The rest is just noise

The Magic started the game lively and did a good job both in personal offense and passing and instigating.

After most of the quarter, the Lakers led the Celtics 17-15.

Louis called a timeout.

"How to defend Magic is the most important thing for the Celtics right now."

Tom Heinsohn related the importance of this matter to the success or failure of the game.

"If Magic performs well, victory or defeat is unknown; if Magic performs poorly, the Celtics are sure to win."

The truth is this, how to do it?

Louis first replaced Maxwell, and then fixed Bird in the fourth position and established him as the core of the next offense. Thomas had to hand over the ball.

Second, let M.L. Carr play the three position against the Magic.

"I don't care what method you use, harass him at all costs." Louis had done some research on how to defend the magician.

Let Maxwell take the position because he doesn't want the magician to catch him out of position.

Looking at it now, with Maxwell's defensive skills, facing the magician is going to be eaten alive. Instead of letting him be tortured, it would be better to use Karl who can torture others just by opening his mouth.

Carl agreed loudly.

The Lakers have also adjusted their lineup.

Riley replaced Rambis, replaced Wilkins, and asked him to play the fourth position. This was Riley's prediction of Louis' suspension adjustment. He predicted that Louis would replace Maxwell, and would not

Laimbeer will be replaced, but Bird will naturally play the fourth position.

As long as Bird is in the fourth position, he has to face Wilkins.

Wilkins couldn't guard Bird, but once he started running, Bird couldn't guard him either.

If you can make Wilkins and him cancel each other out, you'll make a profit.

Carl came on the scene and proved that Riley's judgment was correct.

He smiled with satisfaction. When Louis saw Wilkins, he also understood that his plan had been seen through.

However, that doesn't matter.

By letting Wilkins play the fourth position, the Lakers' expectation is to let him and Bird compete with each other. In this way, they will definitely hand the ball more to the guy who is best at turning games into one-on-ones in history.

in hands.

Louis really didn't believe that Bird would lose to Wilkins in a one-on-one match.

Wilkins came up to defend Bird, but ended up taking advantage of his fake move and jumping up like a monkey.

Bird shot sideways and hit the board.

17 to 17

There were less than three minutes left in the first quarter, and both sides wanted to pick up the pace.

Carl was like a mad dog, chasing the magician's body all the way.

He strictly maintained his defense in front of the magician, using hands and feet to fight, and he was as rough as he wanted.

“!##￥…”

With everyone in the Garden cheering him on, he forced Magic to the high left, about one step inside the three-point line.

Karl had a plan. He pressed hard first, fought, and then opened the distance to prevent him from getting a chance to pass.

In the high post on the left, there is clearly room for shooting but he is hesitant.

This caught Louis' attention.

"Is that his cold zone?" Louis asked.

Unfortunately, there is no data on this.

Tomjanovich affirmed: "If he was sure, he could have continued to take action, but he didn't, which shows that"

He doesn't like that position?

No one knew, everyone just saw that Magic ignored his own open opportunity and passed the ball to Wilkins, allowing him to go one-on-one with Bird.

The moment Wilkins received the ball, Karl completely ignored Magic and turned to the low post to double-team Wilkins with Bird.

With one against two, Wilkins just wanted to pass the ball.

If he tries to pass the ball, he's screwed.

"You're hooked, baby." Louis smiled with his eyes narrowed.

Of course Wilkins' ball is going to Magic, but where does Magic stand? On the high left side, almost on the three-point line, there is a distance from him, and this distance is dangerous.

Thomas suddenly rushed out and took a shot of Wilkins' pass, blocking the Lakers' internal and external response and turning it into a Celtics counterattack.

19 to 17

"It seems that Coach Lu has made up his mind to test Magic's long-range shooting touch today."

Heinsohn expressed concern about Celtic's set-up.

"So far, Magic has made 3 of 4 jump shots one step outside the three-point line. He has delivered a beautiful report card, but this has not affected the Celtics' defensive strategy at all."

Stockton echoed: "Little Lou is a determined person."

This time, Magic asked his teammates to open up space. He and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stayed on the weak side and lobbed the ball.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was flanked and passed back.

The magician, who was once again left short-handed, took action decisively.

"Whoosh!"

19 to 19

This goal meant that Magic's pure long-range shooting percentage tonight was 4-for-5, 80%, and he scored 10 of the Lakers' opening 19 points.

Just from Magic's few shots, we can see that he is different from those players who used him as a template but couldn't figure out how to shoot.

For now, he is already a threatening shooter inside the three-point line.

Give him space and enough time to adjust, and he can shoot at an astonishing percentage.

The only thing he lacks is the three-pointer, but he can shoot a long shot within one step of the three-point line so accurately. For him, there is no problem that he cannot practice the three-pointer, it is just a matter of whether he wants to or whether he needs it.

When Magic made that shot, he came back to defend and said to Louis: "Little Lu, if you keep letting me shoot like this, I will score 100 points!"

"Go ahead and get it, Erwin, it's my honor to witness your infinite potential being unleashed." Louis smiled kindly like a good person, "Go ahead, don't be polite."

The magician's dazzling performance and the way he talked and laughed with Louis touched the heartstrings of a certain country bumpkin.

He angrily took the ball in the high post, and after the L tactic came out, he faked a pass with both hands, pulled back, and then shot.

Wilkins was teased until the ball went in before he knew what had happened.

"You have no fucking defense at all, find someone who can defend you!" Bird yelled rudely.

Bird expressed anger at Wilkins, but the real reason for his anger was Magic's dazzling performance.

Magic saw clearly that he wanted to continue to irritate Bird, so he took advantage of his good touch and played a high-post pull-up jumper that was rarely seen on him on the offensive end.

Before he shot, Cooper and Wilkins set up pick-and-rolls on the outside and outside the left paint area.

They slowed down Karl and gave the magician perfect space.

The problem is, Magic's shot is not suited to the art of pull-up jump shots.

Give him time to adjust, and he will give people an abnormally accurate sense of sight. If it's like this, it won't be so accurate.

His ball bounced out of the basket, and the rebound was collected by the Celtics. The fans in the Garden were elated, thinking that their boos had interfered with Magic's accuracy.

It's hard to say how much interference the bad away environment can bring to the Magic, but Louis believes that as the game goes on, the hellish exhaust passages inside the garden will make people accustomed to playing in comfortable arenas like the Forum

Players feel suffocated.

It was like a mine tunnel where an accident had occurred. It was depressing, hot, and had a pungent smell.

Thomas rushed to the frontcourt at high speed, stopped outside the paint area and made a jump shot.

Bird fought with Cooper to grab an offensive rebound, and the two fell to the ground at the same time, but the referee called a blocking foul on the latter.

Cooper yelled: "Are you kidding me?"

The fans booed in waves, and the referee gave no other explanation. Cooper had no choice but to accept it.

Bird stood up, both sides completed their positions, and Sampson served the sideline ball.

Bird came to the outside to catch the ball, and Cooper took the initiative to switch defense. Wilkins knew that his defense could not guard Bird, so he consciously went to attack Karl.

While talking trash, Cooper put his body close to him, raising one hand high and threatening the ball with the other.

This kind of double pressure on people and the ball, if the referee allows it, the offensive team has absolutely no chance.

Bird initially wanted to pass the ball, but he changed his mind after Cooper started trash-talking him.

"Didn't you eat? That's all you have, right?"

"Have you had enough trouble? Have you had enough?"

"Is it my turn?"

After Bird finished speaking sarcastically, he used his right foot to push his body up. His body leaned back, but the amplitude was small, enough for him to shoot, but it also allowed Cooper to react and interfere.

Bird took a fadeaway jumper from beyond the arc just to avoid being blocked, but Cooper could still use his physicality to create pressure.

However, Bird was Bird. He ignored the pressure brought by Cooper, faced the toughest defense, and made a three-pointer.

22 to 19

"La-REEE!"

"La-REEE!"

The fans shouted Bird's name excitedly, but Louis' expression was calm. Bird had done too many such performances before, and he was numb.

What he didn't expect was that what angered Bird was not his "poisonous chicken soup" but the fact that "the magician performed very well."

In Bird's heart, there was a fierce voice reminding him that he could not fall behind or lose to the Magic.

Louis never worried about the team's offense. Even Larry Brown probably couldn't shut down the Celtics' offense.

This team is so versatile.

Louis just happened to use the right concept to give the Celtics a chance to touch their upper limit on the offensive end.

The new system built with this goal in mind has been honed for a whole season and is basically complete and complete.

Louis will decide the outcome of the Finals against the Lakers on defense.

How to cut off the connection between the magician and other people is the most critical.

Letting Magic shoot the ball is one of his methods.

He needs at least two games to prove whether Magic's shooting can kill people. If it can, he will find other ways. If not, he will let Magic realize Ben Simmons' game decades in advance.

In the first quarter, the two sides started a tug-of-war. The Lakers' offense remained consistent. Magic mobilized the whole team and took advantage of his athletic talent to launch a suffocating defensive rotation.

Dennis Johnson's defense made up for the final shortcoming of this system.

The two best teams in the league, the two most talented teams of all time, in a devilish venue, started the game 24-21.

The Celtics maintained a narrow lead.

In the second quarter, Louis replaced Bird to rest, using Thomas, Maxwell, Laimbeer, Long and Ainge as the connecting lineup, and allowed them to score in a more impactful way.

The Lakers retained Magic and set up spears and swords around him. The four players are Byron Scott, Wilkins, McAdoo, and Wilkes.