The rest is just noise

Louis and Luo Li chatted while eating breakfast, and then separated.

They didn't leave each other's contact information. Last night was just a casual encounter.

Louis considered himself an open person, but in the 1970s, his modern logic of the 2020s did not apply. This was an era that continued prostitution and advocated sexual openness, and antibiotics could cure most sexually transmitted diseases.

Next, young baby boomers indulge themselves to their heart's content.

Louis held the piece of paper found by Luo Li. If he guessed correctly, it was a crude scouting report.

This made him excited, and through his memories, he discovered Louis' secret.

Louis’ mother wanted him to go to medical school, but this was not the job he wanted to do. Let’s talk about the difficulty first. His medical school at Ohio State University ranked among the top 40 in the United States, but the acceptance rate was only 5%.

There is stereotyped discrimination against people of color. If you want to get into medical school, you cannot succeed just by working hard.

Louis agreed on the surface, but secretly he was doing what he wanted to do most - he liked playing basketball and had thought about becoming a professional player. Although he was 190 centimeters tall, his talent was too poor and he couldn't run fast or jump.

Not tall. Although he has good instant explosive power, no professional team would want a short power forward with a soft style of play.

Scouting is his new direction. As the country of basketball, the United States was still struggling in the 1970s. This decade of chaos caused the ABA to go bankrupt. The Oscar Robertson case made the reservation clause a thing of the past, but a large number of players poured into the NBA.

Almost all ABA stars are acclimatized.

The live TV broadcast that was canceled by CBS (changed to delayed recording), there are too many black people, violence, and a lot of poisonous dogs... All kinds of frowning negative images are hurting the commercial value of the league, as are the other three major sports leagues of the same era.

, all achieved take-off in the 1970s, only the NBA struggled to persist.

Although players' incomes have greatly increased compared to the 1960s, team administrators, coaches, and scouts have seen limited income improvements.

If Louis told his mother that he wanted to be a professional scout and give up being a doctor, there would be only one outcome: the mother would be so angry that she would die of anger on the spot; the mother would be so angry that she would not die of anger, so she would turn all her anger towards Louis.

Physical damage: In anger, he first inflicted physical damage on Louis and then kicked him out of the house.

Louis felt that his mother should not know his secret until results were achieved.

But Lu Ruohe, also known as Louis after his rebirth, believed that he should not continue to hide it.

The reason why Louis' secret excited him was because in his previous life, Lu Ruohe was the assistant general manager of the CBA Xinjiang team.

Although the NBA was highly professional at the same time, which the CBA could not match, Lu Ruohe was not just an assistant responsible for keeping records and serving tea and water to the general manager. He managed the Xinjiang team’s scouting network, sports schools in which provinces, and high school graduates.

If he finds a good idea, he will go over and take a look. If it is real material, he will find a way to sign it.

His two most proud achievements are that in 2014, he helped Xinjiang sign Zhou Qi from the Liaoning youth team after many months of planning behind the scenes; the other was to sign Zhou Qi from the Liaoning youth team on the condition that no other club could satisfy it: "allowed to complete his studies."

Qi Lin, the "number one high school student" who went to Tsinghua University.

He is the person responsible for making suggestions behind the scenes. All praise belongs to the general manager and all success belongs to the team. However, he received a six-figure salary every year and lived a happy and carefree life until he traveled to the 1970s.

, to become Louis.

Lu Ruohe believed that Louis would not want anyone to take away his life, just as he would not give up his successful life to come to this era.

However, they cannot control these things.

Take care of what you have come. If becoming a professional scout is Louis' dream - or short-term goal - then he will achieve it. This may be the only thing he is sure of achieving in the modern era.

He does not want to be part of the angry crowd, protesting loudly against everything;

I don’t want to be like the ubiquitous hippies with long and unruly hair, driving a van and randomly picking up women who want to hitchhike in the curtained back seat of Wushan Yunyu;

He didn't want to go around for the legitimate demands of an ancient boxer with extraordinary fighting prowess;

The world of these people is too far away from him, and he cannot empathize with them. Now he can only step on the cigarette butts on the ground, return to school, take care of Louis' life, and then decide how to proceed to the next step.

The Ohio State University (OSU) is an old public research university. It is one of the largest campuses in the United States, has high-quality hardware facilities and rich campus resources, and is known as the "Public Ivy".

The fact that Louis was admitted to this kind of school shows that he has good learning ability.

Moreover, his mother also hopes that he will go to medical school. If she is not confident in his ability, she should not raise such a goal.

Louis returned to school. OSU had several campuses. His campus was in Columbus. Forty years later, this city was rated the second most livable city in the world. Now, it is just an ordinary American city.

In Louis' dormitory, there is another roommate named Wu Sansheng from Taiwan Province of China.

In addition to being a good student, this man was also an avid collector of every issue of Playboy and Penthouse magazines from the 1970s.

"Mr. Lu, please wake me up. This kind of life cannot continue. I came to the United States with the dream of becoming a billionaire, but now I am addicted to the beauty of paper!" Wu Sansheng liked it very much.

Interpret your name with actions.

His name is taken from the allusion "I examine myself three times a day", so every day he will find a way to reflect. If there is really nothing to reflect on, he will just find an excuse, such as "What sin did I commit to do this?"

Being placed in a class where there are no women."

"You should really stop it. The beauty of paper can never compare to the pleasure of skin-to-skin contact." Louis thought about last night - he was drunk and couldn't remember the key plot at all.

Hearing this, Wu Sansheng put down the "Attic" in his hand.

"If you don't tell me, I will almost forget. Where did you go last night? The Discipline Director asked you to go there when you come back!" Wu Sansheng actually took out another magazine, the latest issue of "Playboy"."

Sir, I remember that you don’t like liberal things, so why don’t you stay up all night?”

"Because I went to B-B-B last night. There were beauties from magazines everywhere. It felt like..."

"You went to B-B-B?" Wu Sansheng threw the magazine on the bed, "Gan Lin and I are really not brothers enough!"

His native accent failed to reach the ears of "Mr. Lu".

Louis was forced to go to the Disciplinary Officer's office to explain why he stayed out all night.

Although liberalism swept the 1970s, the counterattack was also strong. There were hard-line conservatives everywhere in the United States. Schools were the strongest fortress of conservatives.

As long as it is a school day, they do not allow students to go out at will, especially family members of students. If they want to visit their children in school, they must choose a specific time like visiting prisoners.

So parents joke that drug dealers have easier access to their children than they do.

If it is a holiday, although students are free to travel, they cannot stay home late at night. Most schools implement curfews.

At the disciplinary director's office, Louis stated that he was involved in the conflict between liberals and conservatives based on past experience.

This allowed him to get away with it. After all, he was a good boy in everyone's eyes.

To be precise, his skin color is synonymous with being a good boy.

Back in the dormitory, Wu Sansheng had a flattering look on his face, "Brother, do you want a hamburger? Do you want a drink? Do you have a sore back? I can do anything for you, just ask."

"Would you please roll on your bed and read a magazine?" Louis said disgustingly. "You give me the chills."

"As long as you promise to take me to B-B-B next time... I can do anything you ask me to do." At this moment, Wu Sansheng can fit into all the templates of a sycophant, which is too despicable.

Louis asked: "Aren't you a model student in the eyes of the discipline director? Why, do you want to learn from me too?"

"Don't worry, the Discipline Director won't do anything to me. She looks at me strangely every time, making it clear that she is interested in me..." Wu Sansheng rolled onto his bed, "That's it, it's settled, Lu.

gentlemen!"

Louis was forced to agree, and then he began to think about the reason why Louis chose to become a scout, and how he wrote scouting reports and observed players.

DSU is a strong school in sports. Although the heyday of the school basketball team can be traced back to the 1960s, when the winning team was led by Havlicek and Jerry Lucas, there has been no shortage of good players joining the team over the years.

Therefore, it is not difficult to observe top NCAA players live.

The problem is, John Long's University of Michigan did not play against DSU this year.

Messages that were pushed away like silkworm chrysalis poured into Louis' mind.

Louis watched the game through videotape, and then took notes to record the characteristics of the players.

There is a video of the University of Michigan's national championship game this year in the dormitory.

Louis found the game video, and he had never seen this kind of video cassette.

"Watching the game again?" Wu Sansheng lay on his side charmingly, but the words in his mouth were very harsh, "These people will become professionals in the future. They will either be beaten to death on the field, or they will kill themselves by taking drugs. If their brains are

If it doesn’t work, I might carry a gun and go to Uganda to fight for the ogres⑴!”

Wu Sansheng is an insulator in sports. He refuses all sports activities that have nothing to do with sex. Unfortunately, he is still a virgin, which means that he may not have done any serious exercise in his entire life.

Such a person doesn't even know what the NBA is. He only knows that professional basketball is terrible.

And this is the reason why Louis didn't dare to tell his mother what he wanted to do. At least in 1978, the NBA was a business organization with no future in the eyes of everyone who knew it or didn't understand it.

⑴ John Brisker (SF/SG), who made the second team in the ABA, went to the NBA and felt life was unsatisfactory. After making some money, he decided to go to Africa to see. He disappeared in 1978 and was never heard from again. According to reporters

The exaggerated propaganda became more and more mysterious, becoming a rare out-of-circle incident in the NBA at that time. However, there was no traffic at the time, so this kind of thing can only increase others' dislike of the NBA.