Chapter 21 The Reign of Chaos
Louis's life became difficult due to repeated defeats by Sachs Sanders.
He was responsible for making the game plan, and although his plan was approved by two assistant coaches, he was not wrong from an analytical perspective, the Celtics were unable to execute his plan.
The continuous defeats caused such a voice to appear inside the team: "Why do we keep losing? Because we have been playing the game the way the little ghosts do!"
This put Louis in great pressure, and he realized that he had to make a game plan that suited the group.
Therefore, when planning a game, you cannot only consider your opponent, but also consider your own players.
The Celtics' player components are complex, and only two players can be sure of their future belonging to the team.
"Cornbread" Mr. and John Long.
Coins was part of the Celtics who regained their strength in the 1970s. He still had oil in his tank, but he was extremely disappointed with the team.
Since Paul Silas was sent away for the market price, he no longer believed in the team's loyalty to the players. This was a devastating blow to the passion that he relied on on the court.
"Elf" Archibald seemed to have happened a long time ago. Last season, he averaged 20+7 assists per game at the New York Nets. When he came to the Celtics, he suddenly seemed to be useless. He averaged only 24 minutes per game, scoring 11 points and 4.7 assists.
The "bad news" of destroying the Celtics' glory, Marvin Barnes, the only thing he has to do when he comes to the team is his old profession and destroy the chemistry of his team.
Not to mention this man's numerous crimes, just say that he delayed the team's flight.
He said he didn't want to get into the time machine.
He likens the plane to the time machine.
Once he rented a private jet to go away. He didn't have a good experience and wanted to pay the bill. He brought the bill to his door, so he was forced to pay the bill.
In ABA, he is like the opposite of Dr. J, representing all the negative factors.
With such talents in the team, it is difficult for the Celtics to have a good record.
After a disastrous 2 wins and 12 losses, Sanders was fired by Auerbach.
Louis's brief coaching assistant career is over.
His game plan received unanimous bad reviews from the players. The players believed that he treated everyone as high school students and asked them to cooperate strictly and carefully. Moreover, the periphery was running too frequently, so they refused to implement the game plan, which is also an important reason why the Celtics kept losing.
Sanders is a coach who can't stay in the custody field.
When Louis was attacked by the players, he swallowed his anger, did not warn the players loudly, did not let them run well, but just became a peacemaker, which would only make the players gain a better time.
When Louis was frustrated, Auerbach noticed the seriousness of the situation. He asked the two assistant coaches about their opinions, including Sanders' old teammate K.C Jones, who thought Sanders was not suitable for continuing to coach.
"If this continues, the little kid will be driven crazy by these bastards." K.C was very worried about Louis.
Auerbach cuts the mess quickly and gets Sanders out of class.
Sanders has already pulled the record to the lowest limit, and everyone agrees that the Celtics have no hope this season. Since there is no hope, is there any difference between who will coach?
In order to save money, Auerbach found Coins and hoped that he would serve as a coach.
This is not like Bill Russell back then, where he worked two jobs and had two salary. Coins only had one salary.
Rather than letting other coaches torture themselves, it is better torture others by themselves.
Coins accepted the job.
Coins' leadership had immediate results.
Although his original intention was to torture others by himself, if he could pursue victory, he would naturally not give up on victory.
Under Coins, the Celtics won their first two games. They won 11 of their first 19 games coached by Covings.
Coins' record made Sanders very embarrassed. He also used Louis's game plan. Coins achieved a phased success, but he lost a lot.
Louis no longer serves as the team's coaching assistant, but Coins still asks him to provide a game plan.
Louis no longer strives for excellence as before, but instead points out his opponent's problems and the Celtics' own problems directly.
All Coins needs to do is to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.
But they did not calculate the "bad news" and the passionate person as Coins as he could have such a short duration of his fighting will.
Barnes suddenly lost his fighting spirit and sang every night.
During his away trip, he would hold parties in his hotel room every night, and the music always rang from night to dawn. This affected his rest, and he often could not set off with the team bus on time.
This away lifestyle not only affected his performance on the court, but also made the team pay a high price. Barnes counted the party consumption and the money for hiring musicians on the team.
This season, he missed 10 games due to various inability to give reasonable explanations and was not covered by the team doctor.
Archibald couldn't stand it anymore in a game in February, accusing Barnes of burying his head in a towel to take drugs during the game.
Finally, Coins, who was in a hot temper, had a fight with Barnes outside the away airport.
Coins won a big victory and banned Barnes from the team as a coach, and asked Auerbach to kick the man away from the team.
The only person who objected to this was the boss Brown, who had previously asked to bring Barnes from Brofa, who was also Brown. Because he could always remember Barnes' outstanding performance in the ABA. In the end, Brown could not defeat the will of the whole team and agreed to fire Barnes. The Celtics would also pay the remaining salary of the season, but the contract for the next two years would be invalidated.
As a result, the Players Guild sued the Celtics because their operations were illegal...
And this is not the most chaotic time of the Celtics this season.
When John Long and Morris Chicks each made great rookie seasons, Louis' vision was confirmed, and, his game plan was beautiful, his age was no longer a problem.
In less than half a year, he was upgraded from a low-level scout to a high-level scout.
The salary also increased to $5,000 a month.
In this era when middle-aged American households earn only $9,600 a year, earning $5,000 a month means a lot.
Louis was forced to experience the life of the coaching staff. Although he was very tired, he also became interested in coaching.
This is an area he had never been exposed to before traveling through time. When Coins won consecutively through his game plan, the pleasure he got was as good as the climax, which was so refreshing.
He began to read some basic introductory books intentionally.
But the most important thing at the moment is to make a good scout report from Ranbir. If he is in charge, he will not care about the report at all, just choose without any brains. But now, he has to convince the team to choose a big white man who no one is optimistic about. This not only requires sweet words, but also a convincing report.
How to make a dry scout report as wet as a woman in love with spring requires hard work.
Detailed reports, evaluation of university coaches, psychological analysis, rigorous potential anatomy and future predictions.
He wanted to leave everyone speechless, unable to even speak a rebuttal, and chose Ranbir unconditionally.
Chapter completed!