"54v48, Knicks rookie player Wang Feng defeated Jordan, and the league's No. 1 position was challenged!"

"Can score better than Jordan, can assist better than Jordan, can grab rebounds better than Jordan, is there such a player in the world?"

"The Bulls and Jordan's championship journey is overshadowed, and when it comes to the playoffs, will they really be able to cross the Knicks' mountain?"

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The battle between the Knicks and the Bulls successfully became the hottest topic in the league, such a result was unexpected, Wang Feng scored 54 points and a triple-double v Jordan 48 points, which looked like a fairy war in the eyes of the outside world.

But this fairy battle didn't make people linger for long, because the regular season was coming to an end.

After the win over the Bulls, the Knicks only have four games left to play, against the Bucks, Hornets, Celtics and Washington Bullets.

The Knicks, who have already secured the top spot in the Eastern Conference record in advance, chose to rest some of the main players in these four games and prepare for the playoffs.

Therefore, in these 4 games, the Knicks have a 2-2 record.

With the Knicks beating the Bullets 113-99 at home in the final game, the regular season of the NBA1994-95 season ended all.

The New York Knicks are in first place in the East with a 62-20 record, which is on par with the Spurs, who also have a 62-20 record in the West.

In the situation in the East, except for the Knicks and the Magic team swapping positions, the rankings of other teams are not much different from Wang Feng's impression.

The Magic are second in the East with 55 wins and 27 losses, the Pacers are third with 52 wins, the Hornets are fourth with 50 wins, and the Bulls are fifth with 47 wins, followed by the Cavaliers, Hawks and Celtics in sixth through eighth.

In this way, the Eastern Conference playoff table has a corresponding result.

The Knicks will face the Boston Celtics, who are eighth in the West, in the first round.

Today's Celtics are no longer the team they used to be. Bird's top team, although they managed to get Dominic, known as the "essence of human cinema", this season. Wilkins, but the dying Wilkins has long since lost his courage, averaging only 17.8 points and 5 rebounds per game this season, shooting 42% from the field, both scoring and shooting percentage are new lows after his rookie season.

The Celtics have a 35-47 regular season record and are the only team in the playoffs with a win rate of less than 50 percent.

Such a team is naturally unlikely to cause even a little trouble to the imposing Knicks.

124:87。

99:92。

110:97。

Three games, a crisp 3:0, and before Celtics fans could react, the series was over.

Due to this period, the first round of the playoffs was still a best-of-5 system, so winning 3 games, the Knicks officially eliminated the Celtics to enter the second round.

Both in terms of the course of the game and in terms of the data, it was a complete crushing game.

In three games, Ewing averaged 18.5 points, 11 rebounds and 2 assists on 6.8 shots per game, shooting 55.1% from the field and 5-of-6.5 from the free-throw line.

Wang Feng hit 8 of 14 shots per game, with a shooting rate of 57%, including 4 of 8 three-pointers and 4 of 4 free throws, averaging 24 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals per game.

The data of both of them is not obvious, not because Wang Feng and Ewing are not in good shape, but because both of them basically do not have much playing time. ….

In the game with the Celtics, two of them were not over in the third quarter, and the game had lost suspense, and Riley, who saw this scene, would immediately replace the main players without hesitation.

He has been in the league for more than ten years, and he knows very well that as long as you win in the playoffs, don't leave your core main players on the court, otherwise the opponent is likely to make you never get up again.

This year's goal is to win the championship, not to fight for the moment.

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Wang Feng and Ewing played an average of only a little more than 30 minutes per game in three games, and they didn't play their full strength at all.

There is a similar situation, and there is O'Neal of the Magic team.

As the second-place Magic team in the East, they are facing the Hawks, who are seventh in the East.

is also a neat 3:0 to solve the battle, O'Neal averaged a little more playing time than Wang Feng and Ewing, but that was about 32 minutes, with an average of only 13.5 shots, plus 22.5 points and 13.5 rebounds per free throw.

It can be seen that the Magic team is really strong this season, and it is worthy of being a team that can go all the way to the finals.

The topic is far away, let's get down to business.

After successfully entering the second round, the strength of the Knicks' opponent was immediately raised, and it was the Chicago Bulls led by Jordan and Pippen who had just faced off not long ago.

Because of the victory in the final battle of the regular season, the Knicks' side naturally had the upper hand psychologically.

But even so, the Bulls could still be the Knicks' strongest opponent in the playoffs.

As soon as he entered the playoffs, Jordan immediately switched to playoff mode, and his average points per game and shooting percentage increased sharply compared to the regular season, from 26.9 in the regular season to 32.3.

In the first round of the Bulls' game with the Hornets, relying on Jordan's super individual scoring ability, the Bulls successfully defeated the Hornets 3:1 and advanced to the second round.

At the beginning of the second round of the game, some fans shouted the slogan of revenge, hoping that Jordan could avenge his revenge in the regular season.

On May 7, in the first game of the second round, the Knicks and Bulls had a fierce confrontation at Madison Square Garden in New York.

As everyone thinks, this is indeed a comet-like duel with the Earth.

However, the result of the game was unexpected.

Jordan played 40 minutes, but he shot 8-of-22, shooting only 36%, and only got 19 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists in the whole game, with a whopping 8 turnovers, and his performance was a mess.

On the other hand, Wang Feng's side, although he didn't shoot many shots in the whole game, shooting 7 of 11, he made 3 of 4 three-pointers and 10 of 11 free throws, and scored a triple-double of 27 points, 11 rebounds and 14 assists.

As the Bulls' No. 1 scorer, Jordan once again lost to Wang Feng in terms of scoring, how could the Bulls win the next game?

At 99:91, the Knicks won the opener.

The main reason why Jordan played so badly was because the Knicks changed their defensive strategy.

As we enter the playoffs, the defensive intensity of the game instantly rises a notch.

Wang Feng empathizes with this, the intensity of the confrontation in the playoffs in the 90s can be described as terrifying, if it weren't for Wang Feng himself being a numerical monster with super high ability value, I am afraid that he would not be able to quickly adapt to the confrontation of this era. ….

Jordan's ability to play so well in the playoffs with this defensive intensity shows how strong he was at his peak.

It's just that the stronger Jordan is, the more targeted he will be, just like this game, the reason why Jordan's performance will be so bad is directly related to the Knicks' defensive strategy.

At the beginning of the game, Jordan found that Wang Feng was not in line with him in this game, and the person in charge of defending himself was 2.01 meters Anthony. Mason.

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If he survives, he has a golden Bag Master Badge, which is not very effective once he forms a bag clamp on his opponent.

Jordan obviously didn't expect that Wang Feng, who he regarded as an opponent, would actually wrap him up, and it was so difficult that he couldn't deal with it and couldn't deal with it, resulting in abnormal performance.

Of course, the Bulls were not unprepared, and they also developed defensive tactics against Wang Feng, so Wang Feng only had 11 shots in the whole game.

But the problem is that Wang Fengfeng's skills are too many.

Finding that the Bulls were targeting him, Wang Feng immediately changed his style of play, focusing on running without the ball and passing, giving 10 assists before the end of the half, and also relying on the ability to make fouls as high as 91 to make the Bulls defensive fouls many times and get a lot of free throws.

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The victory in the first game made the Knicks team full of momentum, and the fans in New York were also excited, the Knicks really waited for the best time to defeat the Bulls to win the championship!

But they didn't have to wait for two days to be happy, and on May 10, the Bulls immediately pulled one back at Madison Square with a 104-94 lead.

After a poor performance in the last game, Jordan bottomed out in this game, hitting 17 of 30 shots and scoring 38 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists.

On the Knicks' side, Wang Feng did not lose to Jordan in terms of personal performance, and even if you want to take a closer look, he can still have the upper hand.

He shot 13-of-20, 3-of-5 from three-point range and 7-of-8 from the free-throw line to finish with a near-triple-double of 36 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists.

With the score extremely close, Wang Feng took 10 fewer shots than Jordan, and the gap between three-pointers and two-pointers was revealed, and Wang Feng also had 10 assists.

However, in this game, Ewing on the Knicks' side was a little crotch-pulling.

He shot 7-of-17 from the field and 2-of-4 from the free-throw line to finish with just 16 points and 10 rebounds.

Compared to playing, Ewing's careful thinking is the key factor in losing the game.

The easy victory over the Bulls in the first game gave Ewing more confidence and felt that it should not be a problem for the team to win the Bulls.

On this premise, of course, he wants to continue to pursue personal data.

This is actually human nature.

At the end of the regular season, Ewing's individual score was finally fixed at 24.6 points, 11 rebounds and 2.8 assists, which was the bottom of the four centers. ….

Apart from him, the other three are in the top three in the regular season scoring list this season.

O'Neill 29.3+11.4, Olajuwon 27.8+10.8+3.5, Robinson 27.6+10.8+3.

The most feared thing about data is comparison.

Although the Knicks' record is on par with the Spurs and above the Magic and the Rockets, the gap in personal data still makes Ewing fall last in the evaluation of the four centers.

Especially after Wang Qiao's battle ended with Wang Feng slashing 54 points, Wang Feng is the key to the Knicks' victory this season, and the voices are becoming more and more in New York.

After all, everyone is not blind, Wang Feng has a higher efficiency value than Ewing, and his playing style is more beautiful and efficient, which anyone can see.

It would be a lie to say that Ewing didn't feel the pressure, he wants to prove in the game that he is the most important player for the Knicks, that he can never be replaced, and that he also wants to win this year's regular season MVP and Finals MVP.

So in G2, Ewing once again tried to step up and help his team win at key moments, including the last two minutes of the fourth quarter.

Wang Feng, activated by the key shooter, almost never received a pass, and could only watch Ewing attack the basket again and again on the outside.

Wang Feng also wanted Ewing to know the cruelty of reality, so he didn't do anything.

At the end of the first game, Wang Feng knew that the strength of the Bulls, who had not reached full fitness, could indeed not defeat the Knicks with him, even if he lost the second game, Wang Feng was sure to eliminate the Bulls in the series, as long as Ewing knew how to be self-aware and learned to be obedient on the court.

In fact, there is no need for Wang Feng to do anything.

With the Knicks' loss in Game 2, Ewing was immediately pushed to the upper hand

Angry New York fans blew blood on Ewing's last-minute poor play and stealing the ball.

"Why don't you give the ball to Wang Feng? Wang Feng scored more points with fewer shots than you, so use your brain to think, how can it be easier to win?"

"Could it be that Patrick's nickname is a gorilla, so the mind has become a gorilla?"

"If Ewing continues to play like this in the next game, then the Knicks will be ready to go home fishing early!"

In the face of overwhelming accusations, this time even the team's head coach Pat . Riley didn't speak for Ewing either.

'The defeat was unexpected, we failed in the final moments of the game and that was the main reason why we lost the game in the end, and we will readjust our form before the next game to make sure we are in the best shape and mood for the rest of the game.

Although Riley did not directly criticize Ewing when interviewed by reporters, he did not speak for him, which actually represented Riley's attitude.

In this case, Ewing certainly knew what to do, after all, he was not really stupid, and his previous actions were also to gain more fame and status.

The realigned Knicks saw immediate results.

On May 12, in Chicago, the home of the Bulls, the Knicks won 110-101, turning the big score into 2-1.

Ewing made 7 of 13 shots and 7 of 10 free throws in this game, scoring 21 points and 10 rebounds, playing well and returning to normal efficiency values.

Of course, the game after the decentralization turned into a contest between Wang Feng and Jordan again.

The regular season scoring battle was repeated in this game.

Sheng Bo