The rest is just noise

Even Ewing and Wilson admit that Sampson is currently the number one player in the league.

Chris Ford's use of Sampson was brutal. A 2.24-meter big man just played 48 minutes on the court.

In these 48 minutes, Sampson got all the data he could get.

49 points, 22 rebounds, 7 assists, 6 blocks, 4 steals, 5 turnovers, 52% shooting rate.

On the Celtics side, two veterans provided necessary support to Sampson.

John Long scored 15 points. If the team was not full of injuries, he would not get so much playing time and shooting rights in this situation.

Laimbeer scored 20 points and 11 rebounds. Without him, even if Sampson scored 69 points, I am afraid the Celtics would not be able to win the game.

Relying on the pressure inside, the Celtics won an incredible victory against the Pistons, whose entire team was healthy and confident of defeating the Celtics.

The semifinals between the Celtics and Pistons were therefore pushed to a tiebreaker.

“They entered the Sal aunese sanctuary⑴.”

Zhao Yuanzheng said after the game.

Sal Onis was a quarterback at the University of Colorado. He had a promising future and died of stomach cancer at his best age. His death inspired his teammates. Everyone at the University of Colorado wore clothes with the word "Sal" printed on them.

The team uniforms produced amazing results.

It evolved into a sports phenomenon, and the Sanctuary of Sal Onis became a pop culture lexicon, used as a metaphor for storylines about standing up for teammates and partners.

In fact, this kind of legendary story also exists on the basketball court.

The Knicks are the protagonists of the most famous NBA version of Sal Onis Sanctuary.

The return of Willis Reed in 1970 was a typical "Sal Onis Sanctuary". Reed's return shattered the Lakers' fighting spirit, even if his seventh game statistics were far inferior to Walter Frazier's

, but the media still awarded him the FMVP.

Frazier was very angry when he learned that Reed was elected FMVP, but after calming down, he admitted that without Reed's motivation, he would not have been able to perform in Game 7.

"Do you think Boston can win Game 7?" Wilson said eagerly, "I really want to fight them again."

Louis laughed: "If Boston advances, it will not pose a threat to us. They no longer have the impact they had in the past few years."

The team's injuries are so serious that reaching the Eastern Conference finals is already the result of Sampson's crazy Kerry.

What's more, we haven't advanced yet. There was a big outburst in the sixth game, and there were also a lot of crotch pullers in the seventh game.

New York has regained its composure. No matter who comes to play them in the Eastern Conference Finals, they will be ready.

Before that, the league first announced the winners of major regular season awards except MVP.

Ewing was selected to the first team and first defense with 22 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 4.4 blocks, and was elected Defensive Player of the Year.

This is the first good year of Ewing's career, and Sampson is finally no longer blocking him.

Although Sampson didn't block him, he blocked Barkley.

Sampson was once again selected to the double first team as the fourth position, so Barkley surprisingly dropped to the second team.

In addition to Ewing, the Knicks also have Rodman selected for the first defense.

Stockton took advantage of the league's expanded All-NBA lineup.

This year, the league launched the third team for the first time. Stockton, with great controversy, squeezed out Mark Price and was selected as the third team point guard.

Wilson, under the squeeze of Jordan and Malone (who was shamelessly assigned to the third position), lost his spot for a while and went to the second team.

Even so, the Knicks still had three players selected to the All-NBA Team, two players selected to the All-Defensive Team, and both Marly and Sekali were selected to the All-Rookie Team.

The strength of the lineup is evident.

74 wins depends not only on the strength of the core, but also on the awesome depth of the lineup.

The Utah Star's complaint about Price's hack was only reported regionally.

Stockton's third-team victory was justified by the publicity of the New York media, and no one else would have done so.

In terms of statistics, Stockton averaged 12 points, 13 assists and 2.4 steals per game, and is the core brain of the Knicks.

Price is the Jazz's second offensive point and core organizer, averaging 24 points, 4 rebounds and 9 assists per game, with a three-point field goal percentage of 50+40+90. He indeed looks much more gorgeous than Stockton.

Therefore, Louis has never advocated promoting Stockton's third team. It is indeed incomparable with Presby. All Stockton's supporters can talk about is the number of assists, the overall situation, and the team's record... However,

When it comes to leading the team's record, Wilson and Ewing said that Stockton has not reached that level yet.

Therefore, this matter is indeed that Stockton won the third team position due to its geographical advantage.

Before the tiebreaker between the Celtics and Pistons, Louis took the time to watch "Dynasty Season 9" (Dynasty 1981-1989) with Lorraine.

As one of the ten most popular TV series in the first five years of the 1980s, it was famous for its scriptwriters' various tricks. After it entered its seventh season, the audience finally got tired of the increasingly outrageous plots, and the ratings continued to decline, so ABC started

The show's funding was cut until the ninth season, and this popular TV series, like "Gintama", reached the point where the audience begged for a finale, but the director/writer wanted to hold on to it.

Finally, the sluggish ratings made ABC decide to cancel the series. In the last episode, the stupid director and damn editor still left a huge suspense for the audience, causing Lorraine to turn off the remote control after watching it.

He threw it at the TV: "Vaffanculo (suspected Italian expletive), you can't end like this!"

Lorraine also knew that this was a bad drama, but this bad drama had been with her throughout her youth. She wanted to have a beginning and an end, but in the end she was fed shit, so she broke her guard.

Normally she would not use foul language.

The last time Louis heard Lorraine swearing was when he was caught secretly taking off his keeper - because she didn't want a third child just yet.

However, anyone who has played with a goalkeeper knows that that thing really affects the performance and does not reflect a man's heroic spirit.

However, it must also be admitted that goalkeepers can extend the game time to prevent players from using too much force and ending the game too early.

May 19

In the Palace of Auburn Hills, the Celtics and Pistons played a game that left all the spectators afraid to gasp.

"It's like a replay of Game 7 of last year's Eastern Conference Finals," Brent Musburger said.

Even if he said this, many people still scoffed, because compared with Game 7 of last year's Eastern Conference Finals, this game obviously did not reach that level of intensity.

But it's exciting enough to see Sampson fighting against the entire Pistons team.

Laimbeer retired due to injury, John Long lost his touch, and Sampson became a true lone player.

Sampson in this game left Louis speechless.

Whether before or after time travel, Louis has never seen another superstar struggle as hard as him. Even James in 2018 had the standard combination of shooting + Love, while Sampson's teammates really couldn't do anything.

How much help is provided.

He still played the entire game, even though there was no hope of winning the game.

The poor shooting touch from the high post made the situation worse.

This requires Sampson to get to the basket a lot to fight the Pistons.

The Pistons were sure to win, and Sampson's ultimate belief in winning created a bit of suspense in the game, but it soon disappeared.

104 to 93

The score did not reflect the tragedy of the Green Army. At the end of the game, Sampson sat on the ground, gasping for air and unable to get up at all.

Louis didn't know what he was feeling at that time. Maybe he was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to feel sad for himself.

If the Celtics' Big Three can stay healthy, they may still be the number one favorite to win the championship.

Did the Knicks' impact shorten the Celtics' reign?

Louis thought that he could easily get the answer to this question.

The answer is yes.

Without the Knicks, the Celtics would definitely be able to complete five consecutive championships. Bird's back injury may not worsen, and Thomas will not injure his ACL. Then this year's Celtics will not have so many surprises.

Already.

The dominoes that were pushed after Bird's back injury worsened led to the Celtics' tragic ending today.

Louis spent a few minutes feeling emotional and another minute analyzing his opponents in the Eastern Conference finals.

Trading Dantley and Moses Malone may have made the Pistons stronger, but are they strong enough to threaten them?

No, it's far from enough, so there's nothing to worry about. Well, just spend a few more minutes to pay homage to this respectable Celtic.

If the nine years that "The Feud" has stepped from a popular drama in the 1980s to the ending that was cut off without even giving an ending represent Lorraine's youth from an innocent girl to a sexy wife, then

, the Celtics came from scratch and became the only dynasty in the 1980s. Until today, they were eliminated from the playoffs by teams other than the Knicks, which made the dynasty truly come to an end and also represented Louis' lost youth.

In the 11 years from 1978 to 1989, my youth was gone forever.

But Louis will not point at the Celtics and curse like Lorraine, because he is the reason why the Celtics have grown strong, fallen, and have today's results.