freeallnovels Chapter 251 Suspicions on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Chapter 251 Suspicions on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Chapter 251 Suspicions on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Thursday, June 1984, 5.
boston garden
During the four-day offseason, both sides took a good rest.
Naturally, the Lakers didn't have a good time. For the past four days, they had no peace at night.
The fire police in Boston were particularly enthusiastic about the fire near the Marriott Hotel. Even if it was a false report, they would come to investigate.
The Lakers were awakened countless times in their sleep. Knowing that it was Auerbach's design, they had to follow the warning of the hotel staff to go outside, and then watched the fire alarms pretend to check, and left without any results.
"Our sleep quality has been seriously affected. This is immoral and unprofessional." The magician strongly criticized the Celtics' off-court tactics. "We will go all out. These shameful methods will only strengthen our determination to win the game."
The magician said the grand ambitions in his heart: "Everything the Celtics plan will fail, and we will be the winners tonight!"
He looked high-spirited, as if he had forgotten the embarrassment of the first match.
The Lakers' starting lineup today is a bit different from before.
Dennis Johnson, Magic, Wilkins, Michael Cooper, Abdul-Jabbar.
With only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the inside, both Magician and Wilkins can play guest power forwards appropriately, but if they play guest games throughout the game, they will definitely not play well.
This lineup is literally both offensive and defensive.
There are perimeter iron locks, strong wing gates and first-class basket guards.
As long as it is not a single defense, Magic's physical condition and athletic ability are enough to make him an excellent help defender.
For Wilkins, his defensive lower limit is unbelievably low, and his upper limit is hard to say.
He may suddenly use his physical fitness to stage an unsolvable defense, or he may be dangled by Bird like a fool.
It depends on his presence status.
Louie played a regular starter: Thomas, Long, Bird, Sampson, Lambiel.
The Lakers suddenly started without a real power forward, but it gave Sampson, who played the fourth position, a broad stage.
"Ralph, it looks like today is your big day."
Before the show started, Louis said.
Sampson confidently patted off the chalk from his hands. Unfortunately, he didn't accept Louie's suggestion. Like an emperor, he sprinkled the chalk into the sky with both hands, adding some substances that were not good for the nasal cavity to this extremely hot and grumpy arena.
For the opening jump ball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's prediction was even better.
Sampson wanted to use the speed of the ball to make up for the misjudgment. As a result, both hands touched the ball at the same time.
Abdul-Jabbar deftly hooked the ball back with his fingertips, and the Lakers won the opening ball.
"￥@%#..."
The Garden fans booed graciously, eagerly playing Celtic's sixth man from the first leg.
In the first round, Magic crossed the ball to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Thomas, who was close to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, ran quickly to pinch.
Abdul-Jabbar realizes that he has only one second to decide how to attack, more than one second, and the double-team will come.
He stuck to the paint area, put his left hand against Lambiel's chest, and made a standard skyhook.
The intensity was obviously overweight, and the ball swiped half a circle on the basket and fell out.
Bird grabs the defensive rebound and throws it to Thomas.
Thomas launched a fast break, dribbling the ball with his fingertips and swaying the Lakers' most important iron gate marijuana Johnson.
Inside, Wilkins flew from the wing, ready to block Thomas.
However, Thomas chose to confront him, withstood the confrontation and then picked the basket with his right hand, making a difficult shot.
"Isn't this a foul?" Louis asked.
Tonight's referee, the notorious home killer Earl Strom, shot Louie a look and said, "No foul."
Systrom is known for being sympathetic to the away team and never giving convenience to the home team.
As long as any team's home game is refereeed by him, there is no need for the home whistle.
The bastard didn't blow the away whistle, so he was in a good mood that night - Auerbach himself commented.
Fortunately, Thomas is not the kind of person who breaks in and thinks about causing a foul to stand on the free throw line and shoot. He just wants to put the ball into the basket. 2+1 is an extra gift, which is hard to come by.
It was this attitude that allowed him to score the ball even after being confronted strongly by Wilkins.
Thomas is tough enough, and the Lakers' defense also made Louis see the difference from Game1.
After their Game [-] defeat, they did change their look and switch to a more aggressive defensive stance against the Celtics.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's back-up position was beyond Louis' expectations.
It's actually in the middle, and it's only about two steps inside the free throw line.
That is a half-stop position some distance away from the basket, and the general inside line may choose to be a little further inside.
But the Celtics' strategy is to flank as long as Kareem gets the ball, so moving inside will only weaken Kareem's sight.
Since the Celtics were double-teaming no matter what he did, he moved to a position closer to his teammates so that even if he was double-teamed, he could get the ball out.
The Celtics players on the field tried to put Lambiel on a single defense. They wanted to know if Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was sure to score in that position.
The result was unexpected. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's offensive method was not a skyhook, but a shot that turned around after hitting with his shoulder.
"WTF!"
Louis cursed secretly, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made a turnaround jumper and hit the board.
2 is better than 2
The sky hook is the most distinctive characteristic of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. If you think that he only has this trick because of this, you are stupid.
It's like thinking of Curry with only three points; thinking of Carter only dunking; thinking of Jordan with only his back and pull bar; thinking of James and Kobe being brainwashed by his black fans into an inherent impression: hugging/strike iron.
These wrong impressions will give people a wrong understanding of the stars.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used this shot to tell Louis: There are still many people who will meet, and today I will let you open your eyes!
Louis did not specifically investigate the hit rate of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's various low-post offensive methods. The skill of Skyhook was so marked on him that they didn't expect that this guy could use other methods.
"If Kareem hits like this, we can only hope that he doesn't feel good."
Thurmond has guarded the best Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and his word stands.
"You just can't do anything about him."
Louie listened to him and thought it was a good thing Kareem was 37 years old.What makes him strange is that Jabbar reached his peak in the second grade, and then thought that "Lou Alcindor has accomplished the highest achievement in the basketball world. He won the high school championship, the college national championship and the NBA championship. He should give up the name given to his ancestors by this pastoral slave owner and pursue his true self."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took away Alcindor, who led the Bucks to the championship in the second year, and brought in a super center who had more problems, was more sensitive, and was more irritable, but he could never lead the team to the championship alone.
Because of the ABA, the NBA's competitiveness from 1971 to 1976 was very weak, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar didn't win the championship for 1972 years after 8. This is a mystery that Louis can't figure out.
He should be the kind of player who can lead the team to the championship with a single core, especially in those few years.
And the secret of this can be found in his personal biography "Giant's Footsteps" published last year.
Louie looked at the faltering Kareem, who couldn't keep up with the Lakers' fast counterattacks or stop the Celtics' fast breaks.
After he completed the turnaround jumper, the Celtics wanted to take advantage of his slow return and score quickly.
I made a mistake in my busy schedule and made a mistake.
The ball was won by the magician, who sent a long pass to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Sampson rushed back quickly and gave Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a chasing cap at the basket.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar missed the rebound, grabbed the offensive rebound by himself, and attacked again, but was interfered by the young and vigorous Sampson, but still missed.
He relied on good habits around the basket, holding the offensive rebound with his raised hand.This time, he was not reckless, he shot Sampson up with a feint, and then jumped up sideways to score with a dunk.
4 is better than 2
"The Lakers' defensive strength today is not a joke." Tom Heinsohn reminded, "The Celtics have to adjust early. When the opponent shows full aggressiveness, you have to return the same level of energy."
Jabbar ran back slowly.
John Long temporarily acted as a porter and dribbled the ball across the half court to Bird.
Bird got the ball, didn't waste a second, and was about to hit the dribble, and Wilkins didn't leave an inch.
He didn't expect that Bird's offense was just a cover to show off to him.
His real purpose is to run and cut Sampson in the penalty area through the L tactic.
Abdul-Jabbar's mobility is no longer enough to cope with the Celtics' tactical passes.
Bird hit the ground pass, Sampson caught the ball with one hand, Kareem turned around to defend, but was swayed away by the young junior with a European step he had never seen on a center, and then, behind him, the basket suffered a dunk.
"Tom, is this what you want?" Dick Stockton asked excitedly.
"Not enough!" Heinsohn shook his head happily, "Not enough!"
But he was already excited. Sampson, who is so big, can actually make a Eurostep, which is beyond the cognition of many people.
Even Sampson himself raised his hands, showing off his not-so-big muscles.
(End of this chapter)