The rest is just noise

Chapter 900 Why am I, the little Samuel L. Jackson of New York, afraid of it?

Laimbeer had to leave the game due to injury, and Rodman received a second flagrant foul.

The result was bad for the Knicks, but Louis didn't object.

Rodman turned around and punched Laimbeer with a fist that was too conspicuous. It happened right in front of the referee's eyes. It would be disrespectful to the league's new rules if he was not punished as a second-level villain to clear up court discipline.

Being able to apply the new rules to a tough guy like Rodman is a correct demonstration for the referees.

Level 2 criminals were born for Rodmans.

After Laimbeer left the game, the Celtics had nothing to show off.

From a sensory point of view, Louis feels that Bird and Sampson are too difficult. They are the two best pitchers of the Celtics. When both of them are on the court, the Celtics can still rely on extremely sophisticated tactics.

Design to maximize the value of the least space points.

The most typical Celtic-style offense is the L tactic left over from the Louis era. One of Sampson or Bird attracts movement, and the other weak side is used to contain it. The dealer takes another one away from the top of the arc, and then gets

A local 2-on-1 offensive opportunity under the basket.

This is a typical Celtics-style offense that uses the star players' restraint to give role players a chance to eat.

Their style of play may have been very advanced in 1984.

But now, Louis' N.UCLA system and the New York Gang have brought the league into the era of high-post passing offense.

The Trail Blazers absorbed the best of the Knicks, and Riley's football strategy greatly led the league's team building indicators.

Then there are guys like Don Nelson, who lead the charge in the run-and-gun game, eager to crack unsolvable defenses with unsolvable offenses.

The Celtics are relics of the old era. In the new era, they no longer have the captain to lead them forward. Therefore, only the Celtics can often play such offenses.

But this kind of L offense cannot be done in every round. The sacrifice of star players in exchange for scoring opportunities for role players. The fault tolerance rate is too low and there can be no problems in every link. Once encountering the Knicks, assisting in defense

A team with terrifying speed, as long as they are willing enough, can make up for the holes on the defensive end through rotation. In this way, the L offense will be cracked. If Sampson and Bird can't get the ball, they will lose the ball in succession.

There is no one who can back up the singles at the buzzer.

Because Isiah Thomas is no longer here.

As long as the tactics fail, the Celtics need to use the players' personal abilities to support the offense.

Those rounds where opportunities cannot be generated through exquisite off-ball interspersed movement can only be left to the stars to play in isolation.

In the era of the Big Three, this was no problem.

Now, the Spurs have gone west. Under normal circumstances, Bird has an All-Star level, is in good shape, and has superstar-like offensive capabilities, but only Sampson can remain stable throughout the entire process.

In the opening game against the Knicks, Sampson and Bird performed well enough. Whenever the game approached garbage time, someone would step up and make those unreasonable shots.

It was Bird in the first quarter, Sampson in the second quarter, Sampson in the third quarter, and Sampson and Bird in the fourth quarter.

Sampson is worthy of being the league's number one center in the 1980s and 1990s. He took all his shots, whether they were opportunities or not.

Even if the GOAT and the league's top center try their best, all they can do is make the Celtics lose a little more decently.

The game eventually became a scoring game between Wilson and Ewing.

Ewing said he wanted to become the team's scoring leader, and Wilson said he wanted to become the league's scoring leader.

As a result, one of the two took 22 shots and scored 36 points, and the other took 30 shots and scored 44 points.

Wilson's points are better, but Ewing's efficiency is better.

119 to 108

The Knicks defeated the Celtics by 11 points.

At the end of the game, Sampson sat on the floor gasping for air.

Although Bird scored 30 points, he could only help Sampson share the offensive pressure.

Sampson needed to take care of both offense and defense. Faced with Ewing's ferocious offensive, he scored 39 points on the offensive end, beating Ewing. On the defensive end, he had 16 rebounds and 4 blocks. All statistics shrouded Ewing.

"Good job, Ralph." Louis hugged Sampson at the end of the game.

Sampson patted Louis on the shoulder: "Coach, I don't know where the road is."

"How do you say that, Ralph?" asked Louis.

Sampson said painfully: "I hope to stay in Boston forever, but this team has lost its competitiveness. Although I have won 5 championships, I am still young... I still have a lot of energy, and I

I don’t know what I will gain by staying here.”

"As long as you want to leave, the alliance is so big, you can go anywhere." Louis said, "The prerequisite is that you really want to leave."

"After 1988, I lived in pain because I couldn't win a championship and my game became a meaningless numbers game."

Sampson felt more confused than Louis thought.

As a player who can rewrite the league's landscape, if Sampson leaves to join another team, he will inevitably rewrite the existing landscape.

"Don't you wish you could get more numbers for yourself?"

Louis believes that data is a good thing, it is like red wine, the longer it is, the more mellow it becomes.

If you don’t believe it, just look at Chamberlain.

The data he obtained were never appreciated by that generation during his playing days. Now, whenever a high-potential center enters the league, everyone will compare him with Chamberlain, as if Chamberlain is the most dominant player in history.

Center.

Therefore, data is a good thing. Even if the person involved dies, the data will still live in a unique way.

"The better the data I get in the game, the sadder I feel. It seems to me that there is no end to this kind of days."

"Think of Larry, Ralph." Louis consoled him. "The country bumpkin hasn't given up yet. It's too early for you to say that now."

If Louis were Sampson's agent, or his father, he would definitely advise Sampson to leave that crappy place in Boston immediately.

From 1988 to the present, he has wasted the best five years of his career.

This is not only his loss, but also a loss to the basketball world, and even more to his own loss.

What would happen if Sampson had a lion heart like King LeBron, knew how to make choices at critical moments, never missed old friendships, left the Celtics in the summer of 1989, and joined...for example, the Lakers? A former Knicks player in the Louis era

I'm afraid one or two of the four champions will lose.

Even if it's all-inclusive, we will still have several rounds of the finals that are as brutal as last season.

Sampson is not realistic enough, snobbish enough, smart enough, and ruthless enough. Only now does he realize that he is wasting time, which really makes Louis worried about him.

But as the head coach of the Knicks, he cannot let Sampson, a force that changes the league's structure, run around, so he should stabilize him first.

Bird saw Louis and Sampson chatting there for a long time, as if they were planning something evil, so he came over and scolded: "Ralph, what do you have to say to him?"

"You know, Coach Lu is a very verbose person."

How else can we say that birds of a feather flock together? Sampson’s decisive decision to sell Louis was something Louis didn’t expect.

"Ralph, I forgive you this time." Louis rolled his eyes at him, looked at Bird, and asked casually, "How is your back injury?"

Bird said arrogantly: "It will not be a problem to play until the age of 40."

"Don't play until you are 40. What will the Celtics do if you play until you are 40?"

"What do you mean?"

"Can't you see?" Louis smiled, "You two have become a burden to Boston's reconstruction."

"QNMD!"

Louis' words don't sound good, but as long as Bird calms down, he will know that he is right.

The reason why truth is offensive is because it is hard to hear.

Although Bird's injuries were less severe than in his previous life due to the butterfly effect brought about by Louis, the Celtics' situation did not get better.

His career got better because of Louis.

Also because of Louis, the Celtics were suffering at this time.

After Louis finished talking to them, he went to be interviewed on the spot.

NBC front desk reporter Ahmed Rashad asked: "Does the season opener feel any different than last season?"

"It's not different, I just feel it would be better if we play the opening game at home."

"Oh why?"

Bostonians won't like Louis' answer, but he still has to say it.

"This way, we can watch a new flag go up in the sky and receive a championship ring in front of the Celtics."

Since 1988, Louis' relationship with Boston has been severed.

Although Auerbach expressed understanding of his various methods, apart from this sensible old man, few people really understood him.

On his way back to the locker room, Louis ran into Celtics executive vice president Dave Gavitt.

It is said that Auerbach basically stays in Washington, D.C. now unless necessary.

Although he is nominally the team's president, Gavitt is in charge of all matters of the team.

"Coach Lu, congratulations on winning the game."

The misunderstanding between Louis and Gavitt has been resolved.

The person who stood in the way of Louie's plans in the Chris Jackson trade was his old friend Jan Walker.

Walker's little cleverness brought disaster to the Celtics, and also ruined his future in this industry.

Now, Walker has faded away from professional basketball.

"No, I should thank you for letting us win this game." Louis said humorously, "If the defending champion loses in the first game of the new season, it will not sound good."

"You really deserve a beating!"

Gavitt gave Louie a small punch.

Louis once resented Gavitt for a while, but now they are okay and became good friends during the Dream Team.

Because Louis has repeatedly helped Gavitt stabilize the interest disputes between the players and the Basketball Association, preventing him from being unhappy on both sides.

"I have something else to do. Goodbye." Davitt left in a hurry.

"Watch the road and be careful." Louis smiled, "There are mechanisms in the garden."

"Reed, it's time to scold you again after hearing what you said."

"Let that old guy do it, why should I, New York's little Samuel L. Jackson, be afraid of him?"