The rest is just noise

On the eve of the playoffs, Louis is worried about two things, tomorrow night's suit, and a small personal need.

Since Lorraine became pregnant, they strictly followed the doctor's advice and did not have sex within four months.

However, when Lorraine's belly swelled, Louis' needs suddenly dropped.

It's not that he doesn't like Lorraine anymore, but he has a natural awe for pregnant women. In his eyes, a pregnant woman is the greatest being in the world, how can she do something like that? It's hard for him to change it for a while

This concept.

This is a problem that is difficult to explain. Just like some people who read novels, they will have various thoughts of "You can't write like this, it's very poisonous." The poisonous points in their eyes often make the author confused and temperamental.

A good author will admit his mistake to you but not correct it, while a bad-tempered author will delete the post or ban you, QNMLGB in person or in his heart.

(P.S.: The author of this book is of excellent quality and belongs to the former)

Louis had no choice but to do nothing and go home and sleep.

One of the hardest things about coaching the Celtics is dressing up at home in the summer.

According to the solar terms in previous years, it should start to get warmer now.

The worst March snowstorm of the century hit New England in the middle of last month, surprising Americans with waist-deep snow that disrupted traffic in many cities and even caused snowplows to slide into ditches.

Forecasters said it was the heaviest snowfall since the 1888 blizzard.

The blizzard killed 11 people and delayed the climate recovery.

So Louis is not worried that the Boston Garden will become a hell on earth. Although there will still be all kinds of alcohol, body odor, sweat odor, and indistinguishable odors, at least it will not be as hot as entering a sauna.

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As for the little matter of the foul smell, Louis had long since overcome it.

On the night of April 17, the opening night of the 1984 NBA playoffs, the Celtics faced the Washington Bullets at home. "If you win a game, it's a success."

The first round of the best-of-five series avoids the situation where the front-position team loses its fighting spirit due to injuries to its core players, the outbreak of internal conflicts, a sudden explosion of mentality, or various reasons, and is defeated by the team in the latter position and reverses three games in a row.

Dramatic plot.

There are very few back-position teams that can rely on hard power to counterattack.

Because the truth is that truth, if you really have enough strength, how can you play so badly in the regular season?

Louis didn't have much preparation against the Bullets.

Just one request, don't double-team Jeff Luland.

This person was also selected as the Eastern Conference All-Star this year, and Louis coached him. Because he was one of the All-Stars with the lowest votes, he did not have much playing time.

Everything Louis knows about him comes from the regular season.

Luland is a white insider without any muscle lines and a very high body fat content.

From a playing style point of view, he is like a taller version of Wes Unseld with enhanced offensive capabilities, or a young and middle-aged Sabonis with a reduced stature and no athletic ability.

It's fun to watch him play. Luland relies on his body fat to push away defenses and awkwardly put the ball into the basket, which he always does.

Every time he saw him take off less than ten centimeters from the ground, he would either go in, be interfered with, or be blocked by the basket, Louis felt funny.

However, if you underestimate him because of this, you will have to pay the price.

The Bullets, whose goal was to win a game, learned from the experience gained by the teams that had defeated the Celtics in the regular season, and went into confrontation with such fierce and unusual confrontation that it seemed like they were going to crush the Celtics.

Bullets head coach Gene Scheu never expected that Louis would put up a lineup of four players and one player.

Tonight, the Celtics are surprising: Thomas, Bird (SG), Maxwell (SF), Laimbeer, Sampson.

Letting Bird play shooting guard is like challenging the opponent's second position.

It's like a female dog in heat raising her buttocks to seduce a wild male dog to ride her.

The reason why Louis put up a four-high lineup is that he wanted to use height to counterattack the Bullets' rebounds. As for defense, although there will be problems, no one on the Bullets can use this to make the situation out of control.

That is to say, even if he sends Bird out, although the opponent can score, it will not blow up the Celtics' defense.

Moreover, he deliberately asked Bird and others to shrink their defense and let the Bullets shoot three-pointers.

Although their recognition of three-pointers is high, the number of three-pointers made per game is very low.

Their head coach Shu is an old-school coach who can't accept three-pointers, even if they can make them efficiently.

The strategy of shrinking the defense and luring the Bullets into long-range shots was successful from the first second of the game.

More importantly, the rebounding pressure of the four-high lineup made it impossible for the Bullets, which ranked third in the league in defensive rebounding rate, to withstand.

Louis sat off the field like a spectator, no matter what happened on the field.

The Celtics used a pressure-filled rebounding attack, making it impossible for the Bullets to protect the rebounds even if they successfully defended.

They couldn't let Unseld's successor Luland get the rebound and send a beautiful pass like Unseld did.

Halfway through the first quarter, the Celtics led the Bullets 14-6.

Louis switched players, removed Laimbeer and Maxwell, asked Bird to play the fourth position, and then called on John Long and Weidman to let these two quick-fire shooters speed up the offensive rhythm.

Gene Schue was relieved that Louis didn't have a high-four lineup for long.

If you think about it carefully, this is inevitable.

The physical exertion of a big man is much greater than that of a small man. When he comes up, he rushes fiercely to grab rebounds, which will consume even more.

When Louis gets an advantage, he replaces people, typically taking advantage and running away.

The matchup between Sampson and Luland is a highlight of this game.

Louis never thought that Sampson's position could be compared with Luland. After all, it was the latter's ability to become an All-Star.

Sampson really couldn't stand up to his elephant-leg-like lower body.

But Bird has an advantage against Rick Mahon.

Moreover, his trash talk is very hurtful.

He will tell Ma Hong in advance where the rebound will fly, and then get the rebound faster than Ma Hong.

Louis didn't expect that rebounding could also be used as a show-off. Bird, a country bumpkin, would teach him a new show-off skill every day.

Unfortunately, he is probably the only one who can do this kind of pretense well.

One of the characteristics the Celtics showed tonight was not giving their opponents a chance.

I want to be better than you in the areas you are best at.

If you can defeat each other by using each other's strengths, it means that the two teams are really not on the same level.

Oh, by the way, the Bullets are third in the league in defensive rebounding rate.

But their opponents, the Celtics, are second in the league in defensive rebounding rate.

Even when playing normally, the Celtics' defensive rebounds were better than theirs. Louis started the game just to conduct a scientific experiment to see what would happen if Bird played the second position.

The result is pretty good.

Before Jordan, the second position in the NBA did not have the versatility of a small forward, and few had outstanding athletic ability. Therefore, if they were directly allowed to shoot to reduce the space, they could subdue most of them.

Although Bird is not fast and has poor jumping, he has a keen sense of defense and extremely dirty tricks. He is even dirtier than Laimbeer.

This is the secret to his continuous selection in the second defense.

Swinging from the second position to the fourth position, he can torture the opponent. This ability is probably only his in ancient times.

In the first half, Louis didn't call a timeout, and the Celtics led the Bullets 59 to 34.

At midfield, a reporter asked Louis: "Will a timeout be called in the second half?"

"I hope that every timeout I call is valuable. If my players are playing well on the court, why should I call a timeout to disrupt their state?" Louis asked rationally.

These words would embarrass his opponent, but other than that he could not explain why he did not call a timeout.

In the second half, Louis symbolically called a timeout.

Because the Celtics blew the game away, Gene Shue deliberately didn't call a timeout.

He wanted Louis to call first, and he couldn't let Louis finish a game without even calling a timeout.

Later, in order to make a substitution, Louis sold himself to an old comrade and lazily walked to the technical table to ask for a timeout.

The two sides replaced the main players in a tacit understanding, and the Celtics sent out a five-man lineup dominated by substitute players to continue to pick up the pieces. Louis' first playoff game as the official head coach is about to end with a victory.

At the end of the game, something unpleasant happened.

Celtics rookie forward Guy Williams hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer. At that time, the Bullets were no longer on defense. Guy took the shot with the intention of taking advantage and ended up making the shot.

The Bullets players haven't commented on this, but their coach is angry.

"@￥......%#......￥"

The scene was chaotic.

"Little Lu is an excellent coach, but it's a pity that he hasn't learned how to discipline his players."

Guy Williams may have done something wrong, but it is impossible for Louis to give face to his old comrades. Among the old guys who criticized him during the regular season was Gene Schue.

"As a coach, the best thing I can give them is to let them play freely on the court." Louis said deliberately, "On the contrary, some older coaches will formulate some confusing rules and regulations.

To limit the performance of players, it is also called discipline."

"Little Lu, can you tell me the name in more detail?"

Reporters don't want to hear the general term "some old coach."

"A certain coach who led his team to eighth place in the Eastern Conference." Louis almost spelled out the other person's name.

The reporter was not done yet: "Can you be more specific?"

"Are you from New York?" Louis said disgustedly, "I've been so straightforward and you still ask?"