The rest is just noise

On media day, all Knicks players wore new away jerseys.

The Knicks' away jerseys have always been orange and blue.

In the 1980s, the marketing department set the color scheme of the jerseys lighter, and now this classic light blue away jersey returns to New York.

Because the Knicks in the Louis era not only surpassed the Knicks in the early 1970s, but also continued to create brilliance.

Here, the question Louis is asked the most is not about the Knicks.

It's about whether he is willing to be the head coach of the Dream Team.

At present, apart from the players who have been confirmed to join the Dream Team, the head coach has not yet been selected.

Louis has the loudest voice, but he is also the only coach qualified to coach the Dream Team who has not publicly expressed his willingness to coach the Dream Team.

Dave Anderson is the guest of honor at Knicks Media Day every year.

As the top writer of the New York Times, he formed a deep friendship with the Knicks during the 1985-86 season.

At this time, he asked Louis about coaching the Dream Team.

"Do you have any difficulty with this matter?"

"I came up with the concept of the dream team. This is the team that all coaches dream of. How can I have difficulties?" Louis asked with a smile.

Anderson immediately said: "Since there is no difficulty, why not send out a job application? Fans in the entire New York State, no, the entire Midwest will support you..."

Louis is becoming more and more cautious in doing things now.

His identity is different from the past. As a godfather, he has to be more reserved.

Even if you really want to coach the dream team, you still have to adopt the attitude of "this matter is nothing to me".

"I won't say that I don't want to coach the Dream Team, but I certainly won't send out job applications. Anyone who stands in my position must pay attention to the impact. I am successful enough in the league." Louis paused, "Even if I

Counting the NCAA, there are no more than one person who is more qualified than me to be the head coach of the Dream Team. As far as I know, these people have not taken the initiative to apply to the American Basketball Association for coaching. If that is the case, why should I?

Do? The coach who can coach the Dream Team should be the best coach. Since the USA Basketball Association needs their consent to invite players, then it should also treat everyone equally when it comes to head coaches. Who they want to be the head coach

, you must send a formal invitation to whomever you want.”

"Can I understand that, Coach Lu?" Anderson asked with a smile, "Are you waiting for the USA Basketball Association to send you an invitation?"

Louis nodded appreciatively. How else could he say that Dave Anderson was the only writer with a brain in the Times?

"It's not just me." Louis emphasized, "All head coaches who are capable of coaching the Dream Team are waiting for invitations from the American Basketball Association."

At the same time, Ewing and Wilson also heard similar questions.

The reporter wants to know if they have not joined the Dream Team yet and are waiting for the USA Basketball Association to announce the head coach candidate.

Wilson, as before, left no room for error: "I can tell you for sure, yes. If Coach Lu is not elected, I will never join the Dream Team."

"Can you tell us why? There are a lot of good head coaches in America."

"It's simple." Wilson said confidently, "The best players only play for the best coaches."

Wilson's obsession with Louis is strange, but this isn't the first day he's said this.

Ewing's answer was ambiguous. At this time, his emotional intelligence actually increased.

"I am indeed waiting for the results. When the results come out, I will make a final decision." Ewing said.

On the other side, the Knicks have several players who believe they have the ability to play on the Dream Team.

For example, Miller believes that the three-point line distance in FIBA ​​games is not difficult.

"When it comes to three-pointers, I'm more accurate than Chris Mullin." Miller said arrogantly, "Why don't you draft me?"

Rodman also said: "I am the Defensive Player of the Year. I know many people don't value defense, but what makes the Knicks special is our defense. I also plan to become the league's rebounding leader in the new season.

Yes, I want to be the rebounding leader in a league with Ralph, Akeem, and David Robinson."

Chris Jackson has quelled the tension within the Knicks, but the swell of arrogance has spread from the star to others.

Shawn Kemp is the most low-key one.

He took Willis Reed's advice to heart: do more, talk less.

Last year he was the Most Improved Player of the Year, just one point shy of the Sixth Man of the Year award.

This year, his goal is to become the Sixth Man of the Year.

This is what he told the media as well.

At the end of media day, the entire Knicks team gathered together for a group photo.

It was the person in this photo that convinced the media that even if the Blazers replaced Drexler with Barkley, they would not be able to pose a threat to them.

Ewing, Stockton, Alex Stevens, Kevin McHale, Benjamin Wilson, John Salley, Rodman, Reggie Miller, Brad Rohaus,

Danny Ainge, Shawn Kemp, Reggie Williams, Jake Sikma, Chris Jackson, Vernon Maxwell.

Louis is in the middle, Tomjanovich and Zhao Yuanzheng are on the left and right.

This group photo became the cover of the first issue of "Sports Illustrated" in early October.

The headline above is "Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, who's next?"

On the 20th day of training camp, Jackson had adapted to Kaminsky's strength training.

It was on this day that Louis suddenly brought a novel training method.

"Coach Lu, are you going to train CJ?"

McHale asked in surprise.

Jack Sikma looked at him in confusion: "Why do you seem so surprised?"

Gu Zhao

"The Knicks' normal training is like this. Rudy is on the side teaching defense, Lao Mo is in the corner giving pointers on offense, Coach Zhao will tell us what we are not doing well, Jeff Van Gundy is the most annoying, and Coach Lu always

It's not at the scene. He may be watching R-rated movies in the office, or chatting in anyone's office, but he will not supervise our training, let alone train any of us personally." McHale seemed like a lot of people.

Like knowing Louis, "It is well known that his basketball skills are only amateur level."

"Are you too busy?"

When others spoke ill of Louis, he always had a sharp ear.

"Kevin, do you want to try Pat Riley's original 17 Death Trips?"

"Coach Lu, I didn't say anything bad about you, they did, and I scolded them for you!"

When they heard that Louis asked them to do 17 times of death, the onlookers fell silent.

17 Death Trips was specially developed by Riley to help Barkley burn fat.

The content of the 17 runs is very simple to say, it is five groups of 17 consecutive sprints from the left sideline to the right sideline. If done, it will cost people's lives.

Because Riley did not allow players to run slowly, he required players to finish running within the specified time, otherwise they would have to start over.

After Jordan finished running, he said at the media conference: "I have never done anything so difficult."

If this kind of punishment were to fall on McHale, with his body that has not eaten meat for many years, he would probably go into shock before finishing the race.

"Okay, please focus."

"We'll start right now."

Jackson asked doubtfully: "How to start?"

"Look at me and dribble back and forth."

"Then dribble with one hand."

Jackson dribbles with his right hand.

Louis immediately took out a tennis ball from his pocket and "catch it."

After that, he threw the tennis ball to Jackson. Who knows, his attention was all on the tennis ball, and his right hand that controlled the ball lost control of the ball.

"See, that's one of your problems in the game."

Louis whistled and Kemp immediately picked up the ball.

"You always pay too much attention to one thing, and then ignore another thing. Then again."

Louis took the tennis ball from Jackson's hand, "You keep dribbling, I will suddenly throw the tennis ball to you, you have to catch it and control the ball at the same time."

This time, Jackson, who was prepared, caught the tennis ball.

"Then, start dribbling with your hips from now on."

"No, sir, I can't do it with it."

Jackson said awkwardly.

"So, you have to use your brain, how are you going to do a crotch dribble in this situation?"

About half a minute later, Jackson smashed the tennis ball to the ground, then instantly dribbled the ball with his hips and grabbed the rebounded tennis ball with his other hand.

"Yes, that's it, continue."

"Pay attention, don't dribble the ball under your hips, don't dribble the ball behind your butt, keep the ball under your knees. What do you feel?"

Jackson looked at Louis nervously.

"The ball's path seems to be more comfortable than usual."

"I feel like I can collect the ball and shoot at any time."

"Yes, good dribbling skills and the linking movement of collecting and shooting can also improve your shooting percentage."

After holding on for about half a minute, Jackson made a mistake.

He panted, feeling fresh about Louis' training methods.

Louis said: "This is the same as the game. In the game, if you want to dribble to the left and then suddenly stop to collect the ball to the right, if the other side of your body does not completely collect the center of gravity, your shot will be

You cannot maintain stability. This training may seem like you are practicing dribbling, but in fact, it is training your hand-eye synchronization and body coordination. Only by maintaining a good center of gravity and a comfortable balance can you shoot the ball stably.

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Jackson regarded Louis' teachings as scripture.

Today's training method was something he had never seen before. Although it had not been tested in actual combat, his intuition told him that Louis could not be wrong.

Before, everyone was just watching for fun, but now that they saw Jackson training like that, everyone's curiosity was aroused.

Wilson went directly to equipment manager David Turner and asked for the tennis balls.

"We are a basketball club, what do you want for tennis?"

Turner grumbled, but he still had to give what was due.

Afterwards, all the defenders went to Turner and asked for tennis balls.

When Ewing tried to get a tennis ball, Louis yelled at him: "This kind of training is not suitable for you, stop ruining the tennis ball!"

"How will you know if you don't try."

said the orangutan insistently.

"Try this! When did your dad ever dribble like this in a game? If you have this kind of skill, you might as well go to the gym and lift a few more pounds!"