The rest is just noise

"Mr. Inman, is there a shortage of scouts in Portland?" Louis looked like he wanted to change jobs, "I seem to run into you everywhere."

Inman said casually: "Any guy who could be a Blazer, I'll take a look."

In terms of the quality of the Blazers' draft picks, Inman doesn't seem that bad. He just happened to help the team select the most notorious parallel draft pick in the 1970s, and a few years later allowed the Blazers to avoid the most important draft in history.

Zhang Lottery - After all, it is just a waste of the No. 1 pick for the team, and the opportunity to win 4-10 championships in the future, hundreds of millions of dollars in team appreciation, and have the best player in history.

It's really nothing.

If Louis was the owner of the Trail Blazers, the most he could do would be to find a killer to kill this old man. He would never do anything more extreme.

"You seem to like Ronnie Lester very much." Louis asked.

Logically speaking, Inman shouldn't answer this question.

But he believes that Leicester is not among Celtic's targets, and he is sure.

"Yes, I admire his temperament, it's very unique."

These words made Louis couldn't help but belittle himself. Did he really not see the way? His practice was too shallow? Does this guy have any temperament?

Looking at it horizontally and vertically, they are all street guys who will leave the NBA after only a few years of playing.

"His aggression seems to be lacking." Since Inman liked him so much, Louis couldn't say anything except to single out his smallest fault.

"Aggressive..."

Inman gets a headache when he hears the word. Let's be honest, who doesn't like aggressive guards? But Trail Blazers coach Dr. Frank Ramsey doesn't like aggressive guards.

He believes that if a defender has too much autonomy, he will lose control.

And the defender is the brains of the team on the court. If he loses control, won't the whole team suffer from cerebral palsy?

“If you like an aggressive guard, check out Andrew Toney SG at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Sounds familiar!

Sounds familiar!

Ganlin and I sound familiar!

Familiarity is not the basis for Louis to find people, because these names that are familiar to him may have been just substitutes when they were players. They just played under many coaches and became coaches after retirement. Therefore, their names can still be heard after retirement.

On the line.

However, whenever he encounters a familiar name, Louis will always come first.

"How is this guy?" Louis asked.

Inman praised him: "If you like aggressive defenders, you can't go wrong checking him out. This kid is full of wildness."

"Wild" is not a good word.

Especially when you say it like a scout.

"Thank you, I will take the time to take a look." Louis said.

Louis booked a flight direct to Louisiana in the south the next day.

Louis didn't entirely believe his "familiar" reaction, but he believed Inman.

The players this old guy looks down on must be extraordinary.

However, before the game even started, he discovered that Andrew Toney's division was very weak.

This will help him brush up the data.

What's even worse is that although he is a full-time No. 2 player, he is only 1.91 meters tall.

Weak division, short second position.

Is it really just a brush in a weak division that sounded familiar to him after playing as a substitute in the NBA for many years and then retiring to become a coach?

One advantage of playing in a weak division is that Louis no longer has to worry about other people and can just focus on Tony's performance.

If there is a hidden pearl, it would be an unexpected gain.

After about 10 minutes, Louis' negative suspicions about Tony began to disappear.

He is very fast, unusually fast, and his ferocious explosive power is not hindered by non-tech sneakers at all. No one on the court can stop him from breaking through.

Louis can't think of any defender in the league who can match his explosiveness.

Maybe David Thompson?

If Darrell Griffith is as tough as iron and plays at risk, Tony has a different style.

He has extraordinary explosive power, but likes to use his skills to humiliate his opponents.

The way he attacks is different almost every time he breaks through.

He plays with a killing mentality.

A few minutes before the second half, Tony knocked down his opponent with a terrifying change of direction, and after hitting a two-point long shot from NBA three-point range, he looked at his opponent with disdain, and the ridicule and joking on his face spoke volumes.

He should have a line. Louis remembered a certain domestic CS·GO anchor that he occasionally watched before time travel. Every time he made a wonderful operation, he would say disdainfully: "Ant!"

That arrogant expression matched Tony's appearance perfectly.

The feeling of being domineering, arrogant, contemptuous of everything, and claiming to be invincible.

Louis actually didn't record it while watching it like he did with Sampson.

He felt he had discovered the best guard in the 1980 class.

Coming from a weak league, being labeled as a short second position and a fierce attacker, his draft price is destined not to be too high.

But, can the team listen to his opinion and choose Tony?

He doesn't have much confidence, so he can only write down as many of his strengths and charming playing qualities as possible in the scouting report.

Louis always believed that character is greater than talent to some extent.

Especially when Tony himself is not bad in talent, his first step is to be among the top in the league even if he is not the first in the league. He is just too honest and reported his bare feet height. If in order to improve his marketability, he would grow an afro.

Then when you reported your height in shoes, you just said you were 2 meters tall... (a bit too much). Who can deny it?

In this game, Tony scored 32 points, and for him who averaged 26 points per game, it was considered a better than average performance.

A tabloid reporter asked him what he thought of his performance.

"I scored 46 points a few days ago, so it's not a big deal." After Tony finished speaking, he grinned again, so wildly that people wanted to hit him with something.

Louis went back to the hotel to sort out the information he had on hand.

Although he has only been out for half a month, he already has more than 10 scouting reports.

He needs to rewrite a Tony scouting report, he has to perform at the highest level, he has to let management, especially Auerbach, know what he saw here, and, preferably, there is game tape to back it up.

He stayed an extra day for the video recording.

It took me a long time to find the video of his 46-point game against the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

The journey isn't over yet, and the talented class of 1980 has many players worth keeping an eye on.

Louis decided to look around again. Anyway, he had nothing to do now that he was back in the team.

He went to North Carolina again to watch the highlight game - the game between the University of North Carolina and Duke University.

There are several heavyweight players in this game.

Each of them is a very important player in the NCAA, but after watching one game, there are not many surprises.

North Carolina's leading white power forward Mike O'Koren can't live up to his reputation. Duke's ace inside man Mike Gminski is quite bright, but this kind of

The Celtics already have the inside line.

Compared with a monster like Sampson, Auerbach is unlikely to have any interest in Gminsky.

On the contrary, North Carolina's rising star James Worthy gave Louis some intimacy.

He finally met a future star with whom he was familiar and knew what achievements he had made.

Louis conveniently wrote down Worthy's scouting report, which was an unexpected gain from the trip.