the rest, only noise

Chapter 701 The time to end
The Knicks' 30-game winning streak was less affected by the war of words off the court.

But New York's media forces are ready to use after-the-fact smoking to publicize the Knicks' success.

The backstory of the Knicks' 30-game winning streak was unearthed in late March and early April.

The Knicks landed on the cover of "Sports Illustrated", and they used an article that set the largest number of words in the history of the pictorial to tell the story of the 30-game winning streak in detail.

This wave of 30 consecutive victories not only allowed Benjamin Wilson to lock in the MVP, but also allowed the Knicks to firmly occupy the number one position in the league.

Some people say that their status came a little later.

If this state is maintained from the beginning of the season, not to mention whether the Lakers' 33-game winning streak can be broken, it is possible to break the record for the most wins in history set by the Knicks just last season.

Louis didn't see it that way.

For him, it is a good thing that the team's state experienced ups and downs at the beginning of the season, improved in the middle of the season, and rose straight after the All-Star Weekend.

Their goal is to win a title, not a regular-season record.

Excessive pursuit of regular season records is prone to situations.

The most typical ones are the 96 Bulls and 16 Warriors.

When the 96 Bulls set the regular season win record, they didn't do it deliberately. In the 82 regular season games, they had a big gap inside.Rodman only played 64 games, Luke Longley played 62 games, and even Billy Wennington missed 11 games due to injury.

It is natural for them to get 72 wins under this situation.

Looking back at the Warriors, Louis, as a witness, in hindsight, he felt that the Warriors had too many fairy balls, too much persistence, and too much focus in that magical regular season, especially when the Bulls' record was in sight.

I put in too much energy for the regular season, and when I came to the playoffs, the unlucky wave of injuries struck, and then it was history.

Therefore, for Louis, the Knicks' state curve, which first suppresses and then rises, is a good thing.

He doesn't care about records, anyway, they are already in his name.

On April 1990, 4, the NBA's offseason day, this day was the NCAA National Finals. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (hereinafter referred to as UNLV) played against Duke.

Louis originally wanted to watch the live broadcast at home, but Duke K's coach strongly invited him to watch the game live.

One thing Louie learned from Auerbach was to build relationships with the great coaches of college basketball.

No matter how advanced the NBA's scouting system is, the suggestions of these famous coaches are also very important.

This is why Auerbach has repeatedly picked the right answer in the draft over the years.

Since Coach K invited him, Louie naturally wanted to show him off by taking the entire Knicks coaching staff to McNichols Sports Arena to watch the game.

This is the home court of the Nuggets. Louis wanted to invite the coach of the Nuggets, Doug Mo, to watch the game together, but unexpectedly learned that Coach Mo had recently been in trouble with the team management.

His extreme coaching style has been slow to bring honor to the Nuggets.

This team has passed its heyday, and the management must consider the future.

Coach Mo thinks he is fine and is unwilling to change. Under such circumstances, of course he is not in the mood to watch the game live.

"Yuanzheng, can you introduce us?"

Louis said to Zhao Yuanzheng teasingly.

As the general manager of the Knicks scouting department, Zhao Yuanzheng is very familiar with the two teams participating in the finals: "In terms of tactical coordination, Duke is better, but UNLV has been in a better competitive state recently."

Louis saw two acquaintances.

Duke's Christian Laettner and UNLV's Larry Johnson.Louis knew the former because Laettner was a member of the Dream Team, and the latter was because Louis accidentally saw the opponent's famous four-pointer against the Pacers in the playoffs in his previous life.

Zhao Yuanzheng said that Duke's tactical quality is stronger, while UNLV is in better condition.

In the college arena, tactical literacy is the key link.

Looking at it this way, maybe Duke has a better chance of winning?
After the game started, Louis found that he was thinking too much.

In the first half, 47 to 35, Duke was firmly suppressed.

If you finish with this trend, you can be sure that UNLV is a better team, one level stronger than Duke.

But the second half was a bloody massacre.

UNLV's inside pillar Larry Johnson's style of play reminded Louie of Wes Unseld, who has more influence on the offensive end than Unseld.

After catching the rebound in the penalty area, he threw a pass, which made UNLV's counterattack and fast break picturesque.

Duke was completely shattered.

In addition to Johnson, UNLV's Stacey Augmon SF/SG also impressed Louie.His body flexibility is surprisingly good, and he can make many difficult movements that test the strength of his waist.

UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian (Jerry Tarkanian) has a tired face. He looks like he has only one breath left, and he is going to meet God at any time. There are obvious bald spots on his bald head, and even if he looks at it from a distance, he can see a bit of mourning.

Louie thought this guy had some kind of serious illness, so the UNLV players beat Duke so frantically on the court.

Facts will prove that Coach Lu thinks too much.

Tarkanian is healthy, just looking a little unhealthy.

At the end, 103 to 73, Duke was ruthlessly slaughtered by UNLV by 30 points.

This disastrous defeat created the largest point difference in the NCAA National Finals, with the largest score for the winner ([-]).

Little K, who is confident that he can lead the team to the championship, has entered the stigma of college basketball in a way that he himself could not imagine.

"If I knew it earlier, we should have tried our best to persuade Larry Johnson to participate in the 1989 draft." Zhao Yuanzheng said with emotion.

Louie knew what he was talking about.

Larry Johnson has always been a college player that Zhao Yuanzheng keeps track of and pays attention to, but because of his academic performance, he played in the D2 league for the first two years of his college career.

Even so, he looked dazzling.

After Ball, Oakley, Pippen, and Rodman successively played well in the NBA, professional basketball has much less discrimination against talented players from D2.

If Larry Johnson participated in the draft in 1989, the market should be between the end of the lottery and the edge of the lottery.

However, after he finished playing at UNLV this year, it was quite different.

As the core of this UNLV team, the regular season and the national championships are all important. If he enters the election this year, Derek Coleman's No. [-] pick may not be stable. If he enters the election next year, without the sudden emergence of monster newcomers, he will not be the second choice for the No. [-] pick.

This is why Zhao Yuanzheng feels regretful.

They could have used a lottery to select a potential stock at the No. [-] level.

"I'm going to say hello to Coach K, please wait for me."

Louis came down and had a few words with Little K, expressing regret for Duke's failure, and encouraged the heartbroken players: "Do you know that sometimes a painful defeat will make you a better team, come back next year."

"Thank you, Lu." Little K was too sad to say anything else now.

Louie patted him on the shoulder, then walked over to congratulate UNLV.

When he was about to leave, the reporters at the scene rushed over to interview him.

They asked the question: "If the Knicks had the No. [-] pick this year, who would you choose?"

"We're going to trade the No. [-] pick for money because we already have a lot of talent, and no matter what kind of player it is, we can't get consistent playing time on our team."

There are several reasons for Louie's answer. First, he didn't want to rub salt in the wounds of Duke's people.Because in all seriousness, Larry Johnson is the one, and he beat them tonight.Second, he also didn't want to make UNLV uncomfortable.

Therefore, he passed the reporter's test in a slightly arrogant way, and then left.

The first season of college basketball in the 90s is over, and the NBA regular season will also come to an end.

On April 4, the Knicks played against the Celtics for the last time in the regular season. Stockton sent 5 assists and led the team to sweep the Celtics.

As a result, Stockton also reached a milestone: Since the 1986-87 season, he has sent at least 1000 assists in four consecutive seasons.

On April 4, the Knicks' regular season finale was against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

In order to get more ticket money, the Timberwolves did not know what to do, and moved the stadium to a dome that can accommodate 50000 fans.

This set a record for the most spectators in the season.

The Timberwolves were crushed by the Knicks, but there were still 47000 Minnesotans who witnessed the whole process.

Louis was already unhappy with this team, and when there were more audiences, he asked the team to kill him.

Unfortunately, it may be that the Timberwolves are too weak, or that the Knicks players are already thinking about the playoffs. In the final game of the regular season, their shooting percentage was not good. Although they tried their best, they "only" won by 32 points.

In the end, the Knicks set a record that may be unprecedented.

From mid-January to April 1990, 1, during this period, they only lost one game.

In the end, they set a great record of 73 wins and 9 losses. Although it was not better than last season, they still led the Lakers by 7 wins.

It was even more significant for Wilson himself.

This season, he accelerated his evolution, played 80 games, and averaged 26 points, 8 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 2.9 steals and 1.5 blocks per game.If he wasn't in the Knicks, his scoring average would go up, but it's because he's in the Knicks that he can contribute the best defensive performance.

In the eyes of many people, he has already locked two first team and MVP.

⑴Don't feel low, college basketball didn't have shot clock until 1985.

(End of this chapter)