The Rest, Only Noise

The day after the press conference, Louis came to the Celtics training base.

Compared with the Greek Academy sixteen years ago, the Celtics' current training center is closer to modern basketball. It is called the Waltham Training Center.

The first thing Louis did as president was to invite Celtics legend John Long to be the team's shooting coach.

Immediately, he sent an Offer to Joe Dumars.

When Dumas received the news from Louis, he couldn't believe it.

Legend Lu actually intends to invite him to the Celtics as the deputy general manager? After retiring, Dumars remained with the Lakers as an ambassador for the publicity department. To put it bluntly, he is a bastard.

The reason why Dumars accepted this job is that he himself did not intend to go further in the management.

His four-year career in Los Angeles has allowed Dumars to gain a lot in the business field, and he is now a successful businessman.

But Louie's invitation was telling him that besides being a successful businessman, he has not lost his fate with professional basketball. Maybe he has the ability to be an excellent management executive?

Dumars rushed to Boston as quickly as possible, and first talked about his own treatment. Louis promised to give him a contract at the market price, and Dumas immediately accepted the invitation.

At the same time, Lang, who had not shown his face for a long time, also accepted Louis' invitation.

At this time, Louis turned his mind to the gold medal commentator Bill Lambiel. Louie hopes that he can return to the team as an assistant coach and assistant to the president.

This is a very difficult choice for Lambiel.

He himself intends to develop into coaching. Who knows that he has been sitting in the commentary seat for many years, and the more he messes around, the better. If he leaves now, all his previous efforts will be wasted.

Unexpectedly, Lambiel actually accepted Louis' invitation, and he will take office after the end of the season.

Subsequently, Louie recruited sales department whiz Larry Harris from Chicago.

Through the large-scale recruitment of scouts, a young scout named Andy Greer was exceptionally promoted.

This person is 30 years old and has just started scouting. In the interview materials, he submitted a detailed scouting report to the Celtics.

The report pointed out that in addition to Yao Yueban, among the popular rookies in this draft, there are many players with great uncertainties in the future.

The person he is most pessimistic about is Kwame Brown, the No. 1 high school student in the United States who skipped college and participated in the draft early.

Greer believes that Kwame Brown is a lazy player, his physical fitness is overestimated by scouts, his wingspan is not long, it is difficult to become a deterrent rim protector, and at the same time, his desire to compete is doubtful.

In Greer's view, Kwame could ideally be a poor man's Chris Webber.

And once the development is not smooth, it may be difficult to survive in the NBA. That scouting report got Greer through the first round, and during an interview in the president's office, Louie asked for five rookie reports from the expected second round.

As a result, Greer provided only a scouting report.

The candidate he recommended to Louie was Mehmet Okur, a big man from Turkey.

Greer believes that Okur's shooting attributes can enrich the team's tactics, and also has the potential to become a high-quality substitute who can help Yao Yueban share playing time.

A scouting report that avoids risk, a scouting report that provides talent, Greer has done an excellent job.

He reminded Louis of Zhao Yuanzheng who had just started working.

With sharp eyesight and precise judgment, unlike Zhao Yuanzheng, this person has the calmness of not changing his face when a mountain collapses in front of him.

Louie immediately appointed Greer as the Celtics' director of scouting for a three-month probationary period.

If Greer doesn't build any performance within three months, then don't use it to resign, just pack up and leave.

These are the words of Louis.

In less than a week, Louie's small team was formed.

This set of teams is not as strong as the Lakers' set, nor is it as smooth as the Knicks' set.

, but it's better than nothing, Louis doesn't want to have to deal with all the big things by himself.

Louie looked at ESPN's draft predictions.

Yao Yueban is the undisputed No. 1 pick, followed by Kwame Brown at No. 2, Chandler No. 4, Pau Gasol at No. 4, and Fat Curry at No. 5.

Seeing this, Louis' eyes fell on Gasol with burning eyes.

There were so few elite white players at the turn of the millennium that Pau Gasol was simply essential if he was going to create a championship team without blacks.

He is Nowitzki's next replacement.

However, Gasol predicts the fourth pick, and the Celtics' other lottery pick is the sixth pick.

Louis looked at the team with the fifth overall pick in front of him. Except for the Nuggets who hold the fifth overall pick, they don't really need insiders, and several other teams will not refuse to introduce a high-potential insider rookie.

Louie first called the Clippers, who had the second overall pick.

Well, the big brother of the Clippers is not interested in trading the second pick for the sixth pick, even if Louie puts two first rounds upside down.

Then, Louie asked the Seattle SuperSonics. Also rejected.

After that, Louie went to Atlanta, the owner of the No. 4 pick. The eagle flatly refused

Finally, Louie made progress where the Nuggets were.

The Nuggets themselves have Tom Gugliotta and Lamar Odom. Their interior already has excellent immediate combat power and high-quality potential stocks. The protected first-round pick, plus the old Tim Hardaway, was exchanged from them for the fifth pick and George Muresan, the world's tallest tower in a scrapped state.

In terms of draft picks, that's all Louis can do for Gasol. After that it's all about building momentum for the draft.

With great fanfare, Louis invited Yao Yueban to the Waltham Training Center for trial training.

In order to test the strength, Louis specially invited the retired Ralph Sampson as Yao Yueban's temporary partner.

Regardless of Sampson's retirement, he still maintains training, even against Yao Yueban, a super star who is famous all over the United States.

However, Yao Yueban played a jaw-dropping performance under Sampson's defense.

His offensive methods are very comprehensive.

Can shoot from mid- to long-range—and at 229 cm with shoes on, his shot is unblockable.

Whether it is left or right in the low post, it can make turns and retreat shots, big hooks and small hooks.

Also a giant at the level of 220, although Sampson's sensitivity is far stronger than that of Yao Yueban, the latter does not appear slow at all when he uses his footsteps. Zhu Wang's demeanor.

After the trial training, Sampson sighed happily: "The Celtics will depend on him for the next 20 years!"

Hearing this, Louis said plainly with a real expectation, "I hope he can play for 20 years."

Think about it, what would it be like if Yao Yueban played from 2001 to 2021?

Louis found that after retiring, Sampson had nothing to do except exercise and participate in various activities, so he habitually threw an olive branch: "Ralph, you are idle, why don't you come to the team to help lead the insider?" Well, I'll give you $1 million a year."

Sampson accepted the job in a joking way: "I was worth 1 million 20 years ago, and I am still worth 1 million now, coach, life is really a circle." "Who said it wasn't?"

It's like he went around with someone for 16 years, and he still returned to Boston?

The next day, Louie continued to train hot rookies at a high level. The person invited this time was Eddie Curry. It was Sampson who was in charge of the one-on-one workout.

Before the trial training began, Louis secretly made a request to Sampson: "Ralph, as a senior, I need you to show your demeanor during the trial training."

"Huh?" Sampson didn't know what his dear coach meant.

Louie put it less tactfully: "Just don't steal Eddie's

In the limelight, instead, you want to make him stand out, even... make him look better than Yao yesterday. "

oh...

Sampson understood that Coach Lu wanted him to play fake games... No, it was fake training.

But the only Mr. still doesn't know what the meaning of cheating is~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Coach, you might as well explain it clearly. "

"Ralph, there are many things in this world that are too clear to be beautiful. But since you asked, I'll tell you." Louis said earnestly, "I'm going to use this game to improve Eddie's crumbling His talent is so great, the lower limit is at least the level of Shaquille O'Neal, how can he fall out of the top four? This is an insult to genius, I don't agree!"

Ralph Sampson felt his body tremble, as if his soul had been washed by the noble sentiment contained in Louis's words.

At this moment, his thoughts rose to the highest point in his life, he looked at Louis with wide eyes, and solemnly said: "I don't believe it."

"Ralph, you don't have to trust your coach, but you have to trust the reputation that your coach and I have accumulated in the league over the years." Louie said confidently, "You can call and ask at will, mention me, who doesn't Thumbs up to praise me for being loyal?"

"Why do honest people let me give false training?"

"What fake training?" Louis said sternly, "This is the business of saving the reputation of a genius,

"Can it be called false training? Ralph, you really should improve your demeanor.

In the end, at Louie's instigation, Ralph Sampson had to step onto the field and start the first fake match in his life.

Oh no, it's fake training.