readytorunbook Chapter 233 The Independent C System
Chapter 233 The Independent C System
Chapter 233 The Independent C System
The Pistons' preparation for this game has had no shortage of bright spots.
Other teams will find ways to confront the Celtics to slow down the pace of the game, but the Pistons themselves are a team that likes to attack. Defense is not a strong point, so they choose to use offense to fight offense.
For the Celtics, who rank second in points per game, the Pistons chose to do so as if they didn't want to win.
However, it's not that simple.
Daly made relevant arrangements for the second of the Celtics' Big Three.
Everyone knows that Bird and Thomas are the key reasons why the Celtics' tactics can run smoothly. Therefore, the focus of the Pistons' offense is also here.
Daly demanded to exhaust Thomas and Bird on the offensive end.
That is to say, no matter who gets the ball, as long as these two people are facing each other, they will attack boldly.
This method is the same as in the era of cosmic bravery. All teams that want to win the Warriors will try their best to get Curry's mentality.
It's not because Curry is easy to deal with, but because he is the most cost-effective.
Bird and Thomas are the core of the Celtics' offense. All four offensive systems are designed around them.
However, Daly's calculation was wrong.
First of all, the Pistons have no indiscriminate super heads-up players, and Worthy can only be counted as half.
Then there is a gap in the configuration of the two teams.
Louie can have Bird protected, and Thomas is a killer who licks blood with a knife. He has the mentality to face challenges at all times and the determination to obliterate all opponents who try to defeat him.
Therefore, Daly's approach has some effects, but it did not meet his expectations.
The expectation is at least to reverse the score in the first half.
54 is better than 44
At halftime, the Celtics led by 10 points.
The MVP of the first half was Thomas, and his presence made it impossible for the Pistons to focus on Bird.
Bird did a lot of small things, and Thomas scored 16 points and 7 assists in the half.
In the locker room, Louie said to Thomas: "Isiah, I won't start you in the second half."
Except for Bird and Sampson, almost everyone was temporarily taken out of the starting list by Louis.
The Celtics players are used to it, and they all agree on the indispensability of Bird and Sampson.
If it was the beginning of the season, Thomas would have thought in a wrong way, and now he has confirmed that Louie is a person who only wants to win and is not interested in skin color and locker room politics.
"I have no problem." Thomas laughed.
"It's useless." Louie snorted and said to Bird, "Larry, you've been paddling the whole first half, so you should play well in the second half, right?"
"What do you mean I paddled for half the time?"
"You only scored 4 points and 7 rebounds in the first half. Do you want to tell me that this is the result of your hard work?"
The well-founded data left Bird speechless: "The starters in the second half were John Paxson, Long, Larry, Cedric and Bill."
Louie surprisingly took Sampson out of the starting list.
Bird has become a player who has never been passive in the starting position so far this season.
Moreover, judging from this lineup, there are three players who are not regular starters, which is equivalent to asking Bird to bring a set of substitutes to play against the full strength of the Pistons.
Louie watched half the game, wondering if the Pistons were going to kill Bird and Thomas as he thought, so he had to give each other a stage.
"From now on, we'll just have one game, with Larry in the high post, everybody gets the ball, and we pass it to him whenever we don't get a chance."
"Let him decide, let him create."
What Louis is talking about is a strategy, a concept, which requires a lot of understanding from players.
The others were fine, they all heard Louie tell him to pass the ball to Bird, and Bird needed to learn what "decision" and "creation" really meant.
Bird asked, "Can I do anything I want?"
"If your 'anything' includes fighting, my answer is no."
Louie didn't want to see fights, and he didn't want anyone to think of the Celtics as a fighting team.
This stereotype is as outrageous as Jordan can't make three-pointers, Kobe can only hit irons, James only relies on his body, and Carter can only dunk.
The above labels are all personal, and if the Celtics are really labeled as "likes to fight", then Louie will be guilty.
The honor of "like to fight" should belong to their opponents tonight, how dare the Celtics be it?
When the Pistons saw Louie put three main players off the court, they couldn't help but convince themselves that it was the opponent's contempt.
On the one hand, the Celtics have a criminal record. It is no longer a rumor that Louis likes to insult opponents. The blood in Washington, Philadelphia, and Dallas has not dried yet.
On the other hand, tonight's game hadn't come to a conclusion. If they didn't show contempt for the opponent's strength, they really couldn't think of any explanation for Louis letting the three main players sit on the bench.
At the beginning of the second half, Bird faced Worthy in a high position.
With the ball in his hand, he sneered and said, "I'm going to play a left-handed fake move later, and then use my right hand to pass you for a layup!"
Five seconds later, he did what he said. Worthy's defense is not strong. His strength lies in his speed, and he can catch up with Bird.
Offensive players with poor physical fitness, they often look for physical confrontation before making a shot, so as not to be attacked by the opponent.
The same is true for Bird, who swung his elbow past Worthy's defense and scored with a right-handed floater.
After finishing the work, he left unrestrainedly with a face of "what did I say?"
56 is better than 44
"It's him again!" Louis said regretfully.
KC Jones asked: "Isn't that bad?"
"The redneck has never experienced the beatings of society. He doesn't know that it's very insulting." Louie explained why he didn't like Bird's always pretending to be successful.
When Worthy ran past them, he said in a pleading tone: "James, show Larry some color, look at his arrogance, I can't stand it anymore!"
Worthy responded indifferently: "Coach Lu, your tricks are useless to me."
"What trick?"
"You know it yourself."
Not long after, Bird expressed his dissatisfaction: "You actually help outsiders."
"Can't you see that I'm helping you piss off Worthy?" Louie's casual words were a powerful excuse.
Bird was dubious, and the Pistons took advantage of the empty window when half of the Celtics' main players were absent to strengthen their offensive output.
Byrd pretended to be successful, and they beat them back.
"Do you fucking know what defense is?" Lambiel yelled, "Don't fucking embarrass our University of Notre Dame!"
This man didn't know that the face of the University of Notre Dame had been lost by him long ago.
Louis only thought it was miraculous and didn't get involved in their affairs.
On the other hand, Daly was very curious about Louis' intentions in setting up this lineup.
He believed that Louis didn't mean to express his contempt for the Pistons. If he looked down on the Pistons, he would act casually like hitting a bullet.
However, Daly saw that the Celtics who played with this lineup seemed to have a smoother offense.
Bird served as the power forward of this lineup. When fighting the Pistons inside, although his body was not enough, he didn't let the Chiefs take advantage of it too much.
Back then, when he was in the second grade, he had a rebound against the peak Moses Malone in the finals (only lost 0.X).
Then, Bird showed his disdain for blowing Worthy's defense, and mentioned the high post to cover for Long and Maxwell respectively.
The Pistons' defense suddenly became chaotic.
They don't have a clear division of labor, who will follow Lang and who will chase Maxwell.
They only know that Byrd must prevent death, and the rest are optional.
If it is this way of thinking to deal with the Celtics, it is a big mistake.
Bird is a shot creator who doesn't miss his teammates' chances, greedily passing the ball to Long, who shoots 40 percent of his 64s on the left wing, instead of Maxwell, who finishes [-] percent of his shots in the paint.
Lang received a three-pointer from Bird and made a hollow hit.
This is neither System No. [-], nor System No. [-], nor System No. [-], nor System No. [-].
Bird holds the ball in the high position alone, and as an insider, drives the offense of the team like Jokic. This is the offensive system that Louis envisioned in the early days. Later, with the addition of Thomas, a monster who can be the core of the ball, this idea was abandoned by him.
Although it is wonderful to have a single C alone, the upper limit of a team built on a single C in history is to reach the finals and complete a round of "defeat is glorious" series.
Now that the Pistons are going to focus their firepower on Bird, Louis just replaced Thomas and Sampson who were "in the way" to watch the show.
Next, Louie saw the Pistons play a beautiful dislocation.
Worthy was caught up by Maxwell who gave the ball to Vinier Johnson.
Vernier is sure to beat Paxson, but he insists on calling the pick-and-roll to force out Bird's defense.
Bird still didn't switch defenses, and it was Lambiel who came out.
Vinier stepped past his defense, drove to the basket to challenge Bird's help defense, and switched hands to score.
The Celtics used the flexibility of the lineup to protect Bird's defense very well, but if the opponent insists on hitting you, you can't hide.
Otherwise, Curry wouldn't have suffered in those years, and maybe he could get an FMVP.
Thanks to @费易 for the lord award, this is Noise’s seventh lord. I owe chapters +10, I should be owed 88 chapters now.I can't even see Kobe in the rearview mirror. The White Wolf's 91 points are right in front of me. I suddenly feel a little messy. It's been less than three months since the book was opened.
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