Chapter 250 The old enemy

Rivals, if interpreted literally, is actually rivals and competitors. However, more people are willing to interpret this word as an old enemy, which has been sublimated from the state of competitors to another level.

You can know from the word that the smell of gunpowder contained in it is self-evidently strong.

This guy is not an old enemy, and this guy is not an old enemy. Er, a very strange existence like the Big Demon King of Meat Mountain is also a kind of old enemy, but it just looks a little bit of 2.

An old enemy who is qualified to deserve this word must debut at the same time, take off at the same time, and compete in the same field. A pair of enemies of the same level will take each other as a mirror and look at each other's own ups and downs.

Such a person is qualified to be an old enemy, otherwise blindly stepping on the other party will lose a lot of fun. After all, a person's invincibility is lonely. Only with a comparable opponent can you truly achieve greatness.

Just like how many years Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have been sworn, although they have been together later, the number of secret confrontations between the two is estimated to be indispensable, even after cooperation.

Like Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Maotai and Wuliangye, McDonald's and KFC, Baidu and Google, Nike and Adidas, er, Japanese love action movies and European and American love action movies, etc. Anyway, as long as there are two giants in the same industry at the same time, the confrontation between them will often cause smoke in the industry. Get up.

For example, Smurfs and Gargamel, Concave and Convex Man and Little Monsters, Grey Wolf and Xi Yangyang, which are all old enemies.

The same is true in the basketball world. There will always be Peyton around Master Joe. Challengers like Miller. They are entangled together and fight desperately for every confrontation to achieve the greatness of the god of basketball.

Although it has been the background for many years, it is estimated that no one can forget the picture of Peyton spraying garbage at Joe, and no one can forget the arrogantness when Miller pushed away Joe and threw a three-pointer.

Only when Joe can defeat them can people remember the most glorious era of the Bulls. If you are the sun, if you don't have a group of stars that can also shine, your existence is lonely.

This is the role of the opponent. Without their existence, even if you are a naturally great guy, you will lose your beauty because of the top confrontation, and the value will be reduced.

Greatness requires a qualified foil. The stronger the man in the background, the stronger you will be.

It's just the history of the whole NBA, such as the Knicks and the Heat, the Pistons and the Bulls, which are old enemies, but the entanglement of these guys is limited to ten years, and there is no enmity that lasts for decades.

Only the Celtics and the Lakers can be regarded as lingering forever. Since the day there was the NBA, they have been like several generations of resentful couples. Today you bullied me blatantly, and I will fight back tomorrow.

I guess no one can be more entangled than them, especially the Lakers, who have been suppressed by the Celtics, not to mention winning the championship twice less (as of 2007, it is now one less.) What's more, it's because they haven't been able to take advantage of the direct confrontation between the two, mainly because they have been losing almost all the time since the beginning of the 58-59 season. As long as they enter the finals and meet the Celtics, the Lakers will come to an end.

Those decade really wasted a group of talents of the Lakers. The Celtics' eight consecutive championships made them desperate. No matter whether it was West or Baylor, they could not break through the encirclement of the Green Shirts, even if their talent was amazing.

Including West, this awesome figure who has been fixed on the NBA icon (although the NBA's official avoids this fact now, of course, I believe that the icon known all over the world must be based on West, but the NBA does not plan to pay for portrait rights for decades now. Stein is really not an ordinary stingy.) Now when he talks about the era that belongs to Boston, he also looks helpless.

Because of the confrontation of that decade, every time they meet the Celtics in the finals, the Lakers will lose without exception, and West is the personal experience of the series of defeats.

The entanglement of the 1980s, the Lakers won five championships, the Celtics won three times, and Bird and Johnson's two championships were also a new era that opened after Stein began to take the position of president of the league.

The only thing the Lakers can be gratified by the Lakers may be that their record after entering the millennium is far higher than that of the Celtics who have been sinking to the bottom of the valley.

Their three consecutive championships since 2000 have narrowed the championship gap between the two. If not, it is estimated that it will take a long time to catch up with the number of champions on both sides to the same level.

Don't say that the basketball level in the 1950s and 1960s is not developed enough. The Celtics have a lot of water to win the championship. In fact, these comments can be refuted in one sentence: "You can't win if you are underdeveloped, what a secret!"

However, no one denies the greatness of the Lakers. Just like the Celtics, they are also a symbol of the NBA. Now it is estimated that no one knows the beauty of "showtime" and the fierceness of the big sharks.

Anyway, the entanglement between the Lakers and the Celtics began on the day the NBA was in place, and looking at this situation, they are likely to continue this state of deadness.

It's just that in the process of fighting, those who have experienced it will change a group of players every few years.

This kind of hostility that goes deep into the bones can't be erased by time, and with the accumulation of time, the color of kindness and resentment of the old enemy will become stronger and stronger, just like the sediment of history.

The king's entanglement makes the only choice between the two to continue to fight, and no one will choose to take a step back.

Rivers is also a part of the continuation of this old enemy's inheritance. As a member of the Celtics, he only has one idea about meeting the Lakers, that is, to trample the other party fiercely.

This is not hatred, it's just a habit, just like Auerbach said a classic sentence when he was still a coach, "Losing to the Lakers? I'm really sorry. That's something that can never happen."

This old guy really did what he said. When McCann played for the Lakers, the Lakers named Minneapolis climbed to the top of the Celtics, and the coach at that time was Auerbach.

However, after McCann retired, the situation was completely reversed, and they never turned over again.

Especially after the Lakers moved to Los Angeles, if you meet Auerbach's Celtics, you will only lose. Even if you can get entangled in the seventh game of the finals, it will still be a fate.

So the Green Shirts now have a habit. As long as they meet the Lakers, even in their lowest fans, they can often play a very tough game. This is a fierce temperament that bursts out from their bones, just like those seniors, he We will never lose to this opponent easily.

This is an insoluble phenomenon. Whether you are happy or not, the Celtics are so tough, but as their old rivals, the Lakers are not vegetarian. They are also great.

So this entanglement will continue until now, and the first stop of the Celtics' western journey is to go to Los Angeles to make trouble, and these guys also plan to take away the victory. They have set foot on the field belonging to the Lakers countless times, and every time the two meet, the game will be spark four. Splash.

Rivers is not afraid of the arrival of this kind of confrontation. Anyway, he has been a sworn enemy with the Lakers for so many years, and it's not bad. It's just that the schedule of consecutive away games in the West makes him a little headache.

"If we can play two more games at home, maybe we can create an eight-game winning streak, so that we will have a chance to rush into the top four in the East." Rivers said when he studied the schedule with Cerberto.

"In fact, there is nothing wrong with this. It's too smooth. If we meet the main opponent of the playoffs later, we may not be so relaxed. You also know that the playoffs and the regular season are completely two levels of confrontations. Now the opponents we can defeat, on that occasion, we may not win once. . "

"If those wild kids have been winning so smoothly, when there are setbacks, there may be an unexpected slippage. This is not something you and I can control, so if there is a problem, it's better to expose it early."

Sieberdu has always been the kind of guy who is very calm. For him, the gap between the fifth and sixth in the East is not big, and the arrangement of the schedule gives them a chance to hit the top four, but this opportunity is not big.

After all, the Pistons, Bulls, Heat, Nets, including the Magic are very strong. In addition, the rise of the Raptors is also difficult to suppress. Fighting with these teams alone will make the Celtics very difficult.

Instead of expecting to enter the top four in the East, it's better to be more stable and try to hold the Raptors in the Atlantic Division. Anyway, the fourth and fifth places is also a dead-and-off situation. In fact, the difference is only at home and away.

According to the current state of the team and the combination of personnel, the Celtics will definitely have a place in the east, but there is no way to predict where they can go in the end. Now there is no way for Siberdu and Rivers.

It can only be played one game at a time. If you are lucky enough, you may be able to reach the top four and have a good home advantage. Otherwise, you can wait to fight with the team in front of you, which is inevitable.

Anyway, if you can break through in the first round and meet any team behind you, your home advantage may not be great.

And as he said, playing too smoothly now will make his wild kids relax. Once it comes to the high-confrontation game in the playoffs, this slackness is likely to be fatal.

If losing is inevitable, Sibodu hopes that the trouble will appear as soon as possible, so that they still have time to correct those mistakes.

If it breaks out in the playoffs, it must be a situation that no one likes to see. At least he and Rivers don't want to put failure on that occasion.

So having a Western experience at this time is not a bad thing for the recently smooth Celtics, at least Siberdeau and Rivers think so.

But now that they meet their old enemies, no one wants to lose this game easily.

No matter whether it is in Boston or Los Angeles, if the green-shirted bandits hit the Purple and Gold Legion, it will be a tough confrontation. Since it is a game, someone must be trampled under their feet. Who will win or lose?