The Rest, Only Noise

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May 27, 1984, game day of Game 1 of the Finals.

In the morning, the Lakers arrived in Boston by special plane.

"Magic" Erwin Johnson was interviewed by the Boston media. Facing reporters, his smile was still warm, even though he was surrounded by fans who booed them.

"This isn't a game between me and Larry, this is a game between the Lakers and the Celtics," Johnson said. "We respect each other's talents. I know Larry is a good competitor and a good guy, and I don't mind what people say."

This isn't the first time the magician has unleashed his kindness on Bird.

Bird has always been very cold, and he won't have a private contact with the magician until he beats the magician, because the magician won him once in the ncaa.

That afternoon, Dominic Wilkins, a super-substitute who was officially designated as the sixth man during the playoffs, and who was dissatisfied with it, was tricked by fans.

A Celtics fan got his room number and called, and the following conversation ensued.

"Hello Dominic, I'm a big fan of yours, your dunk show is fascinating!"

"I'm very grateful!"

"But Larry will still beat your **** out tonight!" After that, he hung up the phone with lightning speed.

This is the power of the media.

A few days before the finals, the warm-up for the rivalry between the Celtics and the Lakers almost reached the publicity heat of a foreign war.

When a country declares war, it always uses the power of public opinion to call on the people to unite and promise victory.

And when the media takes the initiative to warm up the promotion of a sports event, the effect must be extraordinary.

Based on skin color, it succeeded in dividing Americans into two factions.

The story that happened in the ncaa in 1979 was played out again.

Moreover, ncaa plays a tiebreaker, which is very contingent, and no one knows which team will win until the end.

The NBA is different. When the division finals are halfway through, the media will know it.

They have been preparing for a year, and now they have to work harder.

On the West Coast, the Lakers released a team documentary.

Jerry West once again confided how the inability to win the '60s Celtics bothered him.

Wilt Chamberlain also made an appearance, looking as puzzling as any other basketball historian when it comes to how the 1969 Lakers lost to the Celtics.

"Yeah, I don't know how we lost to the Celtics either." Chamberlain was far less sentimental than Logoman, he said in a playful tone. "It's still a mystery to me."

There will be more anger among West Coast fans because, historically, the Lakers have always been beaten by the Celtics.

When it comes to pain, they are the most painful.

East Coast fans are more of a confrontational mood, "white supremacy" and "Bird's invincibility."

As for those true Celtics fans, they think the two teams' historical fighting records speak for themselves.

Tom Heinsohn dismissively called the Lakers showtime a "circus show" and declared that "they should be in Hollywood, not the NBA."

Lakers fans were told how a previous generation was tortured by the Celtics.

Celtics fans were told how their predecessors tortured the Lakers.

The feelings of the two sides are different, but the emotions of confrontation are already overflowing.

Skin color is a tool used by leagues and TV stations to lure neutrals to the Finals, and they have done so successfully.

However, the real protagonists are the magician and Bird.

In the latest issue of The Boston Globe, Bob Ryan wrote: "It's an insult to Kareem, DJ, Dominic, Isiah, Ralph, Bill, but it's inevitable ... the rivalry between Bird and the Magician is definitely the main plot of this hit series."

It's arguably the first time in the NBA's 15 years that two arguably the best players in the league have faced off in a championship series. The last great matchup was in 1969, and that was the last time the Celtics and Lakers met in a championship series, when Lakers center Wilt Chamberlain and Celtics' Bill Russell fought. The last historic confrontation.

Now, Bird and Magic meet in the finals, and all the foreshadowing has paid off.

The two have been in the league for five years, and they have won the NBA 3/4 championship in the first four years, but they have never met each other, and they have long regarded each other as their biggest enemy.

For the parties, the continuation of the 1979 ncaa championship battle between Indiana and Michigan State has finally arrived.

Now Louie truly understands what it means to "save" the NBA.

After four years of preparation, the NBA has recovered from a shaky state, the relationship with the CBS has been repaired, the popularity of cable TV has greatly improved the ratings of basketball games, the salary cap has saved small teams from bankruptcy, the league has changed hands, and the En on stage...all the foundations for the nba to take off, are already there.

Now, they need an ultimate matchup that will make fans fall in love with the NBA.

Just right, Bird and Magic, Celtics and Lakers, white and black.

The perfect explosion, the perfect encounter, this is fate.

It's really a series that the whole country is watching.

Before Louis went out, his mother Li Xuanbing said rarely, "I won't lose tonight, right?"

She never cared about basketball games. Even if she was disturbed, it showed how well the league's publicity work was done.

"You will definitely not lose if you lose," Louis said confidently.

Li Xuanbing asked seriously, "How sure are you?"

"100% sure." Louis calmly reported an unreal number.

Then, she cared about other things: "Lorraine has been pregnant for a few months, you must not let her go to the scene."

"Of course, the garden is never the place for pregnant women." And it's summer.

In summer, the ventilation of the garden can only be relied on the vents of half a century ago, and the cooling method is the huge fan placed at the intersection of the passage - no matter how big the fan, it is impossible to reduce the temperature inside the garden.

When you add white, black body odor, sweat, alcohol, and all sorts of weird odors, there's no difference between a garden and hell.

How can pregnant women come in in such a place?

Louis left a message to Lorraine before going out, asking her to take care of herself. If they win tonight, then he will go to her apartment today, even if she is pregnant, she has to... what to do Things have to be considered.

Louie was driving, and at almost every intersection, he could see enthusiastic fans greeting him.

"Coach Lu, we can definitely blow up the Lakers, right?"

"beatla!"

"I can't imagine the Lakers winning in the Garden!"

The Celtics' two-game winning streak against the Lakers in the regular season has boosted fans' confidence.

Although Louie is 100% sure to win tonight, he's not so optimistic about this series.

In the afternoon training session, Louis shortened the training time, which was his habit.

The training before the competition is not important, the important thing is the arrangement.

The shortened time was used by him in the video analysis room.

"Rudy, tell everyone what you have learned." Louis said.

Tomjanovich first played the video highlights.

Before playing the highlights, he said: "Since the start of the playoffs, the Lakers' shooting percentage, effective field goal percentage and true shooting percentage are the highest among the 16 teams that have entered the playoffs. Before the Western Conference finals, they He even shot 58 percent from the field."

"However, they have two fatal flaws."

Tomjanovich first released clips of the two Western Conference playoff games the Lakers lost.

It's almost the same way of losing, the rebound is exploded, and no one can prevent the opponent from attacking the basket.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who can still ask for anything on the offensive end, is already 37 years old. All the super centers in history have retired by the time he is his age, but he is still the Lakers' number one offensive player and the number one choice for breaking the ice when no one can open it.

However, his rebounding and defense degraded badly.

That's why the Lakers are so efficient on offense, yet still lose two games.

Because their defense can't prevent any team, once the offensive efficiency drops and the rebounds are exploded, they may lose.

Offensive efficiency and defensive rebounding, these are the Lakers' two biggest dead ends.

One is their advantage and the other is their shortcoming. If their greatest advantage cannot be brought into play, and the shortcoming is magnified, it is inevitable that they will lose the game.

"Rudy, thank you for the information."

Behind Louie, there are people from "Oracle" to help him with statistics. Tomjanovich is now a very good scout, and the data in Louie's hands can help him find the opponent's loopholes sharply.

These were questions that Louie took to heart, and Tomjanovich deepened that impression.

Now ~www.novelmt.com~ he's going to talk about tonight's strategy.

"I want to say very bluntly that the three rounds of the series we played before were just play games, and they were all warm-up activities for the finals."

On the bright side, Milwaukee, Detroit and Washington will never hear that.

"This is going to be a very tough series, and I want you to remember that you have to be prepared to play seven games against the Lakers. It's not that we're not good enough, it's our opponents, who are so good!"

Louis circled the paint area, "The penalty area is our battleground tonight. I want to see what happens when we try our best to grab the offensive rebound."

This pre-match meeting lasted for a full hour.

Louis arranged everything in detail to improve the players' awareness, and explained every detail of the match clearly.

His confidence in winning this game is 100%, but the premise is that these guys have to do 100% of his orders.