The Rest, Only Noise

"When we talk about Louie, what kind of person are we talking about?

The dream team's coach selection was a lot of noise. The two strong contenders did not pose a threat to LittleLu. Since Benjamin Wilson and Patrick Ewing made their comments, we knew that he would definitely become the dream team's coach.

Let's go back to the beginning, where did LittleLu come from...

When the league decided to let the pros bring the best basketball to the Olympics, we could compose many teams based on American talent and sweep the world, but we needed the strongest team, so the dream team came into being. Speaking of which, the word "Dream Team" came out of LittleLu's mouth. He can be said to have witnessed the birth of the Dream Team, and now, will lead the Dream Team to Barcelona.

This 31-year-old and 4-month-old man has connections that other coaches don't have. There are many coaches at his age who were just no-ones, but LittleLu is an old man who has been in the professional basketball circle for nearly 15 years. He was a scout for the Celtics at the age of 18, in 1978...

From Boston to New York, LittleLu took four years to complete the most wonderful turnaround ever, from LittleLu to LeaderLu. The 'LittleLu' representing the past has become a derogatory term hated by New Yorkers. Lu is a light chaser, a satanic human being, a messiah, a godfather, but not LittleLu.

He has risen as unstoppably as Reed Auerbach did, and the Knicks have won four straight and it looks like their reign will continue. Louie is somewhat more restrained than Auerbach, at least, and has promised not to light a single cigar during the Olympics.

As for whether he'll celebrate with the iconic Victory Coke, it's hard to say.

—Jack McCallum in Sports Illustrated, January 1991.

After Louie became the coach of the Dream Team, Ewing and Wilson first committed to the Dream Team.

After that, Sampson returned.

Bird said he would like to return.

Isiah Thomas announced his return for the first time.

Suddenly, the Dream Team's roster crowded.

Just the confirmed candidates, there are Jordan, Ewing, Robinson, Bird, Wilson, Barkley, Sampson, Thomas, that's 8.

In addition to one college student quota, there is also a tragic teacher who has a high probability of returning as a spokesperson for the HIV virus. In fact, there are only two quotas left for others to compete.

The list of players who will compete for these 2 spots is luxurious.

Like Pippen, Drexler, Wilkins, Karl Malone, Stockton, Mark Price... so many superstars and stars, they all want to be one of them.

Louis notified the Basketball Association and the selection committee, and the remaining two candidates were not in a hurry to decide.

They got together during All-Star Weekend to discuss it.

He is the head coach, at least he has the right to choose.

The remaining two places are reserved for him, right?

Neither the Basketball Association nor the Selection Committee objected.

They've seen Louie's energy through the head coaching application, and they all know his character.

If he wants to call the shots, it's best for others not to interfere.

The Dream Team's roster was put on hold, and it was officially announced that the last few spots would be decided by the coaching staff.

coaching staff? Isn't that Louis?

The only candidate for the Dream Team's coaching staff is Louis. Giving the decision to the coaching staff is to Louis.

The decision had consequences that Louis had never imagined.

Before the arrival of the All-Star Weekend, all the star players who want to enter the Dream Team, if they have the opportunity to play the Knicks, will definitely go all out and show the state of playing chicken blood. Teams that don't have the chance to play against the Knicks will do everything possible to make big news.

The person who first made the news was Clyde Drexler, the core player of the Bulls.

After the Bulls and the Blazers traded for one, the fortunes of the Glider and the Flying Pig changed dramatically.

Glider got the freedom and core position he wanted most, but the Bulls were too weak to take the team out of the lottery even if they tried their best.

After Barkley went to Portland, his words and deeds revealed a truth.

"How could anyone not want to play here? I don't understand, I really don't understand." Barkley deliberately disgusted Drexler.

Drexler didn't respond to Barkley, he was a gentleman, not a low-end street guy like Fliggy, and he had to behave educated.

No matter how educated he was, he couldn't hold back in the end.

"No one cares about anything that happens in Chicago, including our coaches." Drexler exploded after leading the team to a seven-game losing streak. "We've become more and more accustomed to losing."

In Louie's eyes, it was a side-scrolling self-promotion from Drexler, the glider showing him how much he cared about winning. Of course, perhaps this was just a simple vent of anger. Or maybe, both.

However, Louis did not intend to recruit gliders.

Even 1992 was the best year of Drexler's career.

First, he and Jordan had fallen out. Louie wasn't sure Jordan would be willing to join a dream team with gliders.

Secondly, it is difficult for Louis to agree with Drexler's various remarks.

After the concept of the Dream Team came out, many stars immediately expressed their desire to be a part of it, and Drexler was no exception.

As a result, he was absent from the initial roster drawn up by the Dream Team.

Drexler, who was still waiting to be traded at the time, could only say something strange: "I don't think Larry can still play in the Olympics now. What if he was injured in Barcelona? What if he was blown up on the court? Will those people underestimate the strength of the Alliance?"

It seems that in his eyes, Byrd people are deceived.

Bird's condition is really bad, and if Drexler insists on "let's not talk about feelings first", he really can't do anything about him.

Byrd himself admitted that he is a vegetable at this stage.

But Bird is not a person who will ignore the opponent's trash talk. In the two duels in the new season, Bird averaged 34 points per game against Drexler.

Bird still has oil, and when he throws his hand, he plays no less than a first-line superstar.

So Drexler took his complaints to The Tragic.

Of course, he couldn't avoid the yin and yang peculiarity of Bird.

"I'm confused, how can they exclude James Worthy, Karl Malone, Dominic Wilkins, and players like me? Isn't the selection based on the player's reputation, not on the state? This season, Larry was just hiding behind Ralph, what did the tragic do? He didn't do anything." After Glider was educated by Bird, he didn't criticize him, but he still wanted to say that the tragic was infected with HIV. The practice of occupying the pit expressed strong dissatisfaction, "Is it because the tragic master is a dying person, so the selection committee takes extra care of him? (1

The race for the Dream Team spot has heated up.

Inside the Knicks, everyone reacted differently to Louie's election as the head coach of the Dream Team.

Some people tried to use Louie's relationship to enter the dream team, such as Rodman, but failed.

Louie asked him two questions.

As a 4, are you better than Barkley or better than Sampson?

Rodman answered truthfully: "They're all better than me."

"Okay, what are you going to do then?"

This is lore.

Rodman never mentioned the Dream Team again.

There are also daydreamers like Miller and Camp who know they are not good enough and want to fight for a place but know they are not qualified enough.

Stockton is the hardest working one.

Stockton averaged 15 assists in the 12 games leading up to the All-Star break since Louie took over as head coach of the Dream Team.

Louis coached him for so many years, only to realize that he can also brush the data beautifully if he wants to.

Being eliminated in the final batch by Bob Knight in 1984 has always been one of Stockton's greatest regrets, and now the opportunity has come again, and Louie has also become a coach.

Stockton thinks it's the closest he's come to playing for his country.

Louie saw Stockton's desire, but he couldn't respond.

The butterfly effect triggered by him has changed too much.

Thomas is still the same Thomas, but there are obviously not as many people who hate him as in his previous life, which has no effect on him being selected as the first point guard in active duty.

In this time and space, no boss will say: "There is Thomas but not me."

Therefore, no matter how beautiful the Stockton data is, the hope of being selected is very slim.

(1) Glider really said these things, but it was after retiring. The pictorial writer Jack McCallum mentioned in the article did his private interview and asked him about the dream team, and he said the above paragraph. talk. As for the reality, his performance is even more unbearable in my eyes. After the magician was determined to be infected with HIV, the glider's first reaction was "I'm selected! I'm selected!" This man is a gentleman on the surface, but in fact, there are too many flowers and intestines.