The rest is just noise

Text Volume Chapter 1,293 The Fifty Superstars On February 1, 1997, the league officially announced the complete list of the top 50 superstars in NBA history.

Guard

Nat Archibald, Bob Cousy, Dave Bing, Walter Frazier, Earvin Johnson, Oscar Robertson, John Stockton, Isiah Thomas,

Lanny Wilkens.

shooting guard

Jerry West, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, Sam Jones, Bill Sharman, Reggie Miller, Hal Greer, Della Peterlo

Vicky, Earl Monroe.

small forward

Larry Bird, Benjamin Wilson, Elgin Baylor, Julius Erving, John Havlicek, Rick Barry, Scottie Pippen, Paul Arrigian, Dominic Way

Erkins.

Power Forward

Bob Pettit, Kevin McHale, Dolph Schayes, Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman, Danny Manning, Shawn Kemp, Elvin Hayes

, Dave DeBusschere.

center

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Ralph Sampson, Wilt Chamberlain, Patrick Ewing, Moses Malone, George McCann, Willis Lee

De, Wes Unseld, Bill Walton, Dave Cowens, Willis Reed, Hakeem Olajuwon.

I mentioned before that Walton may be squeezed out. Then I thought about it. A player who has won all the top honors in one and a half years, even if his peak is only a few years, should not be removed from the top 50. If

I can substitute for these players, and I would rather have Walton's extremely brilliant year and a half than Ewing's mediocre elite career.

Once the list was announced, it immediately swept the media circle.

Everyone began to deliberate on the rationality of this list.

In the end, everyone came to two conclusions.

There are too many bastards in positions 1 and 2 pretending to be good.

Excessive favoritism to the core members of the Knicks dynasty.

The 13 center spots are obviously not enough.

In terms of strength and honor, Robinson is definitely a candidate for the top 50, but somehow he failed to be selected.

Some people think that Louis doesn't like Robinson, so Robinson's loss is related to him.

This is really an injustice to Louis.

There are too many talents at the center position. When the personal data are similar, everyone will choose the champion if there is a champion, and choose the MVP if there is no champion.

In the end, it was actually a choice between Olajuwon and Robinson.

Olajuwon won the MVP in 1993. This top quality seems to be more important in the eyes of voters than Robinson's outstanding performance in the Shoti 2.0 era.

The media didn't like Robinson because his character was too soft.

Players don't like Robinson because, except for his skin color, he is simply a white man. The difference from O.J. Simpson may be that he is devout enough in his faith and has such a good character that even if all black people in the United States are suspected of murder, he will be the first

The degree to which suspicion has been eliminated.

This kind of character, which is good for ordinary people, will not work in the black-dominated NBA.

Players don't like him.

On the contrary, the coaching representatives all prefer Robinson, with Louis being the only exception.

According to the final voting statistics, for the last 50 spots at the center position, only Louis voted for Nate Thurmond.

The others were either Olajuwon or Robinson, and Thurmond was completely forgotten.

This is another effect brought about by the rise of Louis.

The talent at the center position has expanded to the point where there is no room left for Thurmond.

At this point, the mid-season drama comes to an end.

In the future, the legitimacy of Benjamin Wilson's throne will be greatly questioned, because the seven championships he won with the Knicks were won with six top 50 superstars in their prime.

This is exactly Louis

The reason why I think the Lakers need to win the championship this year.

However, whenever someone questions Wilson about this in the future, he will say:

After selecting people, Louis has to go back and continue to lead the team.

Because the holiday hasn't started yet, the Lakers still need to play three games before the All-Star weekend.

The opponents are the Mavericks, Kings, and Bulls.

Of these three teams, only the Mavericks are considered a strong team, the Bulls are a weak team competing for the No. 1 pick, and the Kings are a weak team that pretends to be competing for a playoff spot, but actually has no chance of reaching the playoffs.

In the game against the Mavericks, Barkley was in a bad mood and directly attacked them.

Before the league announced the top 50 list, Barkley thought he was in a safe place.

Unexpectedly, he was unable to compete with one in the end.

When Barkley learned that a man named Jue had killed him, his first reaction was to know who it was.

In the end, he was forced to get to know this NBA star, but in his heart, he was not convinced.

Barkley's defeat was actually doomed because his reputation was so poor.

Rodman almost missed the top 50 due to his bad reputation, but if you want to get to the bottom of it, it was just an off-court matter. And Barkley was not only in trouble off the court, he was also unpopular on the court.

Whether it was his failed early career in Chicago or his three consecutive losses in Portland, he was given the impression of a loser.

So far in his career, the only resume that Barkley can single out is that he was a member of the 1992 Dream Team and after being traded to the Clippers in the 1994-95 season, he changed his mind again and led the team that no one expected to reach the Western Conference Finals.

Barkley achieved success faster than Jordan.

It's just that no one noticed this.

Now he comes to the Lakers with the title of ultimate loser.

If Jordan has cooperated with all the giants of his generation who can be teammates, Barkley has embraced all the thighs of his generation. If he still fails to win the championship in the end, he will be a bigger loser than Jordan.

Be heavier.

This notoriety caused Barkley to miss the 50th.

With dissatisfaction with the world, Barkley killed the Mavericks.

That night, Barkley and Garnett demonstrated various high and low coordination inside.

First, they made it clear that Barkley was the main attacker and Garnett was the assist. Then, they made a fuss about the former's high-post offense and low-post explosions.

If you want to play high and low, Barkley's shooting stability will be a problem.

He can shoot, but he is not a player like Nowitzki who can kill people by shooting. Shooting is at best an auxiliary method in his entire offensive deterrence system, because his strength is extremely terrifying, and he can carry it in the muscle jungle inside.

Playing basketball is as simple as Mu Shen in "Slam Dunk".

But today, he seemed to be affected by his personal emotions, and his overall condition was full. On the contrary, Garnett's auxiliary skills were a bit insufficient.

Among the high-low cooperation that Louis has seen, the most extreme one is not the Spurs twin towers in the previous life, but Bird and Sampson in this world. Because Sampson developed the three-pointer, when he and Bird played pick-and-rolls,

When you attack, you can basically destroy the opponent's entire defense line.

And Garnett doesn't have the consciousness to shoot a three-pointer yet.

Louis is not in a hurry to instill this concept in him, because he is still learning how to be a real inside man. Early exposure to three-pointers will make his style of play more and more outside, which is no different from his original self.

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No matter what era it is, insiders will always rely on the power of the inside to prove their dominance. Even for Nowitzki, the most impressive scene in his career was when he faced Wave in the 2011 Finals.

Shi turned around with the ball in front of the basket and scored the winning layup.

Moses Malone, the most articulate superstar in NBA history, famously said that if you die in the paint, you will die under the basket.

That's the truth.

However, Louis does not directly affect Garnett's awareness of practicing three-pointers, but he can use various tactical arrangements to make him realize that he still needs to

Need to develop those skills to work better with Barkley.

Tonight, when Garnett was left open outside the three-point line, he was always noisy and fell silent.

This kind of silence happened many times.

Barkley didn't pass the ball to him, and he had no problem with it.

Because both of them knew there was no point in passing the ball out.

At the end of the game, Barkley scored 48 points and 20 rebounds, leading the Lakers to a victory over the Mavericks.

Louis joked in front of reporters:

The next day, when Barkley weighed himself in, he discovered that he had gained three pounds.

It turns out that it was because I was so excited last night that I ate countless donuts without stopping.

Louis was furious on the spot:

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