The Rest, Only Noise

Game 5 of the NBA Finals on June 8, 1984.

The Celtics are only one game away from winning the championship. If there is no accident, tonight will be their championship night.

People in New England were eagerly waiting, including Louis himself, preparing for it.

That night, he was in Lorraine's apartment picking clothes.

He probably spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on custom-made clothes, and every time he came out of the garden, he suspected that his clothes were smelly.

But considering the value of the clothes themselves, he did not throw them away.

"I can win today, right?" Lorraine asked with a smile, "Are you ready for the speech after winning the championship?"

"You said this, I really have no preparation, just improvise." Louie said casually, "Boston is not Cleveland, champions in professional sports are very common."

Lorraine does not have a deeper feeling for the meaning of the championship to the city, she is not American, and watching basketball games is also because Louis likes it.

Louis chose the clothes and tie for tonight, and after they were dressed, he showed Lorraine the positive side and asked her to give a fair evaluation.

"You are definitely the most handsome basketball coach in history." Lorraine's evaluation was "pertinent" which made Louis flutter.

In the evening, Louie and the Celtics players took the bus to the Boston Garden.

On the bus, the players hardly spoke, maintaining a solemn silence.

Entering it from outside the garden, the players take a different channel from the audience. They don't get caught up in the fans, they head straight to the locker room and drop their bags.

In the small, airtight, sweltering home locker room that couldn't find a single advantage, Louis glanced at everyone and said, "I hope very much, this is our last game of the season."

"I've heard too many people say that we are the best team in history, and I hope we are. We proved ourselves in the regular season. 72 wins is the first record in history. We can say that we are the best team in the history of the regular season. team."

"Now, we have to prove a point in the playoffs." Louie's voice was full of anger, "Not only to win the championship, but also to win the championship cleanly, it is enough for the Lakers to win one game, we can only lose in the finals. One game, and if we don't win tonight, we're not the best team in history."

Louie said this not only to boost the morale of the players, but he really thought so in his heart.

That's why he doesn't see the 1996 Bulls as the best team of all time.

Even if he's a Jordan fan, he doesn't think that team is the best ever. The secret to a 72-win regular-season record, like the Warriors in 2016, is in a league that's weakly competitive. The Warriors are because the previous generation has retired, and the new generation has not yet established; the Bulls' record bonus is that the league has over-expanded in those years, adding some bad teams to improve their results. Many people think that the more teams the more competitive the better, this is wrong (1).

The more teams there are, the more scattered the talent will be, the schedule has not changed, and the average talent of each team in the league will go down, which is a serious weakening of competitiveness.

Even so, before the Warriors, the Bulls were the greatest regular-season team in history, losing only one playoff game before the Finals and facing the Sonics in three straight games in the Finals. The champion is locked. If they swept the Sonics, no one said, that team is the best in history, there's no arguing.

But they lost two games in a row and won the sixth game. Except for Jordan's victory on Father's Day to honor his dead father, there were no other gimmicks, which seriously lowered the senses.

Therefore, Louis asked the players to win the championship in the fifth game.

"You guys have had a tough game to get to where you are today, and you're only one win away from proving that you're the best in history. I don't think I need to say more about the rest. In the last 48 minutes, I hope to see you play The best side, let all the fans who come to the scene and stay in front of the TV, enjoy a perfect game!"

After Louis finished speaking, the players in the locker room cheered each other up.

They entered the arena and warmed up excitedly.

The Lakers on the opposite side were dead. Although they recovered a game, it was not only a precedent of being 0-3 behind and not being reversed, but also falling behind 1-3, and there was no precedent for being reversed in the finals.

Under normal circumstances, the team that was reversed 1-3 has encountered some unlucky things.

Such as infighting and injuries.

There are also very few cases like the 2016 Western Conference Finals, where the Warriors with stronger book strength were led 3-1 by the Thunder with greater potential. Next, the Warriors woke up, took out the state they should have put in the finals to deal with the Thunder in advance, used hard power to pull back three games, and then sacrificed themselves in the finals to achieve the Cavaliers and break another record.

The Celtics are in high spirits, all healthy, and sitting at home, and the Lakers have no chance.

Before the opening, Louie came to the midfield and shook hands with Riley.

"We had a good night's sleep last night, and maybe a miracle will happen today," Riley said.

Hearing this, Louie said, "You should thank me for suggesting that Reed stop doing those things."

Riley never thought that Louie would be a face of "praise-seeking". If Louie's suggestion really made Auerbach stop off-court recruiting, then the Lakers team really owes him a favor.

"Thank you, Coach Lu, I hope you end up cocooning yourself." Riley joked, "You never know what the price of letting us rest is."

"Looks like I'll have a chance tonight to find out."

Louie pretended to forget that they won a Lakers game in Los Angeles, let alone that game that sealed the championship.

Don't the Lakers have a good rest at their home court?

Louie returned to the players, and nothing else to say, the Celtics and the Lakers knew enough about each other.

The Celtics lack interior depth, and the Lakers have no shooter to stretch the space.

If nothing else, the Lakers will step up their attack on the inside, and Louis's instruction to Sampson is to defend if they can, or they can score if they can't be released.

Others, just take a step by step in the game.

The Lakers' starting lineup is typical: Dennis Johnson, Magic, Wilkins, Rambis, Abdul-Jabbar.

The Celtics have been the same five people.

Jump ball, Sampson won.

When Thomas came up, he played a pick-and-roll with him, one dismantling and one breakthrough.

Just as Rambis was about to commit a foul, Thomas passed the ball behind him.

Sampson catches and shoots high, 2-0.

In the Lakers' offensive round, as soon as Magic took possession of the ball, the boos in the garden were like boiling water pouring down from the head.

Magic is the same as before, dribbling the ball with his right hand, looking ahead, and John Lang defending him with experience.

If Magic wanted to break through, he would definitely not be able to defend, so he basically chose to block the side and put it in the middle, giving the opponent a chance to break through in the middle, and wanted to dribble with his right hand to beat the situation, but it was impossible.

"Erwin Johnson has been under a lot of bad reviews lately, and he didn't play as well in the Finals as the fans originally expected."

"He's too young to know how to find opportunities with this intensity of confrontation."

Heinsohn and Dick Stockton had just finished speaking when Magic lobbed Rambis.

Rambis is strong against Sampson. He has a bit of an advantage in strength. If it is Sampson who is in the first two years of his career, he will definitely be able to move.

Now, even if Sampson has a disadvantage in strength, he will not be able to fly.

On the contrary, Rambis is in trouble. If he can't open the defense smoothly, it will be difficult to put the ball into the basket with his few strokes.

All low post attackers who are not clear-headed step into a misunderstanding.

Louis called this misunderstanding "Wang Zhelin's misunderstanding".

This is a work experience in his previous life.

Wang Zhelin, as a unicorn of the Fujian men's basketball team in decades, has the best low-post back play and basket attack among all post-90s insiders in the Chinese basketball world. Because of natural defects in his physical condition, his defense has always been criticized, but he In the fight against the low-intensity CBA, the average 20+10 per game is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

He has all the strengths and weaknesses of a good post-up shooter.

His biggest weakness on the offensive end is that at the moment of launching the offense, the pass button seems to have been removed by himself, and only the offense is left. Therefore, it is easy to sag when encountering hard stubble.

What surprised Louis was that almost all the insiders who were not good at coordinating had this problem.

Even the great Yao Xuan, his coping ability is limited to before the attack is launched. Once he starts to play with the ball and the opponent is double-teamed, his turnovers will rise rapidly.

Rambis chose to fight hard, but he couldn't take Sampson to the top, and he had to shoot reluctantly. Waiting for his result was cruel and ruthless.

Sampson jumped in place and used all his strength to swipe his shot from the paint to the frontcourt.

Hemp Johnson caught up with the ball, and just turned around, the referee whistle blew, and the Lakers violated the offense.

There was a chorus of "MVP" chants in the garden, and Sampson had already been labelled "Russell II" with his immortal performance in the third quarter.

It is unimaginable that a 2.24-meter center can play like a defender. The skin color filter of the fans disappears on him. They don't care what race Sampson is. They only know that Sampson is the most special superman in history. superstar.

"In 'Ralph Field', Kurt Rambis' attack just now looks so naive!" Heinsohn laughed. "How can he expect to score with that kind of attack?"

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Bird and the magician suddenly faced each other, and their willingness to compete was extremely strong.

I saw Bird stuck the position hard, and Thomas passed the ball.

Bird received the ball and turned around, making a fallback jumper to face Magic's defense.

Although the shot was unremarkable, it was enough to drive fans crazy.

Because that was Bird's 1V1 singled-out magician and hit the ball on the opponent's head!

⑴I personally think that before the NBA expands the talent pool from the United States to recruit seedlings from all over the world like today, the production of players in the United States can support 18-20 teams at most. However, in the mid-to-late 1990s, before international players were taken seriously by the NBA, the league expanded to 29 teams. Therefore, the record of the championship teams in those years basically started with 60 wins.