MTL - The Rest, Only Noise-Chapter 30 This bird is not easy

In August, the Celtics began preparing for the new season.

Just looking at the lineup, the Celtics are simply star-studded.

Larry Bird, Maxwell, Cowens, Archibald, Laimbeer, that's five past and future All-Stars.

The bench is also quite talented.

From almost day one, the team's new coach, Bill Fitch, has been seen to be meticulous in his approach to training.

He was stern and mean and accepted no excuses.

It's nothing like his witty face in front of the media.

Ranbir complained almost every day, his back was sore, his back hurt, his legs cramped, he couldn't turn his head around, his head was about to explode.

Every day, he has the same excuse.

"Bill, in my opinion, the most important thing you need to learn is not how to defend, but how to be a man." Fitch scoffed.

Ranbir complained, "I can't run!"

"Then rest, sissy!" Fitch took pleasure in mocking Ranbir.

Only Ranbir has the mentality to withstand being ridiculed as a "sissy", and then sit down and rest with dignity. No one else could accept Fitch's insult. So they had to keep working hard.

Louis sat aside and handed Ranbir a bottle of water.

"I hate you, kid, it's because of you that I came to this damned team! I hate you forever for that!" Laimbeer complained frantically.

Louie ignores Laimbeer, who needs to document the characteristics of all the players as soon as possible, as well as the weaknesses they need to reinforce.

Some veterans don't need reinforcements, they just stay in shape.

Some young players simply don't see where they need reinforcement. For example, Bird, the upcoming 1979-80 season is an epoch-making season, and the NBA will introduce the three-point line for the first time.

All coaches treat the 3-point line as the devil's mouth, and Bird has become familiar with this far-flung range.

Cowens and Fitch clashed violently.

The top 50 superstars in history no longer have the strength to restore the Celtic dynasty with Havlicek, but he is also a starting insider above the standard.

He has a set of timeless standards for the game, but in Fitch's eyes, it's not enough.

Fitch asked Cowens to completely overpower second-year center Rick Robbie.

Whenever Robbie grabs a rebound on Cowens' head, Fitch will clapp his hands unhappily: "I suggest you change your last name, 'W' means win, but I saw a capital' on the body. L', your name should be Coloser!"

"You **** say it again!"

When two self-respecting people clash, everyone in the room is nervous.

Ranbir clearly didn't expect this to happen.

"See? It's not just your life that's having a hard time, everyone's having a hard time." Louis didn't intend to ask Ranbir to forgive him.

John Long is practicing the 3-pointer.

This is Louis' suggestion.

Louie wants him to be a player who can help from beyond the arc.

His practice was considered futile by Fitch.

Long had known who had discovered him since he came to the Celtics, a young man a few years younger who brought him from his hometown to the feared Boston.

It wasn't as bad as he thought it was here, but it wasn't particularly good either, mainly because they kept losing last season.

Auerbach was also in training camp, and Fitch didn't want to see him here.

This is Fitchlever's time, and Auerbach's presence only diminishes his presence.

Fitch can't decide this matter, he can only use a more powerful way to take away the influence of the bishop, let the players forget the existence of the old man and concentrate on dealing with him.

This has undoubtedly paid off.

It only took half a day for Laimbeer to start hating the team.

Like Fitch, he never takes the glorious tradition of the Celtics to heart, nor does he deliberately feel the "mystery of winning" that the old Celtics have been talking about.

For them, the secret to winning is simple, either score more points than opponents or lose fewer points than opponents.

From day one, the old players' test of Bird began.

Bird is famous, once in a century in the eyes of scouts, in the eyes of K.C. Jones, Auerbach publicly declared that he is the man who will change everything, the media touted a new generation of "great white hope", a record rookie contract ...why did he get so much? Does he deserve this much?

In a harsh confrontation, the team's new aid M-L Karl suddenly blocked Bird's passing route and yelled: "Little White Bird, do you know how to pass? I know you want to pass! But you can't pass it, you know that I will pluck all your hairs, and there will be none left!"

He embarrassed Bird with the muscles he had worked out for years in the pro league.

When he knocked Bird to the ground, he greeted in a sarcastic tone: "No way, that's all you can do? White people hope?"

"Good! Very good!" Fitch exulted as if he was *** in Degenerate Street, "If we all train like Mike (M-L Carr's M is the abbreviation of Michael), we can win the new season. champion!"

Today's Bird is not the coercive king who likes to inform his opponents what he is going to do before doing anything in the next few years, and then achieve his goals one by one.

He was well prepared for the provocation of the old players, and Auerbach gave him a vaccination.

He has been in the limelight before he even played a game, and some people will definitely be unconvinced.

The chattering Karl is not so much a display of nature, but his approach to Bird is a reflection of the will of other veterans.

Bird didn't use the offense to solve the problem. He started to get stuck early, giving Karl no chance to intercept his teammate's pass.

Then he started passing the ball, just by passing the ball, and he let John Long hit consecutive high shots, and he also let guard Gerald Henderson (Gerald Henderson), the team dug out of the CBA league, complete several empty cut layups.

His passing cannot be overstated.

What's really valuable is that he's not the kind of guy who needs time with the ball.

Louie saw something similar to the peak Jordan in Bird's handling of the ball. They were never sloppy, they handled the ball neatly, and they had a unique passing technique and excellent vision brought by their height.

But Jordan didn't have such a crisp ball handling ability from the beginning. It was a consciousness that took many years to polish.

And Bird has been like that since his first day in the league.

He took the ball in the low post, Karl only cared about his offense, other defenders wanted to embarrass him, and the defensive attention was all on him, which gave Bird a chance to lead the team.

With his back on his back, Bird's passing was so unpredictable that Fitch couldn't say a word.

Auerbach just watched the practice for a while and left, knowing that Bird would be fine, and in just one day, the voices of dissatisfaction with him would disappear in training camp.

Only then did Carl admit: "This little bird really has two strokes."

"Hmph, that's it!" Although the "cornbread" Maxwell, who is arrogant and arrogant and has been in the same way as the Celtics, although he also thinks that Bird's passing is very exciting, the current NBA is a league that focuses on offense.

Only players with outstanding offensive ability can become the protagonists.

As the sole legacy of the Celtics' dark ages, Maxwell didn't want to cede the title of No. 1 Celtics player.

A few days later, Maxwell wanted to establish himself and pulled Cowens about Bird 2V2.

It is said to be 2V2, but in fact most of the time it is 1V1 between him and Bird.

In a certain round, Maxwell swayed Bird to the basket with a fake.

"You look like you haven't learned how to defend in school!" Maxwell said defiantly.

Louis was sitting not far away watching a play.

I saw Bird picked up the ball on the ground and said plainly: "You don't need a good defense against you."

As soon as the words fell, Maxwell deliberately put down his hands to despise Bird's attack. He thought Bird was slow enough to break through him.

As a result, Bird first rode a face shot from 15 feet (4.5 meters) away;

Fake another 20 feet away and make an emergency stop (6 meters);

followed by an inadvertent dry pull from 25 feet (7.6) away;

The last is 30 feet (9 meters) beyond which Maxwell has nothing to say. That position is a mythical shooting spot for today's NBA players, and all shots made in that position can only be missed. No one is going to practice shooting from that distance. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Under the mad dog-like defense of Maxwell, Bird used a trick Louis had seen before Luka Doncic. He took the ball with both hands and deliberately slammed it into the opponent's waist to make a pass and deceive the opponent. After the flip - Swish!

Even Bird had gone sideways before the ball went in.

"What a massacre, Larry." Louie handed him the water.

What Maxwell went through was nothing but what M-L Carr experienced a few days ago.

Although he is arrogant, he is not a narrow-minded person. If he loses, he loses. Bird is literally rubbing his pants under the floor.

In less than a week, Bird was thriving at the Greek Academy with unparalleled strength.

The old players are obedient and the new players are godlike. Fitch is not as rude to him as he is to others. He also respects Fitch's stern and harsh coaching style.

Although Fitch's style may not last long on the team, he did make a difference for the Celtics.

This frustrated team desperately needs someone to lead them out of the woods.

Fitch's unselfish and vicious dog is the most suitable.

Today's NBA opener is half a month earlier than the future.

On October 12, 1979, the opening game of the new season started.

There are nine games in total today, but only the Los Angeles Lakers-Houston Rockets game got the CBS time-lapse treatment.

The Celtics' opener started at the Boston Garden.

Before the race, Bird symbolically released a white dove from its cage.

This seems to be saying hello to a brand new era. The 10 years of Boston's anger are coming to an end, and the coming 10 years must be different.

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