The rest is just noise

In the first five minutes of the third quarter, the game showed a dramatic trend.

The Pistons tried to attack Bird in a variety of ways, but Bird either failed to defend him or failed to defend him. He worked hard to defend him, and he did not let others take advantage of him just because the opponent focused their firepower on him.

He is full of pride and will never give up.

Louis recognized and supported his choice. As long as he didn't exhaust himself to death, it wouldn't be a bad thing to endure the unbearable pain of life and be tortured like Curry.

Maybe after being tortured, he will cherish his teammates even more.

Unfortunately, Louis overestimated the Pistons' offensive strength.

In one round when the Pistons took the initiative to call a timeout, Worthy pulled out and challenged Bird one-on-one. It was a rare opportunity, and Maxwell had no chance to switch defenses, so Bird and Worthy faced off, wouldn't he be defeated?

All the people on earth, including Louis, are waiting to see how Bird will be humiliated by Worthy.

As a result, Bird stepped back two meters and forced Worthy to take a long shot. Worthy refused and forced a breakthrough.

His speed was enough to make Bird eat his exhaust, but he was overconfident in his own talent and underestimated other Celtics players.

Laimbeer has been keeping an eye on Bird's matchup, and he wants to provide some help.

In the entire team, Laimbeer only obeys two people, one is Louis and the other is Bird. Louis is really talented, has a bad mouth, and can really destroy humanity when he gets angry. Laimbeer does not dare to challenge him. Bird is completely

He was conquered step by step.

Worthy didn't expect anyone to appear, so he couldn't slow down and hit Ranbir like a car that couldn't control the accelerator.

Laimbeer was knocked out of bounds, resulting in an undisputed offensive foul.

The Pistons are falling behind. They are obsessed with beating Bird, regardless of the Celtics' poor defense at several other positions.

If it were Louis, he wouldn't insist on beating Bird.

Paxson and John Long, as well as Maxwell, who is blind when encountering inside confrontations, and Laimbeer, who has average help defense ability, all have weaknesses and loopholes to exploit.

Their opponent's ambition is as high as the sky, and they insist on knocking Bird down before considering others.

I don’t want the free opportunity, and I don’t know what I’m thinking.

Louis deliberately walked to the boundary to remind Bird: "If you can score a three-pointer, we will be 16 points ahead."

Before the small ball era, 15 points was a fork in the road. Within this point difference, it felt fine. If it exceeded this point difference, it would be a bit suffocating.

Louis hopes to break through this line immediately, rather than leading by 15 points, which is an "actually okay" advantage.

He was greedy, but Bird liked his idea.

Bird called a pick-and-roll and asked Parish to guard him. Worthy was about to double attack him, but saw Bird pass the ball to Laimbeer and then run inside.

Originally thinking that his target was the penalty area, Parrish accelerated and rushed in.

However, on the way to the penalty area, Maxwell's screen was already in place.

Bird suddenly changed his line and ran towards the three-point line in the bottom corner.

Parish did not expect this change. His stiff body collided with Maxwell. Bird was unattended and Laimbeer passed the ball to the right corner.

Bird caught the ball and made a three-pointer.

65 to 49

Daley ran to the technical desk with a gloomy face and asked for a timeout.

He looked at Louis from a distance, and now he knew why the opponent put up this lineup full of loopholes in the third quarter.

You believe I can't catch it, right? Daley thought to himself.

Bird and Isiah Thomas are the core of the Celtics. This is a consensus and goes without saying.

Daley's plan is to destroy the Celtics' core and then use their collapse to radiate to several other lines.

However, Thomas scored 16+7 in the first quarter like a god of war.

Bird led the second team to expand the lead in the third quarter.

Louis deliberately replaced three main players and then put Bird in front of the Pistons. He was literally putting fat in their mouths.

They eagerly implemented their pre-game strategy, constantly looking for people to hit Bird and attack his defense.

This is problematic.

Curry has been targeted endlessly and has a "cost-effective" relationship. Moreover, in that era of wing birds and all-round interiors, anyone with the ball can beat him, and his own defense has not been recognized by any awards. Even if various

High-level statistics show that his defense is okay, but in fact it is just okay, not good but not bad.

Bird has actually been selected for the second defense for two consecutive years, and if nothing unexpected happens, he will be selected again this year.

His defense has not been bad since his debut. What is bad is his talent and his inability to guard against fast players.

But if the Pistons really treat him as a dish and eat whatever they want, then they are really thinking too much.

Louis's selling tactics are based on the fact that Bird's own offensive and defensive threats are great. The Pistons can still achieve results by playing like they did in the first half, but they cannot achieve the expected results. Bird's defensive end resists pressure and the offensive end

Destroying everything, the result was that the Pistons missed several other points that were better than Bird, allowing them to play a role on the offensive end, and they were unable to penetrate their own strategy to defeat Bird.

Daly didn't expect that Louis would use a bad hand to play the bright card and let Bird sell it. They really couldn't kill the bird.

So far in the game, strategically speaking, the Pistons have completely failed.

Moreover, it is not the kind of failure that "it is not because we are not strong enough, but the other party has Gundam".

Instead, they implemented their strategy under the most ideal conditions, and the plan went perfectly without any obstacles. Louis smiled and watched them finish everything, and then, the scorer woke them up from their sweet dream.

What troubled Daly the most was that Louis did not use the advantage of the Celtics' lineup to crush him. Instead, he saw his plan and used it to his advantage, using a lineup with a strong offense and a disaster of defense.

Tickled him. As a result, he and his players were all crazy about dealing with Bird.

This was a confrontation between the coaching staff and Daley's biggest failure.

The second team led by Bird narrowed the point difference to 16 points. Next, their main players will definitely return to the court. With the offensive and defensive intensity of the Celtics' entire main lineup, how can they narrow the point difference?

Dai Li sighed secretly and adjusted the lineup.

He changed the lineup on the court to Vinier, Tripka, Worthy, Parish, and Kent Benson.

A two-tower lineup, but neither tower has the mobility of position four.

This will bring unimaginable rebounding pressure to the Celtics, but at the same time, as long as they use flexible tactics, such as letting shooters such as Laimbeer, Bird, and Long pull outwards, the Pistons' defense will definitely not be able to take care of it.

Louis replaced three players, including Long, and replaced Thomas, Sampson and Guy Williams.

"Guy, you have been practicing three-pointers for several months, show me the results!"

Before taking the field, Louie shouted to Williams.

Thomas took great care of him: "Run to your favorite position and pay attention to the ball."

Strictly speaking, the Celtics' current lineup is one small and four large.

There is only Thomas as a guard. The other four players are Gay playing the second position, which is the third position. Bird can switch between the third and fourth positions at any time, and Sampson can switch between the fourth and fifth positions at any time.

, Laimbeer is a pure No. 5 position.

Louis played around with the lineup on the books.

Although the Celtics lack a reliable substitute for the fourth and fifth positions, the existing personnel are enough for him to survive.

He believed that after the previous severe beating, Daley would no longer consider his "decapitation" plan.

This is a reflection of the importance of the head coach.

Many people say that the coach is not important, as long as the lineup is strong enough and the coach is replaced. However, if Louis were to coach the Pistons and saw the Celtics put up a selling lineup to lure them to focus on the fire, he would definitely call a timeout to let the players

Calm down, then look for the defensive weaknesses in their lineup and break them one by one.

Daley firmly believed in his judgment and his players trusted their head coach, so he ignored several other people on the field and only focused on Bird.

A strategic misjudgment or mistake will ruin the entire game.

On the contrary, if Daly had seized the opportunity and not taken advantage of Louis to focus on Bird, but had used the correct method to defeat Bird, the current score difference would probably be within 5 points.

Then, Louis probably has no time to relax and enjoy his life.

Just look at how relaxed he is, just look at his posture.

Before, Louis was standing and would come to the sidelines to give some instructions from time to time.

Now he sat down and chatted with the teaching assistants with a smile.

He believes there is no suspense in this game.

The Pistons used a tougher lineup, but the Celtics are very good at attacking opponents who lack mobility from the outside.

In the last few seconds of this quarter, Laimbeer pulled away after a pick-and-roll, and Thomas broke through and passed two balls to Williams, who was unattended at a 45-degree angle on the left.

He made two three-pointers from the left wing.

The suspense disappeared from that point on.

At the end of the third quarter, the Celtics led the Pistons by 21 points.

"Anyone who doubts Little's coaching ability should watch the video of this game." Tom Heinsohn said with a rude smile, "He is simply walking Chuck Daly like a dog!

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It was necessary for Cousy to explain the meaning of Heinsohn's words to the television audience.

"Yes, Little Lu controls the direction of the game. The most interesting thing about his game is not that he is far ahead of his opponents, but that he is only a little ahead every time, which gives people hope and seems like there is still a chance to catch up. But

As long as we follow his rhythm for a while, we will be like the Pistons now, falling behind by 21 points."

Cousy said: "There is still a lot of game time, but the Pistons have no hope of winning."

For Louis, he doesn't want to hear anyone bragging about his coaching abilities.

He hopes to continue to be regarded as a madman with a max-level number.

He hopes that everyone will regard him as a young coach who rose to prominence due to the strength of his lineup.

Only in this way will more and more coaches suffer and be fooled by him.

To deepen this impression, he desperately needed more of Jean Shu.

"I have nothing to say about this, Little Lou is indeed different." Daley told a reporter from the Boston Globe. "Only those who have played against him personally know that Little Lou off the court is as different as the one on the court."

Little Lu, they are two completely different people."