freeallnovels Chapter 225 The Natural Coach
Chapter 225 The Natural Coach
Chapter 225 The Natural Coach
Currently, the Celtics are 67-8.
Only one win away from the best record in team history;
Only 2 games away from the league's best record in regular season history;
Only 2 wins and 3 wins away from breaking the best record in team history and the league record.
Although there are many media who don't like Louis, his record is too hard, and he has basically locked the position of the best head coach of the year.
This made him very happy, because when he signed the contract with Auerbach, he clearly stated that he needed to lead the team to the league's first record, plus winning the championship, in order to get the full salary and activate the summer exit clause.
The final of the NCAA National Tournament gave the Celtics a four-day break.
Louie doesn't like to take the holiday so long, because the Celtics have repeatedly overplayed their heads.
The first game back from vacation, they always play badly.
The result was exactly as he expected.
On April 4, in the away game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Celtics were incredibly sluggish.
From the perspective of vitality, only Bird and Thomas wanted to win, and everyone else played lifelessly. Lambiel even suffered from anxiety attacks and received five fouls in the half.
The all-around flank of the Cavaliers, "Big Tree" Cliff Robinson (Cliff Robinson SF/PF/C) scored 30 points, 20 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks, leading the Cavaliers from the bottom of the Eastern Conference.
Louie was furious at the rare sight.
"Sorry, what I want to say now cannot be said in front of the camera, I have to go back to the locker room."
Louis hurried back to the locker room with a gloomy face, yelling at everyone.
"See the reaction of the people of Cleveland? These guys who only soak themselves in wine jars are dancing because of your slump! You should be ashamed!" Louie roared, "This is the most disgusting game I have seen this year! If you bastards continue to maintain this state, we will not even pass the first round of the playoffs!"
No one dared to speak out, and Louis' anger poured out for almost 5 minutes before subsiding.
When Louis finished venting his anger, he became calmer.
"The opponent in the next game is still the Cavaliers. The difference is that this time we are playing at our home court." Louis stared at the players, especially those who played poorly. "You know the gardens allow spectators to bring alcohol in. If you behaved as disgustingly as you did tonight, I'm sure they'd pour alcohol in your faces. If that happened, even if it was poured on the ground, please lick it up with your tongue. You deserve it."
After all, Louie asked Bird and Thomas to attend the press conference together.
They made some regretful remarks, such as not being able to tie the record tonight.
The next day, the Celtics returned to Boston from Cleveland.
In the afternoon, they practiced as usual in the Greek Academy. Louis generally did not supervise the training, because apart from being able to shoot a few three-pointers, his other basketball skills were not enough to help them train.
But today, he was watching this group of people on the training ground.
It definitely creates stress.
Byrd is not used to his presence, so he will increase the frequency of trash talking.
All the players on the field did not escape his trash talk, and he sprayed everyone he saw.
This kind of pressure he brings will increase the intensity of training, but it will also cause conflicts.
Thomas was different from the others. When Bird mocked him for being short, he would mock Bird for being slow as a tortoise.
"Larry, I can run faster than you with all the turns."
"Really? I can score on you with my eyes closed."
Such conversations are not uncommon.
Louis didn't have a good face the whole time, looking around, eager to catch a lazy guy on the training ground to show off his prestige.
If you want to kill chickens and monkeys, you have to run out of a disobedient chicken, otherwise it is really difficult to do.
This is why his face has been tense.
"Still angry?" Tomjanovich asked with a smile.
"Why? I'm in a very good mood." Louis replied sternly.
Tomjanovich smiled lightly: "Really? But seeing the anger on your face, why don't you drink some Coke to cool down?"
After speaking, Tomjanovich conjured up a bottle of iced Coke.
Currently, there are only three things Louis can't refuse.
⑴: A woman prettier than Lorraine seduced Louis to have an affair—there is no woman prettier than Lorraine in the world, and even if there was, there was a reason for his cheating. He hasn’t been close to a woman for two months;
⑵: Going home tonight, Lorraine suddenly informed him that the doctor said that he could have intercourse;
⑶: Ice Coke.
Louis took the Coke, and Tomjanovich patted him on the shoulder, "Don't stress too much, I'll take care of it here, there's a stack of documents just sorted out in the office."
"Then. Are you staring at it?" Louis seemed to distrust Tomjanovich.
Tomjanovich said: "Don't worry, with me here, they dare not be lazy."
Louis didn't know how strict a coach Tomjanovich was. He believed that good training quality could improve a player's game performance. Therefore, as long as he was on the training ground, he would insist on asking the players to implement his training targets.
Lambiel complained a lot about this. He is the team's least favorite person to train, and he is also the person who is least willing to sweat on the training ground.
Louis went back to the office and sat down, opened the Coke and took a big sip.
Miraculously, his mood really improved.
Louis looked again at the stack of documents that Tomjanovich had put on his desk.
"Potential playoff first-round opponent scouting report."
This year, the top-ranked teams no longer enjoy first-round byes.
The era of the eighth in the division playing the first in the division has come.
The Atlantic Division, to which the Celtics belong, is a highly competitive division.
The five teams in the competition area all have the strength to reach the playoffs.The Washington Bullets, ranked fifth in the division, are the Celtics' potential first-round opponents.
They have already determined that it is impossible to win 40 wins, and there are almost no teams competing with them for the eighth position in the Eastern Conference.
The seventh-ranked Eagles are a few games ahead of them, and above them are the Nets and Pistons, which belong to the middle-level teams.
The second-tier group has the 76ers and the Pistons.
The Celtics have the only record.
The reconnaissance report prepared by Tomjanovich is information about the Bullets.
The Celtics and the Bullets have played against each other four times this season, winning all of them.
The so-called reconnaissance report is to analyze the opponent's strengths, find the opponent's shortcomings, and then set a game plan to turn the opponent's strengths into weaknesses.
This is "Saiyan".
If it happens that the opponent's strengths are your weaknesses, and your strengths are the opponent's weaknesses, then it will be a match of needles.
The team that uses its strengths more thoroughly can often win the game.
The Bullets rank third in the league in defensive rebounding percentage, just look at their roster.
All-star big man Jeff Louland, rebounding forward Greg Ballard (SF) and Rick Mahon.
With these three players, it's no surprise that the rebounds aren't strong.
In addition, their acceptance of three-pointers is also higher than the league average, and the number of three-pointers made per game is the fifth most in the league.
Finally, they have the worst schedule in the league.
This is a data proposed by Pat Riley, considering the opponent's level, road trip, back-to-back, afternoon games and other factors. No one knows what the specific formula is, but the Bullets' schedule is so high, indicating that their actual ranking may be higher than the current position.
Louie circled players who needed attention, but didn't pay much attention.
The Celtics are so much stronger than bullets.
This is a game he might win without calling a timeout. If he can lead the Celtics to lose this round of the series, then his career is estimated to be over.
After rest and high-quality training, the Celtics finally resumed their game status.
The Cavaliers, who came to Boston from Cleveland, were eager to beat the Celtics at home.
Unfortunately, they met another team.
The Celtics devoured Cleveland's flesh and blood like an ogre, and sent the game into garbage time at halftime. The intensity continued to increase in the third quarter, and they ravaged the opponent with 41 points in the fourth quarter.
In the end, the dignity of the Cavaliers was shattered.
The Celtics defeated the Cavaliers by 139 points 88 to 51, and vented their grievances after losing in Cleveland.
A lot of this part of the grievance was brought by Louis.
He tried every means to stimulate his players in the past two days and made the atmosphere of the training ground very tense, so before the start, none of them wanted to fail like the last game.
With 68 wins, in the first year of Louie's coaching career, he led the Celtics to the best record in team history.
Tom Heinsohn said: "He's a natural coach."
With 68 wins and 9 losses, it can be said that the Celtics have a 100% chance of tying the NBA's historical record.
Because they have never lost in a row this season, it is impossible to expect them to encounter five consecutive losses and stop at 68 wins.
If 69 wins is a certainty, what about 70 wins, 71 wins, or even a complete record to end the regular season and finally win 73 wins?
"Anytime the Celtics lose, they start another winning streak. That's been the pattern since the beginning of the season. So, a 73-win playoff run and a 1984-win streak is a very real possibility." —Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe, Saturday, April 4, 7.
(End of this chapter)