The rest is just noise

How tolerant is Louis? Actually, he's not very tolerant.

Yinsaiah Thomas was invited to his office for tea every three days.

But Thomas got nothing but his spittle.

Louis' criticism of Thomas mainly included several points: insisting on short rotations increased the attrition of the main team, wasting the team's lineup depth, and completely failed to realize the value of Manu Ginobili.

Ginobili averaged only 12 minutes per game in his rookie year with the Celtics.

Better than the 2003 Spurs, they would also give rookie Ginobili an average of 20 minutes of playing time per game, while Thomas only gave Ginobili 12 minutes and did not give him the right to control the ball.

Well, Ginobili is a rookie, and there is Sprewell in the same position. The playing time will be less, but players like Gerald Wallace, Mehmet Okur, Carlos Bu

Zell didn't give him much screen time, so Louis couldn't stand it anymore.

From employment, to rotation, to tactical adjustment, Thomas did nothing well.

But Louis scolded him and still had no intention of firing Thomas.

Because the Celtics are rebuilding their team and they are playing a tactical system that they have never played before, some problems are bound to arise in the process.

Thomas's incompetence certainly magnified the problems, but even if it were another person, those problems would still exist.

Louis didn't expect Thomas to solve the problem.

He regarded Thomas as a thunder-bearer who could not solve problems, but could detonate them all.

For Louis, even if problems break out in a concentrated manner, the impact will only be on this year. At that time, he only needs to deal with the people who caused the problems and then consider the candidates for the new coach.

So, Louis won't do anything until Thomas really gets the situation out of hand.

At the end of the lunch meeting that day, Auerbach invited Louis to his home for dinner.

At Auerbach's house, Louis met his wife Dorothy.

Dorothy had lived in Washington since the early 1950s.

Because Auerbach believes that he is not an easy person to get along with during the season. If he stays with his family, they are likely to be affected by the negative emotions accumulated during his work.

Therefore, when Auerbach was coaching, he and his family were separated for a long time. However, he would go home every few days, so his relationship with his family was not alienated.

Now Louis knows why Auerbach retired in his prime as a coach. On the one hand, he was tired, and on the other hand, he wanted to spend more time with his family.

In fact, this is also the reason why Louis does not want to return to coaching.

Although he came to Boston to work, he did not move his family here.

His family still lives in Sunset Hills in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Louis usually doesn't spend the night in Boston. Once work is over, he takes his own plane home.

Moreover, he does not have to go to Boston to work every day. He only goes to Boston when there are management meetings or other activities.

That's why Celtics players find Louis mysterious.

The reason they rarely see Louis is not that he avoids them intentionally, but that Louis doesn't go to work at the Waltham training base much.

Louis enjoys this kind of idle life where he can spend his time freely, because he has nothing to prove in terms of coaching. It would actually be good if he could stay behind the scenes and form a team to compete for the championship.

However, when Louis sat in this position, he realized how difficult it was to form a championship team.

The coaching staff and players are both critical.

Even if you have good players, the team will still not be successful without a proper coach.

Unless the Lakers have a crushing lineup advantage like the Lakers during the Miracle Generation, the lineup can only guarantee the team's lower limit, but the team's upper limit requires the correct leadership of the coach to reach it.

"Coach Lu, there are no outsiders here. Let's be honest. Are you really not planning to come back?"

Zane asked seriously.

He kept calling Louis coach, and so did everyone else.

To them, Louis has done a good job as president, but only the coaching Louis is the Louis that people are familiar with.

The front-line staff cannot control the future of the team without being on the front line.

"My life is so happy now, why do I want to come back?" Louis smiled, "Zane, look at Reid who stopped coaching at about my age. He is a person who knows how to enjoy. I understand too much.

late."

Hearing this, he stopped smoking red-headed cigars and said dissatisfiedly: "You compare with me? At the beginning, I could only rely on myself to do anything. Now you have dozens of people around you to help you. Why are you tired? I heard

You go to Boston for work less than ten times a month, so this job is..."

Unexpectedly, Louis was not ashamed but proud.

"Don't look at my attendance rate being so low. Even though my attendance rate is so low, others are begging me to go on their knees, but I won't even go."

Auerbach got even angrier, but he couldn't argue.

That's really what happened.

A few days later, Yinthiah Thomas was in the news for another incident.

Perhaps due to the high work pressure, Thomas drinks a lot of wine when he has nothing to do.

Drinking is actually harmless, but talking nonsense after drinking is problematic.

Thomas didn't know where he made bad friends, but he actually revealed what he said while drunk to the media.

Thomas complained that there were too many white players on the team, and there were too few Americans. These people would not listen to him, a black coach, which is why the Celtics have not been able to get along well so far this season.

In the NBA, it is normal for black people to discriminate against white people, but it is not normal for a coach to say so directly.

Moreover, Thomas also somewhat excludes international players, which is a big taboo for the Celtics, who are already a nominal international team.

Even if it was Thomas' drunken gibberish, he would have to pay the price for his words and deeds.

Stern, who was trying his best to promote the globalization of the league, would never allow Thomas' drunkenness to develop, so he first had Thomas convicted of his words and fined him. Then, Stern called Louis and hoped that President Lu would control him.

Thomas, whose mental state is already a little abnormal.

Louis said, this is easy to handle, isn’t it just an appointment with Thomas for tea?

The next day, Louis took the time to go to Boston and called Thomas into his office for a half-hour in-depth conversation about his drunken verbal abuse.

When Thomas walked out of the president's office, his face was blue and his eyes were red, and he yelled filial piety to Laimbeer on the training ground: "I can't stand it anymore!"

Thomas, who lost his mind, took out his anger on the players.

Unsatisfied with the results of that day's training, he kicked all the players out of the Waltham training base.

After hearing the news, Louis walked out of the office kindly and said to Thomas: "Tomorrow our opponent is Detroit. Unless you are sure you can win, it is necessary to have a good training session for tomorrow's game."

Thomas explained: "They have no training attitude at all."

Suddenly, Louis, who had been smiling before, turned into a man-eating demon: "Then you should use your fucking pig brain, which has less capacity than a dog, to think about how to improve their training attitude, instead of driving them away directly.

go out!"

Thomas could only walk outside the training base like a schizophrenic and invite the players he had kicked out to come back for training.

"If this continues, will Yin Saiya still have prestige?" Dumas said with a headache, "The players have completely disrespected him."

Louis snorted: "Respect is mutual. If you want to say disrespect, it's because he doesn't respect the players first. If he is a capable coach, that's all. But if he doesn't have the ability, he still has to act like a coach, which makes this situation completely

It is his responsibility alone.”

So, is Yin Saiya going to get out?

Dumas could see that Louis' patience with Thomas was running out.

The next day, Louis hardly got to the fleet center to watch the battle.

The Celtics had a fierce battle with the Pistons, their main rival in the Eastern Conference.

At the end of the game, Thomas called timeouts continuously but failed to execute any tactics. He lost his 5-point lead and was defeated by Glenn Robinson's three-pointer.

"Fire Yin Saiya!"

Probably because Louis was present, this full chorus dedicated to Thomas lasted for a full five minutes.

Yinthiah Thomas was interviewed live with a look on his face that said, "I'm going to sit here and wait for them to tell me to get out."

Louis declined an on-site interview and left Fleet Center through the player tunnel.

If this momentum continues, Thomas may not last until the end of the season.

So who will replace him?

This is a more worrying question than whether to fire Thomas or not.