the rest, only noise

Chapter 344
After Orr went downstairs, he notified his teammates.

For some, this is not an easy thing to accept.

Orr is an experienced veteran who works hard in the team. Although he is also dissatisfied with his playing time, he plays seriously on the court and will not mess around.

He was like a mentor to rookies and sophomores.

Many people have not recovered from Louie's reprimand. In a blink of an eye, the veteran who reminded them all day long of what to do in the league and what not to do is about to leave the team.

Louie's farewell smile to Orr disappeared.

He carefully reviewed the resources currently owned by the Knicks. In addition to tradable players, in terms of draft picks, they have the 1987 76ers first-round pick, the 1986 Mavericks second-round pick (the 1984th pick in the 10 draft was exchanged for the Mavericks’ 15th pick), the first round in 1986-from the Green Kai, the second round in 1987 from the Green Kai, the first round in 1986 from the Pistons, the first-round pick swap with the Cavaliers in 1986, 1987 first-round pick swap with the Cavaliers, 1986 first-round pick from the Lakers, 1988 first-round top-three pick protection from the Sonics, 1992 draft pick swap from the Sonics.

Over the next seven years, there will be a total of nine first rounds.

The Knicks' hope of revival lies in Ewing and Stockton, as well as in these draft picks.

If you're lucky, some of these picks will become the top five picks. At that time, it's time for him, the traverser, to play a role.

Without understanding this period of history, it is difficult to dig treasures with low rankings, but the star seedlings with high rankings are all familiar names, can they still miss it?

Uh, speaking of it, I missed Karl Malone some time ago.
Seeing that the training time was over, Louis was ready to go to school to pick Lorraine home.

The players basically left the Blue Palace, but he saw that the door of the review room was still closed.

It's been two hours, has he been in there?
Louis walked over, sure enough, Ewing was still watching that ugly video collection.

What he kept replaying was that he was grabbing a rebound but was not stuck, but Sampson took it off with a high height, and he threw it out to defend and couldn't get down. He had to raise his hands as if he was about to surrender, and he couldn't do anything.

These images, combined with those words of Louis, hurt him deeply.

"Have you seen enough?" Louis asked aloud.

Ewing said indifferently: "It's none of your business here."

"Are you still angry with me?" Louis laughed. "I was replaying the game at home last night, who should I turn my anger on? Who played the game? Is it me?"

Ewing was silent and did not answer.

The screen flashed, Sampson made a breakthrough, and Ewing raised his hand meaninglessly in surrender to watch the opponent dunk.

"Why didn't you put your weight down earlier?" Louis asked.

Ewing still didn't speak.

"If you don't tell me the problem, I can't solve your problem. Next time you do it again, I will still scold you."

"I'm careless."

"what?"

"Big" Ewing said guiltily, "It's careless."

"Okay, next round, you're obviously stuck in position, why don't you hold him down?" Before the screen cut to the next one, Louis had already mentioned what happened in that round in advance.

This is enough to prove the authenticity of what he said about replaying until dawn.

Lens everything, sure enough.

"Why?" Louis asked.

Ewing was ashamed to speak.

"Answer me, is it your upper limbs that can't hold you back, or your lower limbs that can't hold Ralph?" Louis asked calmly, "Isn't it because you deliberately didn't resist?"

Ewing said ashamedly as if recalling being raped by a gay guy: "I tried my best, but he didn't seem to be affected"

"Strength still needs to be practiced, Patrick."

"I practice every day."

"It's not enough." Louis said, "I persuaded Ralph to join the league. He didn't waste as much time in college like you did. He started to receive strength training in an orderly manner from the first year. Regardless of his thinness, both upper body strength and lower body strength are far superior to yours."

"I said you were wasting your time at school."

"do not talk"

"Dissatisfied?"

"I'm not dissatisfied!"

"I won't blame you for the next round." Louis once again said what happened later, "The three bastards deliberately targeted you and played a beautiful partial coordination. I know you tried your best."

As soon as the screen changed, Bird feinted and passed the ball to Thomas.Thomas broke through, attracted Ewing's full attention and passed the ball into the air, and Sampson dunked the ball.

From the look and feel, Ewing is being manipulated like a monkey.

But how can one person guard against three people at the same time?

"Center of gravity! Center of gravity!" Everything in the picture is Ewing running out with a high center of gravity and being dribbled by Sampson.

Louis pointed to the moment when Sampson passed Ewing and said, "In terms of speed alone, you are above him, but you have never thrown a player of this size before. I can understand that you are inexperienced. Next time you meet, your center of gravity must be lowered."

"Where does he shoot?"

"Just let him shoot! I'd rather let him shoot than let him dribble in!"

Louie and Ewing watched the highlights from start to finish, and each round, Louie would say what happened in advance and then tell Ewing what the problem was.

He was no longer angry, very calm, completely different from before.

The wound torn from Ewing's body at the review meeting slowly closed again.

"From now on, let's make a rule that as long as you switch defenses, you must lower your center of gravity; as long as your opponent shoots, you must find someone nearby to block the ball. Even if you get stuck with a teammate, I don't blame you; as for your defensive position, we will gradually solve it in the future. The most important thing now is the two points, the problem of blocking and the delay of saving, and you must do it well.

Ewing shook his head.

"Okay, what's the penalty? I'll tell you tomorrow. Take this video tape back. This game is very interesting. It exposed all your problems. You should treat him as a guillotine hanging on your head. If you can't solve the problems exposed in this game, then you will never be an insider who can dominate the game."

Ewing asked: "What if these problems are solved?"

"That's the next stage, don't be so ambitious."

Louis stood up and said flatly, "See you tomorrow, Patrick."

Later, Louis heard that Ewing and Truc Robinson stayed in the Blue Palace to practice until midnight.

Just as Louis thought before, Ewing's spiritual strength, willingness to improve himself, degree of diligence, hard work, desire to win, these invisible but extremely important "software" are all available.

Unfortunately, Ewing has great "software" and "hardware", but he did not meet a qualified mentor during the critical growth period.

Therefore, for a person's growth, innate talent is very important, and acquired training is also very important.

Louis drove outside New York University, and Lorraine was always the most eye-catching one.

Seeing her walking all the way, the rate of return is 100%.

Louie couldn't help but sing the lines from "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "You put the boom-boom into my heart (you let my little heart thump)."

"What's the matter, are you in such a good mood?"

"I'm going to call Patrick Ewing's shit out, but he's still willing to be my friend. Do you think I can be in a bad mood?"

"Every day is full of nonsense!"

"Get in the car, ma'am, and watch me show you around New York City!"

The next day, the Knicks and the Sonics completed the deal.

Reed Auerbach, who was on vacation in Washington when the deal was completed, expressed his displeasure: "Seattle paid farther into the future to salvage a hopeless future!"

He was even more angry that Louis sent Orr over, and did not let the Sonics pay any of the first nine players in the main rotation, as long as the draft pick.

But he can't call to scold Louis, after all, each is in charge now, and Louis is also considering maximizing the interests of the team.

Enhance the Sonics' immediate combat power, reduce the possibility of them falling into the bottom seven of the league, and prevent the Celtics from using a lottery pick to reinforce.

They are already strong enough, and if they continue to strengthen, will other teams still be able to mix up?
George Johnson and Alex "Spider" Stevens pass Knicks physicals.

While Louie doesn't think he needs them, he'll still give these two a few games to prove themselves.If it doesn't work, just cut one and keep one.

Of these two new aids, he knew one of them.

George Johnson, also a veteran who has played for many years, made his debut in the Warriors and won the Warriors' first championship with Barry. He should have reached the peak in the early 80s but was ruined alone.

Legend has it that the Warriors team, which had a good chance of defending the title in 1976, lost the game because Barry was beaten on the field and found that his teammates didn't fight for him, so he didn't make a shot in the second half.And Johnson is one of many players who are unwilling to help Barry get ahead.

Regardless of whether the rumors are true or not, Louis will be highly vigilant against this person.

Even though Barry is an idiot, the lowest point of a team is when someone is beaten but no one comes out.Any team that sees a teammate get hit and everyone else does nothing doesn't deserve to win.

This was true of the Warriors in 1976, and it was true of the 1977ers in 76.

What impressed Louis the most about this type of incident was when Nick Young singled out the Suns during the Lakers period.

The glory of the Lakers in the Bryant era died under the watchful eyes of those indifferent Lakers.

As helpless as Young was in that scene, that Lakers team was pathetic.

So for Johnson, Louis will give him the patience of two games at most.As for the other one, Louis knew so little about him that he mistakenly thought that the other party was an international player during the negotiation.Although he has a European surname, he is an American whose parents are from Latvia, but he has no relationship with Latvia.

Such an unfamiliar fifth-round pick, Louie gave him up to three games to prove himself.

If the performance is too bad, maybe one game can be qualitative.

(End of this chapter)