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Chapter 819 The Gathering of Dreams
Louie's suggestion was adopted by the American Basketball Association.

Subsequently, the American Basketball Association announced the selection method for the last spot, but many people expressed dissatisfaction.

Clyde Drexler was the one who reacted the most. The reason for his dissatisfaction was simple. The other players were directly selected into the dream team. Why did they have to compete with him?
To this end, Drexler said: "If I have to compete with other people to join the dream team, I would rather not join."

Knowing Drexler's thoughts, Stockton was very happy. In the game against the Dallas Mavericks in early March, he scored 19 points and 27 assists.

27 assists in a single game is not only Stockton's single-game assist record, but also the league's single-game assist record ([-]).

([-]) The butterfly effect made Skiles' record disappear.

Some of the players on the roster share Drexler's attitude, only accepting to be selected directly to the Dream Team, and not accepting to win the final spot through competition.

As long as Drexler withdraws from the competition, the rest of the players are actually of similar ability, it all depends on who the team needs.

In Louie's view, the biggest threat to Stockton on this list is Scottie Pippen, in addition to the glider.

In Louis's previous life, Pippen was the starting five selected by Chuck Daly, and was the first group of people selected for the Dream Team.

But in this life, the competition Pippen faces is not trivial, and he has not played his worth around Jordan or the tragedian.

Fans only know that he has strength, but they don't know the extent of this "strength".

If you need a ball handler, Pippen is one of the best candidates.

In the international arena, his ability to hold the ball is completely sufficient, and he also has the ability to defend from the first to the fifth position.

Compared to Drexler, he's like a versatile wing with less offense but better ball handling and defense.

Compared with Stockton, I don't know where the advantage is.

If Pippen is willing to come to the training team to compete with Stockton, Louis is really not sure that Stockton can compete with him.

In addition to Pippen, there is another person who has made it clear that he will join the training team to compete for the last spot.

That is the head of the Pistons guard Joe Dumars.

This is also the player that Louie thinks can pose a threat to Stockton.

In terms of hard power, Pippen and Dumars are both stronger players than Stockton, but the Dream Team now has top talents in various positions, so the final quota is more for functional players.

Stockton's organizational ability happens to be the best of these people, so he also has an advantage when competing.

The future of the Dream Team is basically certain, and now it is only a matter of the official announcement of the Basketball Association to allow the tragic division to go to Barcelona with the team, and the lucky one who can represent college basketball to join the Dream Team

April 3

The Knicks played away against the Charlotte Hornets, and the matchup between Isiah Thomas and Stockton attracted much attention.

Third overall pick Larry Johnson expressed displeasure that the Dream Team didn't include him as a candidate.

Disgruntled, he unleashed all his energy on blowing up Rodman against the Knicks.

Rodman's defense is already very good, but a player like Johnson, a stout four who can shoot and dribble, and has all kinds of post-up skills, as long as he is playing well, no one can limit him.

In addition to the Hornets' perimeter and Dell Ellis, Thomas also has a clear advantage against Stockton.

The Knicks lost their seventh game of the season.

The Hornets also had problems internally.

The young players refused to accept Thomas' leadership, and Thomas did not restrain the team's arrogance, and there was also Dale Ellis, a ruthless pitcher who no one looked down upon.

After the game, Ellis, who won the game and got the highest score in the team, said frankly to the New York media: "Even if I win, I am not happy. This is not the way I like to win."

As a shooter, Ellis took 22 shots per game and averaged 26 points per game. He is recognized as the league's top scorer and one of the favorite players of the visiting team in the New York media. He made great contributions to the Knicks' first championship in the Louis era.

Hearing him say that, many people wished he could return to New York.

But this kind of thing is doomed to only think about it. Both the Knicks and Ellis are on the rise, but the ends of each other are different.

Ellis wants to be the best shooter of his generation, and the Knicks want to be the dominant team from the 80s to the 90s.

In order to have a foothold on the Dream Team, Stockton suddenly had a need for data.

He is a point guard. If you want to brush up the data, it is actually not difficult.

The difficult thing is how to meet your own data brushing needs without affecting the performance of your teammates.

From the rules of the game, this is almost impossible.

There is only so much data in each game, you share a little, I share a little, the real strong team knows how to divide the cake.

The Knicks also had a rigorous division of data before.

Wilson has the most points, Ewing has the second most points and rebounds, Rodman has the most rebounds, Stockton has the most assists, Miller has 15-17 points per game, and the rest belongs to the bench gangsters headed by Kemp.

If Stockton wants to play more, someone has to give up some data.

Rodman only needs rebounds, and the rebound data is useless to Stockton, so there is no need for Rodman to sacrifice.

Miller was originally picking up the remaining ball rights of the inner and outer cores, so he shouldn't make sacrifices for this.

Then the only ones who can make sacrifices are Wilson and Ewing.

Stockton didn't ask them, and Louis didn't let them reduce the ball, but after they realized that Stockton wanted to stat, they spontaneously reduced their shots, which created favorable conditions for Stockton to stat.

In March, Wilson and Ewing averaged 6 fewer shots per game.

Stockton averaged 3 more shots per game and 2 more assists per game.

Is this a coincidence?
Throughout March, Stockton averaged 15 points, 15 assists and 3.4 steals per game, and won the league player of the month for the first time in his career.

In the era when the best of the month is not divided into east and west, it is completely possible to say that you are the best player in the league that month if you win the best of the month.

Stockton has always paid no attention to fame, and this time he has put in all his efforts to change other people's opinions.

If you change to a team with a less deep lineup, his scoring can still increase.

In early April, the controversy over which college player to join the Dream Team to Barcelona also came to an end.

In fact, at the beginning, the college basketball representatives on the selection committee hoped that the composition of the dream team's college players and professional players would be 6:6.But this proposal was quickly dismissed, and the number of college players was reduced from 6 to 4, to 2, and finally to 1.

The only remaining spot is still a consolation prize for college basketball.

This year, there are many talents in college basketball, but there are only four people who are really eligible to compete for the Dream Team. Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Chris Webber and Christian Laettner.

However, even geniuses like Shaquille O'Neill and Mourning, astonishing talents like Webber, can hardly compete with Laettner.

Scouts believe that the future ceiling of O'Neal, Mourning and Webber is much higher than that of Laettner, but the criterion for entering the dream team is not who is more promising in the future.

This is a question that focuses entirely on the present moment.

Laettner is undoubtedly the greatest college player since Pat Ewing. O'Neal and Mourning's talents brought some controversy, but the controversy stopped on March 3.

In the NCAA Eastern Conference finals, the winning side will enter the final four. With 2.1 seconds before the end of the game, the University of Kentucky led Duke University by 103 point 102 to 1.The ball that decided Duke's future was handed over to Laettner. Grant Hill passed a four-point long pass from the backcourt to the free throw line in the frontcourt to Laettner.

As the coach of the dream team, Louis went to the scene to watch the game.

Leitner's image is different from the handsome and elegant white man in his memory.

He had expected to see a superhuman prince, but Leitner presented him with a Bill Lambiel-esque demon.

When he received a long pass from Hill, he first faked a turn to the right, then turned to the left and made a shot at the buzzer.It can be seen that the Kentuckians at the scene were mad by the ball, because Laettner did all kinds of evil on the field, elbowing the opponent's face, beating the opponent's stomach, and even deliberately stomping on the opponent's head when the opponent fell to the ground.

He is the devil.

The devil played impeccably in this game. He took 20 shots, including 9 shots and 10 free throws. Counting the last lore, all hits.

With a 100% hit rate, the images of God and Satan appear in one person at the same time.

"Laettner impressed me," Louie told reporters after watching the unparalleled game. "It reminds me of the 1973 NCAA Finals."

It's an astonishing contrast.

In the 1973 NCAA finals, Bill Walton scored 44 points almost without missing a shot.

Regarding whether Laettner will be selected for the Dream Team, Louie smiled: "The decision is not up to me, but if I have the choice, before tonight, I may choose Chris Webber or Shaquille O'Neal, but after this game, I think, if there is only one person in college basketball who can be selected for the Dream Team, then this person should be Laettner."

There is no obstacle to Laettner's selection. After tonight, except for the one remaining professional player spot, the dream team has basically been formed.

(End of this chapter)