The rest is just noise

On January 5, the team that bore the wrath of the Knicks was the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers have been in decline for many years. Now they are rebuilding the core with Bill Cartwright, Charles Smith, Jack McLeod, Greg Anthony, Jim Jackson and others, and they are playing well.

However, the current winning rate is still below 45%, which is not enough if you want to reach the playoffs.

What they encountered was the angry Knicks again.

After Ewing was scolded by Louis, he banned sex with women for three consecutive days.

On the training field, he was like a powder keg. He clashed with Wilson many times in the competition, but they were just confrontations and no action was taken.

He came into the game with this state, and faced former Knicks center Cartwright, Ewing hit him hard.

At halftime, the Cavaliers were already 20 points behind.

But Ewing had no intention of stopping.

He wanted to score as well as rebound. In the end, by the fourth quarter, he had eight blocks.

Judging from the data, Ewing has a chance to hit a super triple-double of 50+10+10 blocks.

In order to make this happen, Louis specifically called a timeout to signal the defenders on the outside to defend against the sudden attack.

"Patrick will reward them with hot pot."

The Cavaliers really cooperated. Seeing that the Knicks' defensive focus was on shooting, they shifted the offensive focus to the inside.

When Ewing blocked a shot in double figures, Knicks legend Walter Frazier, the home announcer at Madison Square Garden, said excitedly: "Patrick Ewing made his name shine with a ruthless block."

In the history of professional basketball in New York!"

In the end, the Knicks beat the Cavaliers by 58 points.

Ewing played 40 minutes, and after abstaining from sex for three days, he appeared like a tiger and a wolf, tearing apart the Cleveland people like a mad dog, scoring 50 points, 10 rebounds and 10 blocks in a single game.

"I just want to dominate the game!" Ewing said arrogantly, "No matter who is standing opposite me, I can dominate him!"

The reporters were professionals, and they added without being mean-spirited: "What if it's Ralph Sampson?"

In Louisiana, a reporter asked a touching question.

"Coach Lu, this is the 586th victory of your career. How do you feel?"

Louis remembers the New York media celebrating his 500th game win with the Knicks at the beginning of the season.

Moreover, those 500 games only count the wins Louis won in New York.

What I'm talking about today should be adding his wins in that season in Boston (72 wins).

"When 600 wins come, I may feel better." Louis Versailles said, "Now, it is also very good, but the improvement is limited, because this is only 1/586."

After the game, reporters brought up the issue of Kemp's contract extension as usual.

As a recent traffic code, Kemp himself is making noise on the court, his agent is making noise off the court, and Louis is responsible for wiping the butts of these two people at the end of the game.

Kemp's contract extension is the most difficult one since Louis took over in New York.

The problem that stumps both sides is simple: money.

It's not that the Knicks can't give Kemp more money, it's just that Wilson is at the front.

Louis isn't going to let anyone other than Ewing be paid more than he is.

This was Louis' attitude, and thus it became Baylor's only bottom line in negotiations.

If you don't exceed this bottom line, it's easy to say anything. If you exceed this bottom line, it's useless to say anything.

It is difficult for a contract renewal like Kemp's, whose own bottom line has exceeded the management's bottom line, to proceed.

As long as Kemp himself doesn't mess up, Louis won't be in a hurry.

From the current point of view, except for a certain game last year, when Kemp suddenly went crazy and ignored the game to brush up data, everything else was normal.

The pressure to renew his contract became his motivation to play well.

Even in games where the Knicks lost, he played well.

Seeing his rapid progress, Louis had mixed emotions.

Kemp played well, of course he was happy.

However, the better he plays, the less likely his agent will back down on the contract extension.

Wilson avoided Kemp's contract extension issue, praised Ewing's dominant 50-point-block triple-double, and then set a flag: "Until Coach Lu reaches 600 wins, we will not lose a game."

When he heard Wilson say, "We will never lose a game," Louis tensed up inexplicably.

I always feel that this sentence is not very auspicious.

The Knicks' next opponent won't be enough to make Wilson's words come true.

The Orlando Magic allowed O'Neal to score 26 points and 12 rebounds in front of Ewing, but when they looked back, they lost by 29 points.

"Benj told me that if we lose before I get my 600th coaching win, he's going to shave his head." Louis gloated, "Forgive me, I'm imagining that we lose and then Benj shaves his head."

Scenes."

On January 10, the Knicks and Celtics met on a narrow road.

They came to the Boston Garden, and the arena was hostile to them.

This season, the Celtics, led by Sampson and Bird, are attacking the top half of the Eastern Conference.

Sampson finally showed signs of aging, averaging 28 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists and 2.8 blocks per game so far this season.

This is the first time since 1981 that Sampson has averaged less than 3 blocks per game.

It was also the first time since 1984 that Sampson's rebound average dropped below 12 per game.

This is the first time in the past few years that Sampson has not averaged more than 30 points per game.

Sampson, now 32 years and 5 months old, is indeed a bit old.

So he is not the first center?

This question will be revealed tonight.

Louis doesn't care what others think, but he believes that if someone told Ewing that the number one center was not Sampson, he would be very angry.

Ewing tried to break Sampson's defense, but only hit 1 goal in 4 shots.

Bird found a shooting touch that was hard to limit.

Billy Owens, who Boston fans love to hate, had his best performance against the Knicks.

Now, the future of Owens as a cross between The Tragedian and Bird is dead.

He is not a tragedian, nor is he Bird, he is just an overrated parallel import.

Owens was treated as a parallel import. It is unfair to say that he was unfairly accused, and it was unfair to say that he was not unfairly accused.

As the second overall pick in the draft, he averaged 14 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists per game in his second season.

This data is not bad. After all, a rookie only lasts for three years. Maybe he will evolve beyond the standard next year.

But for people with a combination of sad birds on their heads, this kind of data is parallel imports.

It's so watery it can't be any more.

It's like Andrew Wiggins, the No. 1 pick in the super draft, with huge talent and durability, turned into a top match with Ariza?

To say that he is not a parallel import is to say sorry for the talent of the same class, sorry for his title of No. 1 pick, sorry for his plasticity and potential, and sorry for the fact that the Cavaliers traded him for Kevin Love in 2014 and had to bring in Bennett as a supplement. You

I thought the Cavaliers were stupid, but before Love came to the Cavaliers, he was on the second team of the league, averaging 26.1 points, 12.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chamberlain, Baylor, and Billy Cunningham have ever achieved this data in history.

Been there - yes, Bird hasn't gotten one either.

As for why he became a profit when he went to the Cavaliers, maybe you can say that he is just a brush, but considering that one of his teammates seems to have a buff that turns a star teammate into a profit, it is hard to say whose fault it is.

Owens entered the league with unparalleled expectations, but in the end, he couldn't prove himself.

Even if he played well this night.

Facing the league's top small forward Benjamin Wilson, he scored 26 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists. His ball-handling ability made people believe that maybe the combination of sad birds is not an empty talk.

Louis also saw that Owens' ability to hold the ball is indeed amazing.

After all, future Durant's ball-handling ability will be learned from watching his game videos.

Although it has not yet been determined whether a child's skill like holding the ball can be learned by watching videos, but if Durant said he learned it, then he must have learned it. KD in the post-trumpet era is right.

All Celtics players performed superbly and led the Knicks by 24 points at the end of the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, Louis replaced Ewing, who was beaten by Sampson, and used Yu Tiancan, Miller, Reggie Williams, Wilson and Kemp to chase the points.

The three points that fell on the Bostonians was not rain, but a storm.

The stormy three-pointer started with Yu Tiancan's helpless attempt in 24 seconds.

The Knicks' offense was blocked. Yu Tiancan, who was outside the three-point line, could only try his luck with a random shot, and then he made it.

Miller came over and gave him a high-five, as if to take some of the touch away from him.

Everything starts from here.

Miller made a crazy 6 three-pointers in a single quarter, Wilson added 4, Williams added 2, and even Kemp had 1.

The Knicks scored 14 three-pointers in a single quarter to penetrate the Celtics' defense and achieve an epic comeback from a 24-point deficit.

The moment the game ended, Louis lit his cigar.

This was the second time he lit a cigar in the garden.

Fans hate him for doing this.

Compared with the cigar he lit in 1986, this cigar was lit involuntarily.

"I just wanted to enjoy the moment," Louis told reporters.

Boston fans may not believe it, but the innocent smile on Louis' face seems to be undeceiving.

He is really happy.

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