The Rest, Only Noise: Chapter 57 your time has not come
In the opening game of the 1980-81 season, the Boston Celtics met the Chicago Bulls, who had just been divided from the west to the east.
Before moving to the United Center, the Bulls used the Chicago Stadium as their home.
The "age" of this gym is about the same as the Boston Garden, a product of the 1920s.
However, the number of fans that can be carried here is almost twice that of the garden.
The Celtics came here as a guest, and Louie looked at the familiar Bulls and the unknown Bulls, thinking that in a few years they might get the best player of all time in the draft.
Even so, so what?
With the addition of Ralph Sampson, the Celtics got a lot more attention.
CBS decided to broadcast the game live.
Of course, only CBS stations in the Chicago and Boston areas are live, and fans in other areas see time-lapse tapes.
Fan disgust, and beyond the on-field violence, is a bigger problem - the one-piece problem is spreading.
The average rating for the Finals last season was only 6.7.
How bad is this data? Only three finals have had lower ratings than that.
The famous ratings black hole Spurs and the Cavaliers played the most suspenseful Finals round in history, and the famous ratings black hole king Spurs in 2003 and the Nets in the finals that no one cared about the results, and the epidemic era The 2020 Finals held at the campus (lowest viewership in history).
The finals with Magician, Peak Dr. J, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is not the end of the crime.
Louis watched the two sides warm up. There are not many players with outstanding athletic ability. Those who can perform dunks before the game to cheer up the fans are all babies.
Celtics are responsible for adding to the fun is Sampson and Randy Smith, the two dunks are very beautiful.
On the Bulls side, it was Larry Kenon (PF/SF), known as "Dr. K" in the ABA, who was responsible for performing dunks for the fans.
This person participated in the slam dunk contest with Dr. J in the ABA.
The few actions he contributed were no big deal in today's eyes, but they caused bursts of cheers at the time, but they still couldn't compare to Dr. J.
Dr. K is more of a nickname for him by the home team fans.
At the start, the Bulls won on the jump ball.
Their starting center is Artis Gilmour, the star of the previous era.
Gilmour's bounce was so fast that Laimbeer couldn't get the ball to his teammates. The Bulls won the ball, this year's second-round pick, and the Bulls' starting point guard Sam Worthen PG dribbled the ball through half court.
He does not have outstanding talent, but he has a lot of hard work and ruthlessness.
Louie whistled for Ranbir's attention to the enemy.
After Cowens retired, the first thing the Celtics have to solve at present is the defensive problem in the interior. Laimbeer can defend one-on-one and grab rebounds, but he is not good at rim protection. Maxwell couldn't be of much help either.
Bird also heard Louie's whistle, so he prepared in advance and interfered with Watson's attack after the pre-judgment was in place.
Gilmour jumped up, grabbed the offensive rebound and passed to Dave Greenwood PF, the Bulls' first-round pick this year. This gentleman is quite prestigious in the university, known as the next Dave Debusschere (DaveDebusscherePF Knicks star).
As a result, Greenwood's offense is also not smooth.
The rebound fell out, and Kenon, who rushed to the basket, picked up the rebound and scored.
The announcer at the Chicago Coliseum blared out another, better-known nickname for Kenon: "Aerial bomb from SuperK!"
Bill Fitch can't accept being rebounded like this.
He angrily scolded Ranbir: "Are you **** asleep?"
"Play a tactic!" Louie shouted.
Archibald listened to his words, controlled the ball with his left hand, and made a pistol gesture with his right hand, but raised it upwards, showing an "L" shape.
The "L" series of tactics first appeared on the Celtics' arena.
Ranbir ran up like a coolie, standing high on the left wing, and stood still.
On the left, Bird came to pick it up, Archibald passed the ball into his hands, then went straight to Laimbeer's screen, turned around, and got rid of the defense.
What Bird has to do is very simple, just drop the ball to the "genie" who cuts to the basket.
Passing in place is equal to tactical success.
Archibald makes an easy layup.
The first battle of the "L" tactic was a good start.
"This tactic really suits our offensive system." Fitch said with relief.
Louis laughed dryly. If it wasn't suitable, he wouldn't bother to study it.
The initial "L" series of tactics, a total of 8.
5 of them require Bird to activate.
In the entire starting lineup, only he has a comprehensive offensive threat. Louis implemented this tactic, which strengthened Bird's tactical position to a certain extent. Bird's ability is hard to come by if he's playing Fitch's rigid, lack of change and somewhat Luke Walton-esque offense.
In the first few offenses, the Celtics combined Fitch's high pick-and-roll system and Louie's "L" offense, making 4 of 5 shots, including a Bird's pick-and-roll bounce and a catch-3-pointer.
12 to 6
As Louie thought, Bird is very good, even under Fitch, he is already very good in terms of statistics, but his presence on the court is obviously insufficient.
He's the kind of presence that Luka Doncic and Jokic need to hold the ball to fully know how good he really is.
Even if he didn't have the ball, his strength caught the attention of the audience.
Halfway through the first quarter, the Bulls' core guard Reggie Seus missed a high jumper.
Gilmour grabbed the offensive rebound again.
Miraculously, he missed a shot under Laimbeer's defense. Bird stuck Greenwood's position, and the rebound was grabbed by Kenon again. He wanted to attack again, but was interrupted by Bird. Bird, who has opponents at the front and back, is difficult to protect the rebounds under the siege of these two.
The offensive rebound was once again grabbed by the Bulls.
Greenwood took the rebound and attacked, and his elbow touched Bird's face.
The latter lay directly on the ground.
"Isn't this an offensive foul?"
Seeing the defensive foul called by the referee, Louis was stunned.
If it is placed in the future, it is appropriate to be an offensive foul. Bird defended two by one, and continuously missed the opponent's second attack. He obviously didn't jump high, but his face-to-face defense was very strong.
With Bird's foul, Fitch decided to make a substitution.
"Ralph!" Fitch shouted, "It's your turn!"
The 7-foot-4 giant stood up from the bench, and the camera on the scene was aimed at him for the first time.
"The most exciting rookie since Bill Walton is coming!"
Louie put his hand on Sampson's shoulder like an old father, and repeatedly told, "You are the number four on the court, remember! Play more 'Lthree' with Larry, reduce the ball-handling attack, and don't be a hero. , your time hasn't come yet!"
Sampson smiled: "Understood."
Sampson ran onto the field, and Bird gave him a ceremonial high-five: "What did you say kid?"
"He said, my time hasn't come yet." Sampson was honest.
"He's farting!" Byrd snorted. "Fight you how you want!"
Louie couldn't hear what Bird was saying at the noisy Chicago gym, but he saw that Bird's mouth was not saying something nice about him, so he waved his hand and shouted, "Bill, it's not a good habit to speak ill of people behind your back!"
Louie was worried that the old bird on the field would not give Sampson a chance, so he played "Lthree" with both hands and shouted: "Tactics! Tactics!"
After the Bulls made the free throw, it was the Celtics' turn.
Archibald was dribbling the ball, and suddenly a single hand hit Bird behind him from the crotch in front of him.
Bird catches the ball, Sampson keeps up, and looks like he is passing the ball-suddenly, Sampson accelerates, but the ball is not given to the past. After Bird creates the illusion of passing the ball, he sees Sampson's The forward speed came directly to a hook-like alley pass.
Sampson rushed to the penalty area, jumped up to reach the untouchable area, caught Bird's pass, and blasted to the basket like a missile.