The Rest, Only Noise

On Thanksgiving, one of the problems Louis faces is how to invite Lorraine to his home for the holiday.

Because Li Xuanbing obviously didn't like Lorraine, although she concealed it well in front of Lorraine, as long as it was when Lorraine was not around, she would use various methods to express her dislike for this relationship.

Finally, Louis formally invited Lorraine to his home for Thanksgiving.

Italy also has Thanksgiving, but it's not as formal as Americans.

In some big cities, some Italians will celebrate Thanksgiving with them, but Lorraine's hometown is a small city, and it is basically nothing but foreign festivals, just as people in China's fourth- and fifth-tier cities never care about Christmas.

The way Louis's family celebrates is different from the fact that every American family eats turkey.

They prepared a sumptuous dinner in the way of Chinese festivals.

Steamed fish, roast duck, dumplings, various dishes, typical Chinese family festive meals.

"Aren't you going to help in the kitchen?" Lorraine asked.

"Mom thinks that my appearance in the kitchen is a question of her cooking skills." Louis said helplessly, "so I can only be here."

Lorraine said with a smile: "My mother is the same. She is worried that I catch a cold if I wear less clothes. She is worried about whether I am injured when my foot slips. As long as I arrive home one minute late, she is worried about whether I am lost."

Louie understands why Lorraine's mother has these concerns.

If he had such a beautiful daughter, he would also be worried.

"It's okay. When I was a kid, I could only play 'trick or treat' within a 50-meter radius of my house for Christmas. After this distance, my mother would force me back to the 'safe zone' with a stick." Thinking of Louis Benyi's childhood, Louis was very emotional.

Lorraine did not expect the amiable Li Xuanbing to be so violent on weekdays.

"It's not like..."

"You'll see her true colors later."

Louis was vaccinated in advance, lest Lorraine's good impression of her would be disillusioned when Li Xuanbing's microcosm erupted in the future.

In the evening, there were only three people at the table.

"Are we going to pray?" Lorraine hadn't celebrated Thanksgiving.

Li Xuanbing smirked and said, "It seems that no one in our family believes in religion, right?"

"Thank you to the Europeans who set foot on this land hundreds of years ago, and to the Indiana people for their kindness." Louis laughed, "But I guess they won't thank the bibles that the Europeans threw over."

Lorraine, who had no knowledge of this history, asked, "Why?"

"How many times have I told you, don't mention this kind of thing again!" Li Xuanbing said with disgust, "I said why you are making trouble outside all day, and you even beat the referee, you really learned badly in the NBA!"

Louis said wrongly: "You really should watch the video, but I was chased for dozens of meters before I was forced to fight back."

"It's true, I can testify!" Lorraine naively thought that Li Xuanbing really cared about how Louis clashed with the referee, "If Louis doesn't punch, he'll be the one in the hospital."

After Thanksgiving, Louis and Lorraine had no other plans.

Louis sent Lorraine back to the apartment and told Li Xuanbing not to go home to sleep.

"Pay attention to safety measures." Li Xuanbing reminded.

Louie's head was big when he heard it: "Mom, if I didn't have this awareness, you could hold a grandson in one hand now."

"That's not bad, give me my grandson soon, and then I'll never care about you again!" Li Xuanbing's eyes lit up.

Does this mean that big toys are no longer fun and change to small ones?

Louie had nothing to disapprove of the night he spent in Lorraine's apartment. Lorraine satisfies all his fantasies about women, which is an important reason for him to go out without getting dusty.

Sometimes, Louis wants to cheat mentally, but when he sees those who might make him cheat, and then compares Lorraine, he will despise himself.

When there is an SS-level girlfriend at home, how can you be easily seduced by the coquettish goods outside? Isn't he Chen Gou then?

After Thanksgiving, an article from the New York Post started fermenting in Boston.

The content of the article is about the trade rumors between the Celtics and the Suns.

The player the Celtics got involved in the trade was Maxwell, and the Suns were willing to send any player to get him.

This is beyond the expectations of many media.

Because Maxwell is not worth such a big price in their minds, how could the Suns be willing to let anyone on the team replace him, only to be rejected by Louie?

Louie's rejection of the Sun's "willing to trade with anyone" offer is outrageous.

Because even if you want to refuse, Auerbach refuses, how can there be Louis?

Even if Louis had the power to make decisions, how could he refuse such a tempting offer?

Maxwell's dissatisfaction with the sixth man position is well known.

The influence of this news quickly spread to the Celtics, and Maxwell received the nickname "a man worth more than the entire Suns".

Maxwell had talked to Louie about it.

But Louis didn't give him a chance, he just dismissed him in the tone of "next time".

On Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving, the Celtics' season resumed against the Atlanta Hawks.

This is a struggling team, and one of those indirectly affected by the butterfly effect caused by Louie.

Because the Pistons gave an extra first round, they got the No. 1 pick in 1982; because they got the No. 1 pick but chose Worthy, the Lakers could only choose Wilkins;

Although they wanted to strengthen the flank, Worthy and Wilkins were both drafted, and they could only select Terry Cummings, one of the three best players in the same class.

Cummings has All-Star prospects, but it's almost impossible to go any further.

It's embarrassing that the eagle can't go up or down.

With many teams battling for a piece of the talented 1984 draft, the Hawks were lost.

The Celtics blew them up and stomped out the viciousness of their pre-Thanksgiving loss to the Knicks.

They started a three-game winning streak and entered December.

In Game 1 of December, the Celtics once again attracted a lot of attention because their opponents were the 76ers who had just played them in a battle that could be loaded into a future ESPN classic.

The two teams meet again, and observers naturally hope to see the 76ers play better.

There are still those who think the Sixers' embarrassing 38-point loss to the Celtics was due to their own bad form.

As a result, the two teams met again, and the 76ers lost again with 26 points. If it wasn't for Louis who talked about Wude in the fourth quarter and replaced the main force to rest, it would not be impossible to win the 76ers by 38 points.

"Perhaps, the era of the 76ers and Celtics competing for hegemony in the East has really passed."

"The 1983 championship took away the 76ers' ambitions and they couldn't move forward."

"Is Bill Fitch incompetent, or is it the Celtics who are ashamed and brave?"

"Why doesn't anyone believe this is a change brought about by LittleLu?"

Various remarks and endless evaluations swept in from all directions.

Louie answered the most about the Maxwell trade rumors instead.

The media asked repeatedly, and he repeatedly answered.

He doesn't acknowledge the existence of a trade, just as the Suns don't acknowledge any communication with the Celtics.

Both sides insisted that a deal did not exist.

It's just that Louie will deny to the media while admitting to Maxwell that he has talked with the Suns, but even if the Suns are willing to take out Larry Nance + two first rounds to replace him, he will not agree.

"Why?" Maxwell asked.

Louie wants to flatter Maxwell, but he doesn't want him to realize that he is flattering, so he has to use this roundabout way to please the other party: "Because I don't want to use a champion who has proven himself in the playoffs. Players go for the brush of the weaker team."

If Auerbach, who prevented Louie from exchanging a champion player who proved himself in the playoffs for a weak team's brush, saw this scene, he would stab Louie to death with a cigar first, and then explain to Maxwell why he did it.

He believed that Maxwell, who had learned the truth, would do the same.

On December 4, the second game of the new moon.

Louis took the team to Portland.

The Trail Blazers didn't have a bad record, and Louie remembered they had the No. 2 overall pick in 1984 and made the most famous wrong selection in draft history.

There's no way they'd get this pick with their record, so there must have been some stupid trades made a few years ago.

They didn't expect to lose in a few years, so they sent out future draft picks.

Perhaps this is the reason why Auerbach is reluctant to trade in the first round. He does not want his team to work for others one day.

Although his concerns are justified, it is still wrong to worry about something that will never happen, and to miss the opportunity to make the team have no dead ends.

Now things have turned around. Louie is also poised to use the unsuccessful deal to gain control of Maxwell.

Memorial Coliseum

The home of the Blazers~www.novelmt.com~Louis came here many times to scout before he became a coach.

He is all too familiar with this place.

The Blazers were his key observation in the early days. It took only a year for this team to collapse from a perfect team, and the reasons for their collapse are classic. Injuries, misdiagnosed by team doctors, unfulfilled second-in-command wanting for big contracts, championship guards playing color politics, white players seeming to get more care and black players always being treated harshly.

They managed to build a flawless team and made all the mistakes that could be made in just one year.

"Let's have a good game," Louie said slightly meekly as he walked up to the head coach he admired, Jack Ramsey.

Ramsay found that Louie wasn't as flamboyant as it was rumored to be.

"Of course."

He only replied this sentence, then turned around and went back to his team to make pre-match arrangements.