The rest is just noise

"Everyone close your eyes."

Instead of reviewing the first half of the game, Louis chose a method that was similar to asking the players to meditate and clear their minds.

"What happened in the first half is no longer important. What matters is what we do in the second half." Louis said seriously, "The Lakers once forced the Celtics into more difficult situations, but they still survived.

I think this is something we should reflect on.”

"Don't care how many of them were injured, we just do what we should do."

The locker room became quiet, and Louis' behavior surprised Phil Jackson.

If the Knicks lose, this matter is exposed. "Little revealed that instead of discussing the game during halftime, he asked the players to close their eyes and rest?"

What if they win?

How should I put this? Can the coach do nothing?

After a while, Zhao Yuanzheng walked into the locker room and said: "It's almost time!"

The players walked out of the stifling locker room together.

As they reached the aisle, Ewing suddenly stopped and asked his teammates, "Do you have anything to say?"

Wilson was so focused on the game that he had nothing to say.

McHale was never the one to lecture, and Stockton didn't like to say harsh words to inspire others.

In the past, it was usually Oakley who played this role.

But today, Dale Ellis stood up.

"We may eventually be defeated and make everyone who supports us painfully mourn this year's failure, but I always feel that we will not lose. We do have a bright future, but when will the future come? We should not wait.

When the day comes that belongs to us, we should fight hard to take away the scepter of dominating the league from the hands of the Boston people. So, to be honest," Ellis's face showed an emotion that he had never seen before, "I

So excited, I feel like the morning sun, an apostle of God who can drive away all the darkness and end the reign of the Green Ghost!"

Ellis' words inspired his teammates to a great extent, which cannot be reflected in statistics.

On the other hand, the changes in the Celtics are also very obvious.

Bird is there, so is Sampson, and importantly, Isiah Thomas, who is back just like Sakuragi Hanamichi who broke his head in "Slam Dunk". The wound on his head is not conspicuous, it looks like

No serious injuries.

In the second half, the Celtics could still play with their full lineup.

Thomas made a breakthrough with the ball at the top of the arc and shot from outside the paint area, announcing his return.

46 to 49

The Celtics are only 3 points behind the Knicks.

Louis had no specific arrangements in the locker room, but before the start of the second half, he informed the players of the focus of the second half and focused on attacking the inside.

Sampson committed two fouls in the first half. If he had a foul crisis, the Celtics would lose their backbone on both offense and defense.

Therefore, Wilson held the ball from the outside and faced Ron Harper who was guarding him. He did not call a pick-and-roll and forced his way past him.

He may be one of the Knicks players who wants to end the Celtics the most, because his performance was very bad in the first four games of the Eastern Conference Finals. He wants to redeem himself and become a master like Bird.

Wilson saw Sampson coming to help defend. He didn't intend to pass the ball and held the ball forward.

As a result, Sampson's height affected him. Even if Wilson tried to create physical contact, the referee would not be able to blow the former's body hair whistle at home.

Wilson's shot missed, but gave Ewing a chance to grab an offensive rebound.

At this moment, Sampson turned around. He had no time to jump to block the shot, so he blocked Ewing's ball by relying on his own height.

In one round, he defended two consecutive Knicks attacks.

"If you want to challenge Mr. One, the Knicks are still ten years too early!" Johnny Most shouted excitedly.

Celtic's counterattack opportunity found Thomas.

He dribbled the ball alone, and when Wilson caught up with him, he made a wonderful pass to Bird, who then hit the ball to Harper.

Harper dunked to end the game, 48-49.

"Benj!" Louie shouted, "Stop targeting their insides, give the ball to John and let him organize it!"

Sampson is not an inside man who doesn't take fouls seriously like Ewing. It would be too difficult for him to get into foul trouble at the Celtics' home court.

On the contrary, after Stockton took possession of the ball, the Knicks' offense returned to its normal rhythm.

The Celtics gave Stockton a multiple-choice question again, and his response was to break through decisively.

Even if Stockton has no offensive threat at the basket, his breakthrough can cause chaos in the defensive line, coupled with the Knicks' skillful high screen system.

Ewing and McHale actively find people without the ball to cooperate with.

Wilson came out of the way, caught the ball and shot.

51 to 48

After that, the Knicks' high-intensity defense for 24 seconds prevented the Celtics from attacking at the buzzer.

"Let me do it!" Wilson's crazy fighting spirit inspired his teammates around him.

When Stockton gave him the ball, he fully believed he could handle the Celtics defense.

The moment Wilson faced Harper again, he collected the ball and forced a pull-up half a meter away from the three-point line.

"Whoosh!"

54 to 48

"OhNo!!!"

"Patrick!"

Wilson suddenly shouted.

Ewing stopped and pressed forward with Wilson in the frontcourt without hesitation.

"Idiot, get back on defense!" Louis was sure that Wilson was on his way.

If Ewing is in the frontcourt, can McHale protect the rim in the backcourt? The answer is of course no.

Harper threw a long pass, and Wilson turned around and chased Bird who was receiving the ball.

When Bird received the ball, within a few steps, Wilson came from behind and bumped into him with the intention of stealing the ball.

"@#@￥￥%"

The fans were completely enraged. Everyone stood up and cursed Wilson, and Bird was kicked off the court.

Laimbeer wanted to come up to trouble Wilson, but was stopped by the referee.

Wilson looked at Bird with a cold expression. From the moment the opponent spat in his face, he had no respect for Bird.

Bird turned over, the stinging sensation on his back making his face contort.

"Is this the force of your foul?" Bird didn't let anyone help him get up. He stood up by himself. "I almost thought you guys came to the game without dinner!"

Wilson didn't reply.

"I can't count how many times they've had a conflict," Brent Musburger said. "I've never seen such explicit hatred on the court."

"Yes, they only hate each other." Hubie Brown couldn't understand.

"Even between the Celtics and the Lakers, there has never been such hatred to kill each other."

The point at which the conflict between the Knicks and Celtics gradually escalated began in Game 5, which was the moment when Louis broke with Boston. From that time on, not only the Knicks players and the Celtics players

The fight was not only a historical feud between the Knicks and Celtics, but also Louis drew a clear line with his past. From then on, there was no warmth in the game.

Louis has been prepared to deal with all consequences since Game 5. He is sure that once the intensity of the game reaches a boiling point, the Celtics will collapse before them. But why? Why hasn't the collapse happened yet? Thomas is back,

Sampson is stable, Bird is like Bruce Willis in "Die Hard", an immortal tough guy.

His back injury definitely got worse, why?

This kind of question makes Louis deeply uneasy. He knows how strong the Celtics are, and he also knows that as long as Bird is still standing on the court, the green ghost will still be the green ghost.

Wilson's collision with Bird was only called a common foul.

The Celtics defiantly asked Bird to take the penalty kick and scored both goals, but the Knicks made an inexplicable mistake in the backcourt and returned the ball to the Celtics.

Bird successfully hit the sideline ball.

The receiver was Sampson. Bird ran towards Sampson's position. Sampson made a hand-to-hand pass screen, successfully confusing the Knicks players.

"It's a fake move!" Louis yelled.

It was too late, and the authorities could not react even if they heard the reminder. Sampson's hand-to-hand pass was an illusion. When Bird ran past him, there was nothing on his hands, but Ewing and Wilson's hand-to-hand pass was an illusion.

The attention is all on Bird.

Sampson turned around and shot from the left three-point line.

"Whoosh!"

"Benjamin Wilson's technical foul allowed the Celtics to chase 5 points in one possession!"

"He should definitely reflect on himself!"

"Benj is too anxious," Tomjanovich said worriedly. "He is thinking about how to kill the Celtics. If it were that easy, the Lakers would have done it long ago."

Louis looked at Wilson. The most fanatical part of his character, his fiery fighting spirit and strong self-esteem, might harm him at this time.

When he makes a mistake, he will not shirk responsibility. He will admit his mistake and find a way to make up for it.

In this case, he will ask for the ball himself.

Stockton gave him the ball, and Wilson was the core of the Knicks' wing and had the power to play one-on-one.

Wilson passed Harper, his intention was too obvious, the Celtics' help defense came in front of him, but still chose to take action.

When the situation was still controllable, Louis was unwilling to disrupt him by calling a timeout, but Wilson's emotions, which were on the verge of collapse, seemed to be uncontrollable.

Do you want to call a timeout to interrupt this rhythm?

It should be necessary for any coach to call a timeout.

But if he calls this timeout, Wilson will be forced to wake up. This kind of awakening prompted by others is not a true transformation.

He has to realize the problem himself, and he has to understand how to do it correctly.

Louis decided to give him a few more minutes.

However, the bloodthirsty GOAT did not want to give the young man a chance to wake up.

Bird was stuck with Wilson in the short corner. Suddenly, his right hand hit Wilson's chest, and Laimbeer's screen helped him completely separate the defender.

Outside the paint area, Bird caught the ball and made a jump shot.

55 to 54

Less than three minutes into the third quarter, the Celtics took the lead.