The Knicks returned from Cleveland victorious, and the cheers in New York became even louder.
At the New York Airport, amid shouts and screams of "Linsanity" and "MVP", Lin Yu waved his hands at the fans gathered on both sides, triggering an even crazier wave of enthusiasm.
Lin Yu was not in a good mood, and he could only force a smile at this moment.
The reason for his bad mood was that although he said the slightly modified classic line to the national live broadcast camera, the "the future is yours" did not come true as Lin Yu hoped.
"It's getting harder and harder..."
Lin Yu could only shake his head secretly and lamented that it was not good to steal the ball, and he did not set the record for three-pointers. Facing the upcoming Celtics, Lin Yu was very anxious.
Now, he only has two time-effective items left in his hand, a "Cavaliers 1.0 LBJ Single Game Experience Card" and a "63-Point Night", which do not cover his original attributes.
This means that after using these two time-effective props, Lin Yu will become an enhanced version of LeBron James and an enhanced version of Michael Jordan respectively.
Facing a team like the Celtics, getting two wins should be no problem.
The problem is that winning an entire series requires four wins, and with two games left, Lin Yu has no choice.
And if you don't cheat against the Celtics, it will be too difficult to win. It's like a blind cat trying to catch a mouse.
Lin Yu didn't want to give it away, let alone let the Celtics enter the finals to win the gold cup.
At the beginning of the playoffs, he expected that there would be a perfect schedule of fighting the Cavaliers first and then the Celtics, so he decided to do his best to kill the Cavaliers and Celtics in succession.
Now that the Cavaliers are gone, Lin Yu cannot admit defeat when facing the Celtics.
"The story is gone, so I can only think of ways to set a few records."
Fortunately, there are two time-effective props, which he can use to highlight the entire game, set records, and get bonus points for characteristics.
If they can get two characteristic points, then the Knicks still have great hope in this Eastern Conference Finals. If not, Lin Yu will have no choice but to do his best and accept fate.
Anyway, in this playoffs, he has earned enough to reach his current position.
For example, after two rounds of playoffs, some media have begun to discuss Lin Yu's historical status and his status in the current league.
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"In this series, Lin Yu's performance was too strong. He showed us his unique personal abilities. For example, he was always able to stand up and score at critical moments, and used decisive personal performance to help the team win; and,
His long-range shooting ability has exploded since G4. He can even shoot from just past half-court, not once or twice, but many times. It seems that he is going to make ultra-long three-pointers the norm..."
"Combined with the first round of the playoffs, Lin seems to have been getting stronger. After leading the team to defeat the Cavaliers, he has proven that he is one of the best stars in the league."
One of the best stars, this is Bill Simmons' evaluation of Lin Yu after the Knicks won Game 5.
This evaluation is not low. After all, Bill Simmons is the author of the basketball book "Basketball History". He has evaluated every star in the history of the league, and those who can be called the best stars are all in the history of the league.
superstar on.
Bill Simmons' comment led to a discussion on Stephen A. Smith's show——
It was almost the day after the game. Stephen A. Smith's program invited two regular guests: Mark Stein and Zach Lowe, as well as two temporary guests: a commentary
Reggie Miller and Magic Johnson throughout the Cavaliers-Knicks series.
At the beginning of the show, they were naturally blowing Lin crazy, almost trying to blow Lin Yu to the sky.
Then, the topic turned to the discussion about Lin Yu's historical status and status in the cash league. Of course, the person who raised this topic was still Stephen A. Smith.
"With a score of 4:1, Lin Yu's personal performance surpassed LeBron James in four of the five games. Can we conclude from this that Lin's personal ability has far surpassed LeBron's?"
After speaking, Smith emphasized: "Note, I said far beyond, far beyond LeBron!"
The microphone was pushed in front of Zach Lowe. At the end of the season, everyone had an impression of Zach Lowe. This guy is very willing to rank teams and stars, and he is a die-hard Lin Mi.
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So, everyone wants to hear Zach Lowe’s opinion.
"If we want to talk about Lin's personal ability, and put his personal ability aside to compare with LeBron, we have to mention last year's finals. If it weren't for Lin Yu's explosion and entering his so-called Lin field
, it will be the San Antonio Spurs who will win the O'Brien Cup last season. In fact, from that time on, I think that regardless of the comparison of overall strength, just in terms of the ability to lead a team to win, Lin has surpassed LeBron.
, which is why after the deal between the Cavaliers and the Knicks was completed, I think the Cavaliers' choice was completely wrong."
"If Lin was overshadowed by LeBron when he was playing for the Cavaliers, then after joining the Knicks, he began to use his outstanding personal abilities to prove to all those who doubted his ability to lead the team to win.
Of course, in the playoffs, he still gave us endless surprises."
"The overall strength of this Knicks, even including Lin Yu, can only be regarded as the middle of the league at best, but Lin led this middle-level team to defeat the Pistons and Cavaliers. They are a dark horse, but if Lin
Once they enter the forest realm, they are no longer considered dark horses."
"Lin brought a team that was originally at the bottom of the league to the top, and LeBron took a team that was originally from the second rate to the second rate. We can conclude that Lin is far better than LeBron!"
Zach Lowe gave a long speech, and his final conclusion did not surprise everyone present.
Mark Stein took the microphone with a smile and gave his conclusion directly: "I still think Lin is a player of the same level as LeBron, but if he enters Lin's field, just like Zach said,
Lin is far better than LeBron when he enters the realm of the woods."
Then came Magic Johnson: "Lin was able to bring the Knicks, who were originally last in the Eastern Conference, to the Eastern Conference Finals in the same season. This proves that he is a great star, and LeBron has obviously not reached this level yet."
Stephen A. Smith was a little surprised, and he also gave a surprised reaction, which seemed a bit exaggerated, but the magician's evaluation of Lin Yu was indeed a bit high.
Compared with Zach Lowe, Magic's evaluation seems to make people more intuitively feel the gap between LeBron James and Lin Yu.
But in the end, Reggie Miller's speech was the real surprise.
"Zach has said enough about leading the team to win games. What I want to say is that Lin may be changing this league..."
