The Rest, Only Noise

Remember [New] for a second,! The Knicks' 30-game winning streak was dampened by the war of words off the court.

But New York's media forces could always use after-the-fact cigarettes to educate people about the Knicks' success.

From late March to early April, the backstory of the Knicks' 30-game winning streak was unearthed.

The Knicks landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated and were told in detail about their 30-game winning streak in one of the most word-count articles in Illustrated history.

This 30-game winning streak not only allowed Benjamin Wilson to lock the mvp, but also allowed the Knicks to firmly occupy the No. 1 position in the league.

Some say their status came a little later.

If this state is maintained from the beginning of the season, not to mention whether the Lakers' 33-game winning streak can be broken, breaking the record of the most wins in history that the Knicks just set last season is expected.

Louis didn't see it that way. .

For him, it's good that the team's form was up and down early in the season, improved in the middle, and then skyrocketed after the All-Star break.

Their goal is to win a championship, not a regular-season record.

Excessive pursuit of regular-season records is prone to problems.

The most typical is the 96 Bulls and 16 Warriors.

The 1996 Bulls didn't do it deliberately when they set the regular season winning record. In the 82 regular season games, they had a big gap in the interior. Rodman only played in 64 games, Luke Longley played in 62 games, and even Billy Wennington missed 11 games due to injury.

It's only natural that they won 72 in this situation.

Looking at the Warriors, Louis, as a witness, in hindsight, he felt that the Warriors had too many magic balls, too much persistence, and too much focus in that magical regular season, especially when the Bulls' record was in sight. .

I put too much energy into the regular season, and when I came to the playoffs, the unfortunate wave of injuries hit, and then it was history.

Therefore, the state curve of the Knicks first and then rises, but for Louis, it is a good thing.

Recording something, he is not rare, anyway, it is already in his name.

On April 2, 1990, the NBA's offseason, this day was the ncaa national finals, which was played by the University of Nevada Las Vegas (later referred to as UNLV) against Duke.

Louis originally wanted to watch the live broadcast at home, but Coach K from Duke University strongly invited him to watch the game live.

One of the things Louie learned from Auerbach was to have a good relationship with the greats of college basketball.

No matter how advanced the NBA's scouting system is, the advice of these famous coaches is also important.

That's why Auerbach has repeatedly picked the right answer in the draft over the years.

Since Coach K invited him, Louis naturally wanted to sell his face and take the entire Knicks coaching staff to the McNichols Stadium ( ) to watch the game.

This is the home court of the Nuggets. Louis wanted to invite Nuggets coach Doug Mo to watch the game, but unexpectedly learned that Coach Mo recently had a quarrel with the team management.

His extreme coaching style has been slow to bring honor to the Nuggets.

This team has passed its heyday, and the management should consider the future.

Coach Mo thinks that he is fine and refuses to change. In this case, of course he is not in the mood to come and watch the game.

"Expedition, can you introduce us?"

Louis teased Zhao Yuanzheng.

As the general manager of the Knicks scouting department, Zhao Yuanzheng knows the two teams participating in the finals very well: "In terms of tactical cooperation, Duke is better, but UNLV's recent competitive state is better."

Louis saw two acquaintances.

Duke's Christian Lightner and UNLV's Larry Johnson. Louie knew the former because Laettner was a member of the Dream Team, and the latter because Louie accidentally saw the other team famously score four points against the Pacers in the playoffs in a previous life.

Zhao Yuanzheng said that Duke's tactical literacy is stronger, while Unlv's state is better.

In the college arena, tactical literacy is the key link.

Looking at it this way, maybe Duke has a better chance of winning?

After the game started, Louie found that he was thinking too much.

In the first half, 47 to 35, Duke was stably controlled.

If we finish with this trend, it is certain that unlv is a better team, one level stronger than Duke.

But the second half was a **** slaughter.

Unlv's interior pillar Larry Johnson's style of play reminded Louie of Wes Unseld, who is more influential on offense than Unseld.

A pass thrown after grabbing the rebound in the penalty area made Unlv's counterattack and fast break picturesque.

Duke was completely blown away.

In addition to Johnson, Louis was also impressed by UNLV's Stacey Ogmon (staceyaugmonsf/sg). His body is surprisingly flexible and can perform many difficult movements that test the strength of the waist. Valley

unlv's head coach jerry tarkanian with a tired face looks like he's out of breath and ready to see **** at any moment, bald head with no visible hair has visible bald spots, even if Looking at it from a distance, you can also see a bit of despair.

Louie thought this guy was seriously ill, so the unlv players beat Duke on the court so frantically.

Facts will prove that Coach Lu thinks too much.

Takanian is healthy, it just looks a little unhealthy.

At the end, 103 to 73, Duke was ruthlessly slaughtered by unlv for 30 points.

This fiasco set the biggest point difference in the ncaa national finals, with the biggest winner scoring 1.

Xiao K, who is confident that he can lead his team to win the championship, entered the shame column of college basketball in a way that he could not imagine.

"If we knew earlier, we should have tried to persuade Larry Johnson to participate in the 1989 draft." Zhao Yuanzheng said with emotion.

Louie knew what he was talking about.

Larry Johnson has always been a college player that Zhao Yuanzheng keeps track and pays attention to, but because of his academic performance, he played in the d2 league for the first two years of his college career.

Even so, he looked extremely dazzling.

After Bol, Oakley, Pippen, and Rodman have made a name for themselves in the NBA, professional basketball discriminates against talented players from d2 a lot less.

Larry Johnson in 1989 would have been a lottery-to-lottery edge if he entered the draft.

However, when he finished playing at unlv this year, it was very different.

As the core of this unlv team, both the regular season and the national championship are the role of the needle. If he runs for the election this year, Derek Coleman's No. 1 pick may not be stable. If he runs for the election next year, there will be no monster newcomers suddenly emerging. In this case, the champion does not want to be the second person except him.

This is why Zhao Yuanzheng feels regret.

They could have used a lottery to pick top-level potential stocks.

"I'm going to say hello to Coach K, you wait for me."

Louie came down and said a few words to Xiao K, expressing regret for Duke's failure and encouraging players who were beaten to heartbreak: "You know, sometimes a painful defeat can make you better team, come back next year."

"Thank you, Lu." Xiao K was too sad to say anything else now.

Louis patted his shoulder lightly, then walked over to congratulate Unlv.

When he was about to leave, reporters at the scene rushed over to interview him.

They posed a question: "If the Knicks had the No. 1 pick this year, who would you pick?"

"We will trade the No. 1 pick for money, because we already have a lot of talented players, no matter what kind of players, they can't get consistent playing time on our team."

Louie answered that for several reasons. First, he didn't want to rub salt in the wounds of Duke's men. Because if the answer is serious, Larry Johnson is the most appropriate, but the latter beat them tonight. Secondly, he didn't want to make unlv feel uncomfortable either.

So, he passed the reporter in a slightly arrogant way, and then left.

The first season of college basketball in the 1990s is over, and the NBA's regular season will come to an end.

On April 5, the Knicks faced the Celtics for the last time in the regular season. Stockton had 23 assists and led the team to sweep the Celtics.

As a result, Stockton also reached a milestone: Since the 1986-87 season, four consecutive seasons sent at least 1,000 assists.

On April 20, the Knicks' regular-season finale was against the Minnesota Timberwolves.

In order to get more ticket money, the Timberwolves did not know what to do, moving the stadium to a dome that can accommodate 50,000 fans.

This set a record for the most people who attended the game during the season.

The Timberwolves were crushed by the Knicks, but there were still 47,000 Minnesotans on the scene to witness the whole process.

Louie was unhappy with this team from the beginning~www.novelmt.com~ When the audience was too large, he asked the team to kill.

It's a pity that the Timberwolves are probably too weak, or the Knicks players are already thinking about the playoffs. In the final game of the regular season, their hit rate was not good.

In the end, the Knicks set a record that may be unprecedented.

From mid-January 1990 to April 20, they only lost one game during this period.

In the end, they had a great record of 73 wins and 9 losses, and although not better than last season, they still lead the Lakers by 7 wins, enter the playoffs as the undisputed first in the league, and have home-court advantage in all rounds.

It is even more significant for Wilson himself.

This season, he accelerated his evolution and played in 80 games, averaging 26 points, 8 rebounds, 6.6 assists, 2.9 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. The scoring average would have gone up without the Knicks, but it was because he was with the Knicks that he was able to contribute his best defensive performance.

In the eyes of many, he has locked two first and mvp.

1 Don't feel low, college basketball didn't have offensive time until 1985.