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Chapter 640 The Orangutan Harvesting Honor

In the conference finals between the Eastern and Western Conferences, the opposing teams were fresh and fresh, and neither fresh nor new.

Both the East and West are missing a familiar face.

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

In the West, the Trail Blazers missed the Western Conference Finals for the first time since they selected 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 Trail Blazers side, Jordan was asked by Paul Allen to be reimbursed for the season when he was 40% likely to return.

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

This led to Jordan and Allen falling out.

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

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

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

When the Lakers decided to rebuild, the tragedian led the team to the conference finals with great statistics for two consecutive years when the team had many rookies and no strong support.

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

But the Knicks won 74 games in the regular season.
With New York's media influence, even though the suspense of the MVP has not been announced yet, it is already certain that the Knicks will be selected among the main players of the Knicks with such a record.

Either Wilson or Ewing.

Tragedy may not even get the second MVP vote.

Isn't that tragic enough?

Even Louie is not worth it for him, because of Louis' appearance, the Tragedian has actually become a stronger and more comprehensive 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 finals in the contemporary era, and there is no MVP so far.

Louis, who realized this, really felt that he had sinned deeply.

But what can he do?None of these results were achieved under his subjective will.

So he spent a few minutes feeling sorry for the Tragedian, then decided to move on.

On May 1989, 5, Game 20 of the Eastern Conference Finals was played at Madison Square Garden.

The results of the Pistons this year are very surprising. The combination of Dumars, Illo, Aguirre, Worthy, Parish, and Mahon is very effective.

They played the second-best defense in the league, and achieved their biggest goal of the 80s in the playoffs-beating the Celtics.

Even if they knocked down an incomplete Celtics 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, some teams prefer to play according to their own habits rather than being targeted during the regular season. They may not adjust their strategies according to the characteristics of their opponents.

Now that they are in the Eastern Conference finals, tickets to the finals are close at hand. They will never be fooled by the Knicks' 74 wins and vow to compete with them.

Chuck Daly asked to fully enhance the confrontation of the game, protecting the penalty area as the first purpose, ignoring the Knicks' pick-and-roll tactics.

So the Pistons allowed the Knicks' pick-and-rollers and off-ball screen turrets to make frequent moves in the middle distance. Even if they took a step forward, they might be able to defend, but with the death order of the coaching staff, they chose to take a step back and risk their lives.

The consequence of this is that Ewing's inside line is very uncomfortable, and the Pistons blocked the penalty area, so they couldn't play hard inside.

But the ball handlers who like to play pick and roll like Wilson and Stockton are so cool.

Especially Wilson, this year he has put in too much effort on the defensive end, and the offensive end has been used as an arrow to defend. His scoring average and shooting percentage are not as good as last season, but his strength is undoubtedly stronger.

He was originally a mid-range player with the ball, but he was unstable under high-intensity defense, and his confrontation ability needed to be practiced, so Louis asked him to play more empty-handed running, catching and shooting routines.

However, if you give him a solid cover 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 whether your defense can keep up. He is also capable of hitting tons of output just by playing against the defender.

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

Louis did everything he could and changed his tactical focus to allow Wilson to hold the ball more.

After opening his hands, Wilson showed a mature and stable side. He was not satisfied with taking away the game with high scores. He also liked to serve as a hand-off screener in the high post and attack in the low post to attract double-teams. He is already very proficient in these routines.

From a global perspective, Louie did not use much tactics on Wilson, so judging from the scene, it was Wilson who led the shooter to lead the pick-and-roll and the insiders who cut in with screens, killing all sides on the field.

"Benj passed it on well, you are my baby!"

Hearing Louie's nasty praise made Ewing feel uncomfortable.

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

Louis looked at him with contempt: "If I praise you so much, Benj won't have any reaction."

"Hmph, that sounds nice," Ewing said bitterly, "It's like you praised me."

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

"do you have?"

"I do not have?"

"no!"

"Impossible!" Louie said firmly. "I've slapped your ass at least ten times and said you did it well!"

Ewing protested, "That's perfunctory!"

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

The Pistons did not see the severity of the problem.

Wilson began to appear more in the elbow position or low position holding the ball. Except for singles, most of the time, he was a command tower role.

His assists and assist rate have always been low, but the Knicks have enough commanders, so Louis 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 may be the most Kuroko-like playmaker in professional basketball history.

He basically passes the ball as soon as he touches it, and never sticks to the ball. This ability cannot be learned by watching videos. Wilson does not have that kind of monster consciousness, but if he is given the ball and is required by the standard of a big core, he can completely become the tactical core like tonight.

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

This is the limit.

The middle distance is the point where they voluntarily give up.

Since ancient times, this has been the killing point of the playoffs.

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

The Pistons bet on the Knicks' inaccuracy in the mid-range. Wilson was regarded by Louis as the core of the ball. With 40 points, 7 rebounds and 12 assists, he led the team 124 to 98 and beat the Pistons by 26 points.

"No matter how you look at it, New York dominated the game."

"Patrick Ewing's offense was limited, Kevin McHale only played 20 minutes in the middle, New York went 13-for-3 from outside -- you could see how much Detroit worked to beat the Knicks, but they were up against a team that won 74 games in the regular season."

"Someone of them will always stand up."

The reporters were very happy to see Wilson scored 40 points, "Benj, congratulations on getting your personal highest score in this season's playoffs 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 was all because of the trust of the coach and the support of my teammates. I relied on their strength to achieve this game. The victory belongs to us, and the glory belongs to New York."

Every press conference of the Knicks is a representative of extremely high EQ and extremely low EQ.

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

"40 points is pretty good, but I won't be happy for him, what's the point?" Ewing said seriously, "If it's for victory, I can get 60 points."

After a while, Ewing said to the reporters who were frozen in place: "That's right, I made a joke."

Thanks to Mr. You who finally threw himself away, otherwise everyone would think that there was something wrong with the Knicks.

Ewing's jokes, like the talents of traffic stars, are only visible to himself and his fans.

Louis is used to it, and even though it's a bad job, he finds it interesting, and now everyone treats it as a repertoire, 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, and 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 is a fight, they will fight for each other as soon as possible.

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

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

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

He narrowly defeated teammate Benjamin Wilson.

Wilson's biggest advantage in the MVP campaign is media affinity. He is more popular and sought after than Ewing. He is the only wing star among the new generation of stars who can be compared with Jordan.

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 undoubtedly the boss.

常规赛场均23分12篮板4助攻3.8盖帽，季后赛场均24分11篮板5助攻4盖帽。

In contrast, Wilson is restricted by ball possession and tactics, and has not produced dazzling statistics this season.

Even if it is not as good as Ewing in all aspects, with the affinity of the media, he still lost to Ewing by a small gap in the MVP voting. Thinking about it in turn, once Wilson has a stat comparable to Ewing in the future, will this gap be smoothed out?
The answer is beyond doubt.

So far, Ewing, who is in the fourth grade, has completed the harvest of the first team, first defense, DPOY, and MVP.

On this day, Ewing was late for training.

Louis didn't give him a good face: "What's the matter, you won't come to training on time after you get the MVP, right?"

"I'm stuck in traffic"

"Yeah yeah, after you won the MVP, the bastards on the road started to block your car, why didn't they get blocked before?"

"I'm stuck in traffic!"

"I believe you. After all, you won the MVP. Maybe you even changed your license plate to MVP, right? If they don't block you, who will block you?"

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

"I believe it, but Kevin is also the MVP, why do they block you and not him?"

"!#￥@%..."

(End of this chapter)