The Rest, Only Noise

How forgiving is Louie? In fact, it is not very forgiving.

Isiah Thomas was invited to his office for tea every two days. But Thomas got nothing but his spittle stars.

Louie's criticism of Thomas mainly has several points. Insisting on short rotations increases the loss of the main team, wastes the depth of the team's lineup, and completely fails to realize the value of Manu Ginobili.

In his rookie year with the Celtics, Ginobili averaged only 12 minutes per game.

As strong as the 03 Spurs, it will also give rookie Ginobili an average of 20 minutes of playing time per game, while Thomas only gives Ginobili 12 minutes, and does not give him the right to control the ball.

Well, Ginobili is a rookie, and there is Sprewell at the same position, and the playing time is less, but like Gerald Wallace, Mehmet Okur, Carlos Bu Zell didn't give much playing time, and Louie couldn't stand it anymore.

From employing personnel, to rotation, to tactical running-in, Thomas did nothing well. But Louis scolded and scolded, and still didn't think about firing Thomas.

Because the Celtics are rebuilding the team, they are playing a tactical system that they have never played before, and some problems are bound to arise in the process. Although Thomas' incompetence magnified the problem, even if it were another person, those problems would still exist.

Louie didn't expect Thomas to solve the problem.

He regards Thomas as a mine-bearer. He can't solve problems, but can detonate all problems.

For Louis, even if the problem broke out in a concentrated manner, it would only affect this year. At that time, he only needs to solve the person who caused the problem, and then consider the candidate for the new coach.

So, Louie would do nothing until Thomas really let the situation get out of hand. At the end of the lunch meeting that day, Auerbach invited Louis to his home for dinner.

At the Auerbach home, Louis met his wife Dorothy.

Dorothy has lived in Washington since the early 1950s.

Because Auerbach believes that he is not an easy person to get along with during the season. If he stays with his family, they are likely to be affected by the negative emotions accumulated in his work.

Therefore, during the period when Auerbach was coaching, he and his family were separated for a long time. However, he will go home every few days, so the relationship with his family has not been alienated.

Now Louis knows why Auerbach retired in his heyday as a coach. On the one hand, he was tired, and on the other hand, he wanted to spend more time with his family.

In fact, this is why Louis does not want to come back to coach.

Although he came to Boston for work, he did not move his family here.

His family still lives in Sunset Hills in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Louie usually does not spend the night in Boston. As long as work is over, he will take his own plane home.

Moreover, he doesn't have to go to Boston to work every day, he only goes to Boston when the management has meetings or other activities.

That's why Celtic players feel Louie is mysterious.

The reason they rarely saw Louie was not that he avoided them on purpose, but that Louie didn't have much time to work at the Waltham training ground.

Louis enjoys this kind of idle life where he can freely spend his time, because in terms of coaching, he has nothing to prove. If he can stay behind the scenes and form a team to compete for the championship, it is actually not bad.

It's just that when Louis sat in this position, he realized how difficult it is to form a championship team. The coaching staff and players are critical.

Even if you have good players, you can't succeed if you don't have the right coach.

Unless it has a crushing lineup advantage like the Lakers in the Miracle Generation, the lineup can only guarantee the team's lower limit, but the team's upper limit requires the correct leadership of the coaches to reach it.

"Coach Lu, there are no outsiders here, let's be honest, are you really not going to come back?" Zane asked seriously.

He kept referring to Louie as a coach and so did everyone else.

To them, Louie's job as president is well done

That's fine, but only Louie who coaches is the Louie people are familiar with. The uniform team that does not come to the front line in person cannot control the future trend of the team.

"My life is so happy now, why do I have to come back?" Louie smiled, "Zane, look at Reid, he stopped coaching at about my age. He is a person who knows how to enjoy. I understand too much. late."

Hearing this, the red-headed cigar stopped smoking, and he said dissatisfiedly: "You compare with me? Back then, I could only rely on myself. Now you have dozens of people around you to help you. Why are you tired? I heard You commute to Boston for work less than ten times a month, well done...""

Unexpectedly, Louis was not ashamed but proud.

"Don't look at my attendance rate being so low. With my attendance rate being so low, I won't go when people beg me to go." Auerbach was even more angry, but he couldn't refute.

That's exactly what happened.

A few days later, Isiah Thomas was in the news for another matter.

Perhaps it is due to the high pressure of work, Thomas usually drinks a lot of alcohol when he is free. Drinking alcohol is actually harmless, but talking nonsense after drinking is a problem.

Thomas didn't know where he made bad friends, and he actually revealed what he said after drinking to the media.

Thomas complained that there were too many white players in the team, and there were too few Americans. These people would not listen to his black coach at all. This is the reason why the Celtics have not been able to get along well so far this season.

In the NBA, it is normal for blacks to discriminate against whites in reverse, but it is not normal for a coach to speak out directly.

Moreover, Thomas also has the meaning of rejecting international players, which is a big taboo for the Celtics, who are already a nominal international team.

Even if it was Thomas' drunken nonsense, he would have to pay for his words and deeds.

Stern, who is trying his best to promote the globalization of the league, will never allow Thomas's drunken madness to ferment, so he first let Thomas be convicted for his words and fined him. Then, Stern called Louis and hoped that President Lu would control Thomas, who was already in a somewhat abnormal mental state.

Louis said, this is easy to handle, isn't it just asking Thomas to drink tea?

The next day, Louis found time to go to Boston and called Thomas to his office for a half-hour in-depth conversation about his drunken slur.

When Thomas walked out of the president's office, his face was blue, his eyes were red, and he yelled at Lambiel on the training ground: "I can't take it anymore!"

Losing his mind, Thomas turned his anger on the players.

Because he was not satisfied with the training effect of the day, he drove all the players out of the Waltham training base.

After Louie heard the news, he kindly walked out of the office and said to Thomas: "Tomorrow our opponent is Detroit. Unless you are sure that you can win, it is necessary to conduct a good training session for tomorrow's game."

"They don't have a training attitude at all," Thomas explained.

Suddenly, Louis, who was still smiling before, turned into a man-eating demon: "Then you should use your pig brain, which is not as big as a dog, to think about how to improve their training attitude, instead of driving them away." go out!"

Thomas could only walk outside the training base like a schizophrenic and invite the players who were kicked out by him to come back for training. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com "If this continues, will Isiah still have prestige?" Dumars said with a headache, "The players have completely disrespected him."

Louis snorted coldly: "Respect is mutual. If there is no respect, it is because he disrespects the players first. If he is a capable coach, that's fine. It is his responsibility alone."

So, is Isiah going to **** off?

Dumars could see that Louie's patience with Thomas was running low. The next day, Louis hardly got to the center of the fleet to watch the battle.

The Celtics had a round of fierce battle with the main rival Pistons in the East.

At the end of the game, Thomas called a timeout consecutively but failed to play tactics. He lost the 5-point lead and was shot by Glenn Robinson with a three-pointer.

"Fired Isiah!"

Probably because Louis was present, the chorus for Thomas lasted for five minutes.

Isiah Thomas was interviewed live with an "I'm going to sit here and wait for them to tell me to **** off" look on his face. Louie declined the on-site interview and left the Fleet Center through the player tunnel.

If this momentum continues, maybe Thomas won't last until the end of the season. So who to replace him?

This is a more worrying question than whether to fire Thomas.