the rest, only noise

Chapter 1033 Orlando's Request for Help
You are only 33 years old, how can you sleep?

Louis was not stimulated by Auerbach's words to revive with full blood, but he deeply felt that there was really no empathy in the world.

From Auerbach's point of view, it is normal for him to say this.

In 1950, at the age of 31, Auerbach began coaching the Celtics.In that era, the coach of an NBA team meant everything.This all includes scouting plans, travel plans, logistics support, negotiations, trades, drafts, training. There are no assistants, no assistant coaches, and everything depends on one person, so that Auerbach needs to find reliable players on the team to help him share some simple tasks, such as booking away hotels.

Auerbach persisted in this way for a full 16 years. After winning eight consecutive championships in 1966, he said "I can't hold on anymore, and I will die if I do this." After that, he announced that he would pass the coach to Bill Russell.

But in 1966, Auerbach was 47 years old, and his energy must have declined, while Louis is only 33 years old now, so he doesn't need to take care of it.

He is so young that few people can believe that he has been in the professional basketball circle for 15 years.

"I'm not saying I don't want to coach anymore, what I mean is that I need to rest." Louie complained, "I've put all my heart and soul into this team, and this result is a matter of course, but it doesn't mean that I have to continue for its continuation. To be honest, I have no motivation to move forward."

Auerbach snorted on the phone: "If you want to find someone to wake you up, sorry, I won't do that."

"If you want to rest, rest, don't ask anyone."

Louis smiled and said, "I don't want to either, but after all, you are the only one in the league who retired bravely during the peak period. Who else can give me advice besides you."

"Listen, my opinion is that you stupid slob don't be fucking hypocritical, what should you do!"

Louis found that the quality of the old man was getting lower and lower, and he couldn't communicate with him well.

In the end, Louis could only end it hastily, hung up the phone, and glanced at the timetable on the calendar.

The biggest advantage of finishing the tie-break at home is that no matter whether you win or lose, you can disband on the spot and have a holiday.

But the players are on vacation, but the management is not.

They also have to start preparing for the upcoming draft.

Louie scouting reports stacked on the desk in the small room he uses for his home office.

Thanks to the King, the Knicks have the ninth pick in the first round this year.

It is unconventional for a team that wins the championship every year to have a lottery pick every year.

The ninth overall pick is neither high nor low.

If you are lucky, you can get Tracy McGrady, Nowitzki, and Stoudemire, and if you are not lucky, you may only get Kevin Knox, who is a bit like the American version of Zhu Fangyu (look), and other places make people don't know what to say.

But no wonder the management, because this position is really embarrassing, there is no top-level talent, and they are not reconciled to taking a guarantee of immediate combat power, so why not bet on those high-talented and high-risk people?
Louie doesn't seem to have this problem.

The times are getting closer and closer to what he knows, but when he opens the draft report to find the right candidates, he finds that even in 1993, there will still be many confusing names in the draft.

Those players who can definitely play, they can't choose.

Looking at it slowly, Louis still gained something.

Alan Houston of the University of Tennessee, Louie remembers being on the Dream Team practice squad last year.

Before Louis crossed, Houston was also the famous mid-range shot leader in NBA history.

Considering that Danny Ainge may choose to retire after the end of this season, it seems that it is not bad to choose a backup at the second position?
But it's not that simple.

It is easy to choose Houston, but how to make him survive in the Knicks is a difficult problem.

The starting lineup was firmly occupied by Miller.

In addition to Miller, there are Reggie Williams, Stevens, Doug Christie and others.

However, Williams can play both the 40nd and [-]rd positions, and Christie can also play multiple positions. After Stevens' three-point shooting rate stabilized at [-]%, Louis began to put him as a shooter at the [-]nd position. Before that, the rotation was mainly at the [-]rd position.

Looking at it this way, the Knicks really lack a pure second-position substitute.

Houston's projected draft pick is around 7-12, and the Knicks have a chance to get him.

Louie first drew up a plan to draft Houston, and then searched for Houston's backup -- the second choice if Houston was intercepted.

In addition to the ninth pick, Louis also plans to send Wang Mukong away.

It's not that Wang Mukong is bad, but that the Knicks' introversion environment is not conducive to him.

Even an All-Star seedling like Houston has to be prepared to play as a substitute for several years. How could Wang Mukong have a bright future?
Then there was Louie's determination to send John Selley away.

Although Sely's speech in Game6 and Game7's performance were moving, they are two different things.

Perhaps many of the players have forgiven him, but Louis has not.

Salley's performance in Game [-] was crucial, and without him, perhaps the Knicks' murderous press would not have had the most effect.

He fought to the end and paid the price of a dislocated arm and a severely contused finger, laying the foundation for the Knicks' big comeback.

Louie couldn't forgive Sely, he just couldn't.

Salley has to go, so the Knicks also need to find an inside substitute who is suitable for playing the murderous tight end.

But this year's draft does not have so many good players, and it is not easy to find someone to fill the gap left by Salley.

Just when Louis was troubled by this, the door of the hut was knocked three times at a very fast pace.

"My little sweetie, what's the matter?"

Of the whole family, only Louie's daughter would knock on the door in this way.

Lu Wuyan's personality is not like Louis or Lorraine, but rather like her grandma, impatient and impatient.

"Daddy, someone named Fei Wu called you."

waste?What waste?
"It seems to be called flying..."

"Is it the office line?"

"Yes."

Louis can only go to see who this "trash" is.

"Hello, who is it?"

"Coach Lu, it's me, Phil."

The deep, deliberate voice of Ollie, who had been accumulating in his body for a few days, made Louis immediately recognize the identity of the other party.

"It's you, Phil, how are you doing in Orlando?"

"Great, Coach Lu, I've been looking for you for a long time, thank you for providing me with such a good opportunity..." Phil Jackson said politely, "To be honest, Coach Lu, I have something to ask you today."

When an old friend called, Louis's heart was loosened a lot.

"There's no need to ask for advice." Louis said, "Phil, as long as I know something, feel free to ask."

Jackson didn't expect Louis to be so nostalgic, he really is a loyal person!
Although Jackson has always sneered at the rumors that Louie is a loyal man—after all, he also worked under Louis back then, and saw him lying on his desk in disdain and making phone calls—it is really too long for him to be a loyal person, and he wants to end his career early.

But now, he has changed.

It's hard for Louis to say how to others, but he shows great care and love to these old subordinates.

"Will Chris Webber get along with Shaq?"

Jackson asked in shock.

The Magic are lucky.

The butterfly named Louie changed the NBA. Many teams were influenced by him and embarked on a completely different future.

However, the Magic have won the No. [-] pick for two consecutive years without any surprises, and have the priority to select Chris Webber and other players in this year's draft.

From the standpoint of the Knicks, the Magic's two consecutive No. [-] picks are worthy of vigilance.

But Louie was willing to help Jackson.

Not because Jackson had worked for him, but because Jackson was his man.

Jackson's failure in Chicago nearly cost him his coaching career.

Unable to find a way out, he originally wanted to go back to New York to sharpen his skills, but Louis was afraid that he would be restless, and it happened that the Magic was recruiting a head coach at the time, and it happened that the general manager of the Magic, John Nash, was his friend, so he recommended Jackson to him.

Jackson didn't expect that a trash like him with a coaching resume full of failures would get a second chance.

He believed Louie's energy played a huge role.

Therefore, after coming to Orlando, Jackson spontaneously classified himself into the "Louis family", and he had to follow Louis in everything he did, and recalled his good time in New York in front of the media from time to time.

So Phil Jackson, like Jeff Van Gundy and Billy Donovan, became the coach of the Louie Department.

"Why don't you tell me what you think of Chris first?"

Louis said he didn't know Webber, and Jackson certainly didn't believe it.

But if you want to start from the grand perspective of team building, and then focus on whether Webber and O'Neal are suitable partners as the theme, then Louis doesn't know Webber.

Even if he is a time traveler.

Even after time travel, all Louis knew about him came from Zhao Yuanzheng and the scouting department.

About every other week, RC Buford or Zhao Yuanzheng would sigh in front of him, "Chris Webb is a once-in-a-ten-year genius."

Louie's attitude is always, you say yes, so it is.

Because even if Weber is a once-in-a-century genius, if Knicks can't get it, then he hopes to come to a ruthless bastard to let this genius die.

⑴Heinsohn can't do anything, he can always find the kind of hotel that doesn't serve black people-Auerbach (1972).

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