the rest, only noise

Chapter 1298 Can You Lose Even More?

Dejan Bodiloga's response to that Internet post sent waves through European basketball circles.

But in the United States, almost no one noticed it.

Even Louis, the instigator, handed over full power to Zhao Yuanzheng because of the tense playoffs.

Louis has only one request for Zhao Yuanzheng.

Do everything you can to belittle European basketball. You must have justifications. Don’t let people think that you are an unreasonable troll. The logic must be strict, and the examples must be detailed and reasonable. In the end, Bodi Loga must indirectly admit with a defensive posture: Indeed, European basketball is inferior.

Once that point is reached, Bodi Loga is definitely not convinced, but also wants to know what a higher basketball is.

At that time, Zhao Yuanzheng only needs to send him a tape of the Lakers game - of course a carefully selected game - as long as Bodiloga comes into contact with "beautiful basketball", maybe he will change his mind.

It's useless to rely on fame and fortune for a legacy like him that didn't make it to the NBA because of his strength, if he wants to change his mind, he must have a more noble pursuit.

On the contrary, if even "beautiful basketball" can't attract him, then Louis (Zhao Yuanzheng) doesn't have to continue to bother.

Louis, who had no time to take care of this matter, flew to Washington after the first victory over the Spurs in the semifinals and voted for Kobe Bryant.

There was still no suspense in the result, and Allen Iverson was voted the best rookie of the year.

In addition to Rookie of the Year, other awards for the regular season were also announced on the same day.

Team of the Year: Drazen Petrovic, Michael Jordan, Benjamin Wilson, Karl Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon.

Second Team of the Year: Gary Payton, Penny Hardaway, Chris Webber, Charles Barkley, Ralph Sampson.

Third Team of the Year: Kevin Johnson, Reggie Miller, Danny Manning, Shawn Kemp, Shaquille O'Neal.

Defensive Team of the Year: Gary Payton, Michael Jordan, Benjamin Wilson, Karl Malone, Dikembe Mutombo.

Defensive Team of the Year Second Team: John Stockton, Reggie Lewis, Danny Manning, Hank Gaithers, Patrick Ewing.

Defensive Player of the Year: Dikembe Mutombo.

Sixth Man of the Year: Elvin Johnson.

……

No controversy, no awards.

For all institutions with a systematic award mechanism, it is difficult to coordinate everyone's tastes during the selection process.

This year has been surprisingly controversial.

The Golden State people are not convinced: "Why did Petrovic squeeze out Penny for a while?"

"Sports Illustrated" complained: "The NBA will either abolish the position division of the best team selection, or select strictly according to five positions. Can we stop letting power forwards seize the position of small forwards?"

"USA Today": "The good news is that the NBA's best defensive player of the year is finally not squeezed out of the best defensive team by stupid judges. The bad news is that the real NBA's best defensive player of the year has been historically offended."

"New York Times": "Patrick second defense?"

Awards are always like this, some people are happy and others are sad.

However, the media complained a lot, and this year's controversy was actually caused by them.

The series of negative effects brought about by the Knicks' astronomical luxury tax made them lose a lot of impression points when voting.

This is the Knicks since 1988 spent the most shabby regular season award announcement day.

Los Angeles is quite satisfied, the only regret is that Kobe was not selected for the rookie team.

On the surface, Kobe behaved very frankly: "It's all about statistics. We are not selected for the best team. In my eyes, me, Steve, and Ben should all be selected for the best team. It's just that we are playing in a more competitive team, so we don't have such good statistics. Awards based on statistics one by one are worthless in my eyes."

In private it is...

"Shadow! Pure shady! Ray Allen's statistics are not much better than mine, why is he selected for the best rookie team?!"

"The data is not much better than yours?"

Ellis couldn't believe he was saying that.

Liu Yuqing, a master knife maker, said, "It's just twice his stats."

Hearing this, Kobe said something again: "If the data can explain everything, then you are really superficial! That guy played in a team that only won 20 games, and I was the secret weapon in a team that won 66 games. Is this a level?"

Such arguments have occurred countless times within the Lakers.

Kobe always had the last laugh with a higher level of discussion enthusiasm.

In his opinion, he is a winner.

His teams won more games, and he got Louie votes.

The young Kobe didn't seem to understand emotional intelligence, as if Louie wouldn't make an irresponsible voting decision just to please him.

At this time, Louis was in the president's office listening to the briefing of the assistant coaches on last night's game.

With big wins like yesterday's, the briefings are usually praise for the players.

Let's not talk about country bumpkins like Bird who only have Garnett in their eyes.

Louie could see that Carlisle and Budenholzer had been trying to find fault, but what they found were mostly small mistakes that occurred in individual rounds.

After all, humans are not machines, and it is impossible to play a complete game with precision, so the shortcomings mentioned in the briefing by the two of them are basically nitpicking.

Stevens' briefings were useful because his reports weren't about the big picture of the game, but based on individual players' defensive performances.

Last night, Kobe, who Stevens focused on, had 2 qualified defenses, 5 bad defenses and 3 good defenses.

But for any rookie, it is inevitable to make mistakes on the defensive end. Stevens has very strict requirements on Kobe's defense, which is the highest standard that does not allow room for mistakes.

Because, he felt Kobe could be the best perimeter defender of his generation.

"If you called everyone over today, there must be something else going on, right?"

Nelson was the only one who didn't prepare a briefing.

Because he and Louie were on the same page, yesterday's game was perfect and there was no need for a briefing.

Louis smiled and said, "Do you still remember the European named Dejan Bodiloga I mentioned to you last time?"

Bird nodded and said, "I remember, you still scolded him anonymously on that Internet."

"Anonymous, I have an ID, okay?"

"So he knows who you are?"

"If he knows that my plan can go on? Use your brains, you country bumpkin!"

"So you're still anonymous."

Louis said angrily: "You guys really have no interest at all. This kind of unknown feeling is the most exciting, understand? If you don't understand, you can blindfold your wife when you get home tonight, and then you can do things to her that you usually dare not do."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the room looked ambiguous.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said with disgust: "Do you have another serious business?"

"Don't you fucking understand what I'm talking about?"

Obviously, Coach Lu was broken.

"This metaphor is very bad, it is evil." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said asceticly.

Seeing that the bald donkey was invulnerable, Louis immediately adjusted his mood, and said to everyone: "Technical criticism of Dejan Bodiloga on the Internet is not only Coach Zhao's job, but also one of our future work priorities... A few days ago, Bodiloga gave a comprehensive reply to that post. Coach Zhao has already had his reply translated into English. Let's take a look."

It's not easy to pick on your own faults, but isn't it easy to find other people's faults?
Everyone immediately understood how to play this game.

"A group of the best coaches in the world go out of their way to use professionalism to criticize and deny a promising young man," Bird laughed. "Can you do more damage?"

Louis rolled his eyes: "This kind of thing is already the limit of what I can do, can you still break new heights?"

"Of course, let him bring that vulnerable European professional team to the United States. Within three warm-up games, we can refresh his knowledge of basketball."

Louie should have known that the country bumpkin couldn't be counted on.

This is such a bad idea, if playing a few preseason games can get him done, Louis would have done it long ago.

It is precisely because Bodi Loga has a contempt for the NBA that "although I haven't played, but I know the NBA is rubbish", that's why Louis didn't ask the league to arrange for the Lakers to play against them in the preseason.

Because the level of the preseason is really not high. No matter how Louis emphasizes the importance of the game, the players will relax, and the level and state of the on-the-spot performance are hard to say. If they want to convince Bodi Loga in one game, how high should the Lakers play?
This is not realistic.

Or is it now that this trick of harming others and benefiting oneself is more in line with Louis... the interests of the Lakers.

(End of this chapter)