The Rest, Only Noise

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"Coach Lu, as a coach, what do you think is the biggest difficulty?"

In mid-September, the Celtics held a media conference for the first preseason training camp in NBA history.

Louis was questioned by a reporter from the more than 100-year-old Sun Weekly.

"The biggest difficulty is that no matter how difficult I imagined this job is, I will eventually find that the actual difficulty is much greater than I imagined." Louis said helplessly.

Louis has received more attention than expected.

His age is an insurmountable hurdle.

Until he proves his ability on the field, this is something that will be questioned countless times.

If he succeeds, age becomes his capital.

Louie meets Bob Ryan, who is often scolded by Auerbach.

This person started working for the "Globe" in the early 1970s, because of a sentence that alarmed the Quartet "A New York Knicks championship is more important to the NBA than the Celtics' 11 championships".

Because of this sentence, Auerbach now refers to him as "that bastard."

"Coach Lu, can I ask you a few questions?" Ryan asked formally.

"That's our main mission here today," Louis said casually. "Please."

Ryan's first question: "Is it true that there are rumors that the Celtics have had multiple internal conflicts over the past two weeks?"

"Bob, how many people are in your working group?" Louie asked back.

"7."

"Did you get along well?"

"We work well together."

"Are the seven of you close, no conflict with each other, and never conflict?"

"Coach Lu, I understand what you mean."

"No, you don't understand." Louis laughed, "If you civil servants have conflicts, which will lead to conflicts, then, a group of young people with strong blood and blood are engaged in fierce confrontational movements, causing conflicts, isn't it very important? Strange?"

Ryan obviously didn't let Louie's thoughts go easily.

His second question was more acute.

"Coach Fitch hinted that you weren't doing well as his assistant coach after his tenure in Houston. What do you think?"

This is something that Louis has never understood. No matter what Louis says, he has already prepared his speech.

I thought it wouldn't work, but I didn't expect it would work.

A big thank you to Fitch.

"After Coach Fitch won the championship, he expanded the coaching staff on a large scale, you know that?"

"Slightly heard."

"Suddenly, the Celtics' coaching staff became professional. After Coach Fitch had a more professional and rigorous team, he seldom asked my opinion. I was also a part-time scout for the team at the time, and I needed to often out."

Louie smiled and said: "I also want to help, but this kind of thing goes both ways. If Coach Fitch rejects my suggestion, how can I help? I am the one who has the least say in the coaching staff meeting. "

"If what you're saying is true, why did you inherit the head coach and not K.C or any of the other assistants?"

Ryan is not a likable questioner and interviewer.

He doesn't play tricks with you, he just wants to know the inside story, and he will pull out strong material from your mouth.

It's no wonder that Auerbach doesn't like him. The existence of this media person is a good thing for fans. Fans can get a lot of inside information through him.

However, the person who was exposed by him is not necessarily the same.

"If I could answer you, I would answer you."

"How to say?"

Louie said to the self-proclaimed NBA watchdog: "If I can appoint myself as a head coach, why wait now? You should ask Reed, I just accepted his new job for me, and I have no reason to refuse."

"Coach Fitch has led the Celtics to a top-three record in the league every year for the past four years. Are you sure you can achieve that?"

Louie saw that Ryan was the faction that was protecting Fitch.

Fitch is different from all coaches in Celtics history. He doesn't alienate the media, he's close to the media, he likes to deal with the media, and he makes press conferences look like a talk show scene with his one-liners.

People who have a good relationship with the media can always get more exposure and praise.

Although Louie couldn't ask Ryan to like or dislike, he still didn't want to hear comparisons between him and Fitch.

"You know, Reid prepared a complicated contract for me, although the amount is considerable, but the conditions are harsh, if I want to get a full salary, I have to lead the team to the first record in the league and win the championship. ."

"Unfortunately, I am a person who regards money as life."

"Because money is the foundation of living in modern society, I will make money in order to create a better life. Therefore, I am determined to complete these two indicators." Louis reminded, "You can write my words into your article, Tell anyone."

Ryan gave Louis an ugly smile: "I see, Coach Lu."

There were fourteen media outlets that day, and thirteen of them were local to Boston.

There is also an unpopular but well-known national media - "The New York Times".

Friends with a good memory should remember that Louis and the media have a relationship.

"Hello, Coach Lu, this is Will Wheaton, a reporter from The New York Times."

"Unfortunate!"

"Coach Lu?"

Louis twisted like a wronged golden retriever, "Okay, you can ask."

"It must be hard to work in a city like Boston with a long history of racism?"

Louis smiled and asked, "Is it easier in New York than here?"

"I can't say anything else. New York is far better than Boston when it comes to moral sanctions for racial discrimination. We are currently preparing to pass a bill that will prohibit people from saying insults that start with the 'N' in public."

Louie couldn't have the patience to listen to him preach all the good things about New York.

"Okay, can you talk to me about business?"

"Okay, Coach Lu, are you sure you can bring the Celtics to the playoffs in your first season?"

"Excuseme?"

"Is my voice too low?" Wheaton said loudly and honestly, "Coach Lu, are you sure you can bring the Celtics into the playoffs?"

My mother, she really has everyone.

Louie laughed at himself, what kind of waste does he have to be in order to bring a team with Bird, Thomas, Sampson, Maxwell, Laimbeer... to the playoffs? Even if he doesn't call a timeout for the whole season, he won't be able to make the playoffs by letting the players decide on substitutions, tactics, and pre-game and post-game arrangements.

"The Times is indeed the Times. I'm not wrong at all in my opinion of you." Louis laughed. "You are really a ridiculous and unprofessional media!"

Seeing that the Times made a fool of himself in front of Louie, although Louie's answer was rude, none of his colleagues came forward to speak for Wheaton.

His questioning is really amateurish.

Especially asking Louie if he can bring the Celtics into the playoffs, he really sent his **** in front of him.

I'm sorry for the grievances between Louis and the Times if I don't fly him away.

Today's media meeting also created a lot of Celtic history.

According to the usual media meetings in the future, Louis asked all the players to be interviewed, and asked each of them to tell an interesting story in the training camp, not to discredit the team, and to help improve the team's image.

Bird had an objection at the beginning: "I didn't come across a single interesting thing."

Seeing Bird, Thomas had an idea.

He told reporters: "When Coach Lu first introduced the game concept to us, he drew an owl's face on the tactical board and compared it to Larry..."

Byrd was inspired.

He chose to self-deprecating.

"It's true, but what's even more funny is that before that, Coach Lu drew a pig's head. He likened the pig's head to me, and only changed it to an owl after my strong protest."

"I thought he should be a painter," Bird said humorously.

People with low emotional intelligence will only say, "I wish Louis would get out of here right away", while Bird knew in front of the media that "he should be a painter" with high emotional intelligence.

Not a single player was left out.

The media got a ton of opportunities, and everyone was telling stories, either real stories, or unverifiable fictitious stories, and at the end everyone got together and put on their jerseys and took pictures.

"Lu is a very good debater, he can resolve all questions and doesn't reveal too much to us~www.readwn.com~ But yesterday, he informed me of the goals for the new season in a special way. Lu said he signed a complicated contract under Reed's coercion, and if he is to get a full salary, he must lead the Celtics to a league-leading record and a championship.

He swore to me that he would get the full salary.

I see this as a promise he made to me, and to all the fans who follow and love the Celtics.

'Next season, we'll be No. 1 in the league and come back as champions. ' I thought, that's what he meant.

Finally we saw this scene, Lu was sitting in the middle of the picture, next to Reed, then Larry, Isiah, Ralph... They were smiling and high-spirited, and for a moment, I was like Saw a team standing on top of the world. "—Bob Ryan in The Boston Globe, September 17, 1983.

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