Min Congda and Fan Chen have reached a certain consensus on the difficult issue of the triple championship, which makes him feel very relieved.

Of the three consecutive championships, the third crown has always been the hardest, and many teams are on the way to chasing the third crown.

Even the three teams that won the three consecutive championships, the third championship all encountered major obstacles and almost overturned.

From Bill Russell's retirement in 1969 to the Lakers' successful title defense in 1988, no team in the NBA has been able to successfully defend the title in the 18 years in between.

Pat Riley shouted the slogan "We will defend the title successfully next year", and as a result, the Lakers won the 88 Finals with a very difficult time, and the last game against the Pistons was full of controversy, which was considered to be manipulated by the referees, so that the Pistons lost the Finals, and did not stop the table at the last moment, so that the game ended early.

As a result, in 89, the Lakers went all the way to the Finals with 0 losses, and in the finals, they faced a continuous injury to the core of the Pistons, and were swept out of the game 0:4, and never had a chance to win again.

Injuries, this is the first major risk that a three-time team will face.

No matter how strong your squad is, first of all, your players need to be able to play, right?

Being able to win the championship before shows that the team has done a good job in injury management.

But it's more about luck, because injuries to NBA players are almost a given.

With such a long-term and high-intensity confrontation, injuries will definitely appear, it just depends on when they appear, whether the injury is big or small, and how well they recover.

The Lakers were injured in the finals that year, although there was a factor in Riley's death, but Riley has always been this training style, and it was okay in the past, but this year's accident shows that the player's fatigue level is there, and there is no way.

Moreover, even if the Lakers were fully healthy that year, there was a high probability that they would still not be able to beat the 63-win Pistons in the regular season and full of revenge momentum, but they would not be so ugly as being swept and losing 0:4.

This is also the second major risk of the triple crown: growing opponents.

In 1991, three years later, the Detroit Pistons had the same problems as the Lakers.

The NBA is a place where a new king steps on the old king's rank, and then the new king becomes the old king, and the cycle of chaos is controlled.

The Pistons won three straight championships in 1991 and met the Chicago Bulls, who had been eliminated for three consecutive years in the Eastern Conference Finals.

This time, the fully matured bull did not give the piston a chance, and it was clean and clean, sending the piston home 4:0.

The Bulls grew into the league's new king, and in 1993 they tried to win three in a row.

Beginning in 1988, it was only the third team to continue their attempt to challenge for a third in a row, and Riley's promise of back-to-back titles in the summer of 1988 inspired the latecomers.

At the same time, David Stern has been working in the league for ten years, and the golden age of black and white is about to pass, and the league also needs a new hero and idol to stand up and complete the great cause that has not been achieved for 20 years.

As a result, Michael Jordan and the Bulls in 1993 overcame injury problems first, and the core players maintained high attendance rates without major attrition.

Then in the playoffs, compared to the overall ease in 1991 and the thrill of 1992 (with the Knicks in a seven-tie tie-break and a 30-point victory), the Bulls faced two growing opponents in 1993.

One is, of course, the New York Knicks, in the Eastern Conference finals, the Chicago Bulls lost two games in a row, falling behind 0:2.

This is the first time since the Bulls and Jordan matured that they fell behind 0:2 in the series, and the situation was quite critical.

However, they managed to survive the crisis and reach the Finals, facing new MVPs Ross Barkley and the Suns.

The strength of the two sides is actually quite close, Barkley's performance is a well-deserved MVP level, but Jordan used his personal Finals average of 41 points per game to make Barkley's efforts in vain, successfully won three consecutive championships, and then retired.

In 1994 and 1995, the Rockets and Olajuwon won two consecutive championships with a seven-tie and a sixth-place miracle, followed by a three-game winning streak in 1996.

If the impact is successful, Olajuwon, who is in the same golden generation as Jordan in 1984, will also create a dynasty of his own.

But in 1996, the Rockets faced a third major risk and challenge on the road to a three-game winning streak: the players' desire to win was exhausted.

In 1995, the Rockets won the most legendary comeback championship with the "heart of a champion", and Drexler delivered the best and most desperate playoff game of his career.

At the age of 32, he was even faster and faster in the game than he was when he was 22, and he did everything he could for the championship.

But by 1996, he had run out of motivation to win, and when he returned to his hometown of Houston and won a championship, he didn't ask for much.

And Olajuwon also married a new wife, and there is no longer the heroism and determination of "we start here" in the summer of 1993.

As long as you are human, you will always slack off, even if you are not slacking off, your teammates, your family, your friends, can you guarantee that they don't want to let go?

To be able to win one or two championships is already very human, and if you want to go further, you really need inhuman perseverance and a desire to win.

And, even if the Rockets reach the Finals in 1996, they won't be able to beat the Chicago Bulls with 72 wins.

The comeback Jordan is heading for his second triple crown, and in the blink of an eye, it was 1998, Jordan's last dance.

This year, the Bulls and Jordan have endured all three of the first three risks, injuries, opponents, and a decline in winning spirit, plus a fourth risk: aging.

Injuries, the team's No. 2 core Scott Pippen has been plagued by injuries all season, playing only 44 games in the regular season, and even more injured in the key game of the finals.

opponents, the Bulls encountered the toughest resistance from the Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals and experienced the most thrilling tie-break;

In the finals, they met last year's old rivals, the vengeful Utah Jazz, who had home-court advantage.

You must know that before this, since Russell's retirement and the end of the Celtics empire, all the teams that have met in the Finals for two consecutive years have won and lost each other, and no team has won the same opponent in a row.

The desire to win is declining, and the entire Bulls have decided before the start of the season that they will definitely break up at the end of the season.

The morale of the team is fluctuating, the crisis is everywhere, and there are many contradictions between the coach, the players and the management, and it has reached the point of saber rattling.

Finally, there is the inevitable aging, that year Jordan was 35 years old, Pippen was 33 years old, Rodman was 37 years old, Harper was 35 years old, and the average age of the team was 33 years old.

is 2 years older than the so-called "two older Utah veterans" with working experience, and the Jazz team is the oldest team in the league.

The so-called boxing is afraid of being less strong, and ordinary people in their 30s belong to the prime of life, and for NBA players, it is old age, old man.

In such an unfavorable situation, the Bulls, Jordan, and Phil Jackson still overcame many obstacles, and Jordan played 82 games in the regular season, leading the team to 62 wins.

In the finals, Jordan tried his best, exhausted the last trace of energy, scored 45 points in a single game and exceeded half of the team's scores, key steals, quasi-lore, and three consecutive championships.

Since then, the end of the 90s, it can be found that from 1988 to 1998, these 10 years, the league team is chasing the road of three consecutive championships.

All three teams fell, slumped in injuries, revenge, and a waning competitive spirit, while the Bulls overcame them all and overcame aging.

This not only reflects the greatness of Jordan and Phil Jackson, but also shows how difficult it is to win three consecutive championships.

In the 21st century, Phil Jackson continues to pursue his path to three-peat-winning greatness.

No one else has been able to do this but him, and he is a well-deserved three-time specialist.

In the new century, Jackson and the Lakers ushered in the fifth risk and challenge of three consecutive championships in 2002: infighting.

The Lakers can achieve great things, and O'Neal and Kobe Bryant are inseparable from the two super talents.

But the two have completely different personalities and handling styles, which led to their relationship getting worse and worse in the later period.

In 2002, Kobe Bryant had risen and his ambitions were beginning to appear, and he had already begun to want to be the boss and win the MVP, rather than being willing to be a foil for a lazy fat man.

Jackson stubbornly suppressed the contradiction between the two, and withstood the test of the Kings in the Western Conference Finals, successfully winning three consecutive championships.

Its ability to control the stability of people's hearts can be seen.

After that, the Lakers quickly fell apart, and Kobe O'Neal was irreconcilable and finally broke up.

In 2011, when Phil Jackson hit the third consecutive championship for the fourth time, he finally came to the finish line.

This year, Jackson and the Lakers actually faced a sixth risk, and that was that times had changed.

2011 was the year when the league's style of play began to change, and this year the Lakers faced the Mavericks, a hulking monster of the previous era.

Now the situation of the Clippers is much better than the previous teams that have won three consecutive championships, and in general, "the advantage is mine".

However, Min Congda was not at ease, and he expressed his anxiety to Fan Chen: "We Clippers have several risks, and I have to guard against them!" ”

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