When you watch clips like this you realize why when Kareem was asked who the greatest player he ever played against was he said " It could have been Larry Bird. " He could do everything ". " He just wore us out" . Enough said.
Bird made it look so easy. Every shots he made seem to have "swooosh". The Celtics had excellent ball movements and they were able to get favorable match-up isolation.
Interestingly enough (and you can hear the announcers touch on it at the start of the clip) Bird had a subpar first month to start the '85-'86 season - the back injury he sustained in the off-season was clearly bothering him. Somewhere around December though he got his act together and proceeded to go off on the greatest run of his brilliant career. This was Bird's peak.
@bryanburnap4537 He'd hurt his back shoveling just the summer before. The fact that he was playing at all is a testament to his toughness and the effectiveness of Dan Dyrek's skill.
In addition to all his other accolades (deserved) few seem to mention movement without ball. He's so wide open cats say, "why is no one guarding him?" That would be because he gets himself open.
bird was so unselfish ,he always wanted to stay in the team frame , making sure to keep parish and McHale involved also ,cause imo he could've scored 30 plus a night if he wanted to .especially on nights like this when he was on fire .
especially kent benson , bird said a main reason why he left Indiana his freshman year was guys like kent benson a upperclassmen was a A-HOLE to him so everytime he faced the pistons he'd lit them up cause of benson in memory .
Swish Swish Swish Swish haha Larry's shots are a look n Sound of Beauty absolute Silk!!!! an oh yeah Da GOAT baby!!!!! My goodness I miss these times!!!!!! My C's kickin ass in beantown!! My Boston Gaaaden was a thing of beauty too!!! Celtic home games were like Dodger games when Da Dodgers were in their only Real home BROOKLYN!!!!! an even tho I'm a bomber n not old enough to have been at ebetts field C's games in da Gaaden were like a family affair atmosphere it was still all Regualr neighborhood people back then mostly ya Italian n Irish n everyone Pretty much new eachother, thank goodness I got to go 7-8 times back then, Brooklyn born C's fan baby!!!....Rip DJ REG LB RED n J MOST!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐅🐻🐖🐄
Watching Bird play and the Celtics of that era was just amazing how workman like they just seemed to go about their business of dismantling you piece by piece. Of course these pistons would eventually reach a level where they could get the Celtics when they all started to age and the injuries caught up with them.I'm actually one of those people that think those Pistons were skilled teams. You don't win back to back titles by just beating everyone up, they had some talent.
I definitely think those Pistons were an All-Time great team. They played rough, and sometimes dirty, and they take a lot of grief for not shaking the Bulls' hands. But for a time, they were as good as the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls. I hate them, but I will always respect them.
that is why Isiah and laimbeer hated Bird so much...he has killing the pistons for a long time....in 1988 with his back deteriorating--they finally overcome Bird's Celtics...but starting 1980 to 1987---it was Bird over Isiah....
DC122500 dc Laimbeer intentionly tryed to hurt Bird, or it looked that way anyway. & they toss Bird instead of Laimbeer.I know Bird was upset but he had every right to be.
Bird was soooo good. I was a big time Pistons fan in the 80s and I HATED him! Notice many of his points came against Tripuka. Tripuka was an excellent scorer, but when we traded him for Dantley, that's when the Pistons fortunes started to change.
I think Bird used to take it as an insult when teams would put their white players on him. That's why he'd always cook Tripucka and Kiki Vandeweghe and those dudes. Only exception of course, was Bobby Jones...who defensively was a bad bad man.
watch the bulls/Celtics game in Feb or march of 1987 in Chicago think dennis Johnson & kevin McHale was out the bulls put Ben Poquette on bird to guard him .Bird lit the bulls and Poquette up for 31 points in the first half and finished with 43 total Bird said after the game he was pissed caused the bulls put Poquette on him as an embarrassment so he lit them up lol
@@madcapper6 One of the "tells" for the 1985-86 season is Bill Walton (#5) in the game. He played in 80 games that season. He only played in 10 the following season and then retired.
Dam he shot 94% from the FT line and was only 4th in the league? This must be one of the first games of the season if 4 guys are shooting above 94% from the line.
Dennis rodman says Bird would be playing in Europe today never had to face the 85 Bird or the 81 Bird etc... He caught Larry at the end of his greatness. So he should keep his mouth shut cause his ass was real lucky he never had to cover Bird during his prime !!
That was a couple years later....after the game they had won but had Bird steal the ball and get it to DJ for the layup. Always thought that was one of the more ridiculous aspects of the statement (which was nonsense to begin with)....you're going to pick a game where the guy just made a great play to beat your team to say he's overrated? Lol.
@@KClouisville Actually, the steal happened in game 5 of 7. It was after game 7, I believe, that first Rodman and then Thomas made their stupid comments.l
Bird isn’t right lol…. If he knew you couldn’t guard him for real, he’d would mash the gas real smooth like. Tripuka couldn’t guard him and he knew it. John Long too lol.
Larry Bird was the best basketball player in NBA history.
When you watch clips like this you realize why when Kareem was asked who the greatest player
he ever played against was he said " It could have been Larry Bird. " He could do everything ".
" He just wore us out" . Enough said.
Bird , in my opinion, is the best all-around player of all time!
Bird 13 for 13 from line. I kept thinking they were replaying the same free throw. All 13 were perfect swishes.
Smartest player of all time.
What made him smarter than another smart, high iq player?
See the look of concentration and competitiveness on Bird´s face while taking freethrows...the dude was a cold blooded killer!
Bird made it look so easy. Every shots he made seem to have "swooosh".
The Celtics had excellent ball movements and they were able to get favorable match-up isolation.
What a great game by Larry he was awesome could do everything out there!
possibly the goat teammate... I can't think of a single great player Larry Bird wouldn't absolutely DOMINATE alongside
Interestingly enough (and you can hear the announcers touch on it at the start of the clip) Bird had a subpar first month to start the '85-'86 season - the back injury he sustained in the off-season was clearly bothering him. Somewhere around December though he got his act together and proceeded to go off on the greatest run of his brilliant career. This was Bird's peak.
Thot subpar was good? Only in golf I guess. . .
Yeah at this point he was only averaging 21 a game shooting like 43 percent. Hard to believe right
@bryanburnap4537 He'd hurt his back shoveling just the summer before. The fact that he was playing at all is a testament to his toughness and the effectiveness of Dan Dyrek's skill.
Swish Swish all nylon that's Larry Bird besides look at that pass . Greatest player ever
In addition to all his other accolades (deserved) few seem to mention movement without ball. He's so wide open cats say, "why is no one guarding him?" That would be because he gets himself open.
I think only one of Bird's shots hit the rim. Net every time.
BALLER. White boy had the complete game.
@Randall Denison How do you show your COMPLETE game in golf ? It's just you & you hit a ball, NO defense.
bird was so unselfish ,he always wanted to stay in the team frame , making sure to keep parish and McHale involved also ,cause imo he could've scored 30 plus a night if he wanted to .especially on nights like this when he was on fire .
The Real GOAT
Bird Makes good players look bad and average players look for a new career!
always good to see tripucka and benson getting torched!!
Yeah, I heard Larry hated Benson from IU days
especially kent benson , bird said a main reason why he left Indiana his freshman year was guys like kent benson a upperclassmen was a A-HOLE to him so everytime he faced the pistons he'd lit them up cause of benson in memory .
@Randall Denison exactly right, what a blow hard for saying that about the Celtics.
@ken wesaw I take it you're from Detroit.
@ken wesaw Same thing happened to Pistons when the Bulls took over.
Swish Swish Swish Swish haha Larry's shots are a look n Sound of Beauty absolute Silk!!!! an oh yeah Da GOAT baby!!!!! My goodness I miss these times!!!!!! My C's kickin ass in beantown!! My Boston Gaaaden was a thing of beauty too!!! Celtic home games were like Dodger games when Da Dodgers were in their only Real home BROOKLYN!!!!! an even tho I'm a bomber n not old enough to have been at ebetts field C's games in da Gaaden were like a family affair atmosphere it was still all Regualr neighborhood people back then mostly ya Italian n Irish n everyone Pretty much new eachother, thank goodness I got to go 7-8 times back then, Brooklyn born C's fan baby!!!....Rip DJ REG LB RED n J MOST!!🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🐘🐼🐕🐬🐳🐅🐻🐖🐄
Watching Bird play and the Celtics of that era was just amazing how workman like they just seemed to go about their business of dismantling you piece by piece. Of course these pistons would eventually reach a level where they could get the Celtics when they all started to age and the injuries caught up with them.I'm actually one of those people that think those Pistons were skilled teams. You don't win back to back titles by just beating everyone up, they had some talent.
I definitely think those Pistons were an All-Time great team. They played rough, and sometimes dirty, and they take a lot of grief for not shaking the Bulls' hands. But for a time, they were as good as the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls. I hate them, but I will always respect them.
that is why Isiah and laimbeer hated Bird so much...he has killing the pistons for a long time....in 1988 with his back deteriorating--they finally overcome Bird's Celtics...but starting 1980 to 1987---it was Bird over Isiah....
DC122500 dc Laimbeer intentionly tryed to hurt Bird, or it looked that way anyway. & they toss Bird instead of Laimbeer.I know Bird was upset but he had every right to be.
Bird was soooo good. I was a big time Pistons fan in the 80s and I HATED him! Notice many of his points came against Tripuka. Tripuka was an excellent scorer, but when we traded him for Dantley, that's when the Pistons fortunes started to change.
His surname says it all...BIRD (above the rest) Celtics forever!
Masterrrrr!!!
Bird.... better shooter, rebounder, passer, more clutch and free throw shooter than Lebron....stop me when I lie
Enjoyed this very much. Thank you!
Funny how at 1:21 Larry faked out lamebeer & wanted to dunk yet changed his mind? Would've been a highlight dunk!
i dont think there was a shot here that larry took that didnt hit the rim, theyre all wet
I think Bird used to take it as an insult when teams would put their white players on him. That's why he'd always cook Tripucka and Kiki Vandeweghe and those dudes. Only exception of course, was Bobby Jones...who defensively was a bad bad man.
watch the bulls/Celtics game in Feb or march of 1987 in Chicago think dennis Johnson & kevin McHale was out the bulls put Ben Poquette on bird to guard him .Bird lit the bulls and Poquette up for 31 points in the first half and finished with 43 total Bird said after the game he was pissed caused the bulls put Poquette on him as an embarrassment so he lit them up lol
he did it to shawn kemp in dec 1989 at the boston garden he lit kemp up for 40 in his rookie season
@Dave Wesley That's cause Kemp is also from Indiana, so Bird had to tell him & show him.
He can rebound too.
He used to wear Kelly Tripucka out
TheJMSESQ kelly was too short at 6' 5" to handle larry.
@@johnokapal9537 I think Bird was insulted by Tripucka guarding him. Bird said bring on Benson too. Ha,Ha
Thanks a lot for upload ...
Bird - "I always found it disrespectful when they had a white guy gaurd me"
thanks.
Holy crap at 1:44 bird is the 4th best free throw shooter at 94.4%. That’s crazy high and he’s 4th. It’s beginning of the season but that is crazy. 😂😂
It is.
I was thinking maybe there's some guys in the league at that moment who have hit all 3 of their free throws thus far and are at 100%.
Damn every time at the free-throw line he hits the bottom of the net
Dantley and Tripuka..lol
Name 5 players who are better than Bird! I’ll wait…
K. Tripuka on Bird?
Please.
Do you have an exact date for this game? That way I can know if this is the '84-85 season or the '85-86 season.
yeah, the date for this game was Nov 27th, 1985. so the '85-86 season
@@Crunchysopa52 Cool. Thanks for the response and the upload. Much appreciated.
@@madcapper6 One of the "tells" for the 1985-86 season is Bill Walton (#5) in the game. He played in 80 games that season.
He only played in 10 the following season and then retired.
They had to fix the rim mic after the game
Dam he shot 94% from the FT line and was only 4th in the league? This must be one of the first games of the season if 4 guys are shooting above 94% from the line.
Dennis rodman says Bird would be playing in Europe today never had to face the 85 Bird or the 81 Bird etc... He caught Larry at the end of his greatness. So he should keep his mouth shut cause his ass was real lucky he never had to cover Bird during his prime !!
Bird cooked him on the court. He's still salty about it.
after this game Thomas decided that Bird was overrated .... or was it later? Anyways, if Bird was overrated, what was Thomas? A bench player?
That was a couple years later....after the game they had won but had Bird steal the ball and get it to DJ for the layup. Always thought that was one of the more ridiculous aspects of the statement (which was nonsense to begin with)....you're going to pick a game where the guy just made a great play to beat your team to say he's overrated? Lol.
@@KClouisville Actually, the steal happened in game 5 of 7. It was after game 7, I believe, that first Rodman and then Thomas made their stupid comments.l
only 2 assists, shameful
Are these the same commentators that still announce celtics games?? That's pretty crazy!
Bird isn’t right lol…. If he knew you couldn’t guard him for real, he’d would mash the gas real smooth like. Tripuka couldn’t guard him and he knew it. John Long too lol.
What about the full game and all the shots he missed this just seems like one sided what's being shown to us here.
It's a Bird highlight not a game highlights!
lol dumbass!!
3:07-3:11 Bird travels and commits a charge
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