freeallnovels Chapter 928
Chapter 928
Chapter 928
"The next time you fucking come to Boston you better not be wandering the streets!"
When Reid Auerbach ranted on the phone, it was with angry concern.
"You know I lit that cigar with no malice, and coming off a 24-point comeback in the fourth quarter at Boston Garden, you know how unbelievable it is."
"When those radicals shoot bullets at you, you'll know the nature of the matter!"
The Knicks' reversal of the Celtics in the fourth quarter was widely advertised by the media.
Whether it was the dramatic offensive performance in the fourth quarter or the cigar that Louie lit at the end of the game, the media went crazy.
The New York Times dubbed the victory "The Comeback."
There is an allusion to this.
To be precise, this is not an allusion, this is keeping up with current events.
Seven days earlier, on Jan. 7, Buffalo Bills backup quarterback Frank Reich led the Buffalo Bills to a 1-3 overtime win over the Houston Oilers in an AFC wild-card playoff game that fans will forever call "The Comeback."
In this game, miraculous is miraculous. In the first half, it seemed that it was only a one-sided massacre.After the main quarterback of the Bills is injured, whether the loss in the second half will be more embarrassing than the Los Angeles Rams ([-]) depends on the quality of the Oilers.
As a result, the Bills completed the reversal under the leadership of a substitute.
As American football is the national sport of the United States, the appearance of this kind of game will naturally have social effects.
Although the game between the Knicks and the Celtics is just a regular season, not as special as the Bills and Oilers, the two teams have always been popular teams in the league, and any troubles will attract countless attention.
The Times is justifiable for its enthusiasm.
Louis lighting a cigar to blow up Boston's popularity is an unexpected side plot.
Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe ran four op-eds over the next month, blaming Louie.
Louie understands Boston's anger, and anyone who is humiliated by riding in the face will be mad, but he also hopes that the locals understand him.
The reversal of 24 points in the fourth quarter should be unprecedented in the history of the Celtics. Louis has been coaching for almost ten years, and it is also the first time I have seen it.
The victory over the Celtics was Louie's 588th.
600 wins away from 12 wins.
If the winning streak continues from now until the 5th of next month, Benjamin Wilson will be able to fulfill his promise of "We will not lose a game from now until Coach Road reaches the milestone of 600 wins in his career".
The next opponent is the Kings from Sacramento.
The Kings are the fringe team in the West.
Louis has always paid attention to them, because the Kings' first-round pick in 1993 and the first-round pick in 1996 are both in the hands of the Knicks.
The great Bill Russell sent two future first-round picks to the Knicks for Wayman Tisdale while at the helm of Sacramento.
Now that the Tisdales are gone, the Kings have a decent roster, but they still don't look like a strong team.
This is exactly the problem.
They have a decent lineup: Amon Gilliam, Jose Hawkins, Dennis Scott, Doug West, Grant Long, BJ Armstrong, Kendall Gill, Danny Ferry.
Their first nine rotations are all young players who need playing time.
And there are 4 top-five rookies. Although they don't have the potential of superstars, they can still be expected if they are cultivated well.
The Kings chose the worst possible way to hone their youngsters.
This method will not be unfamiliar to fans in the future.
Their head coach, Garry St. Jean, calls it balanceism, which aims to give players the same opportunity, everyone for me, and me for everyone to contribute to the team.
Louis looked at them for a long time, thinking, isn't this the egalitarianism of Luke Wharton?
Louis never imagined that Wharton turned out to be the general of Mr. Jean.
What are the benefits of egalitarianism?
No, let's talk about the disadvantages first.
For a team like the Kings that desperately needs young people to play, egalitarianism first blocks the opportunity for potential newcomers to fire and level up.Although this kind of leveling method is easy to make mistakes, how can you not give the sharpshooter enough bullets and ask him to become a gunslinger?
If the core talent cannot be exercised, it will delay the growth of the talent. Any thoughtful management will have to fork out this kind of coach and beat him to death.
Yet the Kings seem content with being on the fringes of the playoffs.
What about the second worst evil of egalitarianism?The hierarchy of power within the team is blurred.
It seems to be a good thing. Everyone is equal. This world needs the idea and society that everyone is equal. No matter what the ideology is, they are striving to create such a world. But in professional sports and any project that pays attention to technical ability, blurring the power level in the team is the way to death.
You have blurred the level of players, which is equivalent to saying that the boss of this team and the substitute have similar status, so can the substitute keep their own place?Do you believe that the substitute players will honestly fight after finding out that their status is similar to that of the boss?
This is the kind of moron coach who loves to trap the entire team in the name of selflessness.
The above two harms are enough to destroy the future of the rebuilding team, but egalitarianism has another harm that must be mentioned-everyone is dissatisfied with their status in the team, playing time and possession of the ball.
You are all average, it seems fair, but why should the cornerstone of the team's top five picks be treated the same as your late first and second round picks?
If under this concept of equal opportunity, those low-ranking players who have seized the opportunity and those core talents are not performing well, they will be satisfied with the status quo and continue to enjoy egalitarianism?
This is the stupidity of egalitarianism. Designers live in Andersen's world. They are suitable for college basketball. They not only want to fight and kill, but also talk about worldly professional basketball. There is no soil for the survival of egalitarianism.
Louis led the team to sweep the Kings, winning the 589th career victory.
After that, the Nuggets were defeated back to back, and the Texas two-run guest defeated the Mavericks and the Rockets.
Louie's wins come to 592.
After that, there are two hard bones, namely the Phoenix Suns and Charlotte Hornets.
The Suns have been a strong team in the Western Conference since their rise in the late 80s, and were once the Lakers' biggest opponent out of the Finals.
Only now, Brad Doherty is plagued by back injuries, the interior has lost a cornerstone, and the perimeter guards and wings are not enough to fill the vacancy left by the giants.
The Sun's perimeter players brought a certain threat, but were quickly swept away by the Knicks.
Then there is the Charlotte Hornets, currently ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference.
The Hornets finalized a three-year, $3 million contract extension with Dell Ellis during the offseason, and got Terry Porter and Blue Edwards in the signing and exchange deal that sent Thomas away.The latter was a surprise, and it was the last thing Thomas left for them.
Thomas can find other teams and the Trail Blazers to sign.
I chose the Hornets because I had stayed here for a year.
That night, the Hornets started with Porter, Ellis, Rice, Larry Johnson, and Song Tao.
In order to make up the Chinese Derby, Louis persuaded Ewing to be a substitute, and Yu Tiancan entered the Knicks' starting list for the first time in his career.
This is a historic scene, and it is the first live broadcast of an NBA game in China.
The fly in the ointment is that the Knicks are in extremely poor condition in this battle. Except for Miller, everyone else feels off-line.
Wilson's game of not losing the flag fell.
"I'm sorry Coach Road, I let him down." Wilson said, pointing to his hair, "I'm going to bulldoze it tonight!"
The next day, Wilson appeared in front of Louie with his high school haircut.
"Where are you making trouble? Do you think you are a high school student?"
Louis was not used to the sudden change in Wilson's hairstyle.
"Coach, we really want to not lose a game until you win your 600th game!"
"What's this saying? Can I just lose after 600 victories? You shouldn't use this kind of thing to encourage yourself. Winning is a matter of course." Louis taught Wilson righteously one second, and said with a wretched smile the next second, "If we lose another game, you will flatten the hair on my head."
Wilson was startled, "Like Michael?"
"That's right, that's the hairstyle of a strong man."
"But Larry and Erwin are not bald."
"Erwin? A man who is known as a tragedy teacher in the contemporary era. Are you sure you want to follow him? As for the country bumpkin." Louis smiled, "You'd better not use this kind of person as a benchmark."
Wilson was even more bewildered.
"Ervin can leave it alone, but isn't Larry the benchmark for all professional players?" Wilson's reason was straightforward, "He is the GOAT."
"GOAT?" Louie said contemptuously. "Would GOAT make his finger a lifelong functional disability for a shitty teaching obligation in a rural high school before he even played a professional game?"
"Uh no."
"Will GOAT score 8 points in a single game in the finals, and still have two consecutive games?"
"Larry ever did this again?"
"Little boy, I can even figure out the urination patterns of country bumpkins, so it's nothing."
"What else?"
"Will GOAT injure his hand in a bar fight out of loyalty before the finals?"
As for later, Louis picked out all the unprofessional things about helping his mother to open up wasteland in order to save money, eating himself into a fat man because of boredom during the season reimbursement period.
"Do you think this kind of person deserves to be a GOAT?"
Wilson highly recognized Bird's achievements: "Yes, he has done so many wrong things, but he is still a GOAT. It can be seen that he has never reached his upper limit, but even so, he is still a GOAT. I can't imagine how great he would be if he never did these things."
Louis suddenly felt that joining the Dream Team might be a mistake for Wilson. What kind of ecstasy soup did the bumpkin give him?Had he forgotten that Byrd had spat on him?
Louis said that to make Wilson realize that the GOAT in his mind, or the person who will replace Bird's GOAT position, is Wilson himself.
But this kid patronizes modesty.
What is he being modest about?If the grades are not hard enough, it’s okay to be humble and humble. Now that I have five consecutive championships, 3FMVP+1MVP, although there is a little gap between hard honors and Bird, but can you die if you talk about it?Don't look at how the creator of the future pinnacle group era declared himself number one in history on the show.If you think it's too bad to say so, you can learn from a certain Lakers star. He had nothing when he was a kid. When he had dinner with GOAT for the first time, he dared to say, "I can beat you single-handedly, sir."
However, this kid didn't know that his IQ dropped after getting a new hairstyle, and he couldn't comprehend Louis' deep meaning. He still admired Bird from the bottom of his heart. In short, he didn't deliver the speech "I will replace the GOAT of the country bumpkin" on the spot as Louis thought.
Louie was a little disappointed, thinking that he should lose another game and let Benj shave his head, that is the hairstyle of GOAT.
In the next three games, the opponents were not strong enemies.
First, the 76ers played two home and away games, and then played the Eagles away at the end of the month.
The Knicks easily won all three of these games.
Louie has won 596 games in his career.
(1984) On Sunday, January 1, 2, the Washington Redskins defeated the Los Angeles Rams 51-7.
(End of this chapter)