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Chapter 372 I Can Let You Know What A Real Insult Is (11147)

Knicks team reporter Dave Anderson said emotionally: "This is the greatest Knicks game I have seen since 1973!"

"Coach Lu, how are you feeling now?" Anderson asked hastily.

Feeling?

Louis was distracted and smoked the cigar as a cigarette, and was immediately choked to the point of coughing.

"Coach Lu, are you okay?"

"It's okay." It was time to pack it, and Louis finished it, and he stared at the cigar.

Just this stuff, how many sticks does that old fellow Auerbach smoke a day?Sooner or later he would choke to death on this thing.

"How are you feeling now?"

"My most exciting time is over." Louis said with a smile, "I am only proud now, these guys performed really well!"

Anderson asked: "Did you ever think that a regular season would be so miserable?"

"I didn't think about it, but this is the game. When you are determined to win and the opponent is determined not to lose to you, the game will gradually escalate. We held on against Boston. These guys are really amazing. They defeated a team that was almost impossible to beat."

Anderson quickly jotted down Louie's words.

Finally he asked: "Why would you smoke a cigar before the game? Are you paying homage to Reed Auerbach?"

"Homage? I don't like that set, I'm not paying homage to anyone." Louis explained, "I don't like imitation, because it's hard for an imitator to do better than the original, and once you're caught in it, it's hard to have your own style."

"I chose to light my cigar at that moment for the simple reason that I believed from the bottom of my heart that my players could win this game."

Anderson asked jokingly, "What if we lose in the end?"

"I'll probably stick a cigar up my ass to apologize."

Anderson smiled, and Louie walked away alone.

Bird came over to "greeting" on behalf of the rest of the Celtics.

"You guys better make it to the second round of the playoffs!" Bird said unwillingly, "There is no end between us!"

"Don't tell me, Larry, you said you would beat us by 40 points, why did you lose us by 1 point?" Louis asked meanly, "Legendary Larry, what happened?"

Bird had nothing to say, so he could only keep saying harsh words: "Don't be complacent, today's debt, we will have a chance to get it back in the future!"

"Haha, see you in the future then."

In New York, molesting Ewing is an indispensable spice in Louie's life.

Before Ewing, the victim's name was Larry Bird.

Goodbye now, Louis can still use a few words to stimulate Bird into a rage.In the past, he could repay by beating Louie's team violently, but today, they lost.

Louis and the players on the field hugged one by one, and he didn't expect to be able to play this way in a regular season.

After greetings from his family, he walked up to KC Jones to shake hands.

"Where did you get the cigar?" KC asked.

Louis replied, "Reed gave it to me before I left."

"You haven't finished smoking yet?"

"Actually, this is my second time smoking."

KC laughed: "Reed must be very angry."

"If I did something wrong, I will apologize."

Meaning, if he did nothing wrong, even if Auerbach gets angry, he won't apologize.

In this matter, Louis thinks that he has done nothing wrong.

Then there are the live reporters, CBS excited about tonight's game.

They didn't expect that a game that should have been one-sided would be so exciting and so memorable.

"Coach Lu, you ended your losing streak against the Celtics, do you want to say something about this game?"

Louie said confidently: "I have nothing to say, it's a great victory."

He knew the real difficulty was not here, in the post-match press conference.

In the ungrateful style of the Boston media, there is bound to be some talk about his "provocative behavior" tonight in a purple suit and lighting a cigar at the end.

After Louis returned to the locker room, he learned some bad news.

Oakley's foot injury seems to have worsened. Ewing's knee felt a little uncomfortable after he came back. Stevens was even bloodied by Bird's elbow and has been sent to the hospital.

The three players who most should be in the press conference with Louie tonight are not able to go.

For this victory, the price the Knicks paid was too heavy.

Simply, Louis only took Stockton to the press conference.

Without his teammates around, Stockton was far more nervous than usual.

"Don't worry, you are not their target. The media has more questions to ask me than you."

Louis enlightened him, and when he and Stockton walked into the media interview room, many reporters immediately took pictures.

Louie explained the reason why several key players did not come: "Charles, Patrick and Alex are all injured, and they cannot attend the press conference tonight."

"So, if you have any questions, just ask me and John." Louis said with a smile, "We will know everything."

Louie's longtime acquaintance, Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe, looked more somber than ever.

"Coach Lu, don't you think it's inappropriate to come to the garden in that suit?"

Louis' expression remained unchanged: "Where is the inappropriateness?"

"You should know that purple is what Celtics fans hate the most. During the holidays, every household in Boston rejects purple." Ryan explained.

Louis smiled sarcastically.

"It's so strange, why do you hate purple? The Lakers didn't beat the Celtics once in the Finals, and then you don't even like purple? Did the Lakers bring you any painful memories? No, every time in history, the Celtics are the winners. Why do you act as if the Lakers have done something to hurt Boston severely?"

Louis also complained for the Lakers.

"I have seen many flowers, plants and trees in Los Angeles, and they all have a bright main color, which is green. If Lakers fans are as sensitive as you, I am afraid that the whole of California will be barren of grass, right?"

Louie was not at all polite, and his displeasure was obvious.

Ryan found that he couldn't find the loopholes in Louie's words. Compared with this, it is true that the fans are narrow-minded.

But Louis is also really big-hearted, don't you know what your identity is?Didn't wearing this kind of clothes mean to make fans unhappy?
"I'm very happy with my outfit. It was a gift from my players for Thanksgiving last year," Louie announced. "I'm not just going to wear it today, I'm going to try to wear this suit every time we play in Boston."

Louis not only did not admit his mistake, but also added to his mistakes.

This situation was unexpected by the Boston reporters on the scene.

They thought that Louie would admit his mistakes, apologize, and beg the general public to supervise and promise not to make mistakes like other coaches who made mistakes.

He acted like he didn't care what Celtics fans felt.

Next, they asked about the game's frequent on-court clashes.

Louie is unbiased on this issue.

"Our people made mistakes, and the Celtics players also made mistakes. I don't want to say who is more responsible. This is a scene created by both of us." Louis said a long-lost daily Chinese saying, "There is an old saying in China that says that a fly will not drill into a seamless egg, and there is an old saying that a slap will not make a sound. If we do not cooperate, or the Celtics do not respond, this game will not be played to the end."

The next question is also of concern to many people.

The Knicks' full-court press that nearly crushed the Celtics in the third quarter.

Louis said modestly: "I would like to thank the referees tonight for their strict enforcement. They made our defense the best within the limits allowed by the rules. Without good referees, there would be no classic game. If the whistle was tighter, our full-court press would not last for a whole quarter."

As for why the full-court press was used to defend the entire quarter, Louis's idea was of course to test the team's defensive ceiling.

Before the start of the game, he decided that if he had a chance to beat the Celtics, he would take advantage of the fact that the Celtics like to play short rotations in stalemates.

But the results can also be seen, the Celtics' main force is still very strong in the fourth quarter.

However, the full-court press must have worked, otherwise they would not have missed the first two shots in the last three three-pointers.

Had one of the first two goals been scored, the game might have turned out differently.

Next is the most sensitive issue, which is also the issue that everyone is most concerned about.

"Little Lu, why did you light the cigar before the game? Are you trying to provoke the Celtics, or are you paying tribute to Redd?"

The question was raised by a female reporter, Kate Morton of the Boston Herald.

"I just want to show the determination of the Knicks to win this battle. There is no other meaning, nor is it a tribute to Redd."

If they don't pester, Louie's answer is nothing more than that, ambiguous.

Morton pressed: "Don't you think it's an insult to all Celtics fans?"

"Insulting? Do you really think so?"

"The reaction of the fans speaks for itself."

"If you say that, I have a different opinion." Louis sat up straight, tapping his fingers on the table inadvertently. "I can tell you what an insult is. After I helped build the team in Boston, after I led the Celtics back to the championship a few years ago, I left here. Then, just because I was wearing a purple suit, the fans booed me.

"If anyone thinks that I insulted them by lighting the cigar before the end of the game, then so be it." Louis said after a pause, "However, in my opinion, I just returned all the insults they gave me."

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