The rest is just noise

There is only half a glass of water in the glass.

This evaluation is not excessive for two 29-year-old superstars.

How many players get better after the age of 30? Currently, no such player exists.

Every player in history begins to decline after the age of 30. The difference is just in speed.

"They didn't win in the end under others, maybe they can under you."

The last thing West wants to do is trade Robinson and Pippen.

In his eyes, these two people are the main puzzle pieces for the championship team.

But they are not the core of the championship team.

Louis didn't force West to express his position without trying it before. He could see that West was a very emotional person.

Robinson and Pippen were his favorites.

West's feelings about those two people are probably the same as the feelings Ewing and Wilson gave him.

However, Louis is very sure that Ewing and Wilson are indispensable players on the road to the championship and will pay attention to them. West is not the same. Pippen is his draft masterpiece after becoming the general manager of the Lakers, and stealing Robinson from the Holy City is even more important.

Operations at the level of gods.

Although there are rumors that Louis is behind these two transactions, who can be sure now?

"Okay, Jerry, it's not easy for you to stop talking about this." Louis wanted West to change his mood. "To be honest, you have done a great job over the years. It's hard to find fault with the Lakers.

Has been a model franchise across the league."

West then introduced Louis to a side of him that doesn't like false compliments.

"If that's true, maybe we should win a few more championships."

When West said this, Louis seemed to be able to see the scenes of losing games in his eyes.

He's sure West remembers every night of crushing defeat.

"Jerry, it's time for you to let it go."

"lay down?"

West may have forgotten his mission today.

It's not important anymore to convince Louis to join the Lakers.

What's important? Louie is a great coach, a great administrator, a great mentor, and no matter how old he is, he's always someone you can talk to.

"In the '60s, we lost to the Celtics six times, six times!" West stared, as if the person standing in front of him was not Louis, but the guy who lit a cigar before every game.

Reed fucking Auerbach.

"Maybe it would be less painful if we lost to six different teams, but losing to the same team over and over again? I think it's because we are too incompetent, just like when we were kids in school, the class always

There was a kid who laughed at you for being too fat, too thin, too short, too ugly, but no matter what, it was his personal one-on-one humiliation of me, and the game was five-on-five, so I had no excuse."

Will failure on the pitch leave a shadow?

Louis believes that West not only has a shadow, but also a kind of psychotic trauma. Those wounds are rooted in the depths of his mind. Who can truly understand him? There may be no such person. Because the tragedy master is a optimist.

Pai, Chamberlain never regards winning or losing as the only thing in life, and Baylor is a person who can talk about tragic defeats as a point of laughter.

West is not.

Louis finally knew what Baylor meant by his comment about West, the true meaning of "never happy".

West's words make him look like a victim, and given his current status, no one can really sympathize with him. But he still wakes up every day under a shadow that makes him uneasy and feels like he's not doing enough.

, if we meet the Celtics again, in Game 7, the ghosts of Boston and the elves in the garden will still come out and trip them up.

"Jerry, maybe you should try to reconcile with your past self."

Louis thought of Belle inexplicably.

He also lost to the Celtics six times in the finals and experienced the same blood and tears. Why does he look completely different?

Baylor was the biggest loser of that era, and West at least won a ring as a player.

But why does West look so much sadder than Baylor?

West sneered, not at Louis.

"I often have thoughts of ending my life, but my curiosity about the game and my sense of responsibility to my family keep me going," West said. "Those experiences are just a part of my life, a very small one.

part."

This sounds a bit like Baylor, but Louis doesn't believe that a person who just almost collapsed because of this will suddenly figure it out.

He said these are only a small part, does that mean there is still a big part in his heart?

So what is the big part about?

Did it make West unhappy, too?

Or is it that the real reason why this 56-year-old man has never been happy is the things he has never said?

"Jerry, you almost made me think you never won a championship as a player." Louis wanted this negative old guy to think of something positive. "At least you won the championship. Elgin never had this opportunity."

West was sneering again.

Louis believed that his sneer was not malicious.

Not like a bastard like Bird.

Seeing Bird sneer, people just want to punch him, but West doesn't.

His sneer was more like a mockery of himself.

"For me, the 1972 championship was ruined by Elgin's absence."

When he first heard this sentence, Louis couldn't understand it.

But then...

"That season, Elgin only played 9 games before retiring because Bill (Sharman) wanted him to be a substitute, but he was unwilling to accept it. He was a person who would choose to leave when it was time to leave."

"And we won the championship."

"Are you kidding me?" West said in a deep voice. "He left the game early as a close teammate, a good friend and someone I cherished. When we finally won the championship, he was absent. I mean, all-around

Jesus Christ, what the hell is this? The person who shared all the blood, tears and sweat with me couldn't stand by my side and taste the victory with me in the end. It's so unfair."

Even Louis has forgotten that this is a negotiation between him and the Lakers.

He couldn't help but ask: "Does Elgin know about this?"

"I never told Elgin how I felt about it, and that was one of my many shortcomings," West said.

Louie really opened up West's conversation.

But neither he nor West expected that their conversation would go this far.

West never told anyone about these things.

He had begun to feel that he had said too much, but he remembered the purpose of today and felt that it would not be bad to let Louis know this.

This is the curse that has enveloped the Lakers since the 1960s.

1. I am really glad that there is not much description of West’s character or character traits in the first 1000 chapters. After I painfully read the autobiography of the logo man, I felt depressed, just like in NetEase Cloud

I stayed in the comment section for a month. This process was not pleasant. I have never read an autobiography with such a depressed mood. His autobiography also left the most marks on me. There are too many surprising inside stories, but in my mind

After integrating and digesting it, I hope I can present a unique Jerry West. Once again, I am glad that the first 1000 chapters did not go too far to describe this legendary guy.

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