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Chapter 808 Uncle Ewing
Chapter 8 Uncle Ewing
Louis admired Riley very much. He was interviewed as a winner despite losing.

"It's an experience where you don't find much fun, once you do it a lot," Riley told reporters after the Blazers' winning streak was ended by the Knicks on Christmas Day. "This game can't explain anything. If we can't win the final championship, it will be a painful year for me and everyone else. This is not just work. When we decide to aim for the championship, there is not much fun. Before winning the championship, all we feel is pain. This game will bring us many warnings."

In the second half of the game, the Blazers failed to crack the Knicks' three-stage offense.

If they try to close this opening, they will miss another opening.

The composition of the Knicks is destined to be difficult to defend as long as they can find the touch.

Louie originally expected Jordan to start the personal mode to take over the game.

Only then can we know the true combat power of the Blazers.

Unexpectedly, Jordan held back and acted as a dog for Barkley the whole time. Except for instigating offense, he rarely played singles with the ball.

Throughout the game, Jordan scored 24 points and 16 assists with 4 turnovers.

Barkley was the best performer in the Trail Blazers team, scoring a game-high 47 points and 14 rebounds, and his shooting percentage exceeded 60%.

Even if the Blazers lost, Barkley can say he didn't lose.

For Barkley, the Knicks have no answer.

No matter who defends him, it is useless.

As long as Barkley has the ball in the low post, Louie is like seeing Sampson with the ball in the high post.

After Tragedy retired, there were still three players left in the league who made the Knicks helpless.

Barkley, Sampson and Jordan.

This is where the Blazers are scary. They have two of the three superstars that the Knicks can't limit.

The Blazers, who used Barkley as the core, lost to the Knicks by 9 points.

Jordan never fully participated in the game, which made Louie not very happy.

Because the Knicks played seriously with a correct attitude, but the Blazers started strong, then perfunctory, and then handed over their guns.

Hidden tricks in the regular season, this is also Riley's old routine.

When he was in the Lakers, he was hiding his tricks.

Louie remembers when he was still in Boston in 1984, Riley's Lakers were double-killed by the Celtics, and every game was ugly.

He hid his tricks for a long time, and he didn't see those hidden tricks come in handy until the finals.

If Louis remembers correctly, the Lakers were evened by the Celtics in five games that year.

"Pat, I hope that next time we meet, I can see MJ in the form of a scoring champion."

Louie smiled and shook Riley's hand.

"No, Coach Lu, you can't see it." Riley seemed to be stating some facts, "Michael has changed."

"If this is true, I will be very happy." Louie's words made Riley uneasy, "Congratulations on eliminating the biggest threat for us."

Riley didn't know why Louie made such a statement.

Jordan won the scoring title for many consecutive seasons before, but only successfully reached the finals once, and was blocked by the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals in other seasons.

If there's anything wrong with Jordan, it's that he didn't dominate the game like a tragedian.

Letting Jordan learn to dominate the game like a tragic master is the only way for him to become a winner.

Louis said he eliminated the Knicks' biggest threat?
Riley took Louie's words for bravado.

"Coach Lu, I won't be influenced by you. Michael is on the right path and he is getting better." Riley said with certainty, "You will see it sooner or later."

Is the current Jordan better than the one Louis saw in his previous life?
Maybe better in terms of statistics, what about the threat as a core player?

In Louie's eyes, there are two types of superstars.

One is extreme personal heroism, and the acme of this is Jordan.

One is extreme teamwork, and the acme of this is Bill Russell and Duncan.

James in an ideal state may be a combination of two doctrines, both personal heroism and teamwork.However, this is only an ideal state.People live in reality, and reality has accidents, flaws, and regrets.But this is not a road, which not only achieves heroism, but also takes care of the team, but few players can be perfect. James, Bird, and Magician may be the spokespersons of this road, but Louis does not recognize this road.Because this road is too demanding for players.

You have to have the best talent, the ability to dominate the game, have killer genes, and put the team first, see the situation clearly, know when to come by yourself, when to come from teammates, take over when it's time to take over, and assist when it's time to assist.

Is there really such a person?No, this kind of guy only lives in fictional basketball novels.

Riley was pushing Jordan to go that route.

Let him give up the path he had already proven in Louie's previous life, and go the old path of Tragedian and Byrd?

Louie wasn't sure that was the right thing to do, he was sure it wasn't what Jordan wanted, that it suppressed his instincts.

Successive years of failure allowed him to endure this depression, but if he met the Knicks in the finals, he would find that it was completely impossible to take care of both ends. He could only choose one thing and make the best of that thing.

Within the Knicks, two people have undergone strange transformations.

Wilson himself is a player with great personal heroism. In college, he was often scolded by UCLA coaches for this problem, but he has not changed.But after coming to Louis, he gradually put away his desire to rule everything.

That's not to say he's going down the road Jordan is taking.

No, he is still on that road now, but not extreme, just like Jordan after returning to the field after playing baseball. He knows very well that he cannot do without the team and completely trusts Louis. He has rational individual heroism.Moreover, his personality has undergone a change that Louis still cannot understand.

After 1988, Wilson seemed to have matured 10 years old. He began to study Bird's game and transformed according to the "contemporary Dr. J" designed by the team behind him. For this reason, he even consulted Dr. J himself.

Then people saw him now, a Mr. Perfect who has a very high dual quotient, never makes people worry, and doesn't cause trouble.

This made Louis wonder if the Wilson he faces every day is the real Wilson?
Ewing was originally a Russell-like team superstar. After the Knicks achieved something, the environment changed, driven by interests, and the needs of the team behind him changed his needs.He is more eager for data and cares more about other people's opinions, but he is a bit obsessed.

He is neither individual heroism, nor so team.

Louis could see the changes in these two people.

He was relieved for Wilson, but also worried for Ewing.

Coaches can guide players, but the choice of personal values ​​is subtle.

What he is made into by the people and things around him is what he is, and Louis can't control it.

After all, he is just an insider.

Sometimes very weak.

Tonight, Ewing should take the lead.

He smashed the Blazers' inside line and made clear his own advantages, with a dominant 35 points, 15 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 blocks.

This is a welcome point.

The Knicks didn't have an answer against Barkley.

When the Blazers met Ewing, they had no answer.

Wilson was very eye-catching in the first quarter. Even if Ewing broke out later, the Blazers' defensive focus was on him.

Wilson didn't do much offensively, with 3 steals and 1 block on the defensive end.

比起尤因，他只能算是正常发挥，有26分6篮板6助攻3抢断1盖帽进账。

"I really don't know how they played so many consecutive victories. Is the level of the Western Conference so low this year?"

Ewing deliberately said something arrogant in the locker room to boost morale.

"The winning streak of the Portlanders is a bubble. It's very poor. There is no single enemy in front of Uncle Ewing!"

"What are you calling him?" Louis couldn't hold back.

Kemp's smile disappeared: "Uncle Ewing"

"Uncle what uncle, how old is he older than you?"

"It's not a few years older, mainly because" Kemp didn't dare to say the reason.

Rodman had no scruples: "There's nothing wrong with that, Patrick is old."

"QNMD!" Ewing said angrily, "I'm mature!"

The fact that Kemp gave Ewing the nickname was true, which made Louie amused.

"Good job, Pinshaw." Louis looked at Ewing's face and observed carefully, "Uncle Ewing? You are worthy of the name, Patrick. If you go out with Pinshaw, if someone says you are his grandfather, I guess some people will believe it!"

Originally, Kemp called this nickname in private, but no one cared.

If Louis heard it, it would be a bad thing.

Who doesn't know that Coach Lu is the Knicks' number one megaphone. If he calls out this nickname, who won't follow suit?
Ewing stared at Kemp angrily: "Don't call me that again!"

Kemp nodded vigorously.

Louis couldn't see this kind of behavior of bullying children the most, and immediately stopped Ewing: "What are you doing, Xiao Xiao is so talented, Uncle Ewing, it's not good for you to be so fierce!"

"Aren't you ashamed? I don't know how much older you are than me?" Ewing said aggrievedly.

"But I'm young at heart, even if I'm in my thirties, as long as I have a good mentality, I won't be old." Louis stood in front of Ewing and looked at Ewing with the eyes of a scientist observing an experiment. "You are different. No matter how old you are mentally or physically, just look at your appearance. Visually, you must be 40 years old."

Having said all this, Ewing felt sorry for himself for not fighting back. He aimed at Louis' stomach and said, "Even if I am 50 years old, I will not grow out a small belly at a young age like some people who have failed to lose weight a hundred times."

"My mother! @%￥%..."

Uncle Ewing's wave really broke Coach Lu's defense.

(End of this chapter)