The rest is just noise

"That's Louis's 'I come, I see, I conquer'."

Ahead, Rudy Tomjanovich recalls what happened at Knicks preseason training camp in 1984.

Just like in 1983, the Celtics lost to the Bucks and were eliminated from the playoffs.

He flew into a rage after that game and shattered the self-esteem of every Green Army player from top to bottom.

He stands on the moral high ground and overlooks everyone with reasonable grounds, and no one can refute him.

The Knicks are a completely different battlefield. He does not have solid connections and foundations like Boston did before he took office. It is not easy to establish his own prestige, especially when the core players take the lead in opposing you.

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Louis accomplished this skillfully.

He humiliated Bernard King in the three-point contest, earned him a year's salary, and created an unoffending dignity in the hearts of all Knicks players.

Not to mention that after he won the game, he told the media at the scene: "I haven't shot well for more than a year, otherwise I wouldn't have missed the first shot."

The media had no choice but to take his words seriously, forcing themselves to forget that Louie's first goal was missed because he shot with his left hand, which made the game a process of first decline and then improvement.

Bernard King's face had never looked so sad.

He quickly disappeared from training camp and didn't show up until the next day.

Louis did not want to let him go and insisted on asking for his annual salary for the next year.

In other words, Louis will receive Bernard's salary of US$900,000 in the next year.

After deducting taxes, there is still nearly 500,000 US dollars. (PS: I don’t understand New York taxes, please provide the correct after-tax figures so I can modify them)

The chain reaction of that incident was that it was difficult for Jin to hold his head high in front of Louis.

Whenever he thinks about losing to Louis in a three-pointer, he feels so ashamed that he wants to crawl underground.

In the following days, the New York media who witnessed the game did their best to restore the game to basketball fans around the world.

Even the Times, which had no dealings with Louis, wrote about him in a positive light.

In that story, Bernard King was a fool who deserved his punishment.

Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Anderson even left this comment in his column: "Little Lu is a pragmatic person. Unlike his predecessor, he is not as good at getting along with the media as Hubby.

In front of him, you can feel an uncomfortable pressure. He is so confident. He refuses to make uncertain promises and asks everyone to lower their expectations for the Knicks. When Bernard provoked him,

He fired back smartly. What you should remember is not Bernard's $900,000, what you should remember is what Little Lu said after the game. He hadn't practiced shooting in over a year, and that's what I remember

The coach who can control the proud Celtics. Perhaps, he really is the messiah of New York professional basketball."

Louis didn't like his new nickname, Messiah, which sounded too middle-class.

He does not need to give himself a lofty title like James, nor does he need to put a "KING" prefix on his social media account to remind others who he is all the time.

He likes the nickname "Little Lu", which literally translates as Xiaolu, implying his youth.

That's good, at least it's an approachable title.

Messiah?

Should people kneel down to him?

On the third day after the media conference, Louis gathered the players and officially decided on the team's style of play for the new season.

The main offensive formation is two inside and three outside.

To put it simply, two stand low and three form a triangle and spread out on the outside.

But the Knicks don't have that many shooters, so those who are far away can do so according to their own shooting range, and they don't have to stand outside the three-point line.

The two people who fell down were mainly Bernard King and Bill Cartwright.

As for tactical variations, Louis chose a "double stack" formation.

In the double-stack position, the other four players except the point guard need to move more. The double-stack position tactic was left behind by Hubie Brown, and Louis decided to use it.

Then comes the point.

The second unit's playstyle.

Louis held a chess piece and compared it to the ball handler of the second team: "I need the second team to play concisely, with the ball handler and the inside or small forward picking and rolling, and making decisions within two or three steps of dribbling the ball.

Either the ball handler shoots, or he finds an opportunity to pass the ball, don't waste time."

This original pick-and-roll tactic was actually prepared for Stockton.

Louis has not yet announced who the defenders will be on the second team, but in his mind, Stockton is the only choice.

The tactics of the second team are also the only tactics that will be retained when the Knicks transition from reconstruction to the upswing.

After all, we have Stockton, the best pick-and-roll initiator in the history of the big ball era, and not arranging a pick-and-roll system is a waste of talent.

Stockton was the historical double data leader (steals + assists) under Sloan. Louis did not say whether he could coach Stockton for that long, but said that if Stockton retires in the future, his achievements will not be as good as in his previous life.

, it goes without saying whose fault it is?

Therefore, no matter what the reason is, Louis has to find a way to use Stockton's abilities.

I remember when he was playing 2K, he loaded the historical draft list and the most beastly player in the simulation was Stockton⑴.

After averaging 30+10 assists per game for 15 consecutive years, Jordan had to carry his shoes.

When Louis finished making arrangements, he saw that Bernard King was in a daze.

"Bernard, even if you are bankrupt, there is no need to be so depressed." Louis said easily, "Things will get better."

The King of New York said sadly: "After August 3rd (the day Louis signed with the Knicks), nothing can be better."

"I sympathize with you, Bernard, but my life started to get better two days ago. I can't help laughing even in my dreams." Louis had already begun to laugh now.

When he smiled, everyone laughed.

There's only one person who can't laugh, and that's the Knicks' top player.

He walked out of the video room with an angry expression.

The Knicks trained as usual, and Louis thought they could get through the training camp safely. Even if they were going to mess up, they had to do it in a lively way.

Unexpectedly, the retribution for disobeying the doctor's instructions would come so quickly.

On this day, Bill Cartwright broke his leg during training.

His screams became a nightmare that Louis could not get rid of in the next few days. He had never heard any man scream as miserable as him.

Before Cartwright was injured, the Knicks still had 0.1% of their thoughts. After he was injured, the Knicks' fate could not be changed.

"No coach, no matter how good he is, can cope with this situation."

"Looks like Little Lu's luck ran out in Boston."

"Optimistically, the Knicks are the first team in the league ready to embrace Patrick Ewing."

Another bad reaction to Cartwright's injury was to strike fear into the heart of the veteran.

Veteran player Truk Robinson, whose prime was taken away by injuries, is worried that he will also suffer a serious injury before retiring, and then need to use a wheelchair to travel like George Mikan in his later years.

This tragic fate made him shudder, and he came to Louis' hotel the night before the training camp ended.

His serious expression once made Louis suspect that he wanted to anally fuck him.

"Coach, I don't want to play basketball anymore."

"If you give up, everything will be over."

That's right, Louis is the coach of Cosplay Anxi.

"I played in the All-Star Game, was selected for a team, and was once one of the five best players in the league. But look at what I've become now. I can't run or jump. I was afraid of this and that.

I no longer deserve to play in this jersey."

Cartwright, Cartwright, what evil have you done?

Louis secretly scolded the bastard who broke his leg against the doctor's advice. How could he have thought that breaking his leg might also end "Truck"'s career?

Louis asked boldly: "Have you been selected for a while?"

"That happened in 1978..." Robinson looked like he was about to escape into the void, "It's been many years."

"Brother, it was only six years ago, when I was still a scout for the Celtics."

"Has it only been six years?"

Robinson's emotions stagnated for a moment, and then burst out: "It's only been six years! What kind of torture has this damn sport tortured me to! How could I become like this? Woohoo!"

In the middle of the night, outside Louis' room, a former macho man was crying.

"If you want to retire, then retire. Don't scream at me. You will make others misunderstand what I did to you..."

⑴In fact, the victim is not me, but the group leader of the book club. He once formed a lineup of Jordan + Mullin + Sabonis in 2K and was dominated by Stockton in the simulation.