The rest is just noise

"I guess Mickey is not late."

After Louis sat down, he started with these words.

"He has something to do and won't be here." West didn't even bother to make excuses for Kupchak's absence, "But this might be better."

No disrespect to Kupchak, Louis indeed thinks so too.

Negotiation does not require many people.

Because the negotiating partner usually only wants to know the attitude of the key person.

"Jerry, do you have the answers to the questions I asked the day before yesterday?"

Louis believed that he and West would have something else to talk about.

But he would never have imagined that this topic would become so in-depth as the negotiations progressed.

West essentially dismissed Louie's question.

"I don't think you're a coach who gets to know players through other people's introductions," West said. "Excellent coaches often need strong intuition and judgment. You don't need me to tell you the answer. If you

If you want to know, you will find out for yourself.”

It's always fun to chat with a level-headed guy like West.

Louis doesn't have to worry about West misunderstanding or not understanding the tone of his words.

"I remember you also coached in the early years, right?"

"I have been a coach for three years."

"Why didn't you persist?"

"I led the team to lose 101 games in three years." After so many years, it seems that now when I think of the games he lost when he was coaching, I still feel a sense of injustice. "A coach with only a 58.9% winning rate,

He cannot lead the team to win the championship."

Then, the owner of the restaurant, Zhou Zhihao, came up and asked, "Coach Lu, what do you and this guest want to have?"

"Jerry, I recommend the fried noodles here."

West smiled ugly and said: "Thank you, but just give me some water."

West insisted not to order food and only drank water.

Louis was sure that he didn't eat Chinese food, not at all, and maybe he had some kind of aversion to Chinese food, just like he did to chili.

It's nothing, Louis won't think of him because of it.

Taste buds, just like XP, are very personal. Some people like tablet Iron Man, while others like cute and big breasts. There is no distinction between them.

West didn't want any food, so Louis didn't order any.

"Bring me a Coke."

"Give me a glass of orange juice, thank you."

West was still very restrained and did not let go.

Louis is not in a hurry, they have plenty of time today.

"Jerry, you must have heard about the free market, right?"

Louie is looking for West to talk to.

"Are you referring to the Danny Manning thing?"

In fact, Louis also wanted to know what he thought about Olajuwon going to the Trail Blazers, and the Heat getting Sampson and Drexler.

But he seemed more interested in Manning's affairs.

"Don't you think he went too far?" Louis first preset a position for himself to see West's reaction.

"He did go too far."

West speaks like an older generation.

Yes, that’s Louis’ mother’s generation.

But when Louis thought about it, wasn't West just like his mother?

He was born in 1938 and is 56 years old this year. It's just that Louis' achievements were so brilliant that many old people dare not show off to him like a senior.

"However," West had other views, "from his standpoint, I don't think there is a problem. Think about Walter Frazier. He was a totem in New York. When the team was in a good situation, people loved him.

He, when the team's performance was poor, he also became a scapegoat. He did not end up in New York and was traded to Cleveland in the twilight years of his career."

West said something thought-provoking: "We ask players to be loyal, who will ensure that the team is loyal to the players?"

West's position is very clear. He believes that Manning's motives are okay, but he just did not handle the matter well.

"So, it seems that Danny can't be entirely blamed." Louis began to direct the topic to another area, "This year's offseason has changed a lot."

"Yes, many teams have undergone obvious changes. Among them, Miami's reinforcements worry me."

Now West looks a lot like a NetEase Cloud user at 0 o'clock every day.

He was pessimistic: "I don't know if David meets Miami in the finals, how can David resist Ralph?"

Louis couldn't help laughing and said: "Do you think the Lakers can defeat the Trail Blazers and advance?"

"That's another thing." West also joked, "The prerequisite is that we can beat these damn bastard teams."

It can be seen that West also knows that the Lakers' current lineup is still not enough to fight against the Trail Blazers.

What's more, the Warriors are also coming in force.

"What if the Lakers meet the Knicks in the Finals? Aren't you worried about the duel between David and Patrick?"

West sneered; "Benjamin has come to Los Angeles, what else does Patrick have to fear?"

Poor orangutan, does anyone in this world like you?

Louis heard someone say that when Chamberlain was in the game, whenever he heard critics saying that he only had data but no championships, he would laugh at himself: "No one loves Goliath."

This sentence seems to be quite appropriate when applied to Ewing.

A Bill Russell-like effect occurred on him and public opinion looked down upon him.

He is obviously one of the top three centers in the league, but everyone only knows Wilson, and not many people have considered how much of a defensive addition he has to the Knicks.

For others, if Ewing's role is replaced by Olajuwon, Robinson, O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sampson, the Knicks' seven consecutive championships will also be completed.

But how many people can replace Wilson?

Although Louis doesn't see it that way, public opinion is not unreasonable.

It is blind and biased.

"Jerry, can the Lakers only find a way in the West under 'what if' circumstances?"

West has not forgotten his purpose.

"If you were our head coach, I wouldn't have to worry about it."

This is nonsense.

But the strange thing is that Louis can't see sincerity in West's eyes.

Lorraine said that those who do not tell the truth will have subtle tremors in their pupils.

And Louis captured such details in West's eyes.

"That's what every team's negotiator says, but I can only join one of you."

Louie wants to find out what West is thinking.

The look in West's eyes made Louis feel that the other party didn't really want him to go to the Lakers.

What is he afraid of?

At this time, the water they asked for was brought to them by the waiter.

"Are you having any trouble?"

West also wanted to know what Louis was hesitating about.

"If I want to make a major overhaul of the Lakers' roster, will you support me?"

Louis looked directly into West's eyes. For some reason, this old man, who was called "Mr. Key" in his youth, did not want to look into the eyes.

"Even if you want God on our team, I'll help you make it happen."

"What if I want to send Scottie Pippen away?"

"What if I want to trade David Robinson?"

Louis' two quick questions silenced West.

Especially when Louis said he wanted to trade David Robinson, there was an obvious emotional reaction in West's eyes.

"They are both top players in the league." West corrected himself like an obsessive-compulsive disorder. "I mean, the top players can hardly find players of equal value in the trading market... If we have to

To trade them, I hope we can get the best return."

Louis felt that he had touched West's reverse scales.

Perhaps West already knows that if Louis joins the team, the Lakers will be purged internally, and by then, the lineup he has worked so hard to build may be completely dismantled.

Is this the reason why he didn't want me to join but had to invite me to join?

"Do you know how many girlfriends Patrick has had in New York over the years?" Louis didn't ask West to give a number later. He asked himself, "I can't count, maybe 100, maybe 300."

West asked in disbelief: "How did he start and end his relationships with so many women so quickly?"

"That's good. I don't know. This may be the reason why he didn't contract HIV. Because he fully understands his desires, so when it's time to start a new relationship, he will start it decisively, and when it's time to end it, he will also

It will end decisively." Louis joked, "A situation like Erwin's on-and-off relationship with his first high school girlfriend for decades will never happen to Patrick. His desires are like a bottomless pit that cannot be satisfied.

Sometimes, he will renew for the sake of renewal, or even break up with his current girlfriend when he is still in love with her."

Louis' eyes met West's again.

This time, the logo man finally no longer avoided Louis' gaze.

"Sometimes, he simply wants to find a new girlfriend because he knows very well that he can't get anything from his current girlfriend."

West knew Louis was making the Ewing comparison.

Just like Ewing changed his girlfriend, Louis wanted to dismantle the Lakers' lineup, not because he could get the same price in return, but because he felt that the Lakers' existing lineup had almost developed and it was time to replace it with a new one.

"Both David and Scotty haven't reached their peak yet." West wanted to lie to himself, "What if the glass is still half full?"

West picked up the half-filled glass of orange juice in front of him and said, "Just like it."

"Jerry, after so many years, haven't you seen clearly their strength? After Irvine retired, how did the Lakers perform?" Louis picked up his cup, which also contained half a cup of Coke. "There is only half a cup of Coke in the cup.

Half a cup of water."

West didn't want to admit it, but he couldn't argue with Louis.

After the tragic star retired, the Lakers wandered between the semifinals and the Western Conference finals year after year.

Before the rise of the Warriors, they could proudly say that they were only inferior to the Trail Blazers in the Western Conference. Now, they can no longer comfort themselves like this.

Louis told the truth that West least wanted to face.

Robinson and Pippen's glasses were only half filled with water, that's what they saw.

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