The rest is just noise

"Isn't this what you want to see most, Coach Lu?"

Isiah Thomas' sudden words stunned Louis for a few seconds.

For Louis, 1984 seems like many years have passed, but for Thomas, it seems like yesterday.

For many years, he has played a peaceful role. Although he complained often, he never left. K.C. Jones knew what he wanted and knew how to take care of his emotions, never hurting him like Louis did.

Jim Rogers doesn't know shit.

Chris Ford just copied Louis' system, but would it be feasible to do what he did in 1984 in 1990?

Each of these people has their own good and bad qualities, but they are not Louis. They do not know what Thomas wants as clearly as Louis does.

"Yes, you did as I asked." Louis smiled, "You did a good job."

"But what did I get?"

"Four championships?"

Thomas sneered: "Others will only remember that it was Larry and Ralph who led me to win the championship. Fans will only remember that I limped and lost the game in 1988, and history will only remember that I lost the game in 1990."

Want to leave, I'm not a real Celtic!"

Thomas is a man prone to extremes.

At this time, he was in extreme emotions and could not listen to other people's opinions and opinions.

He said that fans will only remember Bird and Sampson. This may be true, but most superstars who are teammates with these two people cannot escape the fate of being in the background. But fans only remember him in 1988.

Losing with a limp is bullshit.

In fact, in Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference Finals, when Thomas only had one foot to exert power but played like a god of war, fans got to know him again. His evaluation also changed, but it was too late.

The only legacy Thomas can leave with the Celtics is a championship.

If he cannot win the championship, his strong self-esteem will not be suppressed, and his huge self-awareness will swallow up his selfless heart, just like it is now.

"Isiah," Louis looked directly into his eyes and said extremely seriously, "at least in my eyes, you are a true Celtic. Without you, there would be no Celtics in the 1980s.

Dynasty, you are no less important than Larry and Ralph."

In Thomas's eyes, Louis never spoke "human language".

Whenever he had the chance, Louis would attack him in the worst possible terms.

Now, he suddenly said such words, which made Thomas panic. He didn't know what bad intentions Louis had.

Without saying any good words a second time, Louis turned around and went back after saying that.

This game also unfolded in a tense and fierce confrontation.

The Celtics in the 1990-91 season had a clear change, which was to firmly focus on Ralph Sampson. Bird played when he could and rested when he couldn't.

Then, Reggie Lewis took over.

He was supposed to support the Celtics in the 1990s with Ron Harper. Unexpectedly, Harper jumped out of the game midway. Fortunately, Lewis came out, otherwise the Celtics would have faced the pain of having no successor as the lineup aged.

Laimbeer is still a good center, but he is completely not up to the All-Star level.

Tonight, Ewing, who claims to beat Sampson to death, performed well, but there is still a clear gap compared with Mr. Only.

Sampson is 30 years old this year and has been the number one center for six years.

Olajuwon, Ewing, David Robinson, Manning and other new generation centers with different styles cannot replace his position.

With his excellent shooting touch, Ewing scored 32 points and 12 rebounds in front of Sampson.

This data looks good at first glance, but if you don’t look at Sampson’s data...

Sampson played 40 minutes and unstoppably scored 45 points, 19 rebounds and 6 blocks, making this game that was supposed to be a one-sided massacre by the Knicks suspenseful, with back and forth, and Bird was beaten by Wilson.

The facts seem less harsh.

117 to 110

The Celtics lost by 7 points.

Wilson scored 36 points and bullied Bird's poor touch. He used his physical strength to suppress the opponent's performance with his athleticism.

"Someone said they wanted to blow up Ralph. Obviously, he was bragging. Our inside line was no match for Ralph."

Kevin McHale made fun of Ewing in front of reporters.

Ewing was furious after hearing the news and didn't say a word to McHale for half a month.

Wilson scored 36 points, which made the team behind him even more hyped.

At the same time, this also reminded people in the Knicks that Ewing had said before that he wanted to be the team's scoring leader. It seemed that it would be easier for Wilson to score.

At the end of the month, the Knicks played against the Hornets.

Ewing scored 34 points, the highest on the team.

But he took 26 shots and was severely criticized by Louis.

"If you want to use a lot of shots to prove that you can become the scoring leader, then stop it. I admit that you can do it, but who can't get data by giving them a lot of shots? Your ability lies in your original number of shots.

Increase the scoring output!"

The rest of the game became a scoring contest for Ewing and Wilson.

Under Louis' strict restrictions, the two of them reached a tacit understanding.

That is, both of them have the same chance to make a move, and the competition is fair.

They set each other's number of shots at 20, and no one can exceed this number.

Of course, offensive shots that result in fouls do not count.

Even if they face powerful enemies, they are unwilling to break this tacit understanding.

This is one of the three most outrageous things Louis has seen this year.

The other two were the reunification of East and West Germany (mainly a shock), and the fact that the last general manager of the Soviet Union won the Nobel Peace Prize. For the latter, in Louis' view, the Peace Prize was not a good thing at all, but a sign of the times.

, will be recorded as a pillar of shame in the annals of history, just like Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were granted the titles of Hun De Gong and Chong Hun Hou.

What's even more outrageous is that these three things happened consecutively within two months.

Louis has been stimulated to the point of nervous breakdown.

The tacit understanding between Ewing and Wilson lasted until the Thanksgiving Eve game against the Trail Blazers.

As we all know, Drexler has had enough of Portland's promotion of Jordan to the sky. As a top ten player in the league that season, he wants to go to a team where he can show off his talents.

However, the Trail Blazers are a team that doesn't let go of the eagle when it sees the rabbit.

Like the Celtics, they know very well that retaining the dissatisfied second/third players is not beneficial to the championship, but they know even more clearly that if they do not exchange them for players of equal value, they will have no hope of defeating the Knicks.

So, strictly speaking, all the superstars who want to leave the team but cannot, have the Knicks to blame.

It is they who have brought unimaginable pressure to the teams that want to compete for the championship, causing them to adopt a cautious and cautious attitude towards any transactions.

In the game against the Trail Blazers, Ewing and Wilson both took 20 shots.

Wilson was better at making free throws. He scored 41 points on free throws, while Ewing only scored 19 points due to poor touch.

Opposite them, the Trail Blazers had Nance injured, Schmitz and Ewing squeezed each other, and Drexler had no choice but to watch Jordan score 61 points, handing the Knicks their first defeat of the season.

After the game, Louis was furious.

Pointed at Ewing and Wilson and cursed them head on.

"If you encounter a game like this again next time, if any of you will control the number of shots to 20 again, I guarantee that I will not let you take a single shot in the next game, go to hell.

The team's scoring leader, the scoring leader who can't help the team win is bullshit!"

The tacit understanding between Wilson and Ewing was broken.

Then a new tacit understanding was formed.

This new tacit understanding is that when you meet a strong team, you forget the existence of tacit understanding and just fight how you want.

So Louis still can't stop their pursuit of the team's scoring champion.

As long as Ewing scores more points than Wilson, the latter will definitely surpass Ewing in the next game.

But Wilson doesn't value this title. In his view, surpassing Ewing's score is just a basic response.

He doesn't want to fight.

It no longer matters what they think. Ewing and Wilson's changes in the game have affected many people.

Even the Knicks' game rhythm is different from before.

The person most dissatisfied with this is Reggie Miller. He is about to enter a contract year and needs to perform well before he can negotiate a big contract with the team next summer. But if these two people are allowed to continue to do so, where will he be?

Is there still room for improvement?

Miller's temper became increasingly violent, and cracks appeared in his relationship with Wilson.

The solution to this problem lies with Wilson.

Ewing is an inside post, an inside post under the N.UCLA system. Although he has a high-level tactical position, Louis does not appreciate Ewing's coping ability.

In other words, he doesn't think Ewing's support ability is enough to keep the system smooth. Instead of letting him catch the ball in the high post and pass the ball for assists, it's better to use him as a pick-and-roll machine to create opportunities for his teammates.

Therefore, Ewing is not only not an obstacle to Miller's performance, but also an assist in helping him achieve good performance.

As the core of the Knicks' offense, Wilson has a lot of opportunities to touch the ball in every game. If you want Miller to have fun, just pass the ball to Miller's position more often.

As long as he is willing to do this, the problem will be solved immediately.

Once he does this, it will affect the competition with Ewing.

After Thanksgiving, in three games at the end of November, Wilson had two triple-doubles and one near-triple-double, all taking less than 15 shots.

Ewing thus became the Knicks' leading scorer to date.

So far this season, the Knicks have 14 wins and 1 loss, and Ewing averages 28 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks per game.

Wilson, who has an obvious competitive relationship with him, ranks second in the team's scoring list with averages of 26.8 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 2.4 steals and 1.3 blocks per game.

"Being the team's scoring leader has always been my goal." Ewing told the media. "I hope to influence the overall situation on both offense and defense like Ralph did."

"Is this what the hell should a contemporary Bill Russell say?" Louis couldn't help complaining.

But he couldn't stop Ewing, averaging only 19 shots per game.

With such efficiency, how can he stop it? At least for now, the competition between Ewing and Wilson is beneficial to the Knicks' record, and it also allows the Knicks to find new motivation in the pursuit of four consecutive championships.

What Louis is worried about is that this kind of motivation has impurities that can divide the team.

They relied on this kind of motivation to defeat other teams today. Will one day in the future, this motivation will also disintegrate the Knicks from the outside in?

He has no clue about it.