the rest, only noise

Chapter 820

In April, the battle for the top spot between the Knicks and the Trail Blazers reached a fever pitch.

After the All-Star Weekend, although the Knicks lost more games, at the same time, the Blazers also lost the advantage they had at the beginning of the season.

Xavier McDaniel has been suspended multiple times for frequent court violence and cannot guarantee attendance.

Clifford Robinson was injured for failing to withstand Riley's Devil's practice and hung up the exemption card.

These two, one is the starter of the Trail Blazers, and the other is the best sixth man of the Trail Blazers.

The star centers of each team had their best performances of the season on the Blazers one after another.

The most brutal of them all was Ralph Sampson.

Due to Bird's injury and age, his attendance and performance have dropped significantly. Although he still averaged 22 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists per game, it is completely different from his peak period.

It's like Nicolas Cage after 2007.

Before 07, Cage was one of the best actors of his generation. After 07, he seemed to have only bad movies left, with only occasional brilliant performances.

The situation with the Celtics is even more serious.

Thomas is gone, Bird is old, Billy Owens was the No. 90 CJB in the 90s, Doug Smith is not worth mentioning, and only Sampson can be the offensive and defensive core of the entire team.

Now it seems that last season was really the last glory of this Celtics. This season their winning percentage is only [-]%, and they are currently ranked fifth in the Eastern Conference.

And Sampson's personal data is more luxurious than last season. He currently leads the list of various data with an average of 35 points, 12 rebounds, 6 assists and 4.1 blocks per game.

In this case, swiping data seems to be the motivation for Sampson to persevere.

For the Blazers, the stats he decided to swipe were not scoring.

This season, he has scored 50+ points in as many as 13 games in a single game, and scoring points is really nothing new.

So he targets the boards because the Blazers don't have a pure center.Larry Nance, who played as a guest center, has great athletic ability, but he is essentially a power forward's style of play and habits. Once he meets a true center like him, he will suffer a lot.

Sampson first fouled Nance 4 times in halftime, and then the Blazers, who had a tight rotation inside, frequently let some wing players go to the inside.

This is also the trick that Riley learned from Louie.

As a result, he didn't quite learn it.

If Louis is allowed to come, he will let those water fountain centers who usually don't even have a chance to play against Sampson, and he will not torture his flanks.

What's more, the wing players are still the Blazers' winning point. They blow up their mentality and want to win?
Riley didn't understand this.

The Blazers tried their best, they wanted to win the game, but in the end they achieved 36 points, 41 rebounds and 7 blocks in a single game, which is unprecedented after Sampson.

41 rebounds in a single game, this number means a lot.

In the future, there may still be inside players who have one of the best nights of their careers, catching 30 rebounds in a single game, but 40 rebounds in a single game is basically impossible.

The modern NBA requires a certain amount of athletic ability in every position, so even if the center position is good for rebounding, it is very difficult to catch more than 20 rebounds in a single game.

What's more, it's 40.

Sampson's rebounding ability has actually degraded this season, because he spent more time on offense. When he met the Blazers, a rare team without a center, he played a national-level performance that the major media rushed to report.

Sampson is frequently compared to Russell and Chamberlain.

The media, which is thick and thin, believes that Sampson is taller than Russell, and has an offensive ability that is several dimensions ahead; taller than Chamberlain, and at the same time more like a leader than the opponent, never afraid to take the ball at critical moments, and has five championships.

At this stage of his career, Sampson has been regarded by many as the number one center in history.

The only problem is, he's a little less big on credit.

There are only 2 MVPs, and only one FMVP.

Sampson's killer against the Trail Blazers gave an example to the centers of other teams.

Starting with Sampson, all centers who played against the Blazers wanted to refresh their career rebounding numbers.

David Robinson did it, grabbing 26 rebounds the last time he faced the Blazers in the regular season, and the Lakers also beat the Blazers by 2 points.

Olajuwon did it.

He scored 41 points, 18 rebounds, 6 assists and 10 blocks in an overtime loss to the Trail Blazers.

Although it did not break the record, and the data is not as shocking as Sampson's, a triple-double including blocks is still enough to explain the problem. All the centers who can be named are looking at the calendar and preparing for the game against the Trail Blazers.

Even some non-center players can't stand loneliness.

Heat's Hank Geithers had 22 points and 16 rebounds against Portland.

Danny Manning of the Pacers scored the highest points and rebounds of the season when the team was slaughtered by the Trail Blazers.

The only one who lost face was Ewing.

Seeing Olajuwon's block triple-double and Robinson's 26 rebounds in a single game, Ewing made a bold statement when the Knicks faced the Trail Blazers for the second time this season: "I want to break the single-game rebound record of my career and hit a triple-double including blocks."

"Is this the confidence of a Pepsi spokesperson?" Louis asked jokingly in the locker room.

However, Ewing made a mistake.

If he wants to grab so many rebounds, he should at least suggest that Louie let Rodman rest.You must know that Rodman averaged 15.4 rebounds per game this season. He is currently the person with the most rebounds per game, and he will most likely become this year's rebounding leader.

You played with the rebounding king and wanted to catch a record-breaking rebound. Isn't this a fantasy?
As a result, Ewing didn't know whether he hadn't thought of this link, or simply didn't think that Rodman would become a threat to his own record breaking. Apart from bragging, he didn't make any preparations before the opening to allow him to complete the plan.

Ewing's single-game rebound record is 28, so "only" 29 rebounds are needed to break the record.

However, since Rodman started to change his hair color every game and regarded rebounds as his own exclusive data, he has never grabbed 20 rebounds in a single game, and now the goal he has promised himself is to catch 29 rebounds in a single game to break the record...

For this kind of person who can't even make a plan, Louis can only watch him make a fool of himself.

In order to make Ewing unable to speak, Louie let him play 44 minutes. If he hadn't fouled out in the fourth quarter, he could have played until the end of the game.

Ewing, who played 44 minutes, got pretty good statistics. His destructive power in the interior is amazing, and the Blazers really have nothing to do with him.

But the data of 39 points, 14 rebounds and 6 blocks in a single game is far from the triple-double claimed by Ewing before the game.

Rodman's numbers were absolutely dazzling for Ewing, who grabbed 36 rebounds in 23 minutes, including 10 offensive rebounds.

Ewing, who lost his face, said seriously to the reporter: "If it wasn't for Dennis getting in the way on the court, I would have broken the record a long time ago."

The reporter was stunned.

He wasn't sure if Ewing was serious about publicly expressing displeasure with his teammates because Rodman didn't give him the rebound?
"I'm kidding you! In fact, I don't care about records and triple-doubles. Those words are just for hype. If you take it too seriously, I will have a headache. This is a gimmick, you understand? The result is not important. Enjoy the process."

Due to the shortage of insiders, the Blazers were defeated many times.

At the same time, Barkley also had a recurrence of his old illness. He has never been a person who lives in peace.

After being blasted by the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, New York fans carried forward the tradition of winning and outputting.

At the game site, a fan insulted Barkley as a stupid pig.

Buck used his means to fight back, spitting at the other person, but the saliva unfortunately fell on a girl.Although Barkley regained his composure on the spot, apologized rationally to the other party, and became friends with the girl and her family in the future, but at the scene of the incident, the scene was too shocking.

The superstar about to represent the Dream Team spit on an 8-year-old girl in front of the camera?Are you sure someone like that can represent the Dream Team?

Then, Barkley ran to the Knicks locker room and said to Louie: "Coach, this time I don't want to be out again. I really want to be a member of the Dream Team."

Louie felt he could trust Barkley.

Then that night, Barkley clashed with fans again at a nightclub in New York.

He threw a fan out of the nightclub, and when asked by the police whether he regretted it, he uttered the famous line: "Regret, I really regret that I was on the first floor."

Earlier, on the night of Sampson's 41 rebounds in a single game, Barkley wandered around the away nightclub again, and was laughed at by an old Irish woman with low quality.

Barkley turned around and said, "Shut up, old cousin."

Barkley's various behaviors that hurt the image of the league made his attendance rate in the closing stage unstable.

Jordan put away his edge and deliberately chose to use passing to drive the team, but judging from the results, if they encounter the kind of player who can tear the inside, passing alone cannot solve the problem.

The Knicks and Trail Blazers' battle for No. 1 came to an end before the end.

The Knicks beat the Heat with a record of 70 wins and 11 losses, while the Blazers were blown up again with a record of 68 wins and 13 losses.

So the battle between No. 1 and No. 2 ended early. Regardless of whether the Blazers won the remaining game or not, the Knicks will enter the playoffs with the league's No. [-] record.

　Chapter 2 will be updated later because of a typo
　　
　
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