The rest is just noise

For Louis, last night was an unforgettable night.

He had one of the most glorious nights of his coaching career and led his team to defeat the Celtics, which may have ended the era of the Celtics dynasty. As a professional basketball coach, if you can lead your team to defeat a team that is at its peak.

A dynasty team, that is definitely a very important achievement.

In the media, the complaints from the Celtics were overshadowed by the compliments praising the Knicks.

There is no better place to make a name for yourself than New York. For professional teams, as long as your results are good, the media there has a way of making people believe that you are the best of all time.

Just like the New York Islanders dynasty (NHL/1980-1983) a few years ago, New York media people believe that they are better than the Toronto Maple Leafs dynasty, which won six championships in ten years from 1942-1951 and four championships in six years from 1962-1967, and the Detroit Red Wings dynasty.

Four championships in six years from 1950-1955, six championships in eight years from 1953-1960 and ten championships in fifteen years from 1965-1979 during the Montreal Canucks dynasty.

When the media compares the Edmonton Oilers dynasty after the Islanders dynasty with other dynasty teams, the New York media always dominates, believing that the Islanders at their peak can crush the Oilers dynasty.

This is the power of the media to speak. No biographer has written a book about the Celtics who won 10 championships in 13 years, while they wrote about 10,000 books about the 1970 New York Knicks.

Therefore, the Knicks' defeat of the Celtics is another opportunity for the New York media to have unlimited carnival.

The New York Times ignored the Portland Trail Blazers in the Western Conference. The headline on the sports page was: "Welcome back to the era of Knicks dominance."

Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Anderson, who spent a year with the Knicks, wrote an article for Sports Illustrated called "The Team of the Future."

He believes that the Knicks can not only dominate the present, but also the future.

Even Magic's words "I really want to be there" were regarded by the New York media as evidence that he wanted to play in the Knicks.

The pursuit of the Knicks suddenly reached its peak, and winning the championship seemed inevitable.

The Blazers were completely ignored.

No one dares to despise the pioneers, not even Louis.

On paper, they have a top-four superstar in the league in Michael Jordan.

For a time traveler like Louis, defeating Jordan in the Finals means breaking the myth of the latter's 100% winning rate in the Finals on another timeline.

In addition to Jordan, the Trail Blazers also have an All-Star wing glider who is close to superstar level in Drexler.

and Xavier McDaniel and Larry Nance, who are somewhere between All-Stars and near-All-Stars.

In addition to these four stars, there are also good role players such as Terry Porter, Jerome Cosey, and James Edwards.

However, as the media said, the Trail Blazers are far inferior to the Celtics.

Since the Knicks can defeat the Celtics, it is no problem to beat the Trail Blazers and win the championship.

As the Knicks defeated the Celtics to advance, their rough style of play was criticized by related people, including the Celtics.

Tom Heinsohn called them a bunch of boxers.

Auerbach simply linked them to the black gangs on the streets of the United States, calling them gangsters.

Louis discovered that his team had completely inherited the identity of the Pistons in another timeline.

Those guys are called the Bad Boys, and the Knicks are called the Gangsters. This seems to be a nickname the Knicks only had in the 1990s, right?

Since the Knicks have inherited the Pistons' historical mission, they should defeat Jordan at least three times in a row. Well, Louis set a small goal for himself, first defeat the Trail Blazers three times in the playoffs.

If they want to meet the Trail Blazers in the playoffs, it must be in the finals, so

Looking back, Louis didn't mean to underestimate the Trail Blazers at all.

As a basketball player, Jordan has officially entered his peak period this year. Fans have been discussing how he is still not as good as Bird and The Tragedy Hunter.

Especially after he won the scoring title for several consecutive years, accusations that he was unable to drive his teammates reached an overwhelming level. The scale was roughly equivalent to that after James won the championship with the Lakers in 2020, a forum was full of black Jordans overnight.

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Jordan believes that the gap between him and Bird and the Tragedy Master is not in strength, but in terms of team configuration. Although the glider is very powerful, it is not as good as the group of people around Bird and the Tragedy Master. Since some people think that he is not as good as these two

, he made breakthroughs in the weak areas of these two people, so he tried to become a super defensive expert.

In this era, Louis had the opportunity to follow Jordan's game since college, so he knew that Jordan progressed from "the fourth defensive player on the team" in his freshman year to "the top defensive back in the NCAA" in his sophomore year.

His judgment on the path of the ball is as precise as a beast's perception of the smell of blood. In addition, he has long arms and big hands, and he can move quickly and can guard three positions on the outside.

As an excellent attacker, Jordan can easily understand the opponent's motives, steal the ball with leaps and bounds, defend and block shots. And the most important thing is that he holds a grudge very much and will never let go until his opponent is strangled to death. These things

Qualifications make him the best defender.

Last year, he was selected for the first defense. This year, he was selected as the DPOY with some controversy from three insiders: Sampson, Ewing, and Mark Eaton.

Scoring champion + DPOY, the ultimate expression of individual offense and defense.

Moreover, he has averaged 35 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 steals and 1.7 blocks per game so far in the playoffs. In the series against the Lakers, he averaged a terrifying 40 points per game, which turned rookie Pippen into a scumbag. On the defensive end, he averaged 4 steals and 1.8 blocks per game.

In addition to rebounds and assists, he is the first player on both teams in all statistics.

In view of the fact that Bird, who suffered a back injury, is no longer the best player in the league, in Louis' eyes, the current top three in the league are Sampson, Tragedy and Jordan. And just in the Western Conference Finals, Jordan was torn apart face to face.

Magic, so it is okay to promote Jordan to the second player in the league.

After Sampson's team was eliminated, Jordan was already the first player in the playoffs. He landed in the finals with the ambition to replace the Celtics, but he didn't know the Celtics in the playoffs.

What kind of opponent is this man and the Knicks, because he has never played against them.

In the evening, Louis left the entire coaching team in the video room of the Blue Palace to review Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals.

In this game, Jordan scored 50 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists, with a shooting percentage of over 70%. It was his most dominant game in the entire playoffs.

"I don't think anyone can guard him," Tomjanovich said seriously.

"Yes, he is ridiculously strong." Zhao Yuanzheng paused, "However, the intensity of the Western Conference finals is not as strong as the Eastern Conference finals."

"MJ never played at that level of intensity."

After watching the video, Louis, who did not speak during the whole process, said to everyone: "Let me first tell you my views on the finals. I think we have the strength to defeat the Trail Blazers in six games. Who is in favor of it and who is against it?"