readytorunbook Chapter 323 Bear with Me, Patrick
Chapter 323 Bear with Me, Patrick
Chapter 323 Bear with Me, Patrick
In the corridor of the Blue Palace, there are two vending machines.
Louie took out the money and wanted to buy a Coke.
He saw Ewing standing beside him, and asked politely, "What would you like to drink?"
"Cola?"
"ice cream?"
"Cheese beans??"
Seeing that Ewing didn't reply, Louis asked angrily, "At least he's a person who has successfully graduated from university after four years of study, doesn't he even know how to be polite?"
Ewing said coldly: "I don't want anything."
"Then you're missing something good."
Louie bought Coke and a small packet of cheese beans.
Louis drank Coke and ate cheese beans, the crunchy sound made Ewing very unhappy.
"Can't you eat somewhere else?" Ewing asked.
"Is it just that you don't like being in the same place with me?" Louie often has no self-knowledge.
Since Louis didn't leave, Ewing had to leave.
Just as he was about to enter the Blue Palace, Louis leaned against the wall and said slowly, "If you think I'm targeting you, then so be it."
"You admitted it?" Ewing asked angrily.
"If you are angry because I targeted you, I can only say that choosing you with the first pick in the first round was the biggest mistake I made." Louis smiled naturally, "You have no idea what I gave up for you."
Ewing asked, "What exactly do you want?"
"I want you to realize your talent, is that enough?" Louis held a Coke in one hand and a bag of cheese beans in the other, showing that he was not serious and his words were not convincing. "I want you to be the best center in the league. What do you think of this reason? I want you to recover the wasted three years, what do you think?"
"I haven't wasted three years!"
"Don't fart with me!" Louis seemed to switch back to the state of the Blue Palace, "Your defensive position is like an idiot, and every defense outside the paint area is like a goalkeeper's assault with a major mistake, and your positioning habits are the worst insiders I have ever seen!"
"You don't know how to position, you don't know how to choose positions, and you have a lot of defensive moves. When the season starts, you will be called a lot of fouls, and you need to gain weight. Many bad habits have to be corrected, but you are not young anymore, you know? You are 22 years old this year. Have you seen how many 22-year-old centers have so many stinky problems like you?"
Ewing asked angrily: "Could it be that all the insiders over the age of 22 in the league are better than me?"
"No, even if your faults are too many for me to tolerate, you are good enough to beat 98% of the centers now."
"But I gave you the highest salary in the league!" Louie asked, "If you can't beat everyone, why do you get paid so much? If you have as many problems as a high school student, why does New York think you can lead them back to the 70s? Why do you?"
Ewing was silent.
"I'm targeting you, not you, but your problems that haven't been corrected in school. You think I'm humiliating you by wasting your time in school, but I didn't. You have been studying in college for four years, but you have left so many problems. What did you do in college? Didn't you work hard? Is there a problem with your intelligence? Is your brain flooded? Or are you fucking lazy?"
"I do not have!"
"If you don't have a fucking problem, who the hell can I blame John Thompson?"
Ewing couldn't refute, it was hard to respond.
Louis walked up to Ewing.
He never imagined that this Asian man, who is only 1.9 meters tall, would put him under so much pressure.
"Everything I do is to make you better. If you feel that my words have hurt you and my attitude is unacceptable to you, it means that I am right." Louis said seriously, "I just want to use this method to make you completely get rid of the strawberries planted on you by that bastard John Thompson."
Ewing couldn't help but said: "You have to stop insulting my coach!"
"QNMD! Now I'm your coach!"
Ewing said angrily: "My coach will never say 'QNMD' to me!"
Louie smiled, looking amused: "I'm honored to be the first."
Ewing had nothing to say, he couldn't refute Louie's accusation against Thompson.
This did not affect his respect for Thompson, whose wisdom and life experience played an important role in the critical period in the formation of his worldview.
For Ewing, John Thompson was his second father.
Seeing that Ewing was silent, Louis approached him and said, "I hope you understand that as the head coach of the Knicks, no one in this world wants you to become a great player more than me. You have great talent. Even if you waste three years, you still have a great chance to catch up with Akeem and Ralph. But you need to continue to be humble. If one day you feel that you can no longer bear me and want to reject my coaching, I hope you will convey this message in the form of an upward application for a trade."
"At that time, I will meet all your needs. No matter which team you want to go to, I will send you there, I promise."
"Just bear with me, Patrick, until it's too much for you."
Louis touched Ewing lightly with his right hand: "As for the present situation, you don't have to be too nervous about me. I'm quite easy to communicate with, if you know me better. You may not know that I'm only two years older than you, and you can even call me brother."
"No way!" Ewing asserted.
"Don't be so sure, although our current relationship is very ordinary."
Ewing interrupted and emphasized: "It's very ordinary."
"But we may become very good friends in the future, just like me and Larry in Boston. He hates being called a country bumpkin the most in his life, but he allows me to call him that. What does that mean? He regards me as a buddy. I believe that if there is a war, he will take a bullet for me." Louis said affectionately, "Maybe one day, we can be so good, and you may even allow me to call you that word that starts with N like a black man."
Ewing sneered: "You should die, it's absolutely impossible!"
Louie is an expert negotiator as well as an expert in communication.
In his previous life, he entered the professional basketball circle with his perfect tongue, only then did he realize that he had considerable talent.
Although he humiliated Ewing for a week in the Blue Palace, he still repaired his relationship with Ewing in a short time.
When he walked back to the Blue Palace, more than half of the people thought he had quarreled with Ewing again.
"Why are you still in the mood to eat this?" Tomjanovich was a little worried, "Is the problem solved?"
Louis fed a cheese bean into Tomjanovich's mouth.
"Don't worry, Rudy, do you think I'm the kind of person who throws a celebration party before winning the battle?" Louis said arrogantly, "Little Ewing, I got it done in just a few words!"
Only then did Phil Jackson discover that the Knicks' mediation master was not him, but Louie.
In the first ten days of the training camp, Louis didn't scold Ewing for only one day.
As we all know, that was day one.
For the remaining nine days, as long as Ewing and Louie were on the court, both of them would be in a state of anger.
Louis sprayed Ewing wildly, causing the latter to get angry, but he didn't dare to be disobedient, so his anger was directed at the innocent Oakley, AC Green, Antoine Carr and Ball.
Ball has a great sense of humor that is as good as his height.
He gave Ewing a nickname, and it was a homonym.
He called Ewing "Youwin" (Youwin), because every time Ewing hit him back, he was as brutal as Zhou Qi when O'Neal hit ribs back.
Ball yelled like turning his stomach to show weakness: "Youwin! (You won) Youwin!! (You won) Youwin!!! (You fucking really won) Youwin!!!! (You won, stop)"
The specific meaning of Youwin needs to be judged according to Ball's situation and tone of voice.
A few days later is the media day, Louis decided to reduce the training time by half an hour every day.
Ball praised Louie as "GOAT" with his unbearable accent.
It was rare for Ewing to stop everyone from talking.
"My family's Jamaican restaurant has opened in the past few days, at 6 Madison Avenue 33th Street." Ewing said straightforwardly, "If you come here to eat, you can get free."
Ball also excitedly called Ewing King Kong the richest man.
"Patrick, Manute is implying that you look like an orangutan." Louis asked ignorantly.
Ewing was furious and said to Louis: "Only you will not be exempted!"
"It's okay, the media meeting will be held in a few days. If I go to your restaurant to eat and have to pay, my mouth will probably say something unnecessary in front of the reporters but will have bad consequences for your personal image."
If that's not a threat.
"Coach, my coach, Patrick was joking with you." Weber said with high EQ.
Louie said displeasedly, "Potato, is Patrick your name?"
"Then what's my name? The Rich King Kong?"
"What's the trouble? You just call him a gorilla. You're all black. It's not racist." Only in the 80s could Louie make such jokes.
Weber asked, "Is it possible?"
Ewing immediately regarded Weber, who was kind enough to smooth things over, as Louis' accomplice: "It's impossible for you to be exempted from our store!"
Weber immediately turned into a showman: "A person with an annual salary of 300 million is so much more concerned about me than someone with an annual salary of 10. Will the world be better?"
Louis almost believed it after reading it.
Before Ewing could take back that sentence, Louis broke the atmosphere untimely: "Tudou, if your fake moves on the court are half as good as your acting skills just now, I will definitely let you start."
"Really?" Weber's joyful confirmation question let Ewing know that he was being tricked again.
"!##...￥%&"
No one understood what he was cursing, probably in Jamaican.
This is a very special team, with orangutans, scrawny seven-footers, and freaks who are small as potatoes but strong as rocks. There's a reason why the Knicks are called the Zoo Team.
How to lead them forward is Louis' main topic.
It can be found that, except for the newcomers, most of the "old men" who played in the team last season were silent.
Because this Louis made them feel very strange, and they were completely different from last season.
(End of this chapter)