MTL - The Rest, Only Noise-Chapter 20 sewer team

In addition to watching Notre Dame's training, Louie also successfully hooked up with Notre Dame head coach Phelps.

This is very accidental, Phelps likes to play squash, Louis does not have this hobby, but for the sake of intelligence, he can even sell his **** (customers are only women), not to mention learning to play squash?

They met through the sport of squash.

Louie took the opportunity to ask Phelps what he thought of Ranbir, and the result was a big surprise.

Phelps spoke highly of Laimbeer, describing him as "the best player I've ever seen."

It's one thing to have a high rating, it's another to not have Ranbir.

In addition to acknowledging Laimbeer's desire to win, he has some concerns about Laimbeer's spiritual attributes: "Influenced by his father, he feels that playing basketball is not a decent job, which may affect his professional attitude."

This is undoubtedly a heartfelt word.

Phelps left a good impression on Louie. He is not the kind of coach who runs the train for the sake of his disciple's future. He can point out the strengths of players and he knows their weaknesses.

Considering his use of Ranbir, it can only be said that people who know people are not necessarily good at using people.

In mid-July, Louis returned to Boston.

He spent most of the month in Indiana and spent less than $1,200.

The remaining funds do not need to be handed in, nor do they belong to his personal income, and the funds for each scout are received every six months. Only top scouts like K.C. Jones and John Kirillia can spend as much as they want.

Louis's life returned to peace, and he still sent his salary home.

At the end of July, he pretended to go home, and Li Xuanbing thought he was going to be a sophomore.

It's not good to hide from my mother, but it's definitely worse to let her know the truth.

So Louis continued to hide it. Anyway, there was no risk of exposure in the short term. After these four years, he told her that he would not be able to get into medical school. It should be fine.

With the new season approaching, Louie's job gets busy.

The NBA is still at rock bottom, desperate to be rescued.

Last season, the Blazers shot midway and Bill Walton's knee blew up the momentum the league had built for them. The aftermath of Walton's injury is underestimated by many. Imagine Jordan's 72-win season with a severe knee injury and then three years without playing a game. What kind of NBA would we see? The Finals in those years will be the Heat-Sonics and the Pacers-Jazz for two consecutive years. As a fan, do you find this interesting?

The most popular team suddenly collapsed, poisonous dogs were everywhere, color discrimination made white audiences refuse to watch the NBA, and the Knicks were called the **** because of the entire black lineup. Then there's the league's indulgence in fighting behavior (low fines, few suspensions, no more than 1 game), and sports reporters' appreciation for this kind of physical confrontation.

Maurice Lucas was dubbed "the enforcer" for turning the series around in the Finals, and the Rockets' Calvin Murphy PG was praised for his various fighting behaviors. The ethos suggests to the players that fights are to be encouraged.

Look at Murphy, look at Lucas, they all get compliments for that.

In an era when the influence of print media is infinite, in an era when cable TV is not developed, TV channels are full of boring programs all day long so that everyone is in a serious mood when watching TV, in a "Sports Illustrated" columnist Think fights are cool and if you have a good reason it's okay to hurt someone else, court violence has had a terrible negative impact on the NBA - fans widely believe that professional basketball is run by a bunch of goofy big, poisonous, violent tendencies Dog, spoiled young man.

All this negative energy exploded in last season's game between the Lakers and the Rockets.

In that game, which was broadcast nationally on CBS, the league's No. 1 player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, punched the Rockets' white center Kevin Kunnert, smashing the opponent's jaw -- and resulting in a fractured finger and few injuries. The few rare injuries he suffered during his career were the added damage of beatings—and this scene, in the eyes of viewers and sensitive sports reporters, was a nationally televised beating by a black star with a strong racial awareness. a white man.

A more terrifying thing happened. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's guard with a knife, Washington, who played the role of a thug in the Lakers, came to the scene, and the star player of the Rockets Rudy Tomjanovich wanted to quell the incident, but he chose from Washington's back. run. At the time, it would have been considered a sneak attack, so Washington turned around and punched was an instinctive reaction, and that punch caused irreparable consequences.

Tomjanovich spent two weeks in intensive care with a broken jaw, a broken nose, a smashed face, a burst skull... that's what black players do to white star players.

In the 1970s, when ethnic conflicts were frequent, this punch was no less than the bullet that detonated the first World War.

The image of the league collapsed, and the Lakers had to give up Washington (the Celtics took him in).

This is the situation facing the new season.

Although Washington's punch caused the NBA to increase the amount of fines and the number of games suspended, the violence was not effectively contained, and the league never made an effort to this before the 1990s. The league's top star Walton continues to truce, Dr. J is a big disappointment, more and more players are living a life with no tomorrow, 75:25 black and white ratio continues to block fans, prejudice against skin color, fear of violence , distaste for poison dogs... these unmanageable negative images are destroying the league.

The Celtics' rookie coach Satch Sanders, feeling that his position was not secure, invited Louie to join the coaching staff.

Louis did not refuse, which meant he could receive two wages.

Sanders assigned him the position of assistant coach.

Some people say that Sanders asked an 18-year-old kid to help him because he was desperately ill, but he couldn't help it. The Celtics are currently completely uncompetitive, but fans and management demand that they must be competitive.

The big environment is already bad, and the internal environment is even worse.

Even the infighting between Auerbach and the new owner has raised concerns about the future of this team.

In an interview with The Boston Globe, Brown said he wanted to be a positive, proactive owner and help the team get back on its feet.

Before the season, he made a trade with the Pacers without Auerbach's knowledge.

He signed Pacers free agent Earl Tatum SG.

Why is it a transaction? This is the legacy of the Oscar Robinson case.

Under the Robinson case, the NBA will repeal its retention rules, but owners are concerned that full free agency will balloon players' salaries beyond what they can afford, so they're asking for a few years of buffer time.

This time period is 10 years.

The reservation clause is gone, but there is a compensation system.

That is, if Team A were to sign a free agent from Team B, they would have to compensate Team B with the corresponding assets. It's kind of like a sign-and-swap of the future, but it's completely different from a sign-swap. The compensation system is mandatory. Free agents from other teams must be compensated accordingly. If the two parties cannot reach an agreement on the content of compensation, the league office will decide what to compensate.

So, the players have not had real freedom yet.

The price of Brown signing Tatum is to compensate the Pacers with a second-round pick.

Auerbach was furious, but he didn't give up. After three games into the new season, he responded to his owner by sending Tatum to Detroit in exchange for Chris Ford SG.

As a coaching assistant, Louie has one more scouting job.

He began documenting teams' play styles while developing game plans for the coaching staff.

As a rookie, it just killed him.

Although he was a successful behind-the-scenes helmsman in a previous life, he never went to the front to direct a game.

He found that Sanders only played 10 plays per game, and those plays tended to be completed. The Celtics' real problems were lack of internal cohesion and poor defense.

The good news is that John Long, who can be said to have been introduced to Boston by Louie himself, had a great rookie season, and he was gratifying in the limited opportunities he was assigned to the rotation.

Before Game 4, Louie suggested that Sanders give Long more playing time, because the New Orleans Jazz were a poor defensive team.

"John is a rookie, he's not going to be targeted, so he's going to get a lot of shots." Louie tried to think for the best. "If he can take his chances..."

Sanders took his advice and gave Lang the moves previously assigned to Havlicek.

That night, Long played his famous shooting ability.

He opened the left and right wings frequently and scored a rookie-season-high 24 points.

However, the Celtics' defense was too poor. Although the offense played well, the New Orleans scored 120 points on defense and lost the game that they almost won.

Louie can't open his mouth during the game because he really doesn't understand.

He could see what was wrong with Sanders.

When the players walk on the field to defend, Sanders will only call a timeout, tell the players to work **** defense, and then change a group of people to go up.

He just can't throw his glasses aside and rudely ask players why they're not defending.

And this is what a qualified coach should do in such a situation.

Louie is happy that Lang has shown his eye, but he analyzes both the opponent and the Celtics.

This is Auerbach's request.

In his first-stage scouting report to Auerbach, he described the Celtics as a "hopeless sewer team."

Auerbach was furious.

It was the first time someone told him the Celtics should be flushed down the drain, even if Louis didn't mean it.

"It's a shame!" Auerbach told reporters.

Thatch Sanders is so stressed, he's about to collapse.

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