Chapter 8: Two Consecutive Crowns
The 1990 Eastern Conference Finals can be said to be a meaningful year for the Pistons, for the Bulls or directly for Jordan, Jordan is paranoid, competitive, fell to the Pistons for two years in a row, he did not allow such a thing to happen for the third time, and the Pistons are tenacious, brave and aggressive, they want to continue to win and defend their championship!
In the first quarter of the first game, Jordan broke through to the basket - with three defenders hanging on his body, and was finally slapped by Ranbier and smashed to the ground with the ball, you must know that this is the first game, whether this game is played well or not, will set the tone for the whole series, Jordan wants to show his toughness, he got up and was ready to settle accounts with Ranbill, but Ranbier just shrugged his shoulders and said,
"I didn't use any force just now, let me tell you why you fell to the ground just now, because the earth has gravity. ”
Ranbir is such a scoundrel.
Jordan scored 26 points in the half, Daley asked Rodman and Dumas to pinch Jordan together in the second half, but Jordan only scored 8 points in the second half, Jordan scored 34 points on 12-of-27 shooting, Pippen scored 16 points on 7-of-14 shooting, but no one else scored double-doubles, on the other hand, Dumas scored 27 points on 11-of-21 shooting, Sailly scored 11 points, Rodman grabbed 13 rebounds, Vinier Johnson scored 10 points, and the Pistons won the first game 86-77.
In the second game, Jordan injured his wrist, he played with an injury, the effect was not very good, in this game Jordan scored 20 points on only 5 of 16 shots, he tried to connect the team with passes, but unfortunately, only Pippen and Grant were able to give Jordan support, Pippen scored 17 points on 6 of 13 shots, Grant scored 17 points on 7 of 11 shots, on the other hand, the Pistons, Dumas scored 31 points on 12 of 19 shots, and Vinier Johnson blew up the Bulls' bench alone, scoring 18 points in the game.
After losing the second game, it is said that Jordan was furious in the locker room, knocked over the water dispenser and chairs, and the high-decibel shouting and scolding made the media who stayed outside the room waiting for the interview hear clearly, Jordan was unwilling, so when the media told Ranbier about it, Ranbiel just said very indifferently,
"Little ladies always have to resist before being by a bow girl."
But soon, the Detroit people got a taste of Jordan's awesomeness after the rage.
In the third game, the Bulls moved to the home court, Jordan opened the mode of individual offense, no passing, only attacking, devastating the withering offense, the first three quarters of the two teams also clung to the score, in the last eight and a half minutes of the fourth quarter, Jordan scored 16 points alone, and scored 47 points on 17-of-32 shooting in the game to lead the Bulls to defeat the Pistons, Pippen finally stood up, he scored 29 points and 11 rebounds in the game, although the Pistons Thomas got 36 points and 8 ciudad assists, and Mark Aguirre also scored 22 points, But it still can't stop Jordan, who has already killed the red eye.
After the game, Ranbir, who has always lost and does not lose, shouted to the media,
"This ball is Jordan's!"
In the fourth game, Jordan scored 40+ back-to-back, he scored 42 points and 9 assists on 13-of-26 shooting, Pippen scored 14 points, Grant scored 11 points and 13 rebounds, and the team's starting point guard John Patterson played the best game of the series, scoring 17 points on 7-of-16 shooting and dishing out 7 assists, and the Pistons lost another game 108-101, although Rodman scored 20 points and 20 rebounds, but still lost to the angry Jordan.
After this game, the big-mouthed Lambir didn't say anything more, and in this game, Ranbir only scored 4 points on 1-of-7 shooting.
In the key battle of Tianwang Mountain, at the Palace of Auburn Hills, the home of the Pistons, Jordan was once again locked by the Pistons' net, he scored 22 points on 7-of-19 shooting, Pippen scored 19 points on 5-of-20 shooting, and Grant scored 15 points and 12 rebounds on 5-of-12 shooting, the offensive end is not too good, but the Bulls can only rely on the three of them, there are too few people who can play, on the other hand, the Pistons, Thomas played a bad performance in the third game of this round series, There were only 7 points, 10 assists and 4 turnovers on 3-of-10 shooting in this game, but Dumas scored 20 points and Aguirre scored 19 points to help the Pistons fill the hole in time, and at the end of the game, the Pistons defeated the Bulls 97-83.
In the sixth game, Jordan has faded the "god" light, and "only" scored 29 points in this game, Pippen and Grant scored 29 points on 11-of-22 shooting, 16 rebounds and 10 assists - according to common sense, this brother's performance is not bad, but they still can't win, but the Bulls have a wonder player in this game, he is Clegg Hodges, the shooter who is already in the twilight of his career shines in this game, shooting 7 of 9, He scored 19 points on 4-of-4 three-pointers to help the Bulls beat the Pistons 109-91, and to win, you can't always rely on Jordan, Pippen and Grant.
The tie-break, this is Jordan's first experience of the playoffs, he is still fearless, rushing forward, but when he rushed to the heart of the Pistons, he found that his teammates were still on the periphery, trapped by the Pistons' fishnet array, Jordan wanted to win the game by himself, it was too difficult and too difficult, Jordan scored 31 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists on 13-of-27 shooting, but Grant scored 10 points on 3-of-17 shooting, and Hodges, the odd soldier in the last game, shot 3-of-13 in this game, including only 8 points on 2-of-12 three-point shooting, Pippen said that he had a migraine in this game, in fact, no one knows if he didn't have a headache, only knew that Pippen only scored 2 points in 10 shots in this game, the Pistons' Thomas showed his superstar nature in the key tie-break battle, scoring 17 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds on 7-of-17 shooting, Rodman, Ranbir, Aguirre and Sayly all scored more than double digits, and the Pistons defeated the Bulls 93-74, At the same time, he sent Jordan home in the playoffs for three consecutive years.
Speaking of which, I have to talk about the relationship between Jordan and Dumas, Dumas is recognized by Jordan, the best player to defend himself, his footsteps, and sense of position are just right, Dumas is not defined as a defensive titan as soon as he enters the league, but because the Pistons team did not lack firepower at that time, Daley asked him to practice defense, I don't want to, I inadvertently trained a defensive warrior to come out, Dumas is kind-hearted, humble and introverted, gentlemanly and elegant, it is hard to imagine that a person like him can be with Thomas, Ranbir, people like Mahon have been teammates for so many years, the Pistons are very rough on Jordan's defense, but Dumas will not, whenever Jordan is roughly bumped by Mahon or Ranbill, Dumas will sometimes walk next to Jordan and say,
“areyouok?”
This sentence warmed Jordan's heart, and after many years of retirement, Jordan soon became close friends with Dumas.
From here you can see that Dumas's emotional intelligence is very high, he and the team boss Smile Assassin Thomas are completely two different personalities, Thomas is the world's bigest, self-respecting, and also has a big mouth, never thinks about the consequences when he speaks, makes enemies for himself everywhere in the league, and after retiring, he can only go around working as a coach, many years later, Thomas, who has become a coach, coaches the Indiana Pacers, and the team recruits a new general manager, Larry Bird, and the first thing Bird did when he took office was to fire Thomas, The reason is simple, remember the game in Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals, when Thomas's out-of-bounds serve was stolen by Bird and then passed to Johnson to beat the Pistons? After that game, the media praised Bird, but Thomas said dismissively,
"The reason Bird is so good is only because he is white, and there are so many people who behave like him among us blacks."
One sentence pushed himself into the racist remarks, to this day racial discrimination in the United States is a very deadly, very dangerous speech, fans denounce Thomas The scolding has continued from the Pistons to the entire NBA, as a last resort, the league had to hold a press conference to let Bird and Thomas sit together to explain this excesse, poor Bird was scolded by Thomas, and had to intercede for Thomas, fortunately, Bird's emotional intelligence is also very high, although he doesn't want to, but for the entire NBA, I had to sit at the same table as Thomas, and Bird was a man who was quick to avenge and small-minded, and this hatred was written down.
Dumas is a person who is left and right in the league, with high emotional intelligence and high prestige, although some people in the league praise Dumas, and later rookie Grant Hill regards Dumas as his mentor, and Dumas immediately entered the management of the Pistons after retiring, and a series of clever recruits have achieved the second peak of the Pistons, in other words, Dumas is much better than Thomas after retiring.
Well, let's bring the topic back to the game, Jordan averaged 32.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game in this series, but the lack of teammates still restricts the development of the Bulls, only Pippen and Grant average more than double digits per game, on the other hand, the Pistons, although only Dumas, Thomas and Aguirre average more than double digits per game, but there are as many as 8 people who average more than 8 points per game!
Daley's summary of the team's series in this round is-
Even if Jordan is a lion, he can't stand us wolves!
What an apt metaphor.
In a later story, Jordan walked out of the arena alone after losing the tiebreaker, and in the parking lot, he met the team's general manager, Jeff McCloskey, Jordan said,
"Big brother, I want to win once."
Jeff looked at Jordan and said meaningfully,
"Michael, your time is coming soon."
- This may be the original version of Duncan's sentence "The future is yours", the difference is that Duncan's sentence is poisoned milk, and Jack is insightful, James has not created a three-in-a-row dynasty of his own until now, and Jordan, after which he has created two Bulls dynasties in a row, bringing the NBA to the world.
And just like that, the Pistons made it to the Finals for the second year in a row, and their surprise opponent was not the Lakers but the Portland Trail Blazers.
The year in the West was turbulent, the traditional giant Lakers retired this year, they chose Divac in the draft, Johnson supported the whole team alone, and helped the Lakers enter the playoffs with the first record in the West, but no one thought that after the Lakers crossed the hurdle of the Rockets, in the second round of the playoffs, they would be shot to death by the Suns' three-pole muskets - Kevin Johnson, Jeff Hornacek and Tom Chambers, No one thought that the Spurs, who have the four kings David Robinson, would also be pulled down by the Trail Blazers in the second round after seven rounds of hard fighting, the principles pursued by the Trail Blazers are no different from the Pistons, the wolf bites the tiger more, so that David Robinson is tired of coping, and in the Western Conference Finals, the Trail Blazers defeated the Suns with six players scoring double-doubles and nine scoring 5+ performances, thus standing on the stage of the Western Conference Finals.
The leader of the Trail Blazers is the league's top 50 superstars, nicknamed "Glider" Drexler, he has maintained a 20+5+5 output from the regular season to the playoffs, the second leader is a guard, former head coach of the Bucks and Suns Terry Porter, he can average 17 points and 8 assists per game, and Jerome Colecy, who also has 16 points and 8 rebounds in the regular season, as well as centers Kevin Walkworth and Buck Williams, these are very practical players, The head coach is also known as a master tactician, Rick Adelman.
In the first game of the Finals, the lead point guards of both teams showed great value, the Glider scored 21 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists, while Thomas had 33 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, but the Pistons teammates played much better than the Trail Blazers, Aguirre scored 18 points, Dumas scored 20 points, Ranbir scored 11 points and 15 rebounds, and the Pistons beat the Trail Blazers 105-99 to win the first game.
In the second game, the two teams played sparks, and the two teams fought for an overtime game and finally the Trail Blazers won the game, the first credit was of course the glider Drexler, who played extremely well throughout the game, scoring 33 points on 13-of-20 shooting, Porter scored 21 points and handed out 10 assists, Thomas scored 23 points and 11 assists, but he made as many as 7 turnovers, Edwards scored 26 points, and Ranbir hit an incredible 6 three-pointers. set a record for the number of three-pointers hit in a single game in the finals, scoring 26 points in the game, but unfortunately this record did not bring the team a victory.
In the third game, Dumas scored 33 points and 5 assists to lead the team to score seven double-doubles, of which Thomas and Vinier Johnson both scored 21 points, such ferocious firepower made the Trail Blazers unable to parry, resisted three quarters and lost, the fourth game Trail Blazers glider and Corsey combined to score 67 points, but the final victory still belonged to the Pistons, Thomas, Dumas and Vignier Johnson scored a total of 78 points, defeating the Trail Blazers, and the Pistons held the match point 3:1.
In the final game, both teams did their best, and the game was played until the final minute to decide the winner, Porter and Kevin Walkworth both scored 21 points, Drexler also scored 20 points, Pistons Tomasu scored 29 points on 13-of-20 shooting, Ranbir grabbed 17 rebounds, and super power substitute Vinier Johnson scored only one point in the first three quarters, exploded 15 points in the fourth quarter, and hit a game-winning shot from the bottom corner with 0.07 seconds left to help the Pistons reach 92: 90 narrowly defeated the Trail Blazers and won the championship trophy for two consecutive years, and the smiling assassin Isaiah Thomas won this season's Finals MVP with an average of 27.6 points and 7.0 assists per game!
At this time, the Pistons have been pushed to the highest peak in history by this group of bad boy legions, no, it is the Pistons' thug army that has been pushed to the highest peak in history, the feat of two consecutive championships is the only one time in the history of the Pistons, and it is also in the history of the NBA, since the Celtics in the 1968-1969 season, the first team to successfully defend the title, and then the Pistons, working hard to create a dynasty of their own - three consecutive championships, in people's default thinking, only three consecutive championships can be called a dynasty, for, Thomas after the game, Holding FMVP to declare to the world,
"This is our time, and you are witnessing the rise of a great dynasty!"
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