The Rest, Only Noise

In December 1989, Louie sat idly in his office at the Blue Palace in New York watching videotapes and pretending not to know that it was the last month of the '80s when he could have had a more meaningful life.

Last month's Thanksgiving, New York had an unexpected power outage. The family came out and was chased and blocked. Lorraine was asked to sign by 100 people—well, not that much, but in order to truly restore the situation, it must be exaggerated.

Whether Louie admits it or not, even in the affluent parts of Manhattan, he and his family are local celebrities, and many wealthy wives want better season tickets for their men.

One or two, Louis can handle it, but if there are too many people, it won't work.

There are only so many good positions, and it is too late for the stars. Where can there be more surplus for them?

It was a bad turkey day anyway, and Louie decided to keep a low profile in December.

With nothing to do now, he's in his office trying to watch The Cosbys for the millionth time.

If you were a TV audience in the 1910s, even if you didn't watch American TV very much, you probably heard about the most famous ones.

Like Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad. .

In the 1980s, even people who didn't watch TV had heard of at least three TV series, and the time period had to be clearly divided into the first half and the second half of the 80s.

The first half was dominated by "Jumen's Grievance" and "Giant Families". Since 1985, "The Cosby Family" has sat on the Iron Throne and started the first five consecutive years of annual ratings.

This is a phenomenal sitcom that, unlike previous comedies, the show's portrayal of a successful, stable black family shatters white self-perceived racial stereotypes and showcases the life of an upper-class black family, bringing viewers to the fore. The new experience revitalized NBC's languid ratings.

However, Louis couldn't see it no matter what.

He has tried many episodes.

To Louie, the show was disgusting because it was ultimately about black families as white people saw them.

In many places, there is a disgusting perspective like the casting of "Shang Qi".

Like the protagonist is a doctor and his wife is a lawyer in New York City - although both are bound to earn six figures a year anyway - six figures in the '80s!

But they still acted extremely stingy, taking whatever advantage they could, and the middle-class family was even more strapped than the Gallagher family in "Shameless".

There is also a disgusting scene where the protagonist engages in in-depth discussions with his son-in-law about his daughter's sexual experience, as if worried that his son-in-law will cause something to happen by exerting too much force on the bed. If Louie was that son-in-law, he'd tell the father-in-law, who looked like a thief, to shut up and mind his own business.

In another episode, the protagonist jokingly told the crowd that he had put a high-energy drug in the grill. The more Louis looked at this black protagonist, the more unhappy he became. Although it was impossible to look good, the more he looked at this face, the less he looked like it was a good thing.

All of the above are the disgusting points that Louis remembered when he was unable to watch, distracted, and skipped episodes. He tried to watch "The Cosbys" again today and failed.

1989 was almost over, and he was doomed to miss the show that dominated the second half of the 1980s.

To Louie, it's just a mediocre TV show that portrays a black family living the American dream the way white people like it. White people love it because it's novel enough and throws a bone for black people who have few other options - Louie is pretty sure Asians in America won't have a problem with the casting of Shang-Chi - the problem is that the show portrays the A story that doesn't reflect anyone's real life, Louie thinks about it, and the only reason it can dominate for five years may really be because of novelty.

Just like the "Little Times Trilogy", if it was released in China in the 1980s, the box office would not be low.

Louie gave up trying and threw the "Cosbys" video in the trash.

If he doesn't watch it so many times and still feels disgusted and bored, then this show isn't for him. Since it doesn't fit, of course it has to be deleted from my life like those Japanese action movies with serious PS.

Louie came to the training ground, and today's training was as usual, hosted by Tomjanovich.

Tomjanovich's coaching ability has yet to be seen, but the quality of his training is definitely second to none.

For so many years, Louis's team can maintain a strong fighting force, and it is inseparable from the training of Tomjanovich.

"Patrick, have you watched "The Cosbys"?" Luitt wanted to discuss this TV series with black people.

Ewing put his hands on his hips, tired like a depleted dog: "Look, I don't like it."

"Oh why?"

"I don't like the peach blossom face of the male lead."

It seems that Louie's views on the male protagonist are the same as Ewing's. They both think Bill Cosby is like a thief.

It will take about 2014 for the fact that Cosby is a thief to be hammered. He was revealed to have violated more than 60 women, but the most exciting thing was the defenses his colleagues said for him, so I won't go into details here.

Louie has a lot to say about the '80s coming to an end, but before that day, the Knicks need to finish their Christmas fight.

Their Christmas matchup is the Portland Trail Blazers.

This was the second time this season, and they beat the Blazers in the opening game, and Ewing wasn't there at the time.

For the past two months, the war in the east and west has been fierce.

This year is indeed a rare year of competition.

In particular, the competition in the West is very fierce. The Blazers are currently 16 wins and 8 losses, ranking fifth in the West.

The Knicks are thriving in the East, but in terms of record, they are not as strong as last year.

At this time, they are 21 wins and 3 losses, ranking first in the league.

As strong as the Lakers, because of the fierce competition in the West, they lost 5 games.

The Knicks-Blazers game is a highly anticipated game, with one side being the favorite/hostile team and one side having the league's brightest star.

The failure of the opener was attributed by the Blazers' coaching staff to inadequate use of Jordan's personal ability.

In this battle, Rick Pitino hugged Jordan's thigh tightly, hoping to use his personal ability to change the whole situation.

The Knicks and the Blazers, one is a rotation defense and the other is a switch defense. With the two characteristics stalemate, there will be many heads-up games between them.

There is no problem in heads-up, as long as you pay attention to your position, don't make the space too congested, find a good dislocation, make good use of your tactical advantages, and use off-ball tactics to mobilize the role players.

The Blazers wanted Jordan, Drexler, and Rick Schmitz to singles whenever they could.

On the Knicks side, Louie can't give players that much freedom.

His request is to play advantageous dislocations as much as possible, such as Wilson playing Terry Porter in the low post, Wilson playing Nance/Schmitz in the face frame, McHale playing Jordan, Stockton playing a natural dislocation to Porter, Ewing plays anyone in the low post (as long as he is not double-teamed), etc. Unless there is not much time to attack, if there is a dislocation, he will play dislocation. Don't force yourself to increase the difficulty of attacking.

The Knicks' tactics are in place, and the Blazers have done a few things while making good use of their core offensive firepower.

Nance's cut, the glider's takeover after Jordan went off the court, and Porter's amazing 3-pointer.

But the most incredible thing was still Jordan, whose dominant offense was brought to the extreme in this game.

With 50 points in the game, under the Knicks' meat grinder-like defense, he made countless indefinable shots. That kind of ball is not a good chance, or even a bad shot. He just hits that kind of ball, so he doesn't care how his teammates stand, or even who his teammates and opponents are.

During that time, Wilson wanted to fight him, but he wasn't as consistent as Jordan tonight.

Jordan took the offense to the extreme, and the fourth quarter was fatal.

The Knicks lost the Christmas game and ended their regular-season game with the Blazers.

Between them, one win and one loss.

The Blazers proved they can play at a high level against the Knicks with a tough game.

Even with Pitino as coach, the Blazers are still a huge threat.

Because Jordan is already the uncrowned best player in active service.

It was the Knicks' fifth loss of the season.

They still have two games to play before saying goodbye to 1989 and welcoming the 1990s.

A match against the new army magic, it was a complete victory without pressure.

In another game against the Heat, the fourth-ranked dark horse in the Eastern Conference, the Knicks took three quarters to establish their advantage. In the fourth quarter, Ewing smashed a furious dunk on Hank Gaithers' head.

The Knicks ended 1989 with a two-game winning streak.

On December 31, the last night of the 80s, Louis and Lorraine were out on a date.

He specially arranged a romantic date, only him and Lorraine, the back was full of stars, and the night was charming.

Louis hopes to enter the 90s with Lorraine.

He doesn't want to think about other unrelated things, but his thoughts are a long river, guiding him to keep going back in his mind.

The 1980s was a wonderful decade for him~www.readwn.com~, a period that will never be forgotten.

His career was on track, rising through the summer of 1983, culminating in June 1984, and then five and a half years in New York, with ups and downs, and now he is the best in the professional basketball world. Coach, he's hungry for more.

In this impressive decade, there are many other things to remember, the President's near-assassination in front of everyone, the death of John Lennon, the popularity of professional basketball, the lows and highs of professional basketball, the explosion of the Challenger. , Coca-Cola's foolish change of formula, Michael Tyson's brutal KO of Spinks, laying the groundwork for him as Tomjanovich's lifelong enemy, the fall of the Berlin Wall...

There were too many things that had happened, which he had chewed through and melted into his blood.

Is there anything waiting for him in the 90s?

Is the story that awaits him exciting enough?

He didn't know, but he was looking forward to it.

On the New Year's Day, Lorraine kissed Louis on the lips, and they ushered in a new era with the sweetest moment.