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Chapter 1096 Desperate Match

On January 1995, 1, the Dolan family, which owns 1% of Madison Square Garden Entertainment, officially took over the garden and all its businesses.

This of course also includes the Knicks, the most popular industry under the Garden.

The person in charge said that the Dolan family will not interfere with the Knicks' team planning. In order to pay tribute to the achievements of the former president Louis when he led the team, from now on, there will be no one in the basketball operation department of the garden.

This rhetoric is very beautiful, but there are obvious loopholes.

Why did Louis join Los Angeles and Bass had to give up his title of president?

Because this is theoretically the highest decision maker within a department.

It's not that no one can interfere with the president, but that if the president wants to implement his decision to the end, the people above will either agree or replace him.

As long as the president is still there, there will be no decisions in the department that can override the power of the president.

The Knicks do not have a president, and the highest power is vacuum, so the final decision-making power will naturally belong to the decision-makers of the garden.

However, this is also a more pragmatic consideration.

Because there are not many people who can afford the position of Knicks president, but no one knows whether the decision-makers of the garden will make the right decisions in the future.

Traditionally, when franchises change, do something good to cheer them up.

It is common practice for sports teams to retire certain individuals' jerseys.

That's exactly what the Knicks are going to do next.

After the old captain Kevin McHale retired, he was invited into the management team by his hometown team, the Minnesota Timberwolves.

In terms of qualifications and honors, McHale is definitely enough to retire his jersey, but the decision-makers of the garden think that McHale's jersey retirement ceremony can be delayed.

Because there's someone who needs to retire jerseys above all else.

This person is none other than Louis who has already gone to Los Angeles.

The jerseys of retired coaches are not new. Although they cannot play, there are many coaches who have made outstanding contributions to the team in NBA history. They have all retired their jerseys in various forms by the team.

Although Louis only stayed in New York for ten years, he brought seven championships to the team. Considering the competitiveness of the 80s and 90s, this resume is comparable to Reid Auerbach's dominant 50s and 60s.

When someone from the Garden contacted Louie and said he wanted to retire his jersey the next time the Lakers visited the Garden, Louie felt like a lifetime away.

"It's my pleasure."

Louis simply agreed.

Then it was the Knicks' turn to have a headache.

What kind of number should Louis retire?

Generally, coaches' retired jerseys will use the number of victories they led the team to win during their coaching period.

Louie coached the Knicks for 9 seasons, winning 562 regular season games and 101 playoff games.

Retired 562 or 101?
Otherwise, let's go back together?

Louie doesn't care how New York arranges his jersey retirement ceremony.

After confirming that the Knicks were retiring his jersey, Louie checked the schedule (February 2), notified his wife, and went on to other things.

Louis is still perfecting his theory.

If he wants to build the most perfect offensive team in his ideal, he can't do it by just stacking up the lineup.

Louie recalled the team before the small ball era.

In Louie's memory, or in other words, among the many teams he saw with his own eyes before crossing, the smoothest offensive end is undoubtedly the Spurs in the 2014 Finals.

The Spurs that year were called by some the strongest team basketball in history.

Although Louie didn't know how this team, who played seven games against the Mavericks in the first round, abused the Blazers with a similar style in the semifinals, and how the classic car that survived against the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals beat the Heat in the finals and became a history group, but since some people said yes, so be it.

It is undeniable that the 14 Spurs were in full form in the finals, and their offense was smooth and smooth.

Louie believes that Kerr's obsession with passing and cutting is because he wants to see that kind of game in the Warriors.

However, if Cole's hand is really given to Popovich, will Popovich still play pass and cut?

Louie recalled that Spurs, the kind of fluid offense he also saw in Doug Moe's Nuggets.

In 1990, the Nuggets fired Lao Mo, and Louis paid a lot of money to invite him to New York as an offensive coach so far.

The Knicks' offensive style has indeed changed since then.

Lao Mo and Louie's ideas are simply a match made in heaven.

Louis suddenly felt that it was necessary to recruit Lao Mo from New York.

This idea was quickly dismissed by him.

Just like when he went to New York and didn't poach the Celtics, now that he's in Los Angeles, he won't poach New York.

Lorraine was excited when she heard that the Knicks were retiring Louie's jersey, but she was a little bit embarrassed when she heard that the date for retiring the jersey was February 2.

She happened to be auditioning for Independence Day that day.

American Shuyi Zhou and Monica Bellucci, who has established her status as the queen of comedy through several classic comedy movies and the legendary sitcom "Family", is not satisfied with this, she hopes to make a breakthrough on the road of acting.

So she took on "Scream" last year, and is actively pursuing a role in "Independence Day."

These two plays are movies that Louis is familiar with. He didn't expect that Lorraine would want to break through himself, but would it be effective for comedians to act in horror movies?
As for "Independence Day", even though the actors have not been confirmed yet, Fox has been interested in it since the script came out, and invested a lot of money. Hollywood's first-line cafes can break their heads in order to get the roles in it.

Lorraine is so self-aware that she just wants to get her name on the Independence Day cast.

Louis gave Lorraine a proposition: "Marlena, who would you choose for the chance to star in "Independence Day" and to attend your husband's important event?"

Lorraine wanted to cry a tear, but her acting was so bad.

"It looks like I can only show up in the garden on February 2 with a broken heart."

"But I want you to come with a smile." Louie touched the tip of his wife's nose provocatively, "So I'm going to call Roland Emmerich the hell out of my conscience and admit that Stargate (1994) is a classic and ask his forgiveness."

Louie could be the roadblock for Lorraine getting the Independence Day role.

Because he had a relationship with Emmerich last year.At that time, he was feeling confused about his future, and then MSG executives invited him to watch the premiere of "Stargate".He's gone, just take it easy.But he was in a bad mood at the time, and he was not a fan of science fiction, so it was difficult for him to make constructive comments on the film.

Good-looking is good-looking, not good-looking is not good-looking.

But he is a person with high emotional intelligence, so Louis said to the people around him after watching it: "I am so old-fashioned that I am about to fall asleep."

Unfortunately, a film critic was also present at the time, and he wrote Louis' words into the film review, and was willing to swear with his own life that everything in the article was true.

But in fact, Louis knew Emmerich even without "Stargate", because the "Godzilla" filmed by this person a few years later was even more important.

He photographed the monster king who couldn't even kill the black hole and spit beams of light into a scum that was killed by a few missiles.

As a result, things went better than Louis thought.

Because Louie's review didn't affect the film's box office, Emmerich isn't one to take criticism.

The other party's humility made Louis even more ashamed.

After that, Louis successfully helped Lorraine's audition time to be postponed for a few days, and everyone was happy.

Entering the new year, several major events related to and unrelated to Louis and "If you think it is big, it is big, if you think it is not big, it is not big" events occurred.

Unrelated to Louie first, the Simpson case officially opened in Los Angeles.

Even people like Jim Bass were concerned about whether Simpson was a referee.

The second is that the Lakers' record has finally stabilized.

Amidst the unanimous dismissal of the fans, Zhao Yuanzheng figured out a truth.

As Louis said, he is not trying to solve problems, but to lead the team to win games.

Do fans care how you win?Maybe some people who know football will care, but in this world, unprofessionals and people who like to join in the fun account for the majority.

The ghostly cries of the mob can easily drown out professional opinion.

Therefore, Zhao Yuanzheng made a move.

He gave up the long rotation favored by road coaches, and shortened the rotation to 7-8 players, killing the main players, and the Lakers' record was on the right track.

The Lakers' number one licking dog "Orange County Register" couldn't wait to publish a long article, they praised Zhao Yuanzheng's "progress" so much.

"Coach Zhao in 1995 was as remarkable as 'Messiah' in 1984."

As of February, Wilson, Pippen, Robinson and others all averaged 2 minutes per game.

The Lakers surpassed the Warriors in record and ranked second in the Western Conference.

If it weren't for the fact that there is a super-class behemoth in the East that is too amazing, the changes of the Lakers in January are completely worthy of "Sports Illustrated" blowing a long article.

However, on February 2, the Lakers challenged the Heat with 1 wins and 39 losses in an away game.

In order to prevent the team from repeating the mistakes of the previous game, Zhao Yuanzheng even played the whole game with 6 players in rotation.

威尔逊轰下赛季最高的59分10篮板6助攻，皮彭亦有全面的22分11篮板12助攻，罗宾逊拿到了与桑普森旗鼓相当的25分14篮板。

The Big Three combined scored 106 points, 35 rebounds and 20 assists. As a result, the Lakers lost the game by 13 points.

Moreover, it is difficult for the Lakers to say whose performance they lost.

Billy Donovan played Louis' unique skill in front of his brother Zhao Yuanzheng with ease - 13-person rotation.

Even water dispensers like Wang Mukong played for 5 minutes and scored 6 points.

The Heat's starter, the highest scorer was Drexler, who was elected best in the game with 20 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists.

但其实，得到19分11篮板和17分8篮板6盖帽的桑普森和曼宁都有资格成为今晚的最佳。

But that doesn't matter, because the secret to their strength is the MVP rotation, and tonight it's the glider's turn.

"This team is as damned as the Celtics in 1986!"

West watched the game in Louie's office.

"We don't have any chance of defeating them at all!"

"Poor Benj was so beaten up by the Miami guys, and the next day he had to go to New York to fight back to back." Louie looked in the mirror, "Jerry, what do you think of me?"

West is not in the mood to comment on what Louie will wear at the jersey retirement ceremony tomorrow. He closes his eyes and wants to enter a state of meditation where all things are empty.

Too bad he can't.

As soon as I close my eyes, I can't help replaying tonight's game, wondering if it is possible to do better in some places to win.

The conclusion is impossible.

If there is anything wrong with Zhao Yuanzheng's command, it is that he likes to use six-man rotations to increase intensity.

But Donovan didn't care at all, and directly crushed the Lakers with a 13-man rotation.

If a team shortens the rotation in order to increase intensity, but is defeated by the opponent with the longest theoretical rotation, it can only explain one thing.

The two are not on the same level, they are several grades behind.

West feels more hopeless than he did in the 1986 loss to the Celtics.

And this bastard Louis is still in the mood to try on clothes?

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