the rest, only noise

Chapter 891

Louie's weight loss plan has not yet started, and he has to meet with the new team members first.

In order to complete the meeting, he had to prepare a speech.

Later, he felt that the speech was too stupid. Although there are four new players this year, the old players are still dominant.

Therefore, there should be no need for a speech or something, just a few casual words like chattering are enough.

Before Louie returned to the court to meet the players, Tom Thibodeau, one of the new members of the coaching staff, came to say hello.

At this time, Thibodeau has not yet had a Van Gundy-style Mediterranean hairstyle as Louis knows.

But nothing special, just normal short hair.

"Coach Lu, I've been looking forward to this day since I joined the job." Thibodeau was referring to meeting Louie.

Louis nodded and smiled, "I hope my appearance doesn't disappoint you."

"Very good, Coach Lu, a man should have a little more flesh." Thibodeau knew that pleasing Louis would be good for his future.

Unfortunately, Louis has made up his mind to lose weight.

Thibodeau's words didn't sound strange to him, but Thibodeau has too many strange things.

From the data point of view, he is not the kind of defensive coach Louie wants.

When Thibodeau was in college, he was the captain of the school team and mainly played power forward. At that time, he not only had long flowing hair like a hippie, but also played in a very modern style-he was a three-point maniac, and was ridiculed by his teammates.

However, he can't go to the professional league to show off his three-point shooting like Antoine Walker, because even in China's League A, no team will accept a soft guy who is only 1 meters tall but can shoot three-pointers.

Louis did not find any information on Thibodeau's interest in defense.

There is only a short story in the style of a joke - it is said that Thibodeau is always accompanied by "Jesus" in the game, because every time he is broken by his opponent, he will shout "Jesus!"

After graduating from college in 1981, he gave up the idea of ​​playing professional basketball and stayed at his alma mater to become a coach.

Of course, like many others, he started as a teaching assistant.

Moreover, Louis was not surprised to see the words "Tom's main research direction is offense" on his information.

If Louis didn’t know Thibodeau, he could naturally use this information to determine Thibodeau’s future development direction, but unfortunately, he knew Thibodeau, so when he saw Thibodeau researched a set of running and bombing systems called "Random Guns and Birds" in college, his scalp felt numb when he heard Han Hong sing Rap.

"Tom, as a member of the coaching staff, what do you think you can do for me?"

Louis asked straight to the point.

Speaking of this, Thibodeau is excited.

"Coach Lu, I have a lot of research on offense, and I can help your offensive system."

Louis smiled and said, "What else?"

"I'm an avid videographer. As long as you need it, I can replay a game 20 times and remember all the details."

Louie likes this.

"continue."

"I love everything about basketball. Basketball is the only thing in my life. I can give up anything for it."

Louie joked, "Including marriage?"

"Yes." Thibodeau smiled bitterly, "including marriage."

Before coming to New York, Thibodeau worked for the Timberwolves. During this period, he had a relationship, and he had reached the stage of talking about marriage. Relatives and friends had already sent gifts to the new house.

As a result, Thibodeau was fired by the Timberwolves. Because of the success of the Knicks and the Trail Blazers, the league's style is biased towards brutal hand-to-hand combat and iron-blooded defense, and offensive assistants like Thibodeau are not valued.

After losing his job, Thibodeau was in a daze for a few days, his emotions were very unstable, and he made a decision-he would not marry, and women would only hinder his career.

When Elgin Baylor interviewed him, he asked Thibodeau specifically according to Louie's meaning: "What do you think about your emotional state?"

"I won't get married." Thibodeau's answer at the time made Baylor feel that this person was either a pervert or a genius. "I think if I want to be a good coach, there is no place for women in my world."

Louie believes that anyone on Thibodou's coaching staff loves basketball.

Because none of them can give themselves completely to the sport like Thibodeau.

People have seven emotions and six desires, and Thibodeau also has them, but he tied all his lusts to basketball.

Looks like someone like Kaede Rukawa who only has basketball in his life?But Louis doesn't think that Rukawa Kaede will remain the same after becoming the number one high school student in Japan and landing in the United States.When Rukawa arrives in the United States, he will find that the 1-meter small forward is as insignificant as an ant in the American high school basketball world. At that time, he will regain his sobriety and start to have human desires.

Thibodeau, on the other hand, seemed completely bewildered.

There is no room for anything other than basketball in his world.

"Tom, are you interested in changing your research direction?" Louis asked.

Thibodeau said nothing: "But please order."

"In addition to you, the offensive coach on the coaching staff already has Doug Moe. You should know how good he is in this area. This summer, we lost Billy Donovan and Jeff Van Gundy. They are both excellent defensive coaches. This is also a professional talent we desperately need. If you are willing to transform in this direction, I will pay more attention to your opinion in the coaching staff meeting." Louie promised, "If you encounter difficulties in the process, you can always ask me."

Louie asked Thibodeau to give up the offensive basketball he had studied for 11 years.

Thibodeau's hesitation did not exceed 3 seconds.

"I can't wait to learn a new class," Thibodeau said excitedly.

To be honest, before the meeting, Louie didn't expect much from Thibodeau.

Thibodeau gave him the impression that he was a seasoned defensive coach. As the head coach, his flexibility was average and he liked rough players, which was contrary to his philosophy.

But after the meeting, Thibodeau gave him too many surprises.

He's a basketball fanatic, like the fakir and the monk who surrendered himself to God, and only one thing in their life matters.

For this kind of person, Louis can rest assured that he can entrust anything to him.

In addition, Thibodeau also gave Louie some extra surprises.

He analyzed the performance of the Chinese team in the Barcelona Olympics in the group stage.

To be precise, it was Yu Tiancan, the Knicks' No. [-] pick this year.

Yu Tiancan's performance in Barcelona can be described as snake-headed and tiger-tailed. It must be bad to meet Sabonis in the first game. After he was blown up, he languished for a few games. By the time he recovered, it was too late.

Regarding Yu Tiancan's performance, Thibodeau has another opinion.

"Although Harold showed the potential of a core insider at Wake Forest University, he is actually more like a Rick Schmitz with better athletic ability but weaker offensive ability."

Thibodeau used samples of Yu Tiancan's dozens of NCAA games to prove that if he meets a strong center, Yu Tiancan's inside singles are not reliable, with an overall shooting percentage of only 38%, but his defense and rebound protection have always been trustworthy.

In the Chinese team, Yu Tiancan was assigned to the position of the core player due to the solidification of the coaching staff's thinking.

His incompatibility, coupled with various reasons such as being beaten by Sabonis in the first game, caused Yu Tiancan not to enter the state until the fourth game of the group stage.

Thibodeau's report surprised Louie.

He thought he knew Yu Tiancan well enough, but he still made the mistake of habitual thinking.

Because he watched Yu Tiancan grow up, he has always paid attention to Yu Tiancan's performance in college.

But he doesn't have enough energy for a field study like Thibodeau.

"This report, you bother."

Thibodeau's report not only let Louis know where the national basketball team lost, but also provided a reference for how to use Yu Tiancan in the new season.

"It's all what I should do." Thibodeau said modestly.

After Thibodeau left, Quinn Snyder also came to say hello.

Seeing Snyder's appearance, Louie couldn't think of the future Jazz coach who would always make a murderer's face about publicly murdering someone.

Snyder is a typical handsome guy with a horse face, just like Wu Zun, Keanu Reeves, and Wu Yanzu. Seeing him, Louis felt that his title of the most handsome man in the team would be temporarily given up.

Who made him lose weight?

"Coach Lu, in which direction do you want Harold Yu to develop?" Snyder asked.

Louis handed the report Thibodeau just submitted to Snyder: "I hope he can grow into a center with a balanced offense and defense. This is our team's recent observation report on him. You take this report and make a copy for yourself, and then return the original to me. Before planning Yu's blueprint, you must first understand what kind of player he is."

"I see, Coach Lu."

After sending away the number one handsome guy in the team, Louis squeezed the fat on his face.

Strictly speaking, he has not yet achieved the achievement of "One Fat Destroys Everything". The weight of more than ten pounds of fat has made his body shape and face change obviously, but it is only a change. It is the kind of fat that is visible to the naked eye, but it has not completely collapsed.

Therefore, it is not too late to make up for it. It is time for him to draw a halt to his six-year struggle against fat.

(End of this chapter)