The rest is just noise

The University of Notre Dame is considered a top college basketball team.

After checking their information, Louis found that there were many players on the team with NBA draft prospects.

Two of them even have the talent to become stars in the NBA.

One is sophomore forward Orlando Woolridge, and the highly anticipated scoring machine Kelly Tripucka SG.

The competition within the team is fierce, so it is naturally difficult for Laimbeer to get a chance.

Although he is already a junior, he can only squeeze into the team's rotation. In his junior season, he averaged 8 points and 6 rebounds per game, and was completely used as a coolie.

The University of Notre Dame will conduct summer training at a sports complex near the shores of Lake Michigan.

There will be several days of open training during this period, so Louis needs to settle down in the local area first.

He found a cheap hotel and waited for a week until training finally opened.

Louis didn't expect so many people to pay attention to Notre Dame's Open House.

In addition to local reporters, there are also national media outlets.

For example, "USA Today" wanted to do an exclusive interview with the University of Notre Dame.

There were so many NBA scouts on site that Louis couldn't believe it.

Among them is Stu Inman, a good friend of the Notre Dame head coach and the general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers.

Louis looked at him. Although he was not young, he had sharp eyes. It didn't look like he had fallen in love with LaRue Martin at first glance. He gave up signing a contract with Moses Malone and was unwilling to wait for Bird for a year. At the same time, he would acquire Bird in the future.

It was stupid to select Sam Bowie with the second pick when he could have selected Jordan.

The University of Notre Dame is currently the only top university open to training.

With so many scouts coming to check it out, it can be seen how many NBA prospects this school has gathered.

Ulrich and Tripka attracted most of the attention.

And Louis only pays attention to one person-Bill Laimbeer.

He is depressed here and is obviously more competitive than anyone else, but no one can see this.

His head coach was known as the "digger" but failed to tap into Laimbeer's potential.

It is an indescribable waste of money to use a bad-mouthed bastard white man as a basketball leader.

"You seem to be paying attention to Bill?"

Louis, who was immersed in his own world, didn't expect anyone to say hello to him.

He looked up and saw an old man holding a cigarette.

"Just making necessary records." Louis didn't want to say anything.

The old man introduced himself with a smile: "Jack McMahon."

He didn't say which team he played for, but anyone in this industry would not know which team he played for.

Louis didn't expect that it was this old guy who gave Maurice Cheeks a gift package.

McMahon looks very fat. Due to body fat, his neck is almost invisible. At first glance, he looks round and plump, and extremely rich.

"Louis, I'm a scout from Boston." Louie responded.

When he heard about Boston, McMahon's expression changed. He had not forgotten how the Celtics won the love on draft day.

McMahon believed that it was K.C Jones who did the good deeds, and Louis looked too young to be the mastermind behind the scenes.

Louis is already young, and East Asians are generally a bit tender. McMahon suspected that he was underage: "Young man, how old are you?"

"20 years old." Louis had already encountered too many doubts about his age, so he simply falsely reported his age.

Unexpectedly, McMahon looked shocked: "Being a scout at the age of 20? God, I feel so sad for you."

McMahon thought Louie was a mediocre scout.

Everyone was paying attention to the two rising stars, Tripka and Ulrich, but he was staring at Laimbeer in fascination.

To him and other scouts, Laimbeer was unremarkable.

His characteristics and future can be seen in one minute.

This kind of player may be able to play in the NBA in the future, but he will definitely be a substitute and may disappear in a few years.

Hearing McMahon's words, Louis just laughed without answering.

It seems that next time I will have to lie about my age of 25.

"Young man, I'll give you a piece of advice, don't waste your time on useless guys."

Louis still remembered that the last time McMahon gave him advice, he was determined to persuade the team to select Cheeks.

"What's wrong with him?" Louis asked.

"Nothing is good! He is lazy, very slow, lacks enthusiasm for training, and likes to complain..." McMahon felt that he said too much. "These problems are obvious at a glance. He is not a good player."

In fact, it is completely valid to place McMahon's negative comments on O'Neal.

Louis believed that this was the case with Ranbir. If he hadn't opened his eyes, he wouldn't have been able to see the bright spots in the other person.

It was the opening of his heavenly eyes that gave him the patience to observe Ranbir.

"Thank you, I'll remember it." Louis replied politely.

Seeing that he could not be persuaded, McMahon shook his head and left. He also had players to observe.

Louis originally didn't want Laimbeer to find him, but he didn't expect that this guy missed the ball and the ball flew in his direction.

However, he had no intention of helping Ranbir pick up the ball and remained as motionless as a wooden man.

This made Ranbir unhappy, "What are you looking at!"

"I'm looking at a future NBA player," Louis said.

"Bah!" Laimbeer dismissed his words, "I don't want to fucking play in the NBA!"

Laimbeer didn't know that Louis had silently observed him for 20 minutes, and he left detailed notes. Although the game can tell things better, daily training is also an important reference.

Notre Dame had many players with NBA prospects, and he couldn't just look at Laimbeer, so he continued to watch.

He is not arrogant and will follow in the footsteps of big-name scouts.

Take McMahon for example. It's a pity that this old fat man cares too much about the two rising sophomore stars from the University of Notre Dame.

Then he noticed Inman, the Blazers' general manager, and Phelps, the Notre Dame head coach, sitting together to watch a certain player practice.

The player was about two meters tall, white, with a mushroom head like a Beatle.

He is very energetic. Judging from his shooting hand, he is a player with the ability to shoot from the mid-to-long range.

White people, this is an important label.

Auerbach never misses out on talent because of skin color, but if he has to fill a bench, white bench players will definitely be more pleasing to the fans than black players.

That's true for Boston, and it's true for other teams.

His skin color is more valuable than his skills, which invisibly increases his market value.

Nonetheless, Louis wrote a draft scouting report on that player from a professional perspective.

Bill Hanzlik (SG/SF) has good speed, has certain dribbling ability, has a beautiful shooting hand, can shoot from the high post, and can adapt to the second position in the professional league.

The body is thin, the resistance ability is insufficient, and the upper and lower limbs lack enough strength to adapt to the physical combat of the professional league...

Scouting work has never been difficult for him. He had been doing this job before time travel, but he was often the one who read the scouting reports.

During this period, many scouts came to him to get information.

Some of them want to chat, some of them are just greetings, and some of them are here to expand their network.

No matter what their purpose is, Louis always refuses anyone who comes. These people may not be able to help him, but who can be sure that they will not be able to help him?

McMahon of the 76ers, Hanks of the Clippers, and Lin Burke of the Lakers. He seems to be a scout that Jerry West admires very much.

The most talkative of them all is Hanks of the Clippers.

He openly sells his scouting reports because the team's funding for him is too low, and the current scouting reports are all drafts and of little value.

But Louis still saw the bottom line of this man.

McMahon usually sells his scouting reports to a neutered version, and this guy... Louie suspected he could sell his finished product for a little extra income.

Based on his character, he decided to make this friend!

To this end, he also went out of his way to buy the scouting reports of Tripka and Ulrich.

After some haggling, the deal was settled at US$400.

"This is the most complete scouting report of my trip. It's a big advantage for you!" Hanks said, taking out a cigarette and wanting to give it to Louis to smoke.

Louie was worried that he would set the scouting report on fire, so he quickly took it over.

"Thank you, I don't smoke." He picked up the scouting report and read it, which was "eye-opening" for him.

If this kind of scouting report can be labeled with the word "maturity", then his scouting report on Laimbeer can be handed in as a finished product.

In fact, it is true, complex scouting reports only began to appear in the new century.

Until then, scouting reports always pointed out a player's strengths and weaknesses in the most concise terms.

However, the draft is related to the fate of the team, so how can we save words to save trouble? Any negligence may lead to misjudgment by the management.

Therefore, Louis' principle is to be as detailed as possible.

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