[外電] 表弟─大問號 ﹝上﹞

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The Big Question Mark 大問號 The Kings are gambling that Kentucky freshman DeMarcus Cousins, with both supreme skills and suspect maturity, can become a dominating center in the NBA 國王把籌碼押在肯塔基大一新鮮人Cousins身上，他的球技精湛但態度卻備受質疑，他能否成為NBA的頂級中鋒？ http://0rz.tw/UszIB More than 3,000 fans of his new team showed they were believers in DeMarcus Cousins the instant they heard his name. "With the fifth pick in the 2010 NBA draft," commissioner David Stern announced from the podium in Madison Square Garden as the faithful gathered around the video screens inside ARCO Arena last Thursday, "the Sacramento Kings select DeMarcus...." The fans' cheers and applause drowned out the rest. 超過三千名的國王球迷是表弟的支持者，當聯盟執行長Stern在麥迪遜花園廣場宣佈：「2010年選秀會第五順位，國王選擇DeMarcus Cousins。」這時國王主場圍坐在大螢幕前的球迷瞬間爆出滿堂喝采。 Almost 3,000 miles away, news of the celebration he had set off in California was received with surprise and relief by Cousins, the Kentucky freshman center who had spent the last three months hearing pundits, reporters and NBA executives debate his emotional maturity. Yes, he had an NBA body and great promise, but did he have issues with anger? Could he be coached? Then he heard the commissioner announce his selection, and any doubts about his future vanished, as if Cousins had awakened in New York City from a strange nightmare. 將近三千哩外之處，慶賀表弟落腳加州的新聞開始發送，表弟對他們而言是驚喜也是救贖，過去三個月來表弟不斷聽到球評、記者和各隊總管在爭論他的成熟度。是的，他有符合職業標準的身材以及無限的潛力，但他是否有情緒控管的問題？他受教與否？當Stern 念出他的名字時，所有關於他未來的疑慮頓時煙消雲散，表弟彷彿從詭異的夢靨中醒來。 The Kings had been investigating Cousins for weeks as their belief in him rose steadily "like a wave that keeps building," says team president Geoff Petrie. At 6'11" and 292 pounds Cousins averaged a highly efficient 15.1 points, 9.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocks in his brief 23.5 minutes per game while sharing time and touches with four Kentucky teammates who joined him in the first round of the draft, including point guard John Wall, the No. 1 pick overall, by the Wizards. Cousins could be the first overpowering center whom Petrie has deployed in his 20-year pursuit of a championship as an executive with the Kings and the Trail Blazers. "He can be hands down one of the top 10 players in the league," says Kentucky power forward Patrick Patterson, who was picked No. 14 by the Rockets. "He has the size, the ability, the power, and he definitely has the determination and drive." 國王已經調查表弟數週的時間，國王總管Petrie說表弟一直保持穩定的進步，「就像在蓋房子一樣」。六呎十一吋，兩百九十二磅的表弟場上效率極高，平均上場僅23.5分鐘即繳出15.1分9.9籃板1.8 封蓋的成績，而他還必須與其他四位隊友分享上場時間與表現機會，這四位隊友也參加了今年選秀，且紛紛在第一輪獲選，其中包括巫師的狀元郎，控球後衛John Wall。表弟可能是Petrie二十年總裁生涯首次得到的強力中鋒。表弟的隊友，今年在十四順位花落火箭的大前鋒Pattrick Patterson說：「他能成為聯盟前十的球員，他有身材、有能力、有力量，同時他還有決心與野心。 Petrie is convinced that Cousins will be more than the glass-trembling brute he was in Lexington. During his predraft workout at Sacramento, Cousins made 80 of 95 jump shots inside the three-point line, a higher rate than any other Kings prospect. "He has a fundamentally sound stroke—you just didn't see it at Kentucky because he was in the post pretty much all the time," says Petrie. "You can see he's a tremendous passer if you watch the breakdown videos. His sense of passing out of that low post even now at 19 is very, very good." Petrie確信表弟會比在肯塔基還要強大，沙加緬度的選前測試，表弟中距離投95中80，所有國王測試新秀最高。「他有很好的外線手感，在肯塔基沒有展現過是因為他把心力放在低位，另外如果你看過他的錄像，你就會發現他是非常傑出的傳球者，雖然只有19歲，但他在低位導球的能力非常、非常的好。 Cousins envisions himself becoming not Shaquille O'Neal but a more muscular version of versatile Lakers big man Pau Gasol. Last month following an interview in a sweltering gym in suburban Washington, where he had spent several weeks training for the draft, Cousins strode onto the court in flip-flops and drained three after three while glancing back at a reporter between shots. "Yeah," said his trainer, Keith Williams, "he wants to show you some of that." 表弟並不期許自己成為O'Neal，他更希望自己能成為更硬的Pau Gasol，技巧出眾且力蓋群雄。上個月在華盛頓郊區的悶熱體育館內和表弟做過一次訪問，表弟在球場上跑動時鞋底發出嘰嘰拐拐的聲音，他投進一顆又一顆三分球，在投籃之間還暼了記者一眼，表弟的訓練員Keith Williams說：「沒錯，他想讓你瞧瞧他的能力。」 When they were contending for championships from 2001 through '04, the Kings were a finesse team. Now they're emphasizing a physical approach, having traded on June 17 for 6'11" Samuel Dalembert—an athletic, if erratic, shot blocker—and building their future around Cousins and reigning rookie of the year Tyreke Evans, a 6'6", 220-pound point guard and a punishing player in his own right. "I've got a lot of respect for Mr. [Andrew] Bynum," says Kings co-owner Joe Maloof of the Lakers' 7-foot, 285-pound center. "But I've got a message for him: You're not going to be pushing [Cousins] around. I don't know how anyone [in the draft] passes on this guy." 2001-04之間國王是奪冠的熱門勁旅，當時他們是隻技巧出色的球隊，如今他們更重視身體上的對抗，六月十七日球隊交易來Samuel Dalembert，一位活動力強但成績不穩定的封蓋好手，並打算圍繞著表弟和現任新人王reke打造球隊。球隊老板Joe Maloof說：「我尊敬Mr. Bynum，但我要傳條簡訊給他，他將沒辦法把表弟推動半分，我不知道這次選秀為何前幾隊會跳過他。」 That a potentially dominant center was available with the fifth pick of the draft was based on a couple of factors. One has to do with the devaluation of post play over the last decade as the NBA has effectively banned physical defense on the perimeter and liberated athletic slashers with three-point range to dominate the league. The newfound emphasis on perimeter play helps explain why the 6'4" Wall, Ohio State's 6'7" swingman Evan Turner (the No. 2 pick, to the 76ers) and Syracuse's 6'7" forward Wesley Johnson (No. 4, to the Timberwolves) were chosen ahead of Cousins amid little second-guessing. (The Nets used the No. 3 pick on 6'10" power forward Derrick Favors because they already have an emerging center in Brook Lopez.) 未來的中鋒大物會落到第五順位是有一些原因的，上個十年聯盟禁止外線防守的肢體接觸，因此解放了那些具備三分能力的跳跳人，他們主宰聯盟後，低位技巧也因而漸趨弱勢，更強調外線攻擊的現象可以幫忙解釋為何六呎四的Wall、六呎七的Turner和六呎七的Wes 會在表弟之前獲選。﹝籃網因為已經有了新世代中鋒Lopez，所以用 #3選了六呎十的Favors。﹞ The other reason for passing on Cousins was the persistent questions about his maturity. During his season in Lexington, Cousins made the talk shows for allegedly throwing an intentional elbow at a Louisville player in a struggle for a loose ball on Jan. 2 and for reportedly taking a swing at a South Carolina fan after the Gamecocks upset the Wildcats on Jan. 26. (Cousins denied both accusations and neither was corroborated by video or another source.) More damning was an altercation at Erwin High in Birmingham, where Cousins was suspended for the second half of his sophomore season after he admitted punching a school bus driver. 另一個跳過表弟的原因是他的成熟疑慮，本季表弟在爭奪失球時故意送給對手一記拐子成為茶餘飯後的熱門話題，另外一月二十六日輸球後挑釁南加大球迷事件﹝表弟否認這兩件事，但這兩次事件都有影片或其他來源為證﹞，最被廣為責難的是表弟在高二下半季被禁賽的導火線，他承認他揍了校車司機。 "Whoever picks him is going to have to build a big force field around him," said one executive before the draft. "You wonder about him being able to stand on his own two feet, and now you add the fact that he's about to get a ton of money and publicity...." 選前一位總管說道：「選了他的隊伍都會為他量身打造戰術，有時候你會懷疑他會不會毀了自己，但現實是他能為球隊帶來票房和宣傳。 Petrie dismisses such concerns as unwarranted. "There was only one incident when he was very young," he says of the school bus fight, "and the people who were there didn't think DeMarcus was the [instigator]. You see all this stuff [about his reputation], but there are never specifics attached to it. He has no criminal record of any kind, no traffic tickets—he doesn't even have a driver's license." Petrie不理那些無來由的疑慮：「他就只發生過那麼一次意外，而且還是他很年輕的時候﹝他指的就是那次公車鬥毆﹞，在場的人都不認為表弟是主動挑起爭端的肇事者，但你看看大家對他的評論。他沒有任何不良紀錄，他沒有任何犯罪紀錄，沒有交通違規，對了。他甚至沒有駕照。」《待續》 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 118.167.172.84 ※ 編輯: kingpredrag 來自: 118.167.172.84 (07/03 11:40)