The Rest, Only Noise

The "Garden of Eden" incident made Louie exhausted. After the game with the Spurs ended, the Knicks left San Antonio overnight and returned to New York.

When Louis returned home, he felt like something was blocking his mind. He wanted to find someone to chat with, so he casually flipped through the phone book and saw the name of K.C. Jones.

He called and told the other side of the problems the Knicks were facing and wanted to know what he thought.

When Louie heard K.C suggest that he replace Wilson and Ewing with Bird and Thomas, he wanted to just hang up.

Isn't this bullshit? If it can be changed, who will replace Bird, who is about to retire, and Thomas, the king of legs?

Definitely take Ewing for Sampson alone.

Then, k.c denied that he was joking.

According to him, the only way to break the game is to replace the people with Bird and Thomas.

Louis originally thought that the other party was making fun of him.

After a while, he understood.

k.c didn't really want him to replace Wilson and Ewing with Bird and Thomas.

What he means is that, aside from Bird and Thomas, other stars in the league have had a hard time getting along after their success together.

Even Bird and Thomas are not in absolute harmony.

"So what did you do to them? Why can they work together for ten years and never have a big conflict?"

Hearing this, k.c laughed happily.

For him, it was so much fun. All along, he thought he was in the light of Louis. When Louie took over the Celtics in 1983, he threatened to make the franchise what it should be.

Louie did what he said and turned the Celtics into a perfect team.

Louie once believed that the perfect team was a blip in professional basketball, one that only appeared briefly and then withered due to reality.

There are only two perfect teams in history.

That's the Russell-era Celtics and the 1984-1988 Celtics.

Why are all Celts, this is the mystery in Louis's eyes.

Even for him, it is not so easy to explain the so-called Celtic mystique.

Perhaps deep in the soul of this team, there really is a resonant force that can suppress the selfish side of people's hearts.

But in the eyes of k.c, this team was created by Louis.

After he took over, what he did was nothing more than three points.

Righting Sampson, indulging Bird, and treating Thomas with the utmost kindness.

Bird is indeed the great white hope, but he is not a natural superstar like Dr. J and The Tragic, and he is not used to being in the limelight.

After the media realized this fact, they only respected Bird, and no longer regarded him as a god.

Because this person is visibly flawed.

This removes one of the biggest hidden dangers of the Celtics - the media's endless touts about Bird and ignores the contributions of other players, especially black players.

Who is the biggest beneficiary?

The answer is Sampson.

Larry Legend is cold and inhumane, but Mr. One is an incomprehensible player on the court and a moral role model off the court. He is not as uncomfortable as Bird in the face of the media. He is still a black player. Thomas has no problem with this.

Sampson is the league's recognized insider overlord, and it is only natural for him to enjoy the highest honor.

Bird lost some of the limelight, Sampson gained endless fame, what did Thomas gain?

The answer is the respect of the whole team.

Bird is the boss, Sampson is the front, and Thomas is the leader.

He was the lone hero who kept leading by example, motivating his teammates, standing up to end the game at critical moments, and nearly killing the Knicks with one leg in 1988.

k.c once explored Thomas' motivation for fighting for it.

In this state, he won't get much fame and fortune other than winning.

Both the media and fans prefer Sampson, even though players think Thomas is the league's first point guard, but in the selection of awards, due to the existence of the tragic and others, Thomas was never selected for the first team.

Therefore, the championships he won in the Celtics can be put on the title of the third champion.

No fame, no profit, what is he for?

The truth once made k.c feel incredible.

In the 1988 Eastern Conference finals, Thomas dragged his injured leg to start the unparalleled mode, and k.c confirmed that what has supported the Smiling Assassin for so many years.

hatred for Louis.

Thomas hated Louis, it was an obvious fact.

Thomas hated that Louis never looked at him, hated Louis' meanness, hated Louis' departure, hated that Louis never looked down on him.

He knew all too well that what he did with the Celtics was what Louie didn't think he could do. Because Louie treats him like a ticking time bomb for the Celtics, what does it mean to have an unmanageable bomb by his side?

Thomas really thinks Louie left Boston because of him.

Because Louie never believed that Isiah Thomas could let go of those obsessions and become a selfless player.

Louie doesn't want selfish Thomas, he wants

Saint Thomas.

k.c doesn't know whether Thomas wants Louie to leave in his heart, but he can be sure that he can stick to Boston for ten years. There is only one reason for him to choose to leave after confirming that the future of this team is unpredictable. He wants to prove that Louie wrong.

Actually he did, didn't he?

Louie really got him wrong.

Louie couldn't imagine how much someone like Thomas could twist his mind in order to get angry with him.

Thomas's choice is the most important factor, followed by Bird's indisputable.

The butterfly effect caused by Louie made Bird a goat. At the same time, it also brought him better teammates.

Compared with Sampson, Parish is as small as the light of fireflies, and it is hard to compare with the bright moon in the sky.

Thomas, on the other hand, is a ruthless guy who trains and plays hard without Bird's inspiration.

In this case, Bird only has the opportunity to play leadership in the game.

On weekdays, he's not the kind of guy Ewing would put on the air of "this is my team".

As long as you train as hard as he does, he doesn't care about you.

Even in this regard, Thomas is in charge of Bird. Bird's training is not discounted, but his self-control in life is extremely poor. He likes to drink beer and eat sweets. He often gains weight, but Thomas has never gained weight.

Off the court, Thomas is the role model and leader of the team.

So, k.c thinks that only Bird and Thomas can avoid this from happening.

Put aside the obsessive Thomas and the undisputed Bird, this is the answer to the perfect team 1.

K.c's remark made Louis silent for a long time.

Compared with these two people, Wilson and Ewing are pure opposites.

To compare Ewing to Byrd would be like looking at an antonym.

Why Bird has no contention, Louis does not know.

Maybe he's just that kind of person, or maybe it's the stupid brain of a country bumpkin that hides great wisdom.

Ewing's approach is to fight to the end, not only to fight, but also to fight vigorously, as everyone knows, so that teammates have to choose between the two.

He has to fight for the highest salary in the team, the leader of the team, and the first scoring point in the team... He has to fight for everything that can compete. He didn't like to cater to the media and sponsors. He saw that Wilson was so popular. , he is also jealous, and also wants to fight.

His fighting heart is not because he has a personal grudge with Wilson, but just feels that he is the boss of the team, and everything Wilson has done is challenging this, so he has to stand up and fight him to turn the world upside down.

He has to establish himself again and again, just like cats and canines like to pee to mark their territory.

Compared with Ewing, Wilson has done a lot to maintain stability.

He has repeatedly claimed that Ewing is the boss of the team. When Ewing declared his dominance, he had no objection.

For the sake of internal harmony, Wilson even created an amiable persona for himself. In other words, this was an accidental achievement of the team behind him who had unintentionally inserted willows and willows.

Because Ewing looks like a traditionally angry black man and makes the media and fans who interview and reach him feel uncomfortable, Wilson is going the other way.

The more anti-human Ewing's temperament is, the more human-friendly Wilson will be.

This image allows Wilson to penetrate from off the field to the team.

Even Louis has been deceived.

It wasn't until Louis saw how Wilson fell in love with the torture king Jordan on the court that he realized that the Wilson he saw on weekdays was wearing a mask.

Although it is a character design, Wilson does not need to maintain this image in the team, just like Jordan externally is an idol who makes the general public dream of "I want to be like Mike", but internally he is a ruthless demon.

But Wilson brought the character to life, and he was a little stuck in it.

Looking at it this way, benj is also a bit psychopathic.

Even if he has no idea of ​​competing with Ewing, his talent and charisma cannot be concealed. No matter how much he restrains himself, many people still regard him as the core and boss of the Knicks.

This is an insoluble contradiction.

Bird and Thomas are not replicable.

"Are you still listening?" k.c asked.

"Well," said Louie bitterly, "I suddenly felt that a lot of things I did were meaningless. I prided myself on being careful not to do things that I wasn't sure about, but I found that when I was young, that wasn't the case. The greatest successes I've ever had are precisely those things that I'm not sure about."

"I'm not sure about my future in professional basketball."

"I'm not sure about lobbying Ralph for the draft."

"I promise Reed that it's a no-brainer to revamp the Celtics."

"I left Boston and came to New York determined to beat the Celtics, and I was not sure."

"I'm getting more and more cautious, just keeping some kind of delicate balance, as if as long as we keep winning, the cracks inside won't get bigger..."

Louie, looking back now, also seems to have had his edges smoothed out in New York.

If it was changed to ten years ago, Sely would have been directly released from the contract by him, but he did not do that because the team may still need Sely at some point;

Ewing would be scolded by him for hours, but he didn't do that because... no, he couldn't find an excuse for it. he should scold

Ewing, but he didn't.

That was the most disappointing Louis had ever been to Ewing in all the years he had known him.

He didn't even have the strength to scold Ewing at that time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Louie should scold all players who talk nonsense in private interviews, but he didn't.

He just let the players digest it themselves.

There's no excuse, it's his dereliction of duty.

Looking back now, Louie sees that he made a lot of mistakes.

And this realization didn't cheer him up, he just felt tired.

Both physically and mentally.

"k.c, what would you do if it were you?"

Louis finally asked.

"Pretend to be confused." k.c laughed. "Sometimes, we should be confused once in a while, and a great team will find a way out."

And the way out for the Knicks?

It's a path that leads to two trails, one to survive and one to perish.

There is no turning back, they must choose.