The Rest, Only Noise

The Celtics faced the Chicago Bulls, who eliminated the Knicks in the semifinals.

Louie didn't expect the Bulls to dry up the Knicks in the playoffs before Jordan came.

What's even funnier is that the New York Times called Knicks center Bill Cartwright a "mummy" because of his ineffectiveness against Artis Gilmour.

Team owner and team president Sonny Webblin openly declared that this team has no soul.

Just losing one round of the series, the Knicks were stepped on the ground by their own family.

But the opponent replaced the Celtics, the Bulls play will not work.

Bird was finally bored with his game, but Sampson was looking forward to his NBA playoff debut and wanted to score more.

So Bird made a pact with him.

Bird promised to feed him the team's leading scorer, and in return, Sampson had to pay for his wine for the next six months.

Even if Bird drank Heineken every day, it was a small expense for Sampson, and he agreed.

As a result, Bird recorded a triple-double in all four consecutive games.

Sampson led the semifinals in scoring with 28, 30, 34 and 32.

In particular, Bird's passing was surprising, making Sampson's score as if he was looking for something, and his hit rate was as high as 65%, which completely set off Gilmour as an antique of the previous era, which should be buried in the ground.

The more emotional Sampson's performance, the more embarrassing Cartwright gets.

The Knicks media is notoriously vicious.

Before he was a mummy, after watching Sampson's performance, they began to discuss publicly a plan to trade Cartwright.

This kind of thing only happens in New York.

Whether you are good or bad, they will let you understand clearly, and they will never play tricks with you.

The Celtics easily swept the Bulls after a first-round bye to reach the Eastern Conference finals without pressure.

Last year, they stopped there.

But their opponents are still uncertain.

The 62-win 76ers and the 60-win Bucks played very close.

In the west, something even more outrageous is happening.

After the defending champion was hacked by the Rockets in the first round, the Kansas Kings, who belonged to the Midwest Division, also hacked the Portland Trail Blazers, who ranked third in the Pacific Division.

It must be said that both the Rockets and Kings have only 40 wins.

Because of the outcome of the regular season, the Kings are ahead of the Rockets.

In the semifinals, the two inferior horses faced off against the Phoenix Suns, the No. 1 in the Pacific Division, and the San Antonio Spurs, the No. 1 in the Midwest Division.

Louie has nothing to do, tracking the Western Conference semifinals in real time.

In order to find out the specific situation, he applied to Auerbach for a business trip.

Originally, Auerbach did not agree.

Because they won't necessarily be able to rush out of the east.

"Oh, it turns out that you don't even have the confidence to play in the East. Okay, I'm doing it for nothing, it's fine, I'm leaving."

Louis' yin and yang's eccentric aggressive method successfully reached the sensitive area of ​​Auerbach.

He said angrily: "Who the **** doesn't have the confidence to rush out of the east? Get back!"

Louis' funding was successfully approved.

And, Louie's business trip was widely advertised: it was to scout out potential Finals opponents.

His business trip has been given another meaning, that is, the Celtics have the confidence to beat the 76ers, avenge last year's revenge, and reach the finals.

What Louis is most interested in is not the Rockets and the Spurs, the sworn enemies in the same region that have fought from the east to the west.

It's the Kings and Suns series.

Like Louis himself, who didn't pay attention to the 40-win king at first.

The Kings in 1981 were a great grassroots team buried in history.

Killing the Blazers in the first round can also be said to be a counterattack with little difference in strength. Playing against the Suns in the semifinals should be a showdown without suspense.

Especially in the first game of the semifinals, they were defeated by the Suns, and the team's chief commander Phil Ford was reimbursed due to injury (PhilFordPG).

With Ford's first game, they lost by 20 points.

Then, in Game 2, they got their wish and dragged the Suns into a slow-paced game, 88-83 with excellent play from wing tridents Ernie Grunfeld, Reggie King, and Scott Weidman. .

Game3, the exact same script, is slow-paced, sharpened the position, with the excellent confrontation of the trident, and the output of 20 points per player, 93 to 92, 1 point to win the battle of the meat grinder.

In the fourth game, the sun has been driven to a dead end.

The result was a slow pace again. The Kings' flanking tridents seemed to have the power of faith and scored 80 points together. During the playoffs, the team's No. 2 player, who was dropped from the starter to the bench due to poor performance, has a "Blackbird". The so-called Otis Birdsong SG (Otis Birdsong SG) made a key shot with a serious left foot injury. In the last few minutes, the Kings took off and sealed the victory.

It was this game that made Louis make up his mind to scout ahead.

He is selfish and nominally scouts the opponents of the finals, but deep down, his purpose is to understand the story behind the scenes. He wants to know why the Suns, ranked No. 1 in the West, are so embarrassed, and the 40-win Kings, why is it? With the incarnation of a water ghost, he dragged the best horse into the water and drowned.

"No one knows us."

Backup guard Sam Lacey (PG) said after the game: "No one knows what we are, we have the slowest guard in the league, the rudest forward, the worst way to play - I bet, Our games will drop ratings by 30 percent.” His concerns were clearly overblown, as CBS wisely decided not to broadcast any of their games.

"But we won't give up hope of moving forward," Lacey said.

Before Game5, Louis arrived at the game site.

The Suns decided to change their game and take a more brutal approach to them than the Kings.

And, they decided to reduce the minutes of ace Walter Davis (Walter DavisSF/SG).

If only one Davis did not play well, it would be fine, and another core player, Truck Robinson (Truck RobinsonPF/C), also resorted to the disappearance of the court.

The king's iron tactics shattered the sun that made the fast whirlwind.

It turns out that as early as today, decades ago, the sun was beaten like this.

Robinson's "disappearance" and Davis' "slump" made the Suns have to make adjustments in the lineup.

The result is a reduction in the playing time of these two core players.

On the surface, they knew they were playing poorly, were willing to sacrifice, turned their heads, Robinson had a bitter "I'm not happy" face on his face, and Davis complained all over about his lack of playing time.

As a result, the Suns won back two games in a row, dragging the game into a suffocating tiebreaker.

Davis put pressure on the Suns and the coaching staff had to give him 35 minutes to prove himself in Game 7.

The coaching staff took a step back and buried a whole season of the Suns and Dennis Johnson's great but underwhelming performance.

Louie sat in the front row, accompanied by the Blazers scouts.

Together they watched the first fall in the West.

Davis scored 18 points on 50 percent shooting and looked good, but 14 of his points came in the first half.

He likes to score, doesn't like to defend, and complains at every turn. The self-esteem of the stars makes him unacceptable to sit on the bench for a long time, but he is not suitable for this level of game. He should be on the bench.

On the other hand, the Kings, as they said, played ugly games, slowed down the tempo at all costs, everyone else gave the flank trident as green leaves, eight people defended with all their strength, and three of them split the attack, they dragged. At the last second, in order to prove his desire and his belief in fighting for his teammates who couldn't play, the Suns, the No. 1 player in the West, paid the price.

Reporters at the scene spotted Louis.

They knew who Louie was, so they came to interview Louie and ask him what he thought of the series.

Louis smiled slightly: "This is the ugliest game I've ever seen." His straightforward words made it difficult for reporters to ask further questions. But he stopped smiling, and his relaxed expression turned serious. "But it was these ugly 48 minutes that buried the secret of victory."

Louis saw a pure victory.

A pure victory for a team that is not so good but understands how to win ~www.novelmt.com~ and why and what they are willing to give to win.

They deserve to win this game.

Like the teams of the future, the teams that Louie knew.

The Rockets in 1995, the Pistons in 2004, the Celtics in 2008, the Lakers in 2010, the Mavericks in 2011, the Spurs in 2014 and the Lakers in 2020. They're that good, they deserve to win, they're the perfect team in the right time, in the right place, in the right arena during those seasons.

Louie's ambition and desire grew in tandem as he watched good teams fall apart in the playoffs, and then watched teams play great games.

He no longer just wants to be a scout, and the future cannot be limited to assistant coaches.

Sooner or later, he will become the head coach of a team, but he will not be limited to the position of head coach. He is eager to master the operation rights of a team, build the lineup according to his ideas, and design the most suitable offensive and defensive system. And get the hang of those threads that could ruin a team.

This is not as easy as it seems. The onlookers know that once the game goes deep, how to balance the needs of all parties, and how to find the optimal solution in a situation where no one is willing to step back, is the ultimate test for the people behind the scenes.

Maybe Louie will stumble here one day, so he's trying to figure out why these teams are falling apart.

After watching the Western Conference semifinals, Louie has to prepare to return to Boston to help the team cope with the upcoming big test - the Philadelphia 76ers who eliminated them last year.

They just eliminated the 60-win Bucks 4-3 in the semifinals, and Dr. J threatened: We are much stronger than last year.