The Rest, Only Noise

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The Pistons' preparations for this game had no shortage of bright spots.

Other teams will find ways to confront the Celtics to slow down the pace of the game, but the Pistons themselves are a team that likes to attack, and defense is not a strong point, so they choose to attack with offense.

For the Celtics, who ranked second in points per game, the Pistons did so as if they didn't want to win.

However, it's not that simple.

Daly made relevant arrangements for the second of the Celtics' Big Three.

Everyone knows that Bird and Thomas are the key reasons for the smooth operation of the Celtics' tactics, so the Pistons' offensive focus is also here.

Daly demanded that Thomas and Bird be exhausted on offense.

That is to say, no matter who gets the ball, as long as the opponent is these two, they will attack boldly.

This method is the same as in the era of cosmic bravery, all teams that want to beat the Warriors will try their best to play Curry's mentality.

Not because Curry is easy to play, but because he is the most cost-effective.

Bird and Thomas are the core of the Celtics' offense. The four offensive systems are all designed around the two of them. If they fall, even if the Celtics can crawl, the effect will definitely be greatly reduced. .

However, Daly's abacus was wrong.

First of all, the Pistons have no indistinguishable super heads-up players, and Worthy can only count as half.

Then there is the disparity between the two teams.

Louie can have Bird protected, and Thomas is a blood-thirsty killer with the mentality of always taking on challenges and the determination to obliterate any opponent who tries to defeat him.

Therefore, Daly's approach had some effect, but it did not meet his expectations.

The expectation was to at least reverse the score in the first half.

54 to 44

At halftime, the Celtics led by 10 points.

The mvp in the first half was Thomas, and his presence made it impossible for the Pistons to focus on Bird.

Bird did a lot of inconspicuous little things, and Thomas scored 16 points and 7 assists in the half.

In the locker room, Louie said to Thomas: "Isiah, I won't let you start in the second half."

Except for Bird and Sampson, almost everyone has been temporarily taken out of the starting list by Louis.

Celtics players are used to it, and they all agree on the indispensability of Bird and Sampson.

If it was early in the season, Thomas would have been thinking the wrong way, and now he has confirmed that Louie is a guy who just wants to win and has no interest in skin color or locker room politics.

"I have no opinion." Thomas laughed.

"It's no use." Louie snorted and said to Bird, "Larry, you've been paddling the whole first half, so you should have a good second half?"

"What do you call me paddling half court?"

"You only got 4 points and 7 rebounds in the first half. Do you want to tell me this is the result of your hard work?"

The well-founded stats left Bird speechless: "The second-half starters were John Paxson, Long, Larry, Cedric and Beal."

Louie surprisingly took Sampson out of the starting roster.

Bird has become the player who has never been passive in the starting position so far this season.

Moreover, judging from this lineup, there are three players who are not regular starters, which is equivalent to asking Bird to bring a backup lineup to play against the Pistons' main force.

Louie watched halftime, wondering if the Pistons were killing Bird and Thomas as he thought they were, so he had to give each other a stage.

"From now on, we're just going to have one way of playing, with Larry in the high post, everyone getting the ball, and passing the ball to him whenever there's no chance."

"Let him decide, let him create."

What Lou is talking about is a strategy, a concept, which requires a lot of players' ability to understand.

The others were fine, they all heard Louie's orders to pass the ball to Bird, who needed to realize what "decision" and "creation" really meant.

Bird asked, "Can I do whatever I want?"

"If your 'anything' includes fighting, my answer is no."

Louie didn't want to see a fight, and he didn't want anyone to treat the Celtics as a fight team.

This stereotype is just as outrageous as Jordan can't make threes, Kobe can only strike iron, James can only rely on his body, and Carter can only dunk.

These labels are still personal, and if the Celtics are really labeled as "like to fight", then Louie's sin is a big one.

The honor of "like fighting" should belong to their opponents tonight, how dare the Celtics be?

When the Pistons saw Louie put three of their main players off the court, they couldn't help but convince themselves that it was contempt by their opponents.

On the one hand, the Celtics have a criminal record, and it is not a rumor that Louis likes to insult opponents. The bloodstains of Washington, Philadelphia, Dallas... have not dried yet.

On the other hand, when the game has not yet been decided tonight, if they hadn't expressed contempt for the opponent's strength, they really couldn't think of anything that could explain Louis's three main players on the bench.

At the beginning of the second half, Bird faced Worthy in a high position.

He held the ball in his hand and sneered, "I'm going to play a left-hand fake later, and then use my right hand to pass you for a layup!"

Five seconds later, he did what he said, Worthy's defense is not strong, his strength is speed, he can catch up with Bird.

Offensive players with poor physical fitness often look for physical confrontation before the shot, so as not to be attacked by the opponent.

So did Bird, who elbowed Worthy's defense and scored on a right-handed drop.

After he was done, he left with a wild and uninhibited look on his face, "What did I say?"

56 to 44

"Pretend him again!" said Louis regretfully.

K.C. Jones asked, "Isn't that bad?"

"The hillbilly has never been beaten by society, and he doesn't know it's very insulting." Louis explained why he didn't like Bird's always pretending to be successful.

As Worthy ran past them, he said in a pleading tone, "James, give Larry some color, look at his arrogance, I can't stand it!"

Worthy responded indifferently: "Coach Lu, your tricks are useless to me."

"What trick?"

"You know it yourself."

It didn't take long for Bird to express his dissatisfaction: "You actually help outsiders."

"Can't you see that I'm angering Worthy for you?" Louie said casually, a powerful excuse.

Bird was dubious, and the Pistons took advantage of the empty window when half of the Celtics' main players were absent to strengthen the output on the offensive end.

Byrd pretended to be more successful than the gains brought by them, and they were beaten back.

"Do you **** know what defense is!" Ranbir jumped and scolded, "Don't **** embarrass Notre Dame!"

This dear man didn't know that the face of Notre Dame University had already been disgraced by him.

Louie just thought it was magical and didn't get involved in their affairs.

On the other hand, Daly was very curious about Louie's intentions for this lineup.

He believed that Louie was not trying to show his contempt for the Pistons. If he looked down on the Pistons, he would have acted casually like shooting a bullet.

However, Daly saw that the Celtics who played with this lineup seemed to have a smoother offense.

Bird served as the power forward of this lineup. When fighting the Pistons inside line, although his body could not stand up, he did not let the Chiefs take too much advantage.

Back then, when he was a sophomore, he rebounded against the peak of Moses Malone in the finals (only lost 0.x).

Then, Bird showed disdain for blowing Worthy's defense, mentioning the high post for Long and Maxwell respectively.

The Pistons' defense suddenly became chaotic.

They did not have a clear division of labor, who went after Lang and who went after Maxwell.

They only knew that Bird had to prevent death, and the rest was optional.

If this is the way of thinking to deal with the Celtics, it would be a big mistake.

Bird is a chance creator who doesn't miss his teammates' chances, greedily passing the ball to Long, who shoots 40 percent of his left-wing 3-pointers, rather than Maxwell, who has 64 percent of his paint finishes.

Lang took Bird for a three-pointer and made a hollow hit.

This is neither the number one system, nor the number two system, nor the number three system, nor the number four system.

Bird holds the ball at a high position, and as an insider, drives the team's offense like Jokic. This is the offensive system that Louis envisioned in the early days. Later, with the addition of Thomas, a monster that can be the core of the ball. , this idea was abandoned by him.

Alone C is wonderful~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but historically, the upper limit of a team built by C alone is to reach the finals and complete a series of "defeats but glory".

Now that the Pistons are going to focus their firepower on Bird, Louie just happened to replace Thomas and Sampson, the "getting in the way" guys, to go to the theater.

Next, Louie saw the Pistons hit a nice dislocation.

Worthy was caught up by Maxwell, who gave the ball to Vinier Johnson.

Vinier was a 90% sure thing against Paxson, but he wanted to call the pick-and-roll to force Bird's switch.

Bird still didn't switch, and it was Laimbeer who came out.

Vinier stepped past his defense, went to the basket to challenge Bird's help defense, and switched hands to score.

The Celtics used the flexibility of the lineup to protect Bird's defense very well, but if the opponent insists on hitting you, there is no way to avoid it.

Otherwise, Curry won't suffer in those years, maybe he can get an fmvp.