the rest, only noise

Chapter 821

In the closing battle, Louis let Ewing, Miller, and Wilson take turns.

The Knicks started with Stockton, Reggie Williams, Rodman, Kemp, and John Sely against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

As a result, Stockton's assist count remained high no matter who he was paired with.

Compared with Ewing, Kemp is a sharper pick-and-roll finisher. When he rolls down, he poses a huge threat to the Cavaliers' penalty area.

At the same time, he can also open the shot, causing the Cavaliers to basically choose to block the route and let him shoot when defending him.

Kemp is fighting for his Sixth Man of the Year title.

In the closing game of the regular season, Kemp played well, helping the Knicks win their 32st victory with 12 points and 71 rebounds.

除了坎普外，还有斯托克顿的16分16助攻，罗德曼的4分17篮板，雷吉·威廉姆斯的22分3篮板3助攻，麦克海尔的17分和克里斯·杰克逊高效的19分。

The Knicks rested two cores and three main players, and still beat the Cavaliers to the point where they couldn't fight back.

71 wins and 11 losses

In the past four seasons, the Knicks won 70 games for the third time in a single season.

It is also the fourth time in Louie's coaching career that he has won 70 games in a single season.

Louis no longer values ​​these victories, but the media cares very much.

A team win means Louie's personal success and the Knicks' success as a team.

Under the high victory, the Knicks players also achieved satisfactory data.

队内带头大哥尤因在81场比赛里场均22.2分9.8篮板4.4助攻1.1抢断和3.4封盖。

From the data point of view, it is lower than his average level in the past few years.

But considering the rise of Kemp and the brilliance of Chris Jackson on the bench, the Knicks' data has actually been quietly redistributed.

威尔逊赛季初一度场均30分，现在，场均数据和尤因一样“不甚起眼”，“只有”25.2分5.2篮板7.2助攻2.2抢断1.1盖帽。

Stockton played the best data of his career, averaging 14.3 points, 14.2 assists, 3 rebounds and 3.1 steals per game.He is not only the assists leader this year, but also the steals leader this year.

罗德曼心满意足，专注于防守、抢篮板以及在场外搞事的他，在70场比赛里场均得到6分15.1篮板2.1抢断1.6盖帽。

Suddenly replaced by the Demon King of Confusion, he not only became the focus of the media, he was selected as an All-Star for the first time in his career, and he is also expected to win the second DPOY. Moreover, he has already completed his pre-season goal-becoming the league's rebounding leader.

The Knicks' starters have all kinds of titles, and the bench composed of Kemp, Chris Jackson and Reggie Williams is also not bad.

If it weren't for the data drop at the end of the season, Kemp could average 20 points per game as a substitute.

Now that the season is over, Kemp averaged 19.2 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist per game.

If this year's Sixth Man of the Year isn't him, it's definitely shady.

For the Knicks, the regular season is more and more like an appetizer before the playoffs.

It's just that this hors d'oeuvre will last for half a year.

Once again won the first record in the league, the Knicks still need to face up to their opponents in the first round.

This opponent is too special.

Louie couldn't believe they had gotten to this point.

The Knicks' first-round opponent is the eighth-ranked Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference.

A team with No. 1 in history and the No. [-] center in history, leading the division to eighth?

How ironic it is!

It is not surprising that the Celtics have such a record.

Two are regarded as future lottery picks, one did not meet expectations, and the other was completely watered. Let alone Bird's backup, he couldn't even understand garbage time.

Bird was limited to 50 games due to injury.

Most of the time, whether the Celtics win or not depends entirely on whether Sampson can score 40 points.

If he can score 40 points, the Celtics have more than [-]% chance of winning.

Only when he scored more than 50 points, the Celtics' winning percentage could exceed [-]%.

If you want the Celtics to have a 60% winning percentage, it's not impossible, as long as Sampson scores [-] points per game.

Sampson has scored 5 points in 60 games so far in his career, and the Celtics have won all of them.

If Reggie Lewis is still there, if Steve Smith has not been traded, the Celtics can win at least 10 more games.

Lewis can help Sampson share the defensive pressure and let Bird rest at ease. Smith is the perfect heir to John Long. With him, Bostonians will no longer have to watch the 36-year-old Long play the starter.

结果
It cannot be said that it was Louie's original intention to make the Celtics like this.

He was in a fit of rage and retaliated recklessly.

Looking at it now, the Celtics really have no future. Sampson's peak period before the age of 35 will basically be wasted.

Auerbach is old, Jane Walker has no talent to turn the tide, and Dave Gavitt is more suitable as a league official than a team operator.

In other words, among these people, it is impossible to see anyone who can stop the decline of the Celtics.

The East is going from strength to strength.

Not to mention the Knicks, the Heat have become a force to be reckoned with under the leadership of godfather Lewis Shafir. They won 58 wins this season, ranking second in the Eastern Conference, followed by the Charlotte Hornets. Although there are internal problems, the arrival of Isiah Thomas has transformed the team, ranking fourth in the Eastern Conference with 56 wins this season. Except for the third-ranked Pistons in the Eastern Conference and the eighth-ranked Celtics in the Eastern Conference, several other teams are upstarts that have risen in recent years.

The impact of young people will become more and more fierce. If fresh blood cannot be replenished in time, the Celtics will become a bad team by the mid-90s.

That's the knot that hangs over the Bostonians.

They can't rebuild by trading Bird or Sampson, and they have to try their best to reinforce while these two veterans are still able to play.

But the biggest player Boston signed in the free market is Scott Weidman.It's also normal if the person's name sounds familiar to you but you can't remember anything about him or her.Because he was active in the 80s, he was one of the core players of the Kings team that staged a two-chef competition with the Rockets in the Western Conference Finals in 1981.He was later signed by the Celtics in free agency simply because he was a white guard, but when Louie was in charge of the Celtics, this guy basically had no chance.

Racial issues are the main reason why Boston has been unable to buy players in the free market for many years.

Therefore, the trick of relying on signers will not work.

In the case of a trade, neither Sampson nor Bird can be played. After Owens was firmly established as the starter of the NBA's world No. 90 CJB All-Star team in the [-]s, he was of little value.

not a single one.

Valuable chips have been traded to them for Billy Owens.

The only operation they can do is to spend all the draft picks and swap the first-round picks, and play a game of exchanging the future for the present. However, it is difficult for the team to regain competitiveness by doing so, so there is no room for manipulation.

It's basically a dead end game.

Bostonians were confused about their future. When Auerbach rushed back from Washington to the Greek Academy to hold a high-level self-examination meeting, Louis took a break from his busy schedule and flew to North Carolina to attend Yu Tiancan's graduation ceremony.

This year, including Yu Tiancan, six international students from the first batch of Young Eagles will graduate from the school.

Yu Tiancan is the best of them. During his four years in college, he was selected to the All-ACC League Team three times. In his senior season, he averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks per game, and was selected to the second team of the All-American Team.

In the selection of the best defensive player of the year, if it weren't for Alonzo Mourning who averaged 5 blocks per game in the same year, Yu Tiancan would have won the award.

Even in the selection of the first round of the United States, if it hadn't been for Mourning and O'Neal, Yu Tiancan could have entered the first round of the United States.

However, there is no shame in losing the award to these two.

Because as long as O'Neal participates in this year's draft, he is undoubtedly the No. [-] pick. If he does not participate, Mourning is recognized as the No. [-] pick.

These are two geniuses who are guaranteed to be the No. [-] pick.

After them, if University of Michigan freshman Chris Webber doesn't run, the rest, including Uranus Laettner, are not necessarily more attractive than Yu Tianchan.

He was the third center in the 1992 class.

As a 2m center forward, his athletic ability is at the 2m level, and his rough technique has improved a lot after four years of university experience.

When Louis watched the Wake Forest University game, he felt that Yu Tiancan was inferior in all aspects, except for the taller poor man's version of Duncan.

In addition to Yu Tiancan, Hu Weidong also graduated from Syracuse University this year. Both of them will participate in the draft and will definitely be selected.

Yu Tiancan has the prospect of the top six picks, while Hu Weidong is probably the prospect of the late first round to the early second round in the class of 1992, when there are many talents.

Yu Tiancan picked up his speech and used his innate sense of humor to make the audience laugh again and again.
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(End of this chapter)