the rest, only noise

Chapter 1492
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Before Lu Wuxia, it was Kobe in 1996 who announced so high-profile where he wanted to bring his talent.

However, Lu Wuxia's situation was different from Kobe's.

Lu Wuxia chose university, which was a choice recognized by the mainstream media.

Moreover, as a Chinese-Italian mixed race, Lu Wuxia did not fail to inherit the genes of his parents like the children of many celebrity couples. He was like a combination of the advantages of Louis and Lorraine.

With a handsome face enough to star in campus youth movies, coupled with a barefoot height of 201 cm, as a commander, he has a perfect temperament.

With his son's school choice settled, Louie's focus returned to professional basketball.

In the NBA in the 2001-02 season, the center of the stage still belonged to the miracle generation.

The Lakers once again hit the league's first record.

This year, they have 63 wins.

Both Garnett and Kobe have grown compared to last year.

They lost Rashard Lewis and Brad Miller in the offseason, but the team's strength has been reassembled.

Larry Bird poached Kobe's classmate Derek Fisher from the free market as the starting point guard. Together with Kobe, Artest, Malone, and Big Ben, the Lakers radiated vitality from offense to defense.

Malone still has fuel, and Big Ben's defense is beginning to show its power.

During the regular season, Kobe averaged 31 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists per game, leading the MVP simulation prediction for a long time.

Following the Lakers is the defending champion Miami Heat.

Duncan is still the only leading power forward in the league. Liu Yuqing, who has played the peak performance of his career, has become his biggest helper. Stephen Jackson and the soul of the Heat, Petrovic, can also help at critical moments.

One of the biggest surprises for the Heat this year is Gilbert Arenas, who was selected at the end of the first round.

After that, the 76ers, Knicks, and Mavericks each took the lead. The pattern of the top five contending for hegemony took shape last year and has not been broken until now.

In the first season of Messiah's return to Boston, the Celtics ranked sixth in the East with a record of 47 wins and 35 losses. Compared with the past few poor seasons when he accompanied Mr. One to study, this year's improvement can be said to be very large.

But fans are a difficult group to satisfy, especially when Thomas often makes stupid moves.

Louie also gave Thomas a failing grade this year.

Sixth in the Eastern Conference is really a terrible position.

Why does Louie want fifth in the East?Because hitting fifth in the Eastern Conference can directly avoid meeting the Heat, 76ers, Knicks and other teams in the first round.

As long as you don't meet these three teams, the other teams will have to fight.

Now ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference, they will face the third Knicks in the Eastern Conference in the first round.

The first round of tour is a foregone conclusion.

The Knicks' experience, overall strength, talent, and lineup depth are all above the Celtics.

In this case, Louie has no hope for the playoffs.

Every Tuesday, Louie attends Auerbach's luncheon.

This week, Louie avoided the subject of the NBA entirely.

This made Reed's younger brother Zane Auerbach wonder: "Coach Lu, didn't the Celtics make the playoffs this year? How is the situation?"

Without waiting for Louis to answer, Auerbach laughed and said, "That's it, just play in the first round, not New York's opponent at all."

Louis smiled wryly: "We only need to win three more regular-season games to avoid New York in the first round."

What's even more worrying is that the Boston media has replayed several controversial games that Thomas lost one by one.

After a rigorous and meticulous review, they came to a conclusion.

In at least six games, the Celtics have lost to Thomas' incompetence.

Sometimes, Thomas is slow to respond, and the timeout is not called in time, resulting in a loss.

Sometimes, Thomas reacted too quickly, misjudged the timing and made wrong decisions, which also led to losses.

If Thomas had been a normal coach, those games would have been winnable.

There is a director of athletics at the University of Washington at the luncheon today, and his name is Joe McKeon.

McKeon is full of doubts about Thomas' coaching ability; "From the point of view of play, Isiah's coaching ideas are outdated. He is still using the four-corner offense of 20 years ago. Even North Carolina has updated that old offensive arrangement with the times, but Isiah is immersed in it and has always been unwilling to reform the system."

Speaking of this, Louis actually regrets designing a four-corner offense for Isiah Thomas.

At the beginning, he just wanted to lead the team for Thomas in a more orderly manner, but he didn't expect that this girl would miss his life by seeing four corners. After so many years, he is still a baby envoy.

"You can't say that. The Celtics' record is actually not bad. They won 47 games this year. Compared with previous years, they have improved a lot." Zane still likes Thomas very much, so he smoothed things over.

Retired college coach Pete Dowling said with a smile: "I think the Celtics are at least a 50-win team. Some of Isiah's impromptu decisions are actually questionable."

Louis didn't expect that half of the lunch meeting would turn into Thomas's criticism meeting.

It seems that everyone has been suffering to death for a long time!
However, they said that Thomas was wronged too much.

Thomas did not change his style of play now, but followed Louis' advice.Louie hopes that it will be business as usual, because the team is full of rookies, play casually first, and wait until they adapt to the NBA game before updating the system.

The Celtics are old fashioned, but it worked, winning 47 games anyway.

Thomas' main point of spraying is still on the spot.

Sometimes he reacts too slowly and looks dumb, but the most frightening thing is when he reacts quickly, when ghostly thoughts come to the smiling assassin's mind, no one knows what he can do against the sky.

"Actually, Isiah is not easy."

It was rare for Louis to speak human words.

"Coach Lu, don't make excuses for Isiah, it's not his first year as a coach"

Louie's kindness was regarded as a face project for the president to have to find a way for his coach outside.

In the end, it was the old man who helped Louis out of the siege.

"Did I tell you the story of my first year coaching the Washington Capitols?"

That is really an old story that everyone is unfamiliar with.

In his first year in charge of the Capitol, Auerbach led the team to a record of 49 wins and 11 losses, ranking first in the league.

What's the secret to the Capitol's strength?Smart coaching staff?Or a strong roster?No, Auerbach's answer is simple, home field advantage.And that's not just typical home field advantage.The home court of the Congress team was rebuilt from a granary, and there are many "aboriginals" (rats) in the hall.These aborigines always ran to the field in groups during the game, and every guest who came here to play would be frightened and lose their fighting spirit.

Think about the scene of five or six big mice suddenly rushing out of the foot of the player during the fast break.

Louis shuddered just thinking about it.

A few days later, the playoffs officially started.

The Knicks gave the Celtics a hard time when they came up.

The Celtics misfired across the board, and Sprewell, the most reliable in the stalemate, also misfired under this fierce physical confrontation.

Ewing, who is about to turn 40, scored 12 points, 6 rebounds and 3 blocks in front of Yao Yueban.

"Young people will have to go through the real test if they want to carry the torch," he said.

The aftermath of the Golden Club scandal is running out. Ewing played full time in the last season of his career and sent 2.1 blocks per game. In the last few games of the regular season, he surpassed Posen and became the NBA history.

Now he is full of ambition.

In the second game of the series, Yao Yueban, who clearly understood that his confrontation ability was not enough to perform stably in the playoffs, chose to avoid a direct confrontation with Ewing, and scored a game-high 32 points and 10 rebounds through a large number of pick-and-rolls and rolls.

However, the Knicks' flank double star determines the final outcome.

McGrady's 38 points and Hill's 30-point triple-double made the Celtics desperate.

"There are many ways to fail. Some people kneel to face death, and some stand up to suffer failure." Thomas said excitedly, "Kneeling is easy, but standing, especially to the end, requires backbone!"

The gap in hard power makes all tactics and chicken soup for the soul meaningless.

In the third game, the Knicks beat the Celtics with 28 points. The only bright spots for the Celtics were Yao Yueban's 28 points and Pau Gasol's 18 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists.

Sprewell exposed his ceiling in this series.

As the leading brother of the sixth team in the East, he is still qualified.

But if you encounter an opponent at the level of the Knicks, it will be difficult to count on him.

Ending the 2001-02 season with such a result is certainly not what Louis wanted, but even if it goes on, the Celtics can't go too far.

Ending the season early has the benefit of ending the season early.

Louie can gather the coaching staff early and find the Celtics' future style of play through collective wisdom.

After all, the four-corner attack is too old-fashioned.

The routine of 20 years ago, when it should be buried, it must be buried.

(End of this chapter)