The Rest, Only Noise: Chapter 1198 no-nonsense west
After Yu Tiancan was reimbursed for the season, there was no suspense in the series between the Lakers and the Suns.
As long as you have basic sports knowledge, you will no longer have illusions about the sun.
The third game, although played at the Sun's home field, was like a death sentence for the public.
Everyone knew that the guy named Sun would die, but there were still people watching, just to see if he would change into a corpse after he died.
That night, Benjamin Wilson, following Louie's instructions, reduced his personal attack and gave way to the stage.
If the boss takes center stage for a long time, there will be two chain reactions.
One is that the boss himself will be obsessed with the feeling of being in the center of the stage, and the other is that the younger brothers of the boss will gradually lose their ability to dominate the stage, and they will become pure supporters.
That's not good for the team's title race.
Louie also doesn't want Wilson to develop into a big-core ball-dominant.
This is also the reason why the Lakers were able to defeat the Suns so neatly.
Now they need to wait.
The opponents in the semifinals will be between the Clippers and Mavericks.
No one thought that the Clippers, the third in the West, would struggle in the first round.
The Dallas Mavericks, ranked sixth in the West, would have pushed the Clippers into a tough fight.
To find out what was going on, Louie went to watch one of the game tapes.
The result left him speechless.
It's not that the Mavericks are doing so well, but that the Clippers' team cohesion has fallen sharply.
The cause of the Clippers' problems was their owner, Donald Sterling.
After the regular season, Sterling had a whim and invited the players to a party at his manor.
But none of his players wanted to party with a boss with a racist label.
Barkley took the lead in not attending, so only a handful of players and coaching staff attended the party.
Sterling was furious: "How dare those lowly **** treat their master like this?"
According to rumors, Clippers coach Jeff Van Gundy planned to resign that night.
It was Van Gundy's assistant who persuaded him to finish the season.
Sterling's remarks came to light the next day.
The Clippers were in chaos, and when the players asked Van Gundy for the truth, they got a positive answer.
That's why the Clippers crashed.
According to the current situation, even if the Clippers are blackened by the Mavericks, Louis will not be surprised.
"I stand with my players," Van Gundy told reporters. "Our request is simple - to be treated like humans."
Sadly, in the 1990s, NBA owners still had a detached status.
Sterling can't be brought down by a single racist rhetoric.
Desperate Clippers players decided to give up their work ethic, just like the protagonists in "The Silent Truth" tried their best to claim justice.
It was a rare crash in the 1990s.
The Clippers were eliminated 3-1 by the inferior horse Mavericks without any injuries.
On the night of the end of game 4, Van Gundy officially handed in his resignation, and the few prominent players in the Clippers, without exception, all applied for trades.
Even Barkley, who still has one year left on his contract, has taken the attitude of "if you don't trade him, he will open it".
The Clippers' civil unrest will later disrupt the entire offseason, which is for another day.
For the Lakers, this is nothing short of pie in the sky.
Normally, the Clippers would be one of the top five in the West—Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Jazz, Trail Blazers—as long as they play well, they are the top team in the West.
It was under them that the Lakers stopped in the semifinals last year.
The fans didn't wait for Louis to lead the team for revenge, and the Clippers disintegrated themselves.
How can this not be emotional?
"Let's congratulate the Los Angeles Lakers on reaching the Western Conference finals again after three years." - "Los Angeles Daily News".
On the other hand, the Blazers went straight to three games and eliminated the Nuggets.
In five **** battles between the Warriors and the Jazz, with Payton's defense and Penny Hardaway's all-around performance, they passed the risk and successfully advanced to the semifinals.
The Lakers' semifinal opponent is the Mavericks.
Louis does not have any pressure, this is by no means underestimating the opponent.
Except for the Mavericks themselves, no one thinks they have the strength of the division semifinals.
Although the Western Conference today is not as introverted as it was in the early 1990s, the semifinals are a hurdle for most teams.
To be able to reach the semi-finals shows that he has the strength to compete for the championship.
Because the top four in the Western Conference that year had a luxurious lineup.
After a few years, retired retired, aging aging, injured and injured, the competitiveness is not as good as in the past, but it is still an important benchmark for measuring the strength of the team.
The Mavericks were lucky enough to make it to the semifinals, a chance for a young team to boost their confidence.
But that's about it.
In addition to gaining self-confidence, they will also be severely taught by their opponents.
Rather than studying the Mavericks, Louie is more willing to evaluate the Lakers and Trail Blazers' chances of winning the Western Conference finals.
For this matter, Louie gathered his assistants and invited Jerry West and Mitch Kupchak to analyze it together.
The result is that the series can last until Game 6, even if the trip to the conference finals is not in vain.
Although the Lakers played against the Trail Blazers in the regular season, there was a tradition of "transformation" in the playoffs.
Once in the playoffs, Jordan spontaneously flipped a switch on his body.
The Blazers have only two problems.
Thomas is no longer a star, and the conflict between Olajuwon and Mourning is still unresolved.
But there are only two of them, and the Lakers can't finish ten problems.
Unless Wilson averages 66 points per game, there's no game.
It seemed that there was no chance, and Louie still carefully studied the Blazers' game, trying to find some flaws.
At this time, Jerry West came unannounced, holding in his hand the "victory moment" Coke specially launched by Coca-Cola for Louis.
"Coach, are you watching the video?" West looked flattered.
"Yeah, Jerry, is something wrong?"
"I heard that you like to drink Coke... uh... I happened to be passing by and brought one... I hope it suits your taste."
Louie glanced at the Coke that West had brought "by the way, just".
At least, he didn't buy Pepsi.
"Thank you, I like it very much."
At this time, the video was played for a round. Jordan played with his back and passed Olajuwon with both hands without seeing anyone, assisting the latter and dunking.
West praised: "Mj is indeed an impeccable player."
Jim jokingly said, "Not necessarily?"
West could not have imagined that this dude would dare to question himself.
"What do you think, Jim?"
Little Bass smiled like a clown: "I admit that I can't make any fault with his skills in my eyes, but Michael is not an impeccable player. I think, if there is really an et alien in the future When visiting the earth, the first things he will learn is that the United States won the Cold War, coach Lu is the best coach in history, lions are stronger than tigers, sweeter than salty, delicious than Pepsi, benj is always > mj, because mj doesn't have a championship."
What West hates most is the only championship theory.
Because if championships are everything, then his good brother Baylor doesn't even have a place in history.
"Champions can't tell everything!" West said with a sullen face. "There is only one championship in Big O, but no American will put him in the top ten in history."
These words really made Bass speechless, because what he thought was—who is Big O?
Louis has a different opinion, but he didn't say it - Big O's historical status is mainly made up for by a series of contributions off the court. For NBA players, he is as great as Ai Iijima breaking the industry dimension wall. It's a pity Yes, his glory was eventually tainted by another man named Russell.
Because that Russell averaging a triple-double is as simple as drinking water, so that some fans feel that the historical status of Big O is about to fall off a cliff.
In fact, for Big O, the average triple-double per game has a chicken bonus to his historical status1, but fans of later generations will basically not understand other things, they only look at honor and statistics, so, There is no solution to this.
Therefore, Louie feels that when the generation that knows how great Big O is getting old~www.mtlnovel.com~ Big O's divinity will disappear, and he will only leave fans with a championship and an average triple-double. .
Louie turned West's attention back to the point.
"Jerry, do you have anything else to do with me?"
"Yes, I really can't hide it from you." West smiled ingratiatingly. "About that kid in Philadelphia..."
Louie immediately changed his face: "Jerry, I've said it a million times, I'm not at all interested in the idea of adding another high school player to the team, stop talking about it!"
It seems that this is a big deal that even asking Louis for a Coke can't be solved.
But West will not give up on this. That boy named Kobe has a unique power. If he misses him, he will live in regret for the rest of his life.
1 Big O didn't know what an average triple-double was at the end of his playing career. At that time, it was not called that. Until the 1980s, the media discovered that Magic had scored in double-doubles in two consecutive games, so it was created like this. I came up with a term, and then I checked the data and found that there was an ancient mythical beast who once averaged a triple-double per game.