Chapter 265: Pat Riley Driven Crazy

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"The Utah Jazz are a very good team, they have many, many good players, maybe they have the best power forward in the league, they have the best shooting guard in the league and even the best point guard in the league is on their team right now, they only lost 1o games in the regular season and only one game in the playoffs, but I would say that the Houston Rockets are the Houston Rockets, the New York Knicks are the New York Knicks, Just because the Jazz can easily beat the Houston Rockets doesn't mean they can easily beat the New York Knicks, it's a completely different concept! ”

"Swept in the regular season? As I said, it doesn't mean anything, we also swept the Pacers in the regular season this season, but in the playoffs, the Pacers almost eliminated us, the results of the regular season are just the results of the regular season, it has nothing to do with the playoffs, I never think any team in the league can sweep us, even last year's Bulls did "no mistakes" less than that! ”

On June 8, 1994, the post-game press conference after the seventh game between the Knicks and the Pacers, at this time, the head coach of the New York Knicks, Pat Riley, had a very ugly face, if it wasn't for watching the game between the Knicks and the Pacers today, knowing that the Knicks finally defeated the Pacers in the tie-break, I'm afraid everyone thought that the New York Knicks were the losing side.

In fact, since leaving the Lakers for the New York Knicks, Pat Riley's face has not been very good-looking, when he was with the Lakers. Although he is one of the best managers in the league, and although he has become the most popular head coach in the league, there is no doubt about it. The Lakers did not belong to his team, the Lakers belonged to the Magic and belonged to Jerry West, but they never belonged to him, so when he resolutely left the Lakers at the peak of his life and came to another giant, the New York Knicks, he never thought that he would encounter such a situation in the New York Knicks.

As a championship coach in the league, the New York Knicks were the league's down-and-out giants, before Pat Riley took charge of the team. How long has it been since this team reached the division finals? Even they don't know it, and since Pat Riley arrived, the team has reached the division finals for the second year in a row. This year has even reached the finals, almost every year to move forward, in this case, if it is an ordinary team. The media in the city where the team is located has long been touted as a god by Pat Riley. But it's a pity that the New York media never thought to tout Pat Riley, and even Pat Riley himself didn't think that these New York media would tout themselves, as long as they didn't continue to abuse and insult.

Especially some time ago, after the New York Knicks were defeated by the Pacers 3-2 with a 2-o lead, and Reggie Miller was mad and almost humiliating insult to the Knicks at Madison Square, the New York media almost sprinkled all their grievances on Pat Riley, and they really had no way to take Reggie Miller. This arrogant kid, like Lin Han, is not afraid of ridicule or darkness at all. In this case, Pat Riley was even careful every time he went out a while ago to see if a New York fan would rush up and 'knock him out', so to speak, when a city's media instigated their own fans in the newspapers to attack the team's head coach, it is no wonder that the head coach of the team can be happy.

Even the ruthless Pat Riley directly blocked Reggie Miller in these two games, and he didn't do anything to Reggie Miller alone, so two people, two people can't do it? Those three people, in the end, after choking Reggie Miller a little, the other Pacers players failed to take responsibility, and in the end, Pat Riley and his New York Knicks finally gambled successfully, and finally reversed the Pacers to reach the Finals, and even so, these New York media still did not give up on him.

This is leading the team to the Finals, these guys don't boast about how good his tactics are in the next two games, but they still make it difficult for him at the post-game press conference, asking him to guarantee that he will beat the Jazz in the Finals, can he do such a guarantee? Even if he wants to beat the Jazz, there are some things that he can't say at this time.

Well, when he didn't make promises about the future and the Jazz Finals, these New York media began to make it difficult for him again, and they also began to humiliate him by pulling his old bottom.

In this team, Pat Riley has never been the respect that this city should have, when he thinks of this, the head coach of the Knicks sneered a little in his heart, he wants to win the game, and he wants the team to play well, and the team can step on the top of the league's most popular player like the Pistons back then, instead of being stepped on by the league's most popular person, this group of guys here is really asking for a lot, and it is really difficult to serve, if I knew that he came to the New York Knicks would be such a result, Kill him, he won't come to this place.

"Lin Han is in extremely hot form in this year's playoffs, can you tell me what kind of defensive strategy you will have against him in the finals, and how many points can you limit that guy's score!"

When a front-row New York reporter had the opportunity to ask the same question to Pat Riley again, the Knicks head coach also raised the corner of his eyebrows, if he hadn't won the game today, it was a happy day to enter the Finals, and at the same time he didn't want Larry Brown next to him to see a joke, Pat Riley would have left the table in anger.

"Lin Han is a very great player, he has been very good this season, he is one of the biggest contenders for the MVP of the Finals, it is very difficult for such a player to really limit, we will try to make him play as uncomfortable as possible, as for how many points he can score in each game of the Finals, you need to ask God, not me"

After finishing speaking, Pat Riley also deliberately pointed to the sky, although he couldn't soar at this time, after all, he was not a soft persimmon, as the most popular head coach in the league, Jordan in the coaching world, he was indeed inferior to Chuck Daley and others in terms of status. But he wasn't bad in temper, of course, after he finished answering that. The group of New York reporters in the front row of the field really quit, and the reporters from other media in the United States sitting in the back were all smiling at this time, and the New York media was notoriously mean and unkind, so when many media came to Madison for interviews, they basically didn't think about what questions to ask at that time, because these New York media already had better and sharper questions, so many times they just needed to watch Pat Riley and their fighting style off the court.

I have to say. The war between Pat Riley and the New York media has always been very interesting.

"As I said, I can't guarantee you that the finals will happen, but you can rest assured. If you want to conquer Madison Park in the Grand Finals, be prepared to stand up and go out! ”

After coldly answering the last question, he looked at the press officer next to him, and the press officer nodded and said that the time had come. The Knicks head coach turned away without looking back. And Larry Brown, who has not been silent at this press conference, looked at Pat Riley's back with some sympathy at this time, and also had a sense of schadenfreude as fast as a pervert, this bastard was so vicious in these two games, he deserved to be sprayed by his own people.

Of course, the anger and frustration on Pat Riley's face was still clearly visible after leaving the post-game press conference and returning to the team's locker room, and as Knicks players, they had long been accustomed to the look on their head coach's face after every post-game press conference. While Pat Riley is said to be unpopular with the media and fans in New York, these guys are too demanding of Pat Riley. After all, I think that Riley has the highest coaching salary in the league and did not transplant the Lakers' time to New York, even if he can win, what can he do, the game is so ugly, it is not in line with the temperament of this city at all, if you really want to find a head coach who can win, New York has many choices, as long as New York yells, most of the league's famous coaches will rush to come to this team, these people can also win if they don't have the requirements of playing style and tactics, and they can also lead the team to the finals, so, How can he win and make it to the finals? Even with his championship, he couldn't live up to the demands of the New York fans, management and the media, who in general never thought Pat Riley had proven that he had the league's best-paid salary.

However, the fans, the media and the management can think so, but the players in the team that was only built by Pat Riley don't think so, in their hearts, Pat Riley's status is quite high, but this kind of thing can be regarded as infighting, and it is difficult for them to be players.

Therefore, at this time in the locker room of the New York Knicks, although they are very happy and happy that they have reached the Finals, but at this time, seeing Pat Riley's face, the only excitement and joy they had is gone, which is really completely different from when the Jazz team reached the Finals.

When the Jazz team entered the Finals, not to mention the locker room boiling, even the entire arena, the entire Salt Lake City was boiling, because they all knew that as long as the Rockets entered the Finals, 8o% of the championship hopes were about to fall into their hands, and the Knicks' players would be so restrained naturally because they themselves knew that the Finals would be a more difficult war than the Pacers.

They blocked Reggie Miller in the last two games, and finally won the game, but Lin Han is a player who is no worse than Reggie Miller, compared to madness or human madness, this kid is even more terrifying, Reggie Miller is not afraid of the threat and black hand of the New York gang, what can be done, but Lin Han is not only not afraid of the threat of the New York gang, this guy can also threaten the New York gang, and almost played the boss of the New York gang Starks out of the shadow during the regular season, In this year's playoffs, as the Knicks think that the most likely opponent in the Finals is also the most powerful opponent, they can't care about the game between the Rockets and the Jazz, in the fourth game of these two teams, after seeing Lin Han being blacked out by Drexler, Lin Han pressed the picture of Drexler beating on the ground, this group of New York gangster players were stunned, you know, the referee was standing aside and watching, Lin Han didn't care at all, and pressed Drexler to beat him. still chased him to the bench of the Rockets, and the unscrupulous rampant was simply chilling. In the face of such a player, to be honest, it is very difficult for this group of gangster players in the New York Knicks to really want to scare him, if it is not to scare but to play really, I am afraid that it will not be Lin Han who is lying but one of them.

Even many times, this group of New York gangster players envied the Pistons Bad Boys who were born in the right era, if the Pistons Bad Boys had a few strongmen like Lin Han and Reggie Miller in that era. I'm afraid they're going to have the same headache as the Knicks at this time.

And more importantly, they can go crazy and pinch Reggie Miller and face the Knicks' scare. The rest of the Pacers players will wilt, but will the rest of the Jazz wither? Although the Jazz team does not have a gangster name, there are few good people on this team, and the two bosses of the team are ruthless and 'black'. So for the prospect of the team finals. The players of the New York Knicks are really not so happy and optimistic, so although they are happy, although they are also celebrating, they are all limited, not as unbridled as the Jazz celebrate as if the championship has been reached.

Of course, at this time, these players of the Knicks are very complicated, full of uncertainty about the future of the team, and as a head coach. How could Pat Riley not know any of this, if he could really be sure or have full confidence in the finals. In the face of the almost humiliating questioning of the New York media, he had already spoken harshly, but he knew that the future of the team would not be a smooth road, so he couldn't say cruel words, so he could only say the words that seemed fierce at the end, but revealed full helplessness.

The Jazz team and the Pacers are completely different, it's not just that the Pacers don't have many ruthless people, but even fewer ruthless people who can score, so after they get the most ruthless Reggie Miller, others will be like that as long as they are scared, but the Jazz team is different, this Lin Han's scoring ability is stronger than Reggie Miller, they are already crazy about pinching Reggie Miller, this guy can still score an average of 26 points per game in the next two games, and the shooting rate can also reach 45%, don't think that this number is poor, With the Knicks' defensive intensity against Reggie Miller, there will be no more than 5 guard players in the league who can average 26 points and 45% shooting per game, and even directly say that except for Lin Han, Reggie Miller and Jordan, I am afraid that no point guard can have such strength.

And among the three, Reggie Miller may be the craziest, but he may not be the strongest, and he may even be the weakest, who knows what Lin Han will do to the Knicks, when he thinks that this guy has played 6O+, 5O+1O, 3O+2O, 5x5 and even 3O+2O's 5x5, he has a headache.

The Knicks are a strong defensive team, they dare to say that their defense is the first in the league, but in the face of a team like the Jazz, it is completely not enough to just defend, Lin Han and Malone average two people per game in the playoffs can score a total of 7o points, at this time the media directly named these two people the two craziest combinations in NBA history is not for nothing, in the face of such a combination, the Knicks just want to rely on defense that is absolutely impossible to beat each other.

As for the result, to be honest, although the Knicks are not weak, they are not much stronger, at least compared to the Rockets, which is really far behind.

Although Olajuwon and Ewing are both one of the three centers, Olajuwon has played a total of 79 games in his career so far, scoring more than 5o points in the playoffs, scoring 6 games in the playoffs with 4o points, and scoring 3o points in 3o games, and as one of the three major centers and Olajuwon, Ewing has also played 71 playoff games? Ewing's table is actually not bad, although there are no playoffs with a score of more than 5o, there are 2 games with more than 4o points, and there are 16 games with more than 30 points, but, the key point is that Ewing has a total of 16 games with more than 3o points If you put it on the total number of 71 games, it is not so good-looking.

Ewing is also a player with defensive dominance and a very well-rounded offense, but in terms of scoring explosiveness, he is indeed inferior to Olajuwon, you can say that Olajuwon was a cancer before, but his scoring ability is indeed the strongest of the three centers As for David Robinson, this kid is even worse, if it weren't for the team that didn't even have a regular center in the face of the Warriors this year, he brushed a playoff 5o points, and this guy has only scored more than 30 points in 29 playoff games in his career. Three of those games were won against the Warriors this season, and before this season's game against the Warriors, the guy had a playoff high of 36 points. It's a typical example of the regular season hanging and the playoffs becoming soft, and this can also reflect the values of the current league, the regular season and the playoffs are really not at the same level at all, even if they are strong men like the three centers, they have to go on their stomachs in the playoffs, after all, most of the strong teams in the league have one or even two All-Star level interior lines. Just imagine how miserable O'Neal will be in the playoffs this year, not long ago, seeing O'Neal being played so badly in the playoffs, Lin Han asked Ellie incredibly. At that time, Ellie told him that in history, O'Neal had never averaged 27 points per game in the playoffs in the first five seasons of his career, Lin Han was really stunned, after all. This guy is averaging close to 3o points per game in the regular season this year. Generally speaking, wouldn't players like O'Neal and him or Jordan and Reggie Miller be better off in the playoffs than in the regular season?

Of course, in fact, Lin Han did underestimate the inside line of the league at this time, among the four major centers, except for Ewing who was infinitely close to averaging 3o points per game in his fifth year of the playoffs, there is only one center in the league who can really complete an average of 30 points per game in the playoffs. That's Olajuwon, that's in the entire NBA. At the moment, the only center with both defensive and offensive dominance is Olajuwon, and now there are a lot of old ruffians in the league who play dead in the regular season and bully newcomers in the playoffs.

In this case, Pat Riley worries that even if his team defends well, it won't be able to defend against the Jazz, and that when they end up going against the Jazz, their Ewing is not Olajuwon, which is annoying enough.

At this time, as long as Pat Riley thinks of Lin Han, as long as he thinks of the Jazz, he has a headache, there is really no way, after all, this team does make the Knicks very passive now, but although Pat Riley is very helpless at this time, these media outside will not think so.

After the Jazz's final Finals opponent was determined to be the Knicks, these guys were really crazy, after all, the grudge between the Knicks and the Jazz this season is too deep, or the grudge between Lin Han and the New York gangsters is too deep.

When the two teams met for the first time in the regular season, Lin Han staged a miracle moment that shocked the world at Madison Square, and the entire Knicks players roared after the game that the next time they saw Lin Han, they would definitely want Lin Han to go out of the court sideways, and what would be the final result? It was not Lin Han who went out horizontally, but Ewing, Ewing was concussed by Lin Han in the game and was directly carried out horizontally, and even because of this incident, the Knicks, who had a huge advantage in the first place in the East at that time, were directly robbed of the first position in the East by the Hawks before the All-Star because of Ewing's problems during that period, which also made Ewing, who had hoped to compete for the regular season MVP, directly lose the opportunity to compete for the regular season MVP after being killed by the Jazz and the Rockets.

Coupled with the celebratory silhouette of that miraculous moment printed on his first signature sneaker, especially after Lin Han's sneaker sales have exceeded 4oo pairs worldwide, the damage Lin Han caused to the Knicks can be described as indescribable.

As for what the Knicks think of Lin Han, there is no doubt that if they could, the Knicks probably thought about killing Lin Han directly on the court.

"The Jazz swept the Knicks? Pat Riley says the Knicks are not the Rockets and he is confident in the Finals! ”

"The Knicks eliminated the Pacers to the Finals, and Jerry Sloan congratulated, saying that the Knicks were a great opponent and Pat Riley was a great coach"

"The Knicks reached the Finals, the Jazz rookie disdained to take a stand, claiming that the Miracle Generation signature sneakers will be in the recent Finals commemorative edition, and New York fans once again claimed that the whole city refused to buy them"

"Pat Riley will be ruthless after the game, Reggie Miller will be disdainful, and the Knicks are just invincible?"

"New York legend Willis Reid claimed in an interview that Madison Square will be the grave of Lynham and the Jazz, and all the humiliation will be washed away here in the Finals"

When the finals between the Jazz and the New York Knicks came out, when the Knicks came to Salt Lake City on June 9, the entire NBA public opinion was almost boiling.

The current format of the NBA Finals is a 2-3-2 format, and the team with the better record will have four home courts. The four home courts were home to the Jazz in the first two games, the Knicks in the next three games, and the final two games back in Salt Lake City.

And the first game between the Knicks and the Jazz is on June 1o. That is, tomorrow, the game starts at the Utah Jazz's Triangle Center Arena.

It can be said that because the Knicks played a tie-break with the Pacers a day ago, the first Finals game held on June 1o was indeed a little unfavorable to the Knicks, after all, the Knicks had been off for 4 days at this time, and this time was just right.

Therefore, because the time and place are favorable, almost all of them are on the side of the Jazz. Although it is said that in recent times, because the media in New York has focused all their firepower on the Jazz, the Jazz players are still quite relaxed at this time, of course. This also includes Lin Han.

Even at this time, Lin Han did not pay attention to the game, but focused on a purple-gold single-game reward for the fourth game with the Rockets because of 29 points in a single quarter, setting a new single-quarter scoring record in the playoffs, of course. Lin Han was in the fourth game with the Rockets 5o+1o. 29 points in a single quarter, naturally not only a purple-gold single-game reward, but also a purple-gold skill point, now Lin Han also has two purple-gold skill points in his hands, however, for how to use these two purple-gold points, this is not in a hurry, Lin Han now almost all his attention is now focused on the purple-gold single-game reward of 29 points in a single quarter to Lin Han's Isaiah Thomas training card.

To know. Lin Han against the Pistons' former ball king, Magic's most formidable opponent at his peak. Lin Han knew from Ellie before that this guy has the strongest ball handling skills in NBA history, and one can beat Stockton in his later years, and he almost needs to let Malone elbow him out of the game to clear Stockton.

Lin Han has really coveted this guy's ball control skills for a long time, you know, although Lin Han's skills are very good now, he can break through and hold the ball, but ball control has never been Lin Han's strong point, and many of Lin Han's ball control are incidental to some skills, such as the one-handed ball in place handsome ball control that came with Maddie's dry pulling, such as the Kobe Bryant-style turnaround and backward jump shot that comes with getting rid of the ball on the spot when it rises to 1v2, and the two-handed cross ball control that comes with Deron Williams' change of direction and breakthrough, Although these ways of possession make Lin Han look good at controlling the ball, in fact, it is difficult for Lin Han to have the ability to hold the ball in the crowd at the free throw line like Stockton and some other players, Lin Han's ball control is more aggressive, all to attack, and in fact, the league's most orthodox ball control skills do not necessarily require players to attack, like Stockton, his possession is often even if he dribbles to the basket, he will not attack, such as Isaiah Thomas them, as a short guard, He can dribble the ball to the basket and easily dribble it if there is no chance of an outcome.

And Lin Han can't do this, if Lin Han hits the basket, and finally finds that he has no offensive opportunity, he can't quit at all, can he play with his hands crossed under the basket? Isn't that looking for a draw, or playing cool with a one-handed ball under the basket? When the time comes, pretending to be forced will be done, so Lin Han's dribbling is very good, with Lin Han's physical condition, it is difficult for someone to snatch Lin Han's basketball directly, if Lin Han's attention is concentrated.

But in the same way, because he only has the ability to move forward and not retreat, so in the face of some strong inside, such as Olajuwon, Mourning, Admiral and Ewing and others, Lin Han has never dared to kill under the basket, which has some reasons for being afraid of this big man's defensive ability, but more importantly, Lin Han faces these big men, and the error rate of the basket offense will be very high, because of his dribbling style of advancing and not retreating, there are only two results for hitting the inside, one is to be able to score on the top ten balls, One is a very suffocating brain-dead mistake.

With Lin Han's current status and offensive style, he naturally doesn't need to attack under the basket, if in the past, Lin Han was not so hungry for this kind of ball control skills, although he would want it very much, but he was not so impatient, but, the key is that after two Maddie moments in the game with the Rockets, coupled with the undisciplined praise of the American media, Lin Han is now almost watching his character getting lower and lower, and he is about to fall below 25%.

Even recently, Lin Han has been thinking about whether he should be like Reggie Miller's lock throat and play a crazy thing to improve his character, and it is not a matter to go down like this, after all. Lin Han's goal in this year's finals is to be the MVP of the finals, and he can't have such a problem at this critical time.

Therefore, in this case, in the case that his character is not enough and the perimeter shooting rate may be very clumsy, Lin Han now has to brush up jΓΉ, and can only rush to the basket, the key is that there is a gorilla under the Knicks' basket, although Lin Han is very strong, but he may not be able to kill Ewing if he really kills under the basket, although Ewing's offense is indeed worse than O'Neal by more than one level, but this guy's defense is really not much worse than O'Neal, and the overall defense of New York is definitely stronger than the Rockets, so, in recent timesWhen he saw Karl Malone swearing in the training ground that he would win the finals MVP to complete the Grand Slam, Lin Han was really anxious.

It's just that Lin Han also knows that although Isaiah Thomas's strongest ball control skills in the history of the league can help him, but the training card is completely a thing that needs to be seen in the face, if Isaiah Thomas doesn't bird him, even if he kneels down to Isaiah Thomas, he won't be able to get this guy's inheritance.

However, to Lin Han's great surprise, he originally went to Isaiah Thomas with the mentality of a dead horse being a live horse doctor, but unexpectedly, the final result made Lin Han almost shocked. (To be continued......)

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