The rest is just noise

Including the center position, the Celtics are short of personnel at every position.

K.C is mainly responsible for selecting the back line.

In addition to John Long, who has been finalized, the team also needs him to provide a number one option.

K.C and John Kililea, the other chief scout, were making more important observations.

Louis needs to sort out the most suitable candidates before the team meeting in early June.

The most talented guard in this draft is undoubtedly Micheal Ray Richardson (PG/SG/SF) from the University of Montana. This person is 196 centimeters tall and is known as the taller player.

Walter Frazier.

Considering what Frazier did in New York, this compliment is no ordinary compliment.

The other one is Phil Ford PG from the University of North Carolina, who is fast and very aggressive.

But neither of them has a chance with the Celtics. There is a high probability that they will not fall out of the top five. The Celtics only have the sixth pick in the first round, and they have decided to gamble on Bird.

Louis was faced with a stack of scouting reports, dozens of them in total.

Today's scouting reports are very short, only one page.

He couldn't tell what these guys were like from the scouting reports, but he could start by looking at their names.

He doesn't understand the players of this era, but as long as they are famous stars, they are likely to leave an impression in his mind.

Any name that sounds familiar to him should be paid careful attention to.

Then he saw the name: Maurice Cheeks PG.

Cheeks Louie was pretty sure he had heard this guy's name before, but he just didn't know how he played in the NBA.

He is also a senior, averaging 16.8 points per game on 54% shooting at West Texas State University.

The problem is, his team is too weak.

West Texas University was able to play in the first-level league for the first two years, but this year it was directly dropped to the second-level league.

Does anyone care if he averages 16 points per game and shoots 54% from the field in the second tier league?

After four years of playing basketball in a small Texas town, on a team that always lost, Cheeks had a hard time attracting the attention of scouts.

However, Louis noticed that K.C spent a lot of money to buy this scouting report.

This scouting report was written by top scout Jack McMahon.

McMahon admires his fighting spirit and defensive attitude and thinks he is a player who can play in the NBA.

This report is very brief, and it can be seen that McMahon still has a lot to say, or it is simply a mutilated and mutilated version.

Louis actually doesn't believe in other scouts except himself. Unless he opens his eyes, no matter how smart the scout is, he will make mistakes sometimes.

Louis can open his eyes, but his eyes are not the eyes of this era. The reason why he fell in love with Cheeks was because his name was familiar to him.

He shouldn't easily let go of any contemporary player who sounds familiar to him.

To this end, he called K.C. and asked for the West Texas State University game video.

"What university?"

K.C didn't, not to mention he didn't, not any scout, including McMahon, who was the first to recognize Cheeks' potential.

College sports took the lead in achieving take-off in commercial value before the four major sports leagues.

But college basketball was not broadcast nationally for the first time until a regular season match between UCLA and the University of Houston in 1968. During UCLA’s 12-year reign of 10 championships, in 1974, “Skywalker” David Thompson led the North

Carolina State broke their monopoly on the title, thus creating the concept of March Madness.

Since then, college basketball has taken off, but to reach the heights of several other college sports, it still needs a legendary matchup that can attract national attention. It would be better if they have a black team and a white team, or both.

Led the team to the finals of the national championship...

Videos of college basketball games are not hard to find, but the hard part is the games of weaker teams.

Maurice Cheeks' team was relegated to the second tier league. It is impossible to find videos of their games because there are none. You can only go to the scene.

The problem is that the college season has ended long ago and there is no live show to watch.

Louis was sitting at his desk and wanted to turn his chair, but suddenly found that there was no future swivel chair yet.

He was even more distressed. In the past, when he couldn't think of an idea, he always liked to run around in circles. Although it may not be useful, this bastard era has taken away all the entertainment from him.

He walked out of the scout's office.

Secondary scouts like them only have a common office, but usually no one is in it.

Louis found Tom Sanders, who was still at his job and persisted.

He wears glasses and looks serious.

"Sachi, do you have a trial list for these days?" Louis asked with a smile.

Sanders knew Louis, and even though he had only been on the job for a few days, he came to see him almost every day.

"Here." He handed over the list in his hand.

Louis took a look at the list, and it was basically all players with first-round prospects.

He asked: "Who selected this list?"

"It's a little complicated, some are me, some are Reid, some are John, some are K.C..." Sanders said, "and the players may not necessarily be willing to accept our invitation."

"So, can you invite one more person to tomorrow's trial list?" Louis asked.

Sanders didn't expect Louis to be so "extensive". He had never heard of secondary scouts drawing up trial training lists...

"Who do you want to see?"

"Mochis Cheeks of West Texas State University."

"who?"

Louis had to repeat it.

Sanders is not a brilliant coach, but he is not a person who has too high an eye. He knows that Louis now needs to find ways to observe certain players, so he will definitely help if he can. In the final analysis, he is not strong enough.

During the season, he was regarded as the fire captain. Although he led the team to a 43% winning rate, he was not fired like Heinsohn.

One of Auerbach's biggest concerns about him comes from his character.

He was too weak. When the team lost miserably and was massacred, Auerbach would often follow him into the locker room. Sanders' predecessor Heinsohn would often scold the players, but Sanders never got angry. So he went to

Auerbach broke into the locker room many times this season and did this on behalf of the head coach.

This is not a good approach, and there will be many players who think Sanders is just Auerbach's puppet.

"Did you find any good players today?" Louis said with a smile.

"That No. 55 is good." Sanders named him. "Reggie Theus (SG/SF) from the University of Nevada is a very mature player. Unfortunately, the market price is too high. Moreover, scouts

Have a different opinion than me."

Nowadays, coaches of most teams have the right to make suggestions for the team's recruitment, but Sanders does not have this authority.

"Who has a different opinion, K.C?" Louis glanced at Seus.

His ball-holding ability impressed Louis. Once he got close to the paint area, his throwing movements were strange but accurate.

"John doesn't agree," Sanders said. "He thinks this guy is playing too selfishly."

Sanders was talking about another chief scout, John Kiriglia, whom Louis had a bad impression of. He was extremely conceited and didn't listen to other people's opinions.

"There are always people who think they are better than others." Louis knew what Sanders wanted to hear.

Hearing this, he responded with approval: "Who says it's not the case?"

Say Cao Cao, and Cao Cao will come.

Kirilia came over dissatisfied and said: "These people who came to the trial today are really useless."

Including Seus, whom Sanders liked very much, he felt that everyone was useless.

Sanders couldn't bear to say anything, but Louis didn't have so many worries. They were all scouts. Although the other party was the chief scout, he was not under his control.

"Yeah, especially those in black training uniforms, they look really featureless. I don't know who picked them." Louis spoke boldly like an 18-year-old young man.

Sanders said solemnly: "Lu, don't say that, those were all chosen by John."

"I'm sorry, sir." Louis smiled, "I'm not targeting you, I just think those people are terrible."

Kirilia said dissatisfiedly: "Kid, don't think that you can make casual evaluations just because you become a scout."

There was both innocence and innocence on Louis' face: "Isn't the scout's job just to make evaluations?"

Kyrillia sneered, "The reason why the Celtics are getting worse and worse is so obvious that even people like you can become a scout!"

If he said that, Louis' opinion would be even greater.

What the hell does he have to do with the fact that the Celtics are so bad?

Was it he who asked Auerbach to trade Westphal?

Was he responsible for the Celtics' 1976 merger?

It was he who made Auerbach not give Cowens' good friend Paul Silas (PF/C) a decent market price in order to save money, thus making him leave the team and causing Cowens to "lose me."

"Love" has since lost its competitive status and started the process of retiring, coming back, retiring and coming back again...?

"Mr. Kyrillia is serious. How can I be blamed for the Celtics' failures in recent years? Last month I was a college student enjoying my summer vacation." Louis looked at the other party with a smile, "However, if

After me, the Celtics still failed to recover. As a scout, I definitely bear the corresponding responsibility. I just don’t know which scout should be responsible for the team’s failures and setbacks in recent years?”

Louis' smiling face and hostile eyes fell on Kirilia.

"Sachi, which scout do you think should be responsible?"

Kirilia was furious, "Easterners, you have crossed the line!"

"John, why are you arguing with your child?" Seeing Kirilia's disgraced face in front of Louis, Sanders felt greatly relieved and acted as a Chinese-style parent to calm things down.

Kirilia's final angry look fell on Louis' heart.

He knew that he had recruited an enemy for himself. However, he was not a mad dog, nor did he know that he should keep a low profile when he just joined the job. It was just that some humanoid dogs did not understand the meaning of respect. Kirilia offended others every day. This was just his accumulation of money.

A weak outburst of anger that lasted for several days.

There will be more to come.

"You're so messy, Lu!" Sanders was so happy that he didn't say anything, but he really wanted to take the parents to the end, and even taught Louis a lesson.

⑴Sanders’ original name is Thomas Ernest “Satch” Sanders.

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