Chapter 555: 3 consecutive 10+ wins in a single season
In mid-April, the showdown between the Knicks and the Heat added another element of excitement to fans in this warm spring.
The footage of Lian Dao's final block and steal was replayed over and over again by major television stations.
Many people believe that even a few years later, this picture will still be used as a defensive example and played from time to time.
This period of time must have been very painful for James. As popular as Lian Dao is, he will be as popular.
But James is popular because he has become one of the biggest backdrops in NBA history.
Especially when Lian Dao used two defenses to finish him off, it made him feel even more uncomfortable than when Lian Dao used a decisive kill to finish him off.
Against the Heat, he used two classic defenses to punish his opponent, winning eight consecutive victories and completely clearing the way to ten consecutive victories...
Nothing could be more perfect than a game like this.
Lian Dao was not humble this time either.
In the past, Lian Dao actually didn't miss his past glory very much.
After all, people have to look forward and cannot rest on their laurels.
But this time, Lian Dao did not hide his pride as long as he was interviewed by reporters.
Lian Dao is willing to do anything that makes James unhappy.
James has been having a very bad time recently, especially losing to the Knicks again.
And for this failure, he had no reason to pass the blame to Bosh.
In particular, in the Heat's last two attacks, he was risked once and made a fatal mistake.
On the Internet, there are overwhelming voices attacking James.
Anyway, words such as "traitor", "champion", "hugger", "gorilla" all appeared under his social account.
And these words are also the words he hates the most now.
Now he doesn't even dare to log in to his social media account or read comments.
Some media are now somewhat sympathetic to James.
Because he was under too much pressure.
In the early years, Kobe was first on top of him. At that time, James was often ridiculed by fans for not being as good as Kobe...
It wasn't until the past two years that Kobe became older and could no longer suppress him. He had clearly begun to dominate the league.
But I don’t know where I came across a “New York God of War”.
This bastard is obviously young, but he always puts pressure on him, which makes James very embarrassed.
I will always be the boss of a thousand-year old man!
This also made everything about him slowly become a laughing stock, a situation that other people really couldn't understand.
Since the beginning of this season, slowly no one compares James to Jordan anymore.
Seven years have passed since James entered the league, let alone catching up with Jordan.
Even Kobe can't catch up.
Lian Dao's honors now surpass him.
Unless James can win consecutive championships in the next few years, his historical status may gradually decline to that of Wade.
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The Flash also has a championship ring in his hand, and he was the Finals MVP the year he won the championship.
It can be said that Wade was also the leader of the league at its peak.
Historically, the last thing Wade should do is to choose to stay together with James in his prime.
Later netizens ridiculed Wade for being the only player whose historical status has declined despite winning two more championship rings.
Although there are elements of ridicule, it is not completely unreasonable.
After all, those two championship rings caused Wade to be criticized for hugging James in the later stages of his career.
Not to mention Bosh, who went from being the "Dragon King" of one man and one city to becoming the resident scapegoat after the Heat's defeat.
But things are different now. James is not leading the Heat to win the championship. Instead, he is here to help.
If he still fails to win the championship in the next few years.
In the future, his status in the Hall of Fame is likely to be surpassed by Garnett, Wade and others, and he will fall out of the top fifteen.
After all, the Wolf King was also a ruthless person when he was young, and his statistics during his time with the Timberwolves were also amazing.
Although he chose to join a team later in his career, he won the championship during his time in the team.
Now some experts believe that James may be the modern version of "Big O" Oscar Robertson.
But in terms of player statistics, he cannot compare to Oscar Robertson, who had a triple-double that year.
His historical status will inevitably be much lower than that of Oscar Robertson.
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The Knicks defeated the Heat and won their 52nd win of the season. The Knicks have played a total of 60 games so far.
The record is 52 wins and 8 losses, ranking first in the league.
The Knicks have played 60 of their 66 games this season and currently have 6 games left.
On April 17, the Knicks, who had a day off, easily defeated the Boston Celtics at home.
Stoudemire, who has knee discomfort, rested this game.
Millsap suffered leg cramps during a training game.
D'Antoni chose to let Millsap rest for two games just to be on the safe side.
This also leaves the Knicks with no one at the fourth position.
In fact, Hayes could go to the fourth position, but when he finally selected the roster, D'Antoni still asked Lian Dao to go to the fourth position.
This also indirectly caused Pierce, who had been out of action in the last game, to explode in this game.
Lian Dao moved to the fourth position, leaving only Gallinari and Jimmy Butler at the third position.
Gallinari's defense is really not that good. It seems that most European players in the league are not very good at defense.
Jimmy Butler was completely trained by Pierce this time.
Butler has great potential, but he is still a little immature when faced with the offensive kaleidoscope of his early years.
Especially the old guy Pierce's fake moves are so realistic that even Lian Dao sometimes has trouble guarding against him.
What's more, Bartlett is still a newbie.
In this game, Pierce scored a single-season high of 43 points. Except for Brandon Bass, all five players scored in double figures.
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For the Knicks, Lian Dao had a huge triple-double with an assist.
In addition to Lian Dao, other players also performed very well.
But this is not the key to the Knicks' victory. The Knicks' bench is actually the contributor to the victory in this game.
The Celtics, who they couldn't help but defend, only scored 7 points in the game with their supplementary lineup.
At the same time, the Knicks' bench also scored 35 points.
Jeremy Lin scored 25 points, Tony Allen scored 4 points, Jimmy Butler had 2 points, Hayes had 2 points and 2 rebounds, and Hassan Whiteside had 2 points, 8 rebounds and 5 blocks.
In the end, the Knicks defeated the Boston Celtics and won nine consecutive games.
The Knicks are only one win away from winning their third ten-game winning streak this season.
Back-to-back away games against the New Jersey Nets on April 18.
It is said to be an away game, but in fact, it is not much different from a home game.
About half of the fans in the entire Prudential Center were wearing Knicks jerseys.
It can be said that the Nets are the only team in the league to play their home games as away games this season.
Although he is aiming for ten consecutive victories, D'Antoni does not pay much attention to the Nets as an opponent.
In addition, their center Brook Lopez is out for the season.
They simply don't have the ability to compete with the Knicks inside.
So D'Antoni continued to rotate the lineup, Lian Dao continued to paddle, Stoudemire and Cousins came on.
Even so, the Knicks still defeated the Nets easily, with Cousins who scored the highest in rebounds.
No one can stop him at the Nets' fifth position. He can easily crush his opponents just by relying on his physical advantage.
Lian Dao, who played the whole game, had good statistics, with 23 points, 7 rebounds and 19 assists.
Defeating the Nets, the Knicks won ten consecutive games for the third time in a single season.
Don't think this is easy, you must know that in NBA history, there are only four teams that can win ten consecutive games three times in a single season.
And the only team that won three ten-game winning streaks in the shortened season was the Knicks.
The earliest team to win 10 consecutive games three times in a single season was the Bucks in the 1970-1971 season.
At that time, the Bucks had two of the league's biggest superstars, "Sky Hook" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and "Big O" Oscar Robertson.
They won 16 consecutive victories, 10 consecutive victories and 20 consecutive victories respectively that season.
The second team to achieve three ten-game winning streak in a single season was the Philadelphia 76ers led by "Dr. J" Julius Erving in the 1980-1981 season.
That year, Irving averaged 24.6 points, 8 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.8 blocks per game, truly explaining what an all-around small forward is.