The Rest, Only Noise

Thursday, May 31, 1984.

Boston Garden

During the four-day offseason, both sides took a good rest.

The Lakers are naturally not that easy. In the past four days, they have been restless every night.

The Boston fire department was particularly enthusiastic about the fire near the Marriott hotel, and they came to investigate even if it was a falsely reported incident.

The Lakers were awakened countless times in their sleep. Knowing that it was Auerbach’s design, they had to obey the warnings of the hotel staff to come outside, and then watch the fire alarms pretend to check and leave without any gain.

"Our sleep quality has been seriously affected, which is unethical and unprofessional." Magic strongly criticized the Celtics' off-court moves, "We will go all out, these shameful tactics will only enhance our win. determination to play.”

The magician said the lofty words in his heart: "Everything the Celtics plan will fail, and we will be the winners tonight!"

He looked high-spirited, as if he had forgotten the embarrassment of the first game.

The Lakers' starting lineup today is a bit different from before.

Dennis Johnson, Magic, Wilkins, Michael Cooper, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

With only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as an insider, Magic and Wilkins can properly make a cameo as a power forward, but if they make a cameo in the whole game, they will definitely not play well.

This lineup is literally both offensive and defensive.

There are perimeter locks, powerful flanking gates and first-class basket protectors.

As long as it's not a one-on-one defense, Magic's physical condition and athleticism are enough to make him an excellent help defender.

In the case of Wilkins, his defense is incredibly low, and his upper limit is hard to say.

He may suddenly use his physical fitness to stage an inexplicable defense, or he may be swayed by Bird like a fool.

It depends on the state of his presence.

Louie made a regular starter: Thomas, Long, Bird, Sampson, Laimbeer.

The Lakers suddenly made a starter without a real power forward, but it gave Sampson, who played at the 4th position, a broad stage.

"Ralph, it looks like today is your big day."

Before the show started, Louis said.

Sampson slapped the magnesium powder off his hands with confidence, but unfortunately, he did not accept Louis's suggestion and sprinkled the magnesium powder into the sky with both hands like an emperor, giving this extremely hot and grumpy arena Add some substances that are not good for the nasal cavity.

In the opening jump ball, Abdul-Jabbar's prediction was better.

Sampson wanted to use the speed of the bullet to make up for the error of judgment, and as a result, both hands touched the ball at the same time.

Abdul-Jabbar deftly hooked the ball back with his fingertips, and the Lakers got the opening ball.

“￥@%#…”

Garden fans booed graciously, zealously playing the Celtics' sixth man on the field from the first round.

In the first round, Magic crossed the ball to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Thomas, who was close to Kareem, ran quickly and tried to flank.

Abdul-Jabbar realized he only had one second to decide how to attack, and beyond that, a double-team would come.

He pressed against the paint area, pressed against Ranbir's chest with his left hand, and came with a standard skyhook.

The intensity was obviously heavy, and the ball washed half a circle on the basket and fell out.

Bird grabbed the defensive rebound and threw it to Thomas.

Thomas launched a fast break and dribbled the ball away from the Lakers' most-relied iron gate, Johnson.

Inside, Wilkins flew from the flank, ready to block Thomas.

However, Thomas chose to confront him, and after withstood the confrontation, he picked the basket with his right hand and made a difficult shot.

"Isn't this a foul?" Louie asked.

Tonight's referee, notorious home hitman Earl Strom, glanced at Louie, "Not a foul."

Strom is known for sympathizing with the visiting team and never making it easy for the home team.

As long as any team's home game is officiated by him, don't want the home whistle.

The **** didn't blow the away whistle to count him in a good mood that night - Auerbach said it himself.

Fortunately, Thomas is not the kind of person who breaks through and thinks about causing the opponent to foul to stand on the free throw line and shoot. He just wants to put the ball into the basket. 2+1 is an extra gift, which is hard to come by.

It was this attitude that allowed him to score the ball despite a strong confrontation by Wilkins.

Thomas is tough enough, and the Lakers' defense also makes Louis see the difference from Game1.

After the first loss, they did change their face, turning to a more aggressive defensive stance against the Celtics.

Abdul-Jabbar's back-hitting position was beyond Louis's expectations.

It's actually in the middle, and it's only about two steps inside the free throw line.

That's a half-basket position that is some distance away from the basket, and the average insider may choose to be a little more inside.

But the Celtics' strategy is to flank as long as Kareem has the ball, so moving in will only weaken Kareem's vision.

Since the Celtics are going to double-team no matter what he does, he came to a position closer to his teammates, so that even if he was sandwiched, he could play the ball.

The Celtics players on the field were trying to keep Laimbeer alone, wondering if Abdul-Jabbar would be able to score goals in that position.

The result was unexpected. Abdul-Jabbar's offensive method was not a sky hook, but a shot that turned around after hitting the shoulder.

"WTF!"

Louis cursed out, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made a turnaround jumper and hit the board.

2 to 2

Skyhook is the most distinctive feature of Kareem, so it would be foolish to think that he only has this trick.

It's like thinking of Curry's only three-pointers; thinking of Carter's only dunks; thinking of Jordan's only left with his backs and levers; thinking that James and Kobe have been brainwashed by his black fans to become an inherent impression: grouping / hitting the iron.

These wrong impressions will make people have a wrong understanding of the stars.

Abdul-Jabbar used this vote to tell Louis: There are still a lot of people who will know, I will let you open your eyes today!

Louie did not specifically examine the shooting rate of Kareem’s various low-post offensive methods. The Sky Hook skill has so many traces on him that they didn’t expect this guy to be able to use other things. means.

"If Karim hits like this, he can only pray that he doesn't feel good."

Thurmond has guarded the best Kareem Kareem has ever defended, and his words are guaranteed.

"You just can't do anything about him."

Louie listened to him and thought fortunately that Abdul-Jabbar was 37 years old. What surprised him was that Abdul-Jabbar reached his pinnacle in his sophomore year and then thought to himself that "Lou Alcindor has accomplished the pinnacle of basketball, he's won a high school championship, a college national championship, an NBA championship, and he deserves it. Abandoning the name given to his grandparents by this pastoral slave owner and chasing his true self", so he broke with his Christian parents, as extreme as Kobe took all his relatives out of his world just to look like Vanessa Stick together.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born, Abdul-Jabbar took away Alcindo, who led the Bucks to a championship in the second year, and brought a more problematic, more sensitive, more irritable, but never again alone The super center who led the team to the championship.

Because of the relationship between the ABA, the competitiveness of the NBA during the 1971-1976 period was very weak, but after 1972, Abdul-Jabbar did not win the championship for 8 years. This is a mystery that Louis can't figure out.

He was supposed to be the kind of player who could lead a team to a championship, especially in those few years.

And the hidden meaning of this can be found in his personal biography "The Footsteps of Giants" published last year.

Louie looked at the faltering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who couldn't keep up with the Lakers' quick counterattacks or stop the Celtics' fast-breaks.

After he completes the turnaround jumper, the Celtics want to take advantage of his slow return to the defense and score quickly.

Busy mistakes, mistakes.

The ball was taken by Magic, who sent Kareem a long pass.

Sampson came back quickly and gave Abdul-Jabbar a chase shot at the basket.

Abdul-Jabbar failed to score, grabbed the offensive rebound and attacked again, but was interrupted by the young Sampson, but still missed.

He relies on good rim habits, holding offensive rebounds with raised hands. This time, he was not reckless. He feinted a shot, set Sampson up, and then jumped sideways with force to score a dunk.

4 to 2

"The Lakers' defensive intensity today is no joke." Tom Heinsohn reminded. "The Celtics should adjust early. When the opponent is very aggressive, you have to return the same level of energy."

Kareem ran back slowly.

John Long temporarily became a porter, dribbling the ball over half court in the backcourt and giving it to Bird.

Bird got the ball, and without a second delay, he was about to hit the dribble, and Wilkins never left.

He didn't expect that ~www.novelmt.com~ Bird's attack was just a pretense to show him off.

His real purpose is to run and cut Sampson in the penalty area through the L tactic.

Abdul-Jabbar's mobility is not enough to handle the Celtics' tactical passing.

Bird hit the ground, Sampson caught the ball with one hand, and Kareem turned to defend, but was swayed by the young junior with a European step he had never seen on a center, and then, behind him, the basket Suffered a dunk.

"Tom, is this what you want?" Dick Stockton asked excitedly.

"Not enough!" Heinsohn shook his head happily, "Not enough!"

But he has already seen it. Sampson is so big that he can make the Eurostep, which is beyond the cognition of many people.

Even Sampson himself raised his hands, showing off his not-so-thick muscles.