The Rest, Only Noise

In the first five minutes of Game 4, Jordan didn't score.

In his first point, he ran out of the opportunity with an air cut and was ready to dunk, but was knocked down by Ewing's foul.

"Patrick, are you serious?" Jordan thought that tactical fouls were normal, but Ewing just rushed to injure him.

Ewing raised his hand to admit the foul and said indifferently: "There are no friends on the court."

He **** Jordan off one of two free throws.

Then, with a big wave of his hand, Louie replaced Ewing and McHale, and replaced Oakley and John Salley.

Louie enjoys every time he sees Oakley and Jordan playing together.

What he enjoys is the process of changing the fate of his players.

Although Oakley was also traded to the Knicks to fight the Bulls on the timeline that Louis was familiar with, he was Jordan's bodyguard at the beginning.

But in this timeline, Oakley has never been Jordan's bodyguard, and naturally he can't be Jordan's buddy.

Oakley, simply Oakley in New York.

Before the Celtics game, Oakley was the Knicks' only offensive player.

Even past the Celtics, Oakley was the most vicious looking Knicks team.

Oakley played just one minute before something happened.

Salley didn't hold the backboard firmly enough to slip it from his hand.

Then, Nance reached out, trying to take the backboard off.

He and Oakley got together.

But Oakley wasn't one to share, he pulled the ball in his direction, and Nance didn't give in. The two were at a stalemate. Oakley was anxious, raised his hand and pushed Nance down: "How the **** do you dare to grab a rebound with me! You bastard!"

The boos at the Memorial Coliseum have always been there, and this time it was intense.

But to the dismay of fans, Nance and his teammates did not choose to fight the violence.

Their performance seemed to acquiesce to bowing their heads.

This made Jordan very angry, he said angrily: "We can't just be beaten like this, we have to take the initiative! They think we are soft, but we are not!"

In this conflict, the referee sentenced both sides to a jump ball to end.

Oakley is certainly no match for Nance on the jump ball.

But in this conflict, the Blazers were too weak from start to finish.

Hubby Brown pointedly said: "The real problem with the Blazers may not be a problem of strength. They remind me of the Philadelphia 76ers in 1977. That team has the greatest talent on paper, but after a series , they broke down because no one was going to come out and fight for their teammates."

This is where the criticism of the Trail Blazers begins.

But a big problem for the Blazers was the inability to pass the ball to Jordan.

Rodman's off-the-ball defense is very good. Wilson, Oakley and Salley actively switch defenses, rotate, and catch the ball around the front defense, which is the main reason why teammates are difficult to pass the ball to Jordan.

Even if Jordan got the ball, he couldn't do much.

The Knicks are ferocious, vulgar, and have frequent physical contact. Whenever they have a chance, they want to bring him down, so that he can't mobilize his muscles to play.

It's like it's not a basketball game, but a wrestling match.

The number of hand-to-hand fights between Jordan and opponents is far more than the number of ball-handling attacks.

The Blazers couldn't give Jordan the ball, so others had to do it.

Drexler catches the ball in the low post. He doesn't have as many fancy skills as Jordan. Every time he gets the ball, all he does is simply sway left and right and turn over.

His shot wasn't soft enough, and he shot hard.

Stockton came back with a defensive rebound, passed the Celtics level, and recovered.

The key reason why the Knicks can destroy in the finals is Stockton's awakening.

Stockton's performance is the reason why Rick Adelman was finally dismissed.

He can't even copy homework.

The Celtics restrained Stockton in a textbook way, giving him the opportunity to let him shoot outside and force him to drive inside.

But the Blazers didn't protect the basket in the interior, so they didn't dare to give Stockton a chance to break through, and they wanted to prevent shots and break through.

Stockton went to the basket, Jordan caught up, and wanted to give a large-scale foul.

He's on it!

To his shock, the massive foul he thought didn't stop Stockton's layup.

Jordan was called for a foul, but Stockton's layup was unaffected.

"Mike, are you tickling him?" Louie said sarcastically.

Stockton table

In the same situation, he may not have intended to hurt Jordan's mentality, but his words did sound hurtful: "A thug of this strength really can't be considered a foul in the East."

Another situation that made Louis look like he was dreaming.

Stockton, who was about to win his first championship, educated Jordan publicly.

It's unbelievable that only Louis can feel this way.

Jordan, who rarely got the ball, did not get rid of Rodman's defense.

He shook it vigorously, and Rodman's purpose was very clear.

Jordan can go left or right, the defense in the paint has been arranged, and it is impossible to shoot.

Jordan chose a jumper from the free throw line, and Rodman took off to interfere, which obviously affected his shooting arc.

He missed again.

At this stage in the first quarter, Jordan scored 2 points on free throws alone.

The Knicks' strategy was beginning to pay off, as Jordan was dazed by the intense physical confrontation, and he couldn't hit a jumper.

The Blazers also blocked the Knicks' counterattack.

Jordan took the defensive rebound and threw it to Drexler.

The glider fast break failed, and Sally came out to match.

Halfway through Drexler's breakthrough, he felt unable to play and passed back to Porter.

Porter made a pass to the left, looking for Jordan.

The pass was obviously high, and Rodman jumped forward, knocked Jordan's body in the air, and shot the ball forward.

The two landed together. Jordan was unable to chase the ball immediately because he lost his balance, and Rodman chased the ball with all his strength.

This time, Louis can be sure.

Debuting in the Trail Blazers may have given Jordan a better team configuration and allowed him to lead the team to compete for the hegemony earlier, but he also lost the opportunity to confront the strong teams in the East, so he has not taken the initiative to increase his own. muscle.

He took a natural approach to weight gain.

He's still gaining weight, but it's not intentional.

So, when the Knicks dealt with him like they dealt with Bird, he looked so embarrassed.

He had never encountered such a confrontation in the West.

Seriously, can't blame him.

When the Knicks played the Blazers in the regular season, Louie would deliberately let the team stop playing, just to make the Blazers unprepared.

Although they can see the intensity of the Eastern Conference finals from the video of the game, how can they feel that kind of game without experiencing it in person?

Tonight, what the Blazers encountered was the team that killed the Celtics in the East.

Jordan saw his greatest weakness.

He's got too little muscle, he's too light, and he's too bad against the beasts of the East.

Since the 1960s, basketball has gone from being about skill in the early 1970s to being about confrontation in the 1980s. And this era will last for a long time, unless the rules are artificially changed, otherwise, the ability to confront will determine the stability of a player's performance on the big stage.

The Trail Blazers' pass was interrupted, Rodman moved it to the frontcourt and was caught up by Jordan, but as soon as he passed the ball, Jordan had no move.

Followed up, is Wilson.

He caught Rodman's pass, took off outside the paint on the left wing, and a gliding one-arm dunk landed in front of Jordan's eyes.

Wilson looked at Jordan and said defiantly, "You're much easier to deal with than Larry."

"I don't have the quality, isn't it? Killing people still needs to be punished?" Louie shouted, "Hurry up and defend me!"

Tomjanovich said happily: "It seems that Portland is over."

"Not yet." Louie looked at Jordan.

The confrontation is really bad, but he has the ability to dodge and fight.

"Hey, open a pocket for Mr. Joe!" Louie shouted.

Blazers coach Adelman heard Louie's words, thinking that the Knicks have to do something, very vigilant.

Then, he saw Jordan smoothly get into position in the low post.

Drexler passes the ball.

"Let Michael get the ball in the low post, what do they want to do?" Adelman felt wrong.

The moment Jordan caught the ball, Oakley immediately attacked from the line.

Jordan's habit of hitting the line with the ball was caught. He was forced to turn sideways to the bottom line. At this time, Stockton who was supposed to defend Porter ~www.readwn.com~ was as sinister as a hyena, suddenly came to Jordan's back, and roughly stabbed the ball from Jordan's crotch.

Jordan, who was squeezed by the force, was forced to kneel on the ground to pick up the ball, but in front of him, Oakley deliberately rammed forward, knocking his man and the ball away, and knocking the other away.

"Beep!!"

Darrell Garretson has blown the game for decades, such a fierce pinch, such a fierce defense, for the first time.

The scariest thing about the Knicks

What? As a referee, from his point of view, the most terrifying thing about this team is not that they dare to fight, but that they can distinguish between fights and games.

Also, they never actively fight.

But they will force you to fight him.

If you can't beat him, he will rule you physically and mentally.

Jordan was like a lone star in this round. He was completely trapped. He flanked so fast that he didn't have time to react. He fought against the ball to stop the ball, the guards sneaked from behind, and the inside line responsible for pressure pressed forward.

It takes less than two seconds from stopping the ball to being attacked, dropping the ball, and falling.

In less than two seconds, the most legendary defensive system in NBA history, dedicated to a star, came out.

Garretson gave Oakley a foul out of pity for the Blazers.

But a foul won't save the Blazers from a near-collapse situation.

Before the first quarter was over, it felt like the Blazers had lost all hope.

The last team to give such terrible pressure was the Celtics in 1984.