the rest, only noise

Chapter 1049 This is your team
In addition to the Knicks, Louis also pays attention to the development of Chinese players in the league.

Song Tao joined New York that year, opening a new history of Asian basketball.

After entering the 90s, Yu Tiancan's generation of players set off another wave of players entering the NBA.

Currently, Yu Tiancan has confirmed his position in the Knicks.

It can be said that Yu Tiancan is currently the best Chinese player playing in the NBA.

Followed by Hu Weidong, he has become the backbone of the Warriors and an important member of Don Nelson's "The blitzkrieg" system. He is currently averaging 12 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists per game, with an overall shooting percentage of 47%.

Then came the pioneers of all of them. Song Tao, who played for the Hornets, has passed the peak of his career. This season, he still averaged 6 points and 4 rebounds per game as a substitute.

The rest, such as Wang Mukong, Du Shuai and Chu Nan, are still seeking their place in the alliance.

Louie occasionally talks to them on the phone, but mostly just observes silently.

Because at the professional stage, he has already done everything he can do for them, and the rest is up to him.

In the Knicks, after Rauf's "desecration of the Star-Spangled Banner" incident ended, the team not only did not have a situation because of this, but unified their thinking.

Except for Stockton, the attitude of others towards Rauf has not changed significantly.

Rauf was suspended for 15 games and he will disappear from the public eye for a while.

That's a loss for the Knicks, but they have enviable depth.

Rookie Sam Cassell jumped at the chance and became the first player in his class to get consistent playing time.

Tomjanovich was very pleased with the aliens' defense and shooting.

That gave Tomjanovich an idea.

Why not let Kassel replace Rauf?

There are several advantages to doing so.

For example, Kassel doesn't have a strange disease like Rauf.If that advantage wasn't big enough, how about this -- he won't be locker room poison.

He won't upset Stockton.

Cassell is more willing to bring fun to everyone than to add trouble to everyone like Rauf.

Ewing likes to make jokes about his looks, because there doesn't seem to be anyone who looks more like ET than him.

And Rauf's problems as a player are far less than the problems he caused as Rauf.

The player Rauf is just difficult to get along with and has a cold personality, but he has privileges (unlimited fire rights).

And Rauf himself is an anti-Christ, an anti-American.

Tomjanovich certainly doesn't want to train such a thorny head at the beginning of his career.

He's not Louis, he can't train the thorns well like Louis did back then.

But to remove Rauf's thorn, Tomjanovich still needs Louie's support.

In his mind, this is still Louie's team.

Louie is New York's Auerbach, and he is Louie's Tom Heinsohn.

So, when Tomjanovich came to Louie's office to lay out his plans.

Louis hesitated for a few seconds, as if surprised.

"Don't you agree?"

"No." Louis shrugged, "I mean you don't have to ask me everything, this is your team."

There are many meanings to this statement.

Tomjanovich retorted: "It's also your team, this is our team, MAR is one of the players you admire the most, but I can't get used to him."

"I know what you mean, Rudy, you don't need to care about my feelings, I said, now you are the head coach, this team is under your control, the rotation of the game, the appointment and dismissal of personnel are all up to you."

"It's all up to me?"

Tomjanovich was surprised.

This was not the Louie he knew.

It's not that Louis will not delegate power, but that Louis will not delegate power so easily.

He worked hard to build the Knicks team. He set the locker room atmosphere and culture. Without him, the Knicks would not become a dynasty team.

Even if he was really tired and wanted to hide behind the scenes like Auerbach did back then, he would not ignore it.

In Tomjanovich's view, the night Rauf desecrated the flag, Louie's reaction was the reaction that someone who really cared about the team should have.

After that matter was settled, Louis also fell silent.

He was hardly seen in the news, and no one knew what he was doing.

Ewing, Wilson and others often go to the office to chat with him, but he will not go downstairs easily.

Because Tomjanovich needs time to establish his leadership.

Tomjanovich knew this well, and he was very grateful to Louis.

But now he feels more and more wrong.

Louie didn't see him as Heinsohn, nor did he look like Auerbach who was hiding behind the scenes.

Never one to miss a chance to assert himself, Auerbach loomed over the Greek Academy and Boston Garden like a shadow.

As long as he is there, the Celtics will not be reduced to mediocrity.

The visiting team will feel intimidated and the team playing for him will feel at ease.

Louie could play that role in New York, too.

But he didn't.

He's giving the impression that this team can be competitive without him.

"Yes, it's all up to you." Louie said affirmatively, "If there is a player you can't handle, or a player you are interested in, you can tell Elkin and let him help you."

Tomjanovich asked boldly: "What about you, what do you do?"

"I'm in charge of fixing things that Elgin can't handle." Louis' face was as calm as water.

Tomjanovich is gone.

He figured he should be happy that Louie didn't hold him back at all.

Should he be happy?

Tomjanovich may have never seen the true face of Louis, but he is an old friend who has followed Louis for more than ten years, and he knows what kind of person Louis is.

He believes that Louis is making the final confirmation.

He is confirming whether the team still needs him.

If they prove that the current Knicks can succeed without Louie, then there's no need for him to stay.

He is a fickle man, but also a rather conceited person, always eager for a challenge, without a challenge, he will lose his ambition.

Think of Louis' contract that will expire next summer, and now he has no intention of renewing his contract at all.

Tomjanovich really feels that the brightest page in the Knicks' team history is about to be turned over.

Even though there were countless thoughts in his mind, Tomjanovich did not show it in front of the players.

Coming to the center of the field, Tomjanovich called Kassel.

He asked Cassell, do you want to take on greater responsibilities?

"Coach, I have been working as a part-time job since I was in elementary school." Cassel said confidently, "I have been shouldering heavy responsibilities all year round, and I am used to it."

Tomjanovich nodded, "Go to training."

Unlike Louie, Tomjanovich is not only a coach on the court, but also a coach off the court.

The Knicks' training session always does not see Louie's shadow, but Tomjanovich always accompanies the players to complete every training session.

The players have long been used to his presence, and it is the same now, but his status has changed from an assistant to a head coach.

The boring routine of the president made Louis feel bored.

The Knicks have no need to make trades recently, and he is no longer coaching, so he really has nothing to do.

In theory, he could choose not to come to work and Baylor would call him if something happened to the team.

But he had to come and sit here every day.

Because there's always someone knocking on his door.

"Bang bang."

It's Ewing.

Louis can already tell who is coming by the rhythm of knocking on the door.

"Is Rudy's training volume too low? Why do you keep running to me all day long?"

Louie has been suffering from the disease of "not talking about Ewing and feeling bad all over" for almost ten years.

"I'll see if you're being lazy." Ewing said.

"I'm lazy, what can you do?"

"It's best to be lazy."

"What do you mean?"

Ewing said with a smile: "If you are lazy, it means that you are very relaxed, just like before. If you are as sensitive as you are now, like a lion ready to rush out of the cage to bite at any time, then I will worry instead."

Louis never wanted anyone to worry about him, especially someone like Ewing.

"Don't worry about me. My life is comfortable. I don't have much to do. I don't have to face your sloppy faces every day. Let alone how comfortable I am!"

"Go away, I don't want to see you now!"

Ewing took four empty Coke bottles from the desk: "Drink less, I feel like you've gained weight recently!"

"Does your father want to die?"

Louis' roar almost shook the entire Blue Palace.

Ewing left with a "comfortable" expression on his face.

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