The rest is just noise

There are two vending machines in the corridor of the Blue Palace.

Louis took out the money and wanted to buy a Coke.

He saw Ewing standing nearby and asked politely: "What do you want to drink?"

"Cola?"

"ice cream?"

“Cheesy beans??”

Seeing that Ewing didn't reply, Louis asked angrily: "You are a person who has successfully graduated from four years of school, but you don't even know how to be polite?"

Ewing said coldly: "I don't want anything."

"Then you missed something good."

Louis bought a Coke and a packet of cheese beans.

Louis was drinking Coke and eating cheese beans, and the crunchy sound made Ewing very unhappy.

"Can't you eat somewhere else?" Ewing asked.

"You don't like being in the same place with me so much?" Louis often lacked self-awareness.

Since Louis won't leave, Ewing has no choice but to leave.

Just as he was about to walk into the Blue Palace, Louis leaned against the wall and said slowly: "If you think I am targeting you, then forget it."

"You admitted it?" Ewing asked angrily.

"If you are angry because I am targeting you, I can only say that selecting you with the first pick in the first round is the biggest mistake I have ever made." Louis smiled naturally, "You don't even know that I care for you.

What have you given up?"

Ewing shouted: "What do you want?"

"I want you to realize your talent. Is this enough?" Louis held a Coke in one hand and a bag of cheese beans in the other. It seemed that he was not serious and his words were unconvincing. "I want you to become the best center in the league.

, what do you think of this reason? I want you to recover the three years you wasted, what do you think?"

"I have not wasted three years!"

"Don't fart with me!" Louis seemed to have switched back to the state in the Blue Palace. "Your defensive position is like an idiot, and every defense outside the paint area is like a goalkeeper attack with a heavy error. And you

His positioning habits are the worst among the insiders I have ever seen!"

"You don't know how to block positions, choose positions, and defend. When the season starts, you will be called for a lot of fouls. You also need to gain weight. Many bad habits need to be corrected. But you are not young anymore, you know? You are 22 years old this year.

, how many 22-year-old centers have you seen who have so many of your bad habits?"

Ewing asked angrily: "Are all the big men in the league over the age of 22 better than me?"

"No, even if you have so many problems that I can't tolerate it, you are still enough to beat 98% of centers."

"But I gave you the first salary in the league!" Louis shouted, "If you can't beat everyone, why do you get so much salary? If you have as many problems as a high school student, why does New York think you can?"

Lead them back to the 1970s? Why do you want to lead them back to the 1970s?"

Ewing was silent.

"I'm not targeting you as a person, but the problems you haven't corrected in school. You think I'm humiliating you by saying you're wasting time in school, but I'm not. You've been studying in school for four years.

But it leaves so many questions. What did you do in school? Didn't you work hard? Is there something wrong with your intelligence? Is your brain flooded? Or are you just lazy?"

"I don't!"

"If you don't have a fucking problem, then who the hell can I blame if I don't blame John Thompson?"

Ewing could not refute or respond.

Louis walked up to Ewing.

He would never have imagined that this Asian man, who was only 1.9 meters tall, would put such pressure on him.

"Everything I do is to make you better. If you feel that my words hurt you and my attitude is unacceptable to you, it means that I am right." Louis said seriously, "I am.

This is how you get rid of the strawberries that son of a bitch John Thompson planted in you."

Ewing couldn't help but said: "You have to stop insulting my coach!"

"QNMD! I am your coach now!"

Ewing said sadly: "My coach would never say 'QNMD' to me!"

Louis smiled and looked very happy: "I'm honored to be the first."

Ewing had nothing to say. He couldn't refute Louis' accusation against Thompson.

This did not affect his respect for Thompson, whose wisdom and life experience played an important role during the critical period when he formed his worldview.

For Ewing, John Thompson was a second father.

Seeing Ewing not speaking, Louis approached him and said: "I hope you understand that as the head coach of the Knicks, no one in the world wants you to become a great player more than me. You have great talents, even if they are wasted."

There is a good chance of catching up with Akeem, Ralph and the others in three years, but you need to continue to remain humble. If one day you feel that you can no longer stand me and want to refuse my coaching, I hope you can apply for a trade upwards.

form to convey this message.”

"At that time, I will meet all your needs. No matter which team you want to go to, I will send you there, I promise."

"Bear with me until you can't bear it any more, Patrick."

Louis gently touched Ewing with his right hand: "As for this time, you don't have to be too nervous about me. I am quite easy to communicate with. If you knew me better, you might not know that I am only two years older than you."

Years old, you can even call me brother."

"No way!" Ewing declared.

"Don't be so sure, although our current relationship is very ordinary."

Ewing interrupted and emphasized: "It's very average."

"But we may become very good friends in the future, just like I did with Larry in Boston. He hates people calling him a bumpkin most in his life, but he allows me to call him that. What does this mean? He regards me as a buddy.

, I believe that if there is a war, he will take a bullet for me." Louis said passionately, "Maybe one day, we can be so good, and you may even allow me to call you the one starting with N like a black man.

word."

Ewing sneered: "You should give up on this idea, it's absolutely impossible!"

Louis is an expert negotiator and communicator.

In his previous life, he relied on his sharp tongue to enter the professional basketball circle, and only then could he see that he had considerable talent.

Although he humiliated Ewing for a week in the Blue Palace, he still used a brief period of time to mend his relationship with Ewing.

When he walked back to the Blue Palace, more than half of the people thought he had another fight with Ewing.

"Why are you still in the mood to eat this?" Tomjanovich was a little worried, "Has the problem been solved?"

Louie fed a cheese bean into Tomjanovich's mouth.

"Don't worry, Rudy, do you think I'm the kind of person who holds a celebration party before winning?" Louis said proudly, "Little Ewing, I got it done in just a few words!"

Only then did Phil Jackson discover that the mediator in the Knicks team was not him, but Louis.

In the first ten days of training, there was only one day when Louis didn't scold Ewing.

As we all know, that was day one.

For the remaining nine days, whenever Ewing and Louis were on the court, both were in a state of anger.

Louis blasted Ewing wildly, causing the latter to get angry, but he did not dare to disobey, so his anger was directed at the innocent Oakley, A.C. Green, Antoine Carr and Boll.

Bol developed a sense of humor as remarkable as his height.

He gave Ewing a nickname, and it was a homophone.

He called Ewing "Yuwen" (to lure win), because every time Ewing hit him from behind, he was as cruel as Zhou Qi during the period when O'Neal hit him with a back.

Bol yelled like he was showing weakness: "Win! (You win) Win! (You win) Win!!! (You really fucking win) Win!!!! (You win)

Stop it now)”

The specific meaning of win needs to be judged based on Boll's situation and tone.

It's media day in a few days, and Louis decided to reduce his training time by half an hour every day.

Ball used his unstoppable accent to praise Louis as the "G.O.A.T."

It was rare for Ewing to get a guy to talk.

"My Jamaican restaurant has opened in the past few days. It is located at 33 Madison Avenue, 6th Street." Ewing said cheerfully, "If you come to eat here, you can get a free meal."

Bol also excitedly called Ewing King Kong for being rich.

"Patrick, Manute is implying that you look like an orangutan." Louis asked ignorantly.

Ewing was angry and said to Louis: "You are the only one who will not be exempted from the bill!"

"It's okay, there will be a media conference in a few days. If I go to your restaurant to eat and have to pay, I will probably say something unnecessary in front of reporters that will have negative consequences for your personal image.

"

If that's not a threat.

"Coach, my coach, Patrick is joking with you." Weber said with high emotional intelligence.

Louis said displeasedly: "Potato, is that what you called Patrick?"

"Then what is my name? Rich King Kong?"

"Why bother? Why don't you just call him a gorilla? You are all black. This is not racial discrimination." Only in the 1980s, Louis could make such a joke casually.

Weber asked: "Is it okay?"

Ewing immediately regarded Weber, who was kindly trying to smooth things over, as Louis' accomplice: "You can't be exempted from the bill at our store!"

Weber suddenly became more dramatic: "If someone with an annual salary of 3 million actually cares so much about someone like me with an annual salary of 100,000, will the world be okay?"

Louis almost believed it after reading it.

Before Ewing could take back his words, Louis broke the atmosphere at an inappropriate time: "Potato, if your fake moves on the court are half as good as your acting skills just now, I will definitely let you fight."

"Really?" Weber's joyful confirmation question let Ewing know that he was being fooled again.

“!##……￥%”

No one could understand what he was cursing. It was probably a curse word in Jamaican.

This is a very special team, with orangutans, scrawny seven-footers, and freaks as short as potatoes but as strong as rocks. There is a reason why others call the Knicks the zoo team.

How to lead them forward is Louis' main topic.

It can be found that, except for the newcomers, most of the "old people" who played on the team last season are silent.

Because this Louis feels very strange to them, completely different from last season.