The Celtics met the Chicago Bulls who eliminated the Knicks in the semifinals.

Louis didn't expect the Bulls to smash the Knicks in the playoffs before Jordan came.

What's even more funny is that since Knicks center Bill Carteright was useless when he encountered Attis Gilmore, the New York Times actually called him a "mummy".

Team owner and team chairman Sonny Webring publicly declared that the team has no soul.

After losing one round of the series, the Knicks were trampled onto the ground by his own family.

But if the opponent is replaced by the Celtics, the Bulls' style of playing will not work.

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

So Bird made an agreement with him.

Bird promised to feed him into the team's scoring champion, and in return, Sampson would have to bear the next six months of his drinking.

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

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

Sampson became the semi-finals' scorer with 28, 30, 34 and 32 points.

In particular, Bird's pass was surprising, making Sampson's score like taking a puppy, with a shooting percentage of up to 65%, completely setting up Gilmore as an old antique from the previous era and should have been buried in the soil.

The more exciting Sampson's performance was, the more embarrassing Cartwright was.

The Knicks' media is famous for its sarcastic tongue.

He was a mummy before, but after seeing Sampson's performance, they began to openly discuss the plan to trade Carterwright.

This kind of thing will only happen in New York.

They will let you understand clearly or not, and they will definitely not play with you.

The Celtics easily swept the Bulls after the first round bye and arrived at the Eastern Conference Finals without any pressure.

Last year, they stopped here.

But their opponents are not sure.

The 76ers with 62 wins were in a stalemate against the Bucks with 60 wins.

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 are in the Midwest Division, also hacked the Portland Trail Blazers, who are ranked third in the Pacific Division.

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

Because of the win-win situation in the regular season, the Kings are ahead of the Rockets.

In the semi-finals, these two low-class horses played against the Phoenix Suns, the first place in the Pacific Division, and the San Antonio Spurs, the top spot in the Midwest Division.

Louis was idle and tracked the two-round semi-finals in real time.

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

Originally, Auerbach did not agree.

Because they may not necessarily rush out of the east.

"Oh, it turns out that you don't even have the confidence to show the East. OK, I'm just trying to do this. It's okay, so I'll say goodbye."

Louis's sarcastic provocation successfully reached Auerbach's sensitive area.

He said angrily: "Who the fuck has no confidence to rush out of the East? Get back to me!"

Louis's funds were successfully approved.

Moreover, Louis's business trip was widely advertised: this trip was to reconnaise potential finals opponents.

His business trip was given another meaning, that is, the entire Celtic team was confident that they would defeat the 76ers, avenge last year, and reach the finals.

What Louis is most interested in is not the Rockets and Spurs, the Rockets and Spurs, who fought from the East to the West.

It's a series between the Kings and the Suns.

Just like Louis himself, he didn't pay attention to the 40-win king at the beginning.

The King of 1981 is a great grassroots team buried by history.

Defeating the Trail Blazers in the first round can be said to be a counterattack with a small difference in strength. Fighting against the Suns in the semi-finals should be a confrontation without suspense.

Especially in the first game of the semi-finals, they were defeated by the Suns, and the team's chief commander Phil Ford was reimbursed for injury (Phil Ford PG).

They lost 20 points in the first game with Ford.

Then, in the second game, they dragged the Suns into a slow-paced game as they wished, and with the outstanding performance of the wing trident Ernie Grenfield, Reggie King, and Scott Weidman, they beat the Suns 88 to 83.

Game3, the same script, is slow-paced and grinding the position. With the excellent confrontation of the Trident and the output of each person of 20 points, it won the meat grinder battle 93 to 92 and 1 point.

In the fourth scene, the sun was pushed to a desperate situation.

The result was a slow pace again. The Kings' wing trident seemed to have the power of faith, scoring 80 points together. During the playoffs, Otis Birdsong SG, known as the "Blackbird", scored a key goal when he was seriously injured in his left foot. In the last few minutes, the Kings took the lead and secured the victory.

It was this game that made Louis decide to go to the front to reconnaise.

He has selfish intentions and is nominally an opponent in the Scout Finals, but deep down, his purpose is to learn the story behind the scenes. He wants to know why the Suns, ranked No. 1 in the West, are so embarrassed, and why the 40-win Kings team transformed into a water ghost general and drowned in the water.

“No one knows us.”

"No one knows what we are about, we have the slowest defender, the rudeest forward, and the most unbearable way of playing - I bet our game will drop ratings by 30%. His concerns were obviously redundant because CBS wisely decided not to broadcast any of their games.

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

Before Game 5, Louis arrived at the game site.

The Suns decided to change their game style and take more fierce measures than the kings to fight them.

And, they decided to reduce the playing time of ace player Walter Davis SF/SG.

It would be fine if it was just one Davis' poor performance, and another core player, Truck Robinson PF/C, also used the stadium disappearance technique.

The king's steel tactics destroyed the sun that was whirling quickly.

It turned out that the sun was beaten so violently as early as decades ago today.

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

The result is to reduce the playing time of these two core players.

On the surface, they knew they had a bad fight and were willing to sacrifice. They turned their heads. Robinson had a bitter face with "I'm very unhappy" on his face, and Davis complained everywhere that he didn't have much time to play.

As a result, the Suns won two consecutive games, dragging the game to a suffocating tiebreak.

Davis put the Suns in a pressure that forced the coaching staff to give him 35 minutes to prove himself in Game 7.

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

Louis sat in the front row, accompanied by the Trail Blazers scouts.

Together, they watched the fall of the West No. 1.

Davis scored 18 points in the game and shot 50% from the field, which looked good, but he got 14 points in the first half.

He likes to score, doesn't like defense, and complains at any time. The star's self-esteem makes him unable to accept that he sits on the bench for a long time, but he is not suitable for games of this level. He should sit on the bench.

On the other hand, the Kings, as they said, played ugly games and lowered the rhythm at all costs. All the others used the wing trident as green leaves, eight people defended with all their strength, and three of them attacked again. They delayed to the last second, in order to prove their desires and the belief of fighting for teammates who could not play, made the Suns, the number one in the West, pay the price.

The reporters at the scene discovered Louis.

They knew Louis' identity, so they came to interview Louis and asked him what he thought about the series.

Louis smiled slightly: "This is the ugliest game I have ever seen." His straightforward words made it difficult for reporters to continue asking. But he put away his smile and his relaxed expression turned serious. "But it was precisely this ugly 48 minutes that buried the secret of victory."

Louis saw a pure victory.

A pure victory contributed by a team that is not so outstanding but deeply understands how to win, why to win and what they are willing to pay for in order to win.

They deserve to win this game.

Just like those teams in the future, those teams Louis 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 are so outstanding that they deserve to win. They are all perfect teams in those seasons, at the right time, the right place, and the right field.

Louis saw good teams falling apart in the playoffs, and then saw teams playing wonderful games, and his ambitions and desires were growing simultaneously.

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

He will sooner or later become the head coach of a team, but he will not be limited to the position of the head coach. He is eager to master the operation rights of a team, build a lineup according to his ideas, design the most appropriate offensive and defensive system, and accurately grasp the context that may destroy the team.

This is not as easy as it seems. Bystanders are clear. Once they go deep into the game, how to balance the needs of all parties and how to find the optimal solution in a situation where no one is willing to retreat is the ultimate test of the people behind the scenes.

Perhaps Louis will fall here one day, so he is now trying to figure out the reasons for the collapse of these teams.

After watching the Western Conference semi-finals, Louis is ready to return to Boston to help the team cope with the upcoming test - the Philadelphia 76ers who had eliminated them last year.

They just eliminated the 60-win Bucks 4-3 in the semifinals, and Dr. J threatened: We are far better than last year.
Chapter completed!