The rest is just noise

Chapter 360 It will get better

March 13, 1986

Louis, a well-known coach in the professional basketball circle, made headlines the next day because of an investment.

On this day, Microsoft was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Louis had paid attention to this news very early. Although he didn't understand finance and didn't know any ideas to make a fortune, he at least knew that Microsoft would become a giant in the future.

Now their market value is only $200 million. Gates accepted Paul Allen's advice and decided to go public.

Louis has many advantages in New York.

So, on the day Microsoft went public, Louis spent $900,000 to buy Microsoft stock.

Microsoft's stock is very popular, and almost everyone is optimistic about the company. The starting price is $25 per share, rising to a maximum of $30 per share, and finally closing at $27 per share.

In the end, Louis received nearly 30,000 Microsoft shares, which accounted for "just" more than 1% of Microsoft's total outstanding shares of 24 million.

However, considering that the future market value of this company will reach 400 billion US dollars.

In other words, Louis used an investment of US$900,000 to pocket the next US$400 million.

(Voice-over: I said I don’t understand this, but when the protagonist comes to this era, it makes no sense not to use his identity as a time traveler to make some money. If there are any flaws in the plot, please ignore it)

Louis was very satisfied.

Microsoft's stock is very popular, and some people can't afford to buy so much even if they have the money.

If it weren't for Louis's well-connected contacts in New York and his connections within Oracle, he wouldn't have been able to make this deal.

After it was over, he was so happy that he went crazy. Li Xuanbing said that his brain was all mush and that if he spent good money playing stocks, he would definitely be asking for trouble.

On the day that Louis made headlines in economic news, the Knicks played against the Pistons at home.

People are in high spirits when happy events occur, and Louis seemed to share his joy with the players.

During the game, the Knicks were in full swing and beat the Pistons violently.

The Pistons are in the struggling stage of transformation and have now fallen to competing with the Knicks for fourth place.

Whoever wins this battle will go to fourth place, and whoever loses will go to fifth place.

Although the regular season is not over yet, neither side wants to lose.

However, the overjoyed New Yorkers have a firm determination to win.

In the fourth quarter, when Louis once again launched a full-court press, he was broken by the speed of James Worthy.

According to Rick Pitino, the Knicks' current full-court press has no momentum, no brains, and no routines. It relies solely on the players' personal wishes and cannot effectively force the opponent to death.

Louis completely agrees with Pitino, but what to do?

The only way is to recruit a defensive coach. It is during the season and he can't find a suitable candidate, so he can only do this for now.

The Pistons broke the Knicks' full-court press, but it was difficult to reverse the defeat.

98 to 88

The Knicks defeated their opponents by 10 points.

"Seeing you spend so much money buying stocks, I thought you were going to quit your job and go stock trading."

Chuck Daly loses and loses, but his style remains.

"That's just a small side job of mine. What I really like is coaching." Louis said modestly.

"If I had a 'little side job' like yours, I wouldn't do it. I'd just go home and lie down. It would be more comfortable." Daley said clearly not sincerely.

Louis can understand that the Pistons now have a lineup problem.

We need to build a team that focuses on defense, but apart from Rick Mahon and Joe Dumars, few people on the team are good at defense.

If the team were to be broken up and replaced with a group of hobs, would the effect be better than it is now?

After defeating the Pistons, the Knicks ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference with a record of 40 wins and 27 losses.

Although the state has been very unstable along the way, reaching second place in the Eastern Conference and falling to sixth place in the Eastern Conference, as long as they perform normally, the Knicks will have the strength to be among the top four in the conference.

Although Ewing's performance of 19 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists and 2.9 blocks per game cannot completely satisfy the New Yorkers, with the current record, the dissatisfaction with Ewing can be temporarily put aside.

The Knicks' condition stabilized after entering March.

Against weak teams, they occasionally overturned, but as long as it was a game that Louis believed they must win, they would not lose.

Especially when he met the Cliff Knights, looking at their record, Louis was full of joy.

In March, the Knicks won both games against the Cavaliers, achieving a quadruple kill against the Cavaliers.

With the current combat power displayed by the knights, Louis felt that even if Cartwright was here, they would not be able to escape the fate of being seventh from the bottom.

The only star on the team is the aging Walder B. Free (WorldB.FreePG/SG). Although Brother World can be called a rare and beautiful figure in the Cavaliers' difficult times, this is like Kayla.

·Knightley tries to show her femininity in every play.

Looking at your face can make 90% of men nod with satisfaction.

Once the scope of investigation expands to the career line, satisfied men begin to frown and eventually become disappointed.

This is the result when all you can see is your face.

The feeling of World Brother in the Cavaliers is the same. He is the only one who can watch the whole team, and the rest of the team seems uninteresting.

It's a team like this that chose to gamble on team luck in order to get Cartwright.

Louis didn't know what was going on in the brains of these people.

Cartwright's strength has always been somewhere between a quasi-All-Star and a strong player.

In a weak team, you can be the second boss, and in a strong team, you can be the third boss. A strong team competing for the championship may have to be the fourth boss, but if you have leadership in the locker room,

It's a pity that he broke his bone before he could show his leadership ability in front of Louis.

Louis sent him to Cleveland without coaching him for a single game.

And he just showed his leadership ability in Cleveland when he broke his bone again.

The Knicks had a smooth April.

The record has reached 48 wins and 30 losses. With only four games left in the regular season, the Knicks still have a chance to win 50 games.

April 4, 1986

They came to Boston again and this was their fifth game against the Celtics this season.

Previously, Louis had set a record of ten consecutive defeats against the Celtics.

If the record during the Hubie Brown era is also included, the Knicks lost 13 and won 1 against the Celtics.

In three seasons, they have only won once out of 14 meetings.

That time it was Bernard King who broke out and fought tooth and nail to win back.

Now, Jin is still recuperating and will not return this season.

Moreover, the issue of his stay is also plaguing the New York media.

Although many people have accepted the fact that Ewing is the king of the new generation of New York, but Akin has contributed to New York, shed blood, and fought for the ACL. Shouldn't he just say that he doesn't want it? If he does this, he will not be afraid of forcing the second choice.

A Weixia coming?

Oh, Ah Jin doesn’t have the superpower to travel through time and space when he sleeps, so the previous paragraph is invalid.

When setting off from New York to Boston, Louis said with high spirits on the plane: "Guys, I have a strong feeling that the losing streak against Boston will end tonight!"

The atmosphere is not that warm.

This group of people has been psychologically scarred by those beasts in Boston.

"Give me some feedback, you dogs!"

Stockton asked pragmatically: "Coach, do you have any strategies for winning?"

"I haven't thought of this yet." Louis almost lost control after hearing his words, "So I want you to cheer up, maybe you can think of things that I haven't thought of!"

Oakley had an idea: "Coach, we press them hard. This is how we won the Lakers in the forum last time!"

"That's right, the full-court press is our secret weapon!"

Ahem, can a secret weapon that has made headlines still be considered a secret?

And Louis suppressed his laughter and asked: "What do you mean, do you want to press the whole court against a team with Isiah Thomas, Ralph Sampson, and Larry Bird?"

Ewing didn't hear the irony in Louis' tone.

He actually asked like a fool: "Is there any problem?"

"Spine! I like it! It seems that Patrick will lead the charge tonight!" Louis touched Ewing's head and said loudly, "If we are kicked by the Celtics again, Patrick will definitely be the one to blame.

I might throw him out of the plane by then, so you'd better look at him more, because you might not be able to see him anymore!"

"You are really unreasonable!"

Ewing shouted dissatisfied.

"He's anxious, he's anxious!" Teasing Ewing is an integral part of Louis' life.

Ewing said angrily: "You just told us to cheer up, and I followed your words, but here you are destroying your own prestige and gaining the ambition of others! And you are laughing at me, what the hell!"

"How dare you fucking threaten to press the Celtics full court, and you're still afraid of being laughed at? If I had been more tempered, I would have thrown you out of the plane just now, you idiot!"

The captain asked the flight attendant to remind him: "We are about to leave, please keep quiet."

"Did you hear that? Be quiet!" The one with the loudest voice was the least self-conscious, "Do you have to be reminded every day? Did you not have enough fun in the nightclub last night and you are not sleepy now? Close your eyes!

When the plane takes off later, who will show me that I can open my eyes?"

The flight attendant politely walked up to Louis and said, "Coach Lu, please stay quiet."

"Yes, yes, I will definitely cooperate with you in your work." Louis glanced at the other person's face, scanning the attractive curves under the attractive uniform.

Tomjanovich teased: "Coach Lu, you have a girlfriend, please control yourself."

"Didn't you notice that the conscientious lady looks a lot like Sean Young?"

"I don't pay much attention to the film and television industry"

"Oh my God!" Louis asked in disbelief, "How did you live this little life?"

Tomjanovich said tiredly: "I have to watch five games every day and record countless data. Do you think I have time to watch these?"

The originator of Tomjanovich's exhaustion said heartwarmingly: "It will get better. When you become the head coach, it will be your turn to torture the assistant coaches. If someone doesn't want to do it, you can tell him,"

That's how I came here too'."

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