The rest is just noise

The Lakers have lost to the Celtics in four consecutive Finals since 1984.

The Celtics won four consecutive championships with the blood of Los Angeles at their feet, thus achieving Boston's ninth consecutive victory in the Finals against Los Angeles.

The tragedies of the Baylor and West era continued into the late 1980s.

In the past four years, Bird has won three Finals MVPs and Sampson has won one.

However, if you want to ask the Lakers or Lakers fans who among the Celtics they are most afraid of, their answer is definitely not Bird.

But Sampson.

Players like Bird are good at all skills, but their physical limitations allow them to be "handled" to a certain extent.

Just look at Bird's two juniors, Nowitzki (too many) and Jokic (2021). They both played a shameful series at their peak, performing poorly and lacking their usual strength.

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The same goes for Bird. Although he won three FMVPs, a considerable portion of the fan base believes that the 1987 FMVP should also go to Sampson.

The ownership of FMVP cannot be changed, but the Lakers' fear of Sampson is increasing every year.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of their biggest assets and the key to the Lakers' dominance in the Western Conference in the 1980s.

Entering the finals, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar should also be a strong point, just like Tim Duncan from 2013-15. This kind of person's physical structure is different from other people. If you treat him as an old man, he will definitely play

Rotten your butt will teach you that "your uncle is your uncle after all".

But in front of Sampson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had no advantage.

In the 1984 Finals, Sampson devoured the Lakers penalty area and established himself as the number one center in the world. In the 1985 Finals, Bird hurt his fist with a punch in a bar. It seems that the number one small forward in history will always be the best.

Some stupid things hurt yourself. That was the closest the Lakers came to defeating the Celtics in four years of competition. As a result, the Lakers were dominated by Sampson in Game 6 with two match points, and in the tiebreaker

Collapse. Sampson won the first FMVP of his career.

In the next two years, the Lakers could still reach the finals. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's aging, Wilkins' desire for the ball, and Sampson's rising momentum every year made the finals no longer fair.

Sampson has become a nightmare for Lakers fans. Children in Los Angeles dare not cry at night when they hear his name.

After 1985, Sampson, who won the FMVP, not only did not become complacent at his original level, but instead became friends with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar by chance.

He asked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for advice on how to delay aging, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recommended him to practice yoga. This incident made Pat Riley extremely angry.

Since then, Sampson has learned to hit the ball with 6-7 points of strength under normal circumstances.

Daily yoga training has improved his body balance and flexibility, which miraculously allowed him to escape the curse of being 2.2 meters inside and he remains healthy to this day and has never suffered a major injury.

Both static talents and dynamic talents are only part of a player's physical talents.

Physical durability, this invisible talent invisible to the naked eye, is the most important thing for superstars.

Therefore, it can also be seen this way. Sampson only used six or seven points in the regular season to average 29+11+5+3 blocks per game. Together with Thomas, the Celtics had the league's best record and locked in

This year's regular season MVP.

This is the number one center forward, unrivaled.

McHale hit him head-on and taunted him. The Knicks' pocket formation caused Sampson to miss a pass, and the process of chasing Miller woke him up.

Watching Sampson's gradually changing state, Louis became uneasy.

"Kevin will be beaten to death by him, right?!" Tomjanovich seemed to have foreseen the future.

Louis said pessimistically: "It's not Kevin we should be worried about."

Despite McHale's usually careless attitude, he also knew the seriousness of the problem and how strong Sampson was.

So Knicks served again, and he no longer tried to claim position. He knew that Sampson must really want to guard him, and he couldn't give the opponent a chance.

McHale made a pick-and-roll, Ewing followed up, Hornacek moved with the ball, and Thomas chose to defend behind instead of forcing the pick-and-roll.

Hornacek remembered Louis' instructions, and a gap appeared for a moment.

Hornacek decisively stopped and shot, and the long shot flew out of his hand within one step of the three-point line.

"Whoosh!"

"That's right, just shoot like this!" Louis screamed, "Isiah, my guards are not like you. There is no difference between shooting like this and giving away points!"

Thomas ignored Louis.

The Celtics' offense once again shifted to the inside.

Sampson fiercely seized the low post, and Ewing struggled to defend himself from behind.

He wanted to drive Sampson out of his current position, but he didn't have enough power.

When the ball came in from his teammate, Sampson used the same move that McHale had just done to hit him in isolation. He hit Ewing with his elbow and followed up with a small movement of shaking his shoulders, then turned left and turned backwards.

Ewing's body was frozen in place by Sampson.

"Whoosh!"

This time, the Knicks' defense had no time to keep up.

Sampson moved too fast!

"Is Patrick responsible for the trouble caused by Kevin?" Zhao Yuanzheng smiled bitterly.

Louis had no dissatisfaction with this matter: "Who made him a center forward?"

After a few seconds, Hornacek called for a pick-and-roll again.

The Celtics remember to eat as well as fight. If Hornacek has the ability to seize the gap in the pick-and-roll and shoot, they cannot give him a chance.

·Jones shouted: "Plan No. 2!"

Option No. 2?

Louis hesitated for a moment, and Hornacek's pick-and-roll tactics came into action.

The so-called plan No. 2 is to flank the ball holder.

If they use this method to defend Stockton, they will be defeated one by one by his passing.

Hornacek seems to be different from Stockton in their eyes.

Hornacek's vision is indeed not as good as Stockton's, but the Knicks' offense is not a display.

McHale decisively split the ball laterally, and Hornacek scored the ball.

McHale dribbled the ball to the Celtics basket as an inside post, Laimbeer helped defend, and he casually threw the ball to the basket.

He missed, and his position was stuck by Ranbir.

Without a complete offensive plan, McHale would not have taken action so casually. From the moment Laimbeer came to help defend him, the Celtics' defense was doomed to fail.

Ewing was like a meteor falling from the sky, grabbing the orange ball and scoring in an instant.

He hung on the basket and roared like a wild beast that had lost its personality.

"He said he was like a gorilla when he played. This was obviously a vivid compliment. He insisted on saying that I was racist. Is this man sick? (Chinese)" Louis complained to Zhao Yuanzheng.

Ewing, who succeeded in making up the dunk, ran along the baseline to give Louis a high-five.

Zhao Yuanzheng watched Louis reach out to pat Ewing's palm, "Good fight, Patrick!"

8 to 14

"Wow, after the timeout, the Knicks' offense really picked up!" Dick Stockton laughed. "I have commented on 50, if not 100, Knicks games. In my mind,

, every time little Lu requests a pause, it seems to have an effect.”

Heinsohn said proudly: "That's why he will be regarded as the best coach in the league. Reporters may be stupid, but the players know who has real talent and learning, because they are the ones who follow the instructions and play."

Billy Cunningham looked gloomy and said nothing.

If the camera were pointed at him at this time, the audience would definitely be frightened.

"Billy, what do you think?" Heinsohn is a pure bitch. He doesn't want Cunningham to pretend to be dead to avoid this wave, and then wait until the Knicks lose power to jump out and add insult to injury.

"Ah, this matter, that's it... I agree with everything you said..." Cunningham was forced to express his position.

At the same time, Sampson used a subtle weak-side fake screen to receive Bird's pass and drive to the basket.

Ewing failed to help defend, and Sampson used an overhand shot to avoid the block, causing him to foul.

To make matters worse, Ewing's up-and-down defense was deemed a foul by the referee.

The whistle sounded, and it turned out to be 2+1.

"I'll blow your fucking banana peel!" (Chinese)

Louis was rude on the spot, and the referee who blew the whistle, Nick Strome, asked: "What did you say?"

"You can't brag like that! This is the playoffs, and the game requires intensity!" Isn't this bastard a pig farm killer in Louis' impression? Why is he reduced to an "ordinary referee" and blowing the fucking home whistle?

Bribed by Auerbach?

Louis didn't have time to think too much, the referee blew the whistle, Ewing fouled, and Sampson got 2+1.

17 to 8

What the Knicks need is a response.

The difference is already 9 points. If the next ball is missed and the Celtics counterattack, the point difference will be double digits.

Sampson's long arms enveloped McHale.

Even if McHale wants to attack with the ball, it will be difficult.

He can no longer claim the position normally.

Sampson's blocking position prevents McHale from catching the ball, while maintaining contact, allowing for confrontation, and using his size to affect the path of the ball.

This is a perfect low-post semi-forward defense. Louis had Sampson learn and practice it bit by bit according to the video.

Even Louis himself did not expect that it was the foundation laid in those years that allowed Sampson to reach the heights it is today.

He is an epoch-making inside man, and sometimes he doesn't look like an inside man at all, but in the final analysis, he is still an inside man, and he can play like an inside man.

When Bird couldn't defend the power forward in the low post, he returned to the inside position and used the inside method to make the Knicks' most stable inside attack point unable to even touch the ball.

The Knicks adopted a high-post dynamic offense, and Bird couldn't keep up with Miller.

Before getting rid of Bird to get open, Miller had already received a lot of attention from the Celtics.

Their physical confrontation was like a man and a woman fighting naked on the bed, wanting to touch every muscle in his body.

After being so contented, Miller was the first to show discomfort in a championship-level game in the Eastern Conference Finals.

A perfect shooting opportunity, he made a three-shot shot.

Miller took a deep breath, his expression full of anxiety and worry. He was afraid that his teammates would be disappointed, and that he would be a hindrance to the team. His competitive mentality and strong personality prevented him from stretching his hips on such a big stage.

But he has never met such a strong team in his life.

Compared with the Celtics in the playoffs, the Celtics in the regular season are like playing house.

That kind of pressure and the intensity that can really make a shooter misfire unknowingly dominated Miller's touch.