.

Within a few years, the salary level of stars has soared like a rocket, from around US$75,000 to around US$600,000. For a time, the salary of stars was equivalent to 4-5 times that of coaches. Making big money makes many stars want to win.

Desire dropped sharply, and suddenly, the priority goal for stars like McAdoo became to avoid injuries, which became the only obstacle between them and wealth. Wealth in turn caused players to start to inflate themselves and become discouraged by playing with things.

He lost his fighting spirit prematurely and declined without ever reaching the peak he deserved.

McAdoo became one of the players blamed for his declining game and his only concern with staying rich.

It is impossible for such a player to become a Celtics player under normal conditions, but who would have thought? Auerbach was informed without knowing that the team used three first-rounders to replace McAdoo. Think

Think about Louis's reaction when he traded two first-round picks for Larry Nance. This kind of trade was almost killing him.

The time when McAdoo put on a Celtics jersey was something no Bostonian wanted to look back on. Therefore, everyone also selectively forgot his "significant contribution" to the Celtics' glorious 1980s.

McAdoo took the ball with his back and wanted to forcefully attack Laimbeer. His body was fine for a hard confrontation, but he had to turn over and use one hand to make his teammate's heart stop.

"boom!"

McAdoo's attack hit the neck of the basket and sent the Celtics on a counterattack.

Heinsohn couldn't help but taunt: "MAdon⑵ appears!"

⑴Although the description is a bit exaggerated, as long as you have watched the magician's highlights, or the famous fantasy sports high school inspirational animation "Kuroko's Basketball", you should be deeply impressed by this one-handed push pass with special effects. Kuroko's Push Pass

It's just a few times better than Magic. He can push directly from the backcourt to teammates in the midfield. Magic's one-handed push usually involves standing at the top of the arc and pushing to teammates cutting into the basket.

⑵McAdoo's English name is MAdoo. Celtics fans didn't like him, so they gave him the nickname "MAdon".