The rest is just noise

Louis faced the pile of news materials on the table that seemed to refresh his knowledge. After reading all these materials, he closed his eyes and recalled the image of Jordan in his memory.

He is a fan of Jordan, and he thinks he understands Jordan's playing career.

He began to think about what kind of person Jordan was?

Before the book "The Jordan Rules" came out, Jordan had a perfect business image just like James. He was a saint.

In his previous life, Louis read this book to learn more about Jordan.

There is this story: In the 1988-89 season, Doug Collins arranged for Jordan to play point guard, and Jordan began to record triple-doubles, eager to surpass "Magic" Johnson. Because everyone said that he was too selfish and greedy for the scoring champion, and could not

Drive teammates to score.

This incident went too far. In several games, Jordan would go to the scorer's table to ask how many more assists and rebounds he needed to achieve a triple-double. In order to prevent Jordan from being labeled as a data-obsessed person like Chamberlain, the league soon

Give an order to the scorer's table and prohibit any information from being revealed to the players during the game. This ended the road to Michael Westbrook Jordan.

Moreover, Jordan will always remember his score when playing. At the end of the 1989-90 season, there was a game where the score was very close. During the timeout, Jordan saw the scoreboard at the Chicago Stadium showing that his score was 38 points.

.So he reported to the technical desk that his score was recorded incorrectly. It should be 39 points. Because he made an odd number of free throws, his score should be an odd number.

Is brushing data ugly? It’s not ugly.

99% of the stars have racked up statistics. Some people will be obsessed with it for a while, and some people will be obsessed with it for a lifetime. For example, Kobe is obsessed with difficult shots, obsessed with taking responsibility for receiving bombs, obsessed with ignoring his teammates' open space and beating the defense to kill.

Combining these "obsession", we can conclude that he may be obsessed with the sound of basketball torturing the rim; James is obsessed with data. He has understood very early that as long as the data is good, supporters will shamelessly criticize him, so you can see him

When he needed to shoot a three-pointer to win, he got to the basket and stole 2 points. When everyone was pointing at him to step up, he was able to give up and return to defense and stay in the frontcourt waiting for his teammates to send a long pass for an empty layup;

Man was obsessed with rebounding; Chamberlain was obsessed with records; and Jordan, his only obsession may be the feeling of monopolizing the scoring title and winning.

Is he a ball hog?

Louis would not make such an inference, because when judging a player, his origin and environment must be taken into consideration.

Jordan, who played at North Carolina for three years, learned to attack efficiently without occupying the ball. Like Bird, he is a perfect end point who can absorb a large number of shots without occupying the ball time. However, because of Louis,

He didn't debut in Chicago, he came to a much better team than the Bulls, the Trail Blazers.

In the first few years of the Trail Blazers, because the team lacked good point guards, Jordan played as a point guard for a long time. Harden's habit of ball dominance was developed at that time.

This caused Jordan, who originally had no conflict with the glider in terms of court positioning, to completely conflict with the former.

When he couldn't win with a lot of holding the ball, Jordan played the second position full-time, and Terry Porter was at the first position, but he was still used to holding the ball, even though his ability without the ball had reached a historical level. He didn't trust the glider, because this had never been the case.

A gentleman who doesn't know how to speak his mind hides all his evil thoughts.

He was beaten time and time again, his defense was terrible, he couldn't shoot, and all technical details seemed rough to Jordan. How could he hand the ball to such a person?

So Jordan took on many things that he shouldn't have to shoulder again and again, until he was reimbursed for the season. The glider took over the ball and played an amazing season.

Since then, things have changed.

The Trail Blazers will never go back to what they were before.

There is only one lone star in Portland, Jordan, which is the stupidest delusion in modern times. The negative impact of his character is destroying the chemistry within the Trail Blazers. The media has created a perfect image of him, but he is a tortured teammate.

But he dismissed it. Glider has made his dissatisfaction public. In this case, the Blazers can't win the sixth game no matter what, right?

Louis and his assistants watched Game 6 with the mentality of watching the Blazers go out.

In the first half, the tragedy master led the Lakers to comprehensively suppress the Trail Blazers.

David Robinson almost shit on the Dutchman's head.

Pippen finished the glider and didn't want to play it properly.

The Tragedy Division scored a triple-double at halftime, setting a record for the fastest triple-double in the playoffs.

Trailing by 19 points, the Trail Blazers looked like the game was over.

Then, in the second half, Jordan frequently dribbled the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt. He only trusted two teammates.

Schmitz and Porter.

The former has reliable finishing ability outside the paint area, and the latter is an excellent shooter.

For him, these two were enough, and the basketball game suddenly became a 3-on-5 sport.

The Blazers replaced the ineffective Glider, replaced him with Jerome Causey, and unexpectedly reused Anthony Mason.

It later proved that this substitution was the turning point of the game.

The Trail Blazers finally put together a lineup that allowed Jordan to hold the ball indefinitely and attack like crazy, regardless of other people's moods.

Louis is really not used to seeing Jordan play like Harden, but he has to admit that even playing like this, Jordan's offensive influence is the first in the league.

As an attacker, he has no blind spots except for his inaccurate three-pointers.

As the core of the offense, he is a historical threat both with and without the ball.

Trailing by 19 points, Jordan chased back point by point without resting for a second. 10 seconds before the end of the game, Jordan intercepted the Lakers' pass and the Trail Blazers fell behind by 1 point.

Rick Pitino cautiously requested a timeout.

When the live camera showed the Trail Blazers, Pitino was gathering the players together and designing a tactic for Schmitz.

Because the Lakers must have believed that Jordan was going to hit the buzzer beater, and if the ball was passed to Schmitz, it would have an unexpected effect.

As a result, Jordan punched the tactical board and yelled: "Even if you lose, you have to lose in my hands, give me the ball!"

At the last moment, the Trail Blazers were 1 point behind. They were trailing 2-3 in the series. This was a true life-and-death ball.

Louis looked at Jordan and glared like Hannibal. He knew that this man would not disappoint the team.

As a result, he did make the buzzer-beating shot that brought the Blazers back to life.

Jordan's buzzer-beater took the Blazers to the seventh game.

Just as spectators of the game, the Knicks' coaching staff was already filled with excitement.

"That was the most dominant performance I've ever seen!" Tomjanovich exclaimed.

"Okay, instead of talking about this, let's talk about Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals." Louis asked, "Who do you think will win?"

Only Tomjanovich thinks the Trail Blazers will win, and everyone else chooses the Lakers.

The reason Tomjanovich chose the Trail Blazers was because they had Jordan.

The attitude of others is pragmatic. In a series, someone may be able to win a certain game based on his personal performance, but it is too difficult for one person to win the entire series.

Even if this kind of defiant thing was done, I would probably have to trade decades of luck with God.

Louis also thinks the Lakers will win. If he is a fan, he will hope that Jordan's personal heroism will be carried out to the end, but he is a coach and he has to look at the problem objectively.

The problem is that in the tiebreaker, Jordan may encounter tight defense, the glider may continue to explode, and Jordan's own touch may become worse. There are many possibilities. If only one of them comes true, the Blazers will be finished.

Although in Louis' heart, he hopes Jordan will break out of the Western Conference, and he wants to beat the opponent again in the finals.

But in the end, ideals are no match for reality.

In the tiebreaker between the Trail Blazers and the Lakers, Glider played 41 minutes and scored 8 points, 8 rebounds and 11 assists. When attacking, he was like an invisible man, with no aggression at all.

Jordan played 47 minutes and scored 42 points, 14 rebounds and 1 assist.

Looking at his assists, we can see what the Lakers did to the Trail Blazers.

Jordan was completely separated from his teammates. Even if he really performed extraordinary, it would be difficult to win.

108 to 101

The Lakers eliminated the Trail Blazers with a 7-point advantage. This was the fourth victory in the five encounters between Jordan and Jordan.

"I'm very excited and excited. You know, I have a group of young people around me. I have to keep an eye on them, but I'm very confident about them. They have already seen the strength of the Knicks in the Finals." Tragedian

Acting like the perfect leader as always, "We don't want to mess up this time."

The tragedy maker has forgotten that almost everyone in the outside world is optimistic about the Knicks. Anyway, even if the whole world abandons them, Los Angeles will not.

By the way, if the Lakers lose the Finals again this year, there will be 7 runner-ups for the tragedy maker, which is one less than the most tragic superstar in history, Lakers legend and current Knicks general manager Elgin Baylor.

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⑴In fact, we beat the Trail Blazers five times in six years, but one of them was when Jordan was retired for the season, so it was not included.