The Rest, Only Noise: Chapter 544 extinguished chance
Louie wondered if he was the only one feeling this way.
His sixth sense on the court is always accurate.
Whether it was the humiliating match between the national basketball team and the provincial team in 2013 before crossing, or the premonition that the Warriors might be overturned after Green was suspended in 2016, or the most heartbreaking battle against Poland in 2019 last moment.
The most painful thing in the world is that what you prayed not to happen finally happens before your eyes, and you have nothing to do.
Louis is fully aware of the strength of the Celtics. This team gathers three of the top six in the league. Once the game reaches the upper limit of the team, no one is their opponent.
Bird's expression at the end of the first half reminded Louis of the moment James opened his eyes of death, Durant's hideous expression after his ultra-long three-point lore in Game 3 of the 2018 finals to kill the Cavaliers, and Kobe's double-lore Suns clenched their fists. Baring his teeth, Jordan's stern look after he beat the Jazz at the buzzer in Game 1 of the 1997 Finals.
In order to prevent what might happen, Louis decided to use the murder press in the first second of the second half.
The players responsible for the murder press are Wilson, Cooper, Rodman, Stevens, Oakley.
"Everyone, keep your spirits up!" Louis said solemnly, "You are facing the strongest team ever."
The players agreed, but Louie still couldn't feel relieved.
"Lu, what are you worried about?" Tomjanovich asked.
It stands to reason that Louis shouldn't be worried. They tied the score before halftime and maintained the momentum. There was a lot to do in the second half. Bird's three-pointer at the buzzer was just an accident.
Louie's ugly face would make people think that the Knicks are 20 points behind.
"I hope it's just that I'm thinking too much." Louis didn't say much, "Let the game answer."
The Knicks started in the second half, allowing fans all over the world to guess what they wanted to do.
"Little Lu is such a crazy guy. Does he want to stop the Celtics with a full-court press in this situation?"
"No," Cunningham said gravely, "it's not like the full-court press in the first half."
Compared to the murder press, the 2-2-1 full-court press is like playing house.
The core of the murder press is five flanks with outstanding athletic ability, fast movement, good physical strength, and strong defense to fully oppress the opponent's ball holder.
In the entire league, only the Knicks and the Trail Blazers can gather enough manpower.
The referee tonight is not Dick Bavetta, who has a problem with the Celtics, so the Knicks will have a much higher chance of fouling.
And this is the price of launching a full-court press, and Louis doesn't care about the number of fouls.
The Celtics' lineup is dominated by Thomas, Angie, Bird, Lambiel and Sampson.
The game became **** from then on. Bird acted as if he was not injured and came to confront the Knicks players. He pushed Wilson and Rodman forward successively, received the ball, advanced a few steps, and passed it to his teammates. The ball was delivered safely to the frontcourt.
Falling into a positional battle, Sampson dunks Oakley.
59 to 54
Just as the Knicks were about to advance, the Celtics responded.
"Is the audience pressing too?"
"Celtics crazy?"
Bird asked coldly: "Do you think that full-court pressing is your patent?"
"It's impossible..." Louie murmured, "Larry should still be injured, how could he defend like that?"
What's the biggest problem with Murder Press? In order to assemble five players with outstanding athletic talents, Louie rarely puts point guards in them. Therefore, Wilson is generally the point guard of this lineup.
His ability to hold the ball is passable, even if the Celtics are led by someone.
Ordinary teams do their best to deal with the Knicks' murderous pressure. How can they counterattack the Knicks?
The Celtics' full-court press may not be half as strong as the Knicks, but the problem of the Knicks' murder press lacking a reliable ball handler has been magnified.
Just when Louis was shocked, the Celtics' coaching staff were also in a mess.
"What is Larry doing?" He asked, "Didn't I already reject his proposal?"
Responding to the Knicks' murder press with a full-court press is not the idea, it was Bird's idea. He wanted to fight back, but because of Bird's back injury, he refused.
"Don't you know who Larry is?" Jimmy Rogers sighed helplessly.
Lips twitched, "But his back hurt..."
Chris Ford, a former Celtics player who turned into an assistant coach after retirement, said: "For Larry, there are more important things on the court than health. We must make a quick decision. Once we are dragged by the Knicks It is even more dangerous for him to enter a protracted war."
"I know...I know...I **** know, but I can't **** risk him!" Wanted to call a timeout, but at the same time, Bird led his teammates to press like a mad dog.
The Knicks, who couldn't hold the ball except Wilson, made a turnover.
The ball fell to the ground, Wilson landed first, he caught the ball, and the next second, Bird rushed to knock his body over.
The referee whistles.
Wilson and Byrd, who had lost their minds, pushed and cursed each other.
The two sides almost staged a group fight, and the referee separated the players in time. Bird pointed at Wilson's nose and spit and cursed: "I will definitely kill you stupid Chicago dog tonight!"
He was called a technical foul for this.
Wilson lost all his sanity. If he hadn't been pulled by his teammates, he would definitely rush to beat Bird.
The biggest difference from Louis is that he comes from the past, the era when everyone, except Chamberlain, was injured and persisted until the end of the game.
"Sports Illustrated" said Bird is the best in history, he disagrees, he thinks Bird has not surpassed Bill Russell.
For Bird, if Bird wants to become the best in history, he has to surpass Russell's standards in all aspects.
In this case, Russell will never back down due to injury.
Made a decision he might regret, but respected Bird.
He no longer interfered with Bird's on-the-spot command.
Not only that, but he also replaced Lambiel with Reggie Lewis, allowing the Celtics to press the Knicks more forcefully.
The game continued, and the Knicks used Bird's technical foul to make two free throws.
Both free throws were made, and Louie hurriedly replaced Oakley with Hornacek.
In this way, the Knicks have no inside line, and almost all five people on the field can be piled up in the midfield and even the frontcourt to oppress the Celtics.
But it was too dangerous for five players to press the frontcourt. Louis let Rodman guard the backcourt to prevent accidents.
Bird's fighting spirit and momentum still remain in Louis's mind.
At that moment, the Celtics completely overwhelmed the Knicks.
Wilson is too young, in the NCAA, in high school, he was a winner, but in the NBA, he has not really won.
He is not like Bird, who won five championships in eight years.
So, Bird spit in his face, he was so angry that he just wanted to hit someone, and Bird used it to boost the morale of the team.
He knows how to win this kind of game.
For the first time in ten years, Louis lost his balance.
Bird was definitely injured, and he led the Celtics to the Knicks desperately with a back injury. The shock he brought to Louie was unusual.
If he were the head coach of the Celtics, Bird would have no chance to play.
doesn't seem to care;
However, if Bird doesn't fight like this, how much will the Celtics' chances of winning against the Knicks drop? Sampson is the only gentleman, and Thomas' breakthrough is difficult to defend, but the real backbone of the Green Army will always be Bird.
Only if he is willing to kill himself, others will give everything.
Louis from the future will never let players take risks, so his team will never have this kind of fighting spirit and murderous intent to shed the last drop of blood, will it?
No, it's not like that... His team has also shown this kind of brutality...
Louis fell into a confusion of thinking, the Celtics pressed the whole court to the whole court, and the arrival of Hornacek was just an extra ball holder, and the offense was still difficult.
The Celtics still have the presence of the Big Three.
After 7 minutes, 14 to 10.
The Knicks used a murderous press to score 4 more points than the Celtics, which did not have the desired effect at all.
When the Knicks stopped pressing, the Celtics also adjusted their roster.
Surprisingly, the Celtics did not replace Bird.
Bird stayed on the court, and his teammates were assigned to Ainge, Lewis, Laimbeer, and Sampson.
A lineup of four big and one small.
"Little bastard, come and defend me!"
Even if Louis matches the lineup of Stockton, Wilson, Cooper, McHale, and Ewing, it can't stop Bird from killing in battle.
He singled out Wilson, humiliated him with trash talk, and beat the Knicks' future star physically and mentally.
Bird used different postures to score four goals on Wilson's head in a row, but Wilson, who had no mentality, responded to the ball repeatedly.
The Knicks relied on Ewing's tip and Cooper's three-pointer.
Wilson was blown up, and the Celtics turned the target to let Sampson hit Ewing.
Louis hurriedly changed the lineup,
Stockton, Miller, Ellis, Oakley, McHale;
Hornacek, Cooper, Rodman, Saley, Ewing;
Stockton, Ellis, Wilson, McHale, Ewing...
Thomas was responsible for passing the ball to Bird and Sampson as usual~www.mtlnovel.com~Louis was desperate to let Ellis and Hornacek throw three-pointers from the outside when Wilson collapsed .
The Knicks' hope of winning, like a stepped flame, was extinguished.
For the last minute, Louie sat very still.
This is the scene he was most afraid of seeing. His team tried their best and used all their strength. The victory is locked.
"Now, New Yorkers should be able to deeply understand the pain of Los Angeles." Dick Stockton said, "They have tried to beat this team for the past four years."
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