The rest is just noise

After Thanksgiving, the Knicks continue their journey.

Jordan suffered a fracture, causing them to lose a strong competitor.

People are eager to find a comparable team for the Knicks, but looking at the league, there are not many teams that can rival them.

The Celtics in the Eastern Conference were originally fine, but Larry Bird's back affected the team's competitiveness.

The Blazers were eliminated for the same reason.

Lakers? Although they handed the Knicks their first loss of the season, few people thought they had a chance to defeat the Knicks.

Fortunately, there are still two competitive teams in the West.

They are Jazz and Sun respectively.

The latter was the biggest dark horse last season, and the former was the top winner in the offseason.

They confidently took over the West.

However, the first meeting between the Suns and the Knicks was the first game after Thanksgiving.

However, the situation was not good. Ewing had a clear advantage against Doherty. Benjamin Wilson returned and scored 30 points.

The Suns lost miserably to the Knicks.

This almost sentenced them to death.

Fans no longer expect them and don't want them to reach the finals.

In the New Yorker's own words: "If Phoenix finally reaches the Finals, I will be very happy, because that means the Knicks will sweep the Western Conference championship 4-0 for two consecutive seasons."

Defeating the Suns is the indicator of the Knicks' own status.

They continued their winning streak until December.

In early December, Rudy Tomjanovich was happy about something. Mexican radio suddenly broadcast a news that Mike Tyson had died in a car accident.

This made Tomjanovich happy for a long time.

Because Tyson used 91 seconds to defeat Spinks and retire, it still lingers in his heart.

Unfortunately, Tyson quickly jumped out and proved that it was an unfounded news.

"I really vomited!" Tomjanovich complained to Louis. "It's true that that bastard sexually harassed middle-aged women. It's true that he tried to force a woman to have sex with a gas station attendant. It's true that he domestically abused his wife. Driving

It’s true that he hit a tree and smashed a TV in public, it’s true that he suspected he was mentally ill and saw a psychiatrist, it’s true that the rumors about attacking a woman’s buttocks in Long Island are true, why is this news the only one that’s false? Damn it!”

As a big fan of Tyson, Tomjanovich is very professional. It is not easy to remember all these conditions so clearly.

"Rudy, sometimes you have to try to let things go." Louis said while drinking a Coke.

Tomjanovich asked: "Can you put down the Coke?"

"Unless I die."

"I have the same attitude as you on this matter," Tomjanovich snorted, "Stop hating Tyson? Unless I die!"

Louis believes that Tyson reminds Tomjanovich of Kermit Washington on more than one occasion, otherwise it's hard to understand why he hates Tyson so much.

It can't be because the other party caused him to lose 3,000 US dollars of his personal money, right?

In the last month of 1988, the Knicks were ready to go.

The first game was against the Mavericks.

Before the game, the Mavericks coaching staff announced that winning the game was the only thing they wanted to do.

Louis mocked mercilessly: "This is as ridiculous as NASA announcing plans to establish a space base on the moon and complete a manned mission to Mars in the next 30 years."

Please believe that even for people in 1988, they felt that the plan announced by NASA was nonsense.

In the Western Conference, the Mavericks are considered a strong but rarely known team.

As of last season, they had made the playoffs for four consecutive years.

However, if you either meet the top Lakers or the Trail Blazers, you have no chance of winning.

Trading Mark Aguirre for Adrian Dantley in the offseason was a commendable move.

Although Dantley is not a good person, he is a good golfer.

As a result, Dantley was out of tune in Dallas and couldn't even play his best offense.

After a torturous offseason, the team is still hovering on the edge of the playoffs.

This is Maverick.

They claimed to defeat the Knicks, but in the end, Louis did not call a timeout in the entire game, and played a 13-man rotation frantically, defeating the Mavericks by 30 points.

Ewing's numbers are impressive.

He only played 27 minutes in this game, but he delivered astonishing statistics of 14 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists and 10 blocks.

These are the 10 shortest blocks on record.

As Ewing said himself, he wants to be the DPOY.

Moreover, his biggest competitor is Dennis Rodman from the team.

Even Ralph Sampson is not as strong as Ewing on the defensive end.

This is something that makes Louis proud.

Ewing has gone from a player with many defensive problems to an ultimate defender who is perfect in everything but being unable to control the number of fouls he commits.

This game sounded the clarion call for a crazy December for the Knicks.

The next team to be beaten was the San Antonio Spurs.

A team with Bol and Moses Malone is undoubtedly scary defensively.

The Spurs have no disadvantage against the Knicks inside, and they also have Wilkins, a scoring superstar, on the wing.

San Antonio's interior was rock solid, but the Knicks hit a record 16 three-pointers in a single game.

The players who contributed these 16 three-pointers are Miller (5), Wilson (4), Stockton (2), Hornacek (2), Ainge (2), and Dan Marley (1).

Overtaking the Spurs and facing the Denver Nuggets, who had no defense at all, the Knicks scored 144 points in regular time.

Their offensive system is too unrestrained.

Offense is a matter of mutual influence. The Nuggets did not defend. The Knicks, who were in good condition, beat the Nuggets to the point of shutting down.

Their coach Doug Mo exclaimed: "NASA doesn't need to go to Mars. Let's take Nix to the laboratory for examination. I suspect these people are from Mars!"

Making fun of NASA seemed to be the mission of all Americans living in November and December 1988.

Coach Mo used exaggerated statements to let people know how strong the Knicks are.

This person has always dared to speak, and he always tells the truth that no one wants to hear.

In the Western Conference playoffs a few years ago, the Nuggets met the Lakers.

Before the series even started, Coach Mo was asked by a reporter if he had a chance to beat the Lakers. He smiled disdainfully: "Did I say you look down on the Lakers so much? Do you want to beat the Lakers based on our few materials?"

His words also aroused Riley's dissatisfaction.

Riley thinks Mo disrespects the game and is insulting the Lakers.

Coach Mo expressed his confusion: "Just because I am the coach, can't I tell the truth? I'm surprised that I can't praise a team as great, outstanding, and so strong that we can't beat it? As long as I say it, they will treat it as such.

For humiliation? Are some people going to be too self-righteous? Pat Riley needs to be humbled a little bit and it will be good for them against Boston."

However, the Nuggets were slaughtered by the angry Lakers by 33, 12, 37, and 30 points respectively.

At this point, Riley could only complain angrily that Coach Mo was not from Earth.

Therefore, Louis was not surprised when Coach Mo said the same thing about the Knicks today.

Not only does he not feel that the other party is humiliating him like Riley does, he also regards Coach Mo as a smart person.

In the adult world, the hardest thing is to tell the truth.

Mo just likes to tell the truth.

After the Nuggets, the Bucks, Kings, Nets, Bullets and Celtics.

No team, including the Celtics, can stop the Knicks.

So far, the Knicks have achieved 22 wins and 1 loss.

In the second victory against the Celtics, Ralph Sampson played for 48 minutes and suffered cramps in his feet. He still only scored 47 points and 14 rebounds.

He had to accept the disastrous result.

The Celtics seemed to be sick, and their combat effectiveness dropped significantly.

Isiah Thomas' knee injury and Bird's back injury are both plaguing this team.

Sampson can lead the team to the playoffs on his own, but if they want to compete with the Knicks, they need all the Big Three to return.

Because of injuries, the competition between the Celtics and New York has become no suspense.

This resulted in the three games between the Knicks and Celtics that the league had painstakingly arranged between November and December, just like a joke.

At Christmas time, the two sides will fight again.

However, the results will not change.

Fans no longer care about the Knicks-Celtics debate.

Fans just want to know if any team can compete with the Knicks.

After the Knicks defeated the Celtics again, their biggest competitor appeared.

The Utah Jazz currently rank second in the league with 18 wins and 4 losses.

Karl Malone, Alvin Robertson, Mark Price, Mark Eaton, Tom Chambers.

Four All-Stars, a former DPOY who can still compete, this is the Utah Jazz, this season's biggest competitor.