The rest is just noise

Louis' suggestion was adopted by the American Basketball Association.

Subsequently, the USA Basketball Association announced the selection method for the last spot, but many people expressed dissatisfaction.

The one who reacted the most fiercely was Clyde Drexler. The reason for his dissatisfaction was simple. The other players were directly selected into the Dream Team. Why did he have to compete when he came here?

For this reason, Drexler said: "If I have to compete with other people to join the Dream Team, I would rather not join."

Stockton was delighted to learn Drexler's idea. In a game against the Dallas Mavericks in early March, he scored 19 points and 27 assists.

27 assists in a single game is not only Stockton’s single-game assist record, but also the league’s historical single-game assist record⑴.

⑴The butterfly effect wiped out Skiles’ record.

Some players on the roster have the same attitude as Drexler, only accepting being directly selected to the Dream Team rather than competing to win the last spot.

As long as Drexler withdraws from the competition, the remaining players will actually have similar abilities. It all depends on who the team needs.

In Louis' view, the biggest threat to Stockton on this list, besides Glider, is Scottie Pippen.

In Louis' previous life, Pippen was one of the Five Tigers hand-picked by Chuck Daly, and was one of the first people to be selected for the Dream Team.

But in this world, the competition Pippen faces is not trivial, and he has not shown his worth next to Jordan or the tragedy maker.

Fans only know that he has strength, but they don't know to what extent this "strength" is.

If you need a ballhandler, Pippen is one of the best options.

In the international arena, his ball-holding ability is fully adequate, and he also has the defensive ability to defend from the first position to the fifth position.

Compared with Drexler, he is like an all-around wing with weaker offense but stronger ball-handling and defense.

Compared with Stockton, I don't know how high the advantage is.

If Pippen is willing to come to the training team to compete with Stockton, Louis is really not sure that Stockton can compete with him.

In addition to Pippen, there is another person who has made it clear that he will join the training team to compete for the last spot.

That is Pistons guard Joe Dumars.

This is also the player that Louis believes can pose a threat to Stockton.

In terms of hard power, both Pippen and Dumars are stronger players than Stockton, but the Dream Team now has top talents in every position, so this final spot is more biased towards functional players.

Stockton's organizational skills happen to be the best among these people, so he also has an advantage when competing.

The future of the Dream Team is basically certain. Now the only thing left is for the Basketball Association to officially announce that the tragedy man will go to Barcelona with the team, plus the lucky guy who can represent college basketball and join the Dream Team.

March 7

The Knicks played away against the Charlotte Hornets, and the duel between Isiah Thomas and Stockton attracted much attention.

No. 3 overall pick Larry Johnson expressed dissatisfaction with the Dream Team not including him as a candidate.

Dissatisfied, he used all his energy to beat Rodman in the game against the Knicks.

Rodman's defense is already very good, but as long as Johnson is a strong fourth position player who can shoot, dribble, and post-up, no one can limit him.

In addition, the Hornets also have Dale Ellis on the outside, and Thomas also has a clear advantage against Stockton.

The Knicks suffered their seventh loss of the season.

There are also problems within the Wasp.

The young players dissatisfied with Thomas' leadership, and Thomas failed to control the team's domineering attitude. There was also Dale Ellis, a ruthless pitcher that no one liked.

After the game, Ellis, who won the game and scored the highest score on the team, told the New York media frankly: "I'm not happy even if I win. This is not the way I like to win."

As a shooter, Ellis took 22 shots per game and averaged 26 points per game. He was recognized as the league's top shooter and one of the New York media's favorite visiting players. He made major contributions to the Knicks' first championship in the Louis era.

After hearing what he said, many people wanted him to return to New York.

But this kind of thing is destined to be something you can only think about. The Knicks and Ellis are both on the rise, but their ends are different.

Ellis wants to be the best shooter of his generation, and the Knicks want to be the dominant team that spanned the 1980s and 1990s.

In order to gain a foothold on the Dream Team, Stockton suddenly had a need for data.

He is a point guard. If you want to improve your statistics, it is actually not difficult.

The difficult thing is how to satisfy your own data-brushing needs without affecting the performance of your teammates.

According to the rules of the game, this is almost impossible.

There are only so many data in each game. You share some, I share some. Really strong teams know how to share the cake.

The Knicks have also rigorously divided data before.

Wilson had the most points, Ewing had the second most points and rebounds, Rodman had the most rebounds, Stockton had the most assists, Miller had 15-17 points per game, and Kemp did the rest.

The bench gangsters headed by.

If Stockton wants to play more, someone has to give up some data.

Rodman only wants rebounds, and rebounding data is useless to Stockton, so there is no need for Rodman to sacrifice.

Miller originally picked up the ball left by the inner and outer core, so he shouldn't make sacrifices for this.

Then the only ones who can make sacrifices are Wilson and Ewing.

Stockton didn't ask them, and Louis didn't ask them to reduce the ball, but after they realized that Stockton wanted to increase the data, they spontaneously reduced their shots, creating a way for Stockton to increase the data.

Favorable conditions.

In March, Wilson and Ewing took 6 fewer shots per game.

Stockton's average shots per game increased by 3, and the average assists per game also increased by 2.

Is this a coincidence?

Throughout March, Stockton averaged 15 points, 15 assists and 3.4 steals per game, winning the league's Player of the Month for the first time in his career.

In an era when the best player of the month does not differentiate between the East and the West, winning the best player once is enough to say that you are the best player in the league that month.

Stockton has never paid attention to false reputations, but this time he tried his best to change others' opinions.

If he switches to a team that doesn't have such a deep lineup, his scoring can still go up.

In early April, the controversy over which college player should join the Dream Team heading to Barcelona also ended.

In fact, at the beginning, the college basketball representatives on the selection committee hoped that the composition of the dream team's college players and professional players would be 6:6. However, this proposal was quickly refuted, and the number of college players was reduced from 6 to 4.

, then 2, and finally only 1 is left.

This one remaining spot is still a consolation prize for college basketball.

This year, there are many talents in college basketball, but there are only four people who are truly qualified to compete for a spot on the Dream Team, Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Chris Webber and Christian Laettner.

However, even geniuses like O'Neal and Mourning, astonishing talents like Webber, can't compete with Laettner.

Scouts believe that O'Neal, Mourning and Webb have much higher future ceilings than Laettner, but the criterion for entering the Dream Team is not which of them has more promise in the future.

This is a question that focuses entirely on the present.

Laettner is undoubtedly the greatest college player since Pat Ewing, and the talents of O'Neal and Mourning brought some controversy, but that controversy ended on March 28.

In the NCAA Eastern Regional Finals, the winning team will advance to the final four. 2.1 seconds before the end of the game, Kentucky leads Duke by 1 point, 103 to 102. The ball that determines Duke's future and destiny was handed over to Laettner and Grant Hill.

I passed a long four-point pass in the backcourt that was recorded in college basketball history, and went straight to Laettner at the free throw line in the frontcourt.

As the coach of the Dream Team, Louis went to watch the game.

Lightner's image was different from the handsome, elegant white man he remembered.

He originally wanted to see a superman-like prince, but what Lightner presented to him was a Bill Laimbeer-style demon.

When he received Hill's long pass, he first turned around to the right, then turned over to the left and shot at the buzzer. You can see that the Kentuckians at the scene were crazy about this shot, because Laettner did all kinds of evil on the court.

, elbowing the opponent in the face, punching the opponent in the stomach, and even deliberately stepping on the opponent's head when the opponent fell to the ground.

He is a devil.

This devil played impeccably in this game. He took 20 shots in the game, including 9 field goals and 10 free throws. Counting the final buzzer-beater, all of them were hits.

100% hit rate, the images of God and Satan appear in one person at the same time.

"Laettner impressed me deeply." Louis told reporters after watching this unparalleled game. "This reminds me of the 1973 NCAA finals."

This is an astonishing contrast.

In the 1973 NCAA finals, Bill Walton scored 44 points with almost no shot.

Regarding whether Laettner will be selected for the Dream Team, Louis smiled: "The decision is not on me, but if I had the choice, before tonight, I would probably choose Chris Webber or Shaquille O'Neal.

But after this game, I thought, if there is only one person in college basketball who can be selected for the Dream Team, that person should be Laettner."

There is no obstacle to Laettner's selection. After tonight, except for the only remaining professional player spot, the dream team has basically been formed.