the rest, only noise

Chapter 1424
At the end of the season, the Lakers won three consecutive championships, and Louis won a ring that can be worn with both hands, which made him surpass Reed Auerbach as a coach and become the coach with the most championships in NBA history.

Benj successfully advanced to GOAT this year, and Louis also quietly climbed to the best coach in history.

It's just that, given Louis' current level, most people wouldn't call him a coach in a superficial way.

There is a more appropriate term for a person like him-Godfather.

Louis may be the best coach in history, but he is not yet the number one godfather in history. What stands in front of him is an old man who lives in Washington.

Although Louis personally participated in the formation of the three dynasty teams and was the chief designer of two of them, as the godfather, the point of the competition should not be whether he can succeed in different environments, but how many championships he won in the end.

As the godfather, Auerbach won a total of 17 championships.

In this era when the world style has not yet fallen to the point of halving the gold content of honor in the 60s and 70s, Auerbach has more top hard goods than Louis.

Therefore, although Louis is the best coach, he is not the number one godfather.

But this sort of arrangement is usually a trick for the media to attract attention, and Louis himself doesn't care about disputes with fans.

Winning a three-peat with the Lakers did not satisfy him.

On the contrary, he felt a little dazed.

At the beginning, he came back for "beautiful basketball". Now, the Lakers are indeed synonymous with beautiful basketball, but they have never reached the perfect state designed in the "beautiful basketball" system.

In the past few years, Louis has only seen the "Holy Temple" once, and that may only be the prototype of the "Holy Temple".

That was the game where the Magic broke out in the 1997 Finals.

Although the Lakers did not have Duncan and Bodi Loga at the time, and Kobe was still very immature, he was able to play basketball with unlimited possibilities with limited resources.

Now, although they have got a higher player configuration, stronger strength, and more powerful tactics, but along the way, players have always used their personal abilities to interpret tactics.

Louis didn't see that heart-to-heart feeling in them.

This made Louis suspect that maybe the perfect temple and the perfect lineup are inherently contradictory.

With the perfect lineup, you don't need to play a perfect game to win easily.

If you need to play perfect tactics to win, it means that the lineup often has obvious flaws.

Bodi Loga, Kobe, Wilson, Garnett, Duncan.

These are the best starters in the NBA today, but not the most correct five.

This conclusion made Louis helpless.

It could be right and it could be wrong.Because the Lakers can play another season with this lineup, it can never be said that they are not the right five until the last moment.

It's just that it's no good to think about it now.

The end of the season, preparations for the draft, and then the operation of the offseason.

This is the normal offseason process.

But this year is different.

Negotiations between labor and management broke down. After the draft is over, the two sides will conduct final negotiations.If no result is reached, the suspension will be suspended.

Once the lockout occurs, in addition to the daily verbal battles between stakeholders, other players and staff involved will face medium and long-term unemployment.

Louis is not so worried, because he still has a job with the national team.

For him, if he had to choose between the work of the Lakers and the national team, he would definitely choose the work of the national team.

The suspension of the NBA just allowed him to focus on the men's basketball team.

But, the most important thing now is to seriously prepare for the 1999 draft.

Louie was impressed with this draft class.

Especially after traveling, he has a deeper understanding of NBA history, and he has a better understanding of the overall depth and thickness of the 1999 draft.

纵观NBA历史，可以和1999年选秀相比的选秀年只有1970、1984、1985、1992、1996、2003、2009。

But in terms of overall depth, only 1970 and 1985 can be compared.

However, these three drafts are not comparable to 1984, 1996, 2003 and 2009. Although they have produced enough All-Stars, they do not have a historical superstar who can support the facade.

However, superstars can be met but not sought after. A draft with such depth and strength is a carnival for the management.

Although the Lakers have a neat lineup, a fixed starting lineup, and enough people on the bench, Louis still wants to make a difference.

Through the Lakers roster, Louis selected the bargaining chip for the transaction-Alvin Williams, a tall point guard in the same class as Duncan.

Affected by the team's lineup, Williams has been unable to fully demonstrate his talents.

But he has produced enough exciting performances in the limited playing time.

"The Associated Press" once published a feature article on "Ten Most Underappreciated Players in Professional Basketball", and Alvin Williams ranked fifth.

Two seasons have passed, and Williams has only played less than 10 minutes per game, but the statistics are very comprehensive. If he is given more time, he can bring more contributions.

With the Lakers, that's impossible.

Next year is his contract year, whether it is for his future considerations or for internal stability, it is a wise move to trade in the old for the new.

As soon as Alvin Williams was put on the shelves, a bunch of teams came to ask the price.

There are various offers.

The Lakers, bent on draft picks, rejected most of the offers, picking the most generous Los Angeles Clippers out of them.

The big brothers in the same city offered the Lakers the 1999th pick in the first round in 15. In addition to Alvin Williams, they also wanted Wang Mukong, which Louis didn't understand.

Does the Clippers lack someone to watch the drinking fountains?Otherwise, what do you want Wang Mukong to do?

However, Louie would not send Wang Mukong to play for someone like Donald Sterling for a mere No. 15 pick-he must have a lottery pick anyway?Is my Mukong so worthless?
After wrangling for a long time, Louis changed Wang Mukong to the second round pick in 2000, and the Clippers readily accepted it.

The two sides negotiated, and the transaction was immediately advanced. Two days before the start of the draft, which was also the night of the Lakers championship parade celebration, Alvin Williams, who had two championships in hand, was sent to the Clippers.

The good news is that he doesn't have to move. The bad news is that he's about to play for the worst team in the history of professional basketball.

The person responsible for communicating with Williams was Jerry West.

After the communication, West's depression almost broke out.

Williams said in agony that he wanted to be a Laker for life, and he wanted to stay on the team even with a basic salary.

When West fed back the news to Louis, Louis asked indifferently: "Do you believe this emotional reaction? The price of becoming a Laker for life is tens of millions of dollars in lost income in the next ten years. Even a pig knows what to do."

West knew that Louis was right, but he was just angry, why should this kind of thing belong to him?

Can't let Jim Bass, that heartless dandy, go?
This is really not okay.

According to Louie's suggestion, Bass took the people-friendly route. He wanted to be a manager who was close to the players, which meant that in the future, like Louis, he would push all the dirty work to his colleagues.

Little Buss still has the mind to do it himself, but after a few years, he will know the benefits of having someone help him do bad things.

In a flash, it was the eve of the draft.

Louis casually picked up the latest "Sports Illustrated" to read, and found that Yao Yueban was selected for the cover again.

Why do you say "again"?Because this is the third time that Yao Yueban has been on the cover of the pictorial during the two years since he came to the United States.

In his sophomore season, Yao Yueban has fully adapted to the intensity of the NCAA game and was given a higher tactical status by the team. He then averaged 19 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks per game. This is the core statistic for both offense and defense.

Moreover, Yao Yueban also led Wake Forest University to the final four of this year.

That makes him the hottest prospect in college basketball.

Some people say that if he chooses to participate in this year's draft, he will be selected as the No. [-] pick without any suspense.

Louis feels that the praise of Xiao Yao from all walks of life has gone too far. Of course, this is not a bad thing.

Xiao Yao's upper limit is almost that of a superstar, and the hype for him now is based on people like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sampson, Ewing, and O'Neal.

Is this a blessing or a curse?

(End of this chapter)