the rest, only noise

Chapter 288

"Okay, stop crying!"

"T﹏T!"

"Don't fucking cry, you're like a sissy!" Louie was upset by Robinson's crying.

Robinson wiped away his tears and said: "If you make me five years younger and anyone who dares to call me a sissy, I will send him to the hospital!"

"One more fucking tear in front of me, I'll send you to the hospital right now! Don't fucking cry!"

Robinson barely stopped his tears. He didn't know why Louis was so fierce. Does this person have no empathy at all?
Louis waited for his emotions to calm down, and asked: "I see that you have been training very hard recently. Although your body is not as good as when you were young, you grab rebounds well. I look at this team. No one is better at rebounding than you."

As soon as Louis boasted, he became a bit paranoid: "Back then, Kareem was most afraid of competing with me and called me a caterpillar!"

"It's great."

"But I am now"

Although Louis doesn't think Robinson will be the key player, he doesn't want him to retire.

The Knicks' inside line is thin enough, even if it is bad, it has to be like art.Just like rap can be as beautiful as poetry.

Louis doesn't want him to put on a bad look like "Look what, 6, follow me, take a wave", so if you can keep one alive, it counts as one.

"I admit that you can't play many high-confrontation games now, but your experience and skills are very important to the young people in the team."

Louie called him into the room and asked, "Haven't you thought about life after retirement, Truk?"

"After retiring?"

"Yeah, you can't just think about retiring without thinking about what to do after retiring, otherwise I'm sure you'll wake up tomorrow and regret it."

Louis' words made Robinson ponder.

Louie got himself a Coke and him a beer.

"No, coach, I drink Coke."

Louie had to switch his drink for Coke.

Robinson stared at Coke, pondered for a while and said, "I really haven't thought about what I will do after retirement, coach, what do you think I can do?"

"According to my observation, you have a very keen sense of smell for defensive rebounds." Louis believes that the reason why Robinson can't catch offensive rebounds is not that his sense of smell is limited to defensive rebounds, but because his body and physical fitness can't support him to attack offensive rebounds.

Robinson was very excited to meet his bosom friend: "Coach, you are right, this is really my most proud skill!"

"Maybe, I mean maybe, if you know what it is and you know why, you can turn into a coach after you retire and teach young players how to rebound."

Louie is planning for the future. His team has a shooting coach, a wing coach (Tomjanovich), a psychology master, a data control and observation monster, but he also needs an inside coach.

"I don't know if I can teach well." What Robinson was worried about was also what Louie wanted to know the answer to.

Louis pointed him in the right direction: "That's why I said why you can't retire now. You should finish this season. If you can't bear the intensity of the game, I can let you take turns and reduce your playing time, but you have to finish this season. Not only as a player, but also as an inside coach during the trial period. If you can teach the young people on the team how to block and rebound, I guarantee that after you retire, I will give you a stable long-term job."

Robinson has only one question left: "Then who should I teach? Pat is definitely not willing to let me teach him, that guy is very arrogant."

"Ken Bannister, you can teach him." Louis said with a smile, "He is a rookie this year and was only selected in the seventh round. He is very humble."

Robinson was overjoyed: "Sparrow is right! With the arrival of Coach Lu, the Knicks have hope! With the arrival of Coach Lu, the future of New York basketball is assured!"

The hunk who was crying just now suddenly knelt and licked, and Louis was a little shy.

But why, why did he keep talking?He can clearly stop talking, why doesn't he understand that the best quality of a person is to keep his mouth shut properly, silence is golden.

Truke Robinson took a sip of Coke, shook his head and said, "No, I think Pepsi is still better."

A deathly silence followed, lasting five seconds.

Robinson saw Louis's cheerful face in the clear sky just now, and it turned into a category 15 typhoon in an instant.

"You ignorant old thing, get out of my room immediately!"

Robinson changed from a guest to a stray dog, and was kicked out by Louis.

From then on, he understood the truth that Pepsi should not be mentioned in front of Louis, and he should always remember one thing: Coca-Cola is the most important thing!

In early October, the Knicks' preseason training camp at Hofstra University ended imperfectly.

Louie was very distressed. The one-month training camp cost them a general.

Bill Cartwright, when he was healthy, he could at least get back a top-five pick, but now he is fine, whether he can change to a top-ten pick depends on his recovery.

In this year's preseason, because of Cartwright's accidental reimbursement, the Knicks' several marginal positions tended to stay inside.

So, two people stand out.

One is the Knicks' sixth-round pick this year, Eddie Lee Wilkins PF/C.

The other is an undrafted pick, Ron Cavenall C.This gentleman is 216 centimeters tall, moves slowly, and has a certain back-up ability, which can be regarded as a substitute for Cartwright.

It is probably the level gap that Zeng Zhiwei replaced Tony Leung in an idol drama.

"Looking at you, I miss Bill more and more." Louis took a breath, "Don't get me wrong, I mean Bill Lambiel, not the guy who didn't obey the doctor's orders."

"That guy broke his leg because he didn't take responsibility for himself. The only lesson he left us is to listen to the doctor."

Louis clapped his hands and said to everyone: "We have no goals this season. I only ask you for one thing. Play well every minute of the game. Opportunities are hard-won. It will be difficult for you to join a team that has no requirements for results and is eager for a savior."

"Coach, aren't you the savior?" Cummings asked.

"QTMD!" Louis scolded, "This **** savior should be whoever he likes, and I won't be."

Bernard King seized his opportunity: "The savior has finished speaking, everyone applauds!"

"Clap clap clap~~~"

Louis wanted to interrupt them at first, but the applause became more and more enthusiastic. He changed from being as shy as Ju Lisha's career debut to as rough as Bei Daoling, "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for your support! As a savior who does not intend to save the world, I thank you all!"

Phil Jackson wanted to scratch his head: "Has he always been this kiddy?"

"Just get used to it," Tomjanovich said.

"Where did Zhao go?" Jackson looked around, "I haven't seen him for several days."

"Business trip."

Sharif and Zhao Yuanzheng are the most familiar, and he is a little worried about it: "Poor guy, he is still in the probationary period and he is going on a business trip."

Jackson echoed a few words, expressing regret for Zhao Yuanzheng's situation.

Tomjanovich doesn't think so, which is a good thing.

At the beginning, Louis also used him like a cow, traveling frequently and scouting everywhere.Now, he is Louie's chief assistant.

Tomjanovich now looks back on those excruciating assignments that made him a professional coach.

That's the basic skill of a coach.

Every coach should start from the most basic, like some coaches who become coaches as soon as they retire, they are either geniuses who are self-taught, or idiots who destroy the team.

After the Knicks returned to New York, they disbanded on the spot, and Louie gave the team a day and a half off.

During the vacation, he basically stayed at home with Lorraine.

At the end of the holiday, the Knicks played six preseason games away from home.

In these six games, Louis basically tried the lineup. Bernard King averaged 29 minutes and scored 24 points.

With the intensity of the preseason, he scored like cutting melons and vegetables.

The Knicks scored 4 wins and 2 losses, which looks pretty good.

However, even the fans know that the intensity of the preseason cannot be taken seriously.

The Knicks' debut of the new season is scheduled for October 10 against the Detroit Pistons.

The Pistons are a strong team with a semi-final level in the Eastern Conference.

The Knicks played against them, and under normal circumstances, they lost less and won more.

But before the start of the game, their opponent's opponent created a favorable condition for them.

Before the game against the Knicks, the Pistons played a game against the defending champion Celtics.

After changing the head coach, the Celtics are still terribly strong. Louis has already laid down the foundation. KC Jones doesn't need to change anything. As long as the previous tactics continue, the team's competitiveness can be guaranteed.

Moreover, the Celtics also got Jim Peterson, a dynamic young insider, during the offseason.

They have No.1 in the league, No. [-] center in the league, No. [-] point guard in the league, No. [-] dirty lineup in the league, No. [-] offensive space in the league, and the depth of the second team in the league.
The Celtics had no dead ends in their two-game winning streak and slaughtered the Pistons by 140 points 110-30.

So much so that when Chuck Daly met Louis at MSG, his first words were: "You came to New York from Boston, which is the worst transfer I've ever seen."

(End of this chapter)