the rest, only noise

Chapter 1309

"The Lakers played a good game. Just like their regular season rankings, they are the No. [-] team in the league. We must play with the spirit of twelve points. Tonight, we failed to achieve our goals, but we will do better in the following games."

Riley was so well-mannered in front of reporters that no one could see how terrifying the smiling face was behind the scenes.

Jordan praised the performance of the Lakers, and then was not very satisfied with the performance of some people on the team.

"We were not tough enough to fight Los Angeles." Jordan said dissatisfiedly, "I can say that we were not at our best tonight, but Los Angeles was not at our best either."

Jordan said something that only an insider would understand.

When Jordan said the Lakers were not at their best, he wasn't referring to the performance of the Lakers, but how often they used "beautiful basketball."

Nowadays, the Lakers' "beautiful basketball" is no secret, and all teams have experienced it.

Some teams have tried to crack it, but have been severely punished.

There are also teams that still beat the Lakers even though the Lakers offered "beautiful basketball".

"Beautiful basketball" is not an invincible tactic, because even the Lakers themselves can't master it smoothly.

Once there are a lot of mistakes, the opponent's opportunity will come.

However, the Lakers now play "beautiful basketball" and rarely make a lot of mistakes.

Because Wilson and the tragedian have reached the third stage in their exploration of the system.

At this stage, if the teammates perform sluggishly, the tactical core of "Eye of the Storm" can allow them to form their own system, amplify their personal offensive influence infinitely, and help teammates perform better.

That is to say, unless all members of the Cavaliers are in poor condition, and the core Wilson and the Tragedy Master fail to produce results after launching the "Eye of the Storm" tactic, "Beautiful Basketball" will lose its effectiveness.

The chances of these things happening at the same time are very low.

This is what Jordan called the Lakers not at their best.

Because the Lakers only played less than 1 minute of "beautiful basketball" tonight.

On the Lakers side, Barkley couldn't wait to put his face on Riley: "I hope the Blazers can play better. You know, I didn't play long tonight. What does that mean?"

This usually means that Barkley's defense is too bad, and the offense is not open.

But Sir Charles was able to describe the poor performance as if the Lakers were deliberately hiding their strength.

"This means that we can beat the Blazers without my efforts. This is just the first game, and I believe their strength is not so bad. If the next few games are still like this, then I can only express regret to them. Obviously, this is a problem with the coaching staff. The Blazers have Michael and Hakeem. They are all top stars in the league. How can they have such strength?"

Louie is not as arrogant as Barkley, and his answers are basically impeccable.

Only on some minor issues that have nothing to do with the game, he will show special emotions.

For example, a question from the "Los Angeles Daily News": "Coach Lu, Kobe has always announced that he is the secret weapon of the Lakers. Will he become a surprise player in the conference finals?"

Louie only hopes that Kobe will not copy the reverse surprise case in the playoffs where he made three consecutive shots and sent the team out of the game under his hands.

However, in a Lakers team with Wilson, Barkley, Dumars, Ellis, and Tragedy, unless these are all injured, it is really not the turn of a high school rookie to shoot key shots.

Today, the question that most interests Louis has nothing to do with the game or any Lakers players.

"Coach Lu, the NBA will hold this year's draft lottery on May 5th. The Lakers have the Vancouver Grizzlies' first-round pick this year. What do you think is the significance of this pick to the future of the Lakers?"

Louis said with a mysterious smile: "It depends on which number it ends up being. If it is the number one, then its significance will be infinite."

The other party asked a digging question: "Is it more meaningful than KG and Kobe?"

Louis really didn't mind digging a hole for Xiao Deng in advance.

In order to dig a hole for Duncan, Louis chose to jump into the reporter's hole.

"It must be, Jasmine and Bean are simply incomparable."

The next day, Louis' words were taken out of context by the media.

Even, a tabloid interpreted Louis' words as: "If I can get this year's No. [-] pick, I am willing to send KG and Kobe!"

Of course, Kobe and Garnett would not listen to the rumors of the tabloids, but Louie's statement that the two of them are incomparable is true.

In the next day's intra-team match, Garnett shouted at Louie every time he had a brilliant performance: "Sir, is this a good move, buddy?"

"interesting."

"Compared to TD?"

Louis turned into a Duncan fan: "Jasmine, can you have a higher level? The comparison between players is not determined by these."

"That buddy is now an NBA All-Star, is he more valuable than a college student?"

Not to mention, Garnett's words are quite reasonable.

Louis lightly smiled and said: "TD is now fully developed. I can be sure that when he enters the league next year, he will immediately have a superstar-level influence. For you, the All-Star may be the end of your career, but it is the starting point for TD."

"Sir, do you like TD so much?" Garnett really didn't understand what was so good about Duncan.

"Of course he reminds me of Bill Russell."

Talk like Louie watched Lord of the Rings play.

In fact, a more suitable template is Ewing, the pinnacle of character optimization.But Louis felt that saying this was too much for the bastard orangutan, and it was suspected of black Duncan, so he couldn't do it.

Unexpectedly, Wilson actually said: "Actually, his style of play looks quite similar to Patrick's."

Kobe asked in surprise, "Why do you even say that?"

Wilson not only watched Duncan's game video, but also played against the college star team represented by Duncan in the Dream Team last year.

Duncan, who had just finished his junior season at the time, suppressed both Webber and Manning.

So Wilson has no objection to Duncan's strength.

"He is really that strong..." Wilson said, "I even think he is the most powerful rookie after Larry."

Garnett had a million dissatisfaction written on his face, thinking, when Duncan enters the league next season, he must have a good fight with him.

What kind of bullshit is the contemporary Bill Russell, even if Russell himself is here, he also... He also needs to spout a few trash words first.

Louis looked at the two high school boys who were full of fighting spirit, and thought that there would be something to watch every day at the training ground next season.

Duncan suddenly became a popular figure in the Lakers.

Young people want to know whether he has real material, but veterans who know Duncan basically blow people up first.

They didn't mean that they really liked Duncan by saying how great they were, but they wanted to arouse the competitive spirit of the young people in the team.

What they didn't know was that Louie was really preparing for Duncan to join the team.

Although the lottery meeting has not yet started, this matter has been decided long ago.

Unless Stern backs out, the Lakers have secured this year's No. [-] pick.

Louis is too familiar with Duncan, so it stands to reason that there is no need to inquire about his situation.But after time travel, Louis couldn't develop a good habit, that is, no matter what the other person's previous life was, his real face may not be what he remembered.

The most direct example is Bird.

Before crossing, Bird was the king of kings in Louis' heart.

After time travel, Byrd was downgraded directly to a country bumpkin, and no matter how amazing Bird's trash talk legend was, in Louis's view, it was a manifestation of the lack of personal qualities of a bumpkin.

Regarding Duncan's scouting report, the Lakers did not do very detailed.

In addition, the 1997 NBA draft was still a draft with a thin talent pool.

Duncan is recognized as the No. [-] pick and was named the grand prize, just like O'Neal and Webber before the draft are highly anticipated.

Except for Duncan, this draft is not like previous drafts, where the second and third picks can be used to select players with the best prospects other than the No. [-] pick.

In this year's NCAA, Keith Van Horn rose strongly as another Larry Bird II.

But his appearance did not excite the scouts, because there were too many Bird IIs who had fallen before.

If Van Horn was really that good, he wouldn't have been noticed by scouts until his senior season.

Apart from Van Horn, there is no recognized No. [-] pick in this draft.

Unless... Tracy McGrady, the No. 1997 high school student in the United States in 1996, decided to follow the steps of the No. 1995 high school students in the United States in [-] and the No. [-] high school students in the United States in [-], and bring his talents to the NBA in advance.

After all, the greatest coaches of modern professional basketball have fully embraced high school students, and others should not have prejudice against high school players.

Louis believes that McGrady will have a good market this year.

He originally fell out of the top five, but looking at it now, he is very likely to occupy one of the top three seats in this talent-thin draft.

Louie doesn't care about McGrady, though.

The Lakers could only choose McGrady under one circumstance—Stern repented temporarily and put Louis together, preventing them from being the No. [-] pick this year.

So right now, getting to know Duncan is a priority.

After some searching, Louie discovered a little bit of trivia... Duncan was never on the cover of Sports Illustrated in college.

Looking at it now, how strange is it?
Ewing, who also played in college for four years and booked the No. 4 pick early before the draft, appeared on the cover of "Sports Illustrated" four times.

Kareem-Jabbar was the most valued player in the history of college basketball, and he was selected for the cover of pictorial magazines 5 times during college.

To put it more closely, from the 90s to the present, almost every No. [-] pick has been selected for the cover of a pictorial in college.

Even if the requirements are set a little lower, McGrady, who is only the first high school student at this stage, has also been selected for the cover of a pictorial.

And Duncan has played in college for four years, and locked in this year's No. [-] lottery one year in advance. Not to mention being on the cover, there is not even a long article about him.

This disappointed Louis greatly.

He really wanted to know what the so-called media people who were optimistic about Duncan meant.

If you are optimistic about others, do you want to hype them in advance?
Leaving aside the hype before James entered the league, Little Deng probably couldn't afford it. No matter what, he must be similar to Weber and his ilk, right?

Of course, Duncan really can't be selected as the cover of the pictorial because of a fatal mistake like Weber, but considering that the talent pool in this year's draft is already shallow to a certain extent, isn't it reasonable to concentrate resources to hype Duncan?
Then Louie found an article about Duncan in a second-rate magazine called Sports Digest.

Through the game video, combined with the article description, a clear image of Duncan appeared in front of Louis.

All the media that have been in contact with Duncan put the word humility on him.

In a 1997 college basketball report in Sports Illustrated, Wake Forest's "Duncan's nightmare" was mentioned.

A center named Berenez complained about Duncan to reporters: "He laughed at me all night, making me unable to achieve any results in the paint. He...he is my nightmare!"

Miraculously, when the poor Berenelles said that Duncan had been laughing at him all night, a picture came to Louie's mind inexplicably.

To be precise, it was a dynamic picture, the specific content was "Dwight Howard in a Lakers jersey was walking cursingly, and Duncan's evil smile suddenly appeared on the screen. GIF sitting not far away".

After watching Duncan's game, Duke's little coach K said: "He is basically a finished product. In my opinion, the current TD can play in the professional arena."

Louis noticed that those who praised Duncan were basically insiders.

Instead, the fans are not interested in him.

This has something to do with Duncan's style of play.

Regarding Duncan's style of play, you know everything you know, and don't ask if you don't understand. If I tell you clearly, it is difficult for you to grow up. Do you understand?

Just when Louis was obsessed with studying Duncan, Kobe sneaked into the president's office to play on the computer.

"Sir, is Duncan really that good?" Kobe didn't believe how strong a college student could be.

Louis said heartbrokenly, "Better than you is for sure."

"Can he play 'beautiful basketball'?" Bryant asked, getting to the point.

Louie said flatly: "If there is only one person in your generation who can play 'beautiful basketball', it is him."

Kobe wasn't mad about it.

He began to use this as an introduction to ask Louie more about "beautiful basketball".

After a while, Kobe left.

He would come to sit in the president's office for a while every day, sometimes just to play with the computer, sometimes to chat with Louis, and sometimes to discuss "beautiful basketball" like today.

Bass Jr. said with relief: "It is said that Kobe does not know how to communicate, but I think he is the best at communicating."

Louis didn't deny it.

Obviously Kobe has a good impression of him, and he will ask any questions on the court.

To Louie's annoyance, Kobe really seemed to have no sense of time.

If he came across a problem he thought Louie could solve, he'd find Louie anytime.

People come to the office when they are in the office, and call home when they are at home.

Even in the middle of the night, he would call.

Louie would get angry with Kobe earlier, but now he's used to it.

This is something a child can teach, and it's too late for him to be happy.

It is Kobe who engages in some useless coaches like this.

In less than a season, Louis felt that his endocrine was a little out of balance.

"Where's Coach Zhao? I haven't seen him much recently."

Louis raised his mouth casually.

Bass Jr. smiled and said, "Coach Zhao has been busy fighting with Dejan Bodiloga recently, and he can't take care of anything in the team."

It was only then that Louis remembered that Zhao Yuanzheng had been assigned by him to confront Bodi Loga on the Internet.

"How's the battle going?" Louis asked.

Bass Jr. said: "Although Bodi Loga's actual combat ability can beat a hundred Coach Zhao, but professional theoretical knowledge is too lacking, and Coach Zhao insists on convincing people with reasoning. Now Bodi Loga has undoubtedly admitted the fact that European basketball lags behind the United States, but he would rather die than agree with the conclusion that staying in Europe is a waste of talent."

Louis was amused: "So exciting?"

"Yeah, Coach Zhao is amazing, you deserve to be brought out!"

Louis' mood suddenly improved a lot.

Duncan and Bodi Loga are the crouching dragons and phoenixes who have been left behind in the world. If they can be recruited at the same time, why not worry about basketball being beautiful?

Looking at it now, the situation is more optimistic than he thought.

Bodi Loga can admit that European basketball is behind today, and tomorrow he can admit that he is not enterprising to stay in the European fish pond and dominate.

As long as Bodi Loga has a higher pursuit of basketball attainments, he is not afraid that the aggressive method will fail.

(End of this chapter)