The rest is just noise

In the final game, Louis rested Ewing, Miller and Wilson.

The Knicks played Stockton, Reggie Williams, Rodman, Kemp, and John Salley against the Cleveland Cavaliers.

As a result, no matter who Stockton plays with, his assist numbers remain high.

Compared to Ewing, Kemp is a sharper pick-and-roll terminator. When moving forward, he poses a huge threat to the Cavaliers' penalty area.

At the same time, he can also shoot from a distance, so when the Cavaliers defend him, they basically have no choice but to block the downward route and let him shoot.

Kemp is fighting for his Sixth Man of the Year title.

In the final game of the regular season, Kemp performed well, scoring 32 points and 12 rebounds to help the Knicks win their 71st victory.

In addition to Kemp, there were also Stockton's 16 points and 16 assists, Rodman's 4 points and 17 rebounds, Reggie Williams' 22 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, McHale's 17 points and Chris Jackson.

An efficient 19 points.

Even though the Knicks rested two core players and three main players, they still beat the Cavaliers until they were unable to fight back.

71 wins and 11 losses

For the third time in the past four seasons, the Knicks have won 70 games in a single season.

This is also the fourth time in Louis' coaching career that he has won 70 games in a single season.

Louis no longer values ​​these wins, but the media cares about them very much.

Team wins mean Louie's personal success and the Knicks' success as a team.

With the high number of wins, the Knicks players also achieved satisfactory data.

Ewing, the team's leader, averaged 22.2 points, 9.8 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 1.1 steals and 3.4 blocks in 81 games.

Judging from the data, it is lower than his average level in the past few years.

But considering the rise of Kemp and the brilliance of Chris Jackson on the bench, the Knicks' data has actually been quietly redistributed.

Wilson once averaged 30 points per game at the beginning of the season. Now, his average per game data is as "unremarkable" as Ewing, with "only" 25.2 points, 5.2 rebounds, 7.2 assists, 2.2 steals and 1.1 blocks.

Stockton played the best statistics of his career, averaging 14.3 points, 14.2 assists, 3 rebounds and 3.1 steals per game. He is not only this year's assist leader, but also this year's steal leader.

Rodman was content, focusing on defense, rebounding and making trouble off the court, averaging 6 points, 15.1 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 1.6 blocks in 70 games.

Suddenly transformed into a demon king, he not only became the focus of the media, but also became an All-Star for the first time in his career. He is also expected to win the second DPOY. Moreover, he has completed his pre-season goal of becoming the league's rebounding leader.

The Knicks have a variety of titles, and their backup lineup consisting of Kemp, Chris Jackson and Reggie Williams is also not bad.

If his numbers hadn't dropped a bit at the end of the season, Kemp could have averaged 20 points per game as a substitute.

Now that the season is over, Kemp's averages are 19.2 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist per game.

If this year's Sixth Man of the Year award isn't him, it's definitely a shame.

For the Knicks, the regular season is becoming more and more like an appetizer before the playoffs.

It’s just that this appetizer needs to be eaten for half a year.

Having once again won the league's first record, the Knicks still need to face up to the opponents they will face in the first round.

This opponent is so special.

Louis couldn't believe they had gotten to this point.

The Knicks' first-round opponent is the Boston Celtics, ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference.

A team with the No. 1 center in history and the No. 1 center in history that is highly praised by public opinion leads the team to eighth place in the division?

How ironic this is!

It's not surprising that the Celtics have such a record.

Two were regarded as future lottery picks, one failed to live up to expectations, and the other was completely useless. Let alone being Bird's substitute, he couldn't even play garbage time.

Bird played only 50 games due to injury again.

Most of the time, whether the Celtics win or not depends entirely on whether Sampson can score 40 points.

If he can score 40 points, the Celtics' probability of winning will be more than 50%.

Only when he scores more than 50 points can the Celtics' winning rate exceed 80%.

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If you want the Celtics' winning rate to reach 100%, there is nothing you can do, as long as Sampson scores 60 points in every game.

Sampson has scored 60 points in five games so far in his career, and the Celtics have won all of them.

If Reggie Lewis was still here, and if Steve Smith wasn't traded, the Celtics would have won at least 10 more games.

Lewis can help Sampson share the defensive pressure and allow Bird to rest peacefully. Smith is the perfect successor to John Long. With him, Bostonians no longer have to watch the 36-year-old Long play.

result

It cannot be said that it was Louis' original intention to make the Celtics behave like this.

He was so angry that he took revenge without thinking of the consequences.

Looking at it now, the Celtics indeed have no future. Sampson's peak period before the age of 35 will basically be wasted.

Auerbach is old, Jan Walker has no talent to turn the tide, and Dave Gavitt is more suitable as a league official than a team operator.

In other words, no one among these people can stop the Celtics' decline.

The East is getting stronger.

Not to mention the Knicks, the Heat, under the leadership of godfather Lewis Shafir, have become a force that cannot be ignored. They have won 58 games this season, ranking second in the Eastern Conference, followed by the Charlotte Hornets, although there are internal problems.

, but the arrival of Isiah Thomas has transformed this team. With 56 wins this season, it ranks fourth in the Eastern Conference. Except for the Pistons, who are third in the Eastern Conference, and the Celtics, who are eighth in the Eastern Conference, several other teams have risen in recent years.

Upstart.

The impact of young people will become more and more fierce. If fresh blood cannot be added in time, the Celtics will become a bad team by almost the mid-1990s.

This is the knot that haunts Bostonians.

They cannot rebuild by trading Bird or Sampson, they must try their best to strengthen the two veterans while they can still play.

But the biggest player Boston signed in the free market is Scott Weidman. If you are familiar with this man's name but can't remember his deeds, it's normal. Because he was active in the 1980s.

He was one of the core players of the Kings team that competed with the Rockets in the Western Conference Finals in 1981. He was later signed by the Celtics on the free market simply because he was a white guard, but when Louis took charge of the Celtics

As a Erte, this person basically has no chance.

Racial issues are the main reason why Boston has been unable to buy players in the free market for many years.

Therefore, relying on signing people will not work.

If there is a trade, neither Sampson nor Bird will be able to come out. Owens will have little value after sitting firmly on the NBA's world's best C** All-Star team in the 1990s. Then you will find that the Celtics have nothing.

A chip that makes people stretch their eyebrows.

not a single one.

Valuable chips have been used by them in exchange for Billy Owens.

The only operation they can make is to spend all the draft picks and exchange first-round picks, and trade the future for the present. However, it will be difficult for the team to become competitive again, so there is no room for operation.

This is basically a dead end.

Bostonians were confused about their future. When Auerbach rushed back from Washington to hold a high-level self-examination meeting at Hellenic College, Louis took a break from his busy schedule and flew to North Carolina to attend Yu Tiancan's graduation ceremony.

This year, six first-year international students, including Yu Tiancan, will graduate from the school.

Yu Tiancan is the best among them. He was selected to the ACC All-American Team three times in four years of college. In his senior season, he averaged 18 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks per game and was selected to the All-American Second Team.

In the selection of the best defensive player of the year, if it were not for Alonzo Mourning who averaged 5 blocks per game in the same class, Yu Tiancan would definitely win the award.

Even in the selection of the All-American team, Yu Tiancan would have made the All-American team if he hadn't bumped into Mourning and O'Neal.

However, there is no shame in losing to these two in the awards.

Because as long as O'Neal participates in this year's draft, he will undoubtedly be the No. 1 pick. If he does not participate in the draft, Mourning will be recognized as the No. 1 pick.

These are two geniuses who are sure to win the top pick in the election.

After them, if Chris Webber, the freshman talent of the University of Michigan, does not run for the election, the remaining players, including Uranus Laettner, may not necessarily be more attractive than Yu Tiancan.

He was the third center in the class of 1992.

As a 2-meter-2 center, his athletic ability is at the 2-meter-1 level. His rough technique has been greatly improved after four years of college experience.

When Louis watched the Wake Forest University game, he felt that Yu Tiancan was inferior in all aspects, except that he was taller and a poorer version of Duncan.

In addition to Yu Tiancan, Hu Weidong also graduated from Syracuse University this year. Both of them will participate in the draft and will definitely be selected.

Yu Tiancan has the prospect of being a top-six pick, while Hu Weidong was probably a prospect from the end of the first round to the beginning of the second round in the 1992 class, which was full of talents.

Yu Tiancan picked up his speech and used his innate sense of humor to make people laugh.