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While many people were speculating whether the Celtics would be swept by the Knicks, the day after Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals, a piece of news shocked the league: Celtics coach Jimmie Rodgers ended his stay in Boston due to personal reasons.

coaching job!

Ralph Sampson, who has been in the league for ten years, has worked hard and has almost no negative news, and for the first time in his life, he has a stigma.

coach killer

The good-natured New York media excitedly discovered another piece of irrefutable evidence that Sampson is the contemporary Chamberlain.

Like Chamberlain, he has a tendency to murder his own head coach.

There are all kinds of news, gossips, and gossips. The New York media thinks that these things they have done will disturb the Celtics' military morale. When the time comes, the Knicks will surpass the Celtics, and they will also have a share of the credit.

However, Louis did not think that Sampson was as strange an individual as Chamberlain.

Sampson is very pure. He has opinions about Rogers, but has never made them public. Now that Rogers is suddenly dismissed, there is a high probability that the Celtics senior management is dissatisfied with the record.

After all, when we lost to the Knicks last year, we could still use the lack of personnel as an excuse...

This year, all the Big Three were present, and they were beaten 3-0, one step away from being swept.

As long as they have some ideas about the results, can they not be anxious?

It just happened that Sampson and Rogers had publicly disclosed their differences before, and now that Rogers suddenly dismissed get out of class, it was normal for him to have doubts about Sampson.

Louie didn't need to call his friends in Boston to know what was going on.

The New York media thought they could manipulate the Celtics' mentality, but little did they know that Sampson was someone who didn't pay attention to the news media.

If he cared about what the media said, he would be as sick as Isiah Thomas.

Now that Rogers has dismissed get out of class, although we don't know who the new head coach will be, whoever takes over will probably not make the big mistake of "letting Sampson work as a tool just to make Thomas happy" again.

That afternoon, Reid Auerbach and Jan Walker, along with the Celtics' acting coach, held a press conference.

Louis watched the live broadcast on the TV in the hotel.

The new Celtics coach is Chris Ford, who is also an acquaintance of Louis.

Louis remembers this white man with a soft touch. In the 1981 Eastern Conference Finals, the Celtics fell behind the 76ers 1-3, and then with the help of Louis, they won three consecutive games to complete a great comeback.

In the legendary tiebreaker, the Celtics and 76ers hit the last ball, and Ford's three-pointer from the top of the arc killed the game.

That was the starting point for the Celtics' revival in the 1980s, and it was also the first game for Louis to prove his coaching ability.

Since then, all roads have been paved.

In 1982, Ford retired and chose to stay with the Celtics. After four head coaches including Fitch, Louis, K.C. Jones, and Rogers, he finally had an opportunity similar to what Louis had in the 1983 playoffs.

The team collapsed and the coach was dismissed. He took over temporarily. In a series where it was impossible to win, he needed to keep the Celtics decent and dignified.

"Xiao Zhao, if you were the head coach of the Celtics, what would you do to beat us?"

Louis asked.

After Zhao Yuanzheng thought carefully, he replied: "Actually, the Celtics have been going astray in the past two years. They have had brilliant victories and a mature system. Moreover, their loss to us in 1988 was not

Because we broke their system. As a result, when K.C. Jones stepped down, they foolishly changed the system they had played in for many years, struggled for two years, and now it seems that if they want to win, they have no other way but to turn back.

"

Louis smiled and asked: "You mean, Dr. C will return to K.C. Jones's system?"

Zhao Yuanzheng said; "It's the system you left behind, coach."

The reason why Louis called Ford Dr. C came from an anecdote from the opponent's player days. He once dunked in front of Dr. J. Although the dunk ended up getting stuck on the neck of the basket, it was still a dunk. That's what he thought.

, so his teammates at the time would occasionally call him Dr. C. This was because there were not many interesting people on that Celtics team. If Louis could have taken charge early, the nickname Dr. C would have spread long ago.

"The system I left behind had no room for Ralph to develop," Louis said modestly.

"Yes, letting Larry and Isiah transfer the ball to Ralph, thus making Ralph the core of the Celtics' offense and defense, was the most correct decision made by K.C Jones." Zhao Yuanzheng paused.

"But this is still done within the framework you left. If there is no coach to polish the most suitable system for the Celtics, there will be no room for these three people to play at the same time."

Louis did not want to forcefully occupy the merits that did not belong to him.

In the 1985 Finals, Sampson turned the tide when Bird was sluggish and won the Finals MVP. Only then did Bird give up some of the ball rights to Sampson.

The reason why the Celtics' Big Three can guarantee harmonious coexistence is that Bird is willing to give up and Sampson knows how to be satisfied. In Thomas's heart, fame and fortune cannot compare with honor.

K.C balances the needs of many parties. This invisible achievement is often the easiest to be ignored.

Now that he's gone from that position, the Celtics are as convulsed as to want to erase the traces he left behind.

As it turns out, this doesn't work.

Louis built a system based on the characteristics of the Big Three, and K.C spent four years polishing it, enriching the details and perfecting the framework.

The Celtics wasted two years, only to prove that they have been running around like headless chickens for the past two years.

In Louis' impression, Ford is a very smart man. If he is smart enough, he should bring back K.C's style of play.

That's when the Knicks will face the test.

It's not difficult to beat Rodgers' Celtics 3-0, but what's difficult is how to complete a sweep against them.

May 28

Game4

Just as Louis and Zhao Yuanzheng thought, Ford brought back K.C's style of play.

System No. 1, System No. 2, System No. 3 and System No. 4.

Watching the Celtics play a familiar offense, Louis knew that this Celtics team would unleash their full potential in this game.

Because they have no next game, either win or fish.

In the Rodgers era, Celtics frontcourt players such as Sampson, Laimbeer and Bird often hesitated to shoot three-pointers.

Because Rogers doesn't like players shooting three-pointers.

After Ford took over, he not only changed back to K.C's style of play, but also accepted the concepts of the Louis era. He wanted the players to free their minds and take decisive action when there was space.

So Ranbir came to life.

He scored the Celtics' first two three-pointers today.

Moreover, the routines are different. In one shot, Sampson broke through from the high post to attract a three-man attack. Laimbeer made an open three-pointer at the top of the arc. The Knicks' offense failed, and Bird's backcourt rebound gave the advancing Thomas, and Thomas compressed the Knicks.

The defense passed back to Laimbeer outside the three-point line, and he also hit a chasing three-pointer.

At this time, fans can't help but think of the K.C. Jones era and also the Louis era.

Celtics on-site commentator Tom Heinsohn said fondly: "When Little Lou and K.C coached the Celtics, we could often see this kind of free-spirited offense. Now, Coach Ford has brought it forward.

Come back!"

The chain reaction of Laimbeer being able to hit three-pointers from the outside is: the Knicks will have inside players who are pulled out of the penalty area because of his shooting range. From now on, as long as Laimbeer stands on the outside and shoots his two three-pointers, the Knicks' inside line will

They must be respected and follow decisively, so Sampson and Thomas got a comfortable breakthrough space.

Moreover, Ford unrestrainedly used the Celtics' guarantee tactic of the 1980s, with Bird sinking into the low post and leading the team.

At halftime, Bird had 11 points and 6 assists. He played the third position on the offensive end and the fourth position on the defensive end. Finally, he no longer had to forcefully play the three position in every game to compete with Wilson.

Even if I haven’t played the old system for two years, now that I’m playing it again, it still looks very smooth.

Sampson played the most "mediocre" first half since the start of the Eastern Conference Finals.

He only scored 4 points in the first quarter, all in transition. Counting the entire team, his score was the lowest in the entire first half.

Although there are not many scenes on the offensive end, Ford has learned a lot from the Louis era on the defensive end. He boldly asked Sampson to take the initiative to change positions on the defensive end. Against Ewing, he defended the Gorillas and only scored 6 points in the half.

Switching in front of Wilson to interfere with his offense. Even if he is one of the best strikers in the league, his length and height will have an obvious impact on Wilson locally.

Louis looked at this set of tricks and had something in his mind that he didn't know whether to say or not.

Just fucking copy it?

These tricks Ford used were all ones he had shown with the Celtics, and now he was just applying them to Louis in a learned way.

And, it worked.

The Knicks were obviously not ready to end the series tonight. The Celtics suddenly changed their style of play and played like a 3-0 even though they were 0-3, which surprised their opponents.

1 to 3

The Celtics came back at home to avoid a sweep, with Chris Ford completing what Louis had done in 1983.

Louis could only smile bitterly. The Celtics did all the right things tonight, the players were in good shape, and the Knicks were not used to it. They gathered all the necessary factors to lose.

"Chris, I hope you can show me some new tricks when we meet at MSG." Louis said heartily, "You know, I hope you become the official head coach of the Celtics. I believe in this game.

It can win you a contract, which is why I don't have players pressing you all over the court."

"I'm very grateful, Coach Lu." I don't know if Ford believes what he said.

In fact, Louis had no intention of using a strategic press after watching the first half, because neither the Celtics' nor the Knicks' state was suitable.

Louis turned back to his teaching assistant and scratched his head helplessly, "It seems that we need to plan carefully again." To provide you with the fastest remaining, only noise update, Chapter 715 Homework Copying Master is free

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