The rest is just noise

The 1988 draft was undoubtedly a bad year for the draft.

There are not many players who make people excited, but there are not many teams that go to great lengths to do this.

Like the Trail Blazers, it is very risky to select a player with the high probability of losing the third overall pick.

The Miami Heat, who were almost controlled remotely by Louis, selected Willie Anderson with the seventh overall pick, and Louis helped them more than that.

Louis believes that by helping other teams draft, in order to build relationships between the two parties and let the other team not select one of their players in the expansion draft, this is a practice that can be continued.

In order to prove his "strength", he gave his own opinions on several second-round picks owned by the Heat.

In addition to the seventh pick in the first round, the Heat also obtained the 21st pick in this year's first round through their own operations.

Louie suggested they choose between Brian Shaw and Rod Strickland.

Both are players known to Louis.

Shaw is a big point guard, and during OK's three consecutive championships, the Lakers were the best at feeding the ball to the Sharks.

Strickland is the godfather of the famous Flat Earth scholars. At the same time, he is also a talented guard born in New York. Some local media hope that the Knicks will choose Strickland.

Judging from the game, Strickland and Irving's styles of play have many similarities.

Louis has no doubt that he can become a first-line guard in the NBA, but he has doubts about his locker room attributes. In addition, the Knicks already have Stockton and Hornacek at the first position, and he will let Wilson try in the future.

He wants to play a dozen point forwards, so Strickland is not needed.

As a result, Strickland was taken by the Houston Rockets with the 19th pick.

The Heat seem to have only one option left.

They didn't hesitate and took off big point guard Brian Shaw.

In addition to the two first rounds, the Heat also obtained two more second rounds through operations. In other words, they have three choices in the second round.

Louis sold the Knicks' second-round draft pick to the Heat for $100,000.

As a result, the Heat's second-round picks became four.

As the first choice in the second round, the Heat followed the advice given by their scouting team and selected Andrew LangC from the University of Arkansas.

Another pick, they took Louie's advice.

Moreover, this person also has the surname "Lang".

He is Grant LongPF from Eastern Michigan University, an extremely tough power forward. The development template given by the Knicks' scouting department is Charles Oakley. But there is a high probability that he will not become like Oakley.

An invincible boxer, he is more like a hard-working blue-collar man than Oakley.

The reason why Louis knew this person was entirely due to the recommendation of his uncle.

Who is his uncle? It is John Long, the Celtics' meritorious player.

The Heat have two remaining second-round picks, one is the 19th pick in the second round, and the other is the Knicks' 24th pick in the second round.

Louis originally thought they would solve it by themselves, but he didn't expect that Lewis Shafir suffered from "Louis Dependence Syndrome".

He called again and asked: "Coach Lu, how is Everette Stephens (PG)?"

"Generally, the technical problems are serious and not enough to adapt to the NBA."

"Then do you think Charles Shakleford (C/PF) is a good candidate?"

"Well, as far as I know, he is an insider. We haven't really learned much about him, but you already have Grant Long and Andrew Long. There should be no shortage of insiders."

"You're right, Coach Lu, do you think Moron Wiley (MorlonWileySG) is suitable?"

"How about I recommend one to you?"

Louis asked angrily.

Shafir was just waiting for his words: "Oh, are there any suitable candidates?"

Louis looked at the players who had not yet been selected, and there were still three "acquaintances".

Vernon Maxwell SG and Steve Kerr and Anthony Mason Jr.

Kerr and Mason are the guys the Knicks want.

But there is a problem. After selecting Dan Marley and Ronny Sekali, their roster is already full. Among the remaining players, only Song Tao and Brad Rohaus are less important players.

Louis does not intend to send Song Tao away. One reason is that they are Chinese and he hopes to have a compatriot in his team. This is of course selfish. Secondly, the New York Knicks have become the only home team in the NBA for domestic fans.

If they send Song Tao away, the domestic live broadcast of Knicks games may be greatly reduced. Therefore, he will not send Song Tao away.

Moreover, even if it was for Song Tao's sake, he would not send him away until he grew up enough to play on any team.

As for Brad Rohaus, Louis likes it very much. After all, only 13 people can play in each game, and he already has 13 people who can play, so why recruit more people?

Therefore, he told Lewis Shafir all three candidates.

As a result, Vernon Maxwell was selected by the Heat with the 19th overall pick in the second round.

Anthony Mason Jr. was selected by the Trail Blazers with the 23rd overall pick in the second round.

Therefore, the Heat hold the 24th pick in the second round from the Knicks and can only choose Steve Kerr.

Mason being selected by the Trail Blazers was something Louis never expected.

What he didn't even know was that Mason was originally selected by the Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers team is so weird.

You say he has poor vision, and he is very good at shopping for low-ranking picks; you say he has good vision, but he usually doesn't get sick, and when he does, he misses a big one for you, such as Moses Malone, Bird, Jordan, and Paul⑴.

People don't care about Durant or anything like that.

There is only one surprise in this year's draft.

Top-five favorite Jose Hawkins fell to the 10th pick in the first round.

This pick was equivalent to the later fourteenth pick in the first round.

No. 1 pick outside the lottery.

The problem is, Hawkins shouldn't have fallen here.

He is a combo guard with bare feet measuring 191 centimeters and has strong scoring ability. He scored 3,000+ points in four years of college, ranking fourth in history. He is also one of the core players named by John Thompson for this year's U.S. men's basketball Olympic team.

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The scouts' concern about him is his height. He is too short for the height of the first position and the second position.

There have been many examples of NCAA champions not performing well in the NBA before.

In any case, Hawkins fell to the tenth pick. Louis lacked understanding of him and Zhao Yuanzheng was not optimistic about him. This was one of the reasons why he did not recommend Hawkins to the Heat.

It turned out that everyone was wrong.

Hawkins dropped to the 10th pick at a discount to the Sacramento Kings, who happily selected a player who was predicted to be a top-five pick but fell to the 10th pick.

Once the draft was over, all Louis had to do was prepare to attend the Knicks' championship parade celebration.

When other teams win the championship, they will put on lanterns and streamers, stand in colorful ceremonial cars and wander around the most prosperous areas of the city.

The Knicks are no exception.

Losing Dale Ellis and Michael Cooper, the Knicks' strength has been affected to a certain extent.

But with Sekali and Marly as supplements, their inside line has been strengthened, and whether Marly is suitable for murdering the press needs to be tried.

In the trading market, some teams can't stand loneliness.

Like the Pistons, they can't resist the temptation of other teams.

The Pistons, who knew they were on the wrong track, really wanted to screw up, but they couldn't really screw up.

Because the Pistons were in the hands of the Knicks in the first round of 1989, and even if they were to fail, they would have to wait until after 1989.

So no matter what, we have to stay competitive enough to make the playoffs until the end of next season and see how it goes.

Even so, it does not affect their transactions.

The Pistons sent the complaining Adrian Dantley to Dallas, just as they had before Lewy crossed, in exchange for 1981 No. 1 pick Mark Aguirre.

This is not a good deal.

In the timeline we know, the Pistons traded for Aguirre because they had Aguirre's core player Isiah Thomas on the team. The two could move forward together toward a common goal, so Aguirre

The problems under the minefield no longer exist.

As a player, Aguirre's influence on and off the court is not as great as Dantley's.

He's just not as weird as Dantley, but he's still not a likeable player.

From this point of view, replacing Dantley with Aguirre is equivalent to exchanging 10 yuan for 8 yuan, which is a weakening.

The Pistons' trade only proves that Dantley is a real jerk and the Pistons can't stand him anymore.

⑴Many people are complaining about how stupid the Hawks were for not selecting Paul that year, but many people have forgotten that the Trail Blazers had the third pick in the first round that year. They could have gotten Paul or Deron, but they didn't.

Year after year, they chose the wrong side of the big choices about their franchise's destiny.