The Rest, Only Noise

On February 10, 1989, Louie met his team.

He can't remember the first time he's been elected as the head coach of the All-Star team. Since 1984, it has been three times, if not four times.

At the official event site, the Eastern Star team made a collective appearance.

Louis is in the middle, surrounded by Wilson, Ewing, Bird, Sampson, Thomas, Barkley, Stockton, Malone, Hank Gaithers, Dumars, Worthy, Parish.

It can be seen that the All-Star players in the East are concentrated in five teams.

Arguably, this is why the East looks inferior to the West.

Let's look at the West's roster: Tragic, Jordan, Drexler, Pippen, Kevin Johnson, David Robinson, Olajuwon, Chris Mullin, Larry Nance, Will Kings, Dale Ellis, Mark Price.

Light from the star flavor of the list, the Knicks have won. .

And, this is in the absence of Doherty due to injury.

Compared with the East, the star team players in the West are from seven different teams.

Ranked second in the league, the Lakers in the West, like the Knicks in the East, occupy four seats.

The quantity and quality of star players can indirectly see the quality of the entire team.

After Louis took a group photo with everyone, they went to the restaurant ordered by the event organizer to have dinner together.

The atmosphere at the dining table is eccentric.

Two groups of people who should not sit and eat together, the Knicks and the Celtics, sat together.

Wilson and Bird have old grudges, and Ewing has always been hostile to the Celtics, even though the area he lived in before going to college in Georgetown was part of New England, where the Celtics had the most influence.

Stockton is the kind of character who only lets go in front of acquaintances.

On the Celtics side, Sampson looked at them with an expression of watching the show, Bird watched coldly, and Thomas smiled but never spoke first.

"The selection system of the All-Star Game is unreasonable. I don't want to play with the New Yorkers at all!" Barkley complained. "The league should give us the freedom to choose who we are teammates with!"

When someone speaks, Louie can bring the topic into it: "What's the matter, Chuck, do you think 'Legend of Larry' and 'The One and Only' are not qualified to be your teammates?"

"I didn't mean it!" Barkley said confidently. "I made it clear that I don't want to be teammates with the New Yorkers. You don't think I've forgotten about some time ago?"

Ewing said with a stern face: "Since you have been fined and suspended, we can forgive this and let it pass."

Ewing's arrogant attitude made Barkley furious: "What passed? Who passed with you? You shouldn't think it's me who is wrong?"

Since the dead fat man had grown fat into his brain, Louis had to enlighten him.

"Chuck, let's talk about it, who made the first move?"

Barkley responded immediately: "It's us."

"And who took the initiative to increase the intensity of the game, causing the situation to get out of control?"

"It's us."

"Then who started the group fight?"

Buckley said guiltyly: "We."

Suddenly, he remembered why his teammates had to fight: "No, no, Coach Lu, listen to you, the fault is all on us, are you all right?"

"That's not it." Louie sneered, "Our biggest mistake is that when you lose your mentality and want to use court violence to solve the problem, you don't stand up and beat. Next time I will ask my players not to fight back, What do you think about letting you guys blow out of anger for nothing?"

"Who the **** needs this?!"

Barkley said dissatisfiedly: "Coach Lu, do you think you are the only ones who can bully others on the court, and if others trouble you, it's all the other's fault?"

"It's you who picks things up, it's you who shoot first, and it's you who escalates the situation." Louis asked with a smile, "What do you think we did wrong?"

"I..." Barkley, who was justified, couldn't refute Louis, "You..."

"Um?"

"It can't be said that the Knicks are not wrong at all, right?" Isaiah Thomas sided with the team in the name of justice. "Your game style has always been rough, isn't that the reason for the escalation of the intensity of the game?"

Louie said bitterly: "You villain who is jealous when he sees his fellow rookie being selected as an All-Star in his rookie season because of his popularity, you are too embarrassed to come out and do justice? Are you qualified, Isiah?"

Thomas' smile froze on his face.

"Coach, that thing is over," Wilson said. "After May 30, 1988 (Eastern Finals tiebreaker day), I put that thing down."

Others will find this date strange.

The Celtics won't.

Thomas, Sampson, Bird all remembered that game.

To this day, some of them are still unacceptable.

Like a lot of Celtics fans who think the Knicks stole their five-peat.

"If I wasn't injured..." Bird paused, "No, if Isaiah wasn't injured, you'd already be killed, you know?"

"Bill, I don't like 'ifs.'"

Louie doesn't mind poking their lung tubes: "I only look at the results. The result is that you lost, we won, and we have won until today. The Knicks are now the defending champions. You are welcome to challenge."

Once the topic enters the field of championship, many people present have to shut up.

Including several representatives of the Pistons, although they are the top teams in the East, they have never been a serious contender for the championship.

Rookie Hank Gaithers from Miami was nervous.

The smell of gunpowder on the table was too strong, he didn't dare to open his mouth, he didn't dare to take a deep breath, and he even had to chew and swallow slowly.

Only Barkley is ignorant: "What championship is not a championship, do you think that the championship means everything?"

"You haven't even played in the semi-finals, so I don't have your share of words here," Bird said contemptuously.

"you!!"

Buckley glared at Bird shyly.

"It's true that Hank is young and he has a bright future; Joe and James (Worthy) didn't have a ring, but they both led the team to the conference finals, just one move. I respect these guys, but Chuck , I don't respect you." Louis said lightly, "You are no longer a rookie. This year is the sixth year of your debut. Look at your results - you have only played in the playoffs three times? You are all eliminated in the first round? You What qualifications do you have to make a big deal here?"

Barkley felt like he was being stomped in the face.

He was ashamed and angry, but he didn't think he was the only one to blame for the Bulls' poor record.

"Do you think whoever came to my position could do better?" Barkley exclaimed.

"I can't tell anyone else, but Larry definitely can," Louie explained with reason. "The 1979-80 season was Larry's first season, and I watched him win only 29 last season. The Celtics brought them to 63 wins. I've been there, and I can tell you for sure, that team has only one rookie, Larry, and nothing else has changed."

Barkley was stunned, completely unable to refute.

"Now you know what a GOAT is, Chuck?"

At this time, although Barkley was defeated by Louis with facts, he refused to admit defeat: "Wilt Chamberlain is the GOAT...Larry has never scored 100 points."

"Look, that's why your team can't be successful, the reason you think Wilt's a GOAT is that he once scored 100 points in a game, but you don't know how many times in Wilt's crazy pursuit of scoring records. It was the most unsuccessful period of his career." Louis said heartily, "Of course, I can understand that you are such a superficial pseudo-star, so you can never look at the problem from the perspective of a winner!"

Buckley's lips twitched and his face was ashen.

Everyone believed that he tried to punch Louis at least five times.

"It's not my **** fault to pick a dead man with the second pick!" Barkley's resentment erupted, "Who doesn't need a few helpers? Larry has Isiah, Ralph; Patrick has Benj, John and Kevin, who am I? You tell me, who am I by my side?"

Louie motioned to Wilson to pour him a Coke.

Wilson complied.

After drinking the Coke, Louie said contentedly: "Don't have such a big grievance, Chuck, of course it's not your responsibility, it's your management's problem. However, you act like you have witnessed a strong woman committing a crime. Indifferent softie. If you're not satisfied, you should speak up instead of venting your anger on the court. You don't think you're going to be tougher on the court and your status quo will change?"

"Now that you know where your problem is, you should find a way to solve it, and if you can't solve it, jump out of the car. If you know you can't solve the problem and you want to rot and stink in Chicago...then you should accept that you're a stinky fish. The reality of rotten shrimp." Louie said bitterly, "So, as a stinky fish and rotten shrimp, the only thing you should do next time I discuss a championship with Larry is to shut up, be silent, and use sweetness. Donuts cover up your ghostly mouth and silently envy in your heart, that's the only **** thing you can do, understand?"

With the exception of Gaithers, most of the Eastern Conference stars are seniors.

They know what a coach Louie is ~www.novelmt.com~ These heated conversations sounded to some as a humiliation against Barkley.

But like Thomas, Sampson and Bird, they all have a deeper understanding of this.

Clearly Louie was taking advantage of this rare opportunity to instill something in Barkley.

His words were ugly, but would Barkley hate him?

No, to hate, and to hate the incompetent management that led him into this field and was publicly humiliated by Louis, right?

Injustice and debt, he would not hate Louis just because Louis pointed out the cruel reality.

On the contrary, perhaps in the future he will be grateful to Louie.

Most people waste their youth, but waste also pays attention to a basic law. The way the Bulls waste Barkley's peak has reached the extreme.

Barkley was furious when he realized the festival, and he didn't say a word after that.