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Chapter 223 He Can Always Change His Face
"Georgetown played real team basketball, that's how they played.

Future superstar Akeem Olajuwon, the prospective No. [-] pick of the University of Houston Cougars, was interviewed.

His full-mouthed Nigerian accent is very inconsistent.

Unexpectedly, he criticized his teammates immediately after the game.

"My teammates said they missed me on the court," Olajuwon said with a sneer. "But when I was on the court, no one passed the ball to me. How many times did they 'miss' me?"

Michael Young, the Cougars' offensive centerpiece that night, was ashamed to justify it: "When Akeem was in the paint, he couldn't see what those players around him were doing or what they were encountering."

Hearing Olajuwon say that, Louis knew that he was definitely going to participate in the draft.

Maybe he will struggle a bit, but the upper limit of the University of Houston is here. Unless he encounters a season with low competitiveness, he will have no hope of winning the championship. He is already a mature player, and only the NBA can improve him.

Georgetown University, which successfully won the championship, dispelled their sense of mystery.

John Thompson's purpose is to care for each other and lead them against the world-so only this kind of person can lead rebellious people like Allen Iverson.

The way to take on the world is to make Hoyas games brutal and bloody.

Their defense isn't popular, not just by opponents, but by fans, and even less by the media.

Because Thompson advocates team isolationism, he does not allow any player to be interviewed by the media alone, let alone any form of pre-match interviews.Moreover, on weekdays, he continues to instill in the players the awareness that "the world is messed up, and we want to knock them down".

So, like Ewing, an African immigrant who was born in Jamaica and came to the United States with his family in the 70s, but never experienced the racial discrimination atmosphere in the 60s, he actually developed a personality that hates the media, distrusts whites, and is cold and mean.

This means that he does not teach what should be taught, and he teaches everything that should not be taught.

If Guo Jing came to such a person, he would have to be taught to be Guo Fu.

Louie waited until they were cutting the nets and followed Auerbach into the court.

Now Louis is also a familiar face in the basketball circle. It is impossible for people who are interested in basketball not to know him, and it is impossible to be unfamiliar with him.

"Patrick," Louis said to Ewing's first greeting, which made him frown.

Louis completely ignored Patrick's third pronunciation, emphasizing the first two pronunciations. Moreover, he pronounced it in Chinese on purpose.

Of course, Ewing could only think that he had a problem with English and didn't think it was offensive.

"Little Lu, nice to meet you." Even if he was happy, he was happy for this year's champion.

Louis glanced at the Hoya paranoiacs in the carnival, and said, "I want to chat with you alone."

"But I don't have time now." This sentence is not prevarication, he really has no time.

"There's always time," Louie laughed. "Today is your big day, enjoy it."

Ewing had heard Louie's name, but mostly from John Thompson.At the beginning, Thompson admired Louis because he was personally ordered by Auerbach.But Thompson didn't like Louie when he deliberately showed a "frivolous" side to the media.

Thompson is a media insulator. He believes that Louie has obvious performance elements in front of the media.

He created that image on purpose.

Thompson did see through Louie, but no one cared whether Louie was acting.

Today was the first time Louie and Thompson met.

When Louie was a scout, he paid little attention to Georgetown University. They only reached the pinnacle of school history in the 80s.

At that time, Louis was already a teaching assistant.

"Coach Thompson, nice to meet you."

At the beginning, Auerbach was worried that Louis would speak ill of Thompson, but unexpectedly, in front of people, this guy put away all the disgust and dissatisfaction he had just shown.

Just looking at his face, he doesn't look like the head coach of the league's No. [-] team, but he is an alumnus of Georgetown University.

"Me too." Thompson forced himself to grin.

Louis then greeted: "Your defense is the best I have seen in these years. It is a great loss that the US national team did not choose you as a coach."

"No, Coach Knight is more qualified than me." Thompson said with a count of 13.

"No, no, Coach Knight is too domineering, so he may not be the best candidate." Thompson was in a happy mood, and his original misunderstanding of Louis was gradually eliminated. "If you can take charge of the US team in the future, I believe, it will be the strongest team in history."

Thompson laughed out of embarrassment, this time, his smile was no longer forced: "How dare I be that?"

Looking at this presumptuous smile, is there anything he dare not be?

Louis sneered in his heart, making a good impression on Thompson.

Auerbach saw Louis' performance and had a deeper understanding of this guy with two faces.

In his report, KC Jones repeatedly mentioned how powerful Louis' face-changing ability is. He didn't understand it earlier, but he saw it today. It's really extraordinary.

Just now, he was so angry that his face turned green in the audience, and he didn't watch the game, but this time he was holding his stinky feet like a fan of Thompson. What is this guy trying to do?

"Coach Thompson, we must communicate more, you know? What the Celtics lack most now is your team's defense that makes people desperate for survival!"

"Okay, you two, it's over!" Auerbach guessed that if he listened to it, he would spit it out.

So he stopped Louie and let him blow it up. It is estimated that John Thompson will think that he is the best coach in history, and then say something in the interview, such as "I should be the head coach of the CTMD national team. It is obviously racist to choose Knight or not."

"Reed, you shouldn't have asked me to be the head coach of the Celtics. You should have hired John. With him, we will have the league's best offense and the league's best defense. Ten consecutive championships are expected!"

Thompson blushed now: "This is too much, Lu."

WTF! "Lu" is called, you two met for the first time today, right?

Auerbach knew he had to stop Louis, "Okay, they still have things to do, let's step aside first."

"That's right, we can't delay John's business."

Good guy, "John" is also called, is this really the first time you two meet today?

When Louis and Auerbach returned to the auditorium, all members of the Hoya team stood together and took pictures.

"What on earth are you planning?" Auerbach didn't believe that Louis would flirt with Thompson for no reason.

Louis said with a smile: "He is a champion coach now, isn't it normal for me, a young coach without a championship, to flirt with a highly respected champion coach?"

"Stop telling me these useless things!" Auerbach said in a low voice, "What the hell are you trying to do?"

Louis said aggrievedly: "It seems that I can do something to him, can't you expect me to order something? How bad is my image in your heart?"

"You still tell me about the image?" Auerbach snorted.

Auerbach couldn't figure it out, so he and Louis watched the Hoyas' championship ceremony together.

Louis looked at Ewing from a distance and couldn't help feeling, what would happen if everything was as usual and Ewing was still the Ewing he knew?It seems that nothing will happen.

This is where the draft gets interesting.

Some potential stocks with high talent but poor technology are high-risk groups.

Some players with mediocre talent but mature skills can help even if they can't continue to improve.

Some players are talented but not strong enough to support him to become great.

Some players are very talented and mature, but God doesn't want to see such a perfect person, so injuries come.

There are also players who have mastered the true meaning of basketball in school, have endless potential or the most perfect skills in history, and have countless tank teams coveting them before they even enter the league.

However, even this kind of players will produce "parallel imports".

Bill Russell, Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Kareem, Pete Maravich, Bill Walton, Bird, Magician, Sampson, Olajuwon, Jordan, Ewing, Sharks, Webber, Duncan, James, Durant, Zion.

Before these people entered the league, they were given unlimited expectations. Even if they have all the conditions for success, it is still very difficult to reach the height that people expect, and there is still a certain probability of "falling out".

Louie wanted to change something, and Ewing touched some knot in his heart.

After the Hoyas' championship ceremony, Louie asked for the phone number and contact information of the Thompson Hotel.When they got back to the hotel, he called Thompson and asked if he could meet Ewing alone.

reason?Naturally, I want to chat with the future NBA No. [-] pick.

The league's current restrictions on contact with NCAA players are not as strict as they will be in the future. The season is over, and Thompson had a good chat with Louie just now, so he agreed.

If he knew Louis' real purpose, he would definitely take back this decision in half a second.

(End of this chapter)