The rest is just noise

There isn't much room for adjustment left for the Celtics.

Bird was out for the season, and Ainge was poached by the Knicks. They originally had at least nine players available, but when facing a strong enemy like the Knicks, they only had seven players left.

Ralph Sampson to Jimmie Rodgers: "Coach, give me the ball."

He took responsibility boldly.

Rodgers knows that the Celtics will rely on Sampson to remain competitive until Thomas fully recovers from his ACL injury.

As for the Knicks, since the game started less than three minutes ago, Louis had no plans to make a substitution.

"If nothing else happens, they will pass the ball to Ralph more often, allowing him to take advantage of this and drive others."

Louis started talking about it after the players came off the field.

"To deal with Ralph, it's still the same old method. If he catches the ball in the high post and Patrick is on guard alone, let him shoot if he wants to and interfere with it. If he dribbles through and goes to the left, Benj has to be in time.

Double-team. If he dribbles through and goes to the right, Kevin and Reggie, you must form a three-person double-team on him in time!"

"If Laimbeer gives him a pick-and-roll, our strategy is always to let Laimbeer go and defend Sampson with all our strength. There is only one purpose. If the other Celtics score, OK! Sampson scores, no!"

"Coach, isn't Ralph your favorite player? Are you going to be so cruel?" McHale said with a smile.

Louis said pervertedly: "This is one of the ways I show my love to Ralph."

Even if Louis arranged it so carefully, if Ewing was easily shaken by Sampson with a fake shot, it would be difficult to form a double team.

The characteristic of Sampson's breakthrough is a striker-style breakthrough with a low center of gravity. Once he sways, it will be impossible to catch up. He only needs one step to get straight to the hinterland, like a beast entering the sure-kill zone, grabbing the ball with his right hand.

Jumping high, I can't imagine that a 2.2-meter-long person can have such elasticity.

Wilson's defense was very fast, coming from the flank, but it still couldn't threaten Sampson's height. After the collision, the referee naturally fouled him.

Sampson's strong core strength supports him in completing subsequent actions after being fouled.

Put your hand beyond the basket downward, like throwing a handful of sand into the basket.

"Whoosh!"

"Ralph, Ralph, it's amazing!" Barry said proudly, "Imagine what would happen if Ralph played ball like me!"

Bob Beale responded: "That must be a problem on the field!"

Sampson hit the extra penalty.

3 to 8

As Ewing ran forward, he noticed that Louis' face was ashen.

"Patrick, you fucking..."

His roar seemed to penetrate the entire MSG field.

Bill Donovan brings Louie a Coke.

"Coach, calm down."

"This Jamaican idiot with a broken cerebellum will piss me off sooner or later. Can I eat that fake move? Even my daughter can tell it's a fake move!"

The Celtics' defense looks the same as it did in the playoffs.

Stockton called a pick-and-roll and let him shoot.

Although Stockton does not have the ability to shoot off the ball, he has established the habit of using breakthroughs to solve problems in the playoffs.

When he broke through, the Green Army was equally nervous.

Everyone was thinking about how he would organize this offense, but they didn't expect him to make a layup on his own.

10 to 3

"This is a guy who relies on his brain to play basketball!" Louis laughed at Ewing, "That Jamaican idiot will have to study for a lifetime to have half of John's golf IQ!"

Ewing looked over with resentment: "Don't think that just because I didn't pay attention to you, you can go further and go too far!"

"Please prove yourself. You are the only one who still wants to be Bill Russell. Do you know why Russell is not a commentator? He is just angry with you. How can he be such a good man with you, a fool?"

Equally famous!"

Ewing was furious and took the initiative to confront Sampson.

Now Ewing's weight has stabilized and has remained between 117 kg and 120 kg for a long time.

Sampson is a little heavier, but limited.

Compared to confrontation, the two of them are evenly matched.

It's just that Sampson is more experienced and has slightly stronger core strength.

Moreover, the Knicks care too much about Sampson.

Isiah Thomas is a point that shouldn't be missed.

Thomas, who suffered a leg and foot injury in the Eastern Conference finals last season, played his best game with the Celtics. Even though he lost, that game is still an eternal classic.

At this time, he took advantage of Sampson being heavily defended, sneakily dribbled in, and made an emergency stop at 45 degrees from the right wing.

Louis discovered something.

Rodgers seemed to have given up on the system he and Jones had in place and was determined to find a new path.

You can say he is brave and decisive, or you can say he is stupid and asking for trouble.

Is it right to abandon a system that helped the team win four consecutive championships just to put its own stamp on the team?

If he succeeds in continuing Lukai's glory, no one will object to it.

If he fails, his coaching career at Green Kai will end here.

"Currently, we still can't see what kind of team Coach Rogers wants to turn the Celtics into." Zhao Yuanzheng said after watching.

Louis whistled to remind the players to strictly implement defensive strategies.

Offensively, he's not worried.

For the Celtics, a night without Bird must be difficult, but before the game, Celtics fans and their coaching staff were still quite optimistic. After all, they still have the league's No. 1 center Sampson. A few days ago

Thomas also performed well in the opening game.

However, things are not that simple. During the four consecutive championships, the Celtics developed a bad habit. They have the habit of being lax. They will not mobilize all their strength to destroy their opponents at the beginning, especially when Bird is away, let alone

Said this was the first match against the Knicks this season.

They always show off their offensive versatility, and only come up with their special skills after suffering a lot, using a wave of unexplainable superstar performances to elevate the game to another level of intensity, and then chatting and laughing on and off the court, with Thomas

Or Ranbir’s silver bullet and disgusting smile ended another night of clocking out early.

The trouble that Jimmie Rodgers will inevitably suffer tonight is that his opponent is not going to go through the motions happily.

The Celtics suffered a lot. The Knicks targeted them everywhere from offense to defense, and brutally punched and kicked them, 34 to 19 in a single quarter. "Boston was not prepared in a game where there was no capital to be arrogant.

The more adequate team also lacked the necessary strategy and state. With the Knicks carefully setting up the game, they fell behind by a big score in the first quarter!"

exclaimed Bob Beale.

"It's obvious that they haven't adapted to the Knicks' intensity of going out and giving their all."

Barry even directly pointed out: "In my opinion, they miss Larry very much. If Larry was here, he would definitely find a way to respond to the intensity of the Knicks, but Larry is not here, and the new coaching staff is still trying to control the team.

, the players don’t know how to mobilize their enthusiasm. Therefore, the Celtics feel like a mess!"

In the second quarter, Louis played one out, five up and five down.

Hornacek, Ainge, Dan Marley, Oakley, and John Salley replaced the main players.

Louie was the most long-rotating coach ever, defying the rule "you only need nine players who can make plays."

Because it requires intense physical contact and hand-to-hand combat, the players' physical strength declines quickly, so the rotation line must be lengthened.

But if you want to lengthen the rotation line, you must have enough lineup depth to support it.

Therefore, the advantage of always being able to select good players has filled up the biggest shortcoming.

On the other hand, the Celtics are nervous about hiring, they don't dare to make core moves easily, and they are very picky about their rotation.

As far as Louis was concerned, switching to Rogers was a bad move.

If he were still the head coach of the Celtics, even if Bird couldn't play this season, the Celtics would still have enough combat power to compete with the Knicks.

Rodgers only has the talent of a king, and it would be too difficult for him to control this team.

After Ainge left, the Celtics had problems with their first and second substitute positions.

Rogers asked John Long to come up to provide outside shooting, and Louis asked Ainge to keep an eye on this old teammate. Others, such as Thomas and Harper, who were disabled on the three-point line, were completely ignored.

Laimbeer ended the game due to too many fouls, and the Knicks unscrupulously put pressure on the Celtics' dual core.

The offensive pressure brought by others was obviously not enough to relieve the dual-core pressure. Rogers' tactics made his teammates unfamiliar and led to frequent mistakes. Not only were Thomas and Sampson being flanked and caused by assisting defense, but there were also some very low-level mistakes, such as this game.

There were many transition errors in the game, careless, self-righteous "there should be a teammate there" mistakes;

Without Bird, who has the highest football intelligence on the team, and the ability to pose a threat in both the high and low posts, the Green Army has been slower to adapt to the new system than expected.

The unfavorable implementation of the new system caused the offense to be unable to open up, giving the Knicks too many counterattack opportunities. In turn, the defense could not prevent it, and the Celtics did not get the opportunity to counterattack.

The reason why the score quickly opened up in the second quarter.

One of the phenomena that most intuitively reflects the game is that from the beginning of the second quarter, Louis sat on the sidelines and drank Coke doing nothing.

Because he really couldn't see any possibility of losing this game.