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Chapter 734 I. I'm Actually Alright

Chapter 735 I'm Actually Alright

In the fourth quarter, Louie took the perspective of the Lakers fans throughout.

He felt hopeless.

How to fight?The Knicks built up an 18-point advantage with a murderous press.

In the following games, the Lakers narrowed the score line to 16 points at most.

From the standpoint of the Lakers fans, they are eager to see the team rebound, especially their hero and tragedy can stand up and rewrite the game.

Tragedy is worthy of being a superstar. If it is one-on-one, not many people can match him with the Knicks.

But under the influence of Louis, the Knicks will selectively respect the strong.

For monsters like tragedy masters, everyone started with a set of "why talk about the morals of the world with this kind of master, let's go together" type of double-teaming.

Falling into a double-team is the favorite of the tragedian.

The more people flanking him, the more opportunities he has to see.

It is a pity that the Lakers' outside shooters do not have the ability to punish the Knicks. Therefore, although opportunities appear repeatedly, they cannot shoot from the outside and need to break through to find better opportunities.

If they drive in, the Knicks defense can rotate in place.

So the work of the tragedy teacher was in vain.

From the point of view of a Lakers fan, Louis is like watching a cool movie with a Tauren plot, substituting the perspective of the bitter protagonist, which is actually quite interesting.

Although Travis scored 34 points and 13 rebounds, his best assists were only 7.

And he was flanked as many as 40 times in a game.

The tragedian was flanked, and the others should stand up.

Due to the conflicting attributes of Kevin Johnson, who needs to hold the ball, as long as he is next to the tragedian, he will not perform well.

Scottie Pippen obviously has a stage to perform, but after he was violently fouled by Rodman in the first quarter, he seemed to have a migraine, and he didn't know what he was doing the whole time.

David Robinson's final statistics were good, with 23 points and 12 rebounds, but people watching the game couldn't feel his presence.

Obviously the Lakers played well, shooting more than 50% from the field, but they just couldn't narrow the point difference.

Until the end of the game, the Knicks showed a stable offensive and defensive performance.

116 is better than 98
The Knicks won Game 16 of the Finals by [-] points and regained the home-court advantage the Lakers stole from New York.

"After this campaign, at least the Knicks will not be eliminated by the Lakers at home after winning three games in a row."

Dick Stockton played a dry humor, but the effect was mediocre, because the fans at the forum looked constipated.

"How long does it take to build a team like this?" Pat Riley shakes Louie's hand.

"Except for the first year when I didn't do anything, three years before and after." Louie could see Riley's thoughts.

Today's Pat Riley, just like Don Nelson who was in charge of the Milwaukee Bucks back then, in the face of absolute strength, gave birth to the idea of ​​learning from foreigners to control foreigners.

"Three years?" Riley couldn't believe it, "Just three years?"

"Yes." Louis said modestly, "You just need to choose the right people and guide them forward in the right way, three years is enough."

Riley was indeed stunned by the Knicks' smothering defense today.

In his opinion, the Knicks are the most perfect team ever.

Compared with the bitter Celtics in previous years, the Knicks have better defense, stronger lineup depth, young core players, personnel matching that can cope with any style of play, and flexible tactics.

Their defense, full-court press, confrontation, hand-to-hand combat, etc., in Riley's eyes, are the first in history.

The scary thing is that this team has one of the best offensive capabilities.

N. The UCLA system is somehow more famous than the Knicks' murderous tight end.

They can compete with the best offensive team in history, they can use defense to limit the best offensive team in history, they can use defense to win the second best defensive team in history, and they can even use their offense to compete with the second best defensive team in history.

Although he only played three games, in Riley's heart, he saw no chance of winning.

The victory of Game1 was due to the bad touch of the Knicks players, and they didn't take the Lakers seriously at the time.

From the second round, the situation suddenly took a 360-degree reversal.

In the third game, the Lakers were even more desperate.

Their best player had put up a gorgeous near-triple-double, but the Knicks dominated by stifling others, letting the tragedies fire, and finally allowing the latter to complete a "the Lakers lost, he didn't lose" game.

When he came to the reporter, Louis relaxed a lot.

"You have been trying to make a big news on us recently. Now, if you have any questions, just ask."

After beating the Lakers for a game, Louis said arrogantly to the California media.

In an instant, Louis' popularity in California plummeted.

Louie's image in California now is the same as it was before he came to New York.

He became the public enemy of the district.

But Louis himself didn't take the hostility in the California area seriously, and said for granted; "Although you returned the home court advantage to us, Irwin also harvested luxurious statistics in the game. In my opinion, this is enough for you."

That night, fewer California reporters asked Louie questions.

The main force of the questions are from out of state.

The Knicks proved their own strength. At the same time, the championship series between them and the Lakers also proved the attractiveness of two famous sports brands through rising ratings.

Nearly 2500 million Americans watched Game 3 of the Finals. You must know that in Louie's previous life, Game 1998 of the 6 Finals had the highest ratings in NBA history.

Even that game was watched live by "only" 2800 million Americans.

The arrival of Louis changed a lot of things. The NBA is booming and the attraction of professional basketball is getting stronger and stronger. The matchup between the Lakers and the Celtics has already caused aesthetic fatigue and the ratings have entered a bottleneck. However, the strong rise of the Knicks has broken the original balance.

After they eliminated the Celtics, the NBA suddenly found an opportunity to make its own commercial value take off again.

If we say that the matchup between the Lakers and the Celtics is history, it is a feud, and it is a destined matchup.

Then the Lakers and the Knicks are the best embodiment of commercial value, pop culture, and brilliant performances.

The former represents the background and culture of the NBA, and the latter can bring more income.

Because the media in New York and Los Angeles can drive more people to join this feast.

When the TV contract expired, the league had to negotiate with CBS and NBC at the same time. The more popular the finals between the Knicks and the Lakers, the more confidence they had in bargaining at the negotiating table.

"Sports Illustrated" columnist Jack McCallum predicted: "These three finals alone will allow the league to pay an extra $3000 million on the negotiating table."

A few days before the arrival of Game 4, the Knicks players stayed in the hotel honestly and did not go anywhere according to Louis' instructions.

Even without Louis' ban, they would not run around.

Because they really felt the hostility of the city of Los Angeles.

There is a civil society in Los Angeles called "Kill a Yankee", which was originally established because of its hostility to the New York Yankees. Now, they have an additional business, which is to raid the nightclubs near the Marriott Hotel in groups. Once they find Knicks players, they will fight indiscriminately.

They hope to cause non-combat attrition in the Knicks this way.

While no Knicks player has tried the punch himself, no one has dared to take the risk.

So, they all stayed in the hotel obediently.

When it’s time to eat, to sleep, to train when it’s time to train, and when it’s time for the game, they leave the hotel and get on the bus.

They kept a safe distance from the Los Angeles fans.

April 6

On the game day of Game 4, the entire Knicks boarded the bus and headed to the forum.

On the way, they were stopped by Lakers fans several times. If the on-site security work hadn't been done well, there might have been more serious accidents.

"Obviously, because of the consecutive defeats in the finals, they have mental problems."

Tomjanovich expressed understanding for the reaction of Lakers fans.

But at the same time, worry about their situation in Los Angeles.

"If it doesn't go well, something will happen," Tomjanovich said pessimistically. "The fans' simple love for the home team will cause many unnecessary disputes."

Louis looked at Tomjanovich and said flatly, "Rudy, if you can keep your mouth shut, I'll buy you a bottle of Coke."

"But I don't like drinking Coke."

"I'll buy you whatever you like, can you just shut up? Look at these people, how frightened they are!" Louis pointed at the shivering Sean Kemp.

Camp forced his composure and said, "I'm actually fine."

(End of this chapter)