the rest, only noise

Chapter 693 Smelly fish and rotten shrimp should know how to shut up
On February 1989, 2, Louie met his players.

He can't remember how many times he was elected as the head coach of the All-Star team. From 1984 to the present, there have been three times if not four times.

At the official event site, the eastern star team made a collective appearance.

Louie is in the center, with Wilson, Ewing, Bird, Sampson, Thomas, Barkley, Stockton, Malone, Hank Geithers, Dumars, Worthy, and Parish standing beside him.

It can be seen that the All-Star players in the East are concentrated in five teams.

Arguably, this is why the East looks inferior to the West.

Let's look at the big list in the West: Tragedy Division, Jordan, Drexler, Pippen, Kevin Johnson, David Robinson, Olajuwon, Chris Mullin, Larry Nance, Wilkins, Dale Ellis, Mark Price.

In terms of the star flavor of the roster, the Knicks have already won.

Moreover, this is when Doherty is absent due to injury.

Compared with the East, the star players in the West come from seven different teams.

Ranked second in the league and No. [-] in the West, the Lakers occupy the same four spots as the Knicks in the East.

The quantity and quality of star players can indirectly see the quality of the entire team.

After Louis took a group photo with everyone, they went to the restaurant booked by the organizer of the event to have dinner together.

The atmosphere at the table was weird.

The two groups of people who shouldn't be sitting together to eat together - the Knicks and the Celtics, sat together.

Wilson and Bird had old grudges, and Ewing had always been hostile to the Celtics, even though the area where he lived before going to Georgetown for college belonged to the New England area where the Celtics had the greatest influence.

Stockton is the kind of character who can only let go in the presence of acquaintances.

On the Celtics side, Sampson looked at them with a look on his face, Bird watched coldly, and Thomas smiled but never spoke first.

"The selection mechanism of the All-Star Game is unreasonable. I don't want to play with New Yorkers at all!" Barkley complained, "The league should give us the freedom to choose who to be teammates with!"

When someone speaks, Louis can bring the topic into focus: "What's the matter, Chuck, do you think 'Larry Legend' and 'Mr. One' are not qualified to be your teammates?"

"I didn't mean that!" Barkley said confidently. "I made it clear that I don't want to be teammates with the New Yorkers. Don't you think I've forgotten what happened a while ago?"

Ewing said with a stern face: "Since you have been fined and suspended, we can express our understanding for this, and let's get over it."

Ewing's arrogant and arrogant attitude made Barkley furious: "What happened? Who went with you? Don't you think it's me who is wrong?"

Since the fat man had grown fat into his brain, Louis had no choice but to enlighten him.

"Chuck, let's talk about it. Who did it first?"

Barkley replied immediately: "It's us."

"And who took the initiative to increase the intensity of the game, causing the situation to get out of control?"

"It's us."

"Then who started the fight?"

Barkley said guiltily, "We."

Suddenly, he remembered why his teammates were fighting: "No, no, Coach Lu, according to you, the fault is all on us, so you are all right?"

"That's not true." Louis said sarcastically, "Our biggest mistake is that when you lost your mentality and wanted to use court violence to solve the problem, you didn't stand up and get beaten. Next time I will tell my players not to fight back and let you beat them for nothing. What do you think?"

"Who the fuck needs this?!"

Barkley said dissatisfiedly: "Coach Lu, do you think you are the only ones who can bully others on the court, and if others make trouble for you, it is the other party's fault?"

"It was you who provoked the trouble, you were the one who took the initiative, and you were the one who escalated the situation." Louis asked with a smile, "What do you think we did wrong?"

"I" wronged Barkley can't refute Louie, "you"

"Ok?"

"Can't you say that the Knicks are not wrong at all?" Isiah Thomas stood sideways in the name of justice. "Your game style has always been rough. Isn't that the reason for the escalation of the intensity of the game?"

Louis said meanly: "You villain who sees a rookie from the same country who was selected as an All-Star in his rookie season because of his popularity, are you embarrassed to come out and uphold justice? Do you have the qualifications, Isiah?"

Thomas's smile froze on his face.

"Coach, that matter is over." Wilson said, "After May 1988, 5 (the day of the Eastern Conference tiebreaker), I put that matter down."

Others will find it strange to hear the date.

The Celtics will not.

Thomas, Sampson, Bird all thought of that game.

To this day, some of them still cannot accept it.

Just like so many Celtics fans think the Knicks stole their five-peat.

"If I wasn't injured," Bird paused, "No, if Isiah wasn't injured, you would have been killed, you know?"

"Hillbilly, I don't like 'what if'."

Louis didn't mind poking their lung tubes: "I only look at the results. The result is that you lost, we won, and we have won until today. The Knicks are now the defending champions. You are welcome to challenge."

Once the topic enters the field of championship, many people present have to shut up.

Including several representatives of the Pistons, although they are the top team in the East, they have never been a strong contender for the championship.

Hank Geithers, a rookie from Miami, was nervous.

The smell of gunpowder on the dinner table was too strong, he didn't dare to open his mouth, didn't dare to take a big breath, and even had to chew slowly.

Only Barkley didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth: "What kind of champion is not a champion? Do you think that the championship means everything?"

"You haven't even played in the semi-finals, so you have nothing to say here." Bird said contemptuously.

"you!!!"

Buckley glared at Byrd in embarrassment.

"Indeed, Hank is still very young, and he has a promising future. Although Joe and James (Worthy) don't have rings, they both led the team to the conference finals, but they were just short of each other. I respect these guys, but Chuck, I don't respect you." Louis said lightly, "You are no longer a rookie. This year is your sixth year of debut. Look at your results—you have played in the playoffs three times? And you were all eliminated in the first round? What right do you have to speak out here?"

Barkley felt like someone was stepping on his face.

He's ashamed and angry, but he doesn't think he's the only one to blame for the Bulls' poor record.

"Do you think whoever comes to my position can do better?" Barkley said loudly.

"I don't dare to say to others, but Larry can definitely." Louie explained rationally. "In the 1979-80 season, it was Larry's first season. I watched him bring the Celtics, which only won 29 wins last season, to 63 wins. I have witnessed it first-hand, and I can tell you clearly that there is only one newcomer in that team, Larry, and the others have not changed."

Barkley was dumbfounded, unable to refute at all.

"Now you understand what a GOAT is, Chuck?"

At this time, although Barkley was defeated by Louis with facts, he refused to admit defeat: "Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT. Larry has never scored 100 points."

"Look, this is the reason why your team can't succeed. The reason you think Wilt is the GOAT is that he once scored 100 points in a single game, but you don't know that the years when Wilt was frantically chasing the scoring record was the most unsuccessful period of his career." Louis said heartily, "Of course, I can understand that you are such a superficial fake star, so you can never look at things from the perspective of a winner!"

Barkley's lips twitched, his face livid.

Everyone believes that he wanted to rush to Louis and punch him at least 5 times.

"It's not my fucking fault that I chose a dead man with the second overall pick!" Barkley's resentment burst out, "Who doesn't need a few helpers? Larry has Isiah and Ralph; Patrick has Benj, John, and Kevin. Who do I have? Tell me, who do I have by my side?"

Louie motioned for Wilson to pour him a Coke.

Wilson complied.

After drinking the Coke, Louis said contentedly, "Don't be so angry, Chuck, of course it's not your responsibility, it's your management's problem. However, you act like a softie who has witnessed the crime of a strong woman but is indifferent. If you are dissatisfied, you should raise it loudly instead of venting your anger on the court. Don't you think that if you act tougher on the court, your status quo will change?"

"Since you know where your problem is, you should find a way to solve it. If you can't solve it, jump out of the car. If you know that you can't solve the problem and want to rot in Chicago, then you should accept the reality that you are a rotten fish." Louie said bitterly, "So, as a rotten fish and rotten shrimp, the next time Larry and I discuss championships, the only thing you should do is shut up. Yes, understand?"

With the exception of Gaithers, most of the East's star players are old men.

They knew what kind of coach Louie was.

These heated conversations, to some, were a humiliation for Barkley.

But like Thomas, Sampson and Bird, they all have a deeper understanding of this.

Obviously, Louis is using this rare communication opportunity to instill something in Barkley.

His words were ugly, but would Barkley hate him?

No, if you want to hate, you should also hate the incompetent management that caused him to fall into this field and be humiliated by Louis in public, shouldn't he?

There is a grievance and a debtor, and he will not hate Louis just because Louis pointed out the cruel reality.

On the contrary, maybe in the future he will be grateful to Louis.

Most people will waste their youth, but waste also pays attention to a basic law. The Bulls' waste of Barkley's peak period has reached the extreme.

After Barkley realized this section, he was furious, and he didn't say a word after that.

(End of this chapter)