NBA Greatest Duos: Larry Bird & Kevin McHale vs Hawks (1988)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Another masterpiece by Bird and McHale, this one from 87/88 regular season game against Atlanta Hawks. This was a nice preview of legendary 1988 ECSF series that ended with Game 7 duel between Bird and Nique.
Larry Bird: 28 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 13/21 FG.
Kevin McHale: 24 points, 7 rebounds, 10/13 FG.
Celtics won the game 117:100.
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Basketball was so beautiful when Bird was around
@ANTONIO Exactly
Just the intro alone for CBS was great
@I'm telling the truth it's boring now. Having a well rounded game is no longer a requirement.
Danny Ainge is such a good team role player for the big guns. Their starting five, when healthy, were among the best ever.
newerafrican yep and always super enthusiastic.
Him and bill walton.
1985-86 Boston was a monstrous team, with Walton coming off the bench as 6th Man of the Year.
Kevin had nasty footwork in the post. M
Bird couldn’t jump high, but he was fluid and deceptively quick. A good athlete with great body control and elite hand and eye coordination.
Yet Bird somehow beats Olajuwon on a JUMP BALL in the 1986 finals 🤷🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♂️ A perfect example of how Bird was so freaking crafty. He wasn’t fast, but he damn sure was QUICK. A lot of numb skulls don’t understand that Quick and Fast are two different things.
Don’t need to run fast if you can pass. Don’t need to jump high if you can pass & shoot over everyone else. A favorite Bill Walton quote about Larry-“Knowing what to do before everyone else knows what to do- that’s the kind of speed he had.”
I have this entire game on a VHS tape and watch it every now and then. It was an absolute clinic. Boston could've won by 50 if they wanted to. The Hawks did indeed improve that year and took the Celtics to 7 games and Game 7 was one of the best in NBA history. Nique vs. Bird in the 4th quarter. (I have that entire game on tape too). A display of greatness by both men unlike any I've ever seen. Nobody deserved to lose that Game 7 but nobody, not even the Lakers, were going to win a Game 7 in the fabled Boston Garden as long as Larry Bird was on the court. The best era ever in basketball! I remember the great Brent Musburger saying after an incredible Bird play, late in that Game 7 vs. Atlanta, "you're watching what greatness is all about". Yes Sir, Mr. Musburger, yes Sir!
McHale in the low post was unstoppable. Whenever he received the ball you could note down 2 points for the Celtics.
Unreal. Larry and Kevin...Pure Fundamentals!
@@mezzb Krista's porzingis and Luka
@@CyberBloox luka’s pump fake isn’t on bird’s level.
@@CyberBloox or his passing
@@CyberBloox or his rebounding
@@CyberBloox it’s not even close between bird and luka and people try to make it seem that way
damn that old cbs NBA music brings back memories
Yep, it was the best!
Kevin Willis , Glen "doc " rivers, Cliff Levingston, Tree Rollins, and of course Dominque Wilkens. All great athletes who would excel in today's game. However it's a testament to the basketball iq of those celtics. Proof positive that any Bird led team would dominate in today's game.
Every year Larry added something new to his game. This year it was that jump hook , as it was on display several times in this contest!
Mr. Bird's third of four total games in which he wore goggles. When the game is about to start, Stockton & Cunningham talk about it a bit, and mention that Bird was saying that he was having a bit of trouble seeing on the court while wearing the protective eyewear. So, of course, the first shot he took in this game was... a 3-pointer (which he made). Excellent to see highlights of this game back on RUclips.
What a beautiful game of basketball! I was addicted to the NBA for 25 years until 2017. The game that evolved to a nowadays positionless basketball is not my game anymore really. There is not much beauty in it in comparison to the 80-90 era. All that hassle and rain of 3-pointers makes for poor spectacle to me. Thanks to RUclips we can still watch pearls like this one.
One big explanation why Bird was so embraced. He embraced Bobby Orr, who was a deity in Boston
Larry Legend looks just like a Pro with the googles on, not bad Larry. People may not realize it, but this Hawks team and their Coach Mike Fratello was a top notch team
with a great coach.
Those one handed shots by Bird were insane! And no one does the touch pass anymore. Larry was a master!
Forgot about the games with the goggles. And Bird had that hook shot going in this game - wow.
Parrish, Bird, McHale, greatest frontcourt trio ever.
damn, that Spud Webb play was equivalent to a free throw line dunk, lil dude got up
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That bounce pass by Ainge 😳
Then the touch pass by Bird
THIS is the type of 🏀 I love to watch. The 360 slams, rubbing their nutsack in a guys face while hanging on the rim, standing over a guy after slamming it (and getting away with an offensive foul because the league brass has instructed officials to stop calling offensive fouls because....
TV ratings=💰💰>>>>>>Rules )
anyway I could go on and on, but THIS is the game I love. Teams like the ‘86 Celtics, ‘14 Spurs, ‘87 Lakers. Unfortunately team play has mostly been replaced with “ME BALL”
A great example of “ME BALL” is like when MJ had 63 pts VS Boston yet the Bulls lost the game.
MJ said it himself “one man cannot beat the Boston Celtics”. The Celtics or ANY team that plays LIKE A TEAM.
Jokic, as big and awkward as he appears he injected this type of play into the Denver Nuggets and what ya know ?? 🏆
I truly believe that if you took 5 all stars who play “ME BALL” and you put them against 5 average players who play hard, use fundamentals and play like a team. Unselfish play, ball movement etc then the 5 average guys win more than they lose going head to head VS the 5 selfish All Stars. I think guys like Greg Popovich and Larry Bird would agree with me on that.
The games back then were damned exciting because they were physical and mental wars - unlike today's game where you can't even touch your opponent.
Damn, Kevin McHale is a post genius. In my opinion, Kevin McHale, Hakeem Olajuwon and Tim Duncan are the 3 best post players of all time.
And Adrian Danltey
@@je9212 And James Worthy.
Larry Bird is AWESOME!!!! 👍👍👍👍
Im a huge celtics fan and i love these old games. Its kinda sad how poorly they drafted tho in the mid to late 80's. Except for bias and lewis
Bird and Mchale. NUFF SAID!!
Robert Parrish got him
This Hawks team was excellent and gave Celtics an insane battle in the playoffs, Wilkins could score at will but they could never seem to stop McHale and Bird was Bird
That Spud Webb layin off the glass was dope
youve been on here for some years all is appreciated. mchale arguably one of the greatest all around players at any position greatest inside power forward of all time. they did it all greatest passing team in 86 half court game. like they said a combination of incredible offense and creative passing some of the greatest creative offense combined with the greatest creative passing i the half court game. team passing with lb and walton all. the trade they made to get walton turned out to be one of the greatest of all time. arguably larry's greatest passing creative passing game year of all time 1986 a healthy 2nd unit. bird should have been mvp in 87 as well as he led the league in minutes played his points rebounds and assists were all the in the top 10 as well. take a look at larrys numbers in reference 1987 sometime.
True re: 87
I don't think "political correctness" would have allowed him to get 4 in a row no matter what.
Larry Bird wasnt quick? 2:25 first step blast.
I've often said Bird had an amazing first step. He wasn't slow at a full sprint by any means, but he could reach full speed faster than even some of the best athletes in the league.
Classic NBA intro. NBC had the second best.
I like NBC intro better the best of all-time I like CBS intro though. ABC ESPN Intro is garbage.
Why can't we find full games anymore?
Once McHale starts spinning, it's all over.
Bird underrated
I had never seen Larry Bird play with goggles👍
4 games
Dominique would dominate today.
I can only say it one way... It's the Fuckin Legend
0:47 Del Curry playing dirty as he purposefully elbowed Larry and fractured his eye orbital.
Now we got the Jay's 😤😤
I know this is 88. But my young memory remembers going into the 87 Playoffs the team I was most worried about was Atlanta. I didn't really think Detroit was going to be the main nemesis for the Celtics in 87 and 88. I remember in 87 after we beat Milwaukee that I was happy we were playing Detroit not Atlanta. But turned out Detroit was a much different team in 87 opposed to the team they were just a year before. Out were tool bags like Kent Benson Tripuka John Long Terry Tyler. In came Salley Rodman and of course Dumars emerged and the team of the late 80's was not Atlanta but Detroit. Boston found out the hard way in 88
2 50 origin of fadeaway
How much did Bird average when he was having double vision with those goggles on?
Yeah that's right he had double vision on top of having mangled fingers and still had a 50 40 90 season for the second year in a row. Could anything stop this man?
Over 50% shooting with double vision.
Breathtaking basketball. Though I now concede, begrudgingly, that Lebron has surpassed Bird, I still think from about 84-88, Bird played as well as anyone has ever played the game.
You must be kidding.
Yeah, LeBron has played more seasons, I'll give him that.
@@cindyknudson2715 He has a longer range of greatness is my point. Though from an artistic stand point, I still like Bird better. Bird was the better shooter and rebounder, and his floor game is unparalleled. Lebron had the better career, and in my opinion durability means something. Otherwise, we could say Prime Bernard King was better than both of them :)
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And Spud Webb did that $&?@ wearing PONY shoes
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Ol’ Ronnie Frotella throwd heseff a dadgum TAMPER TARTRUM 🤬😡
I remember when Ronnie Frotella got sa sideways of he’s own bench players becows they was going boinkers over Bird ☘️ makin so many ridiculous shots 🏀 the night he got 60 down to the BIG N. O. ⚜️
I think the tip pass by Larry Bird is influenced by hockey players like Bobby Orr. Tip pass one timer score and a foul.
Larry may not have been pretty or entertaining but he sure hit some shots. What would it have been like if he was worth watching?
I guess it's possible it wasn't. But most people who understand and appreciate basketball found his play pretty and entertaining as fuck.
Bird is the 2nd most entertaining player for me to watch behind Jordan. I don't think the man was remotely boring. In almost every game that I've watched of his he does at least one thing that makes my head spin. His highlight reals are insane.
Bird is better than LeBron and about the same as Kobe
Better than Lebron but not kobe
Kobe Bryant would've scored 81 points on Larry bird especially broken back & bad feet ; LeBron James would've scored 50s &40s average against Larry bird; dirk nowitzki & Nikola jokic each would've scored 50s points against Larry bird especially broken back & bad feet Larry bird
I think that the Hawks were the better team and that the Celtics only won the series because the had home court.
Last of the good ol white boys in the nba
Hawks were a pathetic defensive team.
The Hawks were actually the 4th in points allowed & 1st in 1986-87
@@PhilBurr100 In this game they sucked.