the rest, only noise

Chapter 468 Cooper Eunuch Voice

In September, NBA teams start preseason training camps.

The Knicks this year are not the same as last year.

Before the preseason training camp started last year, the Knicks' roster was already full.So they did not invite those marginal players from the NBA to participate in the trial training, but determined the roster for the new season from the beginning of the training camp.

This year, Ellis and Song Tao both missed the training camp for some reason, and what is certain is that they will also miss the first month of the new season.

So the Knicks invited some fringe guys to try out.

At that time, they will sign one or two players with a short contract in case of emergency.

This kind of contract is not guaranteed for them.

But just being able to play in the NBA is worth it to some.

With the new weather in the new season, Louis saw that Ewing's body was getting stronger and stronger. He strengthened his lower body strength training during the offseason, and the muscles in his thighs were obviously more developed than the last time he saw him.

Wilson has also gained a lot of weight. The kid from last season is now obviously able to hold up his clothes.

And their three new members, Michael Cooper, Reggie Miller, and Brad Rohaus—the last one, Louis also gave him a Chinese name called Luohaus in homonym.

Although he doesn't understand it now, he will like it in the future.

"Before you start this brand new season, I want to say a few words." Louis looked at everyone, and said immediately, "I know that the union is negotiating with the league, and there is a risk of the league being shut down in the future, but you don't need to worry too much. None of you serve in the union. All you have to do is play seriously and do your own thing. If there are any irreconcilable conflicts between the union and the league in the future, and you have to follow the instructions of the union, please rest assured. On behalf of the team, I solemnly promise you that the behavior of the union has nothing to do with you personally."

This means that if the players union chooses to strike in the future in order to force the league to compromise, the Knicks executives will not blame the players who responded to the call.

What Louis said is not impossible.

Just in the last few days, the players union has announced its withdrawal from the negotiations.They will take the alliance to court in the name of anti-monopoly, demanding the cancellation of a series of alliance-related regulations that do not comply with the law, such as the salary cap.

The conflict between the two parties is so great that there seems to be no possibility of any mediation.

Louis had been through 1983, he knew these people.

Now is the stage of lifting the roof.

After a period of time, there will always be someone among them who can calm down and think about the pros and cons carefully, and then find that the roof is really lifted, which is not good for both parties.

So the final result is nothing more than taking a step back and giving up part of the interests within an acceptable range in order to reach a new consensus.

Controversies between the players union and the league have always been nothing more than this.

Louis' words stabilized the morale of the army, and the preseason training camp officially started.

Cooper, who has just arrived, is the only veteran in the Knicks team with championship experience. He first needs to confirm his position in the team, so he invites Wilson to fight with him.

Wilson knew that Cooper was selected for the first defense last season, so he readily accepted.

In Louie's vision, Cooper's arrival would complete the Knicks' murder press.

Cooper is an elite defender who doesn't show much on the base stats.

The average number of steals per game is less than 1.6, and the average number of blocks per game is less than 1. How can such a person be selected to the best defensive team for seven consecutive years?

The answer lies in the magician.

Many people don't know enough about the poor defense of the magician.

They think that Magic is just too tall, so he can't guard those guards who are shorter than him.

In fact, the magician's understanding of defense as a whole is problematic.

His defensive awareness is poor, his defensive skills are rusty, and his defensive willingness is average. In addition, he is too tall to guard against short guards as the old saying goes.These factors make him an extreme defender.

He may be the worst single-defense All-Star starter in the NBA. Watching him single-defense is as uncomfortable as listening to the Canadian electric eels.

But you can't dismiss him as Kevin Love's kind of defensive black hole that Emperors fans hate so much.

Because of physical conditions, and the way Pat Riley usually trains.Magic has a higher value when helping to defend. Maybe he, like Kevin Durant, is a player who can play better defensively as long as he wants to.

But who knows?His old enemy, Larry Bird, was selected to the second defense consecutively when he was at his best, but the Magic has never been associated with the defense. The Lakers' SHOW TIME offense is so good that it completely covered up the Magic's defensive problems.

This is where Michael Cooper is great, and why he was selected to the defense for seven consecutive years.

Ideally for the Lakers, he would never be a starter.

But he didn't mind, knowing that coach Pat Riley would call him late in the first quarter or earlier if things didn't go his way.

If Magic's defense gets blown up, Riley puts him on the floor. He's the team's defensive finisher, who tends to pick up the opposing team's best offensive player while cleaning up Magic's ass.

He's been everywhere, just not on the scoreboard.Outside of Magic Johnson, Cooper is the most hidden influencer in the Lakers game.

In his duel with Wilson, Louie saw the best in him.He's not the type of defender who is a big threat to basketball.His defensive style is rare, mostly about forcing you to do things you're not good at.If you don't like shooting, he'll trick you into shooting, and if you don't like driving, he'll force you to drive.

He's a master mind, and unfortunately Wilson is a two-way offensive machine.

His style becomes rough when he meets this kind of player.

His roughness also aroused Wilson's enthusiasm.

Wilson carefully chooses the attacking route, making an emergency stop for a jump shot, turning his back and leaning back, and breaking through and dunking after shaking off the feint.

In turn, Cooper's offense wasn't as good.

Although he can dribble and shoot better, and his range can be extended beyond the three-point line.He is the most reliable three-point shooter on the Lakers besides Magic, but he is not a stable ball-handling attacker.

Such a player doesn't have much advantage in heads-up, the only thing he wants to do is to use his defense to torture the attacker.

However, Wilson is also much better than last season.

11 is better than 3
Of Cooper's 3 points, 2 were Wilson's deliberate handoffs, and 1 was Louie's signal to let the ball go. So Wilson made a defensive look, and his acting skills were so fake that he went straight to Zhang Yining's handicap-to give Cooper a rush to the basket for a dunk.

"That's great, Benj!" Cooper said anything but his voice...

How should I put it, his voice sounded a little like Stern's, but also a little different.

Stern's voice sounded soft and sissy-sounding.But when he is angry, you will find that he is not a mother at all.

Cooper's sissy voice has a special charm, which is a strange feeling, just like the kind of voice that the eunuch in the film and television drama deliberately made.Louie had never met a eunuch, and he didn't know how real eunuchs talked, and he was glad that Cooper was American and chose to play basketball.

Regardless, Louie is excited about his addition.

Next season, the Knicks' murderous tight end will look like this: Cooper, Stevens, Rodman, Salley, Oakley, and Wilson and Ewing who can be added at any time.

Usually, the initial idea of ​​a murder tight line is five people, like Pitino did in college.

Louie opted to expand it to seven, ensuring someone could rotate, and increased the maximum amount of time a half-quarter Murder Press could be used in a quarter to 8-10 minutes.

Pitino was envious of his cards.

Although the talent pool in college is shallower, and the probability of using a full-court press to prevent an opponent is higher, but only in the NBA can one have the best full-court press in the world.

After one season, Pitino's experiments in college were ignored, and the Knicks' murder was well known.

"You're one of the best defenders I've ever seen," Wilson praised.

Cooper couldn't bear it, and when he first arrived, he was beaten up by a young boy.

After Cooper's bullfight was over, Louie called the three newcomers to his office, including him.

"Would you like something to drink, I have everything in this office." Louis laughed.

Cooper could see that the two rookies were cautious, and he was a veteran, so he took the lead in breaking the greeting: "Coach, if you have anything to say, just speak up, we still have to practice."

"Are you in such a hurry? Well, it's okay to ask you to come here. I just want to tell you the position of the three of you in the team for the new season."

Cooper asked strangely: "Isn't this kind of thing decided after the training camp is over?"

Because they haven't attended a training session now, why should Louis arrange the positioning?
"I've generally known your strengths. Unless you improve a level in the training camp, nothing will change."

Louie first said to Cooper: "Michael, you won't get more time here than in Los Angeles. But I will still reuse your defense. I need you to be the leader of the tight lineup."

Cooper himself has no objection. His playing time with the Lakers has also declined year by year. Now that the Knicks are here, it is even more impossible to start-there are too many young people here.

"Coach, I know where I am."

"Very good..." Louis glanced at the two young men beside him, "Michael, you go first, I want to have a private chat with these two rookies."

(End of this chapter)