Chapter 268: Victory! A new era?
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Patrick Ewing has been one of the league's best interior defenders and one of the most influential players in the NBA right now, and as a symbol of the New York Knicks and New York, the only player in the league who can sell basketball shoes as a center is arguably one of the best players in the NBA right now.
Even in the eyes of many, the leading player in New York is no longer as athletic as O'Neal and Admiral David Robinson, and he has never been better than Olajuwon in the playoffs, so with the rise of Admirals With O'Neal's rise, his veteran, who is getting older, is slowly no longer able to match these people in terms of numbers.
The NBA's replacement of the old and the new or metabolism is extremely fast and extremely normal, when he and Olajuwon replaced Abdul-Jabbar replaced Moses Malone and called the best center in the league, and in the future will be replaced by David Robinson or O'Neal and others, which is also nothing to say. >> No > Mistakes
The NBA is like this, no one can prosper here, even Chamberlain, even Larry Bird Magic has a time to recognize old age, but when he saw Lin Han, saw a group of young people such as O'Neal and other young people attacking their group of veterans, he knew that his time was running out, although now he was not worried about his future, but there is no doubt that whether it was the appearance of Lin Han or the appearance of O'Neal, he had a huge sense of crisis!
As representatives of the fifth generation of centers in the NBA, he and O'Neal have not yet achieved all the glory that belongs to the center position. Or rather, to think of what Abdul-Jabbar and Moses Malone had accomplished back then, and then to think of the situation in which he and Olajuwon are in now. The Knicks' leading player was a little dazed.
Back then, he and Olajuwon entered the NBA as champions as the league's best young interior players, and the two also defeated Moses Malone and Abdul-Jabbar to become the strongest center of the new generation in the league, and the best lineup of the third generation of centers such as Moses Malone and Abdul-Jabbar for 1o years was received into their hands, and the best team of the year did not have a third team, just like the monopoly of Moses Malone and Abdul-Jabbar's first and second teams, He and Olajuwon also monopolized all two positions in the league's center position that year.
Only after the rise of David Robinson. The league split into a third team, and his and Olajuwon's monopoly on the center position became a three-man monopoly until this year. The three's monopoly was broken by O'Neal, who was squeezed out of the best team.
Ewing is well aware that when he is squeezed out of the best team by a new generation of centers, it will be difficult to go back. Because he and O'Neill were also like this back then, driving out Moses Malone and Abdul-Jabbar. The two were kicked out of the All-Star team by him and Olajuwon and never returned.
It's just, compared to Moses Malone and Abdul-Jabbar, what does he have with Olajuwon?
Moses Malone 3-time regular season MVP, a finals MVP, everything a player should have he had, Abdul-Jabbar, 6-time regular season MVP, 6 championships. 2 finals MVP, if only in terms of the number of achievements. Ewing gets dizzy just looking at the numbers.
And what about the predecessors who went before? Willis Reid, Chamberlain Russell, and even Johnston George McCann and the like, which of these people is not a championship? There's not even more than one championship!
After these guys were replaced by newcomers in their positions, they were basically already meritorious, as the king of the center position of the era, although he and Olajuwon were called peerless double pride, only known as the three centers and then the four centers now, but when he has been replaced, Olajuwon may also be replaced in the near future, he and Olajuwon are still nothing!
Although the current league is not the same as before, the king of the center is no longer the king of the league, which does make him, the successor of the center era, very embarrassed.
Especially when he saw Lin Han coming in and out of front of him again and again in this game, coming and going in the restricted area he guarded, almost treating him as nothing, Ewing felt humiliated at this time.
"Patrick, are you alright?"
When there were 6 minutes left in the second quarter, the official timeout between the two sides ended, and when the players from both sides came on the court again, at this time, looking at the team boss standing on the sidelines with a very fast changing face and extremely complicated eyes, Charles Smith asked with some concern.
This game was indeed extremely difficult for the Knicks, and the most important tactics arranged by the team before the game, the strategic arrangement of locking Lin Han, completely failed in this game.
As the defender of Malone in this game, when the team completely blocked Lin Han, Malone did not pose a few threats to him, this is not that his defense is excellent or Malone's offense is poor, but they simply cannot force the Jazz to transfer the offense to Malone's hands!
When a team like the Knicks goes all out to pinch a person, it can still make the opponent score so calmly, if it is the team he stayed in before, the Clippers, he believes, even if the Clippers are five people against Lin Han, it will be difficult to strangle this guy, and now Lin Han makes him almost think of Jordan who eliminated them last season, although Jordan was not good when he faced them last season, but in the end, Jordan still completed the redemption with 5o+ in a single game, And even if Jordan's table in the previous game was really not good, Jordan was still able to shoot as much as he wanted, like Lin Han, it was just a matter of hitting and not hitting.
Therefore, when Lin Han came off the court after the end of the first quarter with a table that scored 16 points in 1o in a single quarter, he, like other Knicks players, was almost at a loss, but he knew very well how strong the defense of his Knicks teammates was.
And at this time, when the whole team appeared again, even the boss of the team. Ewing showed such a look at this time, and Smith once again had the feeling that this game or this series was a little hanging.
After only the first quarter of this game, the Knicks felt that their game was a little hanging. And when the lineups of the two teams came on the court again, the game restarted, and when the Jazz attacked again, Stockton was not even prepared to receive the baseline ball from Polinis's hand when the Jazz attacked for the first time, but directly handed over the opportunity to advance with the ball to Linhan.
"Lin, don't rush, take your time"
When Polinis looked at Stockton, who was expressionless and didn't want to catch the ball. Looking at Lin Han with an excited look on his face at this time, the center of the Jazz team shook his head a little, and handed the basketball in his hand to Lin Han's hand. But in the end, there is a reminder.
Lin Han's appearance in the first quarter almost messed up the entire Knicks' defense, but after all, the Knicks are the Knicks, and who knows what this team will do next. As a veteran, Polynes felt that he still needed to remind Lin Han to be careful.
Of course. In the face of Polinis's reminder, Lin Han just smiled and advanced directly with the ball, and at this time, Anthony Mason Jr. was already waiting for him in front, facing the old opponent who was blown up by himself in the first quarter, and Oakley beside him, Lin Han did not have much fear.
If in the past, when he controlled the ball, what he was most afraid of was that he was caught in the spot dribbling, it would be difficult for Lin Han to deal with it. I can only choose to throw it in the face of the pincer attack, and I can't do it at all. Therefore, the alliance now has an unwritten Lin Han rule, can't Lin Han throw it? Isn't it that the career is narrow and you can't pass the ball? Then just go directly to two 2.2 meters O1 or so, and the players who are not too slow will clamp Lin Han on the outside, won't Lin Han's outside attack be directly wasted?
And judging from the Knicks' defensive strategy against Lin Han in this game, this team really thinks so.
And now, even if the two of them come to fight, what can they do? Since learning to dribble with Isaiah Thomas's fingertips, Lin Han really has no fear of such two big men's strikes.
Because he is now almost able to protect the ball on the ground, this is the biggest lethality for big defenders, even if they hit Lin Han, they can't grab the basketball in Lin Han's hand, in this case, it is easy for Lin Han to find a gap, after all, unless the two people are twins with the same heart, with Lin Han's ability, it is too simple to find a gap and slip away.
And if you don't get on the pinch, with Lin Han's ability to break through with the ball, one-on-one defense is also looking for death, so now the Knicks' defense is extremely embarrassing and hesitant.
In terms of the current situation, they are not without a solution, Mason and Oakley are not too tall, so they will replace them with a short one, Starks is also a defensive giant, short in height, and low in center of gravity, Lin Han really wants to dribble with his fingertips to play Starks, it may not be able to play him to death, the key is that Lin Han's three-point range is too far, and Starks is too short, imagine that Starks was beaten into a sieve by Reggie Miller in the last round, even if Oakley was asked to help Starks defend Reggie Miller, Or was it beaten into a sieve, who is more accurate in three-point shots between Lin Han and Reggie Miller, it's hard to say? The two are among the best three-point shooters in the league, but one thing is certain, and that is that Lin Han's three-point shot has a longer range and will kill the Knicks more!
“fvnetbsp; When Lin Han slowly dribbled to the vicinity of the middle circle, in the face of Oakley and Mason who were about to come up, Lin Han did not have any panic, after seeing these two people attacked, Lin Han did not wait to be caught by the two, because this time he needed to advance, he needed to consider the time, but he couldn't be eight seconds, so when these two people surrounded him, Lin Han directly added a low waist, only one step away from the two New York Knicks players, and directly dribbled through the middle of the two Knicks defenders!
Lin Han's low-post fingertip dribble does not have the agility and degree of Isaiah Thomas, but Lin Han also has something that Isaiah Thomas does not have, that is, impact, Isaiah Thomas has his own breakthrough skills, and Lin Han also has his own straight line breakthrough skills, when Lin Han moved forward and used the low-post fingertip dribble to rush directly between the two Knicks defenders, Anthony Mason Jr. was even almost knocked down by Lin Han, obviously, he didn't think about Lin Han, who had been playing technical flow before, This time, I actually played with a combination of body crushing flow and technology flow!
And after being directly broken through by Lin Han almost ruthlessly again, Oakley and Mason looked at Lin Hanji's back. I've forgotten to catch up and defend.
And when Lin Han stood directly at the three-point line at the top of the arc and threw the basketball out after breaking through these two, the two Knicks defenders saw that the basketball thrown by Lin Han hit it again. The whole body is trembling almost when I am angry!
"Hahaha, even if these two guys are like wooden stakes, they dare to come up to defend the forest?!"
"It's great, it's really great, Lin Han's three-point shot is really good, although today's shooting percentage seems to be average, but the Knicks can't stop him at all!"
"Is this the number one defense in the league? That's it! ”
Lin Han hit a three-point shot again. At this time, he was not as arrogant as in the first quarter, but after celebrating with his teammates for a while, he was greeting the fans who were shouting wildly around him.
It's just that. At this time, although Lin Han did not celebrate in a big way, no one on the court of the Knicks was happy.
The league's No. 1 defense, there is no way to take Lin Han in this game, not only is there no way. Even Oakley and Mason are still being humiliated by Lin Han again and again.
If it weren't for the fact that this is the home of the Jazz. and Lin Han's murderous reputation, these two NBA butcher villains are probably ready to attack Lin Han directly!
"Anthony and Charles have been through, coach, do we need to bring on John now?".
When the second quarter restarted, watching the game on the court that was once again controlled by Lin Han, Knicks assistant coach Jeff Van Gundy asked Pat Riley beside him with a calm face, and at this time, Pat Riley, who was a little distracted, was still silent after being asked by Van Gundy.
Seeing his head coach like this, Van Gundy didn't speak anymore. Still looking at the raw Qiē on the court with a blank face, as if it had nothing to do with him.
It's a bad situation on the Knicks court right now. Van Gundy could see how could Pat Riley as a teacher not see it, but just see how it could be? On Starks, this guy was pulled out of the Knicks' defensive system by Lin Han to outside the three-point line, I'm afraid Lin Han doesn't need to play fingertip dribbling to be able to knock him away.
When a defensive player who is tall and can't be slow and can't be bad in strength has been unable to defend Lin Han from the outside, can the Knicks now have to go back to the past? If you don't go back to defending Lin Han like in the past, where can you find a defensive player who is about the same height as Lin Han, whose strength can't be bad, and whose degree can't be much slower? Looking for Jordan? The point is that Jordan won't come to the Knicks.
Helpless, this is the situation that Pat Riley encountered, the Knicks defense line that was shattered by Lin Han had almost collapsed at this time!
"It's too slow, it's too slow, Oakley and Mason are so slow, they can't be like a stake, they need to bend down to get the ball!"
"Beautiful, Lin Han once again broke through Mason's defense and hit a pull-up jump shot from the free throw line!"
When the game restarted in the second quarter, the situation on the court was still Jazz pressing the Knicks to play, and the Knicks' defense, known as the league's No. 1, was directly crushed by Lin Han alone, and the former Bulls head coach Collins on the sidelines was also extremely excited at this time.
Obviously, although he is a fan of Lin Han, after seeing Isaiah Thomas's stunt back then, the former head coach of the Bulls, because Isaiah Thomas and the Pistons only got out of the Bulls, and he gave up the Bulls he built to Phil Jackson.
Although he still supports Lin Han very much, he has been shouting extremely excitedly about how to defend Lin Han's extremely low dribble.
You know, when he met the Pistons and Isaiah Thomas in the last year of the Bulls, the Bulls were really in good shape, and they led 2-1 as soon as they came up, and the Bulls' defense of Isaiah Thomas was really good at the beginning, this guy's dribbling and ball control were really against the sky, especially the kind of low-post dribbling is a must, plus his height is short, almost as long as he wants, he can appear anywhere under the opponent's blue, no matter how tight the opponent's defense is.
It's just that such a low-post dribble is not without a defensive method, because the dribble is very low, coupled with the height is not high, which leads Isaiah Thomas to attack with a low-post dribble, it will take a longer offensive time. When a player is attacking, the hands are in the knee position and the hands are in the chest position, that is a completely different concept. Therefore, as long as the defenders are accurate, it is easy to risk Thomas's offense, and Isaiah Thomas, as the best point guard in the league at the time, has a high turnover rate.
Although Lin Han is taller than Isaiah Thomas in height, although his arm span is extremely good, he can play this kind of dribble with such a height. But again, for this kind of dribbling, Lin Han wants to dribble in the low post to complete the attack in an instant. The required offensive preparation time is set stronger.
In this case, the Knicks' defensive style is not advisable, and Pat Riley should need to get a one-high, one-fast combination, not a double-high. Otherwise, Lin Han didn't need to worry about the fact that he needed longer to prepare for the attack.
"Lynham is not Isaiah Thomas"
At this time, Collins was advising Pat Riley on the commentary bench. Larry Bird on the side has been shaking his head at this time, Collins is using the same method to deal with Isaiah Thomas to deal with Lin Han, even if he can force Lin Han not to dribble in the low post, what if the Knicks can change the defensive method, Lin Han can also change the offensive method, and now the problem encountered by the Knicks gangster is actually very simple, that is, the defense of the Pistons when they faced Jordan.
It's too slow to use a big one like Rodman, and it's too short to use a small one like Joe Dumas. In the end, it took a long time, and everyone went up together. It's just that the Pistons were able to play with Jordan back then, and could the Knicks be able to play with Lin Han? Obviously not, Ma Long is probably hungry and thirsty at this time.
Looking at Lin Han, who was playing with the Pistons players outside at this time, when Larry Bird looked at Malone, at this time, the Jazz team's interior player was already jumping straight to his feet there, especially when Lin Han dribbled into the interior again and again to attract a lot of defense, and Malone even had a lot of opportunities for air relays, but Lin Han didn't see these opportunities because of passing and vision problems and still attacked by himself or withdrew directly to the penalty area. The Jazz power forward can hardly be described as a straight jumper.
And seeing such an interesting scene as Lin Han and Ma Long, Larry Bird really had an urge to laugh.
"Lin Han's passing is too problematic, if his passing is even better, he can reach the league's first-class, no, even if he is second-rate in the league, with his current ball control ability and containment, as long as he is equipped with an interior line that can bounce and receive in the air, then he can average more than 5 assists per game at least a game, if he can be equipped with an interior line like Malone or David Robinson, even if he averages more than 1o assists per game, I won't be surprised"
In this game, if Lin Han's passing can keep up, Malone alone will have at least 6 or more absolute offensive opportunities, and the others will not be mentioned, if Lin Han is willing to pass and can pass the ball, then other Jazz players such as Russell or Polynes will not stand aside and watch when attacking, but will continue to cut or run, and as long as Lin Han is willing to pass, almost all the inside lines are opportunities.
"However, even if this game is a Lin Han who can only attack by himself and can't pass the ball, I'm afraid the Knicks will face a fiasco in this game, right?"
When the second quarter of this game ended, when the Knicks ended the first half with a score of 35-5o, when all the Knicks players walked off the court with their heads down, Larry Bird also sighed and said.
Even if Lin Han didn't use his offense and ball control to drive the offense of his teammates, he scored 28 points on 17-of-17 in the half, and such a score was still terrifying.
"It seems that the Knicks are really weak in this game"
15 points behind the Jazz at half-time, such a contrast has almost no hope of a comeback, for the Knicks, this game they hope to win, for them who have completely changed their tactical play, losing the first game, it means that their change in tactical play is a mistake, in this case, the blow to the team is not as simple as losing a game.
"Maybe the Knicks will make a change in the second half, but they really don't have any hope of winning this game"
After Collins finished speaking, Larry Bird also nodded and said.
Will the Knicks make a change in the second half of this game? Obviously, even knowing how to defend back to the past can be useless. But at the very least, it is also a kind of change, and everyone will have a fluke mentality when they are desperate.
Maybe the other party is really choked by himself, not necessarily. So when the second half of this game started, the Knicks did have a change in the lineup, and the original Anthony Mason Jr. was replaced by Starks, a scoring guard who was almost knocked out by Linham in the regular season.
The Knicks' guard is not tall or strong, but he is very stable in the lower game, and his body is very good, and in the playoffs last year, Jordan, who made three-point shots like scum, had no way to face Starks, who was much shorter than him and very stable in the lower set. It's not high, Starks is Jordan's killer, that's really good, not high. Against goalscorers like Reggie Miller and Limham, you really can't expect much.
Therefore, after the start of the second half, there was already such a huge advantage of 15 points. The situation of the team is in the ascendancy again. So as soon as Lin Han came up in the third quarter, he really swung his cancer play to the extreme, facing Starks, who was much shorter than him, the rookie of the Jazz team threw the ball himself, whether it was to play without the ball or with the ball, whether Oakley came up to make up for the defense, as long as Lin Han had the ball in his hand, he would throw it.
It seems that he has no scruples at all, if he misses all his shots, it will hurt the team.
In fact, Lin Han's feel in this game cannot be said to be good or bad. In short, it's average, but even if it's a very ordinary feel. As Lin Han's defensive player in the third quarter, Starks was beaten and collapsed, and he was thrown and collapsed by Reggie Miller in the last round, and finally won the trust of the team's head coach again and returned to the lineup again, but if he could, Starks was really reluctant to come up to Lin Han.
As long as Lin Han gets the ball and jumps directly in front of him, the Knicks' defender has a feeling of being hit hard, just like facing Reggie Miller in the last round, why was Reggie Miller able to score 25 points in a single quarter?
That's because Starks was already a little collapsed by Reggie Miller in the first three quarters, and in the fourth quarter he collapsed directly in the face of Reggie Miller, who was like a madman, and now, watching Lin Han abuse his teammates on the sideline bench for half the court, Starks' current situation is similar to when he faced Reggie Miller.
It's already a little out of control, if he played the most perfect season of his career in the face of Jordan last season and became famous in one fell swoop, then this season facing Reggie Miller and Lin Han, it is really a season of debt repayment, and compared with Reggie Miller, Lin Han is even more speechless, although Reggie Miller is accurate in three points, but his ability to hold the ball is not so strong, and the continuity of offense and scoring explosion are not so strong.
But Lin Han is different, as long as this guy is willing, he can really get the ball and throw it around!
"Starx is going to collapse, Starx is going to collapse!"
"This guy is not at the same weight level as Lin at all, and now it looks like he doesn't even have the courage to defend!"
"It's too brutal, it's too brutal, Lin is too brutal, the Knicks are completely blown up in this game!"
"Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason Jr., John Starks, these three are the three major thugs of the New York gang, and the New York gang is named because of these three people, but in this game, all three of them were defeated by Lin Han, it's incredible, it's incredible!"
"The Knicks played, this game is completely over the Knicks!"
When the third quarter began, Lin Han continued to shoot outside the three-point line, and the entire Knicks' defense was almost crumbling under Lin Han's continuous three-point attack, Ewing, who had been sitting on the inside waiting for Lin Han's arrival, looked at Lin Han, who almost single-handedly shattered the team's defense, the Knicks' face was a little gray, and even his entire basketball worldview was as shaky as the Knicks' defense in this game.
"Isn't this really our time anymore?".
When Jordan ascended to the throne of the NBA as an outside player with a team without a center, Jordan's greatness was that he truly dominated the league as an outside player, and all the other interior players were almost trembling under his power.
And now, when Lin Han showed up and shot their league's strongest championship-level defense almost all over in a purely outside offensive way, the entire Knicks were almost trembling under Lin Han's offense!
Whether it is Lin Han or Jordan, these two players would not have been possible before, but now, these two players who are almost unconventional have appeared at the same time!
When Ewing looked at his teammates who had collapsed who had been beaten by Lin Han, he was a little silent for a while.
When Lin Han faced the Knicks' change of formation and continued to move his own offense, there was almost no hesitation, and the result of this game was already doomed!
At the end of the third quarter, Lin Han threw 14 three-pointers in a single quarter, hit 6 of them, scored 22 points in a single quarter, and scored more than 5o points after three quarters, when Lin Han walked off the court, the entire Delta Center was chanting Lin Han's name.
5o points in the third quarter, with the current situation that the Jazz team is more than 2o points ahead of the Knicks in the third quarter, it is impossible for Lin Han to play in the fourth quarter, even if Lin Han plays in the fourth quarter, the Knicks will do their best to contain Lin Han will not let Lin Han's score exceed 6o points, but even if he can't score more than 6o points in this game, 5o points in the third quarter, this is still a legend!
Therefore, when Lin Han came down from the court with an excited face, even the head coach of the team, Jerry Sloan, who had always been unsmiling on the sidelines, hugged Lin Han excitedly at this time!
"Lin, thank you! Your watch is just amazing! ”
It's just clear that while the entire Jazz team is cheering for the upcoming victory in the first Finals, as the dominant player of this team, when the Jazz defeated the Knicks 1o8-8o at home after the game, Malone, who had been sitting for a whole quarter in the fourth quarter, had a dark face.
The team was happy to win, but he couldn't be happy to have 18 points and 11 rebounds on 7-of-13 shooting in a single quarter.
One is 13 shots, the other is 32 shots, and when the Jazz players walked to the court again to greet the fans, Malone looked at Lin Han, who was almost worshipped by the fans, with a somewhat complicated expression.
It's just that not many people will notice Malone's face at this time, because this is the first Finals victory in the history of the Jazz, and almost everyone is celebrating wildly!
"Win, win, we'll be champions, we'll be champions!"
"That's right, this year's championship will definitely be ours!"
"5o points in the third quarter, 5o points in the third quarter, Lin Han's performance in this game is really outstanding!"
Delta Center fell into a frenzy after the game, and Larry Bird and Collins, who were in the commentary box at this time, also had an incredible feeling when they saw this scene, winning a game is like winning the entire Finals, and I am afraid it is also because the Knicks lost so badly.
Losing nearly thirty points in a single game in the Finals is uncommon in the history of the NBA.
"Now the league has entered the Jazz Age!"
Finally looking at the Jazz celebrating wildly on the court, Larry Bird said with a slight sigh.
The league has officially entered the Jazz era, just as the Bulls beat the Lakers and entered the Bulls era.
The emergence of Jordan ushered in a new era, and the emergence of Lin Han ushered in a new era!
When that guy comes back next season, will the whole league become more and more interesting, a new era, a new NBA? (To be continued......)
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