The rest is just noise

The biggest difference between international players and American players is that they think about things outside themselves.

In addition to surviving in the NBA, they also hope to give feedback to the national team through their growth in the United States.

Louis believes that Pau Gasol's desire to serve his country is genuine and agrees that gaining weight is the best way for him to enhance his competitiveness on the court.

But the Gasol who gained weight is not the Gasol that Louis needs.

Therefore, Louis' top priority is to let Gasol delay the pace of weight gain and wait until the offseason to make plans.

Moreover, Gasol did gain weight blindly.

He just feels that he needs to gain weight, but he doesn't know how to gain weight or how much weight gain is best for him.

Therefore, Louis asked the team's nutritionist and sports medicine doctor to hold a meeting with Gasol, using all the scientific and medical terms that Gasol did not understand to let him know that the weight gain in the past period was unscientific.

. If he wants to gain weight, he should have a scientific plan and goals.

Louis assured Gasol that starting from next season, the team will design a scientific and rigorous weight gain plan for him. Anyway, 2007 is not a competition year, so there is no need to rush to gain weight.

Gasol was convinced and now has two months to lose weight.

Louis hopes it's not too late.

Gasol's decision to gain weight made Louis discover a problem: there were too many centers and too few power forwards on the team.

If Gasol also wants to gain weight, then he will definitely transform into a big center. By then, if the team's personnel structure has not been adjusted, the team will have to let some centers play the fourth position.

When Louis thought of this, he planted a seed in his heart to trade the Spaniard. For him, the Celtics only have Wu Xia, Yao Yueban, Ginobili, and Roy who cannot be traded. Others only need price.

Whatever is appropriate can be discussed.

One day later, the Celtics played against the Bucks at home.

Fans discovered that Gasol was not included in the starting lineup.

Celtic have no explanation for this.

Gasol himself has no complaints.

This is the agreement between Louis and Gasol, and he will return to the starting lineup after his flexibility enough to play the fourth position is restored.

The Bucks themselves are a weak team. A few years ago, they had a falling out with Vince Carter, who relied on them as their cornerstone. Since then, the team's fortunes have declined, and they are still a weak team to this day.

The Celtics relied solely on outside firepower to overwhelm the opponent and seal the victory.

The big surprise tonight is the Greek Vassilis Spanoulis, who played 20 minutes as a substitute. Whether it is "7 seconds or less" or "20 seconds or more", he is at ease and does whatever he wants.

In Spanoulis' words, this is playing European basketball in the NBA.

Yao Yue said semi-tactfully: "I enjoyed tonight's game very much."

For example, some people who don't understand the art of speaking, such as Mike Dunleavy, are very direct: "It's great to be able to play normally."

The whistle became normal, and the accusations against the Celtics turned into an issue of "Does the NBA need more diversity?"

Of course, it is not without impact.

But those mixed and weak accusations, like Louis's public criticism of Pepsi, became trivial controversies.

A large number of media people like Bill Simmons who are familiar with NBA history have begun to elaborate on the historical significance of the No Black Team.

External interference and influence have been greatly reduced, and now is a critical period for the Celtics to attack for glory.

After dealing with the Gasol matter, Louis began to strengthen supervision of the team.

Louis discovered that Celtic were in a delicate period.

Unlike last season, the team has no irreconcilable conflicts.

In other words, due to Wade's season reimbursement, the problem that should have troubled Louis this season - the battle between Lu Wuxia, Ginobili, Wade and Roy's starting lineup and the ball rights - did not appear.

The Celtics have established Lu Wuxia's absolute core status, and Yao Yueban's captain position has also become a consensus.

It's just a small thing for Gasol to gain weight for the national team.

Others, such as individual substitute players being dissatisfied with playing time, are just trivial matters that cannot affect the atmosphere within the team.

This Celtics team looks to be the smoothest team that Louis has ever taken over. There are no players with sharp personalities on the team;

There are no major contradictions;

There are no sluggish veterans;

The Celtics have none of the factors that can cause a strong team to suddenly collapse. It is precisely this kind of team that has no major problems that is most difficult to break out of.

Just when Louis was worried about the lackluster atmosphere of the team, a major event happened to the Miami Heat, the Eastern Conference rivals who are also contending for the championship, that shocked the league.

This incident made Louis discover that plainness is the truth.

On February 24, the Heat were on their way to four straight games in the Western Conference.

This year's Heat is regarded as the year with the greatest hope of defending the title. If they win the championship again, Duncan will not only end the Heat's lack of defending champions in team history, but also bring his number of rings to seven.

Before this, the Heat's biggest hidden danger was Duncan himself.

Duncan, who had been suffering from plantar fasciitis for several years, lost 16 pounds on the advice of his doctor, which caused significant ups and downs in his performance on the court.

After the All-Star weekend, Duncan played better and better.

The Heat seem to be on the right track. With the help of Arenas, Wu Sheng, Ray Allen, and Liu Yuqing, they can completely sweep the league.

However, on the night when the Heat defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in an away game, some media broke the news that their outside core Gilbert Arenas had a heated argument with someone outside a nightclub.

If the matter stops there, it is just the most inconspicuous of Arenas' many off-court news. However, the source finally said: "GA was very emotional and someone saw him finally pulling out a pistol...

"

As soon as the news came out, the world was shattered.

An NBA player on the road holding a gun on the sidelines?

What does this mean?

Did he bring a gun to an away game?

Before Arenas and the Heat could make any clarification, the powerful media obtained surveillance video of the incident.

It's unclear whether Arenas was as emotional as sources said, but he was indeed holding a handgun.

As soon as the video came out, the incident became a hot topic.

For David Stern, who was intent on molding these basketball players into gentlemen, Arenas touched a nerve.

It is related to the image of the league. No matter what reasons Arenas has, no matter what impact punishing Arenas severely will have on the Heat, Stern will not hesitate at all.

February 25

David Stern held a press conference and publicly announced his plan to deal with the Arenas gun incident.

Arenas was suspended 40 games.

This result can almost be said to have eliminated Arenas from this season.

The Heat have only 28 games left in the regular season. When the playoffs begin, Arenas will have to serve a 12-game suspension.

If we are more optimistic, Arenas has a chance to come back in the Eastern Conference Finals or the Finals, but by then, can Arenas, who has missed 40 games, find the feeling of the game in time?

What's more, it's unknown how the Heat will view Arenas' gun incident.

It can be said that Arenas' season is over, and even his time with the Heat is over.

When a reporter asked Stern on the spot whether such a severe punishment was decided through a club vote, Stern looked at the questioner coldly: "Of course I voted, the result was 1 to 0."

Should Louis be happy?

The Celtics' biggest rival out of the Eastern Conference lost an arm before the playoffs began.

The impact of Arenas' suspension on the Heat cannot be overstated.

The firepower left by Arenas may be filled by Wu Sheng, Ray Allen, and Liu Yuqing, but almost no one can make up for his threat with the ball.

The Heat are extremely weak now, and they need to find a defender who can withstand the pressure. This person must not only be able to control the field, but also have a certain threat with the ball, and must have a chemical reaction with other main players.

Louis didn't know how the Heat were going to solve this problem. He just felt from the bottom of his heart that it would be great to have a lot of normal people in the team who don't compete or compete.