The rest is just noise

On January 1, 1995, the Dolan family, which owns 50% of Madison Square Garden Entertainment, officially took over the garden and all its businesses.

This of course also includes the Garden’s most popular property, the Knicks.

The person in charge said that the Dolan family will not have any interference in the Knicks' team planning. In order to pay tribute to the achievements of the team led by former president Louis when he was in office, from now on, there will be no more people in the basketball operations department of the Garden.

Assume the position of President.

This rhetoric is beautiful, but it has obvious flaws.

Why did Buss have to give up his title as president when Louis joined Los Angeles?

Because this is theoretically the highest decision-maker within a department.

It’s not that no one can interfere with the president, but if the president insists on implementing his decision to the end, the people above him will either agree or replace him.

As long as the president is still there, there will be no decisions within the department that can exceed the president's authority.

If the Knicks do not establish a president and there is a vacuum of supreme power, then the final decision-making power will naturally belong to the decision-makers of the Garden.

However, this is also a more pragmatic consideration.

Because there are not many people who can afford the position of president of the Knicks, but no one knows whether the Garden's decision-makers will make the right decisions in the future.

As a rule, when a franchise changes, you have to do something good to feel happy.

It is common practice for sports teams to retire certain individuals' jerseys.

This is exactly what the Knicks will do next.

After veteran captain Kevin McHale retired, he was invited into the management team by his hometown team, the Minnesota Timberwolves.

In terms of qualifications and honors, McHale is definitely old enough to retire his jersey, but the decision-makers at the Garden believe that McHale's jersey retirement ceremony can be slowed down.

Because there is someone who has a higher priority than anything else and needs to retire the jersey.

This person is none other than Louis, who has already left for Los Angeles.

Retiring the jerseys of coaches is nothing new. Although they cannot play on the court, there are many coaches in NBA history who have made outstanding contributions to the team, and their jerseys have been retired by the team in various forms.

Although Louis only stayed in New York for ten years, he brought seven championships to the team. Considering the competitiveness in the 1980s and 1990s, this resume is enough to compare with Reed Auerbach's dominant 50s and 60s.

Comparable.

When the relevant personnel of the Garden contacted Louis and expressed that they wanted to have his jersey retired the next time the Lakers visited the Garden, Louis felt like he was in another world.

"It's my pleasure."

Louis agreed simply.

Then it was the Knicks' turn to have a headache.

What number should be given to Louis for retirement?

Generally, when a coach retires his jersey, the number of wins he led the team to during his coaching period will be used as the number.

Louis coached the Knicks for 9 seasons, winning 562 regular season games and 101 playoff games.

Should I retire 562 or 101?

How about quitting together?

Louis doesn't care how New York arranges his jersey retirement ceremony.

After confirming that the Knicks were going to retire his jersey, Louis first looked at the schedule (February 2), then notified his wife, and then went about other things.

Louis is still perfecting his theory.

If he wants to create the most perfect offensive team in his ideal world, he can't do it just by stacking the lineup.

Louis recalled the team before the small ball era.

In Louis' memory, or in other words, among the many teams he saw before traveling, the one with the smoothest offensive performance was undoubtedly the Spurs in the 2014 Finals.

The Spurs that year were called by some the strongest team basketball team in history.

Although Louis didn’t know how this team, which played seven games with the Mavericks in the first round, beat the Trail Blazers with competing styles in the semifinals, and had a dangerous encounter with the Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, could beat the Heat in the finals and become the best in history.

Group, but since some people say it is, then so be it.

It is undeniable that the 14 Spurs were in full form in the finals and their offense was smooth.

Louis believes that Kerr's obsession with passing and cutting is because he wants to see that kind of game with the Warriors.

However, if Cole's hand is really given to Popovich, will Popovich still play pass and cut?

Louis recalled that Spurs team and the fluid offense he had seen on the Nuggets under Doug Moe.

In 1990, the Nuggets fired Mo, and Louis paid a large sum of money to bring him to New York as the offensive coach to this day.

The Knicks' offensive style has indeed changed since then.

The concepts of Lao Mo and Louis are simply a match made in heaven.

Louis suddenly felt that it was necessary to lure Lao Mo from New York.

This idea was quickly dismissed by him.

Just like when he went to New York, he didn't poach the Celtics. Now that he's in Los Angeles, he won't even poach New York.

Lorraine was excited when she heard that the Knicks were going to retire Louis' jersey, but when she heard that the day of retirement was February 2, she was a little embarrassed.

She happened to be auditioning for "Independence Day" that day.

Monica Bellucci, an American who has established herself as a comedy queen through several classic comedy movies and the iconic sitcom "Family", is not satisfied with this. She hopes to have more success in her acting career.

breakthrough.

So she took over "Scream" last year and was actively seeking a role in "Independence Day."

Both of these scenes were movies that Louis was familiar with. He didn't expect Lorraine to want to break through. But would it be effective for a comedian to act in a horror movie?

As for "Independence Day", even though the actors haven't been confirmed yet, it was picked up by Fox as soon as the script came out, and it invested a lot of money. Hollywood's top stars would break their heads to get the role in it.

Lorraine is very self-aware and she just wants to put her name on the cast of "Independence Day."

Louis gave Lorraine a gift: "Marlena, between the opportunity to star in "Independence Day" and the opportunity to attend your husband's important events, who would you choose?"

Lorraine wanted to squeeze out a tear, but her acting skills were so poor.

"It looks like I'll just have to show up in the garden on February 2, heartbroken."

"But I hope you can come with a smile." Louis touched the tip of his wife's nose teasingly, "So I will call Roland damn Emmerich and admit to "Interstellar" without conscience.

"Stargate" (1994) is a classic and beg his forgiveness."

Louie may have been what stood in the way of Lorraine getting the role in Independence Day.

Because he had a falling out with Emmerich last year. At that time, he was confused about his future, and then MSG executives invited him to watch the premiere of "Stargate". He went, just to relax. But he

He was in a bad mood at the time, and he was not a science fiction fan, so it was difficult for him to offer constructive opinions on the movie.

If it looks good, it looks good; if it doesn’t look good, it doesn’t look good.

But he is a person with high emotional intelligence, so Louis said to the people around him after watching it: "It's so old-fashioned that I almost fell asleep."

Unfortunately, there was also a film critic present at the time. He wrote Louis's words into the film review and was willing to swear on his own life that the content of the article was true.

But in fact, even without "Stargate", Louis also knew Emmerich, because the man who made "Godzilla" a few years later was even more important.

He made the King of Monsters, who couldn't even kill a black hole and spit out beams of light, into a scum that was killed by a few missiles.

As a result, things went more smoothly than Louis imagined.

Because Louie's comments did not affect the film's box office, Emmerich is not someone who cannot accept criticism.

The other party's humility made Louis feel even more ashamed.

Afterwards, Louis successfully helped Lorraine's audition be postponed for a few days, and everyone was happy.

Entering the New Year, there have been several major events, both related and unrelated to Louis, and "If you think it's big, it's big, if you think it's not big, it's not big" events have happened.

First, unrelated to Louis, the Simpson case officially opened in Los Angeles.

Even people like Jim Bass are concerned about whether Simpson gets a verdict.

Secondly, the Lakers' record has finally stabilized.

As the fans unanimously dismissed get out of class, Zhao Yuanzheng figured out something.

As Louis said, he is not trying to solve problems, but leading the team to win games.

Do fans care about how you win? Maybe some people who understand football will care, but in this world, the majority are unprofessional and people who like to join in the fun.

Professional opinions can easily be suppressed without a trace by the cries of the mob.

Therefore, Zhao Yuanzheng took action.

He gave up the long rotation that coaches liked, shortened the personnel rotation to 7-8 people, and beat the main players to death, and the Lakers' record was on the right track.

The Orange County Chronicle, the Lakers' top dog licker, couldn't wait to publish a long article. They praised Zhao Yuanzheng's "progress."

"Coach Zhao in 1995 was as outstanding as the 'Messiah' in 1984."

As of February, Wilson, Pippen, Robinson and others are all averaging 37 minutes per game.

The Lakers' record surpassed the Warriors and ranked second in the Western Conference.

If it weren't for the fact that there is a behemoth in the Eastern Conference super class that is so shocking, the Lakers' changes in January would be worthy of a long article in Sports Illustrated.

However, on February 1, the Lakers challenged the 39-2 Heat on the road.

In order to prevent the team from repeating the mistakes of the previous game, Zhao Yuanzheng actually played the entire game with six players.

Wilson scored a season-high 59 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists. Pippen also had a comprehensive 22 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists. Robinson scored 25 points and 14 rebounds, which was on par with Sampson.

The Big Three combined for 106 points, 35 rebounds and 20 assists. As a result, the Lakers lost the game by 13 points.

Moreover, it is difficult for the Lakers to say whose performance they lost specifically.

Billy Donovan played Louis' unique skill - 13-man rotation - in front of his senior brother Zhao Yuanzheng with ease.

Even a water cooler like Wang Mukong played 5 minutes and scored 6 points.

The Heat's top scorer in the starting lineup was Drexler, who was elected the best of the game with 20 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists.

But in fact, Sampson and Manning, who scored 19 points, 11 rebounds and 17 points, 8 rebounds and 6 blocks, are both qualified to be the best tonight.

But it doesn't matter, because the secret of their strength is that the MVP takes turns, and tonight it's Glider's turn.

"This team is as disgusting as the 1986 Celtics!"

West watched the game in Louie's office.

"We have no chance of beating them!"

"Poor Benj was so beaten up by the people in Miami, and he had to go to New York for back-to-back fights the next day." Louis looked in the mirror, "Jerry, what do you think of my outfit?"

West was not in the mood to comment on what Louis would wear to attend the jersey retirement ceremony tomorrow. He closed his eyes and wanted to enter a meditative state where everything was empty.

It's a pity that he can't do it.

As soon as I close my eyes, I can't help but review tonight's game and wonder if it's possible to do better in some areas to gain a chance of winning.

The conclusion is impossible.

If there is anything wrong with Zhao Yuanzheng's command, it is that he likes to use six-man rotation to increase intensity.

But Donovan didn't care at all and just used a 13-man rotation to crush the Lakers.

If a team shortens its rotations in order to increase intensity, and is defeated by the opponent with the theoretical longest rotations, that can only mean one thing.

The two of them are not on the same level, they are several levels apart.

West feels even more desperate than when he lost to the Celtics in 1986.

And Louis, that bastard, is still in the mood to try on clothes?

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