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Chapter 662 Mentor Candidates

"Coach, you." McHale hesitated to speak, "You didn't tell me that before."

Louis was even more strange: "What did I tell you before?"

McHale explained aggrievedly: "When I first came, you thought I had a problem with my attitude, so you gave me the captain's armband. The armband is always with me. Unless the Knicks have multiple captain's armbands, I am the captain!"

Louis has been in this circle for 11 years, but he doesn't know that as long as the captain's armband is given out, unless he comes back, that person will always be the captain.

"Is that so?" Louis asked left and right.

Zhao Yuanzheng said awkwardly: "It seems so."

"Cough cough!"

Louis found out that he made an own goal, and immediately said: "Of course I know that Kevin is our captain. What I just said was um. I mean, Patrick is the captain of the Jamaica Stars. As the captain, he should discipline his players well. He has done a bit too much."

There is a saying that one step is wrong, every step is wrong, and it refers to the current coach Lu.

Ewing said incredulously: "Since when did he become my team member? The high school students are obviously on the Giant Shoulders team, and the number one pick in Benj's eyes!"

Louis was a little annoyed now.

He was furious at Wilson: "Benj, how did you become the captain? You actually asked Patrick to educate the players for you. What do you do as a captain?"

Wilson said awkwardly: "Coach, I and Patrick have a different division of labor"

"What is the difference in the division of labor? Is this your excuse for not fulfilling your captain's duties?"

"really not"

"No what isn't it?"

The division of labor between Wilson and Ewing is clear.

Louis didn't understand the tacit understanding between the players in private.

Because Ewing joined the team earlier than Wilson, in terms of seniority, only Stockton, Angie, Bowie, and McHale can overwhelm him.

But Angie and Bowie are both veterans who joined in the middle of the past two years. Although McHale has been in the league for almost ten years, he also came to New York in the same year as Wilson.

Therefore, only Stockton is really older than Ewing.

But Stockton didn't have the need to be the boss, Ewing did.

The tacit understanding between Wilson and Ewing is that outside the field, Ewing can use his standards to strictly demand his teammates, but on the field, he is always too focused and lacks leadership.

It is Wilson's task to infect his teammates with his own enthusiasm and to catch those who fall behind.

Although they didn't say anything, they assigned each other's work very tacitly, and there was no objection to this.

This was a tacit understanding that didn't come to the table, and Louis would definitely not be able to ask anything, so he could only get angry casually, take his embarrassment away, and then quickly disappear.

Oh, and Sean Kemp is still crying, isn't he?
Cry and cry, young people have to accept some tests, otherwise how can they be entrusted with important responsibilities in the future.

It took about a week for the two rookies Kemp and Doug West to initially adapt to the Knicks' training intensity.

Louis regards West as a new member of the murder press team. His physical fitness is great, but his technique is relatively rough.

Therefore, West joined the murder pressing team led by Wilson and Rodman as soon as he came.

His defensive skills were rebuilt, his role on the court was reset, and everything about college basketball no longer had anything to do with him.

West will be a very different player because of Louie.

Bowie still doesn't participate in the confrontation match, he can't bear this kind of intensity, anyway, there are exactly 15 players in the big roster during the draft, just to remove Bowie.

It took about a week for Kemp to adapt to the confrontational environment in the Knicks' intra-team competition.

His adaptation is not a physical adaptation.

Every game he was ruthlessly knocked down by the big brother on the team.

His adaptation is a spiritual adaptation, he is no longer afraid, and he will not cry when he laughs at Ewing and others.

The team's strength trainer Dennis Dillon believes that Kemp will spend the next two years in the team's beating.

"He needs to lose a little weight, about 10 pounds, and then his athletic ability will be better than now, and then spend another two years to gain 20 pounds of muscle in an orderly manner to strengthen his whole body." Dillon said, "By that time, he will probably be able to show his talent on the court."

Louis watched Kemp being knocked down, thinking about what would happen to him in actual combat?

The intensity of the Knicks' team competition is stronger than that of the official game. If he can play at this intensity, it should not be a big problem to play in the regular season.

"That's right. After Truk left, we didn't have any serious inside coaches." Tomjanovich believed that an inside coach would be better for Kemp's development.

Louis smiled and said, "Aren't you?"

"Me?" Tomjanovich shook his head again and again, "I can't, I'm not an inside coach, and besides, I have too many things to take care of."

Louis didn't know what else Rudy was busy with besides presiding over training every day.

But although there are many slots in his words, the truth is correct.

Kemp needs a real inside mentor.

"Expedition," Louis thought of his almighty Xiao Zhao, "help me draw up a list of inside players who are unemployed at home, and those who have retired for many years are also fine."

Zhao Yuanzheng asked: "Are there any requirements for their level?"

"Steady starter or All-Star in the NBA while playing."

An all star at home?That basically has to be found in famous places.

No matter how many problems Kemp has, everyone can see his talent.

On the eighth day of training camp, Kemp had a dunk that made Louie scream.

He gives Wilson a pick-and-roll and rolls.

Wilson passed the ball, he got the ball, stepped directly outside the paint and took off, trying to make a meteor-like dunk.

Ewing didn't want him to succeed, so he jumped forward, ready to block him.

As a result, Kemp actually used a sideways folded hands in the air to pull the ball away from Ewing's body, and then forcibly lifted the ball up for a slam dunk.

Not to mention his gliding distance and jumping height, but his coordination of movements in the air, his natural sense of coordination, and the moment he completed the dunk, he played an oversized spicy sky plug like Tiandao Payne carried a bag of rice to Muye Village.

You can only know the impact of the explosion that makes people's scalp numb.

This kid is going to be MSG's darling.

After that, Lu Yijing waited for Zhao Yuanzheng's list.

It only took him half a day to give the list to Louis.

This list includes Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Wharton, Dave Cowens, Willis Reed?

Also, Russell is out of class already?
Louie found that many of his news were lagging, especially Russell's departure.

Following the disappointment of professional basketball in the 70s, this time, Russell, who returned to the arena in the late 80s, also failed to bring his success in the 60s to the team.

Not only that, he also gave the Knicks two first-round picks for Wayman Tisdale.

The fame of his life was ruined here, and no one will invite him out of the mountain again.

Russell couldn't come to New York, Louis knew that.

Chamberlain?Not to mention his physical talent, which is the top five in human history, does he have the patience to teach an "ordinary person" like Xiao? Even if he really has it, what can he teach?What's so difficult about playing basketball, isn't it enough to get 30+20 in any game?Take 50 points?Grandpa averaged 50 points per game that year!Is it hard to rebound?Master easily give you 50 rebounds in a single game!What, if there are too many fouls, then don't defend and it's over. If you don't defend, can you still foul?
As for his technique, Louie doesn't think his 60s masterwork was advanced in the 80s.

He is so talented that he doesn't need to be locked up a lot of the time, and he uses his arms to pick melons when he is pushed behind him. Is this kind of person invited to be Kemp's development coach because he thinks that he was not completely abandoned in his previous life?

A bunch of Hall of Fame-level stars were kicked out by Louis, and the only one he was attracted to was New York star Willis Reed.

One of the most respected players of his era, Reed was one of the league's best enforcers and bodyguards in his prime.

The core of the team is a bodyguard-like figure?That's right.

His famous battle was in 1967, when he defeated three Lakers players by one person and singled out the entire bench area of ​​the Lakers. The momentum was like a lion attacking its prey.

As a short center with no advantages in palm size, stature, and athletic ability, in an era when the average height of the interior reached 6 feet 10 (208cm), how good is his basic skills if he wants to dominate both offense and defense like Reid?

Louis does not have a video to prove his point of view, but he believes that those who can rule the peak Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Unseld, and old Chamberlain definitely have the best basic inside skills⑴.

Coupled with his famous leadership, sense of responsibility to protect his teammates, pure iron-blooded tough guy, and the real version of John McLean (the hero of "Die Hard"), Louis can't think of anyone who is more suitable as Camp's mentor than Reed.

To this end, he must fight for Reed to join.

⑴ From March 1970 to before Reed was injured in the fourth game of the Finals that year, Reed played 3 games with Unseld, 7 games with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and 5 games with Chamberlain, averaging 4 points and 29.6 rebounds per game.

(End of this chapter)