The Rest, Only Noise

Chapter 1093 is not me, but it may be you

Louie met with Jerry West at noon, and he did not expect negotiations to take more than an hour.

When he found out that Mitch Kupchak had not come, he felt that the negotiation might only last about half an hour.

Because West isn't the kind of talker who can talk non-stop with people.

But the negotiations continued from noon to evening.

Louie and West drank drinks, had snacks, and then had dinner together.

Because West doesn't eat Chinese food, Louis asked the boss to make him Western food.

After dinner, they continued to chat.

After chatting for such a long time, are Louis and West familiar with each other?

No, they didn't talk much about themselves.

That kind of thing is too personal, and they're not that kind of relationship right now.

For most of the day, the content of Louis and West's exchange was all about basketball and games.

The essence of the game of basketball.

What is the difference between the past games and the current games.

While West brings an exclusive perspective across the 50s-60s-70s, Louie's understanding of the game of the 80s-90s is unrivaled.

They really talked about everything on the field.

For example, the retirement of Baylor, which made West extremely painful.

To this day, West is still tortured.

But was he tormented simply by Baylor's absence?

No, it is not.

Louie can talk to West for so long because he can think like West.

He asked West later: "If Elgin didn't retire, would you guys have won the 1972 championship?"

There was a gleam of wisdom in West's painful eyes.

"I've thought about this many times," West said frustratedly. "I know Bill (Sharman) is right. Elgin has to be a substitute, but Elgin is not a good substitute, and he won't accept it. Substitute, he has his own dignity and standards and if he can no longer do what he does, he will leave."

That's what makes West miserable.

He is such a sentimental and rational thinking person.

When he reviewed the whole thing, he found that Baylor's absence was the source of his pain, but the reason why this pain lasted for so many years was that he found that if Baylor did not leave, the Lakers could not win the championship.

Because Baylor is resistant to the bench and is at odds with Chamberlain.

If he stayed on the team, the atmosphere in the locker room of the otherwise good Lakers team would be very different, there would be no 33-game winning streak, and the championship would be out of the question.

It's interesting to hear West replay the big games he lost.

If you can't feel his pain.

Louie remembers West's memory of the 1962 Finals, the year after the Lakers moved to Minneapolis, and the playoffs of a young West and Baylor in their prime. when.

Baylor averaged 38.8 points, 17.8 rebounds and 3 assists in the playoffs that year, while West averaged 31 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists per game. Under their leadership, the Lakers also successfully reached the finals, and they were also at their peak. The Celtics fought seven **** battles.

In this round of the series, Baylor averaged 40 points and 17 rebounds per game, and West averaged 31 points and 7 rebounds per game, but they still did not win in the end, because in Game 7, the Lakers handed over the key shot that could end the game to modern fans. In the hands of the unknown Frank Selvy (frankselvysg/sf).

Such a crucial ball was not thrown by Baylor or West, but by what Selvey?

"Yeah, that destroyed us, and then we went into overtime and was dominated by Russell," West said. "He had 30 points, 40 rebounds and tons of blocks in that game. ."

West believes it was the 1962 loss that started the Lakers' curse of Celtics domination.

But he also believes that there is no problem with that ball to Selvey.

Because Selvey had hit two consecutive shots before "Hot Rod" Hendley (hotrodhundleysg) 1 passed the ball to him, he was the only one who stood up at the crucial moment of that game.

This is West, and even after all these years, he still remembers all the details of the game.

Even with such a tragic loss, he can still look at the game objectively despite other reasons.

It was very late, and Louis did not expect that this "negotiation" would take a day.

West talked to him about the present and the past for a day, but not the future.

But this day's exchange, so that Louis has enough understanding of West.

If Louis expects West to be his tool like Baylor, it will undoubtedly be an insult to the other party and a huge waste.

West is a great executive who can do a lot that Baylor can't.

"Louis, have you ever played the perfect game?"

At the end of the "negotiations," West asked.

Louie laughed: "I may not have played it myself, but my team may have played such a game."

"Do you want to know my perfect match?"

Louie chose not to answer because West would speak for himself.

"The venue should be in the garden, the place I hate the most."

Guess Louis, is it the Boston Garden?

"Of course, this has to happen during the playoffs, and it's Game 7 of the series, and that's the defining moment that I live for. It's better in the spring, like the first Sunday in May, when the air is still in the air. There was a chill. People lined up into the gardens for this crucial game."

"In addition to ordinary fans, there will be the best singers and actors in the world coming to the scene."

"And the best referees, and they have to be the ones who are impartial, the ones who allow the players to communicate with, the ones who won't be influenced by the star players."

"This game will be played by the rules I played when I played."

this means...

"Hand-cheg has no limits."

(can be played anywhere on the court)

"Players are not allowed to dribble the ball illegally."

(The ball holder's hand must be on the top of the ball, not on the side of the ball)

"It's only counted as an assist if the receiver goes straight to the point."

Then, there are no assistants, everyone has to take care of their own business, just a pair of sneakers, instead of everyone wearing new shoes before going on the court like now.

The team has to go to the away game alone, take a commercial plane, there is no charter flight, and when necessary, it needs to transfer to another station.

No entourage, no bodyguards, no PR, no media - just the players, teammates, coaches, who are like brothers.

According to West, this game will gather himself, Chamberlain, Russell, Baylor, Barry, Havlicek, Abdul-Jabbar, Dr. J, Bird, Tragic, Wilson, Sampson, Jordan, Petit.

Then, a lot of scary things and surprises happen during the game, culminating in a shocking result.

These ideal conditions are impossible to achieve after all, but Louie feels that West has played such a game.

In the end, West said: "You know, this kind of game happened in reality."

"Did you win?" Louie felt like he had said something nonsense.

"If I won, I wouldn't have this delusion." West shook his head and said, "It was a game I could never let go of - Game 7 in 1969, the Lakers had me, Elgin, Wiley Walter, and Russell and his teammates were smoking with age. At the time, no one knew Russell would retire after the game, but I had a vague feeling that he was willing to give his life to win that game life, so he couldn't forgive Wilt for dropping out with an injury midway through the game."

"I'm even more unacceptable that we almost won the game and ended up being killed by Don Nelson's ridiculous free-throw line jumper, and you gave him a hundred more chances and he couldn't make it. Yes." West's tone became very light, "but he just made the shot."

Louie heard Baylor talk about that game.

It was a failure that even someone like Baylor could not let go of.

Since then, Boston's elf will forever remain in the hearts of that generation of Lakers players.

Probably only a big man like Chamberlain who transcended his life could face it directly, because he didn't know why he lost.

"That's why I don't like you."

West said astonishingly.

"You won such a game, and I didn't." West's emotions contained envy, jealousy, puzzlement and a lot of inexplicable things, "You know, there is absolutely no reason for the Knicks to win 1993 The finals, the Blazers are a more complete, more united, and stronger team than you, your team is torn apart by rotten glory, but...you are like that Celtics team, Won the game when no one believed you could win."

"This is also the reason why I want you to come to Los Angeles~www.novelmt.com~ The past and present have proved that the person who can break the spell for the Lakers in the future is not me, but it may be you."

1 "Hot Rod" Hendry is also a mess. He grabbed the offensive rebound at a critical moment, but did not choose to shoot himself. Because Selvey scored two goals in a row before, he passed the ball out. Selvey missed the shot, the game went into overtime, and the Lakers lost. After retiring, Hendry would occasionally call Selvey, and as soon as the caller answered, he would say "good shot" and hang up immediately.

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Typically, we see a "rip" symbolically when an ancient player dies. We shouldn't feel anything because we haven't seen a full game of him. But Bill Russell's departure really upsets me. I can't explain the feeling.

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