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Chapter 636 The feeling of being grabbed by the headlines?gross

On April 1989, 4, Sports Illustrated wrote a feature article dedicated to the upcoming NBA playoffs.

The title of this article is "Who is Public Enemy?".

From the perspective of strength and record, this article lists the teams most likely to win the championship starting from No.1.

Before the author reveals his suspense, anyone who has followed professional basketball knows that the Knicks are the number one favorite.

So the author pre-wrote a paragraph before giving the ranking: "Can the New York Knicks be defeated? Not likely. How could they lose? The only one who can beat the Knicks is the Knicks themselves. The injuries of Ralph and Larry Bird have made Boston uncompetitive. There is no second team in the entire division that can compete with New York.

Therefore, they can only rank first on the championship potential list-the New York Knicks.

Chuck Daly says he thinks the Knicks will win the East.But this is only a reasonable prediction based on strength, and we need to see more games before we can draw conclusions.The Knicks have the league's second center Patrick Ewing, the "conqueror" Benj Wilson who is expected to succeed Larry Bird, the league's best point guard John Stockton, the league's best four-position scorer Kevin McHale, the league's best defensive wing player Dennis Rodman, the future-promising sharpshooter Reggie Miller, and a bunch of substitutes comparable to most teams' starting lineups-John Hornacek, John Saley, Dan Marr Li, Joe Klein, Alex Stevens... Even China Song, who is rarely on the active list, and Brad Rohaus, who is loved by everyone, are very powerful bench players.

For most coaches, having a team with more than 10 players who can play is both a blessing and an annoyance, because it means they will have problems in lineup.But Little Lu broke the doubts of the outside world with an incredible long rotation.

So far this season, you haven't heard any Knicks complain about their playing time.

Now they are about to enter the fifth year of the Little Lu era, and they won the third championship in team history last year.They crave more, as Dave Anderson of The New York Times chanted for them, "Pursue excellence, over and over again"! "

The Knicks have undoubtedly been blown to the sky.

In the April 4th issue of "Sports Illustrated", their entire team was on the cover of the magazine.

The difference is that Louie is holding a glass of red wine (actually Coke), and the players behind him are grinning.

This is reminiscent of the classic poster left by the 1970 Knicks in the locker room.

In terms of record, the Knicks can fully afford the praise they have received so far.

On April 4, they defeated the Philadelphia 4ers in an overtime game.

Turn your own record into 65 wins and 8 losses.

With nine regular-season games remaining, they have a chance to break Louie's all-time record (9-1984) set by the Boston Celtics in 72.

That night, reporters asked Louie if he was interested in breaking the record.

Louie said with a smile on his face: "I'm only interested in winning, just like pregnancy is just a giveaway in a physical love game a lot of times."

Louis is indeed not that obsessed with breaking records.

After all, the record already belongs to him, and it is his record anyway, does it matter if it is broken or not?

He admits he's a bit of a Versailles in this one, but it's true.

Whether to break the record is only in his mind, and, as a traveler, he knows very well that a certain team that desperately wanted to break the record lost the championship in the playoffs.

Based on this incident, Louis will not let the team perform too aggressively in order to break the record.

Two days later, the Knicks withstood the pictorial's epic poisonous milk and defeated the Bucks 114 to 94.

Reggie Miller hit six three-pointers in the game, leading the team in scoring.

66 wins

Since then, back-to-back games against the New Jersey Nets have been the only game Louie has explicitly asked to win.

Everyone in the team knew that Louie had a relationship with Nets general manager Harry Weltman.

At this time, it is obvious who is Coach Lu's most loyal licking dog.

Like Ewing, he is not licking the dog, he just plays normally.

Wilson was different, his eyes were bloodshot, as if the person on the other side had a feud with him to kill his father.Oh no, it should be, as if the person opposite happened to be the tauren who made him a father in high school.

Tonight, Wilson played a big killer, scoring 30 points and 40 steals in 5 minutes.

Louis was pleasantly surprised by Wilson's improvement on the defensive end and his off-ball movement.

If it weren't for the fierce competition in the defense, Louis felt that Wilson could have fought for the second defense.

And his off-ball movement, harmonious coexistence with Miller, produced a chemical reaction of 1+1>2, and once again got the fetters of their joint championship at UCLA.

"Coach Lu, what's your secret to scoring 140 points in regular time?"

Louie blah blah blah blah blah: "The secret is we hit 66 percent of our shots."

"Is it true that you have a personal vendetta with certain people in New Jersey?"

"I can't agree." Louis said proudly, "I'm not boasting, but you can ask around, who doesn't know that I am a loyal person, how can I have personal grievances with others, if there is, some narrow-minded people hate me."

The Knicks thus won 67 wins.

Since then, they have encountered a challenge-the Washington Bullet, which has the power to suppress the Knicks.

Why the Knicks can't play against the Bullets is a mystery.

No matter how big the gap between the two lineups is, the Bullets will always have a way to contend with the Knicks.

If they want to chase the best record in history, the Knicks can only lose one more game at most, but they don't want to give this precious "one time" to the Bullets.

The bullets brought their blood pressure to fight the Knicks until the last round.

100 is better than 100
Ewing's key offensive rebound saved the Knicks a chance for a lore.

Louis asked for a timeout, and suddenly arranged a five-out tactic.

Five outside tactics, as the name suggests, is that all five players stay on the outside.This is very common in the small ball era, in order to help the ball holder create the ultimate offensive space.

However, Louie's five-out tactics concentrated five players at the top of the arc.

Stockton dribbled for time, and suddenly, the players at the top of the arc scattered, and Ewing ran to the penalty area, and everyone discovered it.

This is a starburst tactic disguised as a five-outer tactic!
Louis used this tactic to beat the Celtics in an away game.

That was also the beginning of the all-out rivalry between the Knicks and Celtics in the mid-to-late 80s.

No one on the Bullets could stop Ewing from flying to the rim.

Stockton's perfect pass allowed Ewing to catch a dunk and kill the bullet.

When Ewing landed, he really beat his chest like an orangutan.

With 23 points, 13 rebounds and 4 blocks, Ewing was the most influential player in this game.

The Bullets lost convincingly.

Unseld told reporters with emotion: "I really feel something similar to the Knicks in 1970 in them. The biggest similarity between these two teams is that they have someone who stands up to end the game every night, which makes it impossible for his opponents to carry out targeted defense before the game, because you don't know who will break out today."

This is 68 wins.

There are still 4 games to go before the record.

With 6 regular season games left, the Knicks will at least tie the record in the eyes of the outside world.

Because it's hard to imagine the Knicks losing three of their next six games.

No, even if you lose two games, it feels like the national table tennis team was forced to tie five in the team competition, which is unbelievable.

Since then, the Knicks have taken the Hornets lightly and won their 69th win.

Coming to the Detroit Pistons, the opponent is currently ranked second in the East with only 55 wins.

The Pistons with Parish, Dumars and Aguirre really want to play badly. They don't think their few people can fight against the Knicks.

But their first-round pick this year is in the hands of the Knicks, so they "reluctantly" achieved the second record in the Eastern Conference.

Daly hopes to stop the Knicks and end their winning streak.

But the outbreak of Ewing and Wilson made the Pistons' wish come true.

尤因以19分14篮板8助攻10盖帽的数据，把活塞的油漆区命中率压制到了20%。

Wilson shot more than 70% from the field and scored 52 points.

The young one inside and one outside, the two most trusted superstars of Louis, smashed through the Detroit Legion strongly, bringing the Knicks' record to 70 wins, tying the best record in team history set in the 1986-87 season.

The Knicks broke the best record in team history on the Philadelphia 76ers who had no intention of winning.

On April 4, the Knicks played the Chicago Bulls back-to-back, and CBS decided to broadcast the game live.

Because the Knicks are likely to tie the league record in this game.

Although the Bulls want to beat the Knicks, they don't have the strength.

The Knicks killed the Bulls without bloodshed, tying the league record.But the win didn't make the headlines the next day.

On the night of the Knicks game, a murder that shocked the entire United States occurred in Central Park in New York.

A young woman named Trisha Meili was attacked while jogging in Central Park, raped and brutally tortured to the point of dying by unknown persons.It was only 4 hours after the incident was discovered by passers-by and the police were sent to the hospital.

The modus operandi of this case was so brutal that the victim was almost beaten to death, her internal organs were bleeding, and her entire left eyeball had to be taken out because of the beating.The impact of this incident was so great that Louis recalled the degree of discussion and national attention when various similar cases occurred in the country.

What's disgusting is that the "Chicago Tribune" also used this incident to pour dirty water on the Knicks: "The place that can breed such criminals will produce such a brutal professional basketball team."

It's good to tie the record, but it's really disgusting to be stained with these things.

Louis asked all players to keep a low profile for some time to come, and not to accept any media interviews if necessary.

The tragedy in Central Park has taken the eye off professional sports.

Ever since, even if the Knicks washed the Pacers and Cavaliers with anger and blood, and improved the record by 74 wins with a record of 8 wins and 2 losses, they only attracted attention in New York and some areas.

Now Louie knows what it's like for the Warriors to win 73 games and get headlined by the old man's 60 points in Los Angeles.

But being headlined by an old man in Los Angeles, you can completely say that it is God's will, at most it is a little helpless, and then complain a few words, "He scored 60 points in the retirement game, but isn't it even better in the season with 73 wins?" Like the Knicks, Louis is really disgusting.

He just wants the playoffs to start soon, and another random team will give his team a good meal. They have too much depression to vent.

At this time, the Milwaukee Bucks, who advanced to the playoffs as the eighth in the Eastern Conference, did not know that disaster was imminent.

(End of this chapter)