The Rest, Only Noise

The Blazers provided Olajuwon with all the help within their capabilities.

Both Fisher and Chapman shot decent 3-pointers.

The team's eukaryotic Jordan completely gave up the core position of positional warfare, just like Kobe during the first championship of the OK Dynasty. In addition to feeding the ball to the inside, he just stood on the outside to create space, and passed the ball out when the inside couldn't move. Live for the few seconds left to play casually.

Jordan's performance is worthy of the number one hard power advocated by his team.

With such a weak tactical position, the whole game was full of presence. Not only did he stage a "QNMD Basketball Dream" suffocating defense against the well-known Qiao Mi Liu Yuqing, he also scored 32 points, 8 rebounds and 12 assists. .

For a strategic second-in-command, he really couldn't be asked to do more.

With the strong support of his teammates, the eukaryotic Olajuwon of the Blazers took 29 shots, hit 19 goals, scored 48 points, 14 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks.

This is a dominant performance, and the teammates didn't pull their hips.

No matter how you look at it, the Blazers should win.

However, Olajuwon himself played well, but because he was too obsessed with personal performance, he failed to make full use of his teammates' state.

He didn't pass the ball enough, or in other words, even if he played such a performance, the Lakers still didn't take his inside offense seriously, and still focused on cutting off the connection between the Blazers' outside and inside.

Without double-teaming the paint, there aren't many obvious openings to pass the ball to.

Like most great insiders, Olajuwon's average assists per game seems to be an excellent supporting insider, but it is actually the creativity brought about by his own offensive threat.

The vision brought by their height allows them to easily spot teammates who are open, just pass the ball.

But the Lakers did not give Olajuwon this opportunity to pass the ball.

Ever since, seven points of the Blazers' hope of winning fall on whether Dameng can beat the Lakers inside.

The remaining three points are whether the outside players represented by Jordan can seize the rare opportunity.

Obviously, the Blazers' outside line seized the opportunity, and it was Dameng who didn't break the Lakers' inside line.

That's right, Dameng, who scored 48 points, is still unqualified.

The Lakers let him play singles all the time, and occasionally someone came to symbolically help him defend.

In this case, with Sampson, he can score 60 points.

Replaced by O'Neal, he could score 50 points with 70% shooting and dunk the Lakers' basket.

Switch to Ewing... Unless the touch explodes, even if the opponent gives him a one-on-one opportunity, he will find a way to make the ball for his teammates.

And Olajuwon "only scored" 48 points. The Blazers finally lost 5 points to the Lakers. Among them, Wilson and Garnett were the heroes of this game. One of them scored 38 points and the other scored 25+10. Get a triple-double off the bench.

However, Olajuwon's marketing team can use this to play the card of "blame the useless coach and teammates".

The problem is, Dameng doesn't have a marketing team.

Moreover, no one will compare him with Sampson, Ewing, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The Blazers fell behind 1 to 3, and Riley, who had no flexibility in the two games, was widely questioned.

The media's doubts are not groundless. Riley has lost more than a dozen finals, and there are too many examples that can be used to blackmail.

For this reason, Riley, who gave up everything, told reporters after the game: "We spent two games to prove that we can't win by relying on the inside alone. Teammates contribute more, like in Game 2."

As for the outside world's doubts about himself, Riley said palely: "No matter where our journey ends this year, this will be my last year coaching in Portland."

"Probably, also my last year as a coach."

"I am the biggest loser in the history of sports, but I still want to win again, not for myself, but for my players." Riley said emotionally, "In

In my opinion, Hakeem is better than Patrick Ewing, Michael is better than Benjamin, they are the best players at their positions. …”

"And I'm not the best coach." Riley took the responsibility for the loss. "I caused them to lose. I am responsible for all of this. I still hope that I can lead them to success because they are the best in history. The untitled player who won the championship.39

It can be said that Riley's speech to the media was successful, and the pressure of public opinion on the Blazers was thus reduced a lot.

Riley can finally close the door to take care of the chores and get the team on track ahead of the do-or-die Game 5.

Louie knew that the real Western Conference Finals might not officially begin until Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals. Riley was undoubtedly a ruthless person. He chose to put the team to death and survive.

Louie did that in 1993.

It did the same in 1988.

The problem is, while Louie is doing this, his team is still going strong, it's just that there are a lot of internal issues that need to be resolved. If those problems can be put aside for a while, the team can transform.

The Blazers don't have the same conditions.

Their core is too old and their lineup is too thin.

Under such circumstances, it is too risky to choose to let yourself fall into the big pit behind 1 to 3?

Don't leave a way out for yourself?

Louis had to admire Riley's courage, if it were him, he would definitely not dare to do this.

Why is Dameng unwilling to be a tool man? Because he has never played as the absolute core of the team. Therefore, to make him accept the tool man's arrangement, he must fight a hearty defeat.

It not only made him enjoy playing, but also realized that this is really not possible.

If Riley is really supernatural, he should stabilize Jordan's mentality in the third game, and then let Dameng let go of the game, and then they don't have to take the fourth game to continue taking risks.

That was Louie's idea, and if it had been him, he'd have set things up in Game 3.

Of course, this is an afterthought, and no one knows what will happen next, but looking at Riley's arrangement after the fact, he just feels admiration, not approval.

However, now, Louis has other important things to do.

May 27

The NBA 1997 lottery draw was held in New York.

At that time, TNT will broadcast the whole process live.

Louis accepted the invitation of little Bass and went together.

Moreover, Bird just happened to be invited to New York to shoot commercials at this time, so the Lakers' lottery delegation changed from two to three, and it also included Louis, who had established his status as the president of the coaching world, and the currently recognized NBA dog Tebold, it can be said to be a heavenly group.

When the three arrived in New York, there were already media waiting for interviews.

"I don't know anything." President Lu said modestly, "I'm Jim's follower."

Byrd joked: "I just dropped by on a plane."

Little Buss was in a good mood, and said humorously: "The more humble Coach and Larry are, the more nervous I am. When I am with them, I feel that I am not of the same species as them. The gap is too big. I am afraid." .”

"Mr. Bass, I don't know what the Lakers' expectation for the lottery is?"

"I don't like trouble, so if we can get the No. 1 lottery, we don't have to worry about the pick," Bass said with a smile.

What he said made the reporter roll his eyes.

Nonsense, everyone will choose the No. 1 lottery, so I want to ask you this question.

Louis considers himself a follower of Buss Jr.~www.readwn.com~ He doesn’t express any opinions on the lottery, and Bird is too lazy to express opinions on this matter, the minibus

Si is also well versed in interview nonsense literature.

The reporters were very disappointed. Although they squatted in the sky group, the other party would just leave this and this, which is really boring.

After getting rid of the reporters, the Lakers lottery team chose to stay in a hotel that cooperated with the team.

The first thing Louie did when he came to the hotel room was to call Garcia Lynn for the last

confirmation.

At that time, Lynn was in a meeting and just said that he would reply after the meeting.

In the evening, Louis was about to go out to meet the old guys in New York, when he received a voice message from the other party.

"The plan remains the same, everything is in place."

These two short sentences were enough for Louis to calm down completely, and he didn't think about it any more.