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Chapter 194 Accidents Come Before Tomorrow

"Little Lu let us know that as the head coach of the star team, if I don't like the media you represent, I can not let you play, even if you have 54 votes."

"Politicians can do anything for 50 votes, and Little Lu only gave Bernard 2 minutes and 50 seconds of playing time."

The New York Times slammed Louie in their paper like a wretch.

This is something that Louis has long foreseen.

Words are on other people's lips, and they can say whatever they like.

The Boston Globe helped him with a few words.

They look more like adding fuel to the fire, though.

They believed that Louie must have a deeper intention to play Bernard King for 2 minutes and 50 seconds.

So they traced Louis' cultural roots.

They knew that Louis was born in Hong Kong, had a British colonial passport, and was considered half-British, but culturally he was completely Chinese.

And what does 250 mean in China?It is not difficult to get the answer.

"Coach Road is such an amazing master of irony that even Bernard's playing time is part of his total satire."

The anger of the New York media and the hatred of Bernard King had little effect on Louie.

At most, it is to let the league try to avoid Louis, a ferocious tiger, when choosing the head coach of the star team in the future.

There are many coaches who fight against star players, but there are only a few coaches who do things like Louis.

Louis' actions are in line with everyone's unanimous impression of him.

From the beginning of his coaching, he feels both crazy and arrogant.

He despises stereotypes, has no respect for old coaches, kills garbage time, treats sportsmanship like shit, and is usually not open to criticism when he is criticized.

Almost every time, a conservative old coach jumped out and scolded him.

It would be fine if the old coach is no longer coaching in the NBA. If he is still coaching in the NBA, the Mavericks' 81-point murder has not passed long. Just look at what happened to Dallas.

In early February, there were no big deals happening.

The current trade deadline is different from the future, and the team of strong teams is basically fixed during the offseason.

At most, it can only be seen that strong teams sign certain role players for relative supplementation. Few teams will pick this time point for large-scale reinforcement.

The Lakers didn't move, the Celtics didn't move, the 76ers didn't move, the Bucks didn't move, everyone didn't move.

Louie was up early, and Lorraine was not in the mood yesterday, as she had been since she got back from Denver.

I don't know if it was delayed by the altitude sickness or what, but she just suddenly entered the sage mode.

This kind of thing is very common. When Louis was in various romances in his early years, he often met all kinds of motorcycle girls who were satisfied after finishing high school and urged him to quit quickly.

Louis went straight to the Greek Academy, entered Auerbach's office, and asked for an expansion of the coaching staff.

"Aren't you all doing well now?" Auerbach was very satisfied with the status quo of the Celtics.

Louie retorted: "It's good, but it can be better."

"How good do you want it?" Auerbach asked.

"The one with no corners," Louie said. "I want Nate Thurmond on the coaching staff."

Auerbach couldn't help frowning, "Is Dave okay?"

Even if it is to be expanded, Auerbach also tends to use his own people, Thurmond and the Celtics have no intersection.

"Dave is fine, but I need Nate's experience. If Los Angeles is our worst enemy, how to defend Kareem is a topic we must study." Louie said clearly, "And Nate is the best one among all the people who defended Kareem."

When Auerbach coached, he didn't even have assistants.

The logistics are all handled by the players.

What he is most proud of is that when he was a coach, he did everything by himself.

But he is also very clear that now is completely different from the era he coached. Although his era was only 20 years ago, fans in 2020 cannot imagine how Jordan played 22 years ago. 20 years are enough to change all the rules in the memory of the older generation.

"You already have a vacant assistant coach, don't you?" Auerbach acquiesced.

Louis smiled and said, "I'll take it as if you agreed."

"You are trying to make the team better, how can I disagree?" Auerbach thought he was not a rigid old man, "Let's do it."

With Auerbach's permission, Louis went to contact Thurmond.

Louie doesn't know much about Thurmond's career. Thanks to the late statistics of blocked shots, he became the first quadruple-double creator in history.Both Chamberlain and Russell should have a lot of quadruple-doubles that failed to record in history due to not counting blocks and steals, all due to lazy statisticians⑴.

Except for the first quadruple-double in history, Louie's knowledge of Thurmond is almost blank. When he played for the Cavaliers in Cleveland in his later years, he had degenerated to the point where he could only play as a substitute.

As for his claim that he is the best player against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, whether he is exaggerating the fact to boast or is true, needs to be checked by Louie.

After investigation, Thurmond did not brag. In the 1971-72 season when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had the strongest offensive state, the two lowest points were 17 points in an away game to the Warriors. The lowest point of the season was 21 points when the Warriors visited Milwaukee.

He played against Thurmond in both games and had his worst offense of the season.

Even Wilt Chamberlain said Thurmond was the best defender he'd ever met (Russell: ???).

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gave a more specific description of Thurmond's defense. He said that Thurmond sweated himself during the game, and then made his opponent sweat a lot.Does this mean that this person is very good at grinding?With Abdul-Jabbar's cleanliness style of play that doesn't like confrontation, if Thurmond is really the king of penalty area torture like Moses Malone, then these statistics will not be surprising.

The evaluation of these celebrities, Louis is farting.

Chamberlain is a well-known king of talking, he does not make drafts when he brags, and he is not responsible for farting. To say that Thurmond has the strongest defense is just to beat around the bush and disgust Russell⑵.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's theory of sweating is even more ridiculous. It's hard not to sweat after running a few rounds of basketball games, right?

Thurmond's defense is indeed very good, but Louie doesn't like to understand other people's quotations, or let him see the content of the game, or just watch the data without seeing the game.

Now that the data show that Thurmond is right, no matter how he does it, even if there is only a 1% chance, Louie has to try.

He didn't want to find out that they couldn't handle Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's offense when they reached the finals.

Louie calls Thurmond, who is currently reclusive in San Francisco.

After retiring, Thurmond and his wife opened a restaurant in San Francisco to live a small life.

Some time ago, he was invited by the league to play the legend game, and the old man gladly accepted the invitation, but unfortunately his strength could no longer match his seemingly strong Mediterranean hairstyle.

Thurmond did not agree to Louis' invitation on the spot, claiming that he would consider it for a few days.

Louis believes that this kind of old comrade who has nothing to do after retiring and is quickly forgotten by the world must not be willing to be lonely.

A few days later, Thurmond gave him his answer.

He agreed to serve as an assistant coach for the Celtics, but asked to raise his monthly salary from $7000 to $10000.

Obviously, he doesn't know enough about the current market.

Today's assistant coaches earn more than $15000 a month on average.

But after all, he has been out of the arena for many years, and it is hard to say how much ability he has left. The concept of the game is definitely out of touch with the contemporary era. What Louis wants is his experience in defending Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.However, it is uncertain whether his understanding of defending Kareem Abdul-Jabbar can prevent the current version of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in goggles + stockings + a shiny bald head.

Therefore, taking $10000 is considered a risk-manageable investment.

On the eve of the game against the Lakers, the Celtics lost their fourth game.

The team that made them lose was the New Jersey Nets.

This team is unusual and a potential seed in the East.

There are strong players on the back line and on the wing, and there is Michael Ray Richardson, who is in an uncertain state, on the bench.

Tonight, the Celtics lost on him.

Richardson's defense had a serious impact on the Celtics' perimeter. Isiah Thomas's performance was seriously abnormal. In addition, Bird's touch was not adjusted back. The team's double insurance failed at the same time. Sampson failed to break the game.

114 is better than 112
After this battle, the Celtics' record became 45 wins and 4 losses.

They are still riding high, and the team that is about to come in front of them is the Los Angeles Lakers, who are currently 40 wins and 9 losses.

In terms of record alone, the records of the Celtics and the Lakers are unique.

The Lakers are slightly worse than the Celtics.

On the eve of the game against the Lakers, Louis looked through the data for half a day in Lorraine's apartment, so nervous that he couldn't eat.

He knew the Lakers were the only team the Celtics were paying attention to this season.

But the strength of this Lakers team is much stronger than the team he knew in his previous life.

Like the Celtics, both teams have been enhanced by the butterfly effect caused by Louis' crossing.

In the end, Louie decided to do something else to decompress.

He touched Lorraine's bed, and she was reading a book.

When his salty pig's hand reached out, Lorraine grabbed his hand and put it on his stomach: "No!"

Her tone was the same as that of a master training a dog.

"Why?" Louis asked coquettishly.

He never thought that Lorraine could spit out thunder in a gentle tone like him.

"I am pregnant."

Louie got out of bed.

"Why are you going?" Lorraine asked.

"I'm going to sue Durex!" Louie roared angrily, "What do they think I'm sacrificing experience every day and carefully putting on a hat for my second brother?!"

Lorraine asked, "Aren't you happy?"

"I" can't say I'm not happy, but say he's happy?How can it be?He is only 24 years old, and his career is on the rise. Lorraine is also planning to take classes at New York University next year.Everything is suitable for them now, but it is not suitable for giving birth/bringing children.

"Happy."

Louie's smile looked forced.

"Come back when you're happy."

Louis returned to the bed, he didn't know what to say, according to normal people's practice, if such a thing happens, either kill the child or take responsibility.

But he didn't want to just get married like this, he wasn't ready yet, so how to kill the child?The thought disappeared in an instant.

"The doctor said that you can't do that thing again in the early stages of pregnancy." Lorraine rolled his eyes at the anxious Louis, "You control yourself."

(60) In the [-]s, the league wanted to add block data to the statistics table, and then was scolded by the record representatives.Because it will increase their workload, so let it go.

([-]) Russell criticized Chamberlain's aggressiveness many times after retiring, and the relationship between the two deteriorated, and they did not speak for more than ten years.Later, Russell figured it out for some reason, and shouldn't use his own standards to demand Lao Zhang, so he offered to apologize, and the two reconciled.

(End of this chapter)