The Rest, Only Noise

In April, the Knicks' battle for the top spot with the Blazers heated up.

After the All-Star weekend, although the number of losses the Knicks lost increased, but at the same time, the Blazers also lost the early season that seemed to be the advantage of the Knicks who beat whomever they saw.

Xavier McDaniel has been suspended multiple times for frequent on-field violence and cannot guarantee attendance.

Clifford Robinson was injured after failing to withstand Riley's Devil's training and was on a free-for-all card.

These two people, one is the starter of the Blazers, and the other is the best sixth man of the Blazers. They are both important and should not be lost. Now they can't play for their own reasons, so the team should adjust the state to the best. The attitude is to enter the final stage of the playoffs, and the combat power and record decline simultaneously.

The star centers of each team have brushed the best performance of the season in the Blazers.

The most brutal of them all was Ralph Sampson.

Bird's injury and age have greatly reduced his attendance and performance. Although he still averaged 22 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists per game, compared to his peak period, it is completely incomparable.

It's like Nicolas Cage from 2007 onwards.

Before 2007, Cage was one of the best actors of his generation. After 2007, he seems to have only bad movies left, with occasional wonderful performances.

The Celtics' situation is even more serious.

Thomas is gone, Bird is getting old, Billy Owens was the No. 1 c** in the 1990s, Doug Smith is not worth mentioning, and only Sampson can be the core of offense and defense in the entire team, so since the 1990s, Sampson got the ball he couldn't have imagined in the '80s.

Now it seems that last season was really the last brilliance of the Celtics. This season, their winning rate is only 50%, and they are currently ranked fifth in the Eastern Conference.

Sampson's personal data is more luxurious than last season, currently leading the data list with an average of 35 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists and 4.1 blocks per game.

In this case, brushing the data seems to be the driving force for Sampson to persevere.

Against the Blazers, the stats he decided to brush weren't points.

This season, he has scored 50+ points in as many as 13 games in a single game, and scoring points is nothing new.

So he's targeting the rebound because the Blazers don't have a pure center. The guest center Larry Nance, although he has great athletic ability, is essentially the play style and habit of a power forward. Once he encounters a real center like him, he will suffer a lot.

Sampson first fouled Nance 4 times in halftime, and then the Blazers, who had a tight interior rotation, frequently let some wing players go to the interior.

This is the same trick that Riley learned from Louie.

As a result, he did not fully learn.

If Louie comes, he will let those drinking fountain centers who usually don't even have a chance to play go up to Sampson, and won't torture his flanks.

What's more, the wing players are still the winning points of the Blazers. They want to win after blowing their mentality?

Riley didn't get it.

The Blazers tried their best, they wanted to win this game, but the result was 36 points, 41 rebounds and 7 blocks in a single game that no one else has come after Sampson.

41 rebounds in a single game, this number means a lot.

In the future, there may still be post players on one of the best nights of their careers, grabbing 30 rebounds in a single game, but 40 rebounds in a single game is basically impossible.

The modern NBA requires that all positions have a certain amount of athletic ability, so even if the center position is conducive to rebounding, it is very difficult to grab more than 20 rebounds in a single game.

Not to mention it's 40.

Sampson's rebounding ability has actually degraded this season, because he spent more time on offense, and when he met a rare centerless team like the Trail Blazers, he played a national-level game that attracted major media coverage. show.

Sampson is frequently compared to Russell and Chamberlain.

The media of the past and the present believe that Sampson is higher than Russell, and has an offensive ability that is several dimensions ahead; higher than Chamberlain, and at the same time more like a leader than the opponent, never afraid to take the ball at critical moments, And five championships.

At this stage of his career, Sampson has been regarded by many as the first center in history.

The only problem is that his big accolades are a little less.

There are only 2 mvp, and only one fmvp.

Sampson's killer against the Blazers has played a role in the centers of other teams.

Starting with Sampson, all centers who played with the Blazers wanted to refresh their career rebounds.

David Robinson did it, grabbing 26 rebounds for the last time he faced the Blazers in the regular season, and the Lakers won by two points.

Olajuwon did it.

He had 41 points, 18 rebounds, 6 assists and 10 blocks in an overtime loss to the Blazers.

Clams

Although the record is not broken, and the data is not as shocking as Sampson, a triple-double including a block is still enough to explain the problem. All the centers who can be named are looking at the calendar and preparing for the game against the Blazers. Prepare.

Even some non-center players can't stand loneliness.

Heat's Hank Gaithers had 22 points and 16 rebounds against the Blazers.

The Pacers' Danny Manning, while the team was slaughtered by the Blazers, scored a season-high and a season-high rebound.

The only one who lost face was Ewing.

Seeing Olajuwon's blocked triple-double and Robinson's 26 rebounds in a single game, Ewing made a bold statement when the Knicks faced the Blazers for the second time in the season: "I'm going to break the single-game rebounding record in my career. , and hit a triple-double that included a block."

"Is this the confidence of a Pepsi spokesperson?" Louie asked jokingly in the locker room.

However, Ewing made a mistake.

If he's going to grab that many rebounds, he should at least advise Louie to rest Rodman. You must know that Rodman can average 15.4 rebounds per game this season. He is currently the person with the most rebounds per game, and there is a high probability that he will become the rebounding king this year.

You're playing with the rebounder and trying to catch a record-breaking rebound. Isn't that a fantasy?

As a result, Ewing didn't know whether he didn't expect this part, or he didn't think Rodman would be a threat to his own record breaking. Except for bragging, he didn't do anything to make him complete the plan before the opening.

Ewing's single-game rebound record is 28, so to break the record "only" need to grab 29 rebounds.

However, since Rodman began to change his hair color every game and regard rebounding as his exclusive statistic, he has never grabbed 20 rebounds in a single game, and now his goal for himself is, Recorded 29 rebounds in a single game...

For such a person who can't even make a plan, Louis can only watch him make a fool of himself.

To keep Ewing from speaking, Louie let him play 44 minutes, and he could have played until the end of the game had it not been for the foul in the fourth quarter.

Ewing, who played for 44 minutes, got pretty good numbers. His destructive power in the paint was amazing, and the Blazers really couldn't do anything about him.

However, the data of 39 points, 14 rebounds and 6 blocks in a single game is a long way from the triple-double that Ewing claimed to have broken the rebound record before the game.

Rodman's numbers were absolutely dazzling for Ewing, who grabbed 23 rebounds in 36 minutes, including 10 offensive rebounds.

Ewing, who lost face, told reporters seriously: "If it wasn't for Dennis getting in the way, I would have broken the record long ago."

The reporter was stunned.

He wasn't sure if Ewing was serious and publicly displeased with his teammates because Rodman didn't give him the rebound?

"I'm kidding you! Actually, I don't care about records and triple-doubles at all. Those words are just for hype. If you take it too seriously, I'll have a headache. It's a gimmick, do you understand? The result is no. The important thing is to enjoy the process."

Due to the shortage of insiders, the Blazers have been destroyed many times.

At the same time, Barkley also relapsed, and he has never been a man of his life.

After being killed by the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, New York fans carried forward the tradition of winning and riding their faces.

There was a fan at the game calling Barkley a jerk.

Buck used his method to fight back, he spat at the other side, but the saliva unfortunately landed on a girl. Although Buckley recovered his calm on the spot, rationally apologized to the other party, and became friends with the girl and her family in the future, but at the scene of the incident, the scene was too shocking.

A superstar about to play on the Dream Team, spitting on an 8-year-old girl in front of the camera? Are you sure someone like that can represent the Dream Team?

Then, Barkley went to the Knicks locker room and said to Louie: "Coach, I don't want to be out this time, I really want to be a part of the dream team."

Louie feels he can trust Barkley.

Then that night, Barkley clashed with fans again in a New York nightclub.

He threw a fan out of a nightclub, and when asked by the police if he regretted it, he said the famous sentence: "I regret it, I really regret that I was on the first floor."

Earlier ~www.readwn.com~ Sampson's single-game 41-rebound night, Barkley wandered the nightclub again on the road, and then was mocked by a low-quality old Irish woman.

Barkley turned around and said, "Shut up old cousin."

Barkley's various behaviors that hurt the league's image made his attendance in the closing stages erratic.

Jordan put away his edge and deliberately chose to use passing to drive the team, but from the results, if they encountered the kind of player who could tear the inside line, passing the ball alone would not solve the problem.

The Knicks and the Blazers' battle for the first place has a result before the end.

The Knicks beat the Heat with a record of 70 wins and 11 losses, while the Blazers were beaten again with a record of 68 wins and 13 losses.

So the battle for No. 1 and No. 2 ended early, and whether or not the Blazers won the remaining game, the Knicks will enter the playoffs with the league's first record.

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