readytorunbook Chapter 217 February Belonging to Hu Kai (2)
Chapter 217 February Belonging to Hu Kai (2)
Chapter 217 February Belongs to Hu Kai (683)
The rematch between the Lakers and the Celtics, in their home forum, fans are eager to see a revenge.
They hoped that the Lakers would give the Celtics a sixth defeat, but the result was not as good as they thought.
At the beginning, Pat Riley's bold attempt did have some effect.
The Celtics chose to use their personal ability to fight back against the Lakers' targets. Isiah Thomas' small play big, Bird's big play small, slow play fast and fast play slow, and basketball IQ's crushing of Wilkins are all the keys to the Celtics' rise.
Through these two games, the Lakers' coaching staff made two points clear.
Comprehensive offensive and defensive strength, the Celtics are undoubtedly the first in the league.
Fighting defense, the Lakers can't fight, fighting offense, the two sides can play a [-]-[-] split, and the Celtics can use their defensive advantages to strengthen their offense, so they always win.
Three minutes before the end of the fourth quarter, the Celtics widened the point difference to 3 points. At this point, the overall situation is set.
The Lakers are about to lose their second matchup with the Celtics.
Still chewing gum, Riley directed the entire game, not only with hair gel, but also with a lot of sweat, which would make him look embarrassed if the Lakers lost.
Riley didn't expect the Celtics to flank Magic and force him to pass the ball to an open player.
Ordinary opponents would be afraid of the magician linking up the offense, but the Celtics played an unconventional routine-they forced the magician to pass the ball and tested the magician's long-range shots.
As a result, Sterling and Wilkins, although they can shoot goals, but the number of goals is acceptable to the Celtics.
If the Celtics can accept it, it means that their goals are not enough to invalidate the strategy.
It seems that starting today, the team's non-insider basic training program will add 500 long-range shots per day.
Thinking of this, Riley didn't feel the pressure. It would be better for the problem to be exposed at the end of February than at the end of May.
What we lose now is only the regular season, and then it will be the finals.
The Celtics also have their own problems. Their inside reserves are insufficient. Sampson + Bird + Lambiel + Maxwell are indeed historically luxurious, but Bird and Maxwell are both swing forwards. The only pure insiders are Sampson and Lambiel.If someone has a foul problem, their rotations will struggle.
The matchup between Bird and Wilkins has repeatedly gained the upper hand, but Riley also discovered that as long as Wilkins catches the ball in the right position, he can explode with Bird.
On the contrary, Isiah Thomas is vicious, dirty, extremely fast and has the ability to mobilize the whole team. His aggressiveness is suppressed by the Celtics, but when necessary, he can become an unstoppable sharp knife at any time.
This is the problem that Riley and the coaching staff will focus on solving next.
When the final whistle sounded, Louie turned around with a smile, walked to the midfield, first shook hands with Riley, and then waved to the celebrities sitting in the front row, especially Eddie Murphy, who was called the most vigorously, and the beautiful star who he didn't know yet.
"Don't be complacent, it's just a game!"
After the game was over, Murphy adjusted his emotions and spoke harshly like a normal fan.
As for that beauty, she was too embarrassed to shout in front of Louis again, just like those who posted on the forum "I'll eat shit if XX is XX", and when XX is really XX, these people will instantly understand the way of playing dead and use it now.
"Coach Lu, you played some new tricks today." Riley was not as contemptuous of Louis as other coaches.
He knew very well that Louie was capable.
However, at this time Louis could not concentrate on listening to him.
He looked at the beauty going away, and asked, "Who is that lady next to Eddie Murphy?"
"Don't you know?" Riley said unexpectedly, "Jennifer Beers, she was just an ordinary college student last year, and then she made a movie and it became a hit!"
Louis is not that familiar with the entertainment industry, especially the European and American circles. He only recognizes those familiar faces, and he has no impression of this Jennifer at all.
"Thank you for telling me, goodbye."
Louie acted as if telling Riley that the only thing he wanted to know was the star's name.
"Coach Road" Riley didn't like how he kept ignoring his opponents.
Louis turned around: "Coach Riley, is there anything else?"
"Have you nothing to say about the game?" Riley asked.
Louie didn't expect Riley to discuss the game with the opposing coach after the game.
This kind of question will be asked 10 times tonight by the reporter alone, and he never wants to answer the 11th time here at Riley.
"Forgive me, Pat." Louis waved his hand and walked to the reporters on the scene.
Riley snorted, turned around with a smile, and he was also interviewed.
He had a strong feeling in his heart that Louie would be one of the biggest rivals of his coaching career.
Just because he can make the Celtic group of monsters bow their heads like well-trained police dogs, it is not something ordinary people can do.
"Little Lu, congratulations on another victory over the Lakers."
"Thank you."
"Do you have anything to say about tonight's game?"
Sure enough, Louis suspected that Riley had stolen the reporter's manuscript.
"As long as I win, I'm happy."
He is already numb to this kind of question, can the person who prepares the manuscript for the reporter come up with something new?
"There were a few shots during the game where you were 'interacting' with the spectators in the front row, what happened?"
Anyway, it was a question that Louis needed to use his brain to answer.
Louis replied with a smile: "There are always famous people watching the game in the forum. Their presence makes the game more interesting. I like to communicate with them."
The league did a lot of publicity for the Lakers-Celtics game.
But neither of these two games reached the critical moment.
The intensity of the regular season, the Celtics seem to be a bit too strong, and even the Lakers are weaker.
At the press conference after the game, Louis saw many "old friends" in the media circle.
These people have basically written bad things about Louis.
A reporter from the "Los Angeles Daily News" asked a sharp question: "Your roster is almost the same as last season. Why can you take off this season?"
Louie had an unpleasant cooperation with Fitch in the later period, but he will not embarrass Fitch here.
In any case, Fitch was one of his guides.
Louie wittily quotes the future Spurs locker room motto.
"When everything seemed to be going nowhere, I went to see a stonemason knock on a stone. He knocked it 100 times and the stone still didn't budge. But when he hit the 101st time, the stone split in two. But I knew that it wasn't the last blow that split the stone, but the result of the previous hundred knocks."
The reporters did not expect that Louis, who has always been frivolous and despised his opponents, would suddenly say such philosophical words.
He stunned the reporters on the scene.
One of the most memorable locker room mottos in the NBA, it managed to help Louie hit the headlines the next day.
"Sports Illustrated" once again wrote Louie a character feature article with extremely wide distribution.
Moreover, the person who wrote the pen was a freelancer named Rogers Jacobs.
The title of this article is "Little Lu and his 101st Hammer".
Lakers fans were furious because the Celtics let off steam after they beat them.
The seemingly invincible Celtics lost to the mid-level Phoenix Suns in the West two days later.
Their sixth defeat of the season came so suddenly.
The win over the Lakers should have boosted their morale, but it turned out to be sunburned like a deflated ball.
The battle between the Celtics and the Lakers in February is the theme of the NBA, but in March, it does not belong to professional basketball.
Anyone who knows a little about basketball knows that March belongs to the NCAA.
Before the Magician and Bird knew how to save the NBA, they had already saved the NCAA first, making this event from a popular to a fashion.
The mythical duel between the magician and Bird has been difficult to replicate, but every year a large number of gifted teenagers enter the university, and they will write new stories.
Two years ago, a North Carolina rookie named Mike Jordan became an instant hit.
A few years have passed, and the quality of this group of players has been clearly seen by professional basketball scouts.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many teams in the East and West who frantically played badly and lost with the attitude of letting sportsmanship die.
The Celtics can play 53 wins and 6 losses, which is also related to this. Bad teams don't resist at all, just lie flat and let you play.
Before the start of March Madness, another piece of news also caught the attention of professional basketball circles.
In preparation for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the US National Basketball Team decided to start training in March.
They will invite between 48 and 64 top college players to compete in the Olympic Trials on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington.
The trials are open, so scouts, coaches, and general managers can all observe, and there will be a lot of warm-up matches.
As long as you have the heart, no matter who you are, it is impossible for you not to see his strengths or weaknesses.
(End of this chapter)