the rest, only noise

Chapter 397: All Beings Are Equal
As Louie expected, the Knicks won all six preseason games.

In one of the games, Louis did not come to the scene to coach, and Tomjanovich was the conductor.

It was against the Indiana Pacers.

The Pacers played the worst record in the league last season, and ended up repeating the ending of the Warriors in the 1984-85 season. They actually got the worst seventh pick in the first round in theory.

With the seventh overall pick, the Pacers chose Kenny Walker, who fell unexpectedly.

Walker's nickname is Sky, which coincides with his surname being Walker, which together means Sky Walker, which means Skywalker.The reason why he is not as famous as the previous Skywalker is entirely because his NBA career was too failed.

Even so, under normal circumstances, his draft price will not fall out of the top three. This time he fell to seventh because in the last college season, he exposed his major flaws in the lack of body and rough skills in the final college season against UCLA.

Therefore, the Pacers can pick up the leak.

Throughout the game, the Knicks beat the Pacers by 40 points without a head coach. In the last quarter, Tomjanovich made a murderous press. Within minutes, a wave of 16-2 offense killed the Indiana.

Where did Louis go?

He was in good health, and the reason why he left was because the first batch of children from the Road Academy who traveled to the United States were about to enter school.

In order to facilitate care, Louis arranged them in a school in New York.

Louis believes that living in New York can let these children who have not yet clearly understood the real America.

This is his emotion after coming to New York a few years ago.

This city, where even the Statue of Liberty was imported from the European continent, has been defined by cities all over the world in the past 200 years, and then defined by the capital of the world, so that it finally became a monster.

In a sense, there are only two things here: the things that New Yorkers are proud of, and almost the best in the world, like Central Park, Fifth Avenue, and the Yankees;

New York does not care about and whitewash its dilapidated places, but lets them live and die without fear.

This completely fits Louis' perception of the city.

New York is a place where people of all ethnicities flock here. Racism is a sensitive issue, but because of the demographic structure of Apple City, no one dares to speak out about discrimination.

Louis placed all six of them at Abraham Lincoln High School.

At first he wanted to separate them so that they could learn to be independent.

But rather than being independent, Louis wanted them to help each other.There are many Chinese of Chinese descent in the United States, because they are too independent, so they are indifferent to their compatriots of the same origin as their classmates, and some of them are directly cheated and abducted.

Starting today, there will be a steady stream of children coming out of the road yard in the future.

Louis hopes that this group of people can create a world in the United States, so as to enhance the overall competitiveness of the national basketball team in the world basketball world.

The Knicks won six consecutive preseason games and will enter the new season after a short break.

In the opening game, the Knicks' opponent was the Supersonics from Seattle.

The biggest entanglement between the two sides lies in the transaction last season.

The Knicks traded Luis Orr to the Sonics for George Johnson, Alex Stevens and two future first-round picks.

The Sonics' record last season was the eighth-worst in the league, and they gave Boston a job.

A summer has passed, the competitiveness has not improved, and there are almost no useful operations.

People can't help but think of the year after next-wait until 1988, will they send high draft picks to the Knicks like the Cavaliers this year and next year.

October 1986, 10, Madison Square Garden

The SuperSonics were here, and people from Madison Avenue flocked to MSG. They wanted to witness Benjamin Wilson's debut, and they wanted to see what level the Knicks, which won 50 wins last season, have reached after the offseason reinforcements.

Louie appears in a gray suit.

When the reporter asked him to say what he needed to be prepared to avoid losing, he thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't come up with a good reason.

"Sonics is a good team, they have a group of good players, we have to work hard to avoid losing the game."

"You're a nice guy" is a generic phrase.

At halftime, Louie met with SuperSonics coach Bernie Bickerstaff.

This person was a familiar name to Louis.Familiar is familiar because he has heard of it, but I don't know what achievements this person has.

Bickerstaff had a long career, starting as an assistant to KC Jones in 1973 and only last year.

What he took over was still a bad team that had to perform. For any rookie coach, this is really a life-and-death crisis.

Fortunately, he "completed" the task above and used all his energy to lead the team to the bottom eighth. He did not give the Bostonians a 13% champion rate in vain.

Although their first-round pick ultimately belonged to the Celtics, they just felt inexplicably refreshed.

Louie shakes Bickerstaff's hand on the touchline.

"I hope that your state today will be worse than that in the preseason." Bickerstaff still has self-knowledge.

With the current momentum of the Knicks, whether to cut the Supersonics by 30 or more depends entirely on Louie's mood.

"Be humble, coach." Louis said cautiously, "We are all young people, even if we lose this game, it is possible."

After the warm-up, the two sides started.

The Knicks are Stockton, Ellis, Wilson, McHale and Ewing.

The Sonics are Gerald Henderson, Jim Paxson, Louis Orr, Tom Chambers, Alton Lister.

The three-high lineup with two power forwards and one center on the court was unexpected by Louis.

This can also see the characteristics of the Supersonics' team building, and they all learn from the most ambitious Detroit Pistons in the East.

As a team that considers itself to be the Celtics' rivals, they have to make a lineup that makes the Celtics uncomfortable.

The Pistons are already well on their way to stacking frontcourt depth.

The Knicks followed suit.

The ambition is commendable, but the top three against the Knicks is simply asking for death.

The Pistons have what they want in the frontcourt, and the Supersonics' frontcourt is estimated to only have the advantage of being thick and hard.

Although the Sonics won the jump ball in the opening game, Wilson saw through the passing route.

He stepped forward aggressively and knocked the ball away, and the Sonics knocked the ball out of bounds in order to save the ball.

The right to start the ball belongs to the Knicks.

"'Benj' Wilson!" Mav Albert said excitedly, "This is his first moment in MSG, and the energy burst out at that moment, a very good start!"

New Yorkers love Wilson more than Ewing.

Whether it's his public image or his appearance.

He just destroyed the opponent's possession of the ball, and the fans at the scene screamed like someone scored a lore.

It was the Knicks' turn to attack, and they didn't give the Seattle people a chance to breathe.

Stockton called for tactics, and the N.UCLA system immediately unfolded. Ewing covered, and McHale opened the pick-and-roll.

Stockton hit the ground pass after a breakthrough.

McHale catches a jumper from 15 feet.

2 is better than 0
The fans screamed excitedly again. McHale was waving his disproportionately long arms, and his black armpit hair made Louie sick.

This is definitely one of McHale's most puzzling habits.

He seems to think that showing fans his armpit hair is an obligation written into his contract.

The Sonics' three frontcourt lineup is worth paying attention to when it comes to offense.

Both Chambers and Orr can shoot. Although Liszt is a blue-collar worker, he also has a good ability to finish the penalty area.

The Knicks deliberately put space in the penalty area for Liszt to cut in.

Liszt made an empty cut, catching the ball and trying to dunk.

Behind him, Ewing forced the ball down.

Referee Hugh Evans blows his whistle.

"The thugs foul!"

"!@#%@%..."

Ewing looked at him dissatisfied, and Evans did not back down.

"Come on, Patrick!" Louie deliberately came to the midfield and said loudly, "The one-player rule doesn't work here with Hugh. Why don't you just accept the penalty?"

Evans gave Louie an uneasy look.

"I didn't protest. I know your rules. There are only thugs, not golfers." Louis spread his hands and tried to act disgusting.

In fact, every referee has its own characteristics. Some referees specialize in playing black whistle, which hurts others and benefits themselves;

Evans is that kind of guy.

As long as it happened in front of his eyes, none of the thugs could escape.

Fortunately, Liszt had no intention of leading the referee.

Both free throws were missed.

On the next round, Stockton deliberately passed the ball to Ewing, asked him to hit Liszt on the back, and let him play in front of Evans.

When Ewing turned around to shoot, Liszt really made a move, and Evans also didn't escape the eyes of him. If a foul should be called, it must be called a foul.

Louis still has no objection to this kind of penalty.

It doesn't matter how strict you are, as long as the standards are consistent and there are no double standards, he will do whatever you want.

If only one side is strict, the one who suffers will be his own side. Louis will definitely jump up and down like a monkey that has been spanked.

From the beginning of the game, there was a sense of repression.

The supersonic's immediate combat power cannot be compared with the Knicks.

Ewing, who has grown 7 pounds more than last season, is more effective in screens, pick-and-rolls, and blocks.

McHale's role on the offensive end is also obvious.

Ellis continued the rhythm that the bigger the problem off the court, the more explosive the state on the court.

Wilson, on the other hand, was a little out of the system. Except for destroying the Supersonic pass at the beginning, he never entered the main perspective of the fans.

He seemed to disappear from the field with his opponents.

(End of this chapter)