The Rest, Only Noise

"We must fight for Louis!"

Larry Bird told reporters at halftime of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals.

Louie is very grateful to him, but there is no need for him. The trouble he had with Jack Madden was not only because the other party used discriminatory language to humiliate him, but more importantly, he had to have a sense of his own existence.

He didn't want to be a puppet on the bench.

To have a presence in the game, voice is necessary, and if a **** like Madden doesn't let him speak, he will be suffocated. The other party insulted him with "Oriental", but instead took his word.

Racial discrimination is a sensitive red line, although it is not as exaggerated as 40 years later, but no one will touch him.

What's more, "Oriental" is already a "discriminatory word" that is explicitly prohibited by the government.

The Celtics, determined to fight for Louie, lost their first game.

96 to 94

They only lost by 2 points.

Bird was not afraid to face Dr. J. He scored 27 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists on 13 of 24 shots. Dr. J filled the data column, scoring 29 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals and 3 blocks on 13 of 19 shots.

"Louis, you have to control your temper!" Fitch said angrily after returning to the locker room.

"I have some thoughts about tonight's game." Louie didn't want to explain, "The gap between us and Philly is very small. Tonight, we only lost five to them on the rebounding worry, but our defense Nine fewer rebounds than them."

Fitch listened to the fog, "What do you want to say? We lost a lot of offensive rebounds?"

"No, we're getting more offensive rebounds. What we really need to improve is the quality of defense."

What Louie sold was a simple answer: "They're shooting 48 percent overall, and we're shooting 41 percent overall. The 76ers are a defensively strong team, and I don't think we're going to be able to make it in the next game. In order to improve our offensive efficiency, all we can do is reduce their offensive efficiency.”

There were a lot of things Fitch didn't expect today.

He didn't expect Louis to suddenly become a force in the game; he was warned by the referee because he was too forceful; he didn't expect that he was disgusted by the referee because he was too forceful; Using inappropriate language to stimulate the referee in a fit of rage and directly blasting the referee and causing the matter to the media was even more unexpected for Fitch.

What Fitch couldn't even imagine was that this young **** who made a big mess was still in the mood to pay attention to the game.

"What do you want to do?" Fitch asked.

Louie wasn't sure if his approach would work, or if Fitch was willing to go with his plan.

"Adjusting the starting lineup, we have two or three players with poor defense in our entire starting lineup, which is not conducive to us improving the quality of defense." Louis's suggestion only goes so far.

Fitch should know better than him who can guard and who can't.

Louie said that there are two or three players in the Celtics' starting lineup who are not good at defense, which is a more modest statement.

Let's start with the best defense first, Bird, he has excellent defensive command, awareness and skills, but not good enough physicality, unfortunately, he is also arranged by Fitch to play on the 3rd position. Dr. J with amazing ability.

This picture is very beautiful, that is, the doctor is not very good at holding the ball and attacking. If you change the line, Louis does not know how Bird will be exploded to end.

Followed by Cowens, who was selected for the second defense.

Against the 76ers, Cowens' defensive value is not as good as Bird's, even if he is selected for the second defense.

Because the inside line of the 76ers are all birds that can jump and buckle well. His height is too disadvantageous, and people will not play ground battles with him.

Maxwell has never been a good defender, John Lang's defense is okay, he has done his best to protect himself, and he can't care about others, and then there is Archibald, the exclusive toilet designated by the 76ers guards.

Under his defense, "L Train" Hollins and Mike Bibby's father Henry Bibby (Henry BibbyPG) both hit more than 60% hit rate.

If you really want to improve the quality of defense, at least two original starters must be removed.

Louie also knew very well that Fitch would not easily dismantle a starting lineup he had been working on for a whole season.

It was quiet in the Celtics locker room, but the allegations against Jack Madden by Louie caused an uproar.

Asians have always been the most honest and responsible among immigrants of all ethnic groups in the United States, and they are also a group of people with the lowest social status. When they are bullied, they swallow their voices. Why did this happen all of a sudden?

Then everyone checked Louis's history in detail and found that he was not a native Asian, but a "British" who held British Dependency Citizenship. Everyone understood, it turns out that this product is not aboriginal, so it is no wonder that it is so violent.

Madden has denied his racist attacks on Louie, instead accusing Louie of making vicious personal attacks on him.

But Louie quickly pulled out his teammate Bill Laimbeer and John Long, who was 18,000 miles away from where the conflict broke out, and "Larry Bird, who wanted to blow his mind and lose the game." , Madden did say "Oriental".

There was a lot of fuss about it. Louis had a witness, but Madden had no witness.

After 40 years, Madden will definitely get a heavy penalty, but Larry O'Brien, the league's president at the time, was a man who regarded stability as everything, just banned Madden from continuing to whistle this series, and nothing else subsequent punishment.

Although it was reduced to a major event, the name of Louis was spread for the first time.

The picture of him and the referee spraying was photographed by many reporters.

In particular, as an assistant coach, he did not wear a suit like the others, but instead wore short-sleeved jeans with cropped jeans, which really added some playful air to this serious, funny and dramatic scene.

"Always fight the referees - from Reed, to Tommy, to Louie, this is the legacy of Celtic glory!"

Louis was in the limelight, and Auerbach was alarmed.

Auerbach first learned about the situation from K.C, and then called Louis to his office the next day for a detailed cross-examination.

Louie pulls a Coke out of Auerbach's office refrigerator.

One of the most gratifying things after crossing the road is that the current cola and the future cola taste no different.

"You can really toss!" Auerbach smashed Louis' headline newspaper on the table. "Look at what you've done!"

Louis read the newspaper and said dissatisfiedly, "You made me ugly."

"Is this your concern?" Auerbach snapped. "Do you **** know what you're doing?"

Louie said cheekily: "Obviously, I'm trying to get the limelight, even Bob Ryan (the Globe reporter) can see it, can't you see it?"

"FUCK!" Auerbach didn't expect the kid to admit it in person.

Auerbach pressed the newspaper with his hand: "Why did you do that?"

"I have my reasons, and, Jack Madden did hurt me with 'that sentence,' do you think I can laugh it off?"

Auerbach couldn't have imagined that this kid could admit that he was stealing the limelight so righteously, and that he had no repentance...

"You're going to mess up our game plan like this!" Auerbach reminded him. "Don't forget who made the game plan!"

Louis said helplessly: "It is precisely because I am dispensable on the court that I am not afraid to offend the referee."

Auerbach heard something else from Louis's words.

"What do you want to say?"

"Bill, like many successful coaches, has a strong self-esteem. It is difficult for him to find a balance between the two choices of self and advice, not to mention I'm just a kid." Louie said very vaguely, and he has already received Down the direction of improvement told Fitch.

To accept or not to accept, is Fitch's business, he needs to let Auerbach know he does something.

Auerbach snorted disdainfully when he heard his words: "A coach who has never won a championship, dare to say that he was successful?"

Louie felt like he was trying to sow discord, but it's no secret that Fitch and Auerbach were at odds.

"If only a champion can be considered a success, then the conditions are too harsh." Louis asked, "Have you never heard of the Ridgefield miracle?"

Auerbach was even more dismissive.

"I heard," Auerbach said deliberately, "that team was eliminated by us."

"Isn't it because the best player on the Cavaliers is reimbursed, otherwise it is not certain who will win."

"Champions never make excuses," Auerbach quipped. "Losers only have excuses."

"okay!"

Louie didn't have time to accompany this old man to bullshit, "This is the game plan I made for the first game, the original has been handed over to Bill, this is the copy, you can take a look, and then pay attention to our second game by the way. ."

"gone!"

Before Louis left, he took two bottles of Coke.

"Close the fridge for me, boy!" Auerbach shouted.

(1) According to the information I have found, Hong Kong people before the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 can freely choose passports of Chinese nationality and citizens of British possessions (colonies) (enjoying civil rights but not strictly speaking citizens). According to the answers of some Hong Kong people on Zhihu, basically most people will choose the status of territorial citizens. I'm not right here, I gave Louis a more reasonable arrangement.

(2) This is a plot that has not been written. In order to increase his witnesses, especially influential witnesses, Louie kidnapped Bird with the morality that Bird said he would win the game for him. Although not written, I am annotating this paragraph here to indicate that it still exists in the text.

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