The rest is just noise

After Orr went downstairs, he notified his teammates.

For some people, this is not an easy thing to accept.

Orr is an experienced veteran who works hard in the team. Although he is dissatisfied with his playing time, he plays seriously when he comes on the court and does not mess around.

He's like a mentor to rookies and sophomores.

Many people have not recovered from Louis' rebuke. In the blink of an eye, the veteran who reminds them all day long what they should and should not do in the league will leave the team.

Louis' smile when he said goodbye to Orr disappeared.

He carefully reviewed the resources the Knicks currently have. In addition to tradable players, in terms of draft picks, they have the 1987 76ers first-round pick and the 1986 Mavericks second-round pick (the 10th pick in the 1984 draft was exchanged for the 15th pick from the Mavericks).

additional), the first round in 1986 came from Greencap, the second round in 1987 came from Greencap, the first round in 1986 came from Pistons, the first round pick exchange with the Cavaliers in 1986, the first round with the Cavaliers in 1987

The first-round pick swap in 1986 came from the Lakers. The top three picks in the first round in 1988 were protected from the SuperSonics. The draft pick swap in 1992 came from the SuperSonics.

Over the next seven years, there will be a total of nine first-rounders.

The Knicks' hope for revival lies in Ewing and Stockton, as well as in these draft picks.

If you are lucky, some of these picks will become top five picks, and then it will be time for him to play a role as a time traveler.

If you don’t understand this period of history, it will be difficult to find treasures with low picks, but the star prospects with high picks are all familiar names, can you still miss them?

Well, speaking of which, I missed Karl Malone some time ago.

Seeing that the training time was over, Louis was preparing to go to school to take Lorraine home.

Most of the players had left the Blue Palace, but he saw that the door to the review room was still closed.

It's been two hours. Has he been in there all this time?

Louis walked over, and sure enough, Ewing was still watching the ugly video highlights.

What he kept replaying was that he was grabbing rebounds and was not stuck in position, but Sampson used his height to pick off the board, and that he was unable to get down when he threw himself to defend. He had to raise his hands as if to surrender, unable to do anything, and watched Bird and the others score.

These images, combined with Louis' words, hurt him deeply.

"Have you seen enough?" Louis asked aloud.

Ewing said coldly: "It's none of your business here."

"Are you still angry with me?" Louis laughed, "Who should I vent my anger on when I was reviewing the game at home last night until dawn? Who played the game? Is it me?"

Ewing remained silent and did not answer.

The screen flashed by, Sampson broke through, and Ewing raised his hands in surrender, meaninglessly interfering with the opponent's dunk.

"Why don't you put your focus down in advance?" Louis asked.

Ewing still said nothing.

"If you don't tell me the problem, I won't be able to solve your problem. If you do this next time, I will still scold you."

"I was careless."

"ha?"

"It's too careless," Ewing said with a guilty conscience.

"Okay, next round, you are obviously stuck in position, why don't you suppress his position?" Before the screen cuts to the next one, Louis has already told what happened in that round in advance.

This is enough to prove the authenticity of what he said about resuming trading until dawn.

The lens shows everything, as expected.

"Why?" Louis asked.

Ewing was embarrassed to speak up.

"Answer me, is it your upper limbs that can't hold you down, or your lower limbs that can't hold up Ralph?" Louis asked calmly, "It's not like you didn't resist on purpose, right?"

Ewing said shamefully as if recalling being assaulted by a gay: "I tried my best, but he didn't seem to be affected."

"Strength still needs to be practiced, Patrick."

"I practice every day."

"It's not enough." Louis said, "I persuaded Ralph to join the league. He didn't waste so much time in college like you. He received strength training in an orderly manner from the first year. Don't look at him thin, regardless of his upper body.

Both strength and lower body strength are far superior to yours."

"I told you, you're wasting your time in school."

"do not talk"

"Not convinced?"

"I'm not dissatisfied!"

"I won't blame you next round." Louis once again told what happened next, "Those three bastards deliberately targeted you and played a beautiful partial coordination. I know you tried your best."

The scene turned, Bird feinted and passed the ball to Thomas. Thomas broke through, attracted all Ewing's attention and passed the ball into the air. Sampson received the ball and dunked.

From the look and feel, Ewing is being manipulated like a monkey.

But how can one person guard three people at the same time?

"Center of Gravity! Center of Gravity!" The whole picture is of Ewing running out with a high center of gravity and being dribbled by Sampson.

Louis pointed to the moment when Sampson passed Ewing and said: "In terms of speed, you are above him, but you usually attack people and have never attacked a ball handler of this size. I can understand if you have no experience. We will meet again next time."

On top, your center of gravity must be lowered."

"Where's his shooting?"

"He should be allowed to shoot! I would rather let him shoot than dribble in!"

Louis and Ewing watched the highlights from beginning to end. Every round, Louis would tell what happened in advance and then tell Ewing what the problem was.

He no longer had anger, he was very calm, completely different from before.

The wound that was torn open on Ewing's body during the review meeting slowly closed again.

"From now on, we will set a rule. As long as you switch defense, you must put your focus down; as long as the opponent shoots, you must find someone nearby to block you. Even if you block a teammate, I don't blame you; as for your defense

We will gradually solve the positioning problem in the future. The most important things now are two points. You must do a good job in blocking position and delaying the dive. If you continue to make mistakes, then I will not only scold you, but I will also deduct you.

Qian, do you have any opinions?"

Ewing shook his head.

"Okay, what's the penalty? I'll tell you tomorrow. You can take this videotape back. This game is very interesting. It exposes all your problems. You should regard it as a knife hanging over your head.

Guillotine, if you can't solve the problems exposed in this game, then you will never become an inside man who can dominate the game."

Ewing asked: "What if these problems were solved?"

"That's the next stage. Don't be so ambitious."

Louis stood up and said calmly: "See you tomorrow, Patrick."

Later, Louis heard that Ewing and Truk Robinson stayed at the Blue Palace to practice until midnight.

Just as Louis thought before, Ewing's mental strength, willingness to improve himself, diligence, hard work, and desire to win, these invisible but extremely important "software", are all present.

Unfortunately, Ewing had great "software" and "hardware", but he did not encounter a qualified mentor during the critical growth period.

Therefore, for a person's growth, innate talent is very important, and nurture is also very important.

When Louis drives outside New York University, Lorraine is always the one who attracts the most attention.

Seeing her along the way, the return rate is 100%.

Louie couldn't help but sing those lines from "Wake Me Up Before Go-Go", "Put the put the inty heart (You make my little heart pounding)"

"What's wrong, you're in such a good mood?"

"I called Patrick Ewing the shit out of him, but he still wants to be my friend. Do you think I can be in a bad mood?"

"Jing is talking nonsense every day!"

"Get in the car, ma'am, and let me show you around New York City!"

The next day, the Knicks and SuperSonics completed the deal.

When the deal was completed, Reed Auerbach, who was on vacation in Washington, expressed his dissatisfaction: "Seattle has paid for a longer future to save a hopeless future!"

He was even more angry that Louis sent Orr and didn't let the Sonics pay any of the first nine players in the main rotation, only draft picks.

But he can't call Louis to scold him. After all, everyone has his own boss now, and Louis is also considering maximizing the interests of the team.

Enhance the SuperSonics' immediate combat effectiveness, reduce the possibility of them falling into the bottom seven in the league, and prevent the Celtics from using a lottery pick to strengthen them.

They are already strong enough. If they continue to strengthen, will other teams still be able to mess around?

George Johnson and Alex "Spider" Stevens pass Knicks physicals.

Although Louis thinks he doesn't need them, he will still give these two a few games to prove themselves. If it doesn't work, he will cut one and keep the other.

Of these two new players, he knew one of them.

George Johnson was also a veteran who had played for many years. He made his debut with the Warriors and together with Barry won the Warriors' first championship in franchise history. He was supposed to be at his peak in the early 1980s but failed on his own.

Legend has it that the Warriors team, which had a good chance of defending the title in 1976, lost the game because Barry was beaten on the court and found that his teammates did not help him in the fight, so they did not take action in the second half. Johnson was one of the many players who was unwilling to help Barry.

one.

Regardless of whether the rumors are true or not, Louis will be highly wary of this person.

Even though Barry is an idiot, the lowest point for a team is when someone is being beaten but no one steps up. Any team that has teammates being beaten but others are indifferent does not deserve to win.

The Warriors were like this in 1976, and the 76ers were like this in 1977.

The most impressive incident of this kind to Louis was when Nick Young of the Lakers era challenged the entire Suns team.

The glory of the Lakers in the Kobe era perished under the gaze of a group of indifferent Lakers players.

How helpless Yang was in that scene, how pathetic the Lakers were.

So for Johnson, Louis would give him at most two games of patience. As for the other one, Louis knew him so little that he mistakenly thought he was an international player during negotiations. Although he has a European surname, he is an American.

His father's generation is from Latvia, but he himself has no connection with Latvia.

For such an unfamiliar fifth-round pick, Louis will give him at most three games to prove himself.

If the performance is too bad, it may be decided in one game.