The Rest, Only Noise

"Coach Lu, do you think the Celtics' style of play is rough?"

That night, at the press conference, the reporter asked the question.

Louie said helplessly: "This kind of question is like asking a narcissist if he is handsome. The answer I can give you is, yes, we are handsome."

"Can I see your answer as another form of acquiescence?"

"No, I'm not admitting anything, I'm just feeling helpless about your problem."

"If it's the wrong question, why should you feel helpless?"

Louie said with a smile, "Because every day a reporter of your level wastes my time."

Louie's words made the other party's face look bad, and an article against him might be published in a tabloid tomorrow.

He was used to it, and he probably wouldn't be able to sleep well without being hacked by the media.

Louie was interested in the news about the Lakers, he wanted to know if Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was at the press conference, and if so, how he explained what happened tonight.

It didn't take long for a reporter to speak for Riley.

"Coach Lu, Pat Riley thinks the Celtics are a rude team, you always seek big-scale confrontation and nasty trash talk, which obviously affects Kareem's mood, what do you think of Riley What did Coach Li say?"

Louie replied happily: "If Coach Riley's wife cheats, it is estimated that one of our players can be blamed."

"Hahaha~~~"

Ranbir, who was beside Louis, couldn't help laughing.

"The reason for Kareem's anger is not complicated. I can say it as it is, but it doesn't make sense. I think Coach Riley should be responsible for it. He didn't take care of Kareem's emotions and let them not Steady Kareem comes in."

"It shows that he doesn't understand the mood of the players at all. Coach Riley may understand basketball well, but he doesn't understand his players."

Next, hard stubble appeared.

The Globe's Bob Ryan, with his usual stern face as if everyone owed him money, asked his first question: "Coach Lu, you think Coach Riley doesn't understand his players, so, you Do you understand your own players?"

"probably."

"perhaps?"

"This kind of thing, only needs to be roughly enough. Even my mother and girlfriend, I can't fully understand what they are thinking."

"Bill Laimbeer seems to be under fire from all of his opponents, what's your response to that?"

"You'd better ask Bill yourself this question, he's by my side."

Then Ranbir put his head close and said, "I have nothing to say to those scumbags."

One sentence revealed that he was cheap, and Louis regretted bringing him to the press conference.

Ryan's last question, which sounds the most normal and responsible at the same time: "How are Larry, Isiah, and Ralph getting along now? Has there been chemistry between them?"

Sampson's personality made him get along with anyone.

The problem is Bird and Thomas.

This matter, even Louis himself is not sure.

"Their relationship has been developing, and I think it's the strong parts of Larry and Isiah's personalities that have contributed to their progress in each other."

Louie doesn't say a word about Bird and Thomas' friendship and chemistry.

He then answered about Sampson's offensive position.

The media isn't easy to fool, they want to figure out all the questions, and Louie's job is to answer the toughest questions with the least informative words.

For the Lakers, Abdul-Jabbar apologized to Rambis under Riley's persuasion.

He publicly stated that he was not targeting anyone, but that after seeing the injustice against black people, the nerves in his body seemed to cross his self-consciousness and help him make a decision.

That decision was to question the referee's double standard regardless of Rambis' feelings.

In the Celtics locker room, Thomas seemed ready to become the second Kareem.

He questioned M.L. Carr, who was joking about Kareem Kareem: "The referee did use two sets of standards against us on the field, Kareem just burst the bubble, it's not funny, if you're white, I have nothing to say, but you You're a black man, do you think this has nothing to do with you?"

"If you really have so much injustice, vent it out on the court and don't show off in the locker room." Louis interrupted him loudly.

For Thomas, this question seems like a red thread.

He would never talk back to Louis at ordinary times: "Don't referees have two sets of standards?"

"Even if you are colorblind, you should be able to see that the referee is black. Why do black referees have to adopt two sets of penalty standards for black players?" Louis asked amusingly.

Thomas said excitedly: "Because he, like Wilt Chamberlain, is an 'albino' who betrayed his skin color!"

"When making this kind of accusation, it is best to have evidence. If you have evidence that Dan Crawford uses two sets of penalty standards for black players and white players, I support your statement." Louie said lightly.

"Isn't his performance enough tonight?"

"Not enough, he just wanted to give the Lakers a technical foul, because Bill made the scene ugly, both sides were angry, whether that person was Cedric or someone else, he would be called a technical foul."

Louis did not speak with emotion.

Thomas insisted that the referee was a double standard.

"Then please work hard and carefully collect evidence that he is playing a double standard with you. It is best to have him suspended indefinitely like Jack Madden."

"If you don't have proof in the end, now these words are just farts and stinks."

There were not many people left in the locker room, and half of them had already left.

Unwilling to tangle with Thomas, Louie turned and left the locker room, ending the inconclusive debate.

Ultimately, Thomas won't find any evidence of a double standard on Dan Crawford's whistleblower. As the earliest black referee in league history, Crawford entered the profession in 1977. He regards his work as his life, and he will continue to work in this position until February 2016.

At the time, Thomas had been retired for 24 years.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's little ninety-nine did not become a public event for the league.

Because everyone knows he's not normal, even though he's a top-five superstar in the league, few fans like him.

He's an unlovable star because he doesn't even see his fans and his job as a career and the love of his life that he has to work hard for.

He plays basketball for a different reason than anyone else.

On the other hand, this is also terrifying.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has achieved such great achievements, has never liked basketball. He has not worked hard for the game. Therefore, it can be said that he has never reached his upper limit.

He has wasted his talent throughout his career.

What he has achieved now is the result of wasting talent.

Once you realize that he "doesn't like basketball and doesn't take fans seriously", it's understandable why he led the team to a championship in his sophomore year, and then blatantly changed his name to Kareem, betrayed his family, and his original religion Faith, become a dangerous person.

Louis originally wanted to pay attention to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but as a result, the league played down the deal.

So this is just the internal affairs of the Lakers, how to digest it is their business.

Since he can't eat melons, Louis simply doesn't care so much, he has a lot of things to solve himself.

Lorraine's pregnancy, how can I confess to my mother about the problems in the team~www.novelmt.com~, although there is no obvious contradiction, but as long as Thomas is there, you can't be careless.

The character of this man is too difficult to grasp, he is not as simple as Sampson, not as sharp as Bird, he is complex.

Two days later, the Celtics played away to the Houston Rockets.

The Rockets, hungry for talent in this year's draft, did something that would bring shame to the league.

They lied down with a few other tank teams and said "what if we let sportsmanship go to hell" and began to lose massively in a planned way.

The 1983-84 season was the first time in NBA history that there was a slew.

The last draft that triggered a similar effect had to be the 1968-69 season, but there was the ABA at that time, and even if you got a top draft pick, you might not be able to bring your favorite candidates to the team.

So the determination to put it down is not so strong, and it is different now.

If you get the top three picks, you may get Ewing, Olajuwon, Tisdale, Jordan... Just thinking about it makes people crazy, and there is no need to hesitate.