The rest is just noise

In August, IBM released its first personal computer, the IBM Model 5150.

The price was US$1,450, which was very expensive, but Louis bought it immediately.

Although the operation is very different from that of future notebooks, when it comes to calculating all kinds of data, computers are definitely better than people.

This earliest personal computer has limited functions. If you want entertainment, you will lose money buying this, but the Louis is for work and is very convenient.

Auerbach resented Louie's reliance on tools to generate data.

Louis has no intention of persuading a die-hard conservative like him to accept the baptism of high technology and actuarial data.

Although data cannot explain all the problems, it can explain individual problems. For example, efficiency value can reflect the player's playing style, win shares can reflect the overall value of the player in the team, and defensive win shares can identify the defensive shortcomings of the team.

...and by analogy, once such data is complete, the data can be used to find the opponent's main shortcomings.

If two teams with similar strength are to play a game, the winner will be determined by which side's absolute shortcomings have a greater impact on each other.

In last season's Eastern Conference Finals, the Celtics' absolute shortcoming was that their wing athleticism was far inferior to that of the 76ers. The 76ers adopted a shrinking defense, using a single wing and interior defense to suffocate the defense and force a large number of counterattacks.

To increase the rhythm of the game, thereby covering up their lack of ability to attack difficult positions.

In November, the Celtics once again had the league's best record.

Although Louis' system was overturned, the Celtics' book strength was too strong.

Even if a person who only knows how to call timeouts is allowed to coach, and the direction of the game is determined by the players themselves, the result will not be worse than it is now.

Louie no longer helps Fitch.

In order to force him to do work for him, Fitch sent him out to scout other teams.

Louis readily accepted it, explained some things to Sampson and left the team.

Throughout December, Louis seemed to be traveling around the United States.

The focus is on the Lakers.

Since the start of the new season, things have not been going well for the Lakers.

Magic's non-conformity in the first round last season caused the Lakers to lose in the semifinals, and Paul Westhead's tactical problems were covered up.

Magic had just returned at that time, and Westhead did not insist on Showtime play in order to integrate him into the team as soon as possible.

The Lakers' game turned into a boring positional battle and a slow-paced offense.

This style of play caused a lot of complaints within them, and no one except Kareem Abdul-Jabbar liked it. Because of this system, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would get the ball no matter what.

Magic's big contract has further torn this team apart.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was almost traded to the Knicks, his teammates were jealous of his big contract, and his head coach was stubborn. Magic hated this kind of "jealousy".

The person who has the greatest influence on Westhead's slow-paced offensive system is Magic.

He can no longer control the ball as he pleases, and he can no longer push for fast breaks. Every time he passes the half court, he has to give the ball to the low post for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to create.

Louis watched two Lakers games at the Forum Arena.

"Not angry."

"No high-fives between players."

Magic had almost no communication with his teammates, and no one except Michael Cooper was willing to cooperate with him.

Louis can't believe this team can still dominate the 1980s.

Because in his opinion, Magic was facing a dead end and his teammates didn't like him. The coach responded to the background of the great era and was stubborn in his own opinion, completely ignoring the rationality of the system.

Louis has watched many teams recently, and he found that not only the Celtics, but other teams have also added their own assistant coaches.

The irony is that the person driving this trend may be Louis himself.

The decision-making in the Eastern Conference finals last season made Louis famous at the coaching level. At the championship celebration, Auerbach pushed him out again and confirmed his contribution from the official level.

By the fourth game, the Celtics were already on the verge of annihilation.

As a result, starting from the fifth game, they changed their strategy and won three consecutive games. You can find any footage of Louis' command during the game.

The fact that one assistant coach can have such a great effect has led other teams to choose to expand their coaching staffs.

A large number of academic assistant coaches have poured into the league, bringing with them a strict defensive system and offensive tactics.

What is the result? The defensive systems of each team have been fully upgraded. The NBA has moved from monotonous man-to-man marking and the brutal pattern of placing a large number of personnel in the paint area to superimpose and compete, to an "orderly defensive formation, carefully designed partial

Traps and orderly defense echo the new era of ".

This is tantamount to giving culture to a bunch of hooligans.

The NBA thus became a jump-shooting league.

Well, the viewing quality has been reduced.

How enjoyable is the shooting game? Louis, who came here in 2020, knows this well.

Hey, hey, when will Bird and Magic save the league?

With a large number of assistant coaches in the NBA, the authority of the head coach has also been improved. Last season's playoffs were rare and filled with the art of coaching.

The Kings and Rockets in the West used correct strategies to help their teams overcome one after another. Fitch in the East, in the minds of the general public, had all their tricks and started a great counterattack in the fifth game by changing formations - which led to the 1981-82 season.

Weird phenomenon.

NBA coaches are suddenly like college coaches and can dominate everything.

With the help of academic assistant coaches, as soon as they enter a timeout, they frantically draw tactics that the players barely understand, just like TV stars who stay up late studying game tapes and talk about sports in a clear-cut and self-righteous manner.

There are two famous TV star coaches in the Eastern Conference, one is Bill Fitch, and the other is Knicks coach Hubie Brown.

Brown enjoyed the spotlight in New York. When Louis watched the Knicks games, he discovered that Brown was sometimes putting on a show rather than coaching.

Whenever he's on camera, he'll make a "come and see me" look, and then explain tactics with exaggerated facial expressions and a speaking speed that makes the Knicks barely understand.

Coaches' egos are growing rapidly. The problem is that players are no longer just kids in school who can be beaten and scolded. Their egos are also growing as they age.

These historical backgrounds allowed Louis to understand and accept the stories that happened in Los Angeles.

Westhead was playing with fire, and Magic suffered silently. No other Lakers player dared to stand up and openly violate the former's rule.

The young magician was not as patient as Louis imagined.

At the end of the month, he clashed with Westhead during a game and then publicly walked out.

He met reporters and expressed his anger that he was not happy at all with the Lakers.

"I want to be traded."

"Are you serious, Erwin?"

"Yes, you can put this sentence in the news."

The day after Magic's announcement, Jerry Buss fired Paul Westhead for lame reasons and promoted assistant Pat Riley to head coach and Jerry West to offensive coach.

At the time of the incident, Louis was in New York watching "Boobie" Brown perform a monkey show.

The most interesting plot happened. In his rookie season, he played in the legendary sixth game of the Finals. He was elected as FMVP and became the darling of Los Angeles. In his second season, he was plagued by injuries. He was alienated by his teammates because he was too close to the boss. In the playoffs,

Ruining the season with a three-pointer.

During the offseason, the boss directly offered him a huge contract that shocked the sports world. He once again became the target of public criticism. The big brother was so angry that he applied for a trade. His teammates who were still smiling at him suddenly became jealous and no longer

Talk to him.

In the new season, there are naturally problems in the team's locker room. The head coach has no idea of ​​​​improving the problems. He insists on being the leader of the team, which gradually detonates the young man who is loved by the boss. He wants to be traded.

As a result, the boss fired the head coach.

In this way, this 22-year-old genius who had already walked into heaven and fallen into hell, and then was thrown into eighteen levels of hell by public opinion during the season, was called the guy who saved the NBA in 1981.

The American people describe him as a greedy, willful, hateful, evil-minded, devilish young man who "will never achieve great things in the future" and who "will make Bass lose all his money."

"Does every facade of the Lakers have to be a copy of 'Nirvana'?" Louis couldn't help but complain.

Louis was away on business for several months, and by the time he returned to Boston, it was already early February 1982.

During this period, his reconnaissance report was sent to Fitch in the form of fax.

He sent back the basic information, but retained some additional findings and small details.

Fitch could get a detailed reconnaissance report, but he wouldn't get more from that report than what he saw on the video.

Louis chose to scout for his own sake. He traveled around and watched almost every team's game.

Just when I was about to return to the team and continue fishing, I took a look at Sampson's progress in the past few months, but something unexpected happened.

Something happened in Wu San Province.