The Rest, Only Noise

The Knicks team reporter Dave Anderson said with emotion: "This is the greatest Knicks game I've seen since 1973!"

"Coach Lu, how are you feeling now?" Anderson asked hurriedly.

Feeling?

When Louis was distracted, he smoked the cigar as a cigarette, and was immediately choked to the point of coughing.

"Coach Lu, are you okay?"

"Fortunately..." Louis had finished it, and he stared at the cigar.

That's it, how many sticks does that old Auerbach smoke a day? Sooner or later he choked to death on this thing.

"How are you feeling now?"

"I'm most excited now," Louie said with a smile. "I'm just proud, these guys are doing great!"

Anderson asked: "Did you ever think a regular season would be so brutal?"

"I didn't think about it, but this is the game, when you're determined to win, and the other side is determined not to lose to you, the game escalates, and we survived against Boston, these guys are really amazing , they beat a team that was almost impossible to beat."

Anderson took a quick note of Louie's words.

Finally he asked: "Why do you smoke a cigar before the game? Are you paying homage to Reed Auerbach?"

"Tribute? I don't like that set, I'm not paying tribute to anyone," explained Louie. "I don't like imitations, because it's hard for imitators to do better than the original, and once you get caught up in it, it's hard to have it again. own style."

"I chose to light the cigar at that moment for the simple reason that I believe from the bottom of my heart that my players can win this game."

Anderson asked jokingly: "What if you lose in the end?"

"I'll probably shove a cigar in my **** to apologize."

Anderson laughed, and Louie walked away alone.

Bird came to "greet" on behalf of the rest of the Celtics.

"You better make it to the second round of the playoffs!" Bird said unwillingly, "There is no end between us!"

"Don't tell me, Larry, you said you wanted to win us by 40 points, why did you lose by 1 point?" Louie pressed on, "Legend of Larry, what happened?"

Bird had nothing to say, so he could only keep saying ruthlessly: "Don't be complacent, we will have a chance to get it back in the future for today's debt!"

"Haha, then we'll see you in the future."

In New York, flirting with Ewing is an indispensable spice in Louie's life.

Before Ewing, the victim's name was Larry Bird.

Goodbye now, Louis can still use three or two sentences to stimulate Bird to a rage. In the past, he could repay by beating Louie's team, but today, they lost.

Louis hugged the players one by one, and he didn't expect a regular season to reach this level.

After greeting from his family, he walked over to K.C. Jones and shook hands.

"Where did the cigars come from?" K.C asked.

Louis replied: "Reed sent it before I left."

"You haven't finished smoking yet?"

"Actually, this is my second time drawing."

K.C laughed: "Reed must be pissed."

"If I do something wrong, I will apologize."

Meaning, if he didn't do anything wrong, even if Auerbach got angry, he wouldn't apologize.

In this matter, Louis thinks he has done nothing wrong.

Then came the reporters on the scene, and CBS was excited about tonight's game.

They didn't expect a game that was supposed to be one-sided, to be so exciting and so memorable.

"Coach Lu, you ended your losing streak against the Celtics, what do you want to say about this game?"

Louie said confidently: "I have nothing to say, it was a great victory."

He knew the real trouble was not here, in the post-match press conference.

In the ungrateful manner of the Boston media, there is bound to be a discussion of his "provocative act" of wearing a purple suit tonight and lighting a cigar at the last minute.

After Louis returned to the locker room, he got some bad news.

Oakley's foot injury seems to have worsened, Ewing's knee was a little uncomfortable after returning, and Stevens was bloodied by Bird's elbow and has been sent to the hospital.

None of the three players who should have been at the press conference with Louie tonight.

For this victory, the Knicks paid too much.

Simply, Louis only took Stockton to the press conference.

With no teammates around, Stockton was far more nervous than usual.

"Don't worry, you're not their target. The media has more questions to ask me than you."

Louie gave him some advice, and when he and Stockton walked into the media interview room, several reporters immediately took pictures.

Louie explained the reasons for the absence of several key players: "Charles, Patrick and Alex are all injured and cannot be at the press conference tonight."

"So, if you have any questions, just ask me and John." Louie said with a smile, "We must know everything."

Louie's long-time acquaintance, Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe, looked gloomier than ever.

"Coach Lu, don't you think it's inappropriate to wear that dress to the garden?"

Louis' face remained unchanged: "What's wrong?"

"You should know that Celtics fans hate purple the most, and every family in Boston rejects purple during the holidays," Ryan explained.

Louis smiled sarcastically.

"It's weird, why do you hate purple? The Lakers didn't beat the Celtics once in the Finals, and then you guys didn't even like purple? Did the Lakers bring you any painful memories? No, right? Every game in history, the Celtics have won, why do you act like the Lakers did something that hurt Boston badly?"

Louie also complained about the Lakers.

"I have seen many flowers and trees in Los Angeles, and they all have a bright main color, which is green. If Lakers fans are as sensitive as you, I am afraid that the entire California will be dead?"

Louis was not polite at all, his displeasure was already evident.

Ryan found that he couldn't find the loophole in Louie's words, which is really the fan's careful comparison.

But Louis is also really big-hearted, doesn't he know who he is? Isn't wearing this kind of clothes on purpose to make fans unhappy?

"I'm very happy with my outfit, it was a gift from my players last Thanksgiving last year," Louie announced. "I'm not just wearing it today, but every time we come to Boston to play, I'll try to do my best. Wear this suit."

Not only did Louis not admit that he was wrong, but he also made mistakes.

This situation was unexpected by the Boston reporters at the scene.

They thought Louie would be like other coaches who made mistakes, admitting mistakes, apologizing, and begging the general public to oversee them and make sure they didn't make them again.

He acted as if he didn't care how Celtics fans felt.

Next, they asked about the game's frequent on-court clashes.

Louie is unbiased on this issue.

"Our people made mistakes, and the Celtics players also made mistakes. I don't want to say who is more responsible. This is a scene created by both of us." Louis's long-lost daily Chinese saying, "There is an old saying in China, There's an old saying that a slap doesn't get a slap. If we don't cooperate, or if the Celtics don't respond, this game won't go to that level."

The next question is also a lot of people's attention.

The Knicks pressed the Celtics in the third quarter.

Louie said modestly: "I would first like to thank the referees tonight for their strict enforcement. They made our defense the best within the limits allowed by the rules. Without a good referee, there will be no classic game. If the whistle is stricter , our full-court press can't last a full quarter."

As for why to use a full-court press to defend a whole quarter, Louie's idea is of course to test the team's defensive ceiling.

He decided before the game that if he had a chance to beat the Celtics, he would take advantage of the Celtics' stalemate's preference for short rotations.

But the results also saw that the Celtics' main force was still very strong until the fourth quarter.

Still, a full-court press would definitely work, or they wouldn't have missed the first two on their last three three-pointers.

If one of the first two goals had been scored, the outcome of the game might have been different.

The next one is the most sensitive and the one that everyone is most concerned about.

"LittleLu, why are you lighting a cigar before the game? Are you trying to provoke the Celtics, or are you paying tribute to Reed?"

The person who asked this question, ~www.readwn.com~, was a female reporter, Kate Morton of the Boston Herald.

"I just wanted to show the determination of the Knicks to win this game, nothing else, and it's not a tribute to Reed."

If they didn't entangle, Louie's answer would be nothing but ambiguous.

Morton pressed: "Don't you think this is an insult to all Celtic fans?"

"Insult? Do you really think so?"

"The reaction of the fans is already telling."

"If you say this, I have a different opinion." Louis sat up straight, tapping his fingers on the table inadvertently. "I can tell you what an insult, after I helped Boston build what it is today, after I led the Celtics back to a championship a few years ago, I left here. And then, just because I wore a purple It's insulting that the fans booed me in my suit. Those who booed me, none of them gave the Celtics more than my fur, they didn't have the right to point fingers at me. "

"If anyone thinks I'm insulting them by lighting a cigar before the game, so be it," said Louie, "but, as far as I'm concerned, I'm just taking back the insult they gave me. That's it."

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