the rest, only noise

Chapter 399 The Metropolis Miracle

The night after his season debut, Louie invited the team to his house for dinner after practice.

There is no other reason, Louis just wants to strengthen the connection between the teams, enhance mutual understanding, and have a chance to communicate with some players who need advice. By the way, they can watch the MLB World Series Game 1985 of the 86-6 season broadcast live that night.

This year's World Series features the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox.

The Red Sox are one win away from breaking the Holy Child curse.

It is worth mentioning that before the start of the season, Louie's family moved into a mansion worth 40 US dollars, which is why he was able to invite the whole team to eat at home.

In the original house, whether so many people can find comfortable seats may become a problem.

That night, Louis first talked to Dell Curry.

Curry is the only player on the team who is offline.

Speaking of this, Curry does have something to say: "I don't adapt to the current style of play."

In college, he was a man who liked to dominate the ball. Although shooting was his strength, he preferred to shoot two left and right 45-degree angles with the ball.

"I understand the problem you are facing, but we don't have enough space for you to hold the ball now." Louie enlightened, "Sometimes, you have to try to adapt to changes in the team."

Curry asked, "What should I do?"

"You are good at shooting, which is an advantage. If you can develop a shot from beyond the three-point line, no matter whether you are in the Knicks or other teams in the future, you will find a foothold."

Curry was told.

Louis went to chat with Song Tao again.

Song Tao has been doing well recently, scoring 10 points in his first show, which directly attracted the attention of the domestic media.Some domestic journalists are already preparing to apply for assignment to the United States to interview him.

The Knicks may be the most suitable team for Song Tao's development.

This team mainly plays pick-and-roll, and the ball has a lot of fluidity. The starter Stockton and the backup Hornacek are both ball-handlers who can spot and seize opportunities.For inside players, it doesn't matter if they can't hit back, and it doesn't matter if they don't shoot. The pick-and-roll and screen effects are good. It's really not difficult to find the inside angle.

These are also the two points that Song Tao satisfied Louis with.

His size is sufficient, his physical fitness is at the top level among the yellow race, and the quality of screen pick-and-rolls is very good in China. The Knicks directly magnified his two advantages.Because of the quality of the pick-and-roll screen, many times, he looks more useful than Manute Ball who can only protect the basket.Moreover, he likes to fry the basket, and the style of dunking the ball is also loved by his teammates.

"Director Lu, do you think it is necessary for me to develop shooting?" The reason why Song Tao struggled with this is that Ball has started to practice shooting recently.

And Ball practiced the most difficult three-pointer.

"It's not necessary. Compared with this, you should do a good job of positioning and defense."

In this era, if you can't shoot inside, it's just a lack of tactical changes. Anyway, the Knicks already have Ewing and McHale.

The insiders who can't shoot the most have no role in the offensive end, and the insiders who can't defend and get stuck are likely to lose their jobs.

This is also what Louis worries about Song Tao the most.

His positioning and defensive positioning and skills are not good.

"Also, don't call me Director Lu. I'm not a few years older than you. Call me Coach." Louis always felt awkward when Song Tao called him Director Lu.

"Good, Coach Luzhi."

Louis basically chats with everyone he sees, chatting with those who have problems, and chatting with those who have no problems.

For example, Ball, when he heard that this buddy practiced three-pointers recently, Louis asked him: "Do you want to play the second position instead?"

"Can you see me, coach?" Bohr asked seriously.

"I think it's okay, next time we start at the second position and if something goes wrong, I'll let you start at the second position."

One dares to speak, one dares to believe.

The general atmosphere was quite good, and finally Louis came to the room where he usually replays the video tape by himself.

Benjamin Wilson is watching the game highlights here.

This is Louie's arrangement as well, allowing Wilson to watch highlights of Larry Bird's offense off the ball.

"See anything?" Louis asked.

Wilson asked, "Do I want to fight like this in the future?"

"It's not like this all the time, but under normal circumstances, just play like this. Although you are from UCLA, you have too many privileges in that team. I hope you integrate into us instead of letting us adapt to you." Louie pointed to Bird's offense.

If it was another coach, it would be a headache for Wilson.

Louis is an exception.

He had saved Wilson's life, and for that, Wilson obeyed him.

Basketball, if not the whole of his life, is 90% of his life, and he is a football fanatic.

Louie asked his off-ball end to learn from Bird, and he offered to take the tape home to watch.

Then, he watched the highlights over and over again in Louie's replay room.

While the focus outside was on Game [-] of the MLB World Series, he didn't come out, completely unimpressed.

Even Louie, who is not interested in baseball, came out.

Because tonight, the Boston Red Sox have the potential to break the half-century curse of the Holy Child.

In the opening game, the Red Sox took a 2-0 lead with two hits in the first and second innings.

⑴Excerpt from Encyclopedia: The batter hits the ball thrown by the pitcher into bounds, so that the batter can at least reach the first base safely

"Whoa, for real!" Hornacek sighed. "The Socks have a lot of momentum."

Most of the Knicks players have played baseball, and those who don't play baseball can understand the game. Louie is the only layman.

"Coach Lu, which team do you support?" Stockton asked.

"Since I'm representing New York now, I naturally have to support the Mets." Louie also said specifically, "Don't panic, the Mets will win back. You have to fully believe in the 'October Red Sox' (steady hip pull)."

In the second half of the fifth inning, the Mets hit consecutive singles and doubles, tying the score.

In the top of the seventh inning, Dwight Evans of the Red Sox took the lead with a brilliant grounder.At this time, a change that may have affected the result of the game occurred.

Red Sox superstar pitcher Roger "Rocketman" Clemens withdrew from the game with blisters on his hands.

Clemens has struck out 20 opponents in a single game this season. Judging from the process and results of this game, if he can play all the way to the end, with only four hits in seven innings to strike out eight Mets, the Red Sox are likely to raise the pennant tonight.

The Red Sox and Mets went nine innings, tied, and went into a tenth-inning playoff.

In the first half of the tenth inning, the Red Sox once again had a 2-point advantage.

But from the second half of the tenth inning, everything changed, and what Louie called "the Red Sox in October" came on stage.

The Red Sox uncharacteristically brought in veteran Bill Buckner with a broken foot, and the Mets tied the game.At the last moment, the hitter of the Red Sox team hit the ball, but it was a ground ball, which passed through first base and second base. At this critical moment, Buckner appeared in front of the ball.

But instead of catching the ball, he let it pass between his legs—a moment that horrified countless people and broke the heart of a generation of Boston fans. When Buckner turned to look at the ball at the most critical moment of a game, he knew the game was over.

Mets hitter Ray Knight went through three bases, came back to home plate, and scored for the game-winning game.

At that moment, in Louie's house, all the melon-eating people in the room had shocked expressions of "Fuck, this is okay?"

Tomjanovich said in surprise: "Is the curse real?"

"It's the Red Sox of October."

This game doesn't decide the champion, but how can losing Game [-] in this way still rally for a Game [-] final tomorrow?

Originally, the Mets were the stronger side, but now their self-confidence and momentum have risen, and the Red Sox are gone.

The moment the ball passes between Buckner's legs, starting tonight, is known as a "Buckner Play."

In sports, if something or a moment is named after a player, it's either honorable or disgraceful.

In Louie's heart, this moment can probably be compared with Game 2018 of the 1 Finals, when JR Smith grabbed a key offensive rebound but was ecstatic, dribbled the ball out of the three-point line, and missed the lore opportunity.

Louis downed half a bottle of wine in one go.

He could imagine how heartbreaking this evening would be for Bostonians.

"I warn you, stay focused on the court and tell me if you get hurt. If you unfortunately make this kind of mistake, I don't want to hear any excuses."

If someone under Louie made a mistake like JR, he would never punch a closet like James.

No matter how you say this punch, you should greet JR, right?What was James thinking at the time?This is the only opportunity in his career to beat his teammates and get everyone's support, but he, who has always been shrewd, missed it.

It's a pity, my emperor.

(End of this chapter)