The Rest, Only Noise

In the division finals of the East and West, it is new to the team, and it is not new.

Both East and West are missing a familiar face.

On the Eastern side, during 1980-1989, the Celtics, who had reached the conference finals 8 times, fell in the semifinals.

The Western Conference was the first time the Blazers missed the Western Conference finals after drafting Michael Jordan in 1984.

The reason why these two teams missed the conference finals was injuries. The Celtics' injuries had too much impact. On the Blazers side, Jordan was beaten by Paul Allen with a 40% chance of a comeback. Request for season reimbursement.

He can't bet on the team's future for a 10 percent chance of winning a title.

This caused Jordan and Allen to have a bad relationship.

Jordan had to watch as the team was eliminated 4-2 by the Utah Jazz.

In this way, the conference finals between the East and the West will become the Knicks vs. Pistons, and the Jazz vs. Lakers.

It is worth mentioning that the Lakers, like the Celtics, have reached the conference finals 8 times since 1980.

When the Lakers decided to rebuild, with many newbies in the team and no strong support, Tragic led the team to the division finals with great data for two consecutive years. One has to sigh at his strength and the implied meaning of the name of Tragedy. great malice.

Especially this year, the Celtics are finally gone. If the league is less competitive, the Lakers may be able to hit the third championship in the Tragic/Jabbar era, and even if there is no championship, Tragic can get an MVP trophy .

The Knicks won 74 games in the regular season...

With New York's media influence, with this record, although the suspense of the MVP has not yet been revealed, it is already certain that it will be chosen among the Knicks' main players.

Either Wilson or Ewing.

The tragic player may not even get second in the MVP vote.

Isn't that tragic enough?

Not even Louie was worth it for him, because of Louie's appearance, Tragic became actually a stronger and more well-rounded player than Louie's previous life.

However, this upgraded version of the best point guard magician in history has suffered a five-game losing streak in the contemporary finals and has not yet had an MVP.

Louis, who realized this, did feel that he was sinful.

But what can he do? These results were not achieved under his subjective will.

So he spends a few minutes bemoaning the tragedian, and then decides to move on.

On May 20, 1989, Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was played at Madison Square Garden.

The Pistons' results this year are very surprising. The combination of Dumars, Ilo, Aguirre, Worthy, Parish and Mahon is excellent.

They played the league's second-best defense and achieved their biggest goal of the 1980s in the playoffs - beating the Celtics.

Even if they knocked down an incomplete Celtic team, it was enough to comfort the coaching staff and management that their efforts were not in vain.

In the Eastern Conference finals, they decided to give it a go with the Knicks.

Although the Knicks swept the Pistons with an overwhelming advantage in the regular season, in the regular season, some teams prefer to play according to their own habits rather than targeting, and they may not adjust their strategies according to the characteristics of their opponents and win or lose at the same time. When the suspense is not big, there is no need to make yourself too hard.

Now that they are in the Eastern Conference Finals, and the tickets to the finals are just around the corner, they will never be fooled by the Knicks' 74-win reputation and vow to compete with them.

Chuck Daly demanded that the game be more confrontational, protecting the restricted area as the first goal, ignoring the Knicks' pick-and-roll tactics.

So the Pistons relied on the Knicks' pick-and-rolls and off-the-ball shielding turrets to make frequent moves in the mid-range. Even if it was possible to take a step forward, they had to choose to take a step back and gamble their lives under the death order of the coaching staff.

The consequence of doing this is that Edouard's inside line is very uncomfortable, the Pistons block the penalty area, and they can't play hard inside.

But ball handlers like Wilson and Stockton who like to play pick-and-rolls are dying.

Especially Wilson, this year he has put a lot of effort into the defensive end, and the offensive end has been used as an arrow to defend. The average points and shooting percentages are not as good as last season, but his strength is undoubtedly stronger.

He was originally a player with a very accurate mid-range distance, but he was sometimes unstable under high-intensity defense, and his confrontation ability had to be practiced, so Louis asked him to play more empty-handed, catch-and-shoot routines.

However, if you give him a solid screen and no one interferes with his shooting, he can really make you sick.

Originally, as long as the confrontation is not strong, Wilson doesn't care if your defense can keep up. He is also capable of producing tons of output just by playing Yan Ye shoot against the defender.

The Pistons chose to give up the middle distance, increase the confrontation without the ball, and follow the defense from the outside.

Louie decided to take every measure and changed the tactical focus to allow Wilson to hold the ball more.

After the touch was opened, Wilson showed a mature and stable side. He was not satisfied with taking away the game with high scores by himself. He also liked to be a hand-over screener at a high position and a low-position attack to attract double-teams. He was already very skilled in these routines.

From the overall point of view, Louis did not tilt much tactics on Wilson, so from the perspective of the scene, it was Wilson who led the shooters to lead the pick-and-rolls and the insiders who cut through screens, killing the Quartet on the field.

"Benj said it well, you are really my baby!"

Ewing felt uncomfortable listening to Louie's nasty praise.

"Don't you just pass a few balls?" Ewing was even more annoyed that Louie had never treated him like this.

Louie looked at him contemptuously: "If I praise you like that, Benj won't react."

"Hmph, that sounds nice," Ewing said bitterly, "as if you complimented me."

"You have to speak with conscience, haven't I praised you?"

"do you have?"

"I do not have?"

"No!"

"Impossible!" Louie said affirmatively. "I slapped your **** at least ten times and said you were good!"

Ewing protested: "That's perfunctory!"

"So you mean..." Louis suddenly laughed, "My mother, you are so disgusting, do you expect me to call a big baby with a few hundred pounds? You can hear it, but I can't call it out. , you are so disgusting!"

The Pistons did not find the seriousness of the problem.

Wilson began to appear more in the elbow or low ball, in addition to one-on-one, most of the time, he is a tower role.

His assist and assist rate have always been low, but the Knicks have enough commanders, so Louie hopes that Wilson will learn more like Bird when he instigates the offense, and guide his teammates to score without taking up too much possession.

Bird is probably the most Tetsuya Kuroko-like playmaker in professional basketball history.

He basically passes the ball when he touches the ball and never sticks to the ball. This kind of skill cannot be learned by watching videos. Wilson doesn't have that kind of monster consciousness, but if he is given the ball and asked him to use the standard of the big core, he can completely be like today. Later this becomes the core of tactics.

Use the defensive resources of the Pistons to control the penalty area, prevent the Knicks from showing their power on the inside, and follow the outside line to avoid being shot through by Stockton, Miller, Wilson, Hornacek, and Marley.

This is the limit.

The mid-range is where they voluntarily give up.

This has been the killing point of the playoffs since time immemorial.

No matter what era, a solid mid-range jumper can play a key role in the playoffs.

The Pistons bet that the Knicks were inaccurate in the middle distance. Wilson was regarded by Louis as the core of the ball. He scored 40 points, 7 rebounds and 12 assists, leading the team to 124 to 98 and rout the Pistons by 26 points.

"No matter how you look at it, New York dominates this game."

"Patrick Ewing's offense was limited, Kevin McHale only had 20 minutes of mid-range touch, New York was 3-for-13 from 3-point range — you can see how much Detroit did to beat the Knicks. Work hard, but they're up against a team that won 74 games in the regular season."

"They always have someone who can stand up."

The reporters were delighted to see Wilson scoring 40 points, "Benj, congratulations on your personal best score in the playoffs this season in this game, how are you feeling now?"

"I'm very excited, but it's not because of the score, but because we won." Wilson said modestly, "I didn't do much, it's all about the trust of the coach and the support of my teammates. I used their strength to perform in this game. The victory belongs to us, and the glory belongs to New York."

Every Knicks press conference is a representative of extreme high emotional intelligence and extreme low emotional intelligence.

Wilson is too good at talking, Ewing is not a question of whether he can speak, he can't speak human words.

"40 points is great, but I won't be happy for him, where is this?" Ewing said sternly, "If it's for victory, I can get 60 points."

After a long while, Ewing said to the reporter who was frozen in place: "Yes, I made a joke."

Thanks to Mr. You for throwing himself at the end, otherwise everyone would think there was something wrong with the Knicks.

Ewing's jokes, like the talent of a streaming star, are only visible to himself and his fans.

Louis is used to it. Although it is a bad job, he finds it interesting. Now everyone regards it as a reserved show, so he can say whatever he wants.

Like Wilson never took Ewing's jokes seriously.

Within the team, their relationship is special.

The two are not friends, they have a strong sense of competition with each other, and even other players have to stand between them.

But this did not affect their cooperation on the field. If there was a fight, they would stand up for each other as soon as possible.

As long as there is no apparent conflict of interest, this is healthy competition.

The next day, the final grand prize of the season was announced.

The 1988-89 regular season MVP belongs to Patrick Ewing.

He edged out teammate Benjamin Wilson by a narrow margin.

Wilson's biggest advantage in the MVP race is his media affinity. He is more popular and sought after than Ewing, and is the only wing star in the new generation who can match Jordan's.

But Ewing was the elephant in the room.

Whether on or off the court, he is the boss of the Knicks, including Wilson who has repeatedly claimed that the Knicks have only one boss (that is Ewing).

From the data point of view, Ewing is also the undisputed boss.

In the regular season, he averaged 23 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 3.8 blocks per game, and in the playoffs, he averaged 24 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks per game.

In contrast, Wilson is limited by the ball and tactics, and has not produced dazzling data this season.

Even if it is not as good as Ewing in all aspects, with the affinity of the media, he still loses to Ewing by a small margin in the MVP vote. In turn, think about it, once Wilson hits data comparable to Ewing in the future, this Will the point gap be erased?

The answer is unquestionable~www.readwn.com~ So far, the fourth-year Ewing has completed the harvest of the first team, first defense, DPOY, and MVP.

On this day, Ewing was late for training.

Louie didn't give him a good look: "What's the matter, you won't train on time when you get the MVP, right?"

"I'm stuck in traffic..."

"Yeah, yeah, after you won the MVP, the **** on the road started blocking your car. Why didn't you block it before?"

"I'm in a traffic jam!"

"I believe in you. After all, you won the MVP. Maybe you even changed the license plate to MVP, right? Who won't you block?"

Ewing was furious: "Why the **** don't you believe me?"

"I believe it. The last MVP player of the Knicks was 26 years ago. Who won't they block you?"

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