The Rest, Only Noise

The Lakers have lost to the Celtics in four straight finals since 1984.

The Celtics' four-peat in a row, with the blood of Los Angeles under their feet, reached a nine-game winning streak between Boston and Los Angeles in the finals.

From the tragedies of the Baylor and West era, it continued into the late 1980s.

In the past four years, Bird won three Finals MVPs and Sampson won one.

However, if you ask the Lakers, or Lakers fans, who the Celtics are most afraid of, their answer is definitely not Bird.

But Sampson.

Players like Bird are good at all skills, but the limitations of physical talent allow them to be "handled" to a certain extent.

Just look at Bird's two juniors, Dirk Nowitzki (too many) and Jokic (2021), who both played disgraceful series at their peaks, played badly, and lacked their usual strength. .

The same is true for Bird. Although he won three FMVPs, a considerable number of fans believe that the 1987 FMVP should also be given to Sampson.

The ownership of FMVP has been irreversible, but the Lakers' fear of Sampson is increasing every year.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of their biggest assets and the key to the Lakers' **** of the West in the '80s.

Going into the Finals, Kareem should also be a strong point, just like Tim Duncan in 2013-15. This kind of person's body structure is different from other people's. If you treat him as an old man, he will definitely kick your **** and tell you that "your uncle is your uncle after all".

But in front of Sampson, Abdul-Jabbar has no advantage.

In the 1984 finals, Sampson swallowed the Lakers penalty area and established himself as the first center. In the 1985 finals, Bird injured his fist with a punch in a bar. It seems that the first small forward in history will always hurt himself for some brain damage. It was also the closest the Lakers came to defeating the Celtics in the four-year battle. As a result, the Lakers were dominated by Sampson with two match points in Game 6 and collapsed in the Game 7. Sampson won the first Finals MVP of his career.

Two years later, the Lakers could still make the Finals, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's aging, Wilkins' desire for the ball, and Sampson's upward trend every year made the Finals unfair.

Sampson has become a nightmare for Lakers fans. Hearing his name, no children in Los Angeles dare to cry at night.

After 1985, Sampson, who won the FMVP, not only did not become complacent at his original level, but became friends with Kareem due to an accidental opportunity.

He asked Abdul-Jabbar how to slow down aging, and Abdul-Jabbar recommended that he practice yoga. This made Pat Riley extremely angry.

Since then, Sampson has learned to normally play with 6-7 points.

The usual yoga training has improved his body balance and flexibility, which miraculously avoided the curse that the 2.2-meter inside line cannot last for a long time. So far, he has remained healthy and has never been seriously injured.

Both static and dynamic talent are only part of a player's physical talent.

Physical durability, an invisible talent invisible to the naked eye, is the most important thing for a superstar.

So, you can also look at it this way. Sampson only used six or seven points in the regular season to average 29+11+5+3 blocks per game. Together with Thomas, the Celtics had the first record in the league and locked them in. This year's regular season MVP.

This is the No. 1 center, no one can match.

McHale hit him head-on and taunted him. The Knicks' pocket array made Sampson pass the ball wrong, and the process of chasing Miller woke him up.

Looking at Sampson's gradually changing state, Louis was uneasy.

"Kevin will be blown away by him?!" Tomjanovich seemed to foresee the future.

"It's not Kevin that we should be worried about," Louie said pessimistically.

Don't look at McHale's usual carelessness, he also knows the seriousness of the problem and knows how strong Sampson is.

So the Knicks re-serve, he no longer go to the position. He knew Sampson must have wanted to guard him, he couldn't give him a chance.

McHale made a pick-and-roll, Ewing followed, and Hornacek moved the ball. Thomas chose to defend from behind instead of pushing the pick-and-roll.

Hornacek remembered Louis's instructions, and a gap had appeared for a moment.

Hornacek made an emergency stop and shot decisively, and a long shot from the three-point line flew out of his palm.

"Shh!"

"That's right, just cast like this!" Louie screamed, "Isiah, my guard is not like you. It's no different from giving such a big shot!"

Thomas ignored Louie.

The Celtics' offense once again moved to the inside.

Sampson aggressively grabbed the low post, and Ewing, who was defending solo behind him, struggled.

He wanted to push Sampson out of his current position, but he didn't have enough power.

The ball came in from his teammates, and Sampson made the move that McHale hit him just now—hitting his back with his elbow and hitting Ewing with his elbow, followed up with a small movement of shaking his shoulders, and then turned left and turned back.

Ewing's body was frozen in place by Sampson.

"Shh!"

This time, the Knicks defense couldn't keep up.

Sampson moves too fast!

"Is Patrick responsible for the trouble caused by Kevin?" Zhao Yuanzheng smiled bitterly.

Louie has no complaints about this: "Who made him a center?"

After a few seconds, Hornacek called the pick-and-roll again.

The Celtics remember to eat and fight. If Hornacek has the ability to grab the pick-and-roll gap and pull up shots, he can't give him a chance.

K.C. Jones shouted: "Take plan two!"

Plan two?

Louie hesitated for a moment, and Hornacek's pick-and-roll tactics worked.

The so-called No. 2 plan is to pinch the ball handler.

If they use this method to guard Stockton, they will be beaten by his passes one by one.

Hornacek seemed different to Stockton in their eyes.

Hornacek's vision is indeed not as good as Stockton's, but the Knicks' offense is not a decoration.

McHale decisively split horizontally, and Hornacek scored the ball.

McHale dribbled the ball to the Celtics' basket as an insider, Laimbeer helped defend, and he threw the ball to the basket.

Missed, and the position was also stuck by Ranbir.

McHale wouldn't be so random without a full offensive plan. From the moment Laimbeer came to help defend him, the Celtics' defense was doomed.

Ewing is like a meteor falling from the sky, grabbing the orange ball and scoring points in an instant.

He hangs from the rim and growls like a depersonalized beast.

"He said that the thief looked like a gorilla when he played, which is obviously a vivid compliment. He insisted that I was racist. Is this person sick? (Chinese Louis complained to Zhao Yuanzheng.

Ewing, who succeeded in making up the dunk, ran along the bottom line and wanted to give Louie a high five.

Zhao Yuanzheng watched Louis stretch out his hand to pat Ewing's palm, "Good fight, Patrick!"

8 to 14

"Wow, after the timeout, the Knicks' offense really recovered!" Dick Stockton laughed. "The Knicks games I commented on, if not 100 games, have 50 games. In my impression , every time littlelu asks for a pause, it seems to have an effect."

Heinsohn said proudly: "So he will be regarded as the best coach in the league. Reporters may be stupid, but players know who has the real talent, because they are the ones who listen to the instructions and play."

Billy Cunningham looked gloomy and said nothing.

If the camera is aimed at him at this time, the audience will definitely be frightened.

"Billy, what do you think?" Heinsohn is a pure slut. He doesn't want Cunningham to play dead to avoid this wave, and then wait until the Knicks lose power before jumping out and getting into trouble.

"Ah, this thing, it's um... I agree with what you said..." Cunningham was forced to express his stance.

At the same time, Sampson's subtle weak-side false screen opened to receive a pass from Bird and went to the basket.

Ewing failed to assist in the defense and was blocked by Sampson with an overhand pick basket, causing his foul.

To make matters worse, Ewing's up-and-down defense was called a foul by the referee.

The whistle sounded, it turned out to be a 2+1.

"I blow your **** banana peel!" (Chinese)

Louie blasted the referee on the spot, and the referee whistled, Nick Strom asked: "What did you say?"

"You can't brag like that! This is the playoffs, and the game needs intensity!" Is this **** not a pig farm killer in Louis' impression? Why are you now becoming a "general referee" and blowing the **** home whistle?

Bribed by Auerbach?

Louis didn't have time to think about it, the referee blew the whistle, Ewing fouled, and Sampson got the 2+1.

17 to 8

What the Knicks need is a response.

It is already 9 points away. If the next ball misses and the Celtics counterattack, the difference will be double digits.

Sampson's long arms cover McHale~www.novelmt.com~ Even if McHale wants the ball to attack, it is difficult.

He has been unable to take the seat normally.

Sampson's card position prevents McHale from receiving the ball, while maintaining contact, giving confrontation, and using size to affect the ball.

This is a perfect low-post, half-circumferential defense, which Louie had taught Sampson bit by bit to learn and practice on video.

Even Louis himself did not expect that it was the foundation laid in those years that allowed Sampson to reach the heights he is today.

He's an epoch-making post, and sometimes he doesn't look like a post at all, but at the end of the day, he's always a post, and he can play like a post.

When Bird couldn't go to the low post to defend the power forward, he returned to the inside position and used the inside method to make the Knicks' most stable inside attack point unable to even touch the ball.

The Knicks used a high dynamic offense, and Bird couldn't keep up with Miller.

Before getting rid of Bird to get the vacancy, Miller had been heavily entertained by the Celtics.

Their physical confrontation is like a man and a woman fighting naked on a bed, waiting to entertain every muscle in his body.

After being so right, in the Eastern Conference finals, Miller was the first to show discomfort in a championship-level game.

A perfect shot, and he made a three-point shot.

Miller took a deep breath, his expression full of anxiety and worry. He is afraid that his teammates will be disappointed, and he is also afraid that he will drag the team back. His competitive mentality and strong personality make him not allow himself to pull his hips on such a big stage.

But he has never met such a strong team in his life.

Compared with the Celtics in the playoffs, the Celtics in the regular season are like playing at home.

That pressure and the kind of intensity that can really make a shooter misfire, unknowingly dominates Miller's touch.