[外電] 表弟蓄勢待發

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DeMarcus Cousins Ready to Be Great 表弟蓄勢待發 http://0rz.tw/CYc9v SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- DeMarcus Cousins is ready this time. The red-flag leader is ready for the scrutiny, the expectations, the double-edged adulation that will come with being the No. 5 pick and newest center for the Sacramento Kings. He wasn't ready before. "When Nike named him No. 1 (in the country) in the ninth grade (in Birmingham, Ala.), he really didn't know what that meant and his world changed quickly," his mother, Monique Cousins, told FanHouse by phone just minutes after the 6-foot-11, 289-pound former Kentucky center was selected in Thursday's draft. "And then the more and more he played ball, and the more people just recognized his talent, we weren't really prepared because we just didn't know how he would show in the world. As I became more educated, I was able to step up and be there and be supportive." 這次表弟準備好了。備受爭議的選秀新星已經準備好面對大家拿放大鏡觀察他，準備好背負大家對他的期待，這兩種截然不同的對待將隨著這位第五順位的新世代中鋒來到沙加緬度國王隊。然而先前他並沒有心理準備。「九年級的時候Nike把他評為全國第一，當時他不了解這代表甚麼，也不知道他的世界會轉變的如此之快。」表弟的媽媽Monique Cousins 在星期四表弟獲選後接受本站的電話訪問時說到。「之後隨著他比賽經歷增加，大家也逐漸瞭解他的天賦，當時我們沒做好準備，因為我們不知道表弟會如何面對外界的變化，當我受到更多教育後，我了解到我必須給他更多的支持，做他的後盾。」 Her boy was still a boy then, even though he looked like a man. He was a 6-foot-6, 14-year-old, one who would dominate on his AAU Birmingham Storm team and later on his LeFlore High School squad before finally being wooed off to Kentucky. Along the way, there would be a handful of unflattering incidents and mountain's worth of negativity and skepticism surrounding him. And just as his mother moved briefly to Lexington, Ky. to help the most famous of her six children adjust to the spotlight at the start of his college career, the Cousins family once again plans to take the necessary steps to surround him with necessary support this time around. Monique is tending to her ailing mother in Mobile, so DeMarcus' 24-year-old sister, Ryan, will live with him in Sacramento while his mother will visit frequently. It's a similar setup to that of his new teammate, guard Tyreke Evans, who is surrounded by a group dubbed Team Tyreke that is almost entirely family. 他的孩子還只是個大男孩，雖然表弟看起來已經是個成年人了。十四歲的時候表弟身高已達六呎六，在加入肯塔基之前他主宰了高中籃壇，但由於一些意外事件發生，導致大家對他產生龐大的負評與懷疑。大學生活剛開始時，表弟的媽媽和他一起搬到Lexington，幫助他六個孩子中最出名的表弟儘快適應在鎂光燈下生活。這次表弟的家人也計畫採取必要的措施和支持來陪伴表弟。 Monique為了照顧生病的母親沒辦法離開，所以表弟二十四歲的姐姐Ryan擔起重任，他將陪表弟來沙城定居，Monique也會常來探望兒子，這件事讓人想起表弟的新隊友reke，他也有一支由家族成員所組成的隊伍「Team Tyreke」在照顧他。 "I feel like when you are blessed to have children, it's your responsibility to make sure all of their needs are met," said Monique, who joked that she doesn't work because watching over DeMarcus is a full-time job. "What I did to change things (when DeMarcus' reputation was heading downhill) was be more vocal, more focused, and a lot of times things change when (people) see there is someone there, someone who cares, and he's not just someone who's out there alone. That was part of the situation, too, that there wasn't any parent around." The goal, of course, is to fuse the personal and the professional into the best DeMarcus Cousins he can be. And as for the basketball portion of that equation, another favorite member of his past has no doubts he will come through in the pros. In addition to being the head coach at LeFlore during Cousins' prep years, Otis Hughley has coached for the league's NBA China program and worked Pete Newell's "Big Man Camp" for years. He estimates he has worked with more than 200 NBA players, none of them, in his opinion, as good as Cousins. "You knew he had to keep pushing through the adversity that people would try to throw his direction," Hughley said by phone after Cousins was drafted. "He still weathered every storm, still grew with each experience. And he just continued to grow and develop. "DeMarcus is not even close to being what he's going to be. It'll be really, really scary to see what he can become. He's amazing. In my mind he's the best player in the draft." Monuque說：「擁有孩子是上帝的恩賜，但隨之而來的責任是你必須守護著他。」他還開玩笑說他現在沒有上班是因為照顧表弟就得花掉他所有的時間。「我做出改變﹝當表弟的聲望每況愈下時﹞，我更常找他聊天，給他更多的關心，很多事情隨著時間出現變化，大家了解到表弟是有人關心的，他並非獨自一人。有時候問題就在這，他們缺少父母的陪伴。」他們的目標就是讓表弟的個人特質與職業生涯能夠完美結合，在籃球的路上也有另一位表弟最愛的人相信表弟能夠成為合格的職業球員。表弟在預備學校的教練Otis Hughley，同時也在NBA中國訓練營和 Pete Newman的長人訓練營有多年的任教經驗，他至少敎過200名以上的NBA球員，然而他認為在他所教過的球員之中，沒有人比的上表弟。表弟獲選後Hughley透過電話表示：「你知道他必須不斷地通過逆境前行，人們總是一直對他拋出該怎麼做比較好的話語，他到現在仍然必須承受負評的壓力，他也從中學習到許多，他仍持續地成長茁壯。」「表弟一點也不像大家對他預期的模板，看著他不斷進步我感到又驚又喜，他總是令人驚艷，我認為他是本屆選秀最好的球員。」 With the addition of Cousins, the Kings suddenly have one of the league's most intriguing young frontlines to help them improve from a two-season stretch in which they won a combined 42 games. They traded with Philadelphia for 6-11 center Samuel Dalembert recently, then added Marshall 7-footer Hassan Whiteside with the 33rd pick after taking Cousins. The pairing with Evans could be especially potent, as the reigning Rookie of the Year now has another capable offensive scorer to take pressure off him from the post (the other being fourth-year forward Carl Landry). The notion of the Kings becoming the first franchise to have the Rookie of the Year in consecutive seasons since Buffalo in the early 1970s is not far fetched. Braves rookies Bob McAdoo and Ernie DiGregorio last achieved the feat in 1972-73 and 1973-74. Not surprisingly, the motivating factor for Cousins will be the way he has been portrayed on his way here. "I'm going to hold that every night," he told reporters on a conference call from Madison Square Garden in New York. "If people have things to say about me, then I'll play with that chip on my shoulder because I'm thinking about that person, whoever it is and I'm going to play with that fire. "I have talent that's there, but I just have the mentality right now that I just want to be the greatest. And I don't think that any other player has that right now." 表弟加盟後，國王的禁區陣容瞬間變身為聯盟中最具潛力的年輕前場，將能幫助他們擺脫前兩季總共只贏42場比賽的窘境。先前國王已由費城交易來六呎十一吋的中鋒Sammy，選秀會上又在表弟之後用#33選進七呎中鋒白邊。表弟和reke搭檔的威力難以想像，現任新人王如今得到了另一位得分好手來幫他舒解禁區壓力﹝當然也別忘了藍追﹞，同時國王也極有機會連續兩年捧起新人王獎盃，上一次連續兩年由同一隊球員獲得新人王是在1970年初期，水牛城的Bob McAdoo和Ernie DiGregorio 在1972-73及1973-74賽季連續獲得新人王榮耀。毫不驚訝表弟會如此描繪他持續進步的動力。「每晚我都把這些事放在心上，如果有人對我妄下評論，我就會用比賽證明自己，不管那個人是誰，我都會證明他們是錯的。」表弟在紐約麥迪遜花園的電話訪問中這樣告訴記者。「我有天賦，現在我也有要成為最棒的球員的鬥志，我不認為現在有其他球員有和我一樣的野心。」 -- 該說初生之犢不畏虎嗎XD -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 118.167.172.147

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