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Chapter 1100 Zihuatanejo

When Andy (the Shawshank hero) used his professional skills to invite the prison inmates who went out to work to drink beer, Louis could feel that kind of comfort.

Just like when his mouth is dry, what he wants to drink most is not water, but Coke.

Louie could fully understand how those people felt when they drank.

Morgan Freeman gave a performance that far surpasses any beer commercial.

Seeing Freeman drinking, everyone would want to take a sip.

Andy, who brought such enjoyment to the inmates, just sat alone in the shade and enjoyed the rare freedom with a smile on his face.

When he saw this, Louis began to forget himself.

He didn't even have the emotion of "why didn't I watch this movie until now", and he was completely immersed in it.

The collapse after the approval of the parole application of the old prisoner Brooks, and the "institutionalization" mentioned by Reed (Morgan Freeman's character), reminded Louie of his own predicament.

There are many explanations for institutionalization. For example, if you are a mechanical worker in a company, you will be tired if you have less money and more work, but if you leave this job, you don’t know what to do. This is institutionalization.Freelancers will also encounter the same problem. They do the same thing step by step every day. After a long time, people become numb.

Louie thought about his last year in New York.

As difficult as the decision to leave was, it was such a relief arriving in Los Angeles.If he chooses to stay, he will also be institutionalized.

With the advantages of the traverser, he can still keep the Knicks strong, but for himself, there is no fun anymore.

Now, he is preparing for his comeback.

His original plan was to build a very different team from the Knicks.

The Knicks he led were the most perfect defensive team in history, and he wanted to create the most perfect offensive team in history.

However, there seems to be thousands of obstacles in the middle.

Last year's NBA annual meeting, Stern tried to increase the restrictions on hand-checking, the result was 20 votes against.

At the same time, he wanted to introduce zone defense to weaken the threat of the center, but was unanimously opposed.

Even tougher codes of conduct for court violence have not been passed.

This means that the current rules still favor defense.

Defense is the winning code.

How easy is it to build an offensive team that breaks through the rules to succeed under such circumstances?
Louis was full of fighting spirit at the beginning, but as his theoretical research entered the deep water area, there was nothing in front of him to learn from.

He has to keep rehearsing it in his head on his own.

Once he finds that it doesn't work, he has to overturn all the recent research results and start over.

If he can't master a set of mature theories, he won't be able to come back.

And this is the source of his pain.

He was stuck in a certain position, in a dilemma.

If you step back, you have to give up all the hard work you have done in the past few months, and then build the team like you did when you went to New York.

In that case, what's the point?
If he brings out a second Knicks team in Los Angeles, what's the difference between staying in New York and staying in New York?
As the movie progressed, Louis' mood calmed down again until the most critical turning point came.

Andy got the hope of redressing his grievances, but soon experienced the deepest despair. He and Reed sat in the shade to complete the final conversation.

The utopia in Andy's heart is a place called Zihuatanejo, which is located in Mexico and is a small island in the Pacific Ocean.Andy wants to open a small hotel there, and maybe buy a few boats to take guests out to sea.Of course, he also needs a partner who can get him anything.

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

This is a line that you must have heard even if you haven't seen Shawshank.

It's that line that sets Louie up with a strange energy inside.

He cannot stop here.

He's only 35 years old, he's young enough to do anything.

Before watching this movie, Louis thought it would be like those high-scoring literary films, ugly but full of skills and metaphors, but the result was just the opposite.

It still has enough metaphors without being ugly at all.

Not a single second of the 144-minute film is wasted on Louie.

When the end credits came out, Louis, Lorraine and the audience were silent for more than ten seconds.

Everyone in the cinema feels the same way.

I just watched possibly the best movie of my life?

"If we change the title of the movie to "Hope Is a Good Thing", maybe the box office can be doubled." Louis couldn't help but feel sorry for it, "Even if it's called "Zihuatanejo"?"

Louis and Lorraine waited in the cinema for a few minutes before leaving.

Back in the car, Louis wanted to chat with Lorraine about the movie.

Unexpectedly, I heard my wife say, "I think you and Andy are the same kind of person."

"This is not a good sign." Louis smiled wryly.

In the movie, Andy went to prison for killing his wife and the person who cuckolded him. Although he was wronged, the crime was always on his head.

"Just like Andy, you are a person who can make a lot of achievements in any industry. I don't want to see you haggard anymore. Get up and find your Zihuatanejo, okay?"

Unless you have different dreams in the same bed, the person next to your pillow is always the one who understands each other's thoughts best.

When he was young, Louis was a person who believed that he could move the world. After coming to Los Angeles, he encountered a bottleneck and started his own midlife crisis.

The Messiah, who created the Knicks dynasty, would also recoil from pressure.

Because he has achieved success with the methods he is most familiar with, there is no need to try unfamiliar fields.

Lorraine didn't really understand Louie's plight, but the Shawshank movie inspired her.

Although Andy's situation is different from that of Louis, their yearning for Zihuatanejo is the same.

Everyone has their own Zihuatanejo in their hearts.

Some people are like Rhett, they need Andy, a bird that even the deepest place in the world can't imprison him, to lead them to Zihuatanejo.

And Louis is a person like Andy, his desire to challenge is so strong, if he can't reach Zihuatanejo in his mind, Lorraine can't imagine what kind of torment he will suffer in his heart.

Louie is not one to bring work home.

Especially those annoying things at work, he will always block him at the door of the house.

But this time, he actually made Lorraine aware of his difficulties.

He was speechless and silent for a while.

"I will, Marina," Louie said softly. "I will find my Zihuatanejo, and you will be the first to see it by then. I'm already on my way. I saw it. I just need a ticket."

When Louis and Lorraine got home, they kissed his wife goodnight and locked themselves in their work room.

On Louie's desk, there is a notebook.

The first page of the notebook reads: Beautiful basketball.

Louis named it "Beautiful Basketball". This book has no preface, because the preface often has a certain guiding nature, but he didn't know how this new system would go before.

Suddenly, his mind was opened.

So, he wrote this passage in the "Preface": "Every coach hopes to master the 'secret' of basketball throughout his life. Here, I call it 'Zihuatanejo'. In basketball, the only way to reach Zihuatanejo is to perform a perfect offense. What is a perfect offense? In 1986, the greatest player ever. Larry Bird scored 1.29 points per shot, which is the highest value in league history. Play a lot of offense, or should the Celtics do it?
If the perfect offense is 'Zihuatanejo', what is the path to get there?In a scoring path, the point guard might take a pull-up jumper or drive to the layup. The wing might hit a [-] from the corner, or cut to the rim for a dunk. In Larry's case, he leads the league in points per attempt. Does that mean that if he takes more shots, the Celtics' scoring rate will increase?the answer is negative.

That's the biggest hurdle in basketball, even if you have the best players, your team can't get to Zihuatanejo without a carefully crafted path.

Well, have you decided to read on? "

Louie is standing at the most delicate historical juncture in basketball. He created an era with his own hands, and all teams are playing in his way.This is enough to put him shoulder to shoulder with any hall-level coach in history.

However, when he chose to leave New York, gave up writing eternal myths in Apple City, and came to Los Angeles for a new challenge, he decided to abandon the past ideas.This moment of personal and team destiny is very rare. After being shaken, Louie developed greater determination and made a decision to embark on a new path.

This kind of moment often happens within a day, an hour, or even a minute, but the impact it produces is enough to transcend time, shining like stars, illuminating the entire night.

PS: Do you know how painful it is for someone like me who doesn't really understand football to write this kind of stuff?You will not know, you will call me short.

(End of this chapter)