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Chapter 1081 The Man Who Was Never Happy

There was only half a glass of water in the glass.

This evaluation is not too much for two 29-year-old superstars.

How many players get better after the age of 30?Currently, no such player exists.

Every player in history began to decline after the age of 30, it's just a difference in speed.

"They didn't win to the end under other people's hands, maybe they can under your hands."

The last thing West wants to do is trade Robinson and Pippen.

In his eyes, these two are the main puzzle pieces of the championship team.

But they are not the core of the championship team.

Louis didn't force West to take a stand in a situation he hadn't tried, and he could tell that West was a very emotional person.

Robinson and Pippen are his favorites.

West's feeling for those two people is probably the feeling that Ewing and Wilson gave him.

However, Louis is very sure that Ewing and Wilson are indispensable players on the road to the championship and will pay attention to them.West is not the case. Pippen is his masterpiece in the draft after he became the general manager of the Lakers. Stealing Robinson from the Holy City is a god-level operation.

Although there are rumors that Louis is behind these two transactions, who can be sure now?

"Okay, Jerry, let's not talk about it, it's not easy for you." Louis wanted to change West's mood, "Seriously, you have done a very good job these years, it is difficult to find faults, and the Lakers have always been a model franchise in the league."

West then showed Louie a side of him that didn't like false compliments.

"If that's true, maybe we should have won a few more championships."

When West said this, Louie seemed to be able to see those losses in his eyes.

He's sure West remembers every night of his miserable defeat.

"Jerry, you should let it go."

"lay down?"

West may have forgotten his mission today.

Convincing Louie to join the Lakers or something doesn't matter.

What is important?Louie was a great coach, a great administrator, a great mentor, and no matter what age he was, he was someone to talk to.

"We lost to the Celtics six times in the '60s, six times!" West glared, as if it wasn't Louie standing in front of him but Reed the fucking Auerbach who lit a cigar at the end of every game.

"Maybe it would have been less painful if we had lost to six different teams, but losing to the same team over and over again? I think it's because we were so incompetent, like when we were kids in school, there was always a kid in the class who laughed at you for being too fat, too skinny, too short, too ugly, but at the time, it was him humiliating me personally one-on-one, and it was five-on-five, and I had no excuses."

Will failure on the pitch cast a shadow?

Louis believes that West not only has a shadow, but also a psychotic trauma.Those wounds are rooted deep in his mind, who can really understand him?There may not be such a person at all.Because the tragedian is an optimist, Chamberlain never regards victory or defeat as the only thing in his life, and Baylor is a person who can laugh at fiasco.

And West is not.

Louie finally knew what Baylor's comment on West meant, the true meaning of the so-called "never happy".

West's words made him look like a victim himself, and given his current status, no one could really sympathize with him.But he still wakes up every day under the shadow, which makes him uneasy, feeling that he is not doing well enough. If he meets the Celtics again, in Game [-], the ghost of Boston, the elf in the garden will still come out and trip them.

"Jerry, maybe you should try to make peace with your past self."

Louie thought of Baylor inexplicably.

The same loss to the Celtics six times in the finals, the same blood and tears, why does he look so different?

Baylor was the era's biggest loser, and West at least won a ring as a player.

But why does West seem so much sadder than Baylor?

West sneered, not at Louis.

"I often have the idea of ​​ending myself, but the curiosity of the game and the sense of responsibility to the family keep me going." West said, "Those experiences are just a part of my life, a small part."

This sounded a bit Baylor's meaning, but Louis didn't believe that a person who had almost collapsed just now would suddenly figure it out.

He said that these are only a small part, does it mean that there is still a big part in his heart?

So what is the big part about?
Did it make West unhappy too?

Or is it really the things that the 56-year-old has never been happy about that he never said?
"Jerry, you almost made me think you never won the championship when you were a player." Louie wanted the negative old guy to think something positive, "At least you won the championship, but Elgin never had this chance."

West was sneering again.

Louis believed that his sneer was not malicious.

Not the same jerk as Byrd.

Seeing Bird sneer at people who just want to punch him, but West won't.

His sneer was more like mocking himself.

"For me, the 1972 championship was ruined by Elgin's absence."

When he first heard this sentence, Louis couldn't understand it.

But then.
"That season, Elgin only played 9 games before retiring because Bill (Sharman) wanted him to be a substitute, but he was unwilling to accept it. He is a person who will choose to leave when it is time to leave."

"And then we won the title."

"Are you kidding?" West said in a deep voice. "He was my close teammate, best friend, and someone I cherished. He was absent when we finally won the championship. I mean, Almighty Jesus Christ, what the hell is this? It's just so unfair that the person who shared all the blood, tears and sweat with me can't stand next to me and taste the victory with me."

Even Louis has forgotten that this is a negotiation between him and the Lakers.

He couldn't help asking, "Does Elgin know about this?"

"I never told Elkin how I felt about it, and that's one of my many flaws," West said.

Louie really opened up West's mouth.

But neither he nor West expected that their conversation would go this far.

West never told anyone about these things.

He had already begun to feel that he had said too much, but he remembered the purpose of today, and he felt that it would not be bad to let Louis know.

This is the curse that has enveloped the Lakers since the 60s.

⑴I'm really thankful that in the first 1000 chapters of the novel there is not much description of West's personality or character traits.After I read the autobiography of the LOGO man in pain, I felt depressed, as if I had been in the comment section of NetEase Cloud for a month.His autobiography also left me the most mark, there are too many surprising inside stories, but after I integrate and digest, I hope I can present a unique Jerry West.Fortunately, the first 1000 chapters did not describe this legendary guy too much.

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