Chapter 7 The First Crown

In the middle of the 1988-1989 season, the Pistons moved again, they set their home court in the suburbs of Auburn Hills Palace, and at the same time the team's lineup ushered in a huge change, the Pistons sent the team's leading scorer Dantley to the underdog Bulls, so as to get Mark Aguirre, the angry Dantley once refused to go to the Bulls to repay, he believed, including all the media also agreed that this sudden deal was planned by the "smiling assassin" Thomas, as a result, the relationship between Dantley and Thomas deteriorated, Old and dead don't get along, that's a later story. Fastest updates

So the question is, why would Dantley put all this on Thomas?

It has been before, Thomas's personality is very selfish, whenever he stands on the court, he must control the whole court, must become the core and focus of the court, in other words, he must be the boss, but in front of Thomas, only Dantley is alone, from the conditions at the time, Thomas and Dantley have each other's abilities, Thomas is good at organization, Dantley is good at attacking, but Dantley's qualifications are much older than Thomas, Dantley started playing in the league when he was a full 5 years earlier than Thomas, When Dantley was already making a name for himself in the Jazz, Thomas was just a rookie, so if Thomas wanted to be the boss, he had to get over Dantley. Whether this transaction is behind Thomas's back, none of us know, only that the two have no brotherly friendship from now on, and they will never get along with each other.

Although Dantley only played in the Pistons for two and a half years, but it brought qualitative changes to the Pistons, whenever the team can't open the situation, Dantley's personal singles will never disappoint, in the playoffs, Dantley is always the team's most stable one, and the shooting rate rarely fluctuates, in the two and a half years of the Pistons, Dantley's true shooting rate ranks second in team history, reaching 61.6%, second only to three-point shooter Joan Barry, so the problem is, since you want to trade Dantley, So why would this person be Mark Aguirre? Who is this person sacred?

Aguirre is 198 cm tall and weighs 105 kilograms, and is an excellent shooter on the outside, and is also the founding hero of the Bulls, the Bulls were founded in 1980, Aguirre has played for eight years since 1981, and is the all-time scoring champion of the Bulls (later surpassed by a German), Aguirre and Thomas have been friends since then, and grew up in a pit, in the 1981 NBA draft, Aguirre was the champion, went to the Bulls, Thomas was the list and went to the Pistons, this time the brothers joined forces, It can be regarded as responding to Johnson's later sentence that "Thomas loves to form gangs very much", which is also an important reason why Dantley is angry about being kicked out by the Pistons.

In the 32 games he played for the Pistons this season, Aguirre averaged 15.5 points per game and shot 48.3% from the field. In the end, the Pistons, who have evolved into the ultimate state this season, have been soaring all the way, winning 63 games this season, setting a team history record again, and entering the playoffs with the first record in the East and the first in the league!

In the first round of the playoffs, the Boston Celtics were still standing in front of the Pistons, but at this time the Celtics were already in decline, Bird only played 6 games all season due to an injury to a heel spur, and the playoffs were even more on the wall, Parish and McHale were a year older, and last year's rookie Reggie Lewis replaced Bird's place, They averaged 20.3 points per game throughout the series, but it was clear that the Celtics were no longer able to compete with the surging Pistons, who eliminated Boston 3-0 after three games, and in the second round, they faced the Milwaukee Bucks with Ricky Pearce.

The overall strength of the Pistons is obviously more than one grade higher than that of the Bucks, four games, the Bucks were bloodbathed by the Pistons 0:4, and the Pistons team was even so easy that only three players on the team played an average of more than 30 minutes per game, and in the Eastern Conference finals, the Pistons' opponent was the Bulls again.

At this time, the Bulls have changed a lot in the lineup compared to last year, but they are still not competitive enough, their backbone is still the all-powerful basketball god Michael Jordan, the starting guard is Chris Hodges, who is already thirty years old and at the end of his career, and the center is Bill Cartwright, who is already 33 years old, that is, third-year rookie Horrace Grant and Scott Pippen, who has been promoted to the starter, can help Jordan,

After six games, the Pistons defeated the Bulls again 4:2, although Jordan had a 46-point anti-sky performance during this period, but his teammates still did not give his strength, during this period, the head coach of the Pistons created the "Jordan Rule" for Jordan, that is, to use Joe Dumas to defend Jordan alone, and at the same time cut off the connection between Jordan and other teammates, only let Jordan score alone, and if Jordan's performance is too against the sky, Ranbir, Rodman, Mahon and others are ready to abolish him at any time, Jordan averaged 29.7 points per game in this series and shot just 46.0 percent from the field, both of which were lower than Jordan's playoff stats in the first two rounds.

In this way, the Pistons made it all the way to the 1989 NBA Finals, and their opponent was still the Los Angeles Lakers team from last year.

Before the game started, the Pistons received a "good news", the Lakers' outside core Byron Scott was injured in training, and the finals were definitely absent, in the first game, the Lakers' Elvin Johnson maintained a consistent level, scoring 17 points and 14 assists, and the substitute Michael Thompson scored 15 points, but the Pistons had more firepower, Thomas scored 24 points on 9-of-16 shooting, Joe Dumas scored 22 points on 11-of-16 shooting, and Vinier Johnson on the bench also scored 19 points, The Pistons defeated the Lakers 109-97 to usher in their first victory.

In the second game, the Lakers took the lead, and six people scored double-doubles in the whole game, but Dumas was unstoppable, killing all sides, shooting 10 of 16 and scoring 33 points and sending 6 assists, without a single mistake in the game, such a perfect performance led the Pistons to a narrow victory over the Lakers 108:105, the team held a 2:0 lead, and the third game was Joe Dumas, who shot 12-of-21 and saw 31 points, Thomas also scored 26 points and 8 rebounds, Although the Lakers' Worthy scored 26 points and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also scored 24 points, it was still not low for the Pistons, who led 3:0!

In the history of the NBA, there has never been a team that can reverse from a 3:0 lead to win, this Lakers obviously can't, the last game, the Pistons did not give the Lakers any chance, although Worthy played like a god all over the court, the whole court scored 40 points, but it was also unbearable for the Pistons to score six double-doubles, Dumas scored points, Ranbir scored 16 points, Pistons 4:0 clean Lakers, won the first championship in the history of the team, and also stood on top of the world, Joe Dumas was named MVP of the Finals with an average of 27.3 points, 6.0 assists and 57.6% shooting per game!

The history of the Pistons has also reached the most with this championship! The Pistons' bad boy army has also become famous with this championship! Smiling Assassins, Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumas, Bill Lambir, Mark Aguirre, Viniel Johnson, Dennis Rodman, Rick Mahon, John Sayly, James Edwards everyone has contributed their own strength to this team!

In the 1989-1990 season, before the season began, the team lost a big player, because the Minnesota Timberwolves were approved to enter the NBA, the league conducted an expansion draft, the Timberwolves selected Rick Mahon, but Mahon refused to report to cold Minnesota, and the Timberwolves had to trade Mahon to the Philadelphia 76ers, where he formed an iron-blooded partner with Charles Barkley.

Mahon's departure forced Daley to reuse two of the team's other interior players, James Edwards and John Sayley, both of whom made a huge difference in the regular season. Among them, Edwards averaged 14.5 points and 4.2 rebounds per game as the team's starting interior liner, his partner Ranbir averaged 12.1 points and 9.6 rebounds per game, Rodman averaged 8.8 points and 9.7 rebounds per game, John Sailly averaged 7.2 points and 5.4 rebounds per game as a substitute, team leader Isaiah Thomas averaged 18.4 points and 9.4 assists per game, Joe Dumas averaged 17.8 points and 4.9 assists per game, Aguirre averaged 14.1 points and 3.9 rebounds per game, and this season's Pistons 59-lose record entered the playoffs again as the first in the East!

In the first round of the playoffs, the Pistons played against the Indiana Pacers led by Reggie Miller, the former seized the weakness of the latter's poor interior defense, and reused the interior offense of Sayley, Edwards and Ranbill, and the three of them lived up to their mission and turned the river over the Pacers inside, averaging 46 points and 24 rebounds per game, helping the Pistons directly clean up the Pacers 3:0!

In the second round, the Pistons faced a challenge on the inside, and their opponent was the New York Knicks.

At this time, the Knicks are also on the rise, Patrick Ewing, who is in the fifth year of his career, is dominating the league on the inside, averaging 28.6 points and 10.9 rebounds per game in the regular season, shooting 55.1% from the field, not only has an Ewing on the inside, but also Charles Oakley, Rick Mahon's enemy, and Cheeks on the outside, Kiki Vanderwich and Gerard Wilkins are in charge, the Knicks' strength is not much better than the Pistons, this is destined to be a Mars collision with the earth, But the result, no one expected!

In the first game, Edwards, the Pistons' old center, turned out to be equal with Gorilla Ewing! The former scored 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting, the latter scored 19 points and 4 rebounds on 9-of-18 shooting, and the rest of the Knicks didn't have a bright play, and the Pistons ushered in a big win with 112-77!

In the second game, Edwards turned into a super interior attacker, hitting 13 of 19 shots and scoring 32 points in the game, and directly reached the sieve of Ewing, who is known for his defense, who scored 20 points and 10 rebounds on 9-of-20 shooting, and the Pistons won another game 104-97!

Ewing that's something you can bully casually, in the third game, Ewing shot 14-of-24 in the whole game and scored 45 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists, leading the Knicks to the only victory in the series, Edwards played poorly in this game, only scored 13 points, and in the fourth and fifth games, although Ewing played as steadily as ever, scoring 52 points in the two games, the overall performance of the Pistons was still very stable, The outstanding play of Edwards and Aguirre allowed the Pistons to win these two games without danger, and finally the Pistons defeated the Knicks 4-1 and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the fourth consecutive year!

In the whole series, Ewing averaged 27.2 points and 9.6 rebounds per game and was still an inside giant, but the old center Edwards averaged 19.4 points per game and 58.8% shooting rate was still not too much, and Dumas, Thomas, Aguirre and Vinier Johnson Ranbier all averaged more than double digits per game, and the Knicks In addition to Ewing, Cheeks averaged 12.6 points per game and was already the second highest scoring player on the team, such a loss was inevitable.

After a short break, the Pistons ushered in an old opponent in the Eastern Conference Finals, that is, the Chicago Bulls, who had been eliminated by themselves for two consecutive years, the Bulls at this time are no different from last year in terms of lineup, Jordan, Pippen, Horrace Grant, Bill Cartwright, is still the team's main lineup, such a lineup depth can't compete with the Pistons, but the Bulls have Jordan, as long as there is Jordan, there is no hurdle in the past, Jordan played the Bucks in the first round of the playoffs and averaged 36.8 points per game, shooting 53.9% from the field, and easily grabbed 8 rebounds, 7 assists, 2.5 steals and 1.0 blocks, and played the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round, Jordan was 54.8% 's shooting percentage averaged 43 points, 6.6 rebounds and 7.4 of 4.0 steals and 1.2 blocks per game, beating Duke Charles to tears, after a year, Jordan has become more mature both technically and mentally, and is getting closer and closer to the direction of a super leader.

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