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Chapter 413 Unmatched
Who's the most mad about a 60-point win over the Bulls and lighting a cigar at the Chicago Coliseum?
Not Jerry Krause, but Charles Barkley.

"Little Lu did it very disrespectfully. I mean, he was almost punching us in the face. How could he be so pissed off?"

Hearing Barkley's impassioned criticism, Louis just smiled.

"Charles should be angry, but he should be angry not with me, but with his general manager." Louie publicly responded to Barkley in an interview before leaving Chicago. "He sent a top ten player in his prime for the second pick, and then chose a risky person without a serious physical examination. Who is the most to blame for Chicago's end? Chicago people blame me for this, which really confuses me.

In order to let the fans understand the point, Louis also said eccentrically: "The transaction is not what I want. It has to be like this. Someone calls me, or I call someone else. We argue for hours and then reach an agreement. Both parties must reach an agreement before reporting to the league. I cannot complete the transaction alone."

"I just made a trade that was good for my team. Kevin McHale was our biggest gain in the summer, and Chicago people blamed me for their empty baskets. Isn't that funny?" Louie asked bitterly. "Aren't they supposed to blame the guy who screwed up everything?"

Louie also said why he wanted to light that cigar.

"I don't want to bear so much hatred for no reason. If I have to bear these, then let me do it thoroughly. I am willing to be the hated villain, so I lit that cigar."

"Isn't that what a bad guy like me is supposed to do on the road? We beat the Bulls by 60 points, and I lit a cigar to celebrate, and I'm satisfied, uh."

Louie just bounced the accusation off him, and maybe someone will re-examine what Krause did, but the fans are irrational.

Louis and his team returned to New York, seriously preparing to meet the upcoming enemy - the Boston Celtics.

So far, the Knicks have 8 wins and 2 losses, ranking first in the East and second in the league, second only to the Portland Trail Blazers who have 9 wins and 1 loss so far this season.

The other two teams that were considered to have dominant strength before the season have all experienced declines to varying degrees.

The Lakers have lost 4 games so far this season, and the Celtics have lost 3 games.

It's just that they are like the James Cavaliers 2.0 period.

No matter how hip the regular season looks, as long as it enters the playoffs, it will still be the number one favorite to break out of the division.

Especially the Celtics, there are few teams in the East that can compete with them.

Whether the Knicks and Pistons, who seem to be the most ambitious, can take off their crowns and become kings remains to be tested. Most people don't believe that they can pass that test.

On the eve of the game against the Celtics, Louis held an internal meeting with the coaching staff with Zhao Yuanzheng and Tomjanovich.

Phil Jackson was sent out, and Mr. KFC, who is in his prime, has been going out frequently recently, busier than Zhao Yuanzheng.

The Knicks need to prepare two sets of plans, one is a plan for Bird to play, and the other is a plan for Bird not to play.

If Bird doesn't play, the Knicks need to deal with Sampson and Thomas.

If Bird plays, it will be the Celtic dynasty with complete combat power.

So far this season, Bird has averaged 22 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists in limited playing time.

Sampson became the arrow of the Celtics for the first time. He averaged 31 points, 15 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks per game, overlooking all the insiders in the league.

When Bird was around, Thomas was surrounded by his light. Now, he is covered by a taller figure.

Few noticed that he also had the best performance of his career.

Thomas is currently averaging 21 points, 4 rebounds, 13 assists and 3 steals per game. If the Magician is not counted, he is the league's number one pure point guard.

The Celtics have three of the top five in the league. This has never been a joke.

"Fortunately, Isiah's long-range shot has never been developed." Zhao Yuanzheng said, "We can make a fuss about this."

Louie's headache wasn't Thomas, but Sampson.

He persuaded Sampson to participate in the draft that year and changed too much history.

But the biggest change is Sampson himself. He has changed from a meteor of the era who was expected to be the number one center in history by the basketball world, only to be selected as an All-Star a few times before falling due to injuries. He has become a well-deserved best center.

Louis not only changed Sampson's fate, but also made him the league's number one center.He has been sitting in this position for three years. Since 1984, he has used different postures every night to make the various centers stand out amidst the howls of "Mr. Ralph, Elegant Butterfly".

"Ralph has almost no dead ends. His three-point shooting rate this year is 37%, and he has a tendency to develop three-point shooting from the left and right wings." Zhao Yuanzheng said with a wry smile. "His only technical flaw is the low-post attack. 70% of his low-post attacks are transformed into facing the basket and holding the ball."

Louis and Tomjanovich both know that it is Sampson's personal preference, which does not mean that he has no back-to-basket skills.

"You say," Louie asked, "Can Patrick keep him?"

Ewing's data this year is better than last year's rebounds and blocks.

目前场均31分钟的出场时间，得到18分13篮板2.4助攻和3.9封盖。

He averaged 5 fewer minutes per game than Sampson.

Although he played a first-defense performance, history has long proved that super giants cannot be defended, they can only be restricted.

Sampson is too comprehensive. He can score 30 points in a game in various ways such as shooting, eating cakes, posting up low, and attacking with the ball.

Zhao Yuanzheng smiled wryly, "It's hard."

Tomjanovich said directly: "I don't think it can be prevented at all."

Sampson is a big problem for any team against the Celtics.

He's dominant defensively, he's dominant offensively, and when he's got Bird in the way and Thomas feeding the ball, he's probably the league's best offensive threat.

Because he is one of the best finishers in history and an unrivaled dominant offensive player.

To defend against Thomas, you can let him make long shots, and Bird can greet you with Spider-Man. For Sampson, no matter what kind of inside line you use to defend him, he can handle you.

It can be said that in the two years after Louis left the team, the reason why the Lakers could not beat the Celtics was because Sampson suppressed both offensive and defensive ends almost every time he saw Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

And as Kareem got older, the repression became more brutal.

"It seems that Ralph is destined to play explosively on us, right?" Louis began to be pessimistic.

Zhao Yuanzheng said: "He has been in an explosive state so far this season, but the Celtics also lost three games. Fortunately, they are not invincible."

These words can only comfort myself.

The Celtics, like other champions, will be passive and sloppy during the regular season, but every time they play against the Knicks, they will automatically switch back to the championship state.

For this game, several members of the coaching staff held a meeting until midnight.

In the end, everyone left the office tired. Although they had customized some routines, they were still not very sure about tomorrow's game.

They studied several cores of the Celtics for several hours, and they did not take into account the possible impact of people like Lambiel and Harper.

With the Celtics as opponents, this kind of trouble is inevitable if you want to beat them.

Louis was already very tired. When he got home, he saw the dessert Lorraine had prepared for him.

He's been too busy lately, and can't even take care of his family affairs.

He almost forgot that Lorraine was pregnant and wanted to care about her, but remembered that it was late and she had already fallen asleep.

Louie can only quickly finish dessert, take a shower, and go to bed.

Every time Louie wakes up at home, the thing he looks forward to most is breakfast.

Since Lorraine moved home, the competition between her and Li Xuanbing has never stopped.Their main field of competition is cooking, which is like a competition between boys who can pee farther.

Their competition made Louis cheaper.

Louis enjoyed a variety of delicious breakfasts and gave a neutral "this one is good, but this one is good" to keep their rivalry going.

If you want to give a real evaluation, Louis thinks Lorraine is better.

She has a lot of tricks, and she often has surprises. The old mother is too stable, and she always does the same thing every time. The advantage is that there are no abnormal moments, but it is easy to get bored.

"I suddenly felt that I don't want to be a lawyer anymore, it's too troublesome! I want to be a chef!" Lorraine suddenly had an idea.

Louis smiled bitterly: "You'd better calm down and make a decision."

Later, she calmed down, and she really thought that the idea of ​​being a chef was too crazy, so let it go.Then she had a new idea, she was going to apply for film school to learn how to be an actor.

Louis admits that with Lorraine's looks, she may not have rivals in the entertainment industry, but a woman like her who has become a monk and does not necessarily have talent for acting, if she has no background or connections, most of them will enter the entertainment industry as a flower vase or a porn star.

The latter was something Louis didn't want to see, and he didn't allow it to happen.

Lorraine has always been very thoughtful. Louis took her whim this time as another hotheaded idea. What he didn't expect was that this time it wasn't crazy.

(End of this chapter)