The rest is just noise

"Coach Lu, congratulations."

After a huge defeat at the hands of the Celtics, Chuck Daly still wanted to congratulate his opponent like a winner.

Louis held his hand in a friendly way and said trash talk in a joking way: "I hope the next three games can go as smoothly as tonight."

Daley responded: "You're not going to get your wish."

"Huh, who knows, Coach Daley." Louis walked to the scene easily to be interviewed.

What he said was almost the same as before, and the reporter's method of asking questions had not changed.

"Coach Lu, your current record in the playoffs is 6 wins and 1 loss. How do you feel about this?"

Louis knew that they were counting the games during his time as acting coach last season.

"This is not my record, it is the Celtics' record. I have only a handful of contributions. If you are interested in this, go and interview my players. They are the ones who won the game." Louis said overly modestly.

He shed the halo imposed on him by reporters.

Just kidding, if you claim these, how can you pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger in the future?

Louis hopes that the aura of "he is a rookie" will last as long as possible on him.

Although some important opponents have regarded him as a strong enemy, there are still many Gene Shue in the league who respect themselves because of their years of working in professional basketball.

This kind of person is often the target of Louis' violent destruction.

Therefore, he cannot let reporters who know nothing but bragging ruin his arrogant image in the eyes of old comrades as "arrogant, fatuous and incompetent, who can reach heaven by playing a max-level account".

Reporters saw his humility, which was not the case when he offended residents of the entire capital in Washington a while ago.

Louis' sudden transformation made many people say they couldn't understand it.

Just like Daley said, he is different off the court and on the court.

However, Louis under the light field has already been seen in many different images.

What the outside world doesn't know is that the question of the real Louis is also a mystery within the Celtics.

At the press conference, Louis gave up all the limelight opportunities to the players and only answered a few simple and boring questions.

Dozens of media outlets wasted nearly 30 minutes of their time.

Bird was impatient, but Thomas enjoyed being surrounded by the media.

Sampson's character is like warm water. Reporters will not ask him too many questions, nor will they ignore him. Everyone focuses on Bird. The problem is that he always has an attitude of being distant from others.

If his skin color were dyed dark, he would be labeled as "arrogant", "inhumane", "mean", "indifferent", etc. It is very correct. It should have been labeled on him long ago, but it has never been labeled on him.

Tags on the body.

Only black people are given these labels.

White people don't know how. Bird's various behaviors with low emotional intelligence have been beautified by the media as "a superstar with a strong personality and self-esteem."

To be fair, he is not as cynical and annoying as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He is just a country bumpkin who is not used to the spotlight and is wary of outside attention.

He simply doesn't like this.

But the less he likes it, the closer the media gets to him.

Even if Isiah Thomas becomes a fossil after death and is discovered 100 million years later, he may still have a smile on his face. Even an eternal smile cannot replace Bird's status in the eyes of the media.

The next day, Louis held a relaxing review meeting.

He listed the mistakes made by the Pistons at the meeting.

According to his calculations, if the Pistons had not made those mistakes, the two teams would have been tied at least until the fourth quarter, and it was very likely that the outcome would not be decided until the last minute.

Bird had a different opinion.

Rather than saying it's a disagreement, it's more of an argument.

"If the coaching staff didn't put any restrictions on their counterattack, then your salary would be too good." Bird deliberately provoked Louis.

Louis was in a good mood, and he didn't think it was necessary to argue with the country bumpkin on this topic. There would be no result if he won the argument.

The realistic result is that they won, the Pistons failed to seize the opportunity, and it was over.

"Larry, if you give half of the critical thinking ability in the review meeting to the media, the reporters will be very happy." Louis said jokingly.

The meeting was friendly and harmonious, and even if Bird made a quarrel, Louis did not take it seriously.

After the meeting, Louis asked for a targeted match.

The Pistons like to call pick-and-rolls and play mismatched tactical points, which attracted Louis' attention.

Because of this routine, the Celtics were able to get away with it.

Thomas can beat the small against the big, the fast against the slow; Bird can beat the big against the small, relatively fast against the slow, clever against reckless, smart against foolish, low-quality against high-quality, thick-skinned against thin-skinned. Thinking about it this way, it's obviously wrong.

There are so many clever things.

In the competition that day, Louis asked Maxwell to imitate Worthy.

Although his speed is two gears behind Worthy's own, the effect is pretty good in a fight.

Louis intends to use realistic competition games to help the team adapt to the Pistons' style of play.

There is no doubt that the Celtics are stronger than the Pistons. If they change to some unlearned coaches, simply shorten the rotation and use more than one level of offensive and defensive strength A, it will be the same.

If you do this, it will be easy, but Louis' coaching ability will not be exercised in any way.

He saw this very clearly.

He needs valuable actual combat experience, and playoff games are much more nutritious than regular season games.

The difference in strength is so big that it's like shooting a bullet in the first round, so of course he won't have any trouble. But in the semifinals against the Pistons, his opponent is a future Hall of Fame coach like Daley. The Eastern Conference finals may be the same as last season's elimination of the Celtics.

When human stags meet, Don Nelson is another opponent that makes Louis wary.

These "high-level" opponents are Louis' whetstone.

He would rather lose in the battle with these people than rely on the lineup to crush them.

Because he cannot always have a full-level account, if he wants to find another job in the future, he will definitely choose a "ruins" and start from scratch.

By then, it will be very sad if his coaching ability has not been honed in any way.

Halfway through the match, Louis was in no mood to look down, leaving K.C and Tomjanovich to stare, and went to Auerbach's office to grab a drink.

Seeing Louis coming uninvited, Auerbach said as if to guard against thieves: "There is only Pepsi in the refrigerator."

Louis must find out.

He opened the refrigerator and saw something that disappointed him.

"Reed, don't you know that even dogs don't drink this Pepsi thing?" Louis asked disgustedly.

Auerbach hummed: "I'm just guarding you!"

"How stingy, how much does a bottle of Coke cost you every day?" Louis rolled his eyes and complained, "If you arrange a refrigerator for my office, I won't come to your place all the time."

Auerbach simply couldn't stand listening.

"With your monthly income, you still need public funds to buy a refrigerator?" Auerbach asked with disgust and anger.

Louis sat down and found an excuse instantly: "Don't you know I'm going to be a father soon? I have to save some money for my child."

"Aren't you not married?"

"I'm worried because I'm not married. You don't know my girlfriend. She spends money every month. When the child is born, my salary won't be enough." Louis believed what he said, and Luo

I'm never, ever, never going to hear that.

Auerbach scolded: "Damn baby boomers! America will be destroyed sooner or later at the hands of your generation!"

"So, as the 'Greatest Generation', can you respect Chinese traditions? You like Chinese food so much, don't you even understand these rules?"

"What rules?"

"The thing that actually makes me feel embarrassed about this is that when a child is born, as friends and elders, you have to give something like lucky money as a blessing to the baby."

"roll!"

It seems that today is not a good time.

Louis is a man who gets braver as he fights, especially when it comes to money.

Anyway, there is still more than half a year before Lorraine gives birth. During this period, as long as he harasses Auerbach from time to time, he will still take out some of his money no matter how much he has.

Just as Louis was about to leave, Auerbach, who told him to "get lost", stopped him again.

"Wait!"

"If you don't have a red envelope, we can skip this process. You can just give me cash or a check, and I'll thank you on behalf of the child." Louis' greedy face made Auerbach want to slap him with a shoe insole.

Auerbach selectively ignored the red envelope.

"How many games do you expect the semifinals to end?"

"What? Do you want to sell more tickets?" Louis sat down again, "If you can share some of the ticket revenue with me, I can postpone this series to the seventh game."

"Damn it! Be more fucking decent!"

Louis looked at him inexplicably: "Is there anything more serious than talking about dividing the spoils?"

"Who wants to share the spoils with you? That's not what I meant at all!"

Louis asked doubtfully: "What do you mean?"

"If it ends quickly, I think you should have time to go to the Olympic selection team." Auerbach has no doubt about Louis' vision, "That's the prelude to this year's draft."

Louis is getting serious.

"I know." Louis said confidently, "I will end the series in five games."

Auerbach asked: "Why not four games? Where did your damn confidence go?"

"Wouldn't it be better to give you a show and sell tickets?"

"Now, immediately!" Auerbach roared angrily, "disappear from me! Get out!"