dognovel Chapter 458 Reaching the division finals! 【Subscription】
Chapter 458 Reaching the division finals! 【Subscription】
Ewing's confusion and helplessness gradually turned into the confusion of the entire Knicks team. After the 2-0 away loss and loss back at home, the Knicks' situation did not change in the slightest, and Ewing did not change. It got tougher, Houston didn't get more accurate, and the Knicks didn't find any way to deal with the Celtics.
Although little Van Gundy was on the sidelines with almost crazy shouts and orders, the entire Knicks team seemed to have lost their souls, just couldn't raise their strength and spirit.
Especially their leader, Ewing, returned to his hometown in front of the elders. Ewing once again disappointed all the fans. He failed to score in double figures in the third game, and only scored 8 points and 6 rebounds. Before the end of the game, Once again sitting on the bench with eyes straight, I don't know what to think.
But James Dolan, the team owner on the sidelines, was full of disgust and impatience in his eyes.
He decided to rebuild!
This is his usual style!
Since there is no hope of winning the championship, sell these people while they still have value and enter a new rebuilding cycle!
Not only Ewing, Alan Houston, Larry Johnson, all on his cleaning list, even the general manager of the team, Dolan has been uncomfortable with it for a long time!
They are all left over from the previous generation of bosses and teams, and Dolan decided to create a brand new team that is entirely his own, just this summer!
New York Knicks, it's time to say goodbye to the Ewing era!
I heard that Pistons legend "Smiling Assassin" Isaiah Thomas is looking for a job recently, maybe it's a good choice to find him!
At least, this guy has traffic and can bring a lot of revenue and attention.
Plus, Dolan thinks Thomas must know the ball better than a bald guy like Van Gundy Jr.!
He was fed up with endless positional and defensive battles, and Dolan thought basketball had to be played like SHOW-TIME in Los Angeles!
Gorgeous and good-looking, offensive and offensive are on the offensive, in order to attract fans to spend money to buy tickets to watch the game!
After 3 consecutive slumps, the New York Knicks gave the Celtics 3 victories cleanly, and the fourth game between the two sides officially became a passing game. The Knicks did not give any counterattack and effective The counterattack did not show the momentum and combat effectiveness of a team to compete for the championship.
The players let Van Gundy yell on the sidelines, fry their mouths, and hoarse their voices, but the players just couldn't get up and couldn't match the intensity of the Celtics.
In the fourth quarter of the fourth game, after the score was completely pulled to 30 points, little Van Gundy finally gave up, let go of resistance, gave up continuing to fight, and gave up continuing to stand on the sidelines and shout like a clown.
After he replaced all the main players, he then seemed to have completed all the work for the game, and sat down on his chair slumped, motionless.
At this time, Van Gundy felt a deep sense of powerlessness, a sense of powerlessness that the team lost control and could no longer control the game.
Maybe it's time to leave, it's time to leave, this place no longer belongs to me!
The fourth game has completely become an unnecessary suffering and going through the motions. The Knicks have never played a real bloody and counterattack from top to bottom.
The eastern tyrant who dared to make a deal with the Bulls and fought with the Heat in a row has completely disappeared.
This round of the series, the Knicks lost completely, from the head coach to the players, from the team leader to the water cooler, all lost without any temper.
Patrick Ewing averaged 8.5 points and 5.5 rebounds in the series and played the worst game of his entire career. He only scored in double figures in one game in the entire series, and did not have a double-digit rebound. He started.
In the entire team, only Alan Houston's performance is barely qualified. His empty-handed positioning and mid-distance allowed him to average 17 points per game in this round of the series, which is the last fig leaf for the Knicks.
Everyone guessed that this summer, the Knicks will usher in a huge change and a new team style, their era is over.
Or, in fact, it never came!
But these have nothing to do with the Celtics. After four straight sets, the Celtics once again swept into the Eastern Conference finals. If you count them in the finals two years ago, they defeated the Jazz in three consecutive games. , they haven't lost in the playoffs for 2 years!
They completed a 25-game winning streak in the playoffs!
This is definitely a scary number that has never been seen before!
Whether it's the 8-peat Celtics or the Lakers during showtime, or the Bulls led by Jordan.
These top teams and dynasties in history, let alone 25-game winning streak in the playoffs, have never come close to this number.
What is even more terrifying is that this number is likely to continue to increase!
At least in the East, neither the 76ers nor the Heat have the capital to compete with the Celtics at all!
After knocking out the Knicks, the Celtics once again returned to the home court, waiting for the Miami Heat and the Philadelphia 76ers to decide the winner or loser, and they will have the next round of showdown.
During this period, the league finally announced their annual lineup and MVP awards.
The mvp was awarded to Lin Long again! But this time he had a much smaller lead, just over 30 points ahead of O'Neal in second place, as long as there were 4-5 reporters who didn't vote for Lin Long instead O'Neal, this year's MVP will be taken by the Lakers!
The biggest reason is that Lin Long has been banned for too many games!
The 25-game suspension allowed him to just get stuck at 70% of his appearance rate, just barely meeting the lower limit of competing for various awards and individual data kings!
As long as Lin Long plays one game less, he (Wang Hao) will have nothing this year and won't get any honors!
Fortunately, in the end, although the number of appearances was small, Lin Long's data and the performance of the Celtics were really amazing. He still defeated O'Neal and won his second mvp trophy man!
Also became the youngest 2 MVP in NBA history!
The selection of the best team of the year was also announced later. In addition to Lin Long, the MVP, Kobe and Shaquille O'Neal of the Los Angeles Lakers, Jason Kidd of the Suns and Duncan of the Spurs were jointly selected for the annual team. first team.
The second team of the year is Mourning, Garnett, Iverson, Hill and Payton.
The third team is David Robinson, Vince Carter, Chris Webber, Stephen Marbury and Chauncey Billups.
So far, all the suspense that belongs to the regular season this year has been revealed, and the rest is the stage that belongs only to the playoffs!