basketball pope

Chapter 73 [Missed Enemy of Life]

During the break, the major awards of the regular season were announced one after another, and Patrick Ewing won the regular season MVP.

Many fans complained about Michael Jordan. Last season's MVP was given to Karl Malone, and this season was robbed by Ewing.Fortunately, choosing an MVP is not like evaluating an All-Star starter. If it is compared to popularity, Ewing and Malone combined are not Jordan's opponents.

Ewing led the All-NBA first team and squeezed O'Neal, who only played 60 games.If it wasn't for O'Neal missing too much, the Lakers might be able to compete with the Knicks for the best record.

Alan Houston squeezed out Pippen, who only played 44 games, and was selected to the All-NBA third team, which was also a breakthrough in life.

Depressed person is Jeff - Van Gundy, the best coach award to the Pacers' Larry Bird, obviously the Pacers are being abused by the Knicks, but he has to rank second.

该奖项是由美国及加拿大的体育记者进行投票选出的。每一位评委分别投票选出No.1、No.2与No.3的主教练。教练员获得每一张No.1的选票将获得5分，No.2的选票将获得3分，No.3的选票将获得1分。最终得分最高的教练员获得该奖项。

Van Gundy's score is not high. Obviously, in the eyes of sports reporters, the progress of the Knicks offensive end is not Van Gundy's sudden enlightenment, but the credit of new assistant coach Yang Rui.

In other awards, the Suns insider Danny Manning beat Starks to win the best sixth man.

Eagles power forward Alan Henderson won the Most Improved Player award.

Eagles center Dikembe Mutombo became the Defensive Player of the Year.

The best rookie was acquired by Spurs insider Tim Duncan without any suspense.He is recognized as a super rookie. He was also selected to the first team of the best team and the second team of the best defensive team this season. This kind of debut is very rare.

The most surprising thing to Yang Rui is that Ewing was also selected for the second team of the best defensive team. His defensive ability is actually not as good as before. The key to winning is the good defense of his teammates.

The Knicks' defensive statistics are not bad, and someone needs to be selected to show that Bowen is a rookie, and Oakley and Ben Wallace are the substitutes. In the end, using the exclusion method, the honor falls to the most popular Ewing.In this era, the selection of the best defensive team is not very reliable.

Since the Pacers are going to play away, the awards are given to the stars at home, and Ewing has to be late to deliver his acceptance speech.

尤因获选MVP让尼克斯士气大振，第三战开场就压着步行者打，118比97取胜，总比分3比0领先。尤因22分15篮板5助攻表现出色。

Larry Bird just accepted the coach of the best trophy before the game, and then he was humiliated. He couldn't take the Knicks.

Bird used to play small ball tactics in the second half and competed with the Knicks for speed, but the result was to disrupt the rhythm of the team. The Pacers are not good at fast-paced games at all.

In the fourth game, the Pacers had no morale and did not lead the whole game.

Star player Miller sleepwalked, made 14 of 5 shots, 6 of 2 three-pointers, 5 of 4 free throws, 16 points, 2 rebounds, and no assists, and he was already the team's highest scorer.

The Knicks won 95-81, easily swept 4-0, and took the lead in advancing to the Eastern Conference finals.

In an interview with Van Gundy, his confidence was high. When referring to the next round, he said: "The Knicks are the best team in the league this season. We have the strength to beat anyone, any team, including Michael Jordan."

The reporter asked: "How many games do you think the Bulls will use to advance?"

Van Gundy said: "I think the Bulls will sweep the promotion tomorrow. The Heat are not strong. We were eliminated because of that fight last season. To win the championship, we need strength, not court violence."

Can't take revenge by eliminating the Heat on the court. Van Gundy still didn't forget to disgust his opponent. Now the Heat are 0-3 behind the Bulls, which is also a disparity series.

At the press conference, Bird and Miller, who are known for their "big mouths," could not say a word of madness.If you lose, you lose, and it's not just trash talk, you can get your face back with a series of punchlines.

It's another nightmarish series for Reggie Miller, the only good news is that he's out at the Pacers' home court and won't be booed away by the crowd.

Yang Rui did not sympathize with Miller, but all poor people must have something to hate.

There is a price to be paid for being high profile, especially a guy like Miller who is not invincible and bites people like a mad dog.

The peak of Miller's career was 24.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists. Such data are common in any era; Miller also has no honors, scoring champions, MVPs, etc., and his greatest achievement is to enter the best team three times. .

The reason Miller is famous, and the reason he is hated by Knicks fans, is the "Miller moment."

The earliest Miller moment came in Game 1994 of the 12 Pacers-New York Eastern Conference finals.The Pacers trailed by 25 points into the fourth quarter. The New York mascot fan, director Spike Lee, was talking trash to Miller. As a result, Miller turned the game with [-] points in a single quarter, including five three-pointers.

After the final [-]-pointer, Miller protested with the famous chokehold on Spike Lee.

On May 1995, 5, in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Pacers trailed the Knicks by 6 points, with only 18.7 seconds left in the game. Judging by ordinary people, the Pacers were bound to lose. Miller broke this point again. Routinely, he first hit a three-pointer, and then successfully intercepted the ball in the frontcourt and scored a long shot to tie the score at 105-105.

After the Pacers fouled, the Knicks missed two free throws, Miller got a rebound and caused the Knicks to foul, he made both free throws, and then the Knicks Ewing lore failed, the Pacers beat the opponent by 2 points.

These are the two biggest highlights of Miller's career. Every year, he and his Pacers are abused out of the game. I don't know why, they were taken out and blown away.

Always losing makes Miller's character distorted, and he has gradually become a famous troll in the NBA, seeing whoever trolls.After scoring, he always throws trash talk at opponents like "Do you know why my salary is so high, this is the gap." "You go back and practice again" and so on.

The funny thing is that the Knicks didn't even spar with Miller this time, because most of the time, Miller was playing against Bruce Bowen.Miller saved a lot of spit, what's the point of spraying Bowen?He's just a blue-collar guy with no data.

The Knicks fought back in the most direct way, sending the Pacers home to fish.

Yang Rui suspects that he has caused the butterfly effect again, which has changed history. In the future, no one may say that Miller is Jordan's "enemy for life".In Yang Rui's previous life, Miller had only played against Jordan once in the playoffs in his career, and that was this season.Sadly, he missed it.

(End of this chapter)