The rest is just noise

9 to 5

This was the score between the two sides after Louis used his murderous press.

The Knicks scored 9 points and the Celtics scored 5 points.

Like Game 3, Bird led the team to launch a counter-press on the court.

Different from last time, the Knicks' reaction was much duller. They didn't care whether they could dribble the ball through half court.

If the ball is stolen by the Celtics, just grab it back where it is.

Louis instilled a thought in everyone: ball possession is not important, points are not important? What is most important? Tormenting the opponent is the most important.

Louis allowed the Celtics to score more points, but the difficulty of the game must increase as time goes on.

So, the court clashes, the wrestling, the rolling, the little moves.

Within five minutes, Heinsohn repeated one sentence many times: "The Knicks are letting fans around the world see the ugliest side of basketball!"

Midway through the second quarter, 39 to 29, the Knicks led by 10 points.

·Jones requested a timeout. This game was more exhausting than imagined.

Bird had not rested for a few minutes before being replaced to play tight end, and now the situation is even worse.

Louis replaced Wilson. Although he only played more than five minutes, he inspired his teammates every second he was on the court.

He is willing to throw himself to the ground and roll around, never respecting himself as a core person.

Louis replaced him with Ellis because he committed two crimes.

Besides Wilson, there are two other people.

Cooper and Hornacek, Louis replaced these two people with Stockton and McHale.

The Knicks' lineup changed to Stockton, Ellis, Stevens, Oakley and McHale.

From a defensive perspective alone, this lineup is very strong.

Although there is no way to carry out a murderous press like before, if the goal is to defend (a 10-point lead), it shouldn't be a problem.

As for the Celtics, Bird refused to be replaced and had to rest Isiah Thomas and let Ainge, John Long, Bird, Laimbeer, and Sampson play.

Except for Ainge, the other four players were the core team of the Celtics for four consecutive championships, and Ainge himself was the sixth or seventh player during the four consecutive championships.

The Celtics are 10 points behind. If they want to end the series at their home court, they have to respond with a tough enough performance.

At this point in the series, the Celtics have a clear advantage. They only need to win one more game to end the series.

Game 5 was supposed to be the Knicks' collapse, but they found their opponents woke up.

The Knicks are strong and the Celtics are even stronger, but the Knicks are not used to their strength from top to bottom, while the Celtics are used to it. This may be why the Knicks will challenge the Green Army after waking up.

Beat.

This group of young people in New York are hungrier and more eager to be recognized, and the Celtics are accustomed to believing that when they play a dominant game, their opponents will succumb to their strength, and will collapse and lose, allowing them to be easily eliminated.

When Bird led the Green Army to launch a counter-press to stun the Knicks in Game 3, everyone thought the Knicks were doomed, and their most confident trump card was destroyed by the Celtics.

But Louis knew that it was just an accident.

The Celtics dare to do that because they don't have enough respect for Louis and the Knicks team. They don't know how terrible the Knicks are.

Laimbeer played Oakley from behind and seemed to have a height advantage, but his offense was a bit soft.

He was eventually called for an elbow swing violation by the referee because the action was too conspicuous.

The Knicks were so eager to expand their advantage to 12 points that they ignored Sampson's presence and took a big hit.

Sampson first blocked the shot and then grabbed the ball on the floor and passed the ball to Lewis.

The young green-blooded man ran forward at full speed, with no flank visible. Stevens, who looked like a spider, had three criminals on his back. He jumped up and stopped Lewis with the desire to murder his opponent.

"Stevens raped Reggie's cylinder in the air!" Heinsohn yelled, "but Earl Strom shook his head indifferently, and he didn't think it was a foul!"

Cunningham didn't expect Heinsohn to be the first to criticize the Knicks, which makes his job easier.

They are all against Louis and the Knicks anyway, so all he needs to do is agree.

"Yes, the referees should control the emotions of both parties and not be too biased towards the Knicks when they are behind by a big score."

What these two people couldn't see was that on the next possession, Stockton passed a wonderful pick-and-roll pass to McHale, and Bird connected with the ball.

McHale screamed in pain, the ball dropped, and the referee didn't blow the whistle either.

What does this mean? The referee gave the same penalty to both sides.

But neither Heinsohn nor Cunningham had anything to say.

On the way back to defense, it's Stevens again, and he proves why Louis unconditionally considers him the toughest player on the team.

Sampson counterattacked with the ball, the momentum was like a supercar with full accelerator.

Stevens actually wanted to draw an offensive foul on Sampson.

Sampson snorted and made an astonishing change of lane in the paint. If Stevens wanted to interfere with his fast break, he had to give up drawing fouls. Once he made a move, he was following the former's path.

Sampson responded with tit for tat, twisting his body and scoring a dunk.

The referee blew the whistle and sentenced him to a beater.

"Alex Stevens' fourth personal foul!"

Sampson made an extra free throw, 32-39.

He personally participated in the counterattack and scored 2+1. He came back to defend and took the initiative to guard against McHale, the Knicks' most dangerous one-on-one player.

McHale was sure to solve Sampson's defense, but when Laimbeer came to attack from a flank, he deliberately stepped on McHale's foot.

This made McHale scream in pain, and Louis became furious, pointing at Laimbeer and asking the referee: "Didn't you see the movement of his feet?"

At that moment, Strom really didn't see it.

While Louis protested, McHale passed the ball to Oakley in the high post.

Oakley's jump shot failed. Laimbeer grabbed the defensive rebound and was about to pass the ball. Stevens stepped forward and punched him with a strong sense of revenge.

"Beep!!!"

This action was praised to a T.

Ranbir lay on the ground for a while before he regained his composure.

"Kevin, if the referee can't do justice to you, you have to find a way to get it back on your own!" Louis shouted.

McHale bit his lip and nodded.

Louis replaced Stevens and called Rodman when the Celtics were taking two free throws.

"Larry, I'll leave it to you, but in addition to defending Larry, you also have to pay attention to protecting the penalty area. Ralph is bigger than our two inside men, so we can't give him a one-on-one chance!" Louis basically put Luo

Deman used it as Draymond Green, "If they pass the ball to the weak side, you have to rotate firmly!"

"What about Larry?"

"Give it to someone else!"

The Celtics' two free throws were executed by Bird. He made the free throws steadily and then continued to have the ball.

34 to 39

Louis discovered a problem, and Laimbeer and Anji were ready to cause trouble, just like they had in many previous games.

These two people will use various methods to provoke the anger of Knicks players. Their experience, rich reserves of black hands and black feet, and fiery tempers always have the upper hand.

On the Knicks side, only Oakley dared to fight back bravely when challenged. Rodman may be considered half, but his demonic blood has not yet fully awakened.

Louis asked McHale to get the situation back on his own, but he didn't really believe in the latter's ability to stir up trouble.

He's one of the guys least likely to get into a fight on the team.

Bird and Sampson played a high-post duo and scored another goal beautifully.

36 to 39

The advantage that the Knicks had finally established by using their murderous press was about to be wiped out by the Celtics' offensive power that saw no limits.

Louis requested a timeout. The Celtics were playing too smoothly during this period.

"John, don't always give the ball to the inside." Louis drew a commonly used high-position dynamic attack. "Only when the outside is opened, our inside will be liberated!"

After Louis finished talking about tactics, he changed the topic: "Don't be afraid of that bastard Ranbir! He just wants to anger you, don't fall into his trap!"

"I will beat him up if he does anything else!" McHale said harshly.

If Oakley said this, Louis would believe it, McHale?

Let’s believe half of it.

Returning to the game, Stockton's stable mood and unstimulated character were a bright spot.

Although he played poorly in the Eastern Conference Finals and his poor offensive ability was seized upon by the Celtics and he was replaced by Hornacek, he never complained.

Now, according to Louis' arrangement, Ellis starts running from the bottom corner, Oakley's screen, and McHale's double screen.

When the Celtics saw him running, it was as if they were seeing something ominous, and everyone was nervous.

Laimbeer changed defense, and as a result, Ellis ran in reverse and turned back to the starting point.

Stockton passes the ball.

The perfect corner opening is also the charm of the high-post dynamic offense under the system.

Ellis pulled up and shot a three-pointer.

"Whoosh!"

42 to 36

Ellis made his fifth three-pointer of the half, clenching his fists and roaring.

Ranbir's face was gloomy, with a cold murderous look in his eyes, "I want to destroy him!"

"Bill?" Sampson thought he heard wrongly.

Bird relied entirely on experience when beating Rodman, and it was difficult for him to ignore his opponent's blocks.

Rodman's ability to continuously take off is too strong.

But he still used his rhythm to find gaps.

38 to 42

After more than ten seconds, Laimbeer slammed into Ellis with all his strength, knocking him out of bounds from beyond the three-point line.

“!#￥%@#￥……”

The cheers from the garden fell like heavy rain.

"You damn vicious dog!" Louis was furious.

Ranbir responded with a sullen face: "You are no longer my coach, don't yell at me!"

"You bastard!~"

Louis didn't rush to hit Ranbir because Tomjanovich and Zhao Yuanzheng worked together to stop him.

"What are you doing?" Louis turned his anger to the players on the court, "That dog bullied us, what are you doing standing there?"

Louie's roar boosted the intensity of the Knicks' game.

Although the Knicks did not use a murder press, they played positional warfare like a continuation of the murder press.

The Celtics' unbearable defensive pressure fell on everyone.

However, the Celtics couldn't score, and the Knicks couldn't score either.

38 to 42, this score continued until the last attack of the first half, the Knicks had the ball.

The Celtics applied brutal physical pressure, McHale's shot was short, and Oakley hit the ball.

Rodman grabbed the rebound from the high post with 4 seconds left!

"Dennis, I'm here!" the silent assassin said frequently tonight, and the bruised Ellis caught Rodman's pass.

Oakley and McHale's double screen destroyed Lewis' defense.

Ellis dribbled the ball to the left, stopped, and picked it up. Laimbeer's face appeared in front of him, but he bounced very quickly and shot 0.1 seconds faster, and the basketball flew away from his hand.

"Whoosh!"

Hit the buzzer! But Ellis' foot also fell on Laimbeer's instep, and he fell on the spot in pain.

"CNMD bastard!" Louis rushed into the field and when he swung his fist, McHale stepped forward to hold him up.

Oakley was stunned. He thought McHale would take action, but he didn't. He didn't even think that Louis would rush up in person. Fortunately, McHale stopped him, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous. But Laimbeer stepped in blatantly, and they didn't even respond.

, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and wanted to find trouble with Ranbir, but as a result, he had already gone away, leaving only the miserable Ellis.

Damn it!

Damn it!