The Rest, Only Noise

The latest website: Chapter 772: Glory to the Celts and the End of the Tragic Second Generation

In Game 5 of the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals, the Knicks failed to win as easily as expected.

The Celtics resisted and counterattacked fiercely.

Bird's form was not as good as last game, but Sampson and Isiah Thomas's form was full.

Especially Thomas.

He, who has been shooting below 30% three-pointers all year round, shot 50% of his three-pointers tonight.

The whole game did not rest for a second. After Sampson fouled out, he scored 19 points in the fourth quarter and brought the game to overtime.

Then, he played full overtime and scored 6 of the Celtics' 8 points in overtime, but Ewing made a 0.4-second tip-up.

When Ewing fills in the ball, the buzzer goes off.

Thomas fell to his knees, brokenhearted. .

Isaiah Thomas, who played 53 minutes and scored 50 points and 9 assists, gave everything for the Celtics in the final game of the 1990-91 season.

Winning the championship is why Thomas stayed with the Celtics.

But after losing the championship in 1988, he stayed three more seasons.

Even if he had made up his mind last summer and wanted to leave, at the beginning of the new season, when he saw that the team had a good record, he would stop talking about trades and try his best to finish the season.

That's what sets him apart from Barkley and Drexler, and is the key to the Celtics winning four straight championships from 1984 to 1987.

Bird is GOAT, Sampson is the only gentleman, the only gentleman who dares to compete with the Lord of the Rings, Beidou, and Sky Hook, what about Thomas? He will be remembered for his smile, his insignificance around these two giants, and his "selfishness" in asking for a deal in his final year.

Louis walked up to Thomas and helped him up.

Seeing Louis, Thomas' full of grievances and unwillingness have nowhere to hide.

"I've done my best."

"I know, Isiah." Louis had mixed feelings, he never thought that one day, he would say to the smiling assassin sincerely, "You are a well-deserved honorable Celtic."

Thomas pushed Louie away fiercely: "You are a Boston traitor! You are a deserter who gave up halfway! You don't know how I came here all these years, and you are not a real Celtic, you have no right to say that!"

Even Louie didn't think about the influence he brought to the Celtics, and the trouble and pressure he brought to Thomas.

Hearing Thomas accuse himself of being a traitor and deserter, Louis smirked.

"Isaiah, it's not up to you to decide what I mean to Boston, history will give me a fair evaluation. And you, I think from the bottom of my heart, you are the hero of Boston, this generation of Celtics One of the three greatest players in the world, Larry is greater, Ralph is better, but they can't be ranked in front of you, the Celtics would not be this great without any of you." Louie finally said , "I'm so proud of you, Isiah."

Thomas remembers Louie as a **** who doesn't approve of him at all.

He hardly heard Louis say a few nice things to him.

So, when Louie honestly evaluates Thomas' 10 years in Boston, he's like irritated, stunned, angry, and then refuses to accept it, and doesn't want to communicate with the rest of the Knicks, without shaking his opponent's hand. Exit.

Some people want to go, you can't stop them.

Louie asked everyone not to talk about Thomas' exit without shaking hands and paid the Celtics the greatest respect.

There are plenty of signs that this year will be the final gamble for this generation of Celtics.

Thomas's intention to leave is firm. He chose to finish this season because he wants to have a beginning and an end.

If he can't win the championship, he won't stay.

Even if he holds this idea, in this round of the series, he has overdrawn all his strength.

There's been a lot of news that Bird's old injury resurfaced in the series against the Knicks.

He needs rest and recuperation. If the series is extended, with Bird's temperament, he will definitely fight to the end.

The intensity of the Knicks game is well known, and it is hard to imagine what the consequences will be if Bird fights again in his current state.

Sampson ended a season that made history.

He won all but the championship.

At this point, in the Western Conference finals, the Trail Blazers and the Lakers were tied in the first four games.

In the battle of Tianwang Mountain, Jordan used a free throw line jumper that made time freeze, facing Pippen's defensive buzzer lore, and the Blazers took a 3-2 lead.

However, Drexler did not work well, Nance was injured, Schmitz was overwhelmed by David Robinson, Clifford Robinson's soft egg attributes in the playoffs were highlighted, and the Blazers did not have enough depth in the lineup to finish sixth. Ending the series.

In the tiebreaker, it can be seen that the tragic division and Jordan have different understandings of the game, as well as the difference in the degree of torture.

At present, Jordan has no shortcomings in technology.

The three-point threat spread from the top of the arc to the left and right flanks, with a 35% hit rate.

But Jordan didn't get tortured by the Celtics like the tragic man to the point where he didn't know what else to do.

The problem for the Blazers is simple, injuries and second-placed strokes.

In the face of the powerful Lakers, Jordan averaged 40 points per game and scored 38 points below the series level in the tiebreaker.

On the other hand, the tragic master scored a series-high 42 points, 11 rebounds and 18 assists, and made 5 of 7 three-pointers from the outside, and let Robinson also play an explosive output of 40 points in a single game.

The Tragedy understands better than Jordan what their winning spots are as a team.

If Jordan can cooperate with Drexler, maybe he can understand, but in the end, he chooses to believe in himself, because the teammates who can help are either injured or the intensity of the game does not match the Lakers and cannot provide help.

Watching the two finals-level teams play like this in the division finals, Louis was relieved.

116 to 109

The Lakers outscored the Blazers by seven points in Game 7.

The 28-year-old Jordan, with his hands on his hips, averaged 40 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists and 3.3 steals per game in seven games. He was also puzzled like a tragic master.

Why is he doing this and still can't win?

The Portland media ultimately pinned the blame for the loss on Drexler, who averaged just 16 points in seven games.

They agreed that if the gliders did their best in the series, the Blazers would make it to the finals.

Drexler also said something that called into question his work ethic.

"Since MJ has everything, and the media thinks he can handle everything, why do the people around him have to take on so much? Why every time we lose, it's us who get scolded, so he's not wrong at all?"

The media told Drexler the answer with practical actions: "Yes."

The Lakers have a lineup no less than the Knicks: Tragic, David Robinson, Scottie Pippen, Green, Derek McKay, Divac, Fat Liver, Ed Pinckney , Jeff Hornacek, Sam Perkins.

However, their head coach is no longer Pat Riley.

At the end of last season, the Lakers announced that they would not renew Riley's contract.

Riley is now messing around as an announcer, planning his next comeback, and the Lakers' coach has fallen to rookie coach Mike Dunleavy.

Dunleavy has a characteristic, his ears are soft.

The reason why the 100-million-dollar pioneers he led did not do much was that, on the one hand, the big-name players that he had brought in with a lot of money had passed their peak, and on the other hand, Dunleavy, as the head coach, could not control the locker room and liked to shirk his responsibilities. If someone asked for playing time, he wouldn't say no, because these guys are famous guys.

As a result, the minutes played by the players on that team were very average, but no one was satisfied.

Dunleavy succeeded in turning everyone's backs.

On a star-studded team like the Lakers, he committed the exact same fault.

Except for Tragic and Robinson, no one else's playing time is guaranteed.

Even if the Lakers use their money ability to make the team's paper lineup close to the Knicks, they can't match the Knicks in combat power.

The most obvious difference is the first game.

In Game 1, Louie played an 11-man rotation, used Jordan's rule to deal with the tragic player, and used the team's athletic ability to mark Hornacek to ensure that his perimeter touch could not continue to be online.

Let David Robinson eat cake under the basket.

Admiral today is like Stoudemire who averaged 38 points per game against the Spurs in the series.

His numbers blew Duncan, but his team lost miserably because of it.

Because they are part of a tactical blowout.

Except for Robinson, the rest of the Lakers were uncomfortable.

In contrast to the Knicks, Wilson is everywhere, and Ewing has grown into the most comprehensive defender in the league after years of coaching by Louis. Louie told him to drop Robinson's defense, and he devoted his energy to taking care of the rest of the Lakers.

Then, Rodman brought out the defensive impact of DPOY last season.

Every time Scottie Pippen tried to hit the rim, or Hornacek gave up a shot and got the ball, he bumped into his defense.

Then there are the Knicks ready to go off the bench. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Kemp led the second team in a devastating blow to the unpopular Lakers second team, Reggie Williams selflessly dominated the offense in the connecting section, and Ainge was strong and shot well.

With 100-point lineups on both sides, the Knicks' chemistry is 100 percent, while the Lakers may be less than 70 percent.

In the first game of the Finals, the Knicks defeated the Lakers 124-109.

This game not only made people see the strength of the Knicks, but also clearly showed the gap between the two teams, and also hinted at the future of the series.

The tragedy of Elgin Baylor is beckoning to the second generation of tragedies.

Louis doesn't want to win four consecutive championships for the time being, he just wants to drink a Coke.

Zhao Yuanzheng prepared Coke smartly.

Louis took a drink, shouted the whole game, and was instantly refreshed by the cold soda.